Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
09-05-2008
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Good morning.
it's 72 and cloudy. The high will be in the upper 80's and it will be partly cloudy.
Yesterday I had to remove the new turnout from my layout. It was causing problems with some of the larger locomotives that I use. My curves are 18" radius (it's not possible to go larger) but the curved part of the turnout is more like 15" radius and some of the larger power didn't like it, and they're Athearn BB's. Get that! My P2K E's took it just fine but the Athearn P's wouldn't touch it.
I went in to see the foot doctor yesterday, two days late because of Gustav. He likes the progress I'm making on my healing and is setting things in motion to have a new pair of shoes made. That's a long process that requires precise measurements, castings and fittings. It can sometimes take the better part of a year. It's not like I can just buy my shoes off the rack like everyone else does. I wish I could.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/5/2008
Heat Index: 77°F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 66°F
So Far Today
High: 72°F
Low: 72°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 6mph N
Today High: 88 Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 65 Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming light after midnight.
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it's 72 and cloudy. The high will be in the upper 80's and it will be partly cloudy.
Yesterday I had to remove the new turnout from my layout. It was causing problems with some of the larger locomotives that I use. My curves are 18" radius (it's not possible to go larger) but the curved part of the turnout is more like 15" radius and some of the larger power didn't like it, and they're Athearn BB's. Get that! My P2K E's took it just fine but the Athearn P's wouldn't touch it.
I went in to see the foot doctor yesterday, two days late because of Gustav. He likes the progress I'm making on my healing and is setting things in motion to have a new pair of shoes made. That's a long process that requires precise measurements, castings and fittings. It can sometimes take the better part of a year. It's not like I can just buy my shoes off the rack like everyone else does. I wish I could.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/5/2008
Heat Index: 77°F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 66°F
So Far Today
High: 72°F
Low: 72°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 6mph N
Today High: 88 Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 65 Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming light after midnight.
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tompm
Active Member
Good morning folks
It was 74 F this morning on the way to the office. The air was downright oppressive. It felt like you were walking into a wet blanket. High today will be 88 F. We are currently under a Flood Watch as we wait for Hanna. We are supposed to get between 3 and 5 inches of rain tomorrow.
No modeling last night.
My son is supposed to have a football game at Clifton Heights tomorrow afternoon. I guess it will depend on the weather. His game is at 4 PM which could be when the worst part of the storm passes. If the game is postponed it will be played on Sunday. We also have the dreaded biweekly grocery shopping to do.
On the modeling front I need to check the basement and make sure nothing is in harm’s way especially if we get 5 inches of rain. There could be some water issues in the basement with that much water. If I can I would like to continue getting used to the EZ-Command System. Additionally I need to go over the kit box pile and pick out a project or two.
I hope everybody has a good day.
It was 74 F this morning on the way to the office. The air was downright oppressive. It felt like you were walking into a wet blanket. High today will be 88 F. We are currently under a Flood Watch as we wait for Hanna. We are supposed to get between 3 and 5 inches of rain tomorrow.
No modeling last night.
My son is supposed to have a football game at Clifton Heights tomorrow afternoon. I guess it will depend on the weather. His game is at 4 PM which could be when the worst part of the storm passes. If the game is postponed it will be played on Sunday. We also have the dreaded biweekly grocery shopping to do.
On the modeling front I need to check the basement and make sure nothing is in harm’s way especially if we get 5 inches of rain. There could be some water issues in the basement with that much water. If I can I would like to continue getting used to the EZ-Command System. Additionally I need to go over the kit box pile and pick out a project or two.
I hope everybody has a good day.
Steve B
Firefighter
Chris thats a bad ass storm heading your way,
Jeffery i watched a TV show last night about a surgeon from just up the road from us who works in Malawi in Africa, he's a foot specialist who does club foot operations and so on, he has done thousands in Africa with amazing results. he makes his own anti bacterial stuff for ulcers out of sugar, Vaseline, glycerin and honey and it works a treat, even in the humid hot conditions of africa. I didn't much care for the hammer and chisel approach to his surgery, that sounded terrible !!! good job the guy was asleep i say
Jeffery i watched a TV show last night about a surgeon from just up the road from us who works in Malawi in Africa, he's a foot specialist who does club foot operations and so on, he has done thousands in Africa with amazing results. he makes his own anti bacterial stuff for ulcers out of sugar, Vaseline, glycerin and honey and it works a treat, even in the humid hot conditions of africa. I didn't much care for the hammer and chisel approach to his surgery, that sounded terrible !!! good job the guy was asleep i say
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Mornin' everyone!
