Good afternoon/evening all,
Hi Francine, how's my favorite Dark haired waitress, did that actually make you blush, Omg. Anyway I have some coffee to start with some of the Hazelnut creme if you have some? Oh, good. You know I'll have whatever the special is for dinner. Roast Beef, mashed potatoes, Spinach & my choice of desert. Wow, that sounds Yummy! Bring it on.
It now 7:00Pm, the high was 62 °F and the temp is: 47.5 °F -Feels Like 48 °F, Humidity is 79%, Winds 2.7 from the ESE. Tonight's low 40 °F so it getting fairly chilly! It can snowf at 36 °F to 38 °F but fortunately for my area there is no rain/snow in sight.
I was fairly busy yesterday, Sat, hence no contact with the forum, as it rained fairly good Friday night up until about 9:30 Am on Sat. with a total of 1.82". I found I had three leaks I needed to attend to so that's what I did Sat. afternoon. I wound up cutting a total of 48 tarr paper patches, about 12"sx12-14"s long and made 4 trips up and down from my roof trying to correct where the leak might be coming from. So I was fairly beat after that but after I rested a bit in the evening I realized it was getting fairly cold due to all the moisture in the air so I went around and closed all the ceiling vents from the cooler on the roof and covered them over with the same stick on plastic covers I used last year. I think most are holding.
Jeffrey: Glad to hear/read your doing so well, I'll have to give you credit!
Garry: Always good to see shots of your layout, I almost bid on a Roundhouse Alco like yours on ebay but it for different Road.
Curt: I always seeing shots of your layout too, you guys spur me along to get going on mine which I need to do shortly tonight.
Milkwakee: I liked the pictures of the More modern Box cab with the Pantagraph for the over head pickup. An old friend Riff Riffell many years back made his own Overhead Catinairy Lines [I believe that's what their called?] so he could run the European electrics on the same rail as the standard HO and control each seperatly. Rather unique I thought.
With all the new advances that are being made with our model trains I figured there should be an APP available for individuals like me who are still using 'DC' to allow me to blow the whistle and ring the bell when I wanted too especially to actually blow the Whistle as desired to create the actual codes in either, 'short or long' to enhance the actual operation of running my railroad. [Well, I could do more operation if I'd clear a number of cars and loco's of my main line. So I need to connect to a few more spurs to hold the extra cars & Locos] Anyway one of the new things for me is an APP I downloaded for my Android cell phone called, 'Railroad Companion', which not only gives me the ability to blow the Whistle in both, Short & Long but also three different tones so I can actually cross talk between loco's such as when double heading. It's really unique and I can attach the cell phone to my Crest Radio hand throttle and have both handy and ready to use. The same program also has Diesel sounds, bell and horn in the same configurations. There is also break sounds and others plus an All- -Aborad for passenger service. It's a very neat program and only $1.99 to download if I remember correctly!
Next I'm hoping Woodland Scenics will come out with an enhanced program for their inventory program that will allow for a pick-up and delivery schedule to be created as it should be a fairly easy thing to do since a guy would already have his roster of equipment loaded into their data base inventory program to begin with.
Oh, I won the bid on a few items on ebay and one of them was another little Teakettle so I would have two that are both 'DC' and will function together to double head with.
That's it for now, oo or toot-toot for 10-4!
Here's a parting shot.
