Running Bear's Coffee Shop LXIV
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In Russia, and other places, ships are considered male.
In most of the Western world, ships are considered female, for their ability to take so much of your time, and their fickleness, as well as their ability to make you the most miserable person around, if you mistreat them. And sometimes if you don't.
In most of the Western world, ships are considered female, for their ability to take so much of your time, and their fickleness, as well as their ability to make you the most miserable person around, if you mistreat them. And sometimes if you don't.
kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Gotta go back down to Richmond today.
Still haven't heard back from the VA for an appointment yet. Going on two weeks now just tryin to talk to someone to get an appointment. Most likely, they will give me a date to call back so I can get an appointment.
Still haven't heard back from the VA for an appointment yet. Going on two weeks now just tryin to talk to someone to get an appointment. Most likely, they will give me a date to call back so I can get an appointment.
Bruette
Well-Known Member
Good Morning Everybody!
Karl I am so sorry to hear about your cat.
Thank you King Toot. That was what I came up with, but knowing Beady I knew there was more to it. Probably more than I want to know!
Ok, now the ship hit the fan!
Have a great day Everybody!
Oh by the way, my Lionel Centennial GP 20 arrived last Saturday and no it is not Mint. It has minimal run time because I can see rail marks on one of the wheels. I am not going to complain because hopefully after this Christmas it will have rail marks on every wheel. I am not a collector, I play with my toys! "Mint" remains the most over/incorrectly used term on eBay. We need more sellers like Karl, he underrates his stuff, many others do the opposite.
Karl I am so sorry to hear about your cat.
Thank you King Toot. That was what I came up with, but knowing Beady I knew there was more to it. Probably more than I want to know!
Ok, now the ship hit the fan!
Have a great day Everybody!
Oh by the way, my Lionel Centennial GP 20 arrived last Saturday and no it is not Mint. It has minimal run time because I can see rail marks on one of the wheels. I am not going to complain because hopefully after this Christmas it will have rail marks on every wheel. I am not a collector, I play with my toys! "Mint" remains the most over/incorrectly used term on eBay. We need more sellers like Karl, he underrates his stuff, many others do the opposite.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. A cool 57° and overcast/foggy today. Rained all day yesterday, light and steady. There's 1.5" in the gauge this morning. The garden loves it, the lawn mower hates it. Wasn't raining nearly as much in Dallas where I was at, attending a funeral. Started after the graveside portion! Good day for the wife at the tax preparer place, she did her most difficult customer yesterday. Took her 2 1/2 hours for which H&R Block received $1800...she gets 25% plus the customer gave her a $120 cash tip! Not bad...sorta makes up for the many days earlier in the season when customers were getting their 1040EZ's done for free.
Upon my return, I did some more detail work and ground cover on the layout. I'll get to spend more time today as it's too wet to do much of anything outside.
Johnny - sounds like some real progress on the layout. In regards to your spacing question. I find that the NMRA standards are workable enough. But in my staging yard, I cut it a little closer; and I generally made the curves a little wider on the rest of the layout. No particular reason, just did it that way. The spacing in my staging yard is a little tight for fingers though.
Chet - Grade crossings are not easy for me and I also have put off many of them. I've completed three out of eight so far. I've tried to minimize them to begin with.
Ken -
Curt - Looks like a little progress. Any early thoughts on the laser-cut structures yet?
Karl - "The USS Caitlin?" Is that in the class "LGBT"?
Everybody stay on track and have an awesome day.
Willie
Upon my return, I did some more detail work and ground cover on the layout. I'll get to spend more time today as it's too wet to do much of anything outside.
Johnny - sounds like some real progress on the layout. In regards to your spacing question. I find that the NMRA standards are workable enough. But in my staging yard, I cut it a little closer; and I generally made the curves a little wider on the rest of the layout. No particular reason, just did it that way. The spacing in my staging yard is a little tight for fingers though.
Chet - Grade crossings are not easy for me and I also have put off many of them. I've completed three out of eight so far. I've tried to minimize them to begin with.
Ken -
Same question as Beady. Is that a local thing? I've never heard of it before either.
Curt - Looks like a little progress. Any early thoughts on the laser-cut structures yet?
Karl - "The USS Caitlin?" Is that in the class "LGBT"?
Everybody stay on track and have an awesome day.
Willie
Raincoat2
Well-Known Member
Good morning, everyone. 58 and foggy here in SW MO, heading for 77 and sunny today. Tomorrow looks great, almost 80 and sunny - I may take the day off of work to catch up on some yardwork - dunno - will have to see about that. In the meantime, a big cup of high-octane and a blueberry muffin, please.
