Running Bear's January 2022 Coffee Shop


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santafewillie said:
So maybe I am wondering whether or not I got a breakthrough case of Covid earlier in the week. Dry throat, shortness of breath, random aches and sneezing? Mainly Tuesday and Wednesday, today I woke up feeling pretty much back to normal. Even though I mask up in public and have had all three jabs. I truly believe that within a short period of time, we are all going to get it and build up that elusive herd immunity, thanks to the efforts of our government!!! Most likely if that is what it is, I picked it up within the family as at least four of them tested positive in the last three weeks.

Willie - Ya probably got the crap. I have had it 3 ( maybe 4 ) times now with pretty much your symptoms - with dead tired for a bit. I always have aches and pains so no clue if the crap added any. I kick it usually after 12 to 18 hours and I have not had any shots. I now have 7 friends and one daughter that have symptoms AND all have had 2 shots and boost. Trust your government .. wink, wink.
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Never had a Thomas, though do remember seeing a few episodes when the kids were little. Amazing how things can catch on. Finally my turn? Wife's been hit hard with flu for three weeks now. Docs say one more solid week for her. Today I'm feeling something.

No train room work, but did put in some time on my main table design. I'm starting to like what I've done on the inside of the loops. Let me clean it up some and I will post in my layout thread.
 
Good morning all! Cloudy and 35 heading for cloudy and 43. Coffee, french toast and bacon please, Flo.

New laptop is apparently on the truck for delivery today. Looking forward to getting it and not looking at a constantly flickering screen anymore. This laptop has been awesome, but I think the built into the motherboard graphics adapter has issues and it's not worth what it would cost to buy a new board for a 10 year old computer. Anywho...

Did a little train running yesterday on my 4x8 temporary floor layout. I changed it a bit and added a two stub industry siding kinda sorta emulating a Hershey candy plant we have here. I switched out and re-spotted covered hoppers for a while and did some other fun stuff. Sad part is I'll probably taking it all back down today or tomorrow. Tomorrow is my last day of vacation sadly and I can't leave all that on the floor of the spare room forever.

My wife signed us up for a online presentation today regarding dealing with taxes and your pension and IRA, etc. I suspect it's mainly going to be a sales pitch wanting us to use this company, but I guess we'll find out.

Nothing else going on. Hope you all have a great day.
 
When my kids were little 20+ years ago I bought them a Thomas set, it’s what got me to start modeling a more serious layout. Thought “heck, if I am enjoying this little toy train this much how much would i enjoy a real model?” So I got busy on one, loved it, now I am loving this next build just as much (when time allows…)
 
My son had the Tomy PLARAIL Thomas as well as a whole country's worth of Tomy PLARAIL Japanese trains. PLARAIL is the blue-track version of what Mattel has now and was what they used to have in the US before Mattel canceled the contracts and did their own thing (which required them to come up with their own track since Tomy owned the blue track from PLARAIL). Tomy used to sell US prototypes in the blue track as well as Thomas in the US. I remember seeing an Amtrak and some other US types at a local toy store when my son was younger.

In Japan Tomy still has the Thomas franchise that Mattel has taken over in the US.

He also watched Thomas all the time and he also had a bunch of train DVDs from Japan that he would watch all the time. DVDs that showed different trains running -- commuter, bullet trains, etc. So he grew up with trains.

Once the kids were old enough I started getting the N scale stuff, which was in 2017.
 
TLOC said:
Not the best of pictures but this is the bench area. Working on tie bundles, the banding being added. I did 10 of the 50 bundles I made up. So boring I stopped. A couple pipe loads and what was supposed to be 6” aluminum ingots for the extruders in town. Need to use solid rounds of styrene instead of dowels.

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Tom:

Nice work area!

Mine is much scaled down and still in progress:

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There is a two shelved table which slides under the layout. Part of why it is 48". This is something we found in a discard pile behind an apartment building, it is really nice, I added the shelf and worktop. It is basically an iron frame, very sturdy.

Dave
 
OBTC 1909 said:
Good morning all! Cloudy and 35 heading for cloudy and 43. Coffee, french toast and bacon please, Flo.



Did a little train running yesterday on my 4x8 temporary floor layout. I changed it a bit and added a two stub industry siding kinda sorta emulating a Hershey candy plant we have here. I switched out and re-spotted covered hoppers for a while and did some other fun stuff. Sad part is I'll probably taking it all back down today or tomorrow. Tomorrow is my last day of vacation sadly and I can't leave all that on the floor of the spare room forever.

My wife signed us up for a online presentation today regarding dealing with taxes and your pension and IRA, etc. I suspect it's mainly going to be a sales pitch wanting us to use this company, but I guess we'll find out.

Nothing else going on. Hope you all have a great day.
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Reminds me of when I was a kid and the only place I could run my train was on the basement floor. At the last possible day I would succumb to parental threats and dismantle the track. I knew it wouldn't be until next winter when I could put the track up again.

Funny thing is, I don't really remember running trains. What I remember is storing it in the cardboard box.

Time to go back to work

Dave LASM
 
Boris said:
Good morning. Cloudy and 28°

Tom O: How do you keep your work space so clean, and organized?

Karl: Are they Western Maryland or Maryland Midland power?

It is being reported that new cases of Omicron are on the decline...
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I would love to say my bench always looks like the pictures I showed yesterday. But, truth is always the best way. About an hour before I started cleaning it up as I literally could not see through the mess to see ANY of the tabletop. That is more the normal then the clean you saw in the pictures.

TomO
 
logandsawman said:
Tom:

Nice work area!

Mine is much scaled down and still in progress:

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There is a two shelved table which slides under the layout. Part of why it is 48". This is something we found in a discard pile behind an apartment building, it is really nice, I added the shelf and worktop. It is basically an iron frame, very sturdy.

Dave
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Looks good

TomO
 
Afternoon All,

Started out the day by not running errands. The wife slept very poorly and requested we go tomorrow. I did a couple of chores then went to the train room and contemplated the build.

I really wasn't happy with the coloration so I put another thin layer of green to make it darker then after that was dry gave it a coat of A&I. After everything was dry I glued the peaked roof walls onto two 3-story walls and concrete footers on the four walls that was indicated. After lunch I started attaching trim and got about 1/2 way through that before stopping. I hope to finish that tomorrow.

Thank you for the photo likes yesterday.

Smudge- It looks like a cornucopia of MRR'ing goodness.

TomO- Nice layout photos and tie bundles. I really like how your layout crosses over your work table.

Willie- More great loads. Nice job on the detail parts.

Patrick- Best wishes for your wife.

Ken D&J- I call wanting to run trains as fast as they will go the "Lionel Effect".

I hope everyone has a good night.
 
Curt, you hit on something that drives me nuts! "The Lionel effect" as you so appropriately called it. I enjoy watching videos of Lionel trains and more often than not the trains are running so fast I can't see any details! This even happens in professional videos I have paid for!
 
Jaz avalley said:
You laugh but once you stuck a tiny bit of plastic only to find it is facing the wrong way, ie similar parts but different length there can be some serious swearing, and stamping on of ‘instructions’ destructions more like.
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I can't follow instruction, destructions are easier.
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I probably wont be fitting most of the detailing anyway, my hands are still shaking too much, but getting better, it's weird, I can do most anything, driving is fine, just trying to grip small objects and hold them steady is a nightmare, something to do with nerve damage caused by my diabetes so the specialist said, Oh well, shit happens.🙃
 
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