BR60103

My version of it. Not the best design.

My father taught English (among other things) at high school. He dreaded one year because the book was King Solomon's Mines (IIRC) and one of the landmarks is called "the nipples on Julia's breasts". Not something you want to read in front of a class of mixed 12-14 year olds.

On another forum, I was guided to a program called IrfanView. This does a number of of ueful tasks like rotating and reducing the size (bytes) of pictures. It should also crop, but I can never get that to work. Mine was a free download.

Douglas: a bit of musical trivia about the chimes (assuming they are Westminster) The sequence requires 10 4-note patterns*, which is actually a repeat of 5 patterns. Something to do with a 5-sided plate. The patterns are set so that the half-hour and the hour end on the tonic (do) of the scale. So that is patterns 3 and 5. * 1+2+3+4=10

I built mine (the low relief version) with a crane from Tichy Trains.

My print copy came in the mail yesterday. Pges 722 et seq are there.

We were taught the metric system in high school science. But when the country adopted it, the system was different. SWMBO still converts anything metric to imperial and I have to convert the results back to read it on the meter or whatever. In our motor home I have two stickers on the rearview mirror giving the height in meters and in feetninches. When you're sailing along at 100 kph it takes too long to do the conversion of a warning sign.

The GG1 on the Pennsylvania RR had air filters on the side. They started failing one year. Turned out that there is a certain type of frozen rain or mist that sits at a certain height. The height was the same as the air intakes and the ice was the right size to get through the filters. If you look at pictures of these locos, you can see that the filters on the hoods have changed position. (remember "The wrong type of snow"?

I have just realized that yesterday (Sept 28) would have been my father's 100th birthday. He died two months before his 89th birthday.

We have a device to check the freezer. Half fill a plastic water bottle then freeze it standing upright. Put it in the freezer on its side. If you find the water has refrozen itself into the new position, chuck out everything. We haven't had to do it yet.

Sign on a clinic today: Starve the mosquitoes: Give blood.

I start like Wheatley but simply solder the code 75 to the top of the crushed railjoiner -- it's usually at the right height. With care, no solder gets on the code 100. You will need to ensure that the inside edges of the rails line up -- a code 75 rail gauge? This also works for connecting bullhead scale rail.

I don't remember the R1 in a North American style train set. They sold a freight set with the re-painted Duchess pulling the two bogie wagons and a brake van with a cupola on it but that was 3-rail. There were a few odd 0-6-0Ts imported from Japan and I think Mantua made something (Little 6).

The first unit (CM1) has speed control and direction. There is a pair of blue wires which are AC in 14/18 V. The red and black pair are track power. If the unit is used solo the left hand terminals will have a bridging strip. (that's left hand looking at it from the back) The second unit (SM1) does the fancy braking. It has 3 wires - red, black, yellow. Take off the bridging strip. The black wire goes to the top terminal on the left. Yellow to bottom terminal on the left. Red to bottom terminal on the right. Nothing to the top terminal on the right. The RH terminals provide uncontrollable 12V DC, top is negative. I was lucky -- found both my controller and the directions instantly. If you need more info, just ask.

Frank: Is this the 2-part controller? Digession: I received mine when a friend in Englnd went to DCC. I brought it back on the plane in the top of my carry-on luggage. The inspectors didn't say a thing.

I use Peco Electrolube on various contacts. Aside: I was going to use it on the pickups for some coach lighting. I'd done about a half dozen of them and saw that the lights weren't on at all. Then I noticed that the tube I'd used was actually lubricating oil. I had to carefully towel them all off and use real Electrolube. That made a lot of difference. I'd use Elube for any spots where the pickup goes through the axle ends into bogie sideframes or through axles into the mainframes. Older motors had a characteristic called "JackRabbit start". The motor needed more volts to start than to run at minimum speed. There was a feature in power packs called "pulse power" which was half wave DC where only half the AC was rectified. This was supposed to act like a lot of little blows on the motor to get it spinning. The pulse was supposed to be turned off after a point because it made the motor heat up.

Well, I do have the book. (Vol1, couldn't find Vol2)

I have claimed some uncommon combinations at times. A model of Walt Disney's 7.5" gauge backyard railroad at a scale of 1:12 on 5/8" gauge track. TTC streetcar/subway gauge is 1.5 meters (or very close: 4' 10 7/8"). This can be modelled at 11mm to the meter on 16.5mm gauge track. (1:90.9 but no rolling stock at that size)

In our statistics class, there was much betting on with the professor about the probability that 2 people in the class (of 50 or 60) would have the same birthday. I was tempted to put up my hand to ask if "the twins" were in that day. Professor won; I wonder if he tried to collect. (AFAIK, we didn't have twins.) My father died on my sister's birhday.

Ontario has had more restrictions imposed, apparenly due to increase in cases. The number of people wh may gather has been decreased. So the concert by The Elderly Brothers today was cancelled, as is one by A Beautiful Noise tomorrow. We went to Waterloo today and walked from the University area to downtown and found that the bookstore is closed to visitors. Saw a number of trams and assorted four-legged types at the zoo. Temperature at night appraoching freezing point. The high may get above room temperature midweek.

At work, after a few meetings, one person observed "He who writes the minutes controls the meeting".

We went to St Jacobs today. She wanted some muffins and we needed other bits at the hardware store. We were going to walk on the trail, but it was well blocked off because social distancing was impossible. So we walked to the railway shed instead and saw: On inquiry, the loco is being sent to Connecticat. I didn't push for more details. (Pictures bt SWMBO)

The requirement is two reversing switches which are not in the throttle/power pack. One controls direction in the base part of the layout; the other controls the loop. #1 is set to take the train out of the station; #2 is set to take the train around the loop CW (say). while the train is in the loop, the direction switch for the station is changed and the point is changed to receive the train from the loop. If you want to run the other way around the loop, #1 is for out and #2 is CCW. Change point and #1 switch as before. If there are more throttles, each would require two direction switches. You might get away with shunting in the station using the throttle direction switch, but leave it in the standard position when done.

We once came back to Toronto from Florida in 2 days. That looks like 1370 miles total. There were two of us driving but we never tried that again. One year we were coming back (this time in the motorhome) and started in southern Kentucky. Instead of stopping at Detroit, swmbo kept going due to snowy weather -- she didn't want to get off the motorway -- and she drove from there home. That day was 637 miles. I'm lucky in that there are always 2 of us on any major trip. The only times there weren't were the first years of our marriage, when I didn't know how.

The turtle lives twixt plated decks Which totally conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.