Smudge617
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Dang!!! another loco I'll have to find now, thanks Mike,
Running Bear's May 2024 Coffee Shop
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I will have to have 1 in my stable as well!
Patrick. When you find out, let me know. I am not sure either.
Swal
He wants to build a Cafe with all that entails, (dining area, kitchen/toilet facilities, parking etc.) But councils, along with the Government, are keen on protecting what's called the "Green Belt" (these are areas around towns and cities that are predominantly woodland or of agricultural use, one of the reasons building new houses is so difficult to do here).
So all new builds are only allowed after consultation with the council and the local people, all plans for the build must be approved and buildings must "fit in" with the surrounding area, along with an Environmental Impact Report.
The council objects to his plans and has not approved the build, so now he has to appeal the decision.
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Smudge617
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For anyone wanting the Flying Scotsman in HO, apart from Marklins offering Trix has one too, nice specs
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there internet peeps and those who got to sleep.
It's tired Troy again.
Tinnitus, and stress over mom derailed my sleep last night. Which is going to derail my plans to go play in a game tourney today.
Wife was up most of the night as well. She's medical lab by profession, and was drilling down through lab numbers and research papers to do her background dive on mom's conditions.
Kidney numbers have mom into a (non-cancer) Stage 4 of whatever that's attached to. (Stage 5 is terminal). Not quite to dialysis yet, but getting close. Her heart numbers are also 3x where a lot of the tests max out. Also not good, and explains her AFIB issues.
So, yeah, no gaming today. I'll stay home and clean the electrostatic filters on the forced air HVAC/Furnace. Get a pizza with the wife, and maybe cook a steak on the grill. Tinnitus care the entire day.
In other news, back is doing well, but I'm still in the danger zone for re-injury.
It's tired Troy again.
Tinnitus, and stress over mom derailed my sleep last night. Which is going to derail my plans to go play in a game tourney today.
Wife was up most of the night as well. She's medical lab by profession, and was drilling down through lab numbers and research papers to do her background dive on mom's conditions.
Kidney numbers have mom into a (non-cancer) Stage 4 of whatever that's attached to. (Stage 5 is terminal). Not quite to dialysis yet, but getting close. Her heart numbers are also 3x where a lot of the tests max out. Also not good, and explains her AFIB issues.
So, yeah, no gaming today. I'll stay home and clean the electrostatic filters on the forced air HVAC/Furnace. Get a pizza with the wife, and maybe cook a steak on the grill. Tinnitus care the entire day.
In other news, back is doing well, but I'm still in the danger zone for re-injury.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good morning!
Coshocton Ohio Depot, Wheeling and Lake Erie (NKP, N&W)
Coshocton Ohio Depot, Wheeling and Lake Erie (NKP, N&W)
NorthBrit
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Good afternoon all. A large coffee and a peach melba please, Flo.
After yesterday's glorious sunshine today is dull and miserable looking. It is not raining, but is threatening to do so.
Yesterday I took Dawn for a long drive in the countryside. We visited places we haven't seen for many years.
Families. Oh we love them, but some are 'hard work'. Any celebrations family rely on Dawn to organise. Whilst she organises, some members of the family do not help; even though they are local and not at work. The ones working what seems 25 hours a day try and help the best they can.
Today is an easy going day. (Hopefully.)
The plan is to see the train room after lunch and run some trains.
Not often photographed (or modelled) A rain/weather sheet on a steam locomotive.
Back later.
David
After yesterday's glorious sunshine today is dull and miserable looking. It is not raining, but is threatening to do so.
Yesterday I took Dawn for a long drive in the countryside. We visited places we haven't seen for many years.
Families. Oh we love them, but some are 'hard work'. Any celebrations family rely on Dawn to organise. Whilst she organises, some members of the family do not help; even though they are local and not at work. The ones working what seems 25 hours a day try and help the best they can.
Today is an easy going day. (Hopefully.)
The plan is to see the train room after lunch and run some trains.
Not often photographed (or modelled) A rain/weather sheet on a steam locomotive.
Back later.
David
But did you bring her back? Or is this an Alzheimer's test? Enquiring minds want to know...
NorthBrit
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migalyto
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I really hope Scaletrains does this locomotive in their next ES44 run.Dang!!! another loco I'll have to find now, thanks Mike,
I will have to have 1 in my stable as well!
