Running Bear's August 2020 Coffee Shop

[kbkchooch]

Chet, Amazing pic, stay inside!!!

 

[montanan]

In his defense, I think it's me/us in N Cal...........

Then you can keep it. We do usually get smoke from out of state fires but this is a lot more than we usually see,

 

[Bruette]

 

[Bruette]

 

[Bruette]

 

[Bruette]

 

[PRR Modeler]

Afternoon All,

Started out with some chores and draining the pool again. Today in the train room I hot glued the cardboard lattice work on the hill side that will be behind the engine servicing area. The plaster cloth I ordered came in today so guess what I'm doing tomorrow? After lunch I wired in a cutout switch for the TT/RH area and tested it several times including with a multimeter. I also cleaned out a drawer in the train room that had junk from before the last layout.

Thank you everyone for your likes of yesterdays work.

Louis- Interesting photos. Of course I especially like the Pennsy modified box car to carry fire engines.

Willie- Nice looking building.

Sherrel- Could you afford the fuel and upkeep on a jet?

Guy- The market is looking good. Nice pictures.

Joe- Sounds like your knee is doing well. Nice Reading photo.

Chet- Nice scenic photos and club photos. WOW...that Santa Fe passenger train is a monster.





I hope everyone has a good night.

 

[Texas Hobo]

Afternoon all. I guess it's the calm before the storm, but the weather here isn't to bad, temps low 90's with an easterly breeze. I spent Sat. going to HD for curbside, got lumber to cover French doors. While Marco appears to not be a worry for our area, Laura keeps edging ever so slightly to the west. With that, I like to prepare some things early so that it's not a rush to finish preparations for a storm. The Covid-19 thing adds another twist to preparing. Hope all the preps are for nothing.
Great photos

STAY SAFE

Later

 

[chadbag]

No smoke around here YET? Really don't want to see any!

We've had a lot of smoke in Salt Lake area thatthey say comes from wildfires in Nevada and California, including that big one in the Bay area...

 

[tootnkumin]

Released all of the prisoners so they don't have enough firefighters for the wildfires!

They've asked for firefighters from Australia too. They'll be packing their gear already I imagine.

 

[tootnkumin]

More ballast required up Helena way, another trainload on it's way on Sunday. Smoke haze from the fires in the canyon


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The Montana Rail Link Railfan Society The 346 was doing most of the work with the sd40's 264 help but the 355 seemed to not be running I hope this isn't going to be a problem with keeping the 45's together for awhile.

No smoke from 355

Back at Logan, with the background mountains blotted out from view

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The Montana Rail Link Railfan Society As the ballast train was pulling into Logan this out of town visitor was Approaching. This time we have a Canadian Pacific GE in the power mix

And finally, with the runaround of the ballast train completed and #264 in the lead, the ballast leaves Westward.

 

[kbkchooch]

More ballast required up Helena way, another trainload on it's way on Sunday. Smoke haze from the fires in the canyon


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The Montana Rail Link Railfan Society The 346 was doing most of the work with the sd40's 264 help but the 355 seemed to not be running I hope this isn't going to be a problem with keeping the 45's together for awhile.
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No smoke from 355
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Back at Logan, with the background mountains blotted out from view
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The Montana Rail Link Railfan Society As the ballast train was pulling into Logan this out of town visitor was Approaching. This time we have a Canadian Pacific GE in the power mix
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And finally, with the runaround of the ballast train completed and #264 in the lead, the ballast leaves Westward.
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355 must be the non-smoking section of the train.

 

[kbkchooch]

Good morning gang,
67 degrees and cloudy, heading to 90.

 

[tootnkumin]

Google seems to be stepping up it's little battle with the gubmint here. Last night, when opening another browser by right clicking the Google icon in the task bar, I was getting a blank white page with a grayed out rectangle on it. Would have to close it and have a second go. Since, and I don't know if it's connected or not, or whether a new feature and that's what it was foreshadowing, but now I'm getting a repeat of the previous search on the search bar, which can be deleted if you wish. All very strange and mysterious. Probably been mentioned in an update that I haven't bothered to read.

 

[bnsf971]

Good morning. It's mostly clear and 70.

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

Clear and 67* in Doo-Dah this morning. High of 95* later on.

Well, I took Friday off to have a 3-day weekend and all I remember is getting gas for the mowers and getting the yard work caught up on Friday, laundry and groceries on Saturday and finally getting the power and antenna connections moved up the wall as the wife was tired of the cables up the wall. I hung the TV a couple of years ago and I had never gotten around to extending the power and antenna to behind the TV.

Needless to say, I didn't get my train time, but I as I type, I remember planting my butt in a chair and catching up on some shows on Netflix....

Kansas is a lot like Kalifornia in the taxation realm. If you lived in Kansas and earned a pension, they expect you to pay taxes against that pension for the remainder of life, even if you left the state years before. The one exception is KPERS (Kansas Public Employees Retirement System), which I pay the state taxes on like regular income now, but pay no state income on when I start receiving it, I have been in the system long enough now to actually be vested, so I will see a return and hopefully still be under the federal need to file guidelines.

