Running Bear's Coffee Shop LXVIII
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Trussrod
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Good afternoon, Gandy Dancers,
Per WU, it's 71° F -Feels like 70°;
The high will be 85° with a low of 60° tonight. Good sleeping weather;
It's Sunny with Winds from the SE.
Need to water the front yard now at 11:30 Am before it gets any hotter. Be back in about 45 minutes. Well I finished half of the front yard at around 1:20 Pm putting a good amount of water.
Willie: Your very correct, having my tractor working again is a great relief and work saver. One of many things I need to do with it once I get a decent rain of at least 1/2", is to smooth up my drive way that I haven't touched in the last four plus years and it pretty bumpy with all the pot holes in it on the grades to climb up into the back yard.
Sorry to hear about the bad shopping experience, attractive ladies to view always makes it more pleasurable!
Joe: You've had a full plate in other areas, and it all detracts from allowing us to keep various thoughts about our layouts foremost or nearly so in our thinking. It distracts us from creative thinking about what we want to do next and how we plan to do it.
Garry: Nice looking pair of Burlington Gps, first chance I had to go back and look at them.
Ho makes the new Trestle bridge you recently installed?
Curt: Thanks for your concern, 'No Offense taken', it was a simple choice in the heat and free cold drinks besides or coffee to warm up a bit after being in there for awhile. Plus you get some interesting scenery to look at! Nothing that can be used on our layouts though! Actually, I was getting very board going over there day after day. I'm going to stay home today and maybe for quite awhile depending on the heat. I think it over with as today only got up to 85° so it's not too bad.
Johnny: About going down into the train room, just remember: Up with the Good leg, Down with the Bad leg!
Joe: Lets hope Jose' passes you by bye a long distance!
Wishing all of you a safe week end.
Per WU, it's 71° F -Feels like 70°;
The high will be 85° with a low of 60° tonight. Good sleeping weather;
It's Sunny with Winds from the SE.
Need to water the front yard now at 11:30 Am before it gets any hotter. Be back in about 45 minutes. Well I finished half of the front yard at around 1:20 Pm putting a good amount of water.
Willie: Your very correct, having my tractor working again is a great relief and work saver. One of many things I need to do with it once I get a decent rain of at least 1/2", is to smooth up my drive way that I haven't touched in the last four plus years and it pretty bumpy with all the pot holes in it on the grades to climb up into the back yard.
Sorry to hear about the bad shopping experience, attractive ladies to view always makes it more pleasurable!
Good morning y'all. 71° an sunny.
David (CA): Actually, my layout hasn't progressed much since August of last year. I'm just learning how to operate it.I'm planning to extend it over the winter, to make it more interesting.
Local Weather Forecast for next Tuesday, shows this
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It's going to be our turn in the bucket, as Tropical Storm Jose pays us a visit. The media is starting to foam at the mouth over this, even though most of the bad is expected to remain at sea. The previous unnamed TS, just before Harvey, garnered less than a whimper from the media, even though it dropped a lot of rain. Can't let all of y'all have all the "fun", can we?
Joe: You've had a full plate in other areas, and it all detracts from allowing us to keep various thoughts about our layouts foremost or nearly so in our thinking. It distracts us from creative thinking about what we want to do next and how we plan to do it.
Howdy, everybody .
I posed both of my new GP7's for a photo. ... #251 has factory equipped sound. I am not operating 210 yet because it is DCC ready. I have ordered a sound decoder for it.
Garry: Nice looking pair of Burlington Gps, first chance I had to go back and look at them.
Ho makes the new Trestle bridge you recently installed?
Curt: Thanks for your concern, 'No Offense taken', it was a simple choice in the heat and free cold drinks besides or coffee to warm up a bit after being in there for awhile. Plus you get some interesting scenery to look at! Nothing that can be used on our layouts though! Actually, I was getting very board going over there day after day. I'm going to stay home today and maybe for quite awhile depending on the heat. I think it over with as today only got up to 85° so it's not too bad.
Good morning everyone. 64 and sunny here in SW MO. Should hit upper 80s today. Rain chances kick in Sunday and next week - we need it!
VA Ken - Very nice video(s).
Curt - Yeah, I've got to discipline myself to take photos of progress.
Had annual doctor visit yesterday. had the best health/medical report I've had in years. BP is under control, prostate okay, no heart issues, med dosages working, everything good. Then last night my knee acts up - I mangled it 45 years ago in a motorcycle accident, had surgery 20 years later but it didn't help, so I live with it - normally no problems but last evening it went berserk, could hardly walk, had to sleep sitting up; made it to work this morning but I'm hobbling. Will tough through it. Probably won't go downstairs to the train room today.
Trainroom last night (before the knee incident): Glued down the roadbed for the new siding, letting it dry overnight. Track goes in next. Hopefully over the weekend my knee will get good enough to where I can manage the stairs.
Have a good day everyone.
Johnny: About going down into the train room, just remember: Up with the Good leg, Down with the Bad leg!
