Good evening fellow Gandy Dancers & Spike Drivers,
It was a fairly comfortable day but it was also fairly windy with gusts to about 25+ I'd say as it was blowing even larger Oak trees around fairly good and Oaks are not the most limber.
Hi Flo & Francine, You ladies are sure keeping Jeffreys' Dinner in good shape, he'd be pleased! How about a large bowl of Chili topped with a good helping of Colby and Jack cheese. That sounds good to me! Coffee too of course. It's starting to feel a bit chilly here.
Let me check WWeather:
Elev 2200 ft 37.26 °N, 119.73 °W | Updated 8 seconds ago
Partly Cloudy - That was true all day long, at 52.9 °F - Feels Like 52.9 °F
Wind ia Variable Wind from NW at .02 mph at 10:18, Gusts 2.5 mph. Sure different from earlier!
Pressure 29.93 in
Visibility 10.0 miles
Clouds Clear
Dew Point 35 °F
Humidity 51%
Rainfall 0.00 in
Snow Depth Not available.
Sun & Moon
6:08 AM 7:45 PM
Waxing Crescent, 4% visible
Yesterday night before I posted I went out into the grage/train room and ran a train, an MDC/Athearn Old Time 2-8-0 Consolidation with three shorty coaches, a combine, a passenger car and a Business car on the end, for a while back and forth. I also ran the little Bachmann Hand Pump car which didn't want to run very well, I think the gaps between the field plates has gotten loaded with oil and brush material. It's going to be a job to clean those slots out. Maybe a spray of electronic cleaner?
Anyway, it was very satisfying to run some trains for change.
Afternoon All,
Hot today, Hotter tomorrow, Hades the day after. Never made it to the blood draw today. MOH forgot and ate (both giving blood) so we are doing it tomorrow.
>I received the GC Laser kit today. I am a bit disappointed. I thought it was a wood laser kit but it is cardboard and paper
. I did the initial painting using what they recommended but I have a feeling the paper will shrink. I guess I will see.<
I hope everyone has a good night.
Curt: About the GC Laser cardbord buildings, I almost forgot till I read
Joe's post but I have an old, I mean real old, Sydam cardboard warehouse kit that has held up fine. Like wood, it's good to seal both surfaces so one side doesn't take on more moisture than the other side.
Good evening, y'all. 55° and foggy. This afternoon was sunny and 71°, then it suddenly got cold again. I did manage to cut the lawn today, and pull some weeds. Also sat in the sun for a bit. This evening, I ran the layout for a while. After I finish with the doc tomorrow, I have to get started with the permanent wiring.
Curt: Not for nothing, I have built a couple cardboard and paper models that have survived over time, GC Laser's kits are more detailed than the California Scale Models structure kits from the 70s that I built. I hope it works out for you.
Joe: You reminded me that I also had a card board structure that I had forgotten about.
Good morning all. Starting off at 34 degrees with a couple of inches of heavy wet snow on the ground. The snow changed to rail when I got to lower elevations. Hope it's not like this tomorrow. I will be heading to Butte tomorrow and sure don't want to go over the pass in the snow with summer tires on the car.
Louis - I'm not totally impressed with GPS units. I have a GPS app on my phone which I use from time to time and it is normally pretty good. We have had some of out drivers who have GPS units for commercial vehicles get totally lost. Some times shippers will notify us not to have drivers use their GPS units and give is the correct directions to their location. A couple of years ago when our bowling partners and my wife and I were heading to Reno, NV for a national bowloing tournament, John brought his Garmin which he used for wor. He had just had it updated. Don't know why he brought it as I have made the trip a number of times. Right off the bat it wanted us to go the wrong way. Instead of going south through West Yellowstone to Idaho Falls, the Garmin wanted us to go west on the interstate to Butte and then south to Idaho Falls from there. An extra 100 miles. When we finally got to West Yellowstone, the Garmin recalculated and was good until we got into Reno. I had stayed at the hotel we were going to a few times. John, who was driving at the time was going to follow the Garmin directions which wanted us to take another exit, but I had him go the way I knew.which was just a few blocks from the interstate. I wonder how many extra miles people have drives following GPS directions.
Ken in MD - When I finally got going on my scenery after looking at open grid work for a couple of years I was really suprised at how fast it could go. Seeing the change in the layout I was spurred on to do more and was so happy to see the dramatic change. You have to post some photos after you get some done.
On Saturday I will be heading over to the old Northern Pacific depot which is now a museum. There is an open house and the model railroad club will be operating the layout. A member of another forum will be there and said that there will be some items for sale also. It will be nice to meet the guy from the other forum in person also. This doesn't happen very often out here so I couldn't pass it up. Gotta remember to charge the battery in the cam corder. If I get and good video or photos, I will post them.
Later.
Chet: Sure sounds like you had better change back to snow tires just to be safe.
I agree with you about how people use/depend far too much on GPS. I had a lady, connected with an energy program, that couldn't stop watching her GPS and passed my entrance several times trying to find
me and couldn't till I actually walked down to the road and flagged her down. I gave her very explicit directions about how far my driveway and my neighbors driveway both are from a big old corrigated metal barn. about 125 ft but on the opposite side of the road and she still couldn't find me. What happened to common sense and listening to directions.
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