Gonna be a hot one here in the Finger Lakes today. Currently 80°F with an expected high of 87° later this afternoon. If the current projections hold true the Finger Lakes region will get scant rain from Hanna as she goes by.
As always, I have about 3 days of things to get done yesterday that I need to get done today, so I best get at it!
Have a good day all!
Gonna be a hot one here in the Finger Lakes today. Currently 80°F with an expected high of 87° later this afternoon. If the current projections hold true the Finger Lakes region will get scant rain from Hanna as she goes by.
As always, I have about 3 days of things to get done yesterday that I need to get done today, so I best get at it!
Have a good day all!
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Afternoon, everyone.
Oh Chris, where are you? I hope you're taking a nice vacation or something.
Steve, I looked at the radar for the UK and it does look like you're getting dumped on. It's an unusually warm extratropical low for being that far north. I'll bet the waterfalls are spectacular.
Jeffrey, I wondered if you'd have any problems with that E-Z track switch. I only have two on my layout for a passing track but they have given me fits ever since I installed them. I've finally got them where they will take most six axle power and cars up to about 60 feet long after a lot of realignment and point filing but anything bigger will cause a derailment for sure. I have Atlas #4 switches that will handle larger power and cars with no problem. There's something about the diverging route on those Bachmann switch that just don't seem to have the right geometry. I'm glad your foot is getting better but it is an awfully slow, and I'm sure, frustrating process.
Tom, I think you can pretty much forget that football game. This weekend should be a washout for just about everyone on the east coast. The heaviest rain is staying east of the ragged center of Hanna, out to sea, so I think the flooding problems won't be as bad as they are forecasting, but you will get good bit of rain.
Ray, you and Paul should miss most of the rain since you're so far upstate but you'll get a real good dose of tropical heat and humidity. Time to break out the sunscreen.
Hanna will move onshore around the SC/NC border just about midnight and then slide up the east coast over the weekend, finally exiting back into the Atlantic after passing the Canadian Maritimes on Tuesday. She will not be a hurricane and the heaviest rain and wind will stay offshore but she will ruin a lot of picnics and ballgames for the weekend.
Ike is really getting me concerned. The models are not in complete agreement yet but the most likely course is just south of the Bahamas, hitting Florida somewhere between the Keys and Miami, and then crossing Florida and getting out into the Gulf. None of the models have a clue as to what will happen after that. Ike is a cat 3 now and will hit Florida as either a cat 3 or cat 4. Unlike the Gulf Coast, which has a long and relatively shallow continental shelf, it's deep and warm water all the way to Florida. This means that land falling hurricanes in Florida don't usually lose any strength unless they get close enough to Cuba to get disrupted. This could happen with Ike but I doubt it. Everyone in south Florida, on both west and east coasts, needs to pay close attention to the forecasts for Ike and be prepared to evacuate. This is a very dangerous storm and it's going to hit an area of very high population density. Evacuating New Orleans wasn't easy but evacuating south Florida is going to be a nightmare.
Oh Chris, where are you? I hope you're taking a nice vacation or something.
Steve, I looked at the radar for the UK and it does look like you're getting dumped on. It's an unusually warm extratropical low for being that far north. I'll bet the waterfalls are spectacular.
Jeffrey, I wondered if you'd have any problems with that E-Z track switch. I only have two on my layout for a passing track but they have given me fits ever since I installed them. I've finally got them where they will take most six axle power and cars up to about 60 feet long after a lot of realignment and point filing but anything bigger will cause a derailment for sure. I have Atlas #4 switches that will handle larger power and cars with no problem. There's something about the diverging route on those Bachmann switch that just don't seem to have the right geometry. I'm glad your foot is getting better but it is an awfully slow, and I'm sure, frustrating process.
Tom, I think you can pretty much forget that football game. This weekend should be a washout for just about everyone on the east coast. The heaviest rain is staying east of the ragged center of Hanna, out to sea, so I think the flooding problems won't be as bad as they are forecasting, but you will get good bit of rain.
Ray, you and Paul should miss most of the rain since you're so far upstate but you'll get a real good dose of tropical heat and humidity. Time to break out the sunscreen.
