BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
Good morning, beautiful day here again this morning as well. Have a friend from the club coming over today so will run trains again today.
Probably "collection" is too generous a word, but I have a lone CHP FM diesel and 5 cars I use on my SoCal layout to represent traffic coming up from SoB.Out of curiosity, does anyone on this forum collect equipment from Mexican Rail Lines?
Awesome picture Dave. I have seen the cows heading out to pasture or coming in scene so often over the years. You have that so right to me!Good evening,
Rgeiter: we had similar ideas today
I got my outdoor fence done (no pic) but also added to some scenes on my layout also harvested and processed 11,700 board feet of sawlogs:
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These are 16' long sawlogs, 16" to 4' in diameter HO scale.
Also got the cattle on the pasture:
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TomO - I cannot read or eat in bed myself. Wife wants to read in bed always had to hook up a special light for her. She usually only does that when she goes to bed before me (rarely).
Have a good night all!
Dave LASM
Like Terry posted, "'collection' is too generous". I have two freight cars, one from TM and one from NdeM railroads.Out of curiosity, does anyone on this forum collect equipment from Mexican Rail Lines?
Enjoy the cruise and create lots of wordsWell, howdy there internet peeps, and those driving busses that wish they were trains.
It's Troy again. In Mel's Starry buck$ location. It's 6:20 in the Big Easy. I've been awake since 3, but tried to go back to sleep.
So, it's time to word the words before getting on the cruise ship. You probably won't hear/see much from me for the next week. Maybe another update today while the internet is still cheap. Once we're sailing, it's too expensive to post much. I only have 150 minutes, and about 20% of that goes to logging into/out of the ship's network. So I'll just be checking email, and dropping an odd photo or two on FB.
Out of curiosity, does anyone on this forum collect equipment from Mexican Rail Lines?
Every marriage has its ups and downs…Marriage. A married couple that I know were at an event a few weeks ago. The topic of marriage came up and Jim mentioned that he and his wife had been happily married for 5 years. Sheron leaned toward him and said, "No Jim, we've been married 35 years". Without looking at her, Jim replied, "I know".
Marriage. A married couple that I know were at an event a few weeks ago. The topic of marriage came up and Jim mentioned that he and his wife had been happily married for 5 years. Sheron leaned toward him and said, "No Jim, we've been married 35 years". Without looking at her, Jim replied, "I know".
I put like and I do like it,the icicles the snow….however glad it is not here, although we have had the odd whiteout in previous yearsGood Afternoon All!
28F in snowing
Here we go again - been doing this for about an hour:
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That ain't fog in the background --- snow.
Later
give her zinc it helps infectionsMy daughter has had a "cold" for the last two weeks. This week is very mild and she even went to a swim practice yesterday -- Just a slightly scratchy throat. But the week of thanksgiving she had a lot of cough and stuff and it started the end of the week before Thanksgiving week. I think it was RSV -- Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection -- a common one especially in kids. Seems half the kids in Utah have it -- my wife said her hospital has been taking 14-17 year olds from the ICU of the associated children's hospital since that children's hospital didn't have enough beds for respiratory issues.
Anyway, Sun - Tuesday night this week I would go to sleep for a few hours, wake up and not be able to go back to sleep, and finally drift off for the last couple hours. So I was getting 4-5 hours of not great sleep. I started to feel scratchy and cough and plugged up and still am, though the last two nights I've slept much better and feel a bit better. Still coughing and scratchy chest etc.
We are planning on leaving to Japan early next Friday for our first trip since 2019 summer. One of the requirements that affects are family on trying to enter Japan is that we need to show a negative C19 test (they have a list of tests they find acceptable). These are "real" lab tests with lab signed results they require, given no more than 72 hours before the first flight.
So I was worrying in case our sickness may have been C19 related, though we didn't think so. So I got some rapid antigen tests from Amazon yesterday (ordered in the afternoon -- delivered by early evening). I took one and it came back negative. Which is a big relief. I'll do another this weekend and have the daughter do one and maybe the wife and son do the last two (5 test kit) just for the piece of mind. I still need to find a place that does travel related Covid testing around here and I expect we';;be paying $75-$100+ per person . It is a racket.
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Snowed 4"-6" it appears over night. Daughter's school is canceled, which is nice as there are a lot of work pressures right now as I try and wrap up in order to be able to leave next week. Her school is on the other side of the valley and they probably got a lot more snow over there than we did on our side.
I'm trying to get all the tied rebar on the garage slab lifted, and a small amount of corner foam installed and the foam we did last weekend braced so that we can get poured. This snow didn't help for that. This is pouring of the concrete over the pre-stressed slabs that were placed a week and a half ago...