Willie: Glad to hear the wife is doing well. She's right on the post surgery weight gain. When I had my revision (replacing the replacement) I was given the parts they took out and they weighed almost 4 pounds. They typically glue the first time and the peg the 2nd. I have a 6" rod going up the femur after the 2nd replacement as I was told the could just glue the 2nd one in place and make sure it holds. Yes I didn't follow completely the DR.s instructions for the car and feeding of the replacement, which is why I broke it loose inside. I was also under 50 which I now understand part of the reason for that recommendation in most cases.

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Mostly clear here with 74°. Probably going up to 96° later today. They've inserted rain into the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday...possibly from tropical storm Laura. they sometimes bring rain this far north. Marco is going to be a few hundred miles east from the looks of the present trajectory.
The current cool weather gave me a chance yesterday to prune out some damaged/broken branches that were lodged in the trees from the 50 mph windstorm about a week ago.

Ya got a Monday Special Flo? No! Then I'll take my regular two eggs over easy, handful of bacon and a toasted whole wheat English Muffin.

Thanks guys for all of the likes and comments regarding my project progress; Louis, Phil, Joe, Tom O, Karl, Guy, Sherrel, Chet, Jerome, Curt, Hughie, Chad, Rick, James, Patrick.

Made a lot of progress in the train shed yesterday, although none of it was really photographical. Added minor signs to the TOFC office and the newest warehouse. Applied another coat of dull coat to the warehouse to tone down the mortar wash a bit and did some placement, measuring, moving and repeat; of the major components on the tenement side of the tracks. Then I also started gluing together sections of Bar Mills Insta-Fence to place alongside or the ROW.
So in lieu of progress photos, let's return to the Historical Museum in Foley AL for some more caboose pictures. The caboose previously posted has been somewhat refurbished and open to the public for inside viewing. Maybe they were all this sparse and simple in their heydays, I don't know.
View from the door looking in.

Conductors desk.

One of the bunks.

The other one.

Observation chair in the cupola.

Self-explanatory

The kitchen, or gallery.

Guy -

so this has the potential to be a long, drawled out posting

I wouldn't worry abut that!
Ugly or not, I still think that you have done a fine job on the Market; some structures are just ugly. Tucking it away in the back seems like a logical solution. Have a safe trip to Jasper.
Joe - Thanks for the thought. This recovery seems to be going more smoothly than the previous replacement.
Trivia about the power lines/components. I have spoken with a supervisor at Oncor who contracts with our local electrical Coop. He said that transformers have a life expectancy of 25 years, the creosoted poles that they use last about 40-50 years around here and the overhead wire should last 80-100 years. Most underground wire lasts about half that long. I can attest to some of the poles along my road lasting 40 years so far. Some have been replaced though.
Chet - That's a real shame about the smoke and air quality. Nice new pictures from the club, thanks.

Everybody have a great day.

 

[Boris]

Good morning y'all. 77°, fair and humid this morning, going to 90° later in the day.

Marco and Laura, been watching those two since they were Thing 1 and thing 2. Look out Willie, the storms are not following normal patterns this year. Sometimes, I think God may be a bit angry with us.... It's been quite a year, eh?...And, it's still not over.

Chet: That's a fantastic Club layout...and some talented modelers to make it happen. That smoke would bother me.

Willie: Nice photos of the Cabin Car.

Guy: Have a safe trip.

FL9 Powered Amfleet south of Breakneck, NY in 1995 on Conrail's Mohawk-Hudson Division.

 

[santafewillie]

Afternoon all. I guess it's the calm before the storm, but the weather here isn't to bad, temps low 90's with an easterly breeze. I spent Sat. going to HD for curbside, got lumber to cover French doors. While Marco appears to not be a worry for our area, Laura keeps edging ever so slightly to the west. With that, I like to prepare some things early so that it's not a rush to finish preparations for a storm. The Covid-19 thing adds another twist to preparing. Hope all the preps are for nothing.
Great photos

STAY SAFE

Later

After Laura and Marco leave, you can use that lumber for the layout expansion!

 

[Boris]

YO:
Just saw this "release" from a well known sign maker. Sherrel's Alter Ego is prominently featured. Definitely worth a mention.

Willie: Not for nothing, a little prep goes a long way. Especially when French Doors are involved, or flooding is a possibility. Electrical power is another issue, although you may get a better emergency response from a Rural co-operative. Our Utility, JCP&L, is owned by a Rust Belt Electrical Utility Holdng Company, that's only concerned with cutting costs, and avoiding Capital Spending.

Ray: Love those MRL photos you upload, right from Chet's back yard, in some instances. That area is quite scenic.

We stopped at ShopRite, for a few items, this morning, and for a Monday, business was quite brisk. Quite a few shoppers, left their SUVs at home, and instead chose to fly in on their brooms. Conclusion, these people need to go back to work, and their kids need to be back in school. Question of the day, Who' hoarding the Lysol Spray????

YPMO-1 proceeds West down the "Old Line" (Delmor Blvd), in Morrisville, PA, last Wednesday 8/19/2020. To the left past the trees is the Delaware River.