The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - FiatFan - 09-11-2013

Greetings, gang.

It's cloudy and 66 degrees, headed for a high of 87. Much cooler weather ahead for us. Lows in the upper 40s to low 50s and highs in the low 70s.

Last night I tore up some track and re-ballasted it. There was a grade which would not allow me to spot cars at the public warehouse and have them stay there.

Not much on the agenda for today.

All stay safe.

Tom

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - sir james - 09-11-2013

Good Morning Blue
We have a sunny 75 going into the 90s today.
This may be the last 90 we see as everything is suppose to change late today.
We still have a few fresh tomatoes and cukes growing but it looks like that's about over as well. The bean plants are finished.
No special news from the train store so TTFN.
S.J.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 09-11-2013

Good morning. It's 81° with 76% humidity. The high will be 95° and will feel like 101°.
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No relief from the heat this week. The high is gonna be 95° all the way through Monday. Later today I'll probably be going to town to get a haircut. That depends on how my father feels after his eye exam today. Tomorrow I'll be going to see the doc so he can check my ears. For a month now I've been hearing my blood pulsing in my ears day and night. It's load enough I can hear it even with the TV going and it's interfering with what sleep I can get. I'm lucky if I can get five hours.

I see by my calender that today is September 11th. The morning of September 11th, 2001 I was at work on my newspaper route. I had just turned off a dirt road onto a secondary highway, hwy 464 in this case. As was my habit I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR. If I remember correctly the fall fundraiser was on when the program was interrupted by a report that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. At first it was thought it was maybe a small private plane but then the news came that it was a airliner. Not long after came another report that a second airliner had hit the other tower and there were the reports of one hitting the Pentagon. A little while later I stopped at a small store where the owner and I watched the towers fall. To say that I was upset about that would be an understatement. I was downright livid! Prime things on my mind were the lives and safety of those at the scene and a burning desire to get my hands on those responsible.

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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Chief Eagles - 09-11-2013

Evening all. 9-11 breakfast at 8 after a 2+ mile walk. Meetings most of the day followed by a hair cut. Then Church Wed. night meal. Walked 4 blocks home. Waiting for Wifey as she wants to go to Belks at the mall.

AF, where did you find the NS? Got to have some of those.

Later

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - AF350 - 09-11-2013

Good evening all.

Chief the set of railroad work trucks I ordered from Historic Rail, they came in several road names and are O scale 3 made by New Ray and the Chevy Suberbn was another make. There are 2 Big international trucks one a bucket and the other has an augger and the fouth is a F-150 with two railroad ties. Here is the website and phone # for HistoricRail

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.HistoricRail.com">www.HistoricRail.com</a> 1-800-261-5922

I don't order much from Historic Rail being they have mostly N and HO but every now and then they have O scale vehicales.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 09-11-2013

Not much going on here. No haircut today, maybe tomorrow. I have an appointment at the hearing docs office tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully they can find what's causing the sound of my pulsing in my ears to be so darn loud instead of the barely audible level it was before my surgery. It's keeping me awake quite a bit.

Well I checked USPS tracking and my newest Varney all metal F3A is in Shreveport. I'll have it tomorrow. I have an Athearn blue box F7 drive all ready for it.

This morning the power company was doing a switchover from power station to another. They missed by a little under a second and there was a momentary lapse in the power. It went off and back on so quickly that it tripped the circuit breaker in the computers power supply so naturally it turned off dead as a door nail and wouldn't restart until I turned off the computers power supply, waited fifteen seconds and turned it back on. After that I was able to restart it but it still took a while to start up. Disk check and all that. It even checked one of the flash drives because I was looking for something on it when the power flashed. And this isn't a one-time event. They miss on the power hand-offs at least once a week, sometimes five or six times a week. One of these days they're going to injure or kill a home-bound person who is dependent on medical equipment to survive. Or maybe they'll cause serious damage to someones home or even blow out equipment at the municipal airport near here. I bet they'd love that! They did a pretty neat job of blowing up one of my computers. It wasn't anything I couldn't fix but I shouldn't have had to fix it in the first place.

Well that's enough ranting and raving for one night. It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - faraway - 09-11-2013

Running Bear Wrote:

I love your weathering!

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - ezdays - 09-12-2013

Good morning all. Here we are on the downside of hump day and heading into the weekend. The storms are behind us here for a while, things are warming up and we'll be back in the 100+ temps by this weekend. We had about three days of heavy rain and flooding around here, but unlike in some coastal areas, the water recedes within a few hours. It is strange though how one area can have cars floating or submerged in underpasses and parking lots, while other areas are as dry as a bone. Regardless, it's been a nice few days with high temps in the 80's.

