DairyStateDad
Mumbling in the corner
OK -- typo? Ironic allusion that I'm missing? Or just seriously weird weather where you are?
Coffee Shop XLI-2/23/2014
- Thread starter Bill Tidler Jr.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
OK -- typo? Ironic allusion that I'm missing? Or just seriously weird weather where you are?
I used to see weird weather like when we lived in Germany. Things like heavy rain and there's hardly a cloud in the sky. Snow in August and it's 97 degrees.
blackz28
Well-Known Member
OK -- typo? Ironic allusion that I'm missing? Or just seriously weird weather where you are?
Just wanted to see we hos paying attention
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Trussrod
Well-Known Member
Good afternoon all,
A comfortable day here in Central Calif with temp of 86* and low tonight of 53* which is fairly comfortable sleeping weather. I got busy checking on the bread I'm making and when I again looked at the weather on my Andriod Phone it now says it's 90* when it originally only supposed to gt to 83*?? The weather pattern, if they are correct, does seems to be dropping and it's predicted that on Tuesday I'll again get rain which will be weclome as things are getting too dry for my liking and it will keep the fire danger down too as well as give me a bit of a reprieve as I still haven't fixed my Habor Freight/Troybuilt weed-wacker or Craftsman tractor so I can mow with use either of them. Maybe I just wait till after it rains and use the heavy duty Yard Man self propelled lawn mower as it won't raise so much dust when things get fairly wet.
Well now BlkZ: That's a heck of a typo there guy. LoL
> > >
I've been trying to find a data base program to create a operation scenairio on and thought I found it using JMRI only to find out it was only Decoder Pro that I down loaded after two tries of about 6 hours each so I deleted the programs as I don't need them with 'DC'. I looking for a free program to set up a Pick-up and delivery schedule on. No luck so far.
Have a great day.
A comfortable day here in Central Calif with temp of 86* and low tonight of 53* which is fairly comfortable sleeping weather. I got busy checking on the bread I'm making and when I again looked at the weather on my Andriod Phone it now says it's 90* when it originally only supposed to gt to 83*?? The weather pattern, if they are correct, does seems to be dropping and it's predicted that on Tuesday I'll again get rain which will be weclome as things are getting too dry for my liking and it will keep the fire danger down too as well as give me a bit of a reprieve as I still haven't fixed my Habor Freight/Troybuilt weed-wacker or Craftsman tractor so I can mow with use either of them. Maybe I just wait till after it rains and use the heavy duty Yard Man self propelled lawn mower as it won't raise so much dust when things get fairly wet.
Well now BlkZ: That's a heck of a typo there guy. LoL
> > >
I've been trying to find a data base program to create a operation scenairio on and thought I found it using JMRI only to find out it was only Decoder Pro that I down loaded after two tries of about 6 hours each so I deleted the programs as I don't need them with 'DC'. I looking for a free program to set up a Pick-up and delivery schedule on. No luck so far.
Have a great day.
Boris
Beach Bum
Eric:
Grew up in the East side of Chester, with a clear view of #1 Dry Dock, and the Reading RR, from my front porch
. First job on the PRR was a yard clerk at Thurlow Yard. How did you guess
?Joe
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
My father and step mother made it back today so I went down and visited with them for a little while. Came back home and found a freind had just gotten here. He brought Snow White, his Apple IIc computer with him so I could repair it. Took about ten minutes to find the problem and about an hour to fix it. It has sixteen RAM chips in it and the fifth one in line was the problem. My problem is that they're all soldered in so getting that chip out took a little while. It has sixteen legs on it and I had to melt the solder off one leg at a time. I don't have a solder wick or anything like that but I have an attachment for my little Shop-Vac that has a 1/4" opening. It sucked the solder up like nobody's business. Getting the new chip in was dead simple by comparison. I used a little battery powered soldering iron for that. It's absolute junk on most everything else but it's the cat's meow for making tiny pinpoint solder joints and doesn't get hot enough to damage the chip. Anyhow the computer works now. There's a photo of it below and a photo of the test screen. I also did a RAM check but all it says is 'OK' and 'OK'. You can see from the photo why he calls it Snow White. Only thing wrong with the case is where his son engraved it years ago.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Well everything of note that I did today has been listed already so all that's left is to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
DairyStateDad
Mumbling in the corner
Eric:
Grew up in the East side of Chester, with a clear view of #1 Dry Dock, and the Reading RR, from my front porch
How did you guess
Joe
Knowing the Chester Creek and Octoraro Creek branches of PRR as well as you did, you either had to be from around there or else a complete PRR encyclopedia
I grew up in the Southwestern corner of Chester County in the 1960s / early 70s, hung out all around those parts and Wilmington, DE, in high school...