Just a short time in the train room last night, but with the freight yard behind me I can move pretty fast now with roadbed and track. Putting in a couple of TOs and sidings that will serve some trackside industries (as soon as I get them built). I'll post a new photo soon.
Every so often I re-watch Chet's videos of his layout, and I've gotten some good ideas from those. Chet's has got to be one of the most finely-detailed layouts I've seen. There are thousands of layout videos out there as well as tutorials on how to build stuff. Willie, If you've done any videos of your layout, let me know how to find them. And any of the others on this forum - if you've got fly-overs or run-throughs of your layouts, send me the links - this is a great visual way for a new guy to learn about landscaping, town-building, industries, etc.
Thanks. See ya later. Have a good day, everyone.
Just a short time in the train room last night, but with the freight yard behind me I can move pretty fast now with roadbed and track. Putting in a couple of TOs and sidings that will serve some trackside industries (as soon as I get them built). I'll post a new photo soon.
Every so often I re-watch Chet's videos of his layout, and I've gotten some good ideas from those. Chet's has got to be one of the most finely-detailed layouts I've seen. There are thousands of layout videos out there as well as tutorials on how to build stuff. Willie, If you've done any videos of your layout, let me know how to find them. And any of the others on this forum - if you've got fly-overs or run-throughs of your layouts, send me the links - this is a great visual way for a new guy to learn about landscaping, town-building, industries, etc.
Thanks. See ya later. Have a good day, everyone.
Raincoat2
Well-Known Member
Chet - my wife is British by birth (American father, Brit mother). Her mother, who passed away a little over two years ago, would tell stories of her family being split up and sent to the countryside (if you've ever read or seen The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, you'll remember that's what happened to the Pevensie children). The house they left in London was partially destroyed by a bomb. On our last visit to England 5 years ago, my wife's uncle (her mother's brother) took us to that house as well as to several locations that he and his sister (my MIL) lived at while they were away from London. They were spared the direct horror of the bombing, but were affected by what happened for the rest of their lives.
Genetk44
Active Member
Morning gents.....about the ear-clipping of cats. It is a commonly technique used by TNR ( trap-neuter-return) groups around the world to identify feral cats that have already been trapped,neutered and returned to their colonies. Its a quick visual identifier that allows these groups to avoid using resources and time on cats that have already been treated. Its actually quite a common technique.
Saturn5tony
Member
Good mornin peeps, cool 40's in Springfield Mass today for this Easter time and a bit windy as well. Seems both in the air and on this forum..lol
montanan
Whiskey Merchant
Good morning. 37 degrees for a start of the day.
Louis - I think you sort of suspected that the locomotive wasn't mint, but you seem happy with it. Enjoy !
Ken in VA - I hope you can finally get an appointment with the VA. A really sad situation. I have tried to just find out about prescriptions from the VA and found that I would have to be broke and destitute before I could get anything from them.
Willie - I find that making grade crossing can be a pain in the butt, but really aren;t too hard. They're just something to put off, over and over again. I finally put this one in a few months ago. Still have to add a bit of ballast at the edges, but for now it will do.
Here are the ones I started on last weekend. Instead of mixing up some hydrocal which I usually use, I used spackle as I did have some handy. Taped off the area where I didn't want to cover, put the stuff down and left the room. Couldn't run trains with the spackle in the crossings. Went down stairs yesterday and pulled up the tape to see what you see here. A little sanding, paint and ballast should trim out the edges and I'll probably use some evergreen styrene between the rails like in the crossing above.
The last one willl need some work as the crossing is across a turnout. A bit of filing and cutting on the styrene will take cars of that and then ballasting and ground cover can be put in. This town had the track pulled up and relaid three times before everything fit correctly with the buildings. Not a very large space to work with.
Johnny - An interesting story. The war devastated parts of London and other cities, but the Brits just plugged ahead and did what they had to. When I was in London, some of the residents told similar stories. They were interesting to talk with.
Got a few thing to do so I'll be back later.
Louis - I think you sort of suspected that the locomotive wasn't mint, but you seem happy with it. Enjoy !
Ken in VA - I hope you can finally get an appointment with the VA. A really sad situation. I have tried to just find out about prescriptions from the VA and found that I would have to be broke and destitute before I could get anything from them.
Willie - I find that making grade crossing can be a pain in the butt, but really aren;t too hard. They're just something to put off, over and over again. I finally put this one in a few months ago. Still have to add a bit of ballast at the edges, but for now it will do.