Still trying to get some work done on my orphan challenge but a few major distractions have made that difficult.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - sir james - 09-12-2013

Good Morning Blue
We have a cloudy 70 this morning.
Storms yesterday evening took the temp from 92 down to 71 in just a few minutes.
There are power outages as usual.
No special news today but I do like to check in.
S.J.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 09-12-2013

faraway Wrote:
Running Bear Wrote:I love your weathering!

Thanks. I used a simple alcohol/black leather dye wash. On the tank car I mixed in a little black acrylic paint. That's what created the spots.

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Good morning. It's 77° with 82% humidity. The high will be 95° and will feel like 102°.
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Already had breakfast. Scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits and gravy. Very good. Had a virus scan going on the computer while I was eating. The power company decided they needed to switch to another power plant and they dropped the ball again. It was just a flicker but it was enough to make the computer crash and reset. Luckily the scan was finished when that happened. I spent about twenty minutes untangling the mess that was left on Firefox. It had been running at the time. It was throwing a bunch of application logs at me and many of them had nothing to do with Firefox. I finally got it all ironed out. What a mess!

Right now I'm waiting on my caregiver. After she's made my bed and I've had my bath (she scrubs my back as I can't reach there yet) and helps me get dressed. I've gotten to the point that I can do most everything myself. She's worked with amputees in the past and has given me some great tips that have made my life a bit easier.

Later my father and I will be going to town. First stop will be the barber shop. I'm starting to feel like I need to apply for a dog license. Time to shorten the hair. Then it's on to the docs office to find out what's causing this racket in my ears. So far the theories include it being caused by the anesthesia or the massive doses of antibiotics I was getting. But as there are still a number of possibilities that need to be checked.

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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Chief Eagles - 09-12-2013

Busy day. Did another 2+ miles this morning. Also, not many carbs and no sweets. Off to bed. Tomorrow, busy again.

Sleep tight.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 09-12-2013

Got my hair cut today and also got my beard and mustache trimmed. Went to my doc appointment to see what's causing all this racket in my ears. He suspects I have a partially blocked blood vessel in my neck. He set up an appointment with a cardiac specialist for me so they can do an ultrasound scan of my neck and pinpoint the trouble spot. The appointment is set for October 4th. In the meantime I'll just have to live with the noise.

Got my newest Varney F3A today. The ad said good condition. It really isn't. The drive is in pieces which I already knew and the frame is damaged. The body however is in great shape and that's the only part I was really interested in. Somebody had already put brass handrails on it. Saves me from having to do it. One of the handrails is missing from the firemans side rear side door so that'll have to be replaced. I've already cut an opening in front for the coupler. It was easier this time. I drew the outline of the opening on the pilot, drilled an 1/8" hole in the middle then used my dremel with a 107 engraving bit to remove most of the Zamac from the area I had drawn out then used a 105 engraving bit to square up the corners a little. The headlight (blank) and portholes come next. The brass handrails protruded through to the inside of the body and had to be trimmed back so they wouldn't interfere with the frame. The body is now sitting on an Athearn blue box F7 drive and looks right at home there.

Well that's all for tonight. See y'all tomorrow.

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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - FiatFan - 09-13-2013

Greetings, gang.

It's sunny but very cool this morning in the remote reaches of northern Iowa. Right now the temp is 43 degrees. Quite a change from Monday's high of 100. The expected high for today is 74. There's finally some rain in the forecast. Tomorrow evening there's a 70% chance of rain. Not enough to break the drought but at least I won't have to water for a few days.

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon cleaning up acorns. Oak trees are nice but the acorns sure make a mess. Today's agenda includes a trip to the gym this morning and installing the new shower door this afternoon.

All stay safe.

Tom

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - ezdays - 09-13-2013

Good morning all. I thought we had it tough with the flooding around here the past few days, but it was nothing compared to what has happened up in Colorado. Our thoughts and prays are with those folks. Water can be a very destructive force at times, yet without it there would be no life.

Temps right now are in the mid-70's with highs pushing 100 or more. No rain in the forecast here for at least a week.

Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 09-13-2013

Good morning. It's 74° with 87% humidity. The high will be 95° and will feel like 102°.
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Today I'll most likely be doing some work on my newest Varney F3. There's a handrail missing so I have to make one for it. My steel wire is a little thicker than the brass wire that's on it but it shouldn't be noticeable except on close inspection. Looks like .020" vs .025" or something like that. There were two handrails missing from the engineers side cab door but I found them in the box and installed them last night. A little dab of super glue works wonders. There's still the headlight and portholes to drill out so I should be pretty busy with that.

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