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NorthBrit said:
Good evening all. Just a quick message. I am still this side of the Great Divide. Allowed home, but have to visit the hospital almost daily. I guess they need the bed for someone else. I was wired to a heart monitor earlier as my heart missed more than a beat. I guess I haven't used all my 'lives' yet. Will try and 'look in' tomorrow.
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Good to see you vertical! After my 3 pass, I did that. Would skip one or two beats every once in awhile. When back to the ...um... normal beat there would be all kinds of gyrations to get there. Scared the sh.t outa me the 1st couple times, then it became normal if that is what it is to be called. Funny thing is when I went in to ER, I told them my heart was skipping beats. They looked at me funny with raised eyebrows stating something like 'you can not feel that'. Right. When they hooked me up, I told them when the beat was missing. They now believe. That has been more than a few years ago. Still does it on occasion. All my life I have had palpitations ( extra/out of time beat ) so always knew when some event happens. Doc knows and she says 'live with it' as there is nothing to do.

Later
 
Good morning from a snow impacted So central Wisconsin. The 2-4” of snow predicted yesterday was officially doubled by time it stopped snowing at midnight. I opened the garage door this morning and the unofficial ruler says 6.25”. Snow removal guy for my neighbor and me promises to have the driveways started by 7am. I didn’t want to hire anyone but the medical issues dictated that I should. This was the only company that promised to be here at a specific time. The neighbor still works and she needs to get out by 7:45.

Layout construction for the friend was good yesterday. I dropped 3 buss lines in the area I was working on. He will adding signals so we are getting all the buss lines in now. Added connectors to the egress window area and used the suitcase connectors on 20 feeders on the area I was working. The owner then connected the buss lines to the circuit breakers, tested the connections and then ran a work train. I did ask what the mainline run will be. He said around 850’. We talked about the paper mill he wants. 21” deep space about 22’ long

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Flats along the back wall. His era is 1950’s to 1965 to run his era appropriate GN passenger and mail trains. So the mill structures will be brick and asphalt siding moving to metal sided structures as the plant added on in the 60’s. I started researching for pictures of Puget Sound papermills from the 50’s. We just want the flavor a integrated paper mill I would be drawing up, it will be a composite of what I find and what he likes. I do know it will be my 1st paper mill powered by coal to be modeled. Oh boy, light bulb moment. He’s a member of the GN historical society, they should have the info!

Today! Not sure as I was told to clean downstairs. Downstairs is a guest bedroom and bath, my media/cave area, another bathroom and the train room. I then asked if she had fired the cleaning service already and she answered no, why? I said they are paid to clean everywhere but my train room. Her response was “oh yeah”! She forgot so she then said just stay out of the kitchen but clean your train room!

Enjoy your day
 
Good morning all!

Happy Friday!

Currently 28 degrees with light snow falling. Looks like 1 inch total accumulation on the way. It is windy as well, so its blowing around.

Finished up a few last minute things yesterday, so I believe we are ready for Christmas. We only have to host one Christmas day lunch this year, It will be very small and only us 3 and my parents. The rest of my side all came home for Thanksgiving this year and wont be coming back for the Holidays. The big Christmas eve get together with my wife's side will be somewhere else. Its not our turn to host this year. We will have to host next year.

Have a safe day everyone!
 


TLOC said:
Good morning from a snow impacted So central Wisconsin. The 2-4” of snow predicted yesterday was officially doubled by time it stopped snowing at midnight. I opened the garage door this morning and the unofficial ruler says 6.25”. Snow removal guy for my neighbor and me promises to have the driveways started by 7am. I didn’t want to hire anyone but the medical issues dictated that I should. This was the only company that promised to be here at a specific time. The neighbor still works and she needs to get out by 7:45.

Layout construction for the friend was good yesterday. I dropped 3 buss lines in the area I was working on. He will adding signals so we are getting all the buss lines in now. Added connectors to the egress window area and used the suitcase connectors on 20 feeders on the area I was working. The owner then connected the buss lines to the circuit breakers, tested the connections and then ran a work train. I did ask what the mainline run will be. He said around 850’. We talked about the paper mill he wants. 21” deep space about 22’ long

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Flats along the back wall. His era is 1950’s to 1965 to run his era appropriate GN passenger and mail trains. So the mill structures will be brick and asphalt siding moving to metal sided structures as the plant added on in the 60’s. I started researching for pictures of Puget Sound papermills from the 50’s. We just want the flavor a integrated paper mill I would be drawing up, it will be a composite of what I find and what he likes. I do know it will be my 1st paper mill powered by coal to be modeled. Oh boy, light bulb moment. He’s a member of the GN historical society, they should have the info!

Today! Not sure as I was told to clean downstairs. Downstairs is a guest bedroom and bath, my media/cave area, another bathroom and the train room. I then asked if she had fired the cleaning service already and she answered no, why? I said they are paid to clean everywhere but my train room. Her response was “oh yeah”! She forgot so she then said just stay out of the kitchen but clean your train room!

Enjoy your day
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Hay Tom! If you are thinking 'smaller', the pix is Inland Empire Paper located in the Spokane Valley, Millwood. Although it is serviced by UP, xNP is a mile ish away. Got a tour when I was a Cub Scout - so it has been there many moons.
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On the West side ( Argonne Road ) there a loading docks towards the river and away from the river. As you can see, the upper ones are 'blind side' backing with not much room. There used to be a truck entry from Argonne of which they would go directly into the paper roll storage. This plant is pretty much for newsprint and some fiber board.