McLeod
Forest Lurker
Good Morning, folks! 37F right off the top; maybe or maybe not rain a-coming.
Gonna give myself a haircut for the first act of defiance today. Haven't gone to a barber in 25yrs. It's only two weeks in-between a bad haircut and a good haircut, and I already got the girl; so it don't matter.
When I was young, we used to be able to choose between the 15cent haircut or the 25 cent haircut, depending on what you could handle looking like when you came out.
TomO - Thankyou for that Boomer weathering link. I subscribed to that channel.
This particular repurposed Barrhead grain elevator would have been served by the Northern Alberta Railway, back in the day:
I'm not going to hang around. Way to much to do!
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Gonna give myself a haircut for the first act of defiance today. Haven't gone to a barber in 25yrs. It's only two weeks in-between a bad haircut and a good haircut, and I already got the girl; so it don't matter.
When I was young, we used to be able to choose between the 15cent haircut or the 25 cent haircut, depending on what you could handle looking like when you came out.
TomO - Thankyou for that Boomer weathering link. I subscribed to that channel.
This particular repurposed Barrhead grain elevator would have been served by the Northern Alberta Railway, back in the day:
I'm not going to hang around. Way to much to do!
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Patrick
What, me worry?
Morning all,
Currently 70° and partly cloudy, high of 88° later. Expecting storms later this evening.
Went for a drive yesterday afternoon to help the wife calm down after deealing with her family on a reunion she's planning as her siblings want one but don't want to plan. Saw some things we had't seen before and we were less that 70 miles from home the whole time.
Been watching "Clarkson's Farm" on Amazon. Find it somewhat interesting, and while he can be quite controversial, what's the beef with the council for the area. Not sure exactly how English county and town governments work there, which is where some of my trying to figure out what's what is occurring. I realize he owns the company producing his show (along with his 2 cohorts from Top Gear and "Mr. Wilman"), and that may be showing them in a poorer vein as well.
Troy: Glad things were going better and Culver's helped. I checked sad as I can't yet go to Culver's as the aren't building the close ones fast enough. The wife thinks Freddy's is better, but I think that's because her dad went to school with Fred Simon, whom the restaurant was named for.
Currently 70° and partly cloudy, high of 88° later. Expecting storms later this evening.
Went for a drive yesterday afternoon to help the wife calm down after deealing with her family on a reunion she's planning as her siblings want one but don't want to plan. Saw some things we had't seen before and we were less that 70 miles from home the whole time.
Been watching "Clarkson's Farm" on Amazon. Find it somewhat interesting, and while he can be quite controversial, what's the beef with the council for the area. Not sure exactly how English county and town governments work there, which is where some of my trying to figure out what's what is occurring. I realize he owns the company producing his show (along with his 2 cohorts from Top Gear and "Mr. Wilman"), and that may be showing them in a poorer vein as well.
Troy: Glad things were going better and Culver's helped. I checked sad as I can't yet go to Culver's as the aren't building the close ones fast enough. The wife thinks Freddy's is better, but I think that's because her dad went to school with Fred Simon, whom the restaurant was named for.
NorthBrit
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Patrick. When you find out, let me know. I am not sure either.
John from Indiana
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Howdy everyone from NE Indiana. Its 08:00 and my weather station must be broke, it say that it is 79 outside and feels like 86. EIGHTY SIX!!! and it's only 08:00 when we first moved here 20 years ago the summers were pretty mild...and they seem to be getting warmer every year. We had a very mild winter, only used the snow blower twice. Could Biden be right about global warming...Nah...It’s just a freak of nature.
I put off the turnout problem long enough and I finally pulled out my scalpels and cut the top on Joanstown out so I could access the faulty turnouts. After I cut open the top I think I found the problem; a piece of ballast got between the points on the right hand side turnout not allowing the switch to completely shut, thus causing derailment every time. Before cutting I had tried cramming my arm in the portal and, using a wire brush tried clean the track; but that never worked. So I removed two turnouts.
