Weekend Update 8/20/17

[coosvalley]

This week I got to take this "rare mileage" pic on Sat, which is actually a short walk from my house, and on Sunday I went to a train show in Concord NH. I also received some Atlas GP7 mechanisms, and now my GP7 fleet is now 100% "motored". Some pics....

Have a great week!

[jnevis]

I  believer they now call it electronic defense. Where is this museum?

Gonna have a F4G Wild Weasel hovering in the vicinity?

If this is part of your job, sounds like a fun job!

Patuxent River Naval Aviation Museum, Lexington Park MD. 

We're getting an EA-6B later next month and we've started putting together a display of what EW/ED is and how it's tested, since it's at the gate to where the Navy tests its aircraft and equipment.  No F-4Gs.  We already have an AARGM (HARM replacement) on display.

For now I'm using the models to show software guys how a SAM battery is set up and why the code has to tell crews certain things that might not be apparent if you don't know how it's used.  Pictures and websites can only convey so much.  Had something similar when I wet through school using GHQ's 1/285 minis of the same gear.  I got the 1/600 since it would fit the exhibit (compressed some) better.  It isn't often I get to do this much hobby for work, but sometimes it works out. 

[C855B]

... We're getting an EA-6B later next month ...

Wow. Wasn't that the special passenger unit that Rock Island had for the Rocket? 

[jmlaboda]

Wow. Wasn't that the special passenger unit that Rock Island had for the Rocket? 

Never have thought very highly of the Navy's EA6B Prowlers... launched quite a few off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back during my tour which spanned 1979 to 1981.  They were "oddities" (a lot like someone's TP56) that would show up from time to time but sent them off much the same way we did nearly everything else (our beloved C1 "Cod" "Mamie" was able to leave the ship with 50 mile per hour crosswinds).  Wouldn't have been so bad had they taken off and never came back but they were like a bad penny... you just couldn't get rid of them.



Not as perdy as the Rock Island's units but like the RI units they served a purpose and for the most part served us all quite well!!!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Not train related but spent the day working on a 1/600 scale (3mm) S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) and 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful) sites.  Still needs a little work.  Next is an SA-4 battery and some 15mm (1/100) ZSU23-4s and SA-8s.

Very cool!!!

[sixpakpop]

Never have thought very highly of the Navy's EA6B Prowlers... launched quite a few off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back during my tour which spanned 1979 to 1981.  They were "oddities" (a lot like someone's TP56) that would show up from time to time but sent them off much the same way we did nearly everything else (our beloved C1 "Cod" "Mamie" was able to leave the ship with 50 mile per hour crosswinds).  Wouldn't have been so bad had they taken off and never came back but they were like a bad penny... you just couldn't get rid of them.
 

Small world. Served on Ike (CVN-69) '79-'84. Was on board when we lost "Mamie" in '82.

[metalworkertom]

Small world. Served on Ike (CVN-69) '79-'84. Was on board when we lost "Mamie" in '82.

No carrier duty but VMFA - 251 '79- '83   F-4 Phantoms.

[garethashenden]

Really?!  Even on your British trains?   

Well, no. But if we want to be pedantic, all the American trains are stored on a shelf above the workbench while the British trains are stored elsewhere in the room. So all the trains in sight from the workbench are in line for new couplers.

[peteski]

Well, no. But if we want to be pedantic, all the American trains are stored on a shelf above the workbench while the British trains are stored elsewhere in the room. So all the trains in sight from the workbench are in line for new couplers.

I was just bustin' your cookies - I know how much you strive towards prototypical accuracy. 
And for an excuse, I never visited your workshop so I don't know its layout (and you didn't describe it in your last post either). 

[SSW7771]

BREAKING NEWS!! Train derailment on the Island of Sodor, multiple injuries. Sir Topham Hat is very cross. Authorities questioned the train operator about the incident to which he responded "Uh Oh!" 



We spent the weekend down in Houston at the grandparents. On Saturday we got to visit the Houston Area Live Steamers and ride a few trains. They have nice railroad and set-up. Too bad they are only open to the public once a month. 

[up1950s]

pedantic

Am I a lone dope or does this need to be looked up by others as well .

▸ adjective:  marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

[CBQ Fan]

pedantic

Am I a lone dope or does this need to be looked up by others as well .

▸ adjective:  marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Pedantic is a favorite word of a few core members here. 

[peteski]

pedantic

Am I a lone dope or does this need to be looked up by others as well .

▸ adjective:  marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

I knew the gist of it, but thanks for looking it up for us.

[up1950s]

I was totally gistless 

[Cajonpassfan]

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