Later!
 
Annnnnnnnd I'm back!

Been hanging in the shadows the last few days. Had another round of the tummy bug Wednesday, Thursday was tough but I managed to work all day, sustained by the Lord's chicken noodle soup and peppermint milkshakes. (Chik-fil-A).

Wednesday was also the day my BIL passed from Parkinson's, on the 12th anniversary of my wife's mother passing, triple bummer day! But we survived!

David, glad to hear you are still among us!!

Another day at work, our corporate Xmas luncheon is today, so I may have to take a nap alter! ;)
 
Good Morning All. Clear and 42° here on the farm. Forecast here hasn't really changed much except they have added rain for Tuesday. Still partly cloudy and low-60's for Christmas Day.

The weekly grocery trek went as planned, but it was more crowded than normal. And surprise! They had managers bagging groceries at all three open checkout lanes. The usual cashiers were present. Wife made a trip to Walmart while I was in Kroger's. Added to yesterday's trip was the Vitamin Shop, UPS store to mail a package, post office to buy stamps and mail gobs of Christmas cards and Schlotzsky's for lunch. Before returning home I had time for a haircut. Got home kinda late, so no outdoor chores (other than a trip to the dumpster with a wagon load before today's pickup), but it was really nice outside.

Today is wide open. There's no dew on the ground, so I can do stuff outside without slipping and sliding; or getting my tennis shoes wet! Haven't been advised of a honey do list yet.

Time out in the train shed yesterday was limited since we went to meet another couple at our favorite Italian restaurant last night. I just did general maintenance and cleaning of the room itself. It's the time of year that I get insects like crickets, wasps and ladybugs dying in there. They come in when I have the door open and then die because there is no water to drink or preferred insects to eat.
While looking for some engine pictures to post, I came across a series of photos showing the detailing of some Scaletrains Dash9-44CW's that I got in 2019. If you have any, then you already know this stuff, but if not, here's examples of what you get.
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And the grand finale, the interior that no one will ever see!
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David - So glad to read that you're OK and still posting. Best wishes on your recovery.
Tom O - Since I periodically rotate my containers around different well cars, I don't differentiate between top and bottom containers, thus putting the same weight in all. I have no Evemodel well cars, so I have no experience with them. I particularly like the metal ones from Walther's, even if using two containers makes it heavier than NMRA recommendations. I rarely run empties.
John (westex) - We have never had any issues getting refunds from Amazon, but never had one that large and involving a Chinese shipper. There is a bill before Congress that may have passed already, prohibiting the sale of the newer DJI drones in the US. That could be contributing to your problem. My DJI Mini 2 is not affected.

Ex-KISS drummer Peter Criss is 79 today. I never was particularly impressed with their music.

Everyone have a fabulous Friday.
 
Good morning, all! 57 and sunny with predictions of mid 60's. Doing Christmasy things, getting forgotten items and basically staying out of the way of the wife's baking binge. The youngest daughter came by to wrap my gifts to the wife, it's a tradition she started many years ago. I do wrap one special gift however. Today's hunt will be for drip pans for the range.

David - Absolutely smashing to hear from you old chap. (said with a British accent with a little Texas twang)

Since I have no train news, I offer a little poem you might remember from childhood.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you to sit behind you
to tell you a story I know nothing about.
One fine day in the middle of the night
two dead boys got up to fight.
Back-to-back, they faced each other
drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise
and came to kill those two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too.

STAY SAFE
LATER
 
ctclibby said:
Hay Tom! If you are thinking 'smaller', the pix is Inland Empire Paper located in the Spokane Valley, Millwood. Although it is serviced by UP, xNP is a mile ish away. Got a tour when I was a Cub Scout - so it has been there many moons.
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On the West side ( Argonne Road ) there a loading docks towards the river and away from the river. As you can see, the upper ones are 'blind side' backing with not much room. There used to be a truck entry from Argonne of which they would go directly into the paper roll storage. This plant is pretty much for newsprint and some fiber board.

Later!
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Thanks, I will add that to the list!
 


That train crash in Pecos was all the truckers fault. Driver NEVER contacted the railroad. They said the truck was stuck for almost 45 minutes, way long enough to warn any on coming trains. On the signal post there is an emergency phone number listed so you can call the railroad in case something like this occures. And when hauling oversize loads the routes are usually planned to avoid low overhead items like wires and bridges, AND railroad tracks, especially with a low-boy type trailer in tow. Looks like poor planning and attention to safety on the truckers end. Two U. P. drivers paid the price. Just my 2 cents.

On another note, I received a message from Amazon that they were going give me a full refund on my drone order. Thats a load off my mind.

Bad news and good news today I guess.

Heading off to Wal-Mart in Vernon Tx tomorrow to get new tires for my pick-up. Wal-Mart beat five other places on price of tires and mounting/balancing. Supposed to be a nice day tomorrow. Hoping all goes well. I don't know if I will venture into the store as I would guess this close to Christmas the Walley-World will be a mad house.

Everybody have a great weekend......John
 
Well, hello there internet peeps

It's me again

I was wondering if I could do an extra smoke on an already smoked ham. James at Smokin' Dad BBQ on youtube says yes you can! So does Matt at Meat Church BBQ


Wife and I will be home without guests on Christmas day. Family gathering is Saturday three days later. And weather looks like it won't be nasty. Maybe in the mid 40s F-degrees

Going to play games tomorrow, so I'm in painting the minis mode today.

Will report back as necessary
 


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