Running Bear’s November 2021 Coffee Shop
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But your oppsie still looks better than the one I messed up!
I wound up with a heavy rust spot over the number.
The HO and On30 are sectional so they can be moved to the Holiday show area (third floor).
The N scale layout is a 5' x 7' one piece on folding legs, so we put it on a dolly to get it through doors easily.
It was more fun before covid slowed things down with the visitors.
That is a great photo. South Brooklyn, eh? Nice!
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kbkchooch
Verified Human
Show off!My commute is walking down to my basement. There is an advantage to remote work!And disadvantages too, like "always in the office"even when not.
PNKFLOYD
Mikey
Willie- OPPSIE!!!
But your oppsie still looks better than the one I messed up!
I wound up with a heavy rust spot over the number.
PRR Modeler
Well-Known Member
Afternoon All,
Finished up the book fair today
. After getting home I added another layer to the ground cover and ballasted the coal dump track at the electric plant next to the mine. I'll see how that looks tomorrow. Wife will be out of town Thursday-Sunday.
IB Ken- Thanks for asking. No flooding but a very squishy yard and a very full pool.
Troy- I waved from FL. Did you see me?
Hughie- The build keeps getting better and better.
Jaz- Nice little scene.
Terry- I wouldn't wish Charlotte traffic on anyone.
Guy- Nice photos.
Willie- Nice job with the transfers and decals. I absolutely s**k at it. Luckily I have a MRR friend that does it for me when I need it.
Karl- You're lucky, I have to walk upstairs!
Although I guess it evens out in the end.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Finished up the book fair today
. After getting home I added another layer to the ground cover and ballasted the coal dump track at the electric plant next to the mine. I'll see how that looks tomorrow. Wife will be out of town Thursday-Sunday.IB Ken- Thanks for asking. No flooding but a very squishy yard and a very full pool.
Troy- I waved from FL. Did you see me?
Hughie- The build keeps getting better and better.
Jaz- Nice little scene.
Terry- I wouldn't wish Charlotte traffic on anyone.
Guy- Nice photos.
Willie- Nice job with the transfers and decals. I absolutely s**k at it. Luckily I have a MRR friend that does it for me when I need it.
Karl- You're lucky, I have to walk upstairs!
Although I guess it evens out in the end.I hope everyone has a good night.
PNKFLOYD
Mikey
Willie- We have enough room in the basement to leave the layouts set up to work on them during the year.
The HO and On30 are sectional so they can be moved to the Holiday show area (third floor).
The N scale layout is a 5' x 7' one piece on folding legs, so we put it on a dolly to get it through doors easily.
It was more fun before covid slowed things down with the visitors.
Patrick
What, me worry?
Afternoon all,
Busy day today. I had time to actually replace the computers in our emergency operations center. We replace computers every 4 years (25% every year) and reuse the better of the older ones, so I used some of our older i7 computers with SSD drives. Nice to have faster machines in there when we have an emergency. Last ones were put in in 2017 from our 2012 batch and I had to fight to get those then. The next group will need to be Windows 11 compatible, which out 2018 and up batch are.
I'm fortunate that my commute is 28 miles each way and takes about 35 minutes. I usually take county roads and go opposite the way most traffic goes. I add 4 miles to that 28 by using a different road set, which has less traffic and fewer stop signs. 4 miles takes 10 minutes off the drive home.
Willie: It's only the basement where we need the stairs. 2 steps up into the house from outside and the main level is where we do almost everything (except laundry). 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in about 950 Sq ft upstairs and technically 1 bedroom, 1 bath and a game room and office (used as a bedroom) and laundry\utility room in the basement. Utility room has the furnace and hot water heater. The "office" can't be a bedroom due to the lack of a closet. It has the required escape window and we used a wardrobe cabinet in place of the closet. It does make the house a bit weird as it decreases the value by not being a bedroom and decreases the taxes due to it not being a bedroom.
