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Friday Night Ops

Operations
#30

Curmudgeon mcneely said:

Cleaned the 10 old Flathead radiators out last week ($531.02 at the recyclers, no less), cutting back and poisoning the blackberries, next is to shift the north shed south as close to the south shed as we can, THEN we can lay the what, 20-25’ of track and connect them up. Close.

TOC

Sounds like your working on cleaning it up. It will help ops flow a lot better I suspect. Then you need to create a new backwards waybill to run against the uphill traffic… That would make for some interesting meets on the hill. :slight_smile:

#31

I use http://tinypic.com/ to post photos. They give you all the url’s for e-mail, forums etc… The freight shed is easy but I dont think I can post photos to other sites. The above link allows me to. You can also downsize it for whatever you want it for.

#32

Bart Salmons said:

Yes that is a given…it was true in chat as well…but the basic how to get the pretty pictures in the post once they is on the internets ain’t…

…

Yup … Your are right… I can make a video and put it up on u-tube and make a link here for it but, not show the video here. Also, can up load a photo to frt. shed but, can’t get it to work on here. We can post a photo up on My web link on MLS.com and copy any photo I have there and copy it and paste it here. So my setting is not the same as most I guess… Non- of our computers and some friends puter will not work on here to show photos. It’ just a bummer on new change of program post here for us.

Hope
TOC can fig. his setting out so we can see his photos…

#33

Try this. I’ve had a Flickr account for years, don’t know if I’ve ever used it.

That didn’t work. Showed the links, but no photo. I tried the bracket img trick, showed a box with red x.

#34
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52862794@N08/9019899838/
 
Stock url, just like I see in other photo posts. Maybe I need to depart and come back. Try that.
TOC
#35

Curmudgeon mcneely said:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52862794@N08/9019899838/

Stock url, just like I see in other photo posts. Maybe I need to depart and come back. Try that.

Dave,

I’ll try inserting the images in the forum… Where these taken during the convention?

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7376/9019899838_8c3e23c4d1_c.jpg)

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3765/9019847032_c03a0e629c_z.jpg)

Guy in black hat is TOC’s brother… Tom. Paul Austin is the guy on the far right (he always forgets the white dot rule!).

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7452/9019840096_ba51f81842_z.jpg)

Mound House

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7446/9019834978_4b9fa3a1f1_z.jpg)

The Shed

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5462/9019833490_e3081e4478_z.jpg)

Dave’s other brother Pete

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7420/9019834018_75a4953db7_z.jpg)

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4073/4866953853_d396d82cdd_z.jpg)

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4078/4866953915_e6f6bcb2f9_z.jpg)

Craig

#36

Some were…I have no button for “insert”. I suspect I need to move my bookmark over to FireFox from IE8. I know AdBlockPlus will kill off about a dozen trackers on this site if I do. I think this new forum doesn’t support older IE browsers properly.

The K is an early real K. No factory electronics at all. Center two drivers move side to side for curves, something NOT “invented” by Bachmann.

The tender is a sight to behold…and hold. Embossed rivets in steel, spot welded together, with big ball bearings inside the wheels to allow it to move.

TOC

#37

1996

That’s when I started paying attention to “TOC” and “Father Fred”.

Both of those guys have been a big influence of all I do and have done with trains, in all scales, ever since.

Its still good stuff.

#38

Those can’t be real pictures! Where’s the rain???

Jean and I visited - it was my 57th birthday - and the same year I was laid off and subsequently retired.

But, I digress. April 2008. About 38 degrees cold and WET. I think I operated for over 8 hours. Yeah, I had fun! :smiley:

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/thejoat/Track/IMG_3726.JPG)

#39

We ended up with slickers on…rain hats…umbrellas…had to clean the culverts out under the tracks to keep from having a washout…your wife stayed in the bay window of my office and watched us get freaking soaked!

What did we get, six or seven inches of rain overnight?

TOC

#40

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2887/9063839580_97449247da.jpg)

So, later in the evening, when the light had gone, and the skies had opened…didn’t we go through every jacket we had in the house that night?

TOC

(edit…I tried again the bracketed img and slash, got a red “X” in a box)

#41

Oh my! That’s wetter than I remember!

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/thejoat/Misc/Goodsons.JPG)

I don’t think I ever saw that picture. But, I still have fond memories of that trip.

#42

I have the original un-lightened photo. Didn’t even know what the photo was until I lightened it several years ago.

I have some more from that session, some of you, and the other guys.

Tell me how you got the photo to show. I’ve tried all the old tricks, even logged in via FireFox.

TOC

#43

TOC, I cheated! I used the Snipping tool in Windows to screen capture it and save it to my disk, then uploaded it to my freight shed.

And to think my actual birthday the day before was nice and sunny and DRY.

I guess they just schedule rain on Fridays just for you.

#44

Right click the photo from the photo hosting site. “Copy image location” Paste into LCS forum. On IE I think you have to open properties first, then get the image location.

#45

In Flickr, right click gives you copyright info. I opened each one, copied the URL for location and pasted it. I hear Flickr has changed a bunch of stuff since I last used it three years ago, so who knows.

TOC

#46

That should have worked…

#47

Figured it out. Greg helped.

Gotta right click the thumbnail, copy it into the forum, remove the “_s” and it shows up.

Stupid Yahoo.

TOC

#48

It only rained through one Gore-tex jacket, the lat time that I was there, so I guess I got off easy.

#49

What’s really funny is, over the years and years, the folks who make clueless comments to the effect they don’t think I even have an outdoor railroad.

You ought to see us in the snow.

Before all the plantlife grew in, runoff was a BIG problem. We have culverts all over, feeding under lines to keep us from having washouts (which did happen).

Anymore, none are needed…several have been removed, several are overgrown.

TOC