Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend and funny that Friday's topic seemed to revolve around the Stones. Is there anyone who isn't a fan? I wanted our Wedding Cake to look like the album cover of the Rolling Stones Album Let it Bleed. My wife's name is Angie after all. Since Time is not on our side, let's get started. Saturday: The never-ending projects keep coming. I have a brand-new Sony turntable I inherited from my dad he had in is store stock from 1976. My dad had a TV and Stereo shop that sold and repaired TVs and HiFi equipment from 1968 until the late 1980s. This turntable was in the original box and never sold so he gifted it to me. It still needed work but now I had the time and space to set it up. After throwing out a lot of stuff and one car full trip to the re-shop, I was playing Iron Butterfly. Next the other never-ending project, the new work bench was worked on until we stopped and met some friends for dinner. Sunday: Well, I have been fighting something ever since I got back from the Amherst show and have not felt right since. I quarantined myself for two weeks, but this sinus infection finally came to a head yesterday and I was a miserable mess and got nothing done. I'll head back to bed after I finish here and hope I can sleep this off. So how about you? What did you get done this weekend? Let us know. We'll come back on Friday the 24th to start the process all over again. Until them, have a great week, be safe, stay healthy and as always... High Greens!
Wow. Another Monday. This weekend flew by. All in all it was a good weekend. On the Non-Modeling front, NC State beat UNC in mens basketball yesterday. ALWAYS makes for a good weekend when State beats Carolina. Jim... take care of that "bug" and get better! As for modeling related things: Saturday was spent putting in new track lighting. Got it put in over the long bench of the workshop, plus put a short run over the programming station. Now I can trash those old fluorescent track heads. Sunday I cleaned up the work shop some as well as the layout. Ran some trains. Also, I had a couple of trains that had been on the layout a while. I rolled those back into the staging yard and broke them up. After watching the basketball game, pulled out a switcher and did some Sunday afternoon switching jobs around Monterey, VA. Ended the run pulling a cut off the interchange and then leaving several cars for pick up by the NYC.
This weekend was one where it seemed like nothing got done. Everything we started got halted at some point. My wife sold something online but could not send as the website had the wrong weight so the mailing label and price charged to the buyer was incorrect. She spent all weekend trying to resolve it and hopefully it is finally done. We went to the post office that is open later on Saturday like we normally do but upon arrival find out that their Internet is down so they can’t process any transactions. Since the item is a return my wife wants a receipt with the tracking information, so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Couldn’t do laundry since my daughter was doing her’s. We did get to the produce store, the grocery store, and most importantly the pharmacy. The doctor is changing some of my wife’s medications and we needed the new sizes to begin the change over the weekend. I inventoried five boxcars that I had repaired. Three of them were brand new Intermountain cars that came with a ladder off and doors off that all required gluing. Next I decided to install a decoder in a DCC ready loco but that did not go well. The loco which ran fine a couple of months ago now barely ran and stalled on switch frogs. Upon inspection I found it soaked in oil and grease. In addition, the wires for the wheel contacts fell off when I was disassembling the trucks. The wires look corroded and brittle. Now my new project is to clean and repair the loco and then install the decoder.
Worked on some window glazing for a building "under construction". Thought about what I will need for possibly my final HOn30 empire module order. Checked on a new little HOn30 steamer which was supposed to be on a web site, available to order, according to that manufacturer. Strangely enough, it is not there yet. No idea why they'd make such a misleading post. Worked on my boat racing button and pin collection. Did not work the usual extra hours this weekend, so tried ( and failed) to start catching up on some rest!
Well, I didnt get as much done with modeling as I wanted to -- I did get the inventory of the Locomotives finished, although I need to get those entered into JMRI yet, as well I got started setting up some routes in JMRI, have to build trains for them yet, but again -- its a start Have a great week TIM
On Saturday four of us ran a garage sized N scale layout to help the owner iron out more details. Our feedback included things like overly loud locos to DCC issues to train order handling. It was a nice day and we spent about 4 hours at it. We ran about thirty trains which reset in staging so a few were run in both directions when their time came. This is a Cajon layout and is mostly a train watchers delight with limited switching yet to be ironed out. He was glad he expanded staging to 14 tracks on each end. I wasn't very motivated on Sunday but went out to the helix and started adding more cork. I spread the glue when the wife came out and told me her elderly overweight mother needed help. So I slammed the cork on added weight and we jetted. Fingers crossed my hasty placement is ok. Today the plan is to stay at it and get the helix done and placed so I can move on to the mainline.
Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio. Friday, bowling went well, the team won all 7 points and I had a 236 the last game and won a jackpot. Also managed to get a lot done on an Intermountain 50’ boxcar kit. Saturday, had our club monthly meeting and ended up discussing the train wreck at East Palestine. The railroad experts thought the train I caught before bowling the week before was the train that wrecked. We also wondered what started and was on that initial fire. Our conductor member noted that the hotbox detector is aimed directly at the journal as they didn’t want heated brake shoes from brake applications to set off the detector. After I got home I swept and cleaned the carpet and in the evening finished the boxcar and covered hopper and then painted them. Sunday, had choir practice and I did some decalling on the evening. Rick Jesionowski
Saturday: I installed the first of two planned crossovers to connect the club layout's two mainline tracks. Once completed, this will eliminate the need to use the ol' five-finger switcher to transfer trains between the two lines. Sunday: With the glue dry, I went back to paint and ballast the new crossover. Turns out no combination of the assorted brown paints I had even remotely matched the rest of the layout. And being a Sunday and all, the LHS was closed. So I settled for some stress-testing, running finicky equipment through at various speeds. Not a single hiccup!
I definitely hope the sinus problem heals quickly. Staging yard, switching, interchange! That's what I'm talkin' about! (Laundry continues to lurk.. ) Oily engine. Not good. Parts falling off. Not good. Good luck with the repair. A misleading post. The mystery deepens. Well begun is half done (really?). I hope it works for me. I sometimes get in a big hurry myself. (Hope mom is okay.) Sunny and mild Ohio? (I am wondering if Ohio has been relocated between Alabama and Florida?) (Did I hear "covered hopper"? ) Crossover upgrade! Me, myself continues with drawing diagrams. The Consolidation sheet is done. The American is well underway. Nice weather here. I hope a good week is in store for all.
Good Monday All, I spent Friday evening and Saturday morning tearing down my paint booth and rewiring it. It turns out the switch in the case had gone bad, so I direct wired the fan for now. That repair allowed me to get back to the projects at hand. Those included tackling some of the pile of half-complete car projects. Among them are these two old roundhouse side-door caboose models, which I am turning into some Frisco stand-ins. They are not exact matches, but I am not sure many of the prototype were exactly the same configuration. I also have a Bitter Creek 34-ft flatcar ready for decals (maybe tonight), shown up front. I hope you all had a great weekend. Take Care All, -Bob T.
Good afternoon/evening to Y'all, Our camping trip was great. Nice and relaxing. Today: - I started on a new project. Trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears. (Well - at least one of them is a basket case). The other more for the improved running quality. So - Atlas to the rescue. Key Imports Alco S-1 to receive an Atlas chassis Key Imports Alco S-3 to receive an Atlas chassis (The sow's ear). Chassis have been swapped: Next - adding details - cab shades, windshield wipers, wind deflectors and a hood mounted bell (For the S-3) Thanks, Wolf
I made a bit of progress on the helix. I need to add 90 degrees and the straight extension of subroadbed, add about the same in foam roadbed, and 180 degrees plus the straight section all double track. Oh Lord, then I have to wire the thing. Yikes! I keep telling myself to focus on getting the mainline running for some train watching.
Overall, another good weekend. Soccer teams were 2 for 2. Got one storage tray cut. A little tweaking of the settings reduced the time 50 percent. The cast iron griddle is still fighting my efforts to season it. I need to step back and think about it. There is an oven thermometer around here somewhere. On the more direct modeling front, a new airbrush is due to arrive tomorrow. That will consume some time over the next few days. Hopefully, that will lead to something more interesting for next weekend. That is in addition to the return of the Washington State Train Show & Market Place in Monroe. The show returns for the first time since 2020. I'm excited! Stay safe,
Do you have the date, Mark? Love going out there, especially if the weather is good. Do some train watching as well!
@Kurt Moose Here's the webpage for the event: http://www.unwclub.com/unwshow/ Best MRR show & swap meet in the state, IMHO (in Moose's humble opinion)! .
Two days late and a dollar short. About how the week is going. Did get a little clean up done in the train room, ran some trains, worked on a flat car load (almost done) and a gondola load. Also went through about 200 3.5 inch floppy disc and made sure I had downloaded and backed up all the pics on them. Then cut them all up. That freed up a whole drawer in my desk. Busy week this week here. Hope you all are having a great week!