Busy day today. I had time to actually replace the computers in our emergency operations center. We replace computers every 4 years (25% every year) and reuse the better of the older ones, so I used some of our older i7 computers with SSD drives. Nice to have faster machines in there when we have an emergency. Last ones were put in in 2017 from our 2012 batch and I had to fight to get those then. The next group will need to be Windows 11 compatible, which out 2018 and up batch are.
I'm fortunate that my commute is 28 miles each way and takes about 35 minutes. I usually take county roads and go opposite the way most traffic goes. I add 4 miles to that 28 by using a different road set, which has less traffic and fewer stop signs. 4 miles takes 10 minutes off the drive home.
Willie: It's only the basement where we need the stairs. 2 steps up into the house from outside and the main level is where we do almost everything (except laundry). 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in about 950 Sq ft upstairs and technically 1 bedroom, 1 bath and a game room and office (used as a bedroom) and laundry\utility room in the basement. Utility room has the furnace and hot water heater. The "office" can't be a bedroom due to the lack of a closet. It has the required escape window and we used a wardrobe cabinet in place of the closet. It does make the house a bit weird as it decreases the value by not being a bedroom and decreases the taxes due to it not being a bedroom.
CambriaArea51
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I traded a 30 min. drive to work for a 30 sec. drive 11 years ago. The only slow downs I get on my commute is a farm tractor now and then. 
Texas Hobo
Well Known Hobo
Good Evening all! A nice day here. Made into the mid 70's with lots of sun.
Commute - I had an 82 mile each way commute for a year. I knew going in that it was for a year so you could say I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Add to that, I love to drive. It was a 90 minute trip.
I continued work on Jefferies Point. Mikey, it took a little more than 2 shots for the stairs. Actual once I figured out how to hold the little beggars it went quite fast. I have one of those magnifying glass, solder iron and alligator clip stands. Using the alligator clip to hold base riser the steps could be glued on. I still have to add the window frames. (Bar Mills said do them last) some touch up paint and it should be ready to plant.
STAY SAFE
LATER
Commute - I had an 82 mile each way commute for a year. I knew going in that it was for a year so you could say I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Add to that, I love to drive. It was a 90 minute trip.
I continued work on Jefferies Point. Mikey, it took a little more than 2 shots for the stairs. Actual once I figured out how to hold the little beggars it went quite fast. I have one of those magnifying glass, solder iron and alligator clip stands. Using the alligator clip to hold base riser the steps could be glued on. I still have to add the window frames. (Bar Mills said do them last) some touch up paint and it should be ready to plant.
STAY SAFE
LATER
IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Well Terry, whatever the case (Leslie or Nathan), with your help I found a horn that I like and was actually able to set it on the decoder; that's all I'm gonna worry about at this point. Thanks again...
IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Good evening Shop Dwellers!
As usual, I appreciate all the "likes" and other affirmations you all left on my Sunday night post.
OB Ken - I got that Koester Realistic Ops book back in 2004, and that was a major epiphany for me - it got me back to focusing on other types of modeling besides just steel mills! That chapter about splitting a 8x4 layout into two halves, and getting all that "local" switching action, was something I kept reading over and over again...
Terry - I echo what the others have said about that job offer. 90 miles (180-mile round trip) every day is bad enough under normal circumstances, but with Marie being in the condition that she's in - it would be an absolute disaster!
Steve_J - looks like the others have given you some pretty good suggestions about how to deal with the S-2 decoder issue. Failing that, I'd be willing to take it off your hands for $50 - after all, I do have a switcher shortage on my layout!
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Another 9-hour day of work, typical Monday. But after supper, I did manage to find time to stage and shoot another layout photo that I think I can eventually add to my [future] Layout Tour portfolio. It's the busiest spot on the entire layout, and it is actually possible for three trains to work simultaneously: a Northbound manifest freight on the B&O main line (far left), an Erie Steel switcher on the steel mill lead towing some fresh scrap metal loads from the rolling mill to the BOF (center track), and a B&O local working an industrial spur hanging off the passing siding (right foreground):
(It can be expanded to a larger size if you click on it...)
Good Night - and have a Pleasant Tomorrow!
As usual, I appreciate all the "likes" and other affirmations you all left on my Sunday night post.
