We with the SVGRS club, are help hosting a tours as part of the 2016,( BAGER’s ) 32nd National Conv. on the Sacramento and Northern Ca. area’s.

At our home in Rio Linda,Ca. on July 13th (Wed.) we are set up for part of the SVGRS tours with a open house that day. We also will go on our Live Internet Broadcast Ch. too.

http://original.livestream.com/noelw

We are going to cut in and out with live cams on trains running and up in to the dark evening hr’s.

Our site has a chat box and also LSC.com. has a chat box that we will be off and on both on that day.

Will be promoting more on Garden R.R. trains on here with Bob Mc Cown’s LSC.com. and on our link up and thru show date.

More Information and updates later as we go.

Hope to see ya here.

For our Train guys update May 2016.

Before we could do any repairs and update on the R.R. we had to work on the old Koi fish pond. It been in there 35 yrs or more and starting to get a lot of cracks. It mostly due to a lot of shrub and large Pine Trees around it.

We even had to replace about 40 feet 50 yr old water pipes that starting to get pin hole leak in them. That piping gose under the walk bridge that runs over one part of the pond.

This is some of the crack that we started on repairs. Last fig. on water was around 16,000 gal that had to be pumped to the back Irrigation pond.

All of the Koi Fishs are in a portable 15 foot X 3 foot swimming pool with air pump and filters for now.

Never will build a large pond again… lot of work on them. If I had to do this over again, I think I would just raise the trains up on boards off the ground and put a small kiddie pool under it. Then just turn the pool over and dump the water… lol.

Tomorrow finish cementing places that need and seal the pond. Need to get this done and get the fish back in it in a few days. Then get back to the R.R. stuff.

More photos of the mess in progress.

http://s187.photobucket.com/user/noelw71/library/?sort=2&page=1

Then got to
Re-pair Koi Pond May 2016

Update, 5/18/2016

Re-worked the Swing Bridge and upgraded the closed locking indicator LED’s to Bright Green. There mounted on the operators shack on the top of the bridge. Was very had to see in the sun light with just two normal Red LED’s.

Pond is filled and pumps running. Fri. will insert the Koi’s.

(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x101/noelw71/Re-pair%20Koi%20Pond%20%20May%202016/SN857732.jpg)

Oh . This morning, found a critter in the pond.

Now darn it… have to try to catch a 12 inch Turtle that came from the back pond.

Can’t get photos in. Had to learn how again by waiting for servers to upload the photos. Keep getting broken links… It (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)working now.

Yes, but you have spaces in the URLs. That creates issues.

David Maynard said:

Yes, but you have spaces in the URLs. That creates issues.

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Tk’s for the help… Now i see it…

Ya i seen that and it photo bucket doing it when copy the suggested links… I have to take off of the link or add to it to get it to work. Got one working but rest not? It was the between servers time not waiting for them to work. It working ok now…

Living in the boonies doesn’t help much. Sometime thing are very slow on Comcast.com

Testing upload from hard dr.

Attachment is very small, but can view from your hard dr. photo program. Ok it works.

Just update on testing the R.R. with DBL LGB Forney Hooked together after install couplers. All of the buildings are in and wired up. Also, starting to install some animation around the layout.

Here is a short video of our testing.

Ben Shell help me get in new Computer/studio cam cables with yard router to help on going live channel. This way we can go off and on live in most areas. We are also going to tie in with Jerry Hansen in NBR. to help us out in our studio going live.

( Jerry and a few others use to be in our Fri. night “How to shows” once a month shows yr’s. back.)

We wanted to go on after dark for all of the lighting the layout and yard has. So our time of the tour is July 13th from 10am to 10pm.

Boy…we still have lots yet to do.

There is at last count… i see from July 11- 13ths are 21 open SVGRS layout on the end tours.

Looks like we are the last of the Mohegans going on same day and night as the Nat. Steam up starts.

Noel,

Looking good! You know, you need a 2016 Convention car Reefer in that consist!

Russ Miller

NGRC 2016 Chairman

Russell Miller said:

Noel,

Looking good! You know, you need a 2016 Convention car Reefer in that consist!

Russ Miller

NGRC 2016 Chairman

Ya… we know Russ, but where would we put it… lol… I ran out of storage room yr’s ago for more trains in our 7 foot house trailer we live in… Hope the wife doesn’t see this.

Russell Miller said:

Noel,

Looking good! You know, you need a 2016 Convention car Reefer in that consist!

Russ Miller

NGRC 2016 Chairman

Are you going to bve selling them here on LSC? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Does we git ah discount? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

David Maynard said:

Russell Miller said:

Noel,

Looking good! You know, you need a 2016 Convention car Reefer in that consist!

Russ Miller

NGRC 2016 Chairman

Are you going to bve selling them here on LSC? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Does we git ah discount? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Convention cars are bought at the convention only… $100 for the limited run USA Reefer.

I know, I was kidding witcha

Well our 32nd Garden R.R. tour day came… Boy hard to get any photo with people around the layout. At one time our parking lot was full. The live cam internet was over loaded and was only off and on up to 10 pm. Was a great time meeting people from all over.

Here was our animated signs.

Just some photos.

Ben Shell and Geo Nordstrom was running the Live cams.

Ben Shell took some night photos

https://www.flickr.com/photos/benjaminshell/sets/72157670071791840

More to come later on as a video link.

Noel.

Great to see you had a great turnout in Sacramento, I’m sure you had as much fun as we did in the Bay Area.

Really like this night photo that Ben Shell took.

Santa Fe & Butthead Cove R.R. by Benjamin Shell, on Flickr

Photo story: His wife is not happy due to …the Out House by the Train station ran out of toilet paper. “Darn, guess the set up guys mess up…We did later on found the missing toilet paper roll in the park.”

This is where our Get-together Train & Bbq Group.set up there Trains when we usually once a month in the evening having a Train run.

Santa Fe & Butthead Cove R.R. by Benjamin Shell, on Flickr

Just about every place on the Layout has a story to tell. That what make the hobby come alive with animation or just scenes.

Nice neat layout.

Thanks guys… Yes ( With our crew–Joel Harrison, Geo Nordstrom, Elden Bartley, Ben Shell to keep things running.) we had a great time.

More photo up on Flickr of ours.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/72311803@N07/

An E-mail was sent to me to look at our SVGRS Club link. http://www.svgrs.org/

All we can say is Wow. Its a photo of our Wilsonville that Ben Shell took on our evening night run of the 32nd Nat. Conv. tour.

Thanks, Ben Shell.

Finely got the Videos and photo up on You tube. It was hard to get photo during the open house so most was taken between guest.

Part 2

Very nice Noel. It was almost like being there with you. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)