Hanna will move onshore around the SC/NC border just about midnight and then slide up the east coast over the weekend, finally exiting back into the Atlantic after passing the Canadian Maritimes on Tuesday. She will not be a hurricane and the heaviest rain and wind will stay offshore but she will ruin a lot of picnics and ballgames for the weekend.
Ike is really getting me concerned. The models are not in complete agreement yet but the most likely course is just south of the Bahamas, hitting Florida somewhere between the Keys and Miami, and then crossing Florida and getting out into the Gulf. None of the models have a clue as to what will happen after that. Ike is a cat 3 now and will hit Florida as either a cat 3 or cat 4. Unlike the Gulf Coast, which has a long and relatively shallow continental shelf, it's deep and warm water all the way to Florida. This means that land falling hurricanes in Florida don't usually lose any strength unless they get close enough to Cuba to get disrupted. This could happen with Ike but I doubt it. Everyone in south Florida, on both west and east coasts, needs to pay close attention to the forecasts for Ike and be prepared to evacuate. This is a very dangerous storm and it's going to hit an area of very high population density. Evacuating New Orleans wasn't easy but evacuating south Florida is going to be a nightmare.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
It's the radius of the diverging track that's the problem. Bachmann likes to say it's 18" radius but it isn't. I measured it to be sure. It's more like 15.3" radius. I've positioned the turnout differently so that the through train can go by on the straight part and the diverging track goes to the spur.Jeffrey, I wondered if you'd have any problems with that E-Z track switch. I only have two on my layout for a passing track but they have given me fits ever since I installed them. I've finally got them where they will take most six axle power and cars up to about 60 feet long after a lot of realignment and point filing but anything bigger will cause a derailment for sure. I have Atlas #4 switches that will handle larger power and cars with no problem. There's something about the diverging route on those Bachmann switch that just don't seem to have the right geometry.
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
Yo!
I'm here sort of
I've been very buzzy with the park, winter ball is fixing to start and we are way behind due to government cut backs.
We usually do field maintance during the fall and winter to get them ready for spring ball! But the leauge in it GREAT wisdom has started having AAU in Sept-Oct! and several winter ball camps. Now we have to try to do our usual Maint. around their activites It slows us down big time and to make matters worst I'm still going to the other park on mondays and tuesday to help them out ! In short we're so far behind we think were first!
As For Ike, I'm so buzzy with the parks, my lawn service, and Ryan's football tryouts that I might not even notice Ike hitting us Honesty, I'm rightly not to worried about Ike I worry more when they hit us on the west coast first then roll through. If it hits Miami(Little Cuba/Havanna) first it has a way to go to get to me after 30 years of hurry cans, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up we'll run right to Rex's or Jim's House! Hope you guys got two spare beds for the wife and boy and some Michlob on ice for me just in case
Keep your layouts tracks clean too We can be at your house in 24 hrs
Larry, as soon as I get a chance I'm going to barrow that mower of yours!
Jim, I just got off a one week vacation two weeks ago! I still have 194 hrs left in my vacation leave and 425 hrs in sick! I won't be due for time off for few more months!
Steve, Ike a B-a____
? Please ...... I P harder than that storm can rain ! Steve, when Jim or Rex is complaining on his company he has over then it's a bad storm
I'm here sort of
I've been very buzzy with the park, winter ball is fixing to start and we are way behind due to government cut backs. We usually do field maintance during the fall and winter to get them ready for spring ball! But the leauge in it GREAT wisdom has started having AAU in Sept-Oct! and several winter ball camps. Now we have to try to do our usual Maint. around their activites It slows us down big time and to make matters worst I'm still going to the other park on mondays and tuesday to help them out ! In short we're so far behind we think were first! As For Ike, I'm so buzzy with the parks, my lawn service, and Ryan's football tryouts that I might not even notice Ike hitting us
Honesty, I'm rightly not to worried about Ike I worry more when they hit us on the west coast first then roll through. If it hits Miami(Little Cuba/Havanna) first it has a way to go to get to me after 30 years of hurry cans, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up we'll run right to Rex's or Jim's House! Hope you guys got two spare beds for the wife and boy and some Michlob on ice for me just in case Keep your layouts tracks clean too We can be at your house in 24 hrs Larry, as soon as I get a chance I'm going to barrow that mower of yours!