OB Ken - I got that Koester Realistic Ops book back in 2004, and that was a major epiphany for me - it got me back to focusing on other types of modeling besides just steel mills! That chapter about splitting a 8x4 layout into two halves, and getting all that "local" switching action, was something I kept reading over and over again...
Terry - I echo what the others have said about that job offer. 90 miles (180-mile round trip) every day is bad enough under normal circumstances, but with Marie being in the condition that she's in - it would be an absolute disaster!
Steve_J - looks like the others have given you some pretty good suggestions about how to deal with the S-2 decoder issue. Failing that, I'd be willing to take it off your hands for $50 - after all, I do have a switcher shortage on my layout!
* * *
Another 9-hour day of work, typical Monday. But after supper, I did manage to find time to stage and shoot another layout photo that I think I can eventually add to my [future] Layout Tour portfolio. It's the busiest spot on the entire layout, and it is actually possible for three trains to work simultaneously: a Northbound manifest freight on the B&O main line (far left), an Erie Steel switcher on the steel mill lead towing some fresh scrap metal loads from the rolling mill to the BOF (center track), and a B&O local working an industrial spur hanging off the passing siding (right foreground):
(It can be expanded to a larger size if you click on it...)
Good Night - and have a Pleasant Tomorrow!
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Boris
Beach Bum
Willie: Accumulates are a very functional coupler. Although slightly large in relation to Kadee 35s, they work well. One nice thing about them is they don't conduct electricity, which is perfect for multiple consists of Athearn Blue Box engines. The down side, is they don't work well with scale sized Kadee couplers, (#58 et all). The shelf couplers are a royal PIA. They are appropriate for modern tank cars, and I have used them to prevent undesired uncouplings of RDC consists, (for which they work very well on P1K RDCs). I am not fond of them otherwise.
Ken: That was the best chapter in the book. He actually demonstrates how you can operate a functional railroad in a small space. That chapter alone was worth the price of the book. I may still have my copy...I know I still have the Armstrong book, which covers the same thing in a broader fashion.
That is a great photo. South Brooklyn, eh? Nice!
From Rich Wallace on the MRL's Western End FB page
"While my wife had moved to Thompson Falls nearly 6 months before me, and I made my landing in our "new hometown" after a 2000 mile drive from Tennessee to Montana on October 22, 2015. It ended up being very fortuitous as the very next morning the Paradise local made its last run - to TRL in T Falls. Here is the Paradise Local on the TRL spur on the morning of October 23rd. There were also two other photographers on hand to record the event. Timing is everything...it is hard to believe that this was 6 years ago."
Both locos are still on the roster #113 GP9 and #252 SD40-2xr. The '40 is updated to Dash 2 electronics.
"While my wife had moved to Thompson Falls nearly 6 months before me, and I made my landing in our "new hometown" after a 2000 mile drive from Tennessee to Montana on October 22, 2015. It ended up being very fortuitous as the very next morning the Paradise local made its last run - to TRL in T Falls. Here is the Paradise Local on the TRL spur on the morning of October 23rd. There were also two other photographers on hand to record the event. Timing is everything...it is hard to believe that this was 6 years ago."
Both locos are still on the roster #113 GP9 and #252 SD40-2xr. The '40 is updated to Dash 2 electronics.
Good morning. It's clear and 35.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to take the job in Charlotte, though it's an option if I can't find anything local. That's doubtful, since the oil change place on the corner is hiring at $15/hour to start. I make $16 an hour now, and wouldn't have to drive the 23 mile one way trip I am currently making.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to take the job in Charlotte, though it's an option if I can't find anything local. That's doubtful, since the oil change place on the corner is hiring at $15/hour to start. I make $16 an hour now, and wouldn't have to drive the 23 mile one way trip I am currently making.
OBTC 1909
Well-Known Member
I'd love to try a work from home job. Definitely would be nice to save all the gas I'm using now.My commute is walking down to my basement. There is an advantage to remote work!
