08-07-2025, 11:12 PM
Good morning/ late evening, whatever. It is half past midnight here. I just finished in the train room.
I have 4 new old stock round house cabooses that I am painting for Lehigh Valley (I know the body designs are not prototypical). Sadly the cast pot metal bottoms all all bent and unusable. I broke 2 trying to straighten them so I will have to reinforce and JB Weld them if I can, if not I will try to fabricate some from old Tyco cabooses I have in the storage boxes. The third one I used my Harbor Freight heat gun on it for 5 minutes and I was able to straighten it. I should have tried that on the others, but live and learn.
I got good news from my PCP today. My PSA dropped from .67 to .5, the first time it has dropped without and radiation since I was diagnosed 12 years ago. I told her I was using the Ivermectin horse wormer and she told me how they are doing studies on this drug and it is working for a lot of cancers and many other diseases. She printed me out a 50 page report she had recently got that describes many of the cancers they are currently trying this on. She said she thought this just might be an overlooked miracle drug. She also told me she has had pharmacies refuse to fill prescriptions for it. (I get mine from Chewy). I also got a shot in each shoulder hoping to ease some of the clickity clack when I move my arms. (I am hoping Medicare will start covering the stem cell injections that rebuild the cartilage in the joints
I found a donor caboose that will be a model of KJR 5, ex P&LE bay window caboose. We cut 6 extra 2x3 foot windows in each side and installed seats and tables for a passenger car.
I still need to make one transfer caboose and it looks like I will have to scratch build a N&W C3 caboose to finish out the Kiski fleet
It is a clear 68° with a possible 90 tomorrow, and gas is 2.99
Have a grand weekend
Charlie
I have 4 new old stock round house cabooses that I am painting for Lehigh Valley (I know the body designs are not prototypical). Sadly the cast pot metal bottoms all all bent and unusable. I broke 2 trying to straighten them so I will have to reinforce and JB Weld them if I can, if not I will try to fabricate some from old Tyco cabooses I have in the storage boxes. The third one I used my Harbor Freight heat gun on it for 5 minutes and I was able to straighten it. I should have tried that on the others, but live and learn.
I got good news from my PCP today. My PSA dropped from .67 to .5, the first time it has dropped without and radiation since I was diagnosed 12 years ago. I told her I was using the Ivermectin horse wormer and she told me how they are doing studies on this drug and it is working for a lot of cancers and many other diseases. She printed me out a 50 page report she had recently got that describes many of the cancers they are currently trying this on. She said she thought this just might be an overlooked miracle drug. She also told me she has had pharmacies refuse to fill prescriptions for it. (I get mine from Chewy). I also got a shot in each shoulder hoping to ease some of the clickity clack when I move my arms. (I am hoping Medicare will start covering the stem cell injections that rebuild the cartilage in the joints
I found a donor caboose that will be a model of KJR 5, ex P&LE bay window caboose. We cut 6 extra 2x3 foot windows in each side and installed seats and tables for a passenger car.
I still need to make one transfer caboose and it looks like I will have to scratch build a N&W C3 caboose to finish out the Kiski fleet
It is a clear 68° with a possible 90 tomorrow, and gas is 2.99
Have a grand weekend
Charlie