Good Evening,
BANKS, That is such fantastic news regarding your wife. What a great way to start the new year.
Kev, Thanks very much for the invite. Never know what the future may hold. The layout drawing shows a lot of thought and work. It will really look awesome, especially with you skill to details and scenery.
Ray, With all the rain were suppose to be pulling water out of the pool, we have been having to add it! What's happened is start the pump and forget to turn it off, then have to add it back.
Wife told me this evening that Mammouth Mtn has ove 40 feet of snow, and they expect to have the ski lifts open until the 4th of July! Outrageous! Apparently that is the greatest snow depth ever recorded.
Getting reaclamated to being home. Still tired, but will make a short day of it. Had to work two computer shows this weeked. Then next weekend we will be heading down submmbob Bob's area. Going to go to Tucson to see a Gem and Mineral show. Suppose to very good for jewelry, and jewelry and more. Got to watch the budget.
Think I'm going to go and put it down for the. Have a great day all and be safe.
Don
Hello all
A quiey night on the mountain. Sure wish I could get over the rest of this cold. It's a hanger-oner.
Jim - I don't have a complete pic of the AeroCoach. A couple of partials when it been sitting next to other buses. I'll try and get a pic of it next week. It is a 'movie star' however. It was used in the film 'The Bigamist' in 1952. I have not seen the clips from the movie yet, but apparently Gene said it does give us some idea of what the interior looked like.
I did however, finally download the pics from the CO RR Museum I took when my brother and were there last month. I'll try and post a few eventually.
I got the power truck from the 623 cleaned up fairly well. Will need to order a few parts for it at some point. Thinking of putting a sound card in it just for fun. There's a spot in the center of the frame that could take a decent sized speaker.
Don - let me know when you are in town and we can try and get together. The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show is the world's largest. The actual show is 3 days around Feb. 14 (AZ Statehood Day if you are single:) at the convention center downtown. However, there are satellite shows at a number of the hotels for several weeks beforehand. I used to spend a lot of time a the show when I was getting my degree in geology at the university.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Good evening all,
Quiet day at home. Watched 3 hours of Daytona 24 Hours race on Fox. Wife and I watched the "Martian". Long movie. Good ending. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all!
Nice easy day today. Sunny. 60
Spent the afternoon sorting through some defective parts to return to an online machine shop supply. They took care of all the issues and provided a return UPS label.
Regards, Roy
Mornin' boys. Flurries and 29 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Speaking of, finally ventured over to the east portal of Knobley Tunnel (B&O), which runs just north of new fifedom. Approach has been filled in drastically, but the bore is still accessible, although flooded. How cool it must have been to hear steam engines coming across the valley, or the droan of diesels daylighting from under the mountain...
Apparently BIL has taken a turn for the worse. Family needs strength now.
cheapclassics - I wasn't aware that D24 was in progress, thanks. Personally, I would've left Damon on Mars.
Buckeye - Per your advice, should we wear ballcaps or hardhats then...?
... Buckeye thanks for that pic brother .... I had been there many times ... walked through it when trains were running .... but as forest gump says stupid is as stupid does .... I NEVER TOOK ANY PICS ......!!!!! ....... You know they say many chineses workers were buried alive right next to it .... murdrered as to not pay them ..... true story ...
FIFEY .... my man ... ..... prayers being sent for bil ..... god bless ya fifey and your whole family .....
I used to hear the engines every day when at horseshoe bend farm right there beside the tracks .... my daddy leased it for many many years .... I'd go there all the time ....
Howdy Peeps,
Fife, Prayers for BIL and the family.
What a change over the past few days, from fungus corners with all the rain to nothing but blue skies, warm and all sun. Perfect timing with the Farmer's Insurance Golf Tournament and the big Sunroad Marina boat show going on.
Still trying to kick this **** bronchitis, hopefully soon.
Later all.
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Fife – I just offered a Divine Mercy Chaplet for your brother in law. Let me give you the words from the closing prayer.
"Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us, and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments, we might not despair, nor become despondent, but with great confidence, submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy Itself. Amen"
May God bless
Jim
Sturgeon-Phish Fife – I just offered a Divine Mercy Chaplet for your brother in law. Let me give you the words from the closing prayer. "Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us, and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments, we might not despair, nor become despondent, but with great confidence, submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy Itself. Amen" May God bless Jim
Nice prayer Jim.
