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Post by rhpd42002 on May 27, 2012 6:27:39 GMT -8
Good Sunday Morning to all the Forum Folks. As it's late morning here in the east, we'll do up brunch today. The coffees, both leaded and unleaded are fresh brewed. Scrambled eggs, bacon and sausages are available, As are pancakes, toast, donuts and english muffins. A bowl of fresh, cut-up fruits, yogurts, granola bars, plus a few bunches of bananas for Miss Dee, should she and Kiz drop by. The milks, juices and canned drinks are in the cooler. Managed to run trains for a bit last night and plan on more of the same today. Have to get back at it again tomorrow. Hope everyone has a good day.
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Post by KIM on May 27, 2012 12:13:17 GMT -8
Today is a day of relaxing for me. After dreaming about the MRI truck last night, I decided I need a break from it. I'm going to work on my bridge project some more today. Some things I tried, still didn't work, so I'm going to try something else.
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Post by rhpd42002 on May 27, 2012 17:35:09 GMT -8
That's the best way to do it, Douglas. If one thing or method doesn't work, try another,... and another,... and if necessary, still another!! ;D Just don't give up until it becomes obviously, futile!
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Jul 21, 2013 0:10:56 GMT -8
morning sunday peepelz...bramble is in his favourite position hence lower case writing. three short baseboards to complete then will be able to lay the tracks to make a continuous run.this mornins duties is to vacuum clean the brick dust and saw dust off the baseboards tops and then at long last lay the first section of main running line. I have decided that the single line...feeder line...to the high level it's gradient will rise 1/8th of an inch every three inches.i am going to have to fit some braking device to the cabooses axle ends to prevent wagons running away down hill...nearly every item of American rolling stock rolls away as they are so free running except the weaver s.p. daylight coaches but maybe they just need some lubrication. I can do photos now as I reduced the size I take in the camera. I was using the largest size frame for the clarity when doing close up macro thingies. james brodie....................again a good sunday morning to you all....happy trails.
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Aug 11, 2013 2:14:54 GMT -8
good sunday morning again nice peepel still lower case but this time due to the old fools plastic garden chair legs folding hence the two fractures in my left wrist---oh how I wish it was bramble sitting on my arm---the lord said let vengeance be mine but it is hard to forgive the mindless hunters on the top of the valley. the garage/railway room baseboards are all erected and was within six fishplates of completing a circuit but have had one of the sf f9as running back and forth playing with seven prr boxcars and an sf caboose..............modom said I can go in again today to plan further sidings which will be on the low level baseboards.but it will be two months at least before I will be able to complete the circuit unless my eldest daughter comes to visit or one of the granddaughters.... .need to weight the f9 as she struggles for adhesion on the slightest grade. I mentioned how free running the American rolling stock was but these pensy or should it be pesky boxcars must have missed being lubricated...must install a rip siding next to one of the main lines. I have an idea for a short two yard long test line with a slight grade on it to see what rolls and what won't. well time to boil the water in the kettle and make modom and I a coffee......brunch I hope will be sausages fried egg tinned tomato's and toast modom isn't keen on beans (not like the horse in the spaghetti western ''my name is still charity'') and the visiting granddaughter ate all the spaghetti back to modelling I have the drgs for an American s160 2-8-0 loco and during the ww2 these engines came over mainly to work in Europe but came to England first where our men worked them--there is a preserved one on the nymr near where I live but to the point during the war American boxcars worked on our railways carrying materials for American army use...food for thought. happy trails..........james............well it is sunday.
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 12, 2013 17:19:47 GMT -8
James I had friends up from LA and the Bay area and six of us hit Donner Pass this weekend. I decided early on to go to Saturday evening services so we could get in a full day on Sunday. We actually started at noon on Friday so we got to view about thirty or more trains for the session. A few pictures are posted and the rest are past pictures of mine on the Hill. It was a great weekend since we viewed Heritage unit 1982, Amtrak Heritage units 66 and 156 along with one new Electric #603 beiing delivered to Willington Del. They are built in Sacramento, CA. Larry s806.photobucket.com/user/Trainsforyou/slideshow/?sort=6
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Aug 12, 2013 20:06:19 GMT -8
cz...thanks for the photo show...nearly enough to make me go modern image, but I guess the old fools still got too much steam in the blood...jim
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 12, 2013 21:45:43 GMT -8
cz...thanks for the photo show...nearly enough to make me go modern image, but I guess the old fools still got too much steam in the blood...jim Jim I prefer steam also, but I do enjoy seeing some of the new power running. I don't know if you have seen my fifties steam below. Larry I am not sure it will link and it does not work as a slide show. I will post a few.