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired NS Signal Construction Gang Signalman
Good Morning!
It's Sun 5/18/14
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Mostly sunny with a high of 66. Puttering around the house today. I might do some trimming.
Temperature in TIPTON IN[/QUOTE]
It's Sun 5/18/14
Mostly sunny with a high of 66. Puttering around the house today. I might do some trimming.
Temperature in TIPTON IN[/QUOTE]
Boris
Beach Bum
Knowing the Chester Creek and Octoraro Creek branches of PRR as well as you did, you either had to be from around there or else a complete PRR encyclopedia
I grew up in the Southwestern corner of Chester County in the 1960s / early 70s, hung out all around those parts and Wilmington, DE, in high school...
Well, I'm far from being a PRR Encyclopedia. But I have recollections of the places I worked at over the course of time. My youthful hangout was the Reading's Chester & Delaware River Branch, which runs from Eddystone to the Delaware State Line, in particular, that portion between Ridley Creek and Chester Creek. Many years removed, that portion is compressed on to my layout.
Joe
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
The KCS mainline that I live a couple of miles from is the only railline I've had any long term exposure to. My first twenty years were spent going from one part of the world to another due to my father being in the army.
*
Good morning. It's 72° with 78% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds.
Didn't get much sleep last night so I'm feeling tired and stiff this morning. Maybe I can get some nap time later.
I'm trying to convince my friend to upgrade his Apple IIc. It's an original '255' ROM version with all the bugs that were inherent to that model. He has some software and a few devices that were made to be used on later versions and he'd like to be able to use them. A ROM upgrade won't fix the serial timing problems inherent in the original IIc but it will enable him to use the devices and software he has. I've shown him a couple of ROM 3 and ROM 4 upgrade kits online that are available at a very low price. However soldering is required. He can't solder and I really don't like doing pinpoint soldering anymore because of my eyesight and nerve problems. Replacing that RAM chip yesterday had me cross-eyed for a while.
My father is supposed to be making hamburgers for lunch today and I'm invited. I'll have to limit myself to just one.
Other than that I have no plans for today. But I'm sure something will come up.
*
Good morning. It's 72° with 78% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds.
Didn't get much sleep last night so I'm feeling tired and stiff this morning. Maybe I can get some nap time later.
I'm trying to convince my friend to upgrade his Apple IIc. It's an original '255' ROM version with all the bugs that were inherent to that model. He has some software and a few devices that were made to be used on later versions and he'd like to be able to use them. A ROM upgrade won't fix the serial timing problems inherent in the original IIc but it will enable him to use the devices and software he has. I've shown him a couple of ROM 3 and ROM 4 upgrade kits online that are available at a very low price. However soldering is required. He can't solder and I really don't like doing pinpoint soldering anymore because of my eyesight and nerve problems. Replacing that RAM chip yesterday had me cross-eyed for a while.
My father is supposed to be making hamburgers for lunch today and I'm invited. I'll have to limit myself to just one.
Other than that I have no plans for today. But I'm sure something will come up.
Boris
Beach Bum
Good afternoon from the Chilly Jersey Shore .
For the moment, the sun is out, but the skies have been threatening all day. I spent the morning sweeping Oak tree pollen from the patio, porch and driveway. Ugh!
Back to Eric's comments, the funny part of growing up where I did, was that the rail line, I was so fascinated with as a young boy, is about the only thing remaining from my youth, other than the then Scott paper Plant, and even that is now operated by Kimberly Clark. The old neighborhood has long been leveled, and redeveloped into a parking /storage area for highway trailers. The ship yard is now a harness race track and Casino, and the factory that made springs for Ford is now a State Prison. Things do change over time. The reality was that I left that area back in 1978, to accept a position in Washington, DC, and never went back. I have actually lived in New Jersey, longer than all the other locations combined.
The Weber is all set for another season of grilling. Now if only the weather would co-operate.
I have re-emphasized the switching railroad nature of my layout, over the weekend. Power in use includes a EMD SW-1 (Walthers); Alco S-3 (Lifelike); Alco RS-1 (Atlas); Alco RS-3 (Bachmann) and due tomorrow a Baldwin S-12m (Bowser). The RS3 and RS1 handle short commuter passenger trains; while the rest supports the freight operation.
I'm also toying with concepts and track plans for an 11'x13' room, as we start looking at floor plans for a new homes.
