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#1
Layout Tours / Re: Small scenes tell a story
November 26, 2023, 04:24:22 PM
Great conversation with a huge time lapse...

I'm starting to move some of my thinking back here from the small e-mail group that started after the collapse of two years ago.

I'm going to call John Siekirk tomorrow and see what we might do about this and the larger Gazette publication that we started.

It is going well so we will probably continue that.

I am going to put additional photos of small scenes here as we go on.

see ya
Bob
#2
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Saterday November 25, 2023
November 25, 2023, 12:55:22 PM
Mornin' all...

Put my daughter's family on the road for Portland Oregon this morning.  Wow   ! ! ! !  is it quiet in here..........  ! ! !

I and a few gents have been working on a modeler's really huge railroad.  Two levels and a large peninsula in the middle. 

I've been working on structures for that railroad.

Not a lot of stuff for my own RR.

see ya
Bob
#3
Pretty cool.......... sir

see ya
Bob
#4
Good afternoon all...

Yep.... good to be back.

I got in without a hitch.  Now I need to learn my way around again.


thanx to all who made this work.

Bob
#5
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Tom Langford
February 02, 2022, 03:00:48 PM
Just great......................... ! ! ! !

Thanx
Bob
#6
Great ditty on ice production..............
This was not far from the stationary refrigeration system on the first ship I was on.  There was no brining process but the location and size of piping was about the same.


Thanx
Bob
#7
Mornin' all..............

Picked up my second pair of glasses this morning........  I have two sets of frames that are essentially the same.  One lives on my work bench as it has a bazooka lens for the lower bo-fikle.

I had to arm wrestle my optometrist several years ago to make this happen.  The upper lens is the same as my street and reading glasses but the lower focuses in at about 3 inches.  It saves me from using a jeweler's loop that tends to scratch the reading glasses when place on top.   


He wanted know why I would need or want such a thing...............   I bristled ! !   You don't need to know  !!   I did ultimately tell him and several years later he told me that he had encouraged others who did such stuff to do the same.

He never gave me a cut on the number of frames he sold.......

So I'm back in business on really small stuff.  Woooo hoooo

see ya
Bob
#8
Layout Tours / Re: Small scenes tell a story
February 02, 2022, 02:03:42 PM
Jaime...........

It is funny that you commented about that.......  I worked  for a car dealership that had a franchise with Peugeot in the mid 70's.  They had a closed drive line through a torque tube with the differential suspended in rubber mounts and CV axles out to the rear wheels.   If the bolts came loose at the transmission end of the drive line tube, it would wallow around and strip out the splines and require a new drive shaft.

This was the holy grail of pry bars.  This thing was bullet proof and great for baring stuff over and just plain grunting stuff around.  We had bars sort of like this in the navy working on stationary Diesels for rolling them around.   I kept that bar even when I went to the school district teaching auto mechanics.  I bequeathed it to the instructor that followed me when I retired.


The students loved when I went for the corner of the shop where that bar lived................   Students would back up...... "Parrish is going to war ! ! !"

This solidified my maxim of............ there is no substitute for brute force ! ! !

Thanx for looking in.
Bob
#9
Layout Tours / Re: Cypress Creek Railroad
February 01, 2022, 08:11:42 PM
Steve.............

Great clutter..............  really fun modeling.

Thanx

Bob
#10
Kit Building / Re: Period Miniatures Combination Station
February 01, 2022, 08:07:14 PM
Jan....

This is very cool build.........

Thanx'
Bob
#11
Layout Tours / Re: Small scenes tell a story
February 01, 2022, 08:03:22 PM
Here is another look at the two guys kibitzing and making sure that the young bucks get it right.

Think of some of this like a photograph...........  we don't see the movement before or after the click of the shutter.  We really don't struggle to make sense of it.



see ya
Bob
#12
Layout Tours / Small scenes tell a story
February 01, 2022, 04:32:34 PM
I'm starting a new thing that has to do with small scenes and the stories that go with them.  With that thinking........  I am starting here with a photo series that will show some street scenes around the railroad and tell a story.  Some tell themselves and I will comment on others as to how I got some stuff done.


My railroad is small enough that I cannot create any illusion of distance for my operators.  In trade for that, I have chosen to give them lots to look at while driving the trains. 



I am going to show many of these in the next days that seem to have multiple vantage points of the same subject as it is the only way to really show what is going on and tell the story.


To start with then..............

Here is a look at a drive shaft repair on a Shay locomotive.   It is a static Keystone model that got pressed into service.  There is a mix of people sitting and visiting and others who look like they are doing something that can be identified. 


These are a mix of Preiser, Weston and Woodland Scenics people.







#13
John........

I told you this some time ago and I'll tell you again.......................  If you are not careful....... you will have a real railroad on your hands......

Just super stuff.............

Thanx
Bob
#14
Gents....

I'm planning to go if there is a little resolution of the covid..... My daughter is in Portland..............130 miles south so it is an excuse to go that way........  Too far to drive every day but it is an excuse none the less.......

One of the organizers is Russell Segner............ A good friend and super modeler.

He is a Sn3 guy with an amazing railroad.    There are about 8 or 9 Sn3 railroads in the area and all are super.  And that is just S scale.   



I don't know any of the HO ng boys up there however....


Traffic is a big hassle around Seattle so allow a lot of time getting around on the tour.

There are lots of things for spouse / enablers that are not railroad related close by also.

I will probably make a last minute decision as this what I'm doing with the regional NMRA convention in May.

Thanx for the prompt.

see ya
Bob






#15
Mornin' all......

Sunny today for the first time in two weeks...........  Due to the mountain range on the east side of our valley the air bunches up and we get temperature inversions; warm higher up and cold and fog on the ground.  Pretty natural thing for January.   We may be breaking out of it for this year.

Good news about Tom...................

Can't wait for him to get back at it.

see ya
Bob
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