CoffeeShop XXXVII-5/1/2013


Good Evening...

Busy busy busy here...another doctor appointment handed to me for next week and the eye specialist as well called to arrange an appointment....good grief...

I'ma thinkin' my saturday morning is going to be spent doin' the yard sale t'ing as well...so maybe Sunday will be doin' nuttin' but train related stuff!!

Have a somewhat quieter evenin' than I'm having here!!
 
Been a busy day. I put together the rotary snow plow kit. That required quite a bit of cutting and fitting parts. It still needs a few pieces that will have to be made for it. What will the Sundown town council do with a rotary snow blower? They're going to add a bunch of small steel blades to the rotary wheel, enclose the front and add a dump tray and conveyor to the bottom of the enclosure so they can dump in paper by the truckload. A steel duct will channel the clippings into a semi trailer. That's right. They are making the biggest rotary PAPER SHREDDER ever seen in this part of the country. Leave it to a bunch of rednecks!

My father and I went to dinner in town at the Los Mayos restaurant. He had enchiladas, beans and rice with sweet tea. I had two tacos, a beef enchilada and chili con queso with a Dr Pepper. Plenty of hot sauce.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

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jeffrey-wimberly said:
Been a busy day. I put together the rotary snow plow kit. That required quite a bit of cutting and fitting parts. It still needs a few pieces that will have to be made for it. What will the Sundown town council do with a rotary snow blower? They're going to add a bunch of small steel blades to the rotary wheel, enclose the front and add a dump tray and conveyor to the bottom of the enclosure so they can dump in paper by the truckload. A steel duct will channel the clippings into a semi trailer. That's right. They are making the biggest rotary PAPER SHREDDER ever seen in this part of the country. Leave it to a bunch of rednecks!

My father and I went to dinner in town at the Los Mayos restaurant. He had enchiladas, beans and rice with sweet tea. I had two tacos, a beef enchilada and chili con queso with a Dr Pepper. Plenty of hot sauce.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

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That's one way to get rid of those darn political promises...
 
Weather will be especially sunny and warm today with light breezes and nice poofy clouds.

Almost got myself talked into buying ten rust-colored atlas N ATSF 3bay open hoppers with coal loads. I've been talked into buying them for a long time.......just now actually have the pesos to paying for them.

Currently have a 53 car train pulled by ontario northland FP7 which pulls on a boston-maine EMD FT A+B set. It all makes some nice natural micro-train noises while cruising around at least one scale mile wandering loop.

Have a nice collection of 40 new N scale turnouts.....and a bunch of crossings........none of them in use yet.........just waiting for a good moment to begin a massive yard and expansion project.
 
Good M'arnin'....

Well, I went to bed at silly o'clock this morning and got woke up at another silly o'clock by our little Spring..who was running around our house after ....a sparrow..... How did the bird get into our house, you ask? Stupid window at the back staircase ...slightly opened

Oh well, weather here be just a little cooler and sunny...still.....high near 70...as opposed to 78...feeling like 84F....

Today's agenda includes a bunch of paperwork for work and a bunch of RR planning stuff for my RR....le sigh.

Edit... missing letters...le sigh...
 
Good morning. It's 42° with 99% humidity. Seems like the weather has forgotten that it's coming on to summer next month. There's a small chance of rain this morning. Otherwise it'll be cloudy with a high of 62°.
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I have nothing planned for today. In fact I'm giving serious consideration to going back to bed. I'm just extremely tired for some reason and can hardly keep my eyes open.

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Good Morning - Happy Friday!!!!

I'm running a tad late today, I sort of over exerted myself yesterday, after too many days of under achieving :(. The results, well.........

Nice job on the Rotary, Jeffrey. That will guarantee there will be no snow on your layout :).

Enjoy your weekend.

Joe
 
It's been a bad day for me today. This morning I was very tired and cold. I couldn't get warm for anything. I had the heater going full tilt and I right in front of it and still felt like my bones were frozen! I shut everything down around noon and went back to bed. Woke up about 4pm and went down to feed my fathers dogs. Van started right for me and I headed for town. I stopped at the pharmacy and got a new prescription filled. Again the van started right up for me. Went to Wal-Mart to get the second half of my grocery shopping done. Got all the stuff loaded in the van and it flooded out on me! Couldn't get it to start for anything. This was about 6:30pm now. I ran the battery down dead. So I called one of the cart pushers over and asked him to have someone come from the automotive dept with a jump pack to jump it off. Guy shows up about 20-30 minutes later and the first words out of his mouth and audible to many in the immediate vicinity were 'What a' and the third and sixth words I'll let you guess at. They were not words you'd use in polite company. The fourth and fifth words were 'piece of'. Well he's entitled to his opinion but not at my expense. I filed the incident away for future action. So he hooks the jump pack up whilst making more less than stellar remarks. I tried cranking it over but couldn't get the carb to clear. He says the carb is flooded (tell me something I don't know) and the starter was fried. I believe his jump pack was weak. After about three attempts he apparently thought of something more important to do because he pulled a vanishing on me. So I went inside the store to report the incident and called my sister while I was at it. I told her I needed to be picked up and I and my groceries needed a ride home. She came there with her husband in his big F250 Ford truck. He hooked his jumper cables up, I cranked the vans engine, it turned over seven or eight times nice and fast (nothing wrong with that starter) and fired up. I got home just before 8pm. To say that I'm not enthused with Wal-Mart's automotive department is a massive understatement. I stopped taking any vehicles of mine there many years ago and today I remembered why. I got all my groceries put away. It was cool enough today that nothing thawed. In fact many people had jackets on and this is May?