Have a good evening.
Joe
. For the moment, the sun is out, but the skies have been threatening all day. I spent the morning sweeping Oak tree pollen from the patio, porch and driveway. Ugh!
Back to Eric's comments, the funny part of growing up where I did, was that the rail line, I was so fascinated with as a young boy, is about the only thing remaining from my youth, other than the then Scott paper Plant, and even that is now operated by Kimberly Clark. The old neighborhood has long been leveled, and redeveloped into a parking /storage area for highway trailers. The ship yard is now a harness race track and Casino, and the factory that made springs for Ford is now a State Prison. Things do change over time. The reality was that I left that area back in 1978, to accept a position in Washington, DC, and never went back. I have actually lived in New Jersey, longer than all the other locations combined.
The Weber is all set for another season of grilling. Now if only the weather would co-operate.
I have re-emphasized the switching railroad nature of my layout, over the weekend. Power in use includes a EMD SW-1 (Walthers); Alco S-3 (Lifelike); Alco RS-1 (Atlas); Alco RS-3 (Bachmann) and due tomorrow a Baldwin S-12m (Bowser). The RS3 and RS1 handle short commuter passenger trains; while the rest supports the freight operation.
I'm also toying with concepts and track plans for an 11'x13' room, as we start looking at floor plans for a new homes.
Have a good evening.
Joe
Trussrod
Well-Known Member
Good afternoon guys & gals,
Hi Flo and Francine, how are you both doing today? Just coffee for me at this point, thanks Francine, I see by the pot in your hand you read my mind. {For those of you who don't know or can't make heads or tails about the conversation I carry on with Flo & Francine I'll let you know where they came from. It's Flos' Dinner here we meet at and Bill used to post a picture of a couple of real cute waitresses, a Blonde, Flo, as I preceived her and Francine, a tall dark headed babe, I used to work with many years back that Bill's picture reminds me of. [So now you know the rest of the story.]
> >
Not much happening here as I didn't to working on my layout yesterday but I did get a free database program App on my Android phone called, 'Easy Database', downloaded that I may try and create a, 'Pick-up & Delivery Schedule' [P&D], on, if/after I do some studying to learn about how the different fields? work in a data base and interact?
I would much prefer a database that was already set up so anyone could just fill in the various info they felt was necessary to create the [P&D] they wanted or felt they needed as simple/bare essentials or as elaborate as they felt necessary.
From the standpoint of how I plan to operate my, C & S West SL, it will be done on a very loose or inconsistent type of schedule due to Old Equipment, break downs and hard times that create a lack of revenue due to break-downs and lack of money to keep the equipment up.
I don't want a strict schedule that has to be met day-in and day-out as none of us have that kind of time I doubt to begin with. So a easily customizable/flexible database is what I'm thinking about. As a result I thought of Mixy who created, 'SCARM' layout design software and wrote to him to see if it might be possible to also come up with a S&D Database for us to use to help us to create some sort of S&D schedule for the
various types of equipment we have so we can have a random sort of work order to follow just like a real life situation of shuffling cars around to make the operation of running trains that much more realistic and give some variation to just watching the same train go around the layout time after time. So I'll have to see what Mixy says or I'll do some studying myself and create a S&D program that can be used and expanded as we see fit. That way we can add new products to be delivered to manufacturer other products to be delivered elsewhere to be sold and new businesses to supply the new raw materials so the new products can be manufactured. It should all be up to you how you like your layout to function?
*> *>
So that's it for now, I'll keep you informed of any new developments.
> > >
Oh Jeffrey: Eric & Joe kind of got the rest reminiscing about the trains we come in contact with over the years or which we grew-up seeing and your input made me jog my memory too. The majority of train actitivity when I was fairly young took place in Canoga Park, out toward the West end of the San Fernando Valley but that was two miles away so I didn't see too much activity from them except when riding around in the car with the folks from time to time.
Once I moved to up to Coarsegold I would see more activity on the SP main line that followed Hwy 99 basically North and South through Calif. Raymond & Knowles were two small foothill communities when I moved up with the folks back in 1966 but if I recall the tracks had all been long removed since 1952 if I recall correctly but the old road bed is still there and sports an Old Caboose on it where there is a Museum about 200' away.
When I moved down to Fresno or went to Madera I saw a lot more activity as I didn't live too far from the SP yard which is located at the Clinton Overpass, which is North of the downtown area of Fresno, and runs North and South from there. The SF yard was South of the down town area but their trackage again merges with the SP trackage South of Fresno as well as to the North of the SP yard.
