Evening all Rail Worker and Engineer's,
Hi Flo & Francine, How are you ladies and where Janie? Oh she with Ray, figures. How about a nice big bowl of Muligan Stew and some coffee. Thanks Francine.
Per WW: It's Clear at 84.9 °F - Feels Like 82 °F;
Winds are Variable at 0.0?? Oh really? Well there has been a bit of a breeze blowing about 2 mph.
Today again, No extended forecast.
Pressure 29.80 in
Visibility 10.0 miles
Clouds Clear
Heat Index 82 °F
Dew Point 46 °F
Humidity 26%
Rainfall 0.00 in
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Yesterday I about did myself in raking gravel. The entrance to my driveway from the county road is about 35 ft wide and all gravel. The county road has been resurfaced a couple of times which makes the edge of the road higher than the gravel driveway not to mention that there a fair slop to the road of at least 2% if not greater as it slops down across the front of the property, so when heavy rains come they tend to wash the 1" crushed rock down the road as well as wash a bit of a gully along the edge of the road. The front spoiler of of my eclipse is low enough that lately it always hits and drug a bit going out which I got tired of. So I took a heavy leaf rake down with me yesterday early afternoon and started gradually raking stones down toward the road from the sloping driveway. I had to rake the gravel down to the road to fill in the gully that was about 6 inches deep in the deepest spots going across the edge of the road and this required me doing this about 5 times and sure gave me one heck of a workout and just about did me in as I was fairly well exhausted when I finally quit. I still had to walk back up to the house about 300 ft away. The joys of living in the country.
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Good Morning All. 74° and overcast with scattered sprinkling this morning. Back porch is wet. Today's high is only supposed to be 79°!!! Chance of rain for the next ten days. In the train shed, I finished up the Bar Mills kt that I have been working on.
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I'll take some more when I "plant" it. Already have a spot.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
Willie: Your Tobacco shop really looks great and the sineage really add to it for sure.
Mornin fellas
This is a little project Ive been working on to combat the intrusion of hair from the fur kids running around the house. I bought a little cheap keyboard vac and it was useless, so I stole the fan out of it and went to designing. I was going to machine all the parts in my shop but a buddy with a cnc home shop was intrigued by the idea of a micro track vac and said bring your plans over. He whipped it up in an evening and would have taken me 2 days on the manual machines I have. It works freakin great and I couldn't be happier. It's powered by a 500mah lipo and it really sucks. LOL
Dave/Rfntrash: That a good idea. The only thing I can see is that with the vacuuming snot being metal it may short out if it hits both rails at one place or another. It might be a good idea to make that out of clear plastic to attach onto the vacuum housing.
Ken: Sorry I missed your post before, I like your operational signals, which add a lot realism and safety too I imagine to your layout?
Afternoon All,
Sanded and painted the spots on the wall today. Not sure what is on the agenda for the rest of the week.
Here is the new bridge weathered and decaled (like the previous one). The steamer is coming out of the RH and is a WM 2-6-6-2 (my Dad's).
I hope everyone has a good night.
Curt: Very nice scene. Thanks for your concern about the fire danger in my area.
CURT- That scene should be in MRR magazine. WOW!
CHET- You anywhere near HELL CREEK in the 'Badlands' ? They just dug up a T-REX there. Four [4] foot long head.
Phil
Phil: Hey that's pretty neat, we had better watch out if any of it's counsins are around!
Good Morning All. It's 72° and overcast this morning. Received another .25" of rain yesterday, more predicted for today. High temps remaining in the 80's, about 10° below normal. Did some mowing and weedeating before the rain yesterday drove me into the train shed. I finalized (yeah!) part of the new layout extension, a siding and spur for a grain elevator. Laid about half of the roadbed and track. On the other side of the main, there is going to be a flour mill and two spurs coming off the passing siding, incoming for grain and outgoing for flour. Both sidings and the main will currently dead-end at the end of the plywood for now, until I purchase another piece of plywood and continue the extension. That one piece is for a "turnback loop" that will connect from where I am at now with 50' of benchwork already in place (with no track yet).
I too hope that David in CA is OK.
Everyone have a great day.
Willie
PS I posted a few pictures over on Dave's post (railBuilderDhd) regarding DPM buildings, for everyone who has clamored for more pics.
Willie: Thanks for your concern, but fortunately everything is ok in my local.
David, I was teasing Curt about all the track and wiring kinks that he has been ngauged with.
I told him that I was gonna pull his modeling license.
Sherrel: Ok, LoL
So your the guy I've been hearing about checking up on everybody and revoking their Modeler's License! Gulp!
Good morning, everybody.
Below is Heartland Union Station .
Garry: Very nice shot of the passenger service.
I'll add a picture or two.
Here is the CNW/Omaha Road depot in Mankato and my version of it as well. The flood wall for the river was added in the 80's.
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Corey: Very nice looking station on your layout.
Thumbs-UP for realizing you had a drinking problem and acting to rid yourself of it! It's 10 or 11 days now, keep it up and the support group/s can be very useful for you too.
Good morning, y'all!
Nothing scheduled for today. Looks like a good day to work on the new layout. I received a selection of Woodland Scenics new lighting system to experiment with. Upfront cost is a bit high, but so is everything else in our hobby
. Now to complete my Walthers Freight Station with interior and exterior lighting. I also have to rehang the closet doors in our bedroom, now that the new carpeting is in place. Hopefully that is not super time consuming either.
David: Happy to hear that you are not affected by the fires.
When this forum, moves quickly, it's hard to catch up with everyone. Sorry if I missed anyone. perhaps, I'll get a chance to look back later in the day.
Boris: Thanks, a allot, especially coming from you all the way back East in N.J.
WILLIE- Did you get any SCALE TRAINS models? Modeler in other Diner likes them. I have no problem with the one I have. If I had the funds I'd get the other 9 I have my eyes on. Oh well, meds and food come first. Also mortgage,lectricity ,etc.,etc.
Phil
Phil: Yah, being on a budget sure isn't the easiest thing many times, but we make due with what we have.
Afternoon All,
Did some chores this morning under the supervision of MOH. I briefly talked to Ken and Phil concerning Monday. I interrupted Ken working on his signals.
Here is a shifter making up to a cabin.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Curt: Thanks for your concern, fortunately I'm doing fairly well as most of the area has the tall dry grass cut down for 100' around the house and out buildings which is a big safety feature.
Say, what's this I hear about you interrupting Ken when he was working on his signals?
Sherrel: Here's a hot one for yah, time to pull his license! LoL
65years of smoking. Still am. Can't shake the habit for more than a month or so. Have quit many times only to take it up again.
Phil
Phil: My Dad your to be a fairly heavy smoker and tried several times to stop smoking and finally one day he just layed them down and never touched them again. Cold Turkey. You could watch the, 'Marlboro Man', being thrown out of his saddle because his horse stopped so fast and launching him into orbit!