A little something that reflects my mood, at least it won't get me banned from other places I go to.
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Jeff, sorry your day unfolded the way it did. Wal*Mart treats their employees like the lowest, most vile kind of dirt. But that's still no excuse for them to show that kind of attitude!:mad:

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I originally planned to install a decoder in one of my GP30's this evening. But this F7 snowplow pilot that I had on order finally arrived at the LHS today. I had to do a serious amount of cutting, filing and Dremeling on both the body shell and the pilot to achieve a correct fit. I was out there until 10:30pm when I applied the J-B Kwik epoxy. It hardens in 20 minutes, but I'm letting it sit and cure overnight just to be on the safe side; don't want the pilot breaking off when I try to put the F7's shell back on the chassis.
 
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CSX_road_slug said:
I originally planned to install a decoder in one of my GP30's this evening. But this F7 snowplow pilot that I had on order finally arrived at the LHS today. I had to do a serious amount of cutting, filing and Dremeling on both the body shell and the pilot to achieve a correct fit. I was out there until 10:30pm when I applied the J-B Kwik epoxy. It hardens in 20 minutes, but I'm letting it sit and cure overnight just to be on the safe side; don't want the pilot breaking off when I try to put the F7's shell back on the chassis.
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Hopefully, Ken, all your effort will be rewarded.

Speaking of surprises, I brought out another run only to test P2K GP7 - this one a PRR - and placed it on my DC test track. It started out as a high Starting Voltage clunker, but after cleaning the wheels, and some repetitious running back and forth, it has turned out to be a sweet runner. Some very pleasant news, to say the least.

I also "found" three P2K B&O "Sunburst" GP30s, in the never out of the box category. I have to see how these run. Also found a B&O Passenger GP9 in the as delivered scheme. Have to try these out.

Good luck on the F7 plow, and on the decoder installation on your GP30s.

Joe
 
WJLI26 said:
Hopefully, Ken, all your effort will be rewarded. ... Good luck on the F7 plow, and on the decoder installation on your GP30s.
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It was successful Joe! Wanna know how I found out?

I painted the plow, re-mounted the shell and the front coupler, and went to test-run it. Nothing! So I had to remove the shell again, and found that I hadn't properly seated the decoder onto the wiring harness (d'oh!), after that it ran ok. My whole reason for buying and installing this new Details West plow was to be able to remove the shell for decoder work. Now I have proof that I can do that, LOL!

Oh, and about those 3 gp30 sunburst units that you found: I'm totally envious!:p:cool:

Time to head outdoors and do some lawn mowin'.
 
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Good morning. It's 53° with 61% humidity. It'll be sunny with a high of 72°.
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I'm not feeling good this morning. Yesterday I was feeling like my bones were frozen and I still feel that way. I just can't get warm no matter what I do. I have the heater set on high and even sitting next to it doesn't seem to make a difference. But I do feel stronger than I did yesterday so maybe this is going to pass quickly.

I may do some more work on the rotary plow today. There's also an Atlas signal tower that's begging to be put together. Another kit I have sitting here is a Black Bart Mine metal kit. I don't know when I'll be able to start on that. It should be a challenge.

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This morning I took receipt of two Penn Central geeps. A GP38-2 and a GP40. I wasn't expecting them until the middle of next week. Somebody must have removed the tiddly-winks games from the post offices and made thumb twiddling a crime. I also got two decoders ahead of schedule.

Now I'm feeling extremely tired again. Time to go lay down for a bit.

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holy crap i forgot about PENN CENTRAL !!!! so they are putting out the paint scheme , thats cool jeffery :cool:
 
blackz28 said:
holy crap i forgot about PENN CENTRAL !!!! so they are putting out the paint scheme , thats cool jeffery :cool:
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Yeah. These are both Bachmann units. I got them to strip for parts. The shells will likely go into the junk box after I remove a few parts I need.
 
Been working on this old Bachmann Plus loco today. It's running great. Of course there wasn't anything it didn't need.

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I'm still very tired. About to call it a day. It's 83 in here and I still feel cold in jeans and a long sleeve shirt and sweater. Believe it or not working on the loco about wiped me out. I have little energy and my arms feel like they're going to fall off.

See y'all tomorrow. Too tired to do any more.
 
Those Penn Central engines look good for junkers, Jeffrey.

Busy sports day, today, with the Hockey Playoffs, Baseball, and the Kentucky Derby. Not much time for the layout. I need to find a few more engines then I will be able to inventory everything, and decide what I want to do with the fleet.

Joe
 
CSX_road_slug said:
It was successful Joe! Wanna know how I found out?

I painted the plow, re-mounted the shell and the front coupler, and went to test-run it. Nothing! So I had to remove the shell again, and found that I hadn't properly seated the decoder onto the wiring harness (d'oh!), after that it ran ok. My whole reason for buying and installing this new Details West plow was to be able to remove the shell for decoder work. Now I have proof that I can do that, LOL!

Oh, and about those 3 gp30 sunburst units that you found: I'm totally envious!:p:cool:

Time to head outdoors and do some lawn mowin'.
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After the Horse Race was over, I went to the basement to try out my GP30s. Sunburst # 1 motor runs, loco doesn't move. Same situation found on Sunburst #2. Well they have been sitting since ????:(. Surprise!:eek:, the third GP30 is a Capitol Dome paint scheme, not a "Sunburst":(. It also runs - purrs along quite nicely:rolleyes:. Ill take 'em apart tomorrow, and clean out the solidified grease 'n goop, then try 'em again. They do look nice. I didn't try the torpedo tube passenger gp9 yet......

Joe
 
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