BR60103

You guessed it. My local dealer doesn't list Precision paints on his site. I'm still trying to figure out the bogies. This weekend we spent not having the Great British Train Show. I tried smoking a pipe. I found that I usually didn't have all the paraphernalia with me.

I was set down to do our income tax today. We owe $1 and a bit more than last year. The deadline has been extended, but we can do it anyways. I've had a beard since we had a long holiday in 1979. I never saw the point of shaving. I do get mistaken for some of the other chaps in the village, but "All us old guys with white beards look alike." I've unwrapped a plastic kit of something that carries people which is mostly in clear plastic and needs painting, partly in a shade of blue I've never heard of (Marlborough Blue?).

There were some problems interacting with RMweb, so some post ratings may not have made it. We moved in 1959 to a suburb of Toronto called Thistletown (Police Village of) which was an old and honourable name honouring Dr. Thistle. Apparently the only Thistletown in the world. We actually moved to a new housing development. Just south of the river was another new development called Rexdale. A few years later the Post Office decided to lump us in wit this upstart. My father didn't like it because of the melding of Latin and AngloSaxon. Possibly also because the Rex (developer) was then in jail.

I've just done (and had done) a couple of bogies on the older LNER coaches. There were 2 different ones. One bogie (sleeping car) required a slot cut into the bolster to take the Kadee box (razor saw). I had to use a low-mount variant because of the height. On a Gresley bogie, I needed to use a side cutter in the motor tool to make a flat space long enough for the box. I think this took a regular #5. Both boxes were screwed to the bogie with 2-56 bolt and nut. A bit at the bottom of the buffer beam was removed, but I don't know if this was really necessary.

We have a picture of you standing in front of a Great Western locomotive.

Interesting weather today. Pathches of snow accompanied by blue sky and sun. Sometimes dark cloud. Intermittent wind gusts. Frozen water lumps when we were out in the car. I'm working on a bit of plastic painted to look like teak. SWMBO is re-reading Gaudy Night, having just finished The Nine Tailors. She much appreciates her Christmas present which was a book called How to Read a Church. Friend Dave dropped off yesterday a couple of Carousels (for slide projector) and I left him a box of Ratio Pratt Truss Gantry, which I think is the last box of signal.s. It's now 11:10. Goodnight, all.

I've suggested before that one should imagine oneself in an episode of Fawlty Towers or Open all Hours when dealing with English merchants. I was wondering if there was an equivalent show dealing with awkward customers. Do you have the LNER Locospotters book? The expurgated one, without Gannet. Shopped early today; wandered around the pharmacy with a mask on. We are now fairly well stocked up and I found 2 railroad magazines.

We are supposed to do Social Distancing of 6 feet (or so many meters). https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/9941364-can-you-keep-your-distance-on-toronto-sidewalks-this-viral-video-shows-that-can-be-literally-impossible-/ We are going out a lot less now that the newspapers are being delivered. Pensions. In Canada, to be tax deductible (for the employer) a pension plan has to be registered. This includes certain limits/requirements on the benefits and requirements on the funding. Deficits have to be paid off over 15 or 5 years (depending on how incurred). However, government plans find that tax deductibility is irrelevant, so they ignore the funding requirements. Towards the end of my career, someone in the accounting profession noted that "Other Post-Retirement Benefits" were going to cost a lot of money and very few companies were setting anything aside systematicly.

One of the fellows that we used to dance with went back to India and returned to Canada married. They had a house party and his new wife made 2 curries -- Indian and a special "mild" one for the Canadians. Her husband had been over here long enough that the mild one was too much for him. We had a walk and were beside a parked bus. I looked in and there were sets of seats marked off with warning tape and the fold-up seats were also tied with tape. Door was labelled for rear entrance only. We must have seen almost a half dozen people as we crossed the university. We are watching Gilbert and Sullivan each night. I bought a nearly complete set at a sale a few years ago for $1.00 a DVD. Dayle is following them in the book. This was a BBC series from the '80s.

It must be 4 or 5 decades ago that Mad magazine had a spread on video phones showing pull down backdrops that you could use to change the apparent locale that you were calling from.

I reported Brian Fayle's death earlier. https://www.guelphtoday.com/obituaries/fayle-brian-william-knott-dr-2236735 The railway that brought him to notice was the OO gauge Harlyn Junction.

I thought the whole idea of golf was for everybody to end up within 4" of each other.

Had a note that one of the Platelayers who lived locally has died. Brian Fayle had his layout in RM in the '60s. He then moved on to O and larger scales, finding a calling in painting figures. We operated together at Windermere station on Lostock Junction. He's been deteriorating for the last couple of years and gave up the operating sessions as he couldn't get down to the basement.

I thought about this at one point. I feel that you might use Insulfrog points and set them so that the unused running rail is dead where the collector shoe will go over it.

The Windermere that I operate on used to have a good turntable control. There was a dial (rotary switch?) that you pointed to the desired track, then pushed a button to start. The turntable would rotate the same way as the dial was last turned. After 20 to 30 years of operation the control wass shot and the original information had gone missing. It now has a center-off speed control. I saw a spokesman criticised for his explanation of the propagation curves of the virus. I think he was trying to explain seond differentials without algebra.

Our neighbours were out on the street today having completed 2 weeks CB after their return from Florida. Our local opera singer (ret'd) came through on a truck singing appropriate (but non-operatic) songs. I'm trying to finish a kit - an Ian Kirk teak job - that I must have started 30+ years ago as I remember where I bought the paint. A friend sent me pictures of his build as the instructions are lacking in specific detail. SWMBO completed a 1000 piece jigsaw of a railroad scene. Walking around the Village, we note people are very crefully social distancing, although it's fun to note when approaching parties both move from the sidewalk to the road.

One of our late Platelayers said that companies (he said Airfix) used to move tools from country to country as the duties on that was less than importing boxed kits and such.

You need some sort of droppers to get electricity to the other side of the insulators. Part of it will depend on whether the track comes around in a loop. You may, at some point, consider: Frog (common crossing) wiring attached to the point motor. This alleviates shorts between points and wheels. Lots of droppers to compensate for current drop on long stretches of track.

Dublo kept their models current. When the LMS pacifics received smoke deflectors, Dublo modified their production to have them. A stock of non-deflectored locos was repainted as Canadian Pacific and flogged to the unsophisticated colonials. Who didn't recognize them and didn't buy them.

If there are standard NEM pockets I use one of the 17-20 series, picking a length that lets it stick out past the buffers. I also use one of them if there is a tension lock screwed on from below as that is the right height. Often I can't if the coupling is moulded into, say, a bogie.

Why can't they just tell everyone to be at work at 8:00 instead of 9:00?

Welcome to RMweb. You can mix Electrofrog and insulfrog on a layout. AFAIK they have the same dimensions as well. The required wiring is a bit different but that should become methodical. Insulfrog can tolerate fewer plastic joiners and you can't wire the frog. There can be contact problems for small, slow locomotives. I don't have problems with the curved points.

We've left the car at home for a month while we go on holidays with no apparent problems. We've even been away longer. We had the motorhome battery go flat once while we were in it for 3 weeks. It looks as if we left the GPS turned on and plugged in.

The online report says Costco has gas in the mid-60s. Any lower and it won't cover the taxes. Talked to neighbours who snowbird down south. Their health insurance company told them that they had 9 days to get back to Canada. They were back a week ago. They were glad to be in a motorhome as there didn't seem to be any place to "stop" along the I75.