Monday, April 28, 2008
Ernie's Billboards
Ernie Packard has made a total of six billboards (red, white and blue) to present the logo's of our sponsors at the Fryeburg Home and Garden Show next month!
Thanks Ernie, they look Good!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
This is what I've been working on
The backyard flower/water garden is taking shape. I can see track circling around the flowers and fountain and connecting back to the indoor line. I am looking out a bay window directly over the basement window that the track will connect to. It looks longer than the 35 ft distance from the house. If you look close you see two turkeys sneaking up on Jameson catching his first frog of the year.
First Run
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Pine State Railroad is running
Saturday, April 19, 2008
SCGRR up-date, 4/19/2008
Some mulch added and some buildings. Buildings closest to the foreground are scratch-built, the ones in the rear are pre-built.
The church is from "Aristocraft" and the School house and small white house are bird feeders from either Lowe's or Walmart. A passenger station is "In-the-works" and will be located next to the passenger platform. Still waiting for plants to come up near stone wall so they can be re-located.
Dwarf Hosta for Garden railroads
PS: It's still a little too early to plant them, (Hopefully by mid May the threat for harming frost will be gone.)
These will give you some idea of their plants.
This one is Called "Mouse Ears"
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Update of SCGRR progress
An Honorable CP rail GP-38 relegated to track testing and inspection. The Heinz Refer, since it's at the end of the Train has the obligatory "FRED". I couldn't time the shutter on the camera to coincide with the flashing red light "ON".
More testing and inspection at the far end of the loop. No, that isn't as much of a grade as the camera makes out. Max grade is <2>
Here she comes on the home leg of testing. Several minor adjustments needed to be made, especially at the switches. They were lower by a little than either the inlet track or the outgoing track. The Gp scraped it's steps. Again, the grade appears far worse that actual.
My Engines are run via Battery power. The "USA Trains" CP Rail GP-38 is set up with "Airwire" control and two 7.2volt 6cell NiMH batteries in series to get 14.4v, located under the Dynamic brake housing.
The "Aristocraft" "Rio-Grande" U-25B that I have is set up with "Crest Train Engineer" and a single 21.5volt Crest Lithium battery located On-board the engine. Also the U-25B is equipped with Phoenix U-25B sound. The sound is expensive, but it really makes the engine.
Next time I'll try smaller pictures.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Welcome Jeff from Holden and Ed from Kittery
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
a nursery website
New Member and New layout started
New member, SCGRR
Good luck to ALL members with their Layouts.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Fryeburg Home Garden & Flower Show - List of Exhibitors and Map
You can also click on Exhibit Map to enlarge it and see where we will be.
(From the video/article that Brenda posted)
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Blog Alert! Mardens - Hobby Store Items Sale
Friday, April 11, 2008
Railroad tracks
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story:When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at theirfactory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and therailroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand yearsago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important?
Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
They keep changing - New MGRS Reefer designs
See the latest, click below
MGRS Reefer Cars - Potential Designs
MGRS is doing a lot of new things. Maybe we need some 'Commemorative' Cars. DownEast Magazine, Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Board of Directors, Web Sites, Blogs, Sponsors. But, who needs a reason, they are just fun to design. Right now these are just computer designs, but with a little luck some may become a reality. Based upon your comments and suggestions, they keep changing.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
A ride on the Littleville Falls R.R.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Want to join the blog the easy way!
If you want to become an author, just tell me!
All you have to be is a member in good standing of MGRS. I need your email address. So please send an email to mgrsmember@gmail.com and say what 'blogger name' you would like to use. I am sorry, but you have to copy the above address and paste it into your email to send it.
I will set up your username and password to be able to post on the blog and send you back the information.
Send me an email today and remember let me know your choice of Blogger name.
Thanks, John