Thanks Garry. Me too
Joe: Lets hope Jose' passes you by bye a long distance!
Wishing all of you a safe week end.
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kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
I thought I felt a disturbance in the force, like a thousand Geritol bottles all screaming out at once.
Happy Birthday Sherrel!
GarryCBQ
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We went boating this afternoon, and look what we saw in our lake. USS LST 325 was part of the D-Day invasion in WW II. Now it is part of a museum in Evansville, IN. Today. it was returning to Evansville from visits in Nashville, TN and Clarksville, TN where it was open to the public.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Hey Sherrel, happy birthday from here too.
Bruette
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Greg, that is tragic, but perfectly understandable and exactly why, despite the popular belief (that I encourage) I don't play Christmas music year round. I don't begin to play Christmas music regularly until after thanksgiving dinner. If you do anything over and over it becomes mundane.
I will however play songs like this one occasionally throughout the year to see the looks on my wife's face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44q4Kj1y-t4
LST=Large Slow Target...We went boating this afternoon, and look what we saw in our lake. USS LST 325 was part of the D-Day invasion in WW II. Now it is part of a museum in Evansville, IN. Today. it was returning to Evansville from visits in Nashville, TN and Clarksville, TN where it was open to the public.
kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
Bruette
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Good grief LOUIS what are you, like 7?
Close, I try to relate to my grandsons they are 8 and 9.
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. - Carroll Bryant
Karl, I hope you can hear the Polar Express Bell ringing.
I can still hear it, because I believe
Bruette
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Good morning. It's sort of cloudy, and kind of cool.
Garry, I got the TSU-1000 for the CB&Q SD24 I picked up last weekend, and was wondering how, or if, you wired the headlights on your Geeps. This seems to have a double sealed-beam headlight, a single Gyralight, and a single red emergency light. All the lights, except for the emergency light, light when the headlights are on, and I'd like to correct that.
Garry, I got the TSU-1000 for the CB&Q SD24 I picked up last weekend, and was wondering how, or if, you wired the headlights on your Geeps. This seems to have a double sealed-beam headlight, a single Gyralight, and a single red emergency light. All the lights, except for the emergency light, light when the headlights are on, and I'd like to correct that.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. 74° and clear this morning in beautiful North Central Texas. The ten day forecast has changed again and it now shows that these mid-90's high temperatures will last until Saturday now. Kind of nice as the pool temperature climbed back up to 80° yesterday, well within my tolerance range...Here I come again today!!!
Made some more trees in the train shed yesterday. Planted some of them and set others back for future use, Current scene only requires smaller ones so they were easy. Used light green and burnt green foam yesterday, today will be medium green for more variety. I have evergreen armatures and dark green foam that I will use next. After today, I will have to paint some more armatures before I can proceed. Ran a few trains and made some minor adjustments to Athearn blue box coupler heights, the clips were coming loose. These were all on freight cars that have been parked on industry sidings for a while and haven't been run lately.
Joe - I wish you good luck with Jose. I haven't looked at any weather yet this morning so I don't know which way it may be headed today. Regarding being off on weekends. I used to take my vacation days one at a time on Fridays. Many times, it would be decided on Friday that Saturday work was needed, but guess what? Willie wasn't there to get notified. I don't answer the phone at home anyway, so I couldn't be reached! It was OK though, because I hired people that could do their jobs whether I was there or not. I was a senior manager and only had managers and clerks working directly for me.
Eric - I never have purchased any train stuff off E-Bay, but I have always read and heard good things regarding "wehonest.com". I should probably try them out sometime. Ditto what Curt posted about leaving space between track and backdrop. A few random trees and other scenery in between can do wonders to the overall visual effect.
Louis - Only 290 days left until July 4th.
Everybody have a great Sunday.
Willie
Made some more trees in the train shed yesterday. Planted some of them and set others back for future use, Current scene only requires smaller ones so they were easy. Used light green and burnt green foam yesterday, today will be medium green for more variety. I have evergreen armatures and dark green foam that I will use next. After today, I will have to paint some more armatures before I can proceed. Ran a few trains and made some minor adjustments to Athearn blue box coupler heights, the clips were coming loose. These were all on freight cars that have been parked on industry sidings for a while and haven't been run lately.
Joe - I wish you good luck with Jose. I haven't looked at any weather yet this morning so I don't know which way it may be headed today. Regarding being off on weekends. I used to take my vacation days one at a time on Fridays. Many times, it would be decided on Friday that Saturday work was needed, but guess what? Willie wasn't there to get notified. I don't answer the phone at home anyway, so I couldn't be reached! It was OK though, because I hired people that could do their jobs whether I was there or not. I was a senior manager and only had managers and clerks working directly for me.
Eric - I never have purchased any train stuff off E-Bay, but I have always read and heard good things regarding "wehonest.com". I should probably try them out sometime. Ditto what Curt posted about leaving space between track and backdrop. A few random trees and other scenery in between can do wonders to the overall visual effect.
Louis - Only 290 days left until July 4th.
Everybody have a great Sunday.
Willie
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