The layout looks like hell, I covered most of my structures with rags because I (like everyone else) have a problem with dust...plus I have a bad habit at working several projects at once. I've been doing this all my life; so I can't see myself changing. I have enclosed a couple of pictures. One is of Joan's town resembling a tornado strike with buildings everywhere. The second is of the view from the top. You can make out where the turnouts were and readily see that I had glued down way to much ballast.
Don't know if I will tear out the middle of Joanstown and repair that turnout...just won't use it...but i do change my mind alot
HUGHIE - I really like the picture of your layout. Something like that is my goal
I put off the turnout problem long enough and I finally pulled out my scalpels and cut the top on Joanstown out so I could access the faulty turnouts. After I cut open the top I think I found the problem; a piece of ballast got between the points on the right hand side turnout not allowing the switch to completely shut, thus causing derailment every time. Before cutting I had tried cramming my arm in the portal and, using a wire brush tried clean the track; but that never worked. So I removed two turnouts.
The layout looks like hell, I covered most of my structures with rags because I (like everyone else) have a problem with dust...plus I have a bad habit at working several projects at once. I've been doing this all my life; so I can't see myself changing. I have enclosed a couple of pictures. One is of Joan's town resembling a tornado strike with buildings everywhere. The second is of the view from the top. You can make out where the turnouts were and readily see that I had glued down way to much ballast.
Don't know if I will tear out the middle of Joanstown and repair that turnout...just won't use it...but i do change my mind alot
HUGHIE - I really like the picture of your layout. Something like that is my goal
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 69° here on the SFW estate, heading up to 90° again today. The weather geeks have backed off their Tuesday rain prediction until Wednesday & Thursday. We shall see!
The memorial service for my late neighbor was OK yesterday, thankfully it was really a celebration of life more than a memorial service. 90 minute service/visitation and 30 minute total travel time was not bad. I got to reacquaint with his other kids who had moved out of the area over the years. Oldest son has been living on the land (and farming my hayfield) for a few years now, and has been assisting dad for at least the past ten years. Jimmy signed everything over to him 6 or 7 years ago so a smooth transition has already taken place.
Sandwiched on either side of the service, I was able to resume some but not much mowing before the yard gets out of hand from all of the rain. I sure will be glad to be able to get on a regular schedule this season with mowing just 2 days a week! Right now the ground is still too soft in the main east side. I will be doing more later today after the dew dries a bit. And the verdict is in regarding several trees that didn't seem to have survived last summer's drought and heat. At least four in the 20'-25' height range have to be removed, plus a couple only as tall as me. This along with the still present pile of trees that the farmer to the south removed to keep from scratching his new John Deere equipment. It never ends!!! But it appears that I will have enough firewood for the wood-burning heater for the next two years
Moving right along out in the train shed. Over the last 2 days, I added sidewalks, parking lot, stripes and ground cover to the area across the road from the buildings that I recently installed.
The stripes are really parallel, but the camera angle distorts the view. I'm thinking that I should add a fence to keep folks away from the tracks.
Then I turned my attention to the Atlas crossing shanty that will be used in the scene as part of the railroad museum.
What's that inside?
It's filled with those tiny cobwebs hat plague my layout room. I painstakingly took it apart, since I assembled it in the days when I still used the Testor's Cement in the tube.
I never realized that there was a hole in the bottom of the floor that allowed the spiders to get in!
I glued a scrap piece of styrene over it and reassembled.
On the subject of the parking lot, between it and the street parking, I have added 30 parking spaces on this project. While I will not fill them all, it will still require quite a few vehicles to complete the scene! $$$
John - Yep! Lesson learned here over 30 years ago. The following 3 layouts including the present one had no tunnels.
Curt - I didn't realize that owning a pet skunk is illegal in some states until you posted yesterday. They seem to be legal here in Texas, but we have rather lax laws regarding pet ownership for the most part.
Troy - Chicken Parmesan without pasta is sacrilegious. They shouldn't be allowed to call themselves an Italian Restaurant.
It seems that people are searching for events to celebrate or commemorate every day now. Today is National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day. Yes really!!! Someone had to really think to come up with that.
Otherwise everybody have a great Sunday.
The memorial service for my late neighbor was OK yesterday, thankfully it was really a celebration of life more than a memorial service. 90 minute service/visitation and 30 minute total travel time was not bad. I got to reacquaint with his other kids who had moved out of the area over the years. Oldest son has been living on the land (and farming my hayfield) for a few years now, and has been assisting dad for at least the past ten years. Jimmy signed everything over to him 6 or 7 years ago so a smooth transition has already taken place.
