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Mark Boyce posted:

So our Midnight shift dynamic duo of Mitch and Butch are really coming up with great ideas for the EEEP!!  Yes, I was up all night too with this sciatic nerve thing.  Still wide awake!  

Mark, I don't know how you stay so cheerful and positive with that sciatic nerve issue.  I found I needed those cortisone shots to reduce the inflammation by the spine and take an edge off the pain. It gave me a window of opportunity to do PT, but still was no fun.

HCSader73 posted:
Mark Boyce posted:

So our Midnight shift dynamic duo of Mitch and Butch are really coming up with great ideas for the EEEP!!  Yes, I was up all night too with this sciatic nerve thing.  Still wide awake!  

Mark, I don't know how you stay so cheerful and positive with that sciatic nerve issue.  I found I needed those cortisone shots to reduce the inflammation by the spine and take an edge off the pain. It gave me a window of opportunity to do PT, but still was no fun.

Pete, There is no doubt about it that it is rough!  I think it may have to do with the fact that I had a couple of classmates pass on this year, and I have several friends with serious health issues.  I still feel blessed, though the pain, sleeplessness, and trouble with insurance is no fun.  

Brian, thank you and I am glad everyone is having fun at your place! Is the girlfriend is starting to like trains that's a plus and as long as Izzy gets to stay next to the fire I think she is liking the girlfriend even more! LOL Looks Great Brian! P.S. Don't use to much smoke the new GF might think the house is on fire!

Paul, the flats look good!  wonderful job on the roof access! I cant wait to see them up and trains running by!

Mark, I hop your back gets better soon, also maybe you could get some sleep! But if not you always have Mitch to talk with at 3 in the morning! Get well soon buddy!

Nice buy Paul!

I was out in the train room this morning before I leave for work, cause I felt guilty cause I didn't feel like being in the train room yesterday. While looking my mountain area I realized I had no access to the back of the mountain to the hidden switches. so I took out the foam and put in risers and a plywood top that I will cover with 1" foam. Here are a couple pic's!20181211_09494620181211_094952

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Mike,  It is good you caught the need for an access point in the mountain.  I have a similar feature in the one mountain on my "Valley of Bridges" Layout.  I am also needing to create an opening in my freight yard for access to the far upper level along the wall.  The eight-foot wide table is a distance my arms can't reach, and I can no longer climb up on the table.  As I get older, I take longer reaching places I could quickly reach a couple of years ago.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Mark Boyce posted:

That's great, Lou!  I know.  I ran conventional from the late '60s until about 5 years ago, and never knew what I was missing!!

It's nice to be able to walk around and control a locomotive. The DCS system even runs my conventional stuff well. Now I'm planning on upgrading some of my older Pullmor equipped locomotives with ERR AC commanders and getting a Cab 1-L remote and base to run them, so I can have all command locomotives. But for now I can run them pretty well with the DCS remote.

After watching the movie, my 2 year old granddaughter spent the afternoon running the wheels off "her" Polar Express! Thanks to very generous curves on G-Pa's attic layout, derailment is a virtual impossibility. Tracks exit the room behind her to a unfinished area of the attic. She's waiting at first for the train to reappear on the opposite size of the room.

Lionel did a great job with the LionChief. She has zero problems running trains all by herself!

Big Sis is getting a pink GG-1 WbB Girl's Train from Santa for Christmas. Many thanks to Jeff @JDS for the PS-3 conversion! G-Pa's layout is command control, only....

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Mark Boyce posted:

I actually thought it had been discussed and you were already on top of it.  Must have been some other aspect of the layout.

Mark I was but after lifting the top off several times already, this will work much better!  I won't have to move the airfield and buildings on top.

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After watching the movie, my 2 year old granddaughter spent the afternoon running the wheels off "her" Polar Express! Thanks to very generous curves on G-Pa's attic layout, derailment is a virtual impossibility. Tracks exit the room behind her to a unfinished area of the attic. She's waiting at first for the train to reappear on the opposite size of the room.

Lionel did a great job with the LionChief. She has zero problems running trains all by herself!

Big Sis is getting a pink GG-1 WbB Girl's Train from Santa for Christmas. Many thanks to Jeff @JDS for the PS-3 conversion! G-Pa's layout is command control, only....

What a precious video! She will enjoy that in years to come.

WOW all the stuff I've missed while doing my summer and fall  car shows and working on cars and buildings!   You guys have been getting it done!  Ive been moving backwards!    Had to take all the buildings, cars, and foam sheets off of one side of my layout to take down a big shelving thing that was hanging over part of it. Had a bunch of Christmas decorations on it (another one of my hobbies).  Now the sky is clear over this part of the Southern Railroad.  Just ordered two 72 watt DC power packs for the two main lines of the layout.  Should be a huge upgrade over the 10.8 watt wall warts Ive been running.  I am just amazed at all the work and progress you folks have been making!  

Jim 

 

          me and IZZY ran trains and did more some decorating...

                                 or I should say,  while her and her buddy watched...

 

 

 

    a hopper train was running bringing Santa coal for all the naughty 'lil ones...

        

                                             'till someone got tired....

 

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mike g. posted:

Mark at the rate your going you will be a wiz with that DCS Wifi by the time your layout is up and running!

My wife bought me a tablet stand at her favorite store.  2018-12-12 08.38.27

I find it works great with this hand-me-down iPad from one of the sons-in -law.  I have trouble holding the phone and running trains, and the iPad is too big; easy to drop.  Instant control panel!  

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Mark, Mike;  Only 36 are planned  to be powered, the rest of them will be slide switches powering the frog while moving the points.  I just saw powering all these turnouts with motors to be a little much,  too time consuming.  May not even  do the whole 3 dozen 

This RR is a walk-around so I will be close to most all turnouts:

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