OBTC 1909
Well-Known Member
Good morning all! Clear and 45 now heading for cloudy and 64. Had a great two days off and only have to work 5 hours today. The rest of the week will be 9 1/2 hour days (yuck). Going to my grandsons first home basketball game of the season this evening, so I'll have to miss the model railroad club meeting.
Got some sad news that one of our founding members died. He had leukemia and passed away pretty quickly after the diagnosis. The man was an amazing scratch builder. He scratch built a lot of oil field related stuff and it looked amazing. We'll definitely miss him.
Time to get breakfast and move on. Hope you all have a great day!
Ken
Got some sad news that one of our founding members died. He had leukemia and passed away pretty quickly after the diagnosis. The man was an amazing scratch builder. He scratch built a lot of oil field related stuff and it looked amazing. We'll definitely miss him.
Time to get breakfast and move on. Hope you all have a great day!
Ken
Patrick
What, me worry?
Morning all,
51° and cloudy this morning heading for a high of 63°.
I decided that with Thursday being a holiday, I'd make it a 4-day weekend and take Friday off as well. I usually only work a 4-hour day on Fridays anyway and earn 5 hours of vacation a pay period, so still adding to the bank and get 4 days for the price of 4 hours. Although I am on call anyway. Part of being the Network Administrator. At this time I am the sole person with the knowledge and passwords for everything in the system. Even our retired boss only had some of them.
Wife asked me what I was doing with my time off and I said "Laundry and trains". They're both in the basement and it gives me some extra time to catch up on things. I also have a large cabinet I got when they were replacing the cabinets in the break room I need to get fixed (seal the underside so critters don't make a home under it), and placed in the garage. Nice 3ft w x 8ft h x 24" d with doors and formica covered shelves. Great for keeping canned goods in the garage as we have a small pantry in the house. Even with the near zero temps last spring, the garage stayed above freezing. Doors keep a lot of the dust in the garage out of the stuff stored inside.
Oh well Back to work.
BBL
51° and cloudy this morning heading for a high of 63°.
I decided that with Thursday being a holiday, I'd make it a 4-day weekend and take Friday off as well. I usually only work a 4-hour day on Fridays anyway and earn 5 hours of vacation a pay period, so still adding to the bank and get 4 days for the price of 4 hours. Although I am on call anyway. Part of being the Network Administrator. At this time I am the sole person with the knowledge and passwords for everything in the system. Even our retired boss only had some of them.
Wife asked me what I was doing with my time off and I said "Laundry and trains". They're both in the basement and it gives me some extra time to catch up on things. I also have a large cabinet I got when they were replacing the cabinets in the break room I need to get fixed (seal the underside so critters don't make a home under it), and placed in the garage. Nice 3ft w x 8ft h x 24" d with doors and formica covered shelves. Great for keeping canned goods in the garage as we have a small pantry in the house. Even with the near zero temps last spring, the garage stayed above freezing. Doors keep a lot of the dust in the garage out of the stuff stored inside.
Oh well Back to work.
BBL
GarryCBQ
Well-Known Member
Good morning everybody.
thanks for all of the kind remarks following my last post . My recovery is slowly moving in the right direction, but there have been minor setbacks. I am on oxygen.I see the cardiologist tomorrow.
Our son from Florida is here to help for a few days. He has a remote job with computers, and is able to do his work while here.
This picture proves I got to the train room since being in the hospital. At the moment, I could not stand up straight. Also, I lost a lot of weight.
thanks for all of the kind remarks following my last post . My recovery is slowly moving in the right direction, but there have been minor setbacks. I am on oxygen.I see the cardiologist tomorrow.
Our son from Florida is here to help for a few days. He has a remote job with computers, and is able to do his work while here.
This picture proves I got to the train room since being in the hospital. At the moment, I could not stand up straight. Also, I lost a lot of weight.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 58° here in North Central Texas. Rain still in the forecast for tomorrow evening. We'll see. Other than that, the forecast for the next ten days is quite pleasant. Friday night might be the only time that I have to fire up the wood burning heater.