The SP Branch Line that ran up to Raymond which had a station and turntable as well branching off to Knowles and the Granite Quarry which is basically South of Raymond by about a mile was quite a busy place in it's day and If I recall what my RR friend John, who lives in Raymond said, that the SP used to run up to Raymond/Knowles twice a day in the areas Hay-Day though and connected at I think it was Brenda on the Sp line between Fresno and Madera, Calif.
Lets keep making those deliveries and picking up the empties.
Hi Flo and Francine, how are you both doing today? Just coffee for me at this point, thanks Francine, I see by the pot in your hand you read my mind. {For those of you who don't know or can't make heads or tails about the conversation I carry on with Flo & Francine I'll let you know where they came from. It's Flos' Dinner here we meet at and Bill used to post a picture of a couple of real cute waitresses, a Blonde, Flo, as I preceived her and Francine, a tall dark headed babe, I used to work with many years back that Bill's picture reminds me of. [So now you know the rest of the story.]
> >
Not much happening here as I didn't to working on my layout yesterday but I did get a free database program App on my Android phone called, 'Easy Database', downloaded that I may try and create a, 'Pick-up & Delivery Schedule' [P&D], on, if/after I do some studying to learn about how the different fields? work in a data base and interact?
I would much prefer a database that was already set up so anyone could just fill in the various info they felt was necessary to create the [P&D] they wanted or felt they needed as simple/bare essentials or as elaborate as they felt necessary.
From the standpoint of how I plan to operate my, C & S West SL, it will be done on a very loose or inconsistent type of schedule due to Old Equipment, break downs and hard times that create a lack of revenue due to break-downs and lack of money to keep the equipment up.
I don't want a strict schedule that has to be met day-in and day-out as none of us have that kind of time I doubt to begin with. So a easily customizable/flexible database is what I'm thinking about. As a result I thought of Mixy who created, 'SCARM' layout design software and wrote to him to see if it might be possible to also come up with a S&D Database for us to use to help us to create some sort of S&D schedule for the
various types of equipment we have so we can have a random sort of work order to follow just like a real life situation of shuffling cars around to make the operation of running trains that much more realistic and give some variation to just watching the same train go around the layout time after time. So I'll have to see what Mixy says or I'll do some studying myself and create a S&D program that can be used and expanded as we see fit. That way we can add new products to be delivered to manufacturer other products to be delivered elsewhere to be sold and new businesses to supply the new raw materials so the new products can be manufactured. It should all be up to you how you like your layout to function?
*> *>
So that's it for now, I'll keep you informed of any new developments.
> > >
Oh Jeffrey: Eric & Joe kind of got the rest reminiscing about the trains we come in contact with over the years or which we grew-up seeing and your input made me jog my memory too. The majority of train actitivity when I was fairly young took place in Canoga Park, out toward the West end of the San Fernando Valley but that was two miles away so I didn't see too much activity from them except when riding around in the car with the folks from time to time.
Once I moved to up to Coarsegold I would see more activity on the SP main line that followed Hwy 99 basically North and South through Calif. Raymond & Knowles were two small foothill communities when I moved up with the folks back in 1966 but if I recall the tracks had all been long removed since 1952 if I recall correctly but the old road bed is still there and sports an Old Caboose on it where there is a Museum about 200' away.
When I moved down to Fresno or went to Madera I saw a lot more activity as I didn't live too far from the SP yard which is located at the Clinton Overpass, which is North of the downtown area of Fresno, and runs North and South from there. The SF yard was South of the down town area but their trackage again merges with the SP trackage South of Fresno as well as to the North of the SP yard.
The SP Branch Line that ran up to Raymond which had a station and turntable as well branching off to Knowles and the Granite Quarry which is basically South of Raymond by about a mile was quite a busy place in it's day and If I recall what my RR friend John, who lives in Raymond said, that the SP used to run up to Raymond/Knowles twice a day in the areas Hay-Day though and connected at I think it was Brenda on the Sp line between Fresno and Madera, Calif.
Lets keep making those deliveries and picking up the empties.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Went to my fathers place for a late lunch. He makes great hamburgers. I had said I was going to have just one and I was determined to lock my desire down to that, but my appetite quickly picked the locks. I had two. Later when I went to go home my vans engine turned over twice then stopped. I pressed the starter button several times but nothing happened. The battery had a good charge on it so I surmised it must be something wrong with the starter button. Well way back when I originally ran the wires for this starter button setup I had stripped a tiny bit of insulation off the two wires that went to it for just such an eventuality. I popped the hood, turned the key on, went out and raised the hood then grabbed those two wires and pressed the two bare spots against each other. The engine kicked over, I dropped the hood and drove home. Once there I removed the starter button from the dash and looked at it. The problem was very simple. One of the wires had come loose. I put it back on and tightened the screws down good then tested it. The engine started on the first try so I put the button back in the dash. It would be nice if all my problems were that simple.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Spent some time today putting the IIc computer back together and thought a few photos of the inside would be appropriate.