Jim, I just got off a one week vacation two weeks ago! I still have 194 hrs left in my vacation leave and 425 hrs in sick!
I won't be due for time off for few more months!Steve, Ike a B-a____
? Please ...... I P harder than that storm can rain ! Steve, when Jim or Rex is complaining on his company he has over then it's a bad storm
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rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Last week I mentioned finding a local camera shop (Canon). Older gentleman that owns the place has been in business there for many years and I doubt he has ever cleaned it..... My kind of store, like going back about 50 years in time. I stopped back today to get the eye piece that I lost on my Digital Rebel XT and sure enough it had arrived so I got it and while I was there I also picked up a Remote Shutter Switch as well.
He had a used (Like all of 2 photos were taken with it) Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro Lens. This little beauty lists for $600. The guy that originally bought it is a local professional who found that it wasn't going to do what he needed and he traded it for another lens just a couple days after he got it. After I drooled for a little bit...... I pulled out the credit card and got both the lens and a Lens Shade for it for $450. What the heck, its only money. I'm spending my children's inheritance for them! Photos to follow after I read the manual and play with it a bit.
He had a used (Like all of 2 photos were taken with it) Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro Lens. This little beauty lists for $600. The guy that originally bought it is a local professional who found that it wasn't going to do what he needed and he traded it for another lens just a couple days after he got it. After I drooled for a little bit...... I pulled out the credit card and got both the lens and a Lens Shade for it for $450. What the heck, its only money. I'm spending my children's inheritance for them! Photos to follow after I read the manual and play with it a bit.
OldGettysk
Running the MC & Buffalo
Hi All ! Just stopped in to say hello . Dodging raindrops outdside , some of Gustav , that guy was a pain . just got back from eating a couple of "scummers" at the loca dinner with a hearty a hearty oreder of fries. Treated myself after a week of doctor's visits . Today was the endocrinologits turn . My blood sugars have been very good ant I lost 7 lbs since my last visit so the doctor was very happy . That's why I treated myself. Well I'm really tired so I'll be heading off to bed . I hope all of yo have a real good night!!
Paul, sound like you're doing well keeping the old blood sugar under control. What's a scummer? Doesn't sound good but I'm sure it is.
Hey, Chris, good to see you. Nice to hear you are busy but you've got to take some time off before you die. If Ike turns mean and swings up the west coast (which isn't out of the question), we've got a whole basement with an extra bed, air mattresses, and a train layout. Just hop in the car and start heading for Prattville but do it before everyone else gets the idea. I-65 north was jammed here with Gustav refugees.
Ray, sounds like a good deal on the Canon equipment although I have no idea what you're talking about.
Steve, sounds you had quite a storm to get that waterfall going like you describe. Looks like it's about over from what can see on the UK radar.
Hanna just went ashore about 30 miles south of Wilmington, NC. She never became a hurricane so I get an A on that prediction. The 11:00 pm update on Ike has shifted the track slightly to the south, which is good for Miami and not so good for the Keys and the Gulf Coast. It looks like there's a better chance it will advance up the west coast of Florida and make a second landfall between Louisiana and the Panhandle. All these forecast are five days out, which are subject to large errors. It seems that the Keys are going to get it no matter what model you look at and I just read they've started evacuations. If Ike maintains cat 3 status, the storm surge will cover all the Keys and the winds and surge will take down a number of bridges so getting out now will save a lot lives. There's no part of Florida or the Gulf Coast which is not at risk form Ike at this point so all we can do is watch the forecasts again and hope. Another interesting week lies ahead.
Hey, Chris, good to see you. Nice to hear you are busy but you've got to take some time off before you die. If Ike turns mean and swings up the west coast (which isn't out of the question), we've got a whole basement with an extra bed, air mattresses, and a train layout. Just hop in the car and start heading for Prattville but do it before everyone else gets the idea. I-65 north was jammed here with Gustav refugees.
Ray, sounds like a good deal on the Canon equipment although I have no idea what you're talking about.
Steve, sounds you had quite a storm to get that waterfall going like you describe. Looks like it's about over from what can see on the UK radar.