Medical woes continue here. I took my wife, who had cataract surgery prior to her knee issues, to the eye doctor yesterday for the twice delayed follow-up. Right eye is wonderful, but the left one, which she has been having problems with, has some scar tissue that needs to be removed. So an additional in office laser surgery has been scheduled for sometime in January. Procedure takes about two minutes with a 30 minute wait afterward. This will be about five weeks after her replacement knee surgery. Meanwhile her bad reaction to the antibiotics has subsided for now. Friday is the last day for the new one and then the aspiration on 11-19. Sure am glad that my diet of steak and beer keeps me healthy.
Thanks to all who commented or liked my follow-up post yesterday; OB Ken, Tom O, Christian, Joe, Karl, Hughie, Mikey, Patrick, Guy, Tom, Sherrel, Rick, Garry, IB Ken.
Chicken Fried Steak, southern cream gravy and hash-brown potatoes for me this morning Flo. OJ but no toast...gotta watch the carb intake and the potatoes will cover that.
Spent a little more time in the train shed yesterday after a good stint doing tasks in the yard. I did a quickie project that has been on my project list for a while, populating a Greyhound bus.
Driver is visible, but not too many of the passengers due to the tinted windows
Their silhouettes are more visible in person than in the photo. I have another bus to do and my third one is parked at the bus station empty.
While doing this, I ran a local switch run to the fertilizer distributor and the flour mill in Vernon. I'll document that later.
I am trying to decide what project to do next, another small one from my list or another scenery project on the bare plywood. There's no shortage of either. Meanwhile since the main line is complete on both levels, except some ballast, I can still run trains daily. I could also attack some infrastructure projects that have been languishing, since that seems to be America's hot topic right now. I still need to install about 30 ground throws, paint the fascia that is already installed, install more of it, or install and paint some more backdrop. I'm leaning towards the backdrop while the weather is still nice enough to do the required sawing outside.
OB Ken - I like dry transfers for some situations; using them on railcars is not one of them but it is an inevitable fact to have to use them there. They work great for me on brick buildings like this one.
Mikey - Rust weathering can cure a lot of sins! I'll be using it on that end of the car.
Hughie - Very nice job on Jefferie's.
Garry - So glad that the recovery is progressing. Terrible way to lose weight though. Stay positive and you will pull through.
Here's one for Karl, today is National Scrapple Day, that breakfast delicacy known throughout the Mid Atlantic states. I can't actually say that I have ever tasted it that I can remember, but the ingredients sound real good.
Everyone have a wonderful day. Stay safe.
Medical woes continue here. I took my wife, who had cataract surgery prior to her knee issues, to the eye doctor yesterday for the twice delayed follow-up. Right eye is wonderful, but the left one, which she has been having problems with, has some scar tissue that needs to be removed. So an additional in office laser surgery has been scheduled for sometime in January. Procedure takes about two minutes with a 30 minute wait afterward. This will be about five weeks after her replacement knee surgery. Meanwhile her bad reaction to the antibiotics has subsided for now. Friday is the last day for the new one and then the aspiration on 11-19. Sure am glad that my diet of steak and beer keeps me healthy.
Thanks to all who commented or liked my follow-up post yesterday; OB Ken, Tom O, Christian, Joe, Karl, Hughie, Mikey, Patrick, Guy, Tom, Sherrel, Rick, Garry, IB Ken.
Chicken Fried Steak, southern cream gravy and hash-brown potatoes for me this morning Flo. OJ but no toast...gotta watch the carb intake and the potatoes will cover that.
Spent a little more time in the train shed yesterday after a good stint doing tasks in the yard. I did a quickie project that has been on my project list for a while, populating a Greyhound bus.
Driver is visible, but not too many of the passengers due to the tinted windows
Their silhouettes are more visible in person than in the photo. I have another bus to do and my third one is parked at the bus station empty.
While doing this, I ran a local switch run to the fertilizer distributor and the flour mill in Vernon. I'll document that later.
