Running Bear's LXXIII Coffee Shop
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D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Hey, were are the napkins?
Wow, what an honor to be the first to post in the new coffee shop. Guess I'll have to carve my initials into the table top with my exacto knife.
Wow, what an honor to be the first to post in the new coffee shop. Guess I'll have to carve my initials into the table top with my exacto knife.
montanan
Whiskey Merchant
Good evening. You did a great job Bob getting the forum back up.
My rock was wet but is now turning white. Some white crap is coming down sideways with a temp of 34 degrees. I am over winter.
Justin - Out of wheels? So am I. time to order some. Nice photo on the railroad forum.
Lets see how photos download.
These two photos are some of the cars I got from Terry. C&O, Seaboard Air Line and the Erie Gondola, ACY and DSSand A.
I had the B&O car for a while. Louis was the reason I got it because he mentioned the wagon top cars which I liked and a Florida East Coast courtesy of Phil.Finally got the New Haven put together and on the layout also. A lot of cars to weather.
The last car I picked up some time in the 90's when I was visiting a club in Massachusetts. Had to pick up a club car. This is where I happened to have met George Sellios and was invited to see his layout. He only had the first part of it built at that time.
Time for supper and then hunker down and see what mother nature has in store for us.
Bob - Sure am liking the photo posting. Sweet.
Later.
My rock was wet but is now turning white. Some white crap is coming down sideways with a temp of 34 degrees. I am over winter.
Justin - Out of wheels? So am I. time to order some. Nice photo on the railroad forum.
Lets see how photos download.
These two photos are some of the cars I got from Terry. C&O, Seaboard Air Line and the Erie Gondola, ACY and DSSand A.
I had the B&O car for a while. Louis was the reason I got it because he mentioned the wagon top cars which I liked and a Florida East Coast courtesy of Phil.Finally got the New Haven put together and on the layout also. A lot of cars to weather.
The last car I picked up some time in the 90's when I was visiting a club in Massachusetts. Had to pick up a club car. This is where I happened to have met George Sellios and was invited to see his layout. He only had the first part of it built at that time.
Time for supper and then hunker down and see what mother nature has in store for us.
Bob - Sure am liking the photo posting. Sweet.
Later.
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PRR Modeler
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Good Evening,
I'm confused, is this the new coffee shop or the temporary one?
I'm confused, is this the new coffee shop or the temporary one?
PRR Modeler
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Trying to post a picture. The platform is 25% done.
Boris
Beach Bum
Wow Bob, you got this up and running real fast. The photo quality is fantastic. Chet, your railroad looks even better in the new format. Curt, the wooden platform is moving along nicely, I wish I had the patience to build one board at a time. Is this platform for a station or something else?
IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Well Bob, it looks like The Force was "with you" this time...nice work!
I may go ahead and try to directly upload some photos here, instead of just posting links to my personal website like I normally do. First I have to gather up some new ones...
I may go ahead and try to directly upload some photos here, instead of just posting links to my personal website like I normally do. First I have to gather up some new ones...
Well Bob, it looks like The Force was "with you" this time...nice work!
Thanks! I saved this site for last, since it's the busiest, and I was hoping I'd have the process down by then. I had allocated 3 days to do it, though I was hoping it wouldn't finish on Friday the 13th.
By now, I know which sections take the longest, so I did all my prep work yesterday, backed up and optimized the old database etc. Then at 10:00 Pacific Time I started the cutover. I took about 2 hours to get the prelim stuff out of way, then got some sleep while it imported 400,000 messages. This morning I did some more work, tested, updated to the latest version, which is so new the importers aren't working for the gallery yet, and then finalized things. By now I had patterns for all of the templates and ad placement etc, as well as having all the privacy and affiliate notice stuff prepped. Even so, I surprised myself by getting done in only 18 hours!WOW !!! Nicely done,thank you. And so easy ,even I had no trouble.
It's 63* and Dark. Should hit 85 under a bright sun later.