Sandwiched on either side of the service, I was able to resume some but not much mowing before the yard gets out of hand from all of the rain. I sure will be glad to be able to get on a regular schedule this season with mowing just 2 days a week! Right now the ground is still too soft in the main east side. I will be doing more later today after the dew dries a bit. And the verdict is in regarding several trees that didn't seem to have survived last summer's drought and heat. At least four in the 20'-25' height range have to be removed, plus a couple only as tall as me. This along with the still present pile of trees that the farmer to the south removed to keep from scratching his new John Deere equipment. It never ends!!! But it appears that I will have enough firewood for the wood-burning heater for the next two years
Moving right along out in the train shed. Over the last 2 days, I added sidewalks, parking lot, stripes and ground cover to the area across the road from the buildings that I recently installed.
The stripes are really parallel, but the camera angle distorts the view. I'm thinking that I should add a fence to keep folks away from the tracks.
Then I turned my attention to the Atlas crossing shanty that will be used in the scene as part of the railroad museum.
What's that inside?
It's filled with those tiny cobwebs hat plague my layout room. I painstakingly took it apart, since I assembled it in the days when I still used the Testor's Cement in the tube.
I never realized that there was a hole in the bottom of the floor that allowed the spiders to get in!
I glued a scrap piece of styrene over it and reassembled.
On the subject of the parking lot, between it and the street parking, I have added 30 parking spaces on this project. While I will not fill them all, it will still require quite a few vehicles to complete the scene! $$$
John - Yep! Lesson learned here over 30 years ago. The following 3 layouts including the present one had no tunnels.
Curt - I didn't realize that owning a pet skunk is illegal in some states until you posted yesterday. They seem to be legal here in Texas, but we have rather lax laws regarding pet ownership for the most part.
Troy - Chicken Parmesan without pasta is sacrilegious. They shouldn't be allowed to call themselves an Italian Restaurant.
It seems that people are searching for events to celebrate or commemorate every day now. Today is National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day. Yes really!!! Someone had to really think to come up with that.
Otherwise everybody have a great Sunday.
NYC_George
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I bet the race Louis. I didn't have the 6. I bet the 3 I thought the horse would be good in the mud. I played the Man of War & War Admiral golf courses in Ocean City MD. That's where the original War Admiral Vs Seabiscuit poster is hanging in the club house there.
Swal
jmupton2000
John M Upton
Good afternoon from a very sunny and warm West Sussex!
I don't know whether it is the effects of seven consecutive days of night shifts (four down, three to go!) but despite the row of awaiting projects that are queuing up, I just gave in to temptation and bought an undecorated SD35 to add to the collection!!
I must be mad....
I don't know whether it is the effects of seven consecutive days of night shifts (four down, three to go!) but despite the row of awaiting projects that are queuing up, I just gave in to temptation and bought an undecorated SD35 to add to the collection!!
I must be mad....
Smudge617
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He is, in all sincerity, not showing his local council in a poor light, the rigmarole you have to go through is extremely long-winded, frustrating, on occasion inexplicable and head-scratching, to say the least, Council Planners, as they're called, really are a pain, some really are that "jobs worth" everyone hates. My Father was a Civil Engineer and oversaw thousands of new houses being built, his pet hate were City or Town planners.
He wants to build a Cafe with all that entails, (dining area, kitchen/toilet facilities, parking etc.) But councils, along with the Government, are keen on protecting what's called the "Green Belt" (these are areas around towns and cities that are predominantly woodland or of agricultural use, one of the reasons building new houses is so difficult to do here).
So all new builds are only allowed after consultation with the council and the local people, all plans for the build must be approved and buildings must "fit in" with the surrounding area, along with an Environmental Impact Report.
The council objects to his plans and has not approved the build, so now he has to appeal the decision.
Bruette
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My Mom always bet on the #3 horse. It served us both well at the 1980 Preakness. Codex was the #3 horse and won!
Bruette
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My wife makes rice to go with it. I'm not a fan of pasta.
Bruette
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That is a great tire service truck!
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