I am trying to decide what project to do next, another small one from my list or another scenery project on the bare plywood. There's no shortage of either. Meanwhile since the main line is complete on both levels, except some ballast, I can still run trains daily. I could also attack some infrastructure projects that have been languishing, since that seems to be America's hot topic right now. I still need to install about 30 ground throws, paint the fascia that is already installed, install more of it, or install and paint some more backdrop. I'm leaning towards the backdrop while the weather is still nice enough to do the required sawing outside.
OB Ken - I like dry transfers for some situations; using them on railcars is not one of them but it is an inevitable fact to have to use them there. They work great for me on brick buildings like this one.
Mikey - Rust weathering can cure a lot of sins!
I'll be using it on that end of the car.Hughie - Very nice job on Jefferie's.
Garry - So glad that the recovery is progressing. Terrible way to lose weight though. Stay positive and you will pull through.
Here's one for Karl, today is National Scrapple Day, that breakfast delicacy known throughout the Mid Atlantic states. I can't actually say that I have ever tasted it that I can remember, but the ingredients sound real good.
Everyone have a wonderful day. Stay safe.
McLeod
Forest Lurker
Good Morning!
Garry - It brings happiness to my heart to see you are up and about, and getting some time in that beautiful train room. That photograph is wonderful. - I'm hoping we get many more years with you sharing your railroading experience's here in the shop.
It's 20F here this morning, and I'm hearing there is a 3hr wait at the reopened border, for those who are escaping the cold for the winter. We are expecting some snow to have fallen before tomorrow night.
My good friend and neighbor who is 80yrs has asked to 'hire' me to clear his walkways this winter. Told him not to worry, I'd do it for free anyway. He replied, 'Bullshit, you're going to get paid, and paid well'. There's just no sense in arguing with him, he's way too grumpy.
As far as the unwrapped flat-car loads go; I asked my wife, because she was once a lumber wrapper. She tells me the unwrapped lumber loads are the 'economy class' boards. So, they would be used in applications that do not require a sound building material.
I'm getting short on photo's in my 'show-um' file again. If I don't take more soon, I won't feel good about coming into the shop. So, I'd better do something hobby-wise, and take some more photos.
Here's a series of prototype photos that I still have to sort and file. They kinda give an idea how I walk around the yard, as they are in sequence:
Hughie - Jefferies Point is absolutely wonderful modeling. Well done, indeed!
TooT - You are finding some great prototype photos. They are a joy to see!
OBTC Ken - Sorry to hear about you're friend passing. Blue skies!
That's all I have today. Time has run out for sharing with friends on this fine day. Have a good one!
Garry - It brings happiness to my heart to see you are up and about, and getting some time in that beautiful train room. That photograph is wonderful. - I'm hoping we get many more years with you sharing your railroading experience's here in the shop.
It's 20F here this morning, and I'm hearing there is a 3hr wait at the reopened border, for those who are escaping the cold for the winter. We are expecting some snow to have fallen before tomorrow night.
My good friend and neighbor who is 80yrs has asked to 'hire' me to clear his walkways this winter. Told him not to worry, I'd do it for free anyway. He replied, 'Bullshit, you're going to get paid, and paid well'. There's just no sense in arguing with him, he's way too grumpy.
Yes, Willie, we suffer the idiocy of having to change the clocks twice a year the same as you. But, I don't want to talk about that, because any discussion on a political subject can go south in a hurry.
As far as the unwrapped flat-car loads go; I asked my wife, because she was once a lumber wrapper. She tells me the unwrapped lumber loads are the 'economy class' boards. So, they would be used in applications that do not require a sound building material.
I'm getting short on photo's in my 'show-um' file again. If I don't take more soon, I won't feel good about coming into the shop. So, I'd better do something hobby-wise, and take some more photos.
Here's a series of prototype photos that I still have to sort and file. They kinda give an idea how I walk around the yard, as they are in sequence:
Hughie - Jefferies Point is absolutely wonderful modeling. Well done, indeed!
TooT - You are finding some great prototype photos. They are a joy to see!
OBTC Ken - Sorry to hear about you're friend passing. Blue skies!
That's all I have today. Time has run out for sharing with friends on this fine day. Have a good one!
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