Met Curt at JON'S home I listened , like a bump on a log, as they talked about kits and different materials. Was all GREEK to me. Still was a learning session for me . I get a kick out of listening to pros bat their opinions back and forth. Just glad my rinky-dink bare ass rr works ..
Phil
It's 63* and Dark. Should hit 85 under a bright sun later.
Met Curt at JON'S home I listened , like a bump on a log, as they talked about kits and different materials. Was all GREEK to me. Still was a learning session for me . I get a kick out of listening to pros bat their opinions back and forth. Just glad my rinky-dink bare ass rr works ..
Phil
And here was me not bothering to check the previous posts "over there", so all the cake is gone then?
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. A warm 71° and cloudy. The sound of thunder is coming from the west and radar shows rain about three miles away and moving in this direction. Probably will get here before I finish this post. Expect to see 88° later today, and after any rain, the humidity will be a bitch. Today is the third day in a row with sustained winds of over 30 mph; the jumbo jets flying overhead headed out of DFW International don't even have their engines on!
Getting used to the new forum software, it's working well for me. It took a while to find the "log out" button and I spent a lot of time turning notification stuff off. The only thing that I miss is that little green arrow that allowed me to go directly to the first unread post in a thread, but maybe I just haven't found where to activate it yet. I do see the orange flag in the upper RH corner of posts identifying new posts. I haven't tried to download anything yet, but it appears to be successful for others.
Out in the train shed, I completed the Accurail covered hopper kit that I started Wednesday. This particular kit, which I have built about ten of so far, is not your run of the mil Accurail kit. There's over 25 parts and detailing is better than their kits of the 90's. They still include plastic wheels, but this one does not have those wretched dummy couplers. It has Accumate couplers which work well most of the time. I may have posted before that they offer four road numbers, but for $4, they will send a decal sheet with 12 additional numbers for those wanting a fleet. You can "cut and paste" that decal sheet into many additional combinations if 16 cars isn't enough. This particular model, a Pullman Standard (PS-2) 4750 cu ft ribside hopper, is for a car that ATSF took delivery of 1000 of, back in the years 72-73. Many were still in use around 2010, different paint scheme but still with ATSF reporting marks.
Chet - Nice additions to the fleet. Looking forward to the weathered editions.
Curt - Looking good even if progress is slow.
Thunder is louder but I still have a dry rock. Everybody have a great Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious but I am not going anywhere today anyway.
Willie
Getting used to the new forum software, it's working well for me. It took a while to find the "log out" button and I spent a lot of time turning notification stuff off. The only thing that I miss is that little green arrow that allowed me to go directly to the first unread post in a thread, but maybe I just haven't found where to activate it yet. I do see the orange flag in the upper RH corner of posts identifying new posts. I haven't tried to download anything yet, but it appears to be successful for others.
Out in the train shed, I completed the Accurail covered hopper kit that I started Wednesday. This particular kit, which I have built about ten of so far, is not your run of the mil Accurail kit. There's over 25 parts and detailing is better than their kits of the 90's. They still include plastic wheels, but this one does not have those wretched dummy couplers. It has Accumate couplers which work well most of the time. I may have posted before that they offer four road numbers, but for $4, they will send a decal sheet with 12 additional numbers for those wanting a fleet. You can "cut and paste" that decal sheet into many additional combinations if 16 cars isn't enough. This particular model, a Pullman Standard (PS-2) 4750 cu ft ribside hopper, is for a car that ATSF took delivery of 1000 of, back in the years 72-73. Many were still in use around 2010, different paint scheme but still with ATSF reporting marks.
Chet - Nice additions to the fleet. Looking forward to the weathered editions.
Curt - Looking good even if progress is slow.
Thunder is louder but I still have a dry rock. Everybody have a great Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious but I am not going anywhere today anyway.
Willie
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Update - OK I see now that clicking on the thread title takes me to the newest post, sometimes!
Willie
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