Hanna just went ashore about 30 miles south of Wilmington, NC. She never became a hurricane so I get an A on that prediction. The 11:00 pm update on Ike has shifted the track slightly to the south, which is good for Miami and not so good for the Keys and the Gulf Coast. It looks like there's a better chance it will advance up the west coast of Florida and make a second landfall between Louisiana and the Panhandle. All these forecast are five days out, which are subject to large errors. It seems that the Keys are going to get it no matter what model you look at and I just read they've started evacuations. If Ike maintains cat 3 status, the storm surge will cover all the Keys and the winds and surge will take down a number of bridges so getting out now will save a lot lives. There's no part of Florida or the Gulf Coast which is not at risk form Ike at this point so all we can do is watch the forecasts again and hope. Another interesting week lies ahead.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
09-06-2008
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
Morning
"Flo, I'll have the all-you-can eat breakfast!"
Got a couple of yards to do this morning, and later to day I have to pick up a tire and rim for my FIL trailer. Other than that not much on the list to do Jim, I have a feeling Ike is headed your way! Our forcasters don't think it will bother us in fact we might loose more rain chances! we haven't seen real good rain for over two weeks! Look like your going to have to run this way!
"Flo, I'll have the all-you-can eat breakfast!"
Got a couple of yards to do this morning, and later to day I have to pick up a tire and rim for my FIL trailer. Other than that not much on the list to do
Jim, I have a feeling Ike is headed your way! Our forcasters don't think it will bother us in fact we might loose more rain chances! we haven't seen real good rain for over two weeks! Look like your going to have to run this way!
Secondhandmodeler
All new now!
Good morning folks. Just stopping in to say hi. I hope you all (or y'all, I suppose) make it through the storms OK. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'll take blizzards and snow over a hurricane any day. When we get news of a bad storm in the winter, it just means that everyone stops to stock up on alcohol and munchies. I couldn't imagine living in fear of those storms down there. Good luck!
make it through the storms OK. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'll take blizzards and snow over a hurricane any day. When we get news of a bad storm in the winter, it just means that everyone stops to stock up on alcohol and munchies. I couldn't imagine living in fear of those storms down there. Good luck!
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Good morning.
it's 67 and cloudy. The high today should be around 90 and it will be partly cloudy.
I've been keeping an eye on hurricane Ike and I must say the data on the 5 day forecast is taking an alarming direction! Unless something happens to keep the storm out in the gulf long enough to send it to Mexico it will make landfall in the vicinity of New Orleans and roll right across the state to my area, as if we haven't had enough already. Here's a map showing the current 5 day forecast.
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Here's hoping a high pressure front will keep Ike away from the US coast and keep it tracking west.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/6/2008
Wind Chill: 67°F
Humidity: 83%
Dew Point: 62°F
So Far Today
High: 70°F
Low: 66°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph NNE
Today High: 90 Partly cloudy. Highs around 90. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly clear after midnight then becoming partly cloudy late. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph.
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it's 67 and cloudy. The high today should be around 90 and it will be partly cloudy.
I've been keeping an eye on hurricane Ike and I must say the data on the 5 day forecast is taking an alarming direction! Unless something happens to keep the storm out in the gulf long enough to send it to Mexico it will make landfall in the vicinity of New Orleans and roll right across the state to my area, as if we haven't had enough already. Here's a map showing the current 5 day forecast.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n3/proudIndian/at200807_radar.gif
Here's hoping a high pressure front will keep Ike away from the US coast and keep it tracking west.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/6/2008
Wind Chill: 67°F
Humidity: 83%
Dew Point: 62°F
So Far Today
High: 70°F
Low: 66°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph NNE
Today High: 90 Partly cloudy. Highs around 90. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly clear after midnight then becoming partly cloudy late. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph.
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Steve B
Firefighter
Jim Yes, the sun's come out now, still black clouds around though, the river is still rising as it's rained non stop for at least 36 hours, heavy as well. Dad just called from his caravan / trailer home, it's on the banks of the river Weaver and it's halfway up his garden and rising, the guy's boat down the site has gone under, he only left around four feet of slack on the moorings and it's risen a lot more than that, the boat finally got pulled under around 9am, that'll be a fine stinky mess later. and to cap that the 76 year old site owners wife was rushing to get in out of the rain and she fell breaking her hip.
Glad to get done at work today, we cleaned out 60ft of 12ft deep racking that's not been swept for five years, a nasty job if ever i did one !!!
Glad to get done at work today, we cleaned out 60ft of 12ft deep racking that's not been swept for five years, a nasty job if ever i did one !!!
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