The motherboard laid bare. The red arrow at right points to the chip I replaced. Yeah, the gray one.
And there's the label I put in every computer I work on.
Here's everything back in place before I closed it up.
Besides the above I had hamburgers at my fathers place and I worked on the van a bit. Sometime tomorrow morning I'll be heading to the post office. I'm shipping a computer off to New York.
Well that's it for tonight. See y'all tomorrow.
The motherboard laid bare. The red arrow at right points to the chip I replaced. Yeah, the gray one.
And there's the label I put in every computer I work on.
Here's everything back in place before I closed it up.
Besides the above I had hamburgers at my fathers place and I worked on the van a bit. Sometime tomorrow morning I'll be heading to the post office. I'm shipping a computer off to New York.
Well that's it for tonight. See y'all tomorrow.
Good afternoon from the Chilly Jersey Shore
I'm also toying with concepts and track plans for an 11'x13' room, as we start looking at floor plans for a new homes.
Joe
The "trainroom with a thick roof" concept not being considered?
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired NS Signal Construction Gang Signalman
Good Morning!
It's Mon 5/19/14
Sunny with a high of around 72. Working in the garden and I might go over to the club later.
Temperature in TIPTON IN
It's Mon 5/19/14
Sunny with a high of around 72. Working in the garden and I might go over to the club later.
Temperature in TIPTON IN
Boris
Beach Bum
Good Morning, Y'all!
It's 60° and sunny this morning, so that's a positive start. The forecast is for a high of 71°, with light wind from the NW. I have out door furniture to sand and paint, while I wait for UPS. Once the delivery is made, I'll be in the train room.
David, I think what you are looking for is probably less complicated. Each track on any layout has a purpose.......locomotive storage, main track, yard for storage and switching (classification) runaround or passing siding, or customer (industrial) siding etc. This is the same regardless of whether it's a real railroad, or model railroad, and it's the same regardless of era. You have a finite number of cars, finite space, and finite customers. So it is up to you to determine who gets what service, and how you are going to do this. Once done, your plan like the prototypes only changes when a new customer locates or an old one leaves. There is really no reason to drown yourself in a lot of paper, unless you are modeling dispatching or yard office functions. A simple timetable, nothing more than a list of fixed locations, and possibly industries and a fundamental list of cars, by type and number starts you off. That can be done on a spread sheet. from there you can expand to any direction you want to go.
Gotta run, the yard is calling !
Joe
It's 60° and sunny this morning, so that's a positive start. The forecast is for a high of 71°, with light wind from the NW. I have out door furniture to sand and paint, while I wait for UPS. Once the delivery is made, I'll be in the train room.
David, I think what you are looking for is probably less complicated. Each track on any layout has a purpose.......locomotive storage, main track, yard for storage and switching (classification) runaround or passing siding, or customer (industrial) siding etc. This is the same regardless of whether it's a real railroad, or model railroad, and it's the same regardless of era. You have a finite number of cars, finite space, and finite customers. So it is up to you to determine who gets what service, and how you are going to do this. Once done, your plan like the prototypes only changes when a new customer locates or an old one leaves. There is really no reason to drown yourself in a lot of paper, unless you are modeling dispatching or yard office functions. A simple timetable, nothing more than a list of fixed locations, and possibly industries and a fundamental list of cars, by type and number starts you off. That can be done on a spread sheet. from there you can expand to any direction you want to go.
Gotta run, the yard is calling !
Joe
DairyStateDad
Mumbling in the corner
Are those the strains of "Big Yellow Taxi" that I hear in the background?
I find myself mildly amused to recall that -- as much as I enjoyed seeing trains around our area and even looking on maps to figure out where the lines went in the greater region -- I never gravitated toward modeling it. The layout I started as a teenager was set in a highly imagined Wyoming (all those John Allen articles were inspiring me then)... and once I got serious about returning to the hobby, just a few years ago, I'd committed to a Wisconsin locale. But I always get a charge out of seeing other layouts that were set where I grew up -- and (as I've discussed on other threads here) I've actually stumbled across a few of them in the last few years...