Also got word that the heat pump unit was shipped. I need to follow the track to make sure it gets here before we leave. I may also need to find someone who can store it for me as it is small but heavy and our motorized stair climbing/descending dolly can't help us get it across the dirt from the street to the house (no poured driveway yet).
Oooh dip the wire in a black brown mix, when dry highlight the wire with silver,looking good as usual.Good Morning All on this Second Sunday of Advent. Partly cloudy and 43°. NWS has added rain to this morning's forecast, probably because there seems to be a line of showers heading this way; although the bulk is north of the Red River in Oklahoma. Mid-50's today, upper 70's tomorrow and Tuesday. I have a chimney sweep coming out Tuesday since my regular guy cannot make it this season. It's gonna cost more.
Still doing the same old outdoor chores right now, splitting wood, finally finished the cleanup of the garden and applied some more compost to the surface, mowed and shredded leaves to add to the newer compost pile and picked up fallen twigs and branches from the tree line along the road to the east side of the yard. I got a new electric space heater from Amazon to supplement the one in the train shed. It sometimes gets too chilly to do any modeling work out there, although I can run trains. I just cannot do modeling with long sleeves on, they snag on track/scenery or drag stuff off the workbench.
Day two of home alone today. No furniture rearrangement this time, but I did exchange out a couple of pictures on the walls. Let's see if she notices. I took down one picture that my Dad painted and put up one that my wife painted. They both painted a large number of oil paintings. In another place I took down one of hers and put up one of his. I also rearranged some of those tacky copper kitchen wall hangings, and subbed in two different ones. I get tired of looking at the same old stuff every day. I'll see what other mischief I can get into today.
Thanks as always for the reactions and comments from yesterday.
Out in the train shed, I painted another 2'x8' portion of the Plywood Pacific. I also painted at least 35' of track, ties and roadbed. No pictures yet as they might be boring. I have gone as far as I intended on the ground paint for the time being, as any further will not only entail removing stuff, but also firming up what I am going to do with that corner. I am not there yet, although an additional grain elevator could be part of it. Meanwhile I can proceed with some ground cover and ballast. I usually ballast first and then bring the ground cover up to meet it. I may try the opposite approach in parts of this section to see if I like it.
Since I don't have any current progress pictures, I have to go to the archive. Maybe some flatcar and gondola loads.
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Troy - NOLA hasn't been the same since Hurricane Katrina. Given it's proximity, we have had the opportunity to visit a few times on our annual trip over to Gulf Shores AL. I also lived there for a year and a half in the late 50's-early 60's. The overall smell in the tourist areas, the lack of law enforcement against what is considered "petty crimes", and the exodus of reputable businesses has really hurt the city's image. While the French Quarter was always considered "party town" even back when I was living there, it has gotten more lawless over the years. I understand that many of the issues have been exacerbated by a combination of police corruption, police leaving the force after the hurricane, and the prevailing "de-fund the police" mood that has been prevalent there for over ten years; but I cannot definitively state that because I don't live there. But I can say that the city has gone downhill since Katrina.
That said, the cemeteries are interesting there as no one is actually buried.
Tom O - You are so right about hearing loss. I truly believe that 80% of my loss is due to rock concerts and the use of headphones when I was younger. I should have had hearing aids at least ten years before I got them in 2014, but I was too vain to check them out. The first day was amazing.
Todd - Yep! Another early riser here. After 43 years of getting up at 4:00 am mostly without an alarm clock, I still get up at that time despite some effort at changing. I don't mind, I like that time. Due to my hearing impairment, I totally sleep through the time that my wife comes to bed, lights on and reading her book for 30 minutes or so.
Curt - All of my main line curve radii are at least 30", with many at 32" and a couple at 34". As to which one that I used there, I would have to get out the template and measure since I don't have a written layout plan. Thanks for the possible ID on the signals. I'll go forward with my research now.
Hughie - No I haven't run out of blue paint yet. I won't paint the backdrop until I get the other piece of plywood sheathing for the near end. Somehow I ended up with an extra piece at 14 1/2" tall and I am one piece short at 16" tall. I use the shorter stuff on the lower level.
David - Yes, I prefer angled track, and set back so I can scenic on both sides and run trains "through" the layout.
Steve J - Impressive club layout.
Everyone have a great Sunday.
Maybe HE ignored you….This is getting strange.
When I check the ANPL, I don't see the December coffee shop but I see all the previous months.
When I go directly to the December coffee shop, the first two posts are missing. the first post I see is #3.