After months of trying to shoehorn Richard's surviving pieces of his HO railroad I gave up. Rather, I gave in to my narrow gauge bug. A layout design in a publication got me thinking. What if I salvaged as much track as possible and us it for an On30 layout? The switches and flex track were not coming up intact anyway so I thought I'd relay them on longer and wider spaced ties. A sample of may little staging in progress are is attached.

So when my Laser cutter got here, one of the first things I noticed is that my water pump was not the best of the batch, and had an issue starting up.  Seeing as how it was so silent, I'd probably not be able to tell if the pump was running or not from sound alone.  A dead pump means I could lose my tub in a matter of hours, as opposed to months or years.

So I found these little flow meters on Ebay with a self contained thermometer.  I thought I give them a whirl, so I picked up a 5V power supply and all the incidentals.

.............oil columns and just how they got oil into the tender.  I was not very successful with a Google search. 

I have a PSC Oil Column model and it has a spout and what looks like a bottomless bucket hanging directly under the spout.  It is way higher than any tender I have.  No way could oil drop down into the tender from that height.  Was there some sort of a big hose that attached to the bucket to get the oil in the tender? 

Any info would be appreciated as I now need to build the fueling station for the engine facility.

Well, I've done a facelift on my website:

Mr. DCC's University (www.mrdccu.com) has been redone. Unfortunately, the new site came with a new set of file names.

SO, your old links will probably not work. Sorry!

Hope you all like the new look. I do. Also, it will be easier to maintain. I might even get some new installation notes up there now.