Here are the ones I started on last weekend. Instead of mixing up some hydrocal which I usually use, I used spackle as I did have some handy. Taped off the area where I didn't want to cover, put the stuff down and left the room. Couldn't run trains with the spackle in the crossings. Went down stairs yesterday and pulled up the tape to see what you see here. A little sanding, paint and ballast should trim out the edges and I'll probably use some evergreen styrene between the rails like in the crossing above.
The last one willl need some work as the crossing is across a turnout. A bit of filing and cutting on the styrene will take cars of that and then ballasting and ground cover can be put in. This town had the track pulled up and relaid three times before everything fit correctly with the buildings. Not a very large space to work with.
Johnny - An interesting story. The war devastated parts of London and other cities, but the Brits just plugged ahead and did what they had to. When I was in London, some of the residents told similar stories. They were interesting to talk with.
Got a few thing to do so I'll be back later.
Saturn5tony
Member
Chet.. What do you guys use to cover the edges of the road and not go over the tracks? Is it just plaster with some tint and special tools?
kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Gene & Karl - Thanks for that information regarding TNR. I never knew about this program. I initially thought Ken's post regarding neutering applied to domestic cats as well. The only feral cats in my neighborhood are all bobcats.
Willie
Willie
Greg@mnrr
Section Hand
Chet...Nice work on the grade crossings...keep up the good work! Your back drops blend in so well with the layout!
I took the easy way out, no grade crossing or I used wooden ones from Blair Line.
Ken...that "Kat" of yours seems pretty tame to be a feral cat. Ferals usually avoid humans at all costs. I don't think its a feral, but likely a stray. Around my cabin feral cats are handled with a .22 Mag. The critters kill so many song birds, small game and young turkeys.
Easy day down in the layout room. Maybe some lighting additions, clean up, or track work.
Have to think about assembling some supplies to take to my cabin for model work during the summer months. Great time to relax and wdo weathering or kits.
Greg
I took the easy way out, no grade crossing or I used wooden ones from Blair Line.
Ken...that "Kat" of yours seems pretty tame to be a feral cat. Ferals usually avoid humans at all costs. I don't think its a feral, but likely a stray. Around my cabin feral cats are handled with a .22 Mag. The critters kill so many song birds, small game and young turkeys.
Easy day down in the layout room. Maybe some lighting additions, clean up, or track work.
Have to think about assembling some supplies to take to my cabin for model work during the summer months. Great time to relax and wdo weathering or kits.
Greg
Bruette
Well-Known Member
Thank you Chet, I sure will enjoy it! I had the same suspicion, as I always do. I have bought easily over 100 items on eBay that claimed to be mint condition. I would estimate maybe 5% is actually in mint condition. I think in this case it was a mistake, I had to look very close to see the rail marks and I only found them on one wheel. It should have been graded C-9 knowing Karl he would have graded it C-8.
It's surprising to me because of eBay's buyer protection. You would think they would be more careful with descriptions. I could file a compliant and get my money back, including shipping, but I would not do that. I am more than happy because I will run it and run it some more. These Lionel Centennial Locomotives are hard enough to find and usually they sell for over $400. I only paid $100.78 including shipping.
What is that two-tone green car? It's great, you have the best cars!!! Uh oh, now I am going to qualify for Karl's Beat a Dead Horse award! I know I say how great your cars are time and time again, but they are great and it seems like I am always noticing another great one!!!
montanan
Whiskey Merchant
Tony - No special tools are needed. Close to the rails ballast is added and ground cover or weeds further from the tracks. In this photo, the area to the left of the crossing has ballast and ground cover added. To the right, ballast needs to be added to the tracks, one of the last areas that need ballasting. After the ballast is added, the ground cover will be touched up. If I have the time, I will be working on the grade crossings this weekend and will post the photos.
Saturn5tony
Member
Oh cool, thank you so much. Your roads always look so great and that Diner area is amazing. I did watch all of you videos as well (any many others) and the detail of automobile roads seems so important to attain realisim with the track-work.
Greg@mnrr
Section Hand
The dog photo is a wolf mix that I took from an owner in Milwaukee in to one near our cabin. The animal could not be kept indoors and if he was inside alone, he would go through any open window or door screen.
I don't know how the photo attached to my last post???
He liked me and all the way up to the cabin he sat behind me in the truck and licked my neck every once in awhile.
I know I wouldn't want to piss him off with him being mostly wolf.
Greg
I don't know how the photo attached to my last post???
He liked me and all the way up to the cabin he sat behind me in the truck and licked my neck every once in awhile.
I know I wouldn't want to piss him off with him being mostly wolf.
Greg