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Aug 13, 2013 0:54:21 GMT -8
larry thanks for the photos. no I haven't seen them before. is the engine a atsf one? with two water tenders ?? or one oil and one water..food for thought.my bleary old eyes just can't make out the detail but will enlarge later and enjoy looking and drooling. you can send as many old era photos as you wish and am open to e mail photos so as not to 'hog' our pages with non atlas related topics.but what's forum forbut to enjoy the same as we enjoy playing with our trains.........................before anyone wants to take me to task with the word playing then find me a substitute for playing cricket/football/darts/cards/snooker/billiards/rounders-over here a schoolboy and girls game but over there you say baseball-hockey--definitely a girls game they are the worlds best ankle tappers---sorry i'm still acting like one of the 'grumpy old men' over the loss of bramble. I am going to name one of my steam switchers after him. there is a nice police lady coming round today to interview gamekeepers and the like. please excuse the impoliteness but hanging them by the scrotum would in my eyes be too kind to them. I had quite a few atsf 2-10-4s and 2-10-2s and 4-8-4s when I modelled usa in ho scale and variations of tenders as well, even two varney atlantics plus one n and w y6b and three big boys and and a few challengers and cab fwds. I virtually bought everything on sight now it would take three months pension to buy a large 0 gauge steam engine. the n and w J I did swaps for just need transfers -decals-and be brave enough to paint her. as I only have five engines am still toying--can I use the word toy ?-with this dcc thingie. must go prayer meeting in half an hour. happy trails.....jim.
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 13, 2013 5:35:40 GMT -8
larry thanks for the photos. no I haven't seen them before. is the engine a atsf one? with two water tenders ?? or one oil and one water..food for thought.my bleary old eyes just can't make out the detail but will enlarge later and enjoy looking and drooling. you can send as many old era photos as you wish and am open to e mail photos so as not to 'hog' our pages with non atlas related topics.but what's forum forbut to enjoy the same as we enjoy playing with our trains.........................before anyone wants to take me to task with the word playing then find me a substitute for playing cricket/football/darts/cards/snooker/billiards/rounders-over here a schoolboy and girls game but over there you say baseball-hockey--definitely a girls game they are the worlds best ankle tappers---sorry i'm still acting like one of the 'grumpy old men' over the loss of bramble. I am going to name one of my steam switchers after him. there is a nice police lady coming round today to interview gamekeepers and the like. please excuse the impoliteness but hanging them by the scrotum would in my eyes be too kind to them. I had quite a few atsf 2-10-4s and 2-10-2s and 4-8-4s when I modelled usa in ho scale and variations of tenders as well, even two varney atlantics plus one n and w y6b and three big boys and and a few challengers and cab fwds. I virtually bought everything on sight now it would take three months pension to buy a large 0 gauge steam engine. the n and w J I did swaps for just need transfers -decals-and be brave enough to paint her. as I only have five engines am still toying--can I use the word toy ?-with this dcc thingie. must go prayer meeting in half an hour. happy trails.....jim. Jim Those are all Illinois Central that I posted. The IC used extra water cars since the tenders were modified small tenders to allow the locomotives to turn on small turntables. They normally only used one extra, but the picture I posted showed two since the summer of 1954 dried up the lakes in our town. The railroads could not get water except in certain areas so they just used more water cars. The IC used coal for their fuel. The pictures below is the N&W in August of 1956. We did a vacation to see the great N&W steam power. Larry
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Aug 28, 2013 23:06:58 GMT -8
Larry, Thanks again for the photos-sorry for the delay in acknowledging-Is that a Big Jawn in the photo No 1 ? and was there more than one ? Jim.
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Aug 31, 2013 23:07:52 GMT -8
good sunday morning to everyone-it's 07-27hrs here in the wilds of the north Yorkshire moors. the garage-sorry railway room- has been floored out and duck boards fitted under the baseboards to stand the storage boxes on. then why is the old fool putting boxes on top of the baseboards ? too many boxes ?? the 0 gauge n and w js front bogie decided to work some of the retaining parts loose can't do any repairs with just one hand so she is ''waiting works'' also the electric connection to the tender has parted company and am not sure if it is something like a coax cable with an outer sheath. need my optivisors on to view and study what to do next sort of what solders to which. I would like to fit a working buckeye to the front end not the dummy brass version I think kadee do something useable. well time to make a cup of coffee---too late I can hear modom stirring so it might have to be a pot of tea-breakfast i'll accept gracefully what is offered..bacon sausage black pudding sliced fried taties an egg some fried bread----and pigs might fly--- well bread and butter then beans or spaghetti I was told I was overweight 5'11'' high and weight 176lbs. nuf sed james....................happy trails
the indian had his head to the floor and looking up said stage coach with six horses-two drivers and stage full of chorus girls its got a lot of luggage on top as well.....how can you tell that I asked by just listening with your ear to the ground ? he replied
it just ran over me twenty minutes ago.
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Post by calzephyr on Sept 2, 2013 7:22:10 GMT -8
Larry, Thanks again for the photos-sorry for the delay in acknowledging-Is that a Big Jawn in the photo No 1 ? and was there more than one ? Jim. There was only one Big Jawn. It ran about three years and I saw it the first week in August of 1956. It was being used in helper service only after it tested on coal trains in 1955 when it was new. It probably could have been very successful if the railroads continued to use steam power. The testing was OK, but it would not handle heavy trains at speed as well as the A class. As a helper locomotive, it was very good. One problem listed was the feed water heater pump. This could have been improved but the locomotive only ran a few months after I got to see it in action. Larry
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