Good late afternoon/evening to all my Gandy Dancing & Spike Driving friends,
Hello Flo & Francine, How are you ladies doing this late afternoon? Yes Francine, I think I will have some dinner, what's the special today? Pot roast, potatoes, a choice of vegetables, desert and Coffee. For only $4.25, how do you make any money? Well that sure sounds great, that's what I'll have.
Let see what WW has to say? They say 'Overcast', it was very cloudy all day with huge Cumulus Clouds and I did get a heavy shower earlier and I think it may still be raining lightly?
It's 49.3 °F - Feels Like 49 °F [I had noticed there was a big difference between what they forecast and what it felt like! LoL
The rain from two days ago totaled 2.1", not including what I got today.
The Winds are from the ESE at 2.2 mph;
The Barometer is at 29.89 in/Hg;
The Humidity is 95%,>? Even if it's raining lightly?
I started to write to the forum earlier but figured I'd better get my butt in gear and get back up on my roof to see if there was more I could do as I still had a small leak last night in my bedroom as well as a small one just off the edge of the layout in the garage.
I think what I did made the difference as no more leak in my bedroom and the garage seems to have stopped too! Hoorah, Hoorah!!
JOE I think we may be brothers except for the clutter part. I used to be very well organized, but two moves in the last 10 years plus a year of this stupid cancer surgery and treatment has really changed all that. Now, I cannot seem to find a handle to grab onto to start getting things back in order.
Trussrod has been pulling my chain to get back into a layout again .. and he is winning the tug of war... but there are some things standing in the way. I NEED TO PICK A SCALE AND STICK WITH IT. I have not very much of anything but some expensive odds and ends that I really need to part with.
I started out in HO, then O scale really bit me hard, then came On3 .. then I decided that On30 was the way to go. How I missed N and S along the way is a mystery. A few years ago I decided that I would gather a Lionel collection so I started buying post war locomotives .. then I decided that I was going to restore Lionel and bought a bunch of basket cases locomotives and accessories.
About that time .. spousal unit and neighbor (retired carpenter) got me started onto building decks and inside cabinet work, so the trains slipped by the wayside. I'll try and post a few pictures later on of both trains and other work.
We received about 1/8 of an inch of rain last night. Pitiful showing!
Temp has cooled down .. 63 forecast high today and partly cloudy.
Rambling on down the track ..lol
CHET nice photos ..
LASM nice work on the hopper; that's a lot of work, but then, that is what makes it such a nice model.
Say Sherrel: Ok, so I will pull your chain, TOOOOOT, TOOOOOT, TOOOOOT ! This train is about to proceed forward! All Aboard!
As far as choosing a Gauge to work with that something you and only you will ave to determine. I been in HO so long and have put together a fair number of cars for the early time period I'm in as well as creating my layout for HO I feel very comfortable staying with it. In looking at the other gauges, a larger size such as O, On3$! and Hon3 are nice to see more detail but every thing is twice the size of HO and requires twice the space! While the N gauge is nice I sure wouldn't care to try and do much scratch building in that scale.
The detail on a lot of the modern models has been quite a shock to me. It had been decades since I had really LOOKED at a model train of any kind and the difference is quite noticeable.
The idea of a 'mixed lineage' Loco with more than one company's faded logo on it is pretty cool! Or a 'kitbash' loco of spare bits of different loco's, I'm sure there were more than a few 'Frankensteins' out there over the years. Parts is parts.
Say Para-T: I would say there definitely are. A few years ago I saw a couple of the most delapdated diesels I had ever seen on the UP trackage in Fresno, no cell phone camera at the time but I think they were still running?
First I've got to find out what an App is.
It's short for Appfel, those red or green things that grow on trees. Would I kid you, not a chance!
Good morning everyone. 33 degrees with light snow at the moment. Snow is expected to fall through the day. The winter storm warning was down graded to a winter weather advisory in the valleys. Got a few inches at the house this morning. Guess we'll see what happens throughout the day.
Sherrel - Like the photo. Looks like they're having as much fun as the trick or treaters.
Toot - Getting used to the Mike. I haven't had much time to spend operating it. Seems to do a good job pulling on the grades. Coming out of the staging tracks and tunnel, the grade is over two and a half percent. It is very sensitive to the DC throttle. No way of notching the speed like you can with a DCC system, but I am happy with it. Replacing the front coupler with an operating one looks like it could be interesting.
WJL126, Boris - I think you're idea of painting over the factory lettering will be the way to go. With some weathering I don't think there should be a problem. Tried a number of different substances and the factory lettering just won't lift.
Have a good day everyone.
Say Chet: A friend told me about a product that only seems to be available at Save Mart, at least here in the Central Valley. It's called, 'Don's Mobile Glass Cleaner', and comes in a tall somewhat thin bottle, maybe a quart. He had the the adhesive strips on the side of his toyota removed which left quite a mess. He applied this glass cleaner to the adhesive gunk and waited a short while and all the stuff wiped right off and the paint and door look like new!
I don't know if it will remove decals but it might be worth a try and I can always be used around the house to remove hard water stains and other things.
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