Re: New roster ...

[Michael Martin]

Jim,

Try:   http://45mm.com/sslivesteam/users/

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I got a 404 error message when I "cut and pasted" URL.

Michael Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

Re: New roster ...

[SALTYCRABB]

In a message dated 03/29/01 8:14:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< http://45mm.com/sslivsteam/users/ >>

Dave 

I got a 404 error message when I "cut and pasted" URL.

Jim
Seabrook 

Re: New Member Introduction

[Cgnr]

Don,
Enjoyed your letter and story of your grandfather.  Welcome to the board.
Why is it that steam seems to attract the nicest and best of folks?
Bob
 

Re: Aster Mike spring replacement

[James S. Burns, Jr.]

Steve, the first time I used it was to shore up all springs on the tender of an
Aster C57. Not on the engine at all. The coupler height was so low as to be
inoperable. I merely suggest that it's a workable solution.As they say, stick 'em
anywhere you want too.  JB

steve wrote:

> Jim,  are you adding the washers to the springs in the rear drivers or to
>   the springs in the trailing truck?
> Thanks, Steve
> Speck
>
> At 10:29 AM 3/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Steve, you express aversion to my method, but for the record, I use only a
> >small
> >nylon washer, #WN-6, from Small Parts, both above and below the existing
> >spring in
> >a couple Asters with "droop"! I found it both simple and effective. Also
> >inexpensive and easily reversible. Jim Burns
> >
> >steve wrote:
> >
> > >  I have read here and on chat rooms about people changing
> > out the
> > >  springs in the rear driver axle boxes to stiffer ones to reduce the
> > > side to
> > >  side play and to help the Mikado sit level.  Some have found the
> > correct
> > >  replacement springs at Lowes in the Century brand spring
> > assortment pack
> > >  that they sell.  The problem is that no to packs are the same.  I have
> > > looked
> > >  at the 5 Lowes in my area to no avail.  None of the packs that I have
> > > seen
> > >  have the correct springs in them.  I have also read that some mike
> > owners
> > >  have added a smaller spring inside of the existing spring that
> > comes with
> > >  the locomotive.  To me, changing the springs altogether seems like the
> > > best
> > >  way to go.  Is there any Mike owner that has done this modification
> > > and can
> > >  tell the springs that they have used and where to get them, or
> > better yet
> > >  may have two left that I could purchase?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve Speck
> > >
> >
>
>
 

New roster ...

[David M. Cole]

all hands:

i was sitting here waiting for some of my minions to turn in work and 
decided it would be a good idea to dump out a new roster.

as always, if you don't like your name there or want you hometown 
listed or want to provide a picture of yourself, just holler.

there are approximately 170 people on the list now, with about 30 of 
them preferring anonymity.

http://45mm.com/sslivsteam/users/

\dmc

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Re: New Member Introduction

[Vidmanrog]

Welcome Don there is a lot of good information in this group!

Roger 

Re: MOVE THE CLOCK

[Keith Taylor]

Maybe on some railroads they waited, but on Amtrak, Conrail etc. whatever
time you started your shift that's the time you used throughout your tour of
duty. The change taking place in the midle of the night meant that this
would affect very few station stops. If you pick up a public timetable you
can see what I mean. If the train leaves on Daylight savings time, it stays
on DST for it's entire journey. And yes, some folks end up missing their
train!
Keith Taylor Retired locomotive Engineer with the Lehigh Valley RR, Conrail
and Amtrak

- Original Message -
From: Charles Brumbelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> FWIW, I understand that all trains pause for an hour at the beginning
and/or
> ending of the daylight savings period . . .

 

Re: New Member Introduction

[Geoff Spenceley]

Welcome Don.

You have a very exciting Grandpa in my view--he lives on with you, be sure
you record and keep everything you know or remember of his
experiences--it's history we must keep, for the number of  the original
steam engineers are fast disappearing from this earth.

I am pleased--delighted- that one of your hobbies is also miniature
gardening which I do to support the trains. After all, some visitors are
not train crazy like me and others.--However, when garden clubs visit,
suddenly their interest leaves the garden and focuses on the trains. Mostly
ladies, they go "apes" on the Aster Grasshopper because of the motion and
"cutness" of the carriages.

Now, since you are a minister, you could become our resident
Chaplain--covering all religions, of course! My sister's husband was a
Congregational minister in England for over 50 years-still  active.

As Clark LORD writes:

Welcome Don!  And may the peace of the Lord be with you always.

Keep us informed on your progress--.

Geoff





 

Re: New Member Introduction

[Clark Lord]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Weekends (well, all the time, actually) I am an ordained
> Episcopal minister.
> 
> I look forward to learning and sharing.

Welcome Don!  And may the peace of the Lord be with you always.

Clark Lord
Las Vegas 

Re: Aster Mike spring replacement

[steve]

Jim,  are you adding the washers to the springs in the rear drivers or to
  the springs in the trailing truck?
Thanks, Steve 
Speck

At 10:29 AM 3/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve, you express aversion to my method, but for the record, I use only a 
>small
>nylon washer, #WN-6, from Small Parts, both above and below the existing 
>spring in
>a couple Asters with "droop"! I found it both simple and effective. Also
>inexpensive and easily reversible. Jim Burns
>
>steve wrote:
>
> >  I have read here and on chat rooms about people changing 
> out the
> >  springs in the rear driver axle boxes to stiffer ones to reduce the
> > side to
> >  side play and to help the Mikado sit level.  Some have found the 
> correct
> >  replacement springs at Lowes in the Century brand spring 
> assortment pack
> >  that they sell.  The problem is that no to packs are the same.  I have
> > looked
> >  at the 5 Lowes in my area to no avail.  None of the packs that I have
> > seen
> >  have the correct springs in them.  I have also read that some mike 
> owners
> >  have added a smaller spring inside of the existing spring that 
> comes with
> >  the locomotive.  To me, changing the springs altogether seems like the
> > best
> >  way to go.  Is there any Mike owner that has done this modification
> > and can
> >  tell the springs that they have used and where to get them, or 
> better yet
> >  may have two left that I could purchase?
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Speck
> >
>

 

New Member Introduction

[Pipstow]

Hello All,

My grandfather was a Southern Pacific steam engineer for all of his working 
years.  One of my fondest memories is about taking him to Travel Town in 
Griffith Park, Los Angeles, near our homes at that time, to look at the 
locomotives.  Although recently having become a widower and in frail health 
at 90 years of age, he fairly leaped into one of the steam locos, pulled me 
up and explained every valve, lever and fitting, sliding down the stair rails 
to show me where the sand pipes came out and then back into the cab where he 
ran his hands over every surface.  

Turns out, that very unit was one of the locomotives he actually ran in his 
career.  He even showed me the marks where he and the crew had found it 
necessary to straighten a drive arm by removing it and bending it against a 
tree in the middle of no where.  I was hooked on locomotives and on steam.  
It was his greatest gift to me.  He died two weeks later.

New to the hobby, I am digging in my high desert New Mexico backyard now to 
lay gauge 1 track (45 mm) for a narrow gauge garden railway.  A Ruby will 
probably be my first steam loco, to be purchased in June.  I'll be modeling a 
logging operation and a mining line.  The scale will be 1:20.3 ("Fn3").

Other avocations are bonsai trees, miniature gardening, and garden ponds, so 
you can understand why this hobby is a natural for me.  Since I started 
learning and planning about three months ago, it has brought me countless 
happy hours and has brought me into contact with some very fine people in New 
Mexico and on the internet.

My dual occupations may be part of the reason I so enjoy this hobby.  Both 
are highly fulfilling but can be among the most stressful of jobs.  Weekdays 
I am a teacher of 8th grade (13-14 year olds) general mathematics, algebra 
and earth science.  Weekends (well, all the time, actually) I am an ordained 
Episcopal minister.

I look forward to learning and sharing.

Don Cram
 

Re: Steamup at G Broeder's

[Jonathan Bloom]

Thanks.  Should be a nice weekend.  Hope to see many of you there.
- Original Message -
From: "Gary Broeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Steamup at G Broeder's


> Jon,
>
> South on 101 (take Bailey exit to Monterey highway south of Blossom Hill
> road if the traffic gets bad) south on Monterey or 101 till you get to
> Morgan Hill (Cochrane exit west if on 101) south on Monterey hwy under the
> Green RR bridge and sharp RH onto Old Monterey North a few hunderd yards,
LH
> in front of the Fire Station on Llagas road. About 3 miles over the hill.
> 2200 Llagas  road LH side of the road .Green gate RR cross bucks.
>
>
> GaryB
>
 

Re: MOVE THE CLOCK

[J.D. Toumanian]

The Railroad (at least the one I work for) does not stop for an hour
because of daylight savings time... the change is simply issued as a
Superintendent's Notice a few days prior, saying that all watches and
official clocks are to be changed promptly at the specified time.
Payroll dept. makes appropriate changes to hours worked.

Since I have been working for the railroad, the only thing I have seen
stop the trains was an earthquake, and even then it was only for a few
hours while the Roadmasters quickly inspect their territory.

On New Year's Eve, here in Los Angeles, between 23:30 and 00:30 Jan. 1,
all yard crews are called into the Terminal Building, for protection
against stray bullets.  People in L.A. like to shoot guns randomly into
the air on holidays!

That's my worthless trivia for y'all...
-Jon
 

Re: Aster Mike spring replacement

[James S. Burns, Jr.]

Steve, you express aversion to my method, but for the record, I use only a small
nylon washer, #WN-6, from Small Parts, both above and below the existing spring in
a couple Asters with "droop"! I found it both simple and effective. Also
inexpensive and easily reversible. Jim Burns

steve wrote:

>  I have read here and on chat rooms about people changing out the
>  springs in the rear driver axle boxes to stiffer ones to reduce the
> side to
>  side play and to help the Mikado sit level.  Some have found the correct
>  replacement springs at Lowes in the Century brand spring assortment pack
>  that they sell.  The problem is that no to packs are the same.  I have
> looked
>  at the 5 Lowes in my area to no avail.  None of the packs that I have
> seen
>  have the correct springs in them.  I have also read that some mike owners
>  have added a smaller spring inside of the existing spring that comes with
>  the locomotive.  To me, changing the springs altogether seems like the
> best
>  way to go.  Is there any Mike owner that has done this modification
> and can
>  tell the springs that they have used and where to get them, or better yet
>  may have two left that I could purchase?
> Thanks,
> Steve Speck
>
 

G1MRA Project Loco

[$B5L@n!!=c(B]

Please let me know in detail how to make a special pin for marking
coupling rods.



Jun  Kitsukawa
4-10-15  KugenumaSakuragaoka
Fujisawa, Kanagawa
251-0027 JAPAN

 

Something to get to steamups with YAK

[Ferdinand]

Here is an interesting site I tripped over.

http://www.lindsaybks.com/foam/jorg/index3.html

I think  every steam up should have one of these - ( for the beer runs )

Cheers Ferd.

Wind keeps the flatulence of seagulls afloat on cold winter days.methane
is a noxious substance.. steam is cleanerwatch open flames on windy winter days