Temps dropped fast to 38. Sure it is Buckeye's fault.
Food Security with County tomorrow and that is it.
Banks, Good news.
Shake and Bake is home. Kay may no be happy.
Hope all have a great week.
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A nice day at mid-60's. 70 tomorrow.
Fife - prayers for BIL
fife...prayers for BIL. I know you are the strength. Think water dripping on your head.
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Prayers for BIL, Fifedog. May have pushed it a bit much today. Did 9 miles in 2:07:36 for a 4.23 MPH. Did the first 6 in 1:22:49 for a 4.34 MPH. Last 3 miles were just below a 15 minute pace, but I was spent when I got home. I think the old blood sugar crashed on me when I got home. Finally starting to feel human again. Weather is really lousy here. May stay home again. I hope everyone has a good day.
Almost 10:00PM here. Nice warm day but cold at night.
Don, I had the same problem with the pool. Had to add some back in order for the filter intake to be below the water surface. But my loss came from evaporation on these warm days.
V8, congratulations on the new church. Must be a large congregation to afford something like that. Our parish made an attempt to build a new church and collected quite a bit of money toward that goal. However, we did not collect enough to start construction according the archdioses rules. So the money was put in trust for several years. Meanwhile cost kept going up every year to the point that it was out of reach for the amount of people we have. Our pastor sent out a request recently asking if we want to take the money we have already donated and fix up the church we have and take care of a lot associated expenses like re doing the parking lot. I gladly gave permission to use what I donated already because the money is doing no good sitting in a bank.
Phish, that was a wonderful Devine Mercy prayer. Just what I needed too. Thank you.
Good night all,
Ray
SPMan
Mornin' boys. Forgot what I was gonna say. Thanks everyone. Phish, Amen.
Another quiet night on the mountain. I think I am finally getting over what is left of this cold.
Finished cleaning up the 623. Had to get an industrial toothbrush out of the shop to do the job. I touched up the body shell and the frame w/ a paint pen. After it dries I'll do my trick w/ the furniture polish and it should look pretty good. I think this engine spent time being rattled around in a box, a dirty one at that. Only parts it needs though are one small handail, pickup rollers, and the bulbs and springs. Going to rewire it too.
Ordered a few parts to improve the driver/vehicle interface for the Datsun. I should have a bit of fun w/ that next weekend.
JimS - nicely done
Good morning,
The sun is out but it is cold.
So after all that work yesterday, the Jeep, well seems the gear box is bad and pounding on it to get the pitman arm off it popped the top of the box and fluid is flying out all over the place. So Dan is at the salvage yard now getting a replacement.It was leaking before but now,,WOW. 16 year old POJ is what it is.
Fife, For your BIL
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
fifedog Mornin' boys. Forgot what I was gonna say. Thanks everyone. Phish, Amen.
Morning all. Fife Prayers for your BIL
Fife your first comment is the first stage of getting old.
Not a lot going on here.
Jim going to send you a Email.
Talk to you all later.
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Afternoon fellasBanks - awesome news about your wife!Fife - Prayers will befinitely be raised!Banks - clif notes version... ordered new fridge, was too wide and required new shut-off valve behind fridge, made trip to Pittsburgh to install valve and ordered new fridge, they delivered new fridge but would not refund money for initial fridge for over a month, then new fridge died (renter lost all her food, and I lost 1/2 month rent). Service man found control board had fried due to crack in case around control board from over tightening screws from delivery guys switch door swing (that was just before Thanksgiving). Then Tuesday after Christmas get a call from the renter that electricity is out for half the house, no heat, and water in basement. Called HVAC guys, they came and did something to the furnace and said the water supply to the ice maker had a hole (they shut the water off at the supply connection), electric was fixed when Duquesne Light turned the power back on after a transformer blew. I went up the day before New Years Eve and installed new ice maker line. Found when they delivered the fridge they forced it into the opening when it wouldn't go in due to the insulation around the freezer unit causing the case to bulge... I filed a BBB complaint after their service manager hung up on me because I didn't report the damage within 3 days of delivery. New fridge gets delivered 2/18.
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Hello there,
Quick check in.......
Fife........Prayers for BIL and rest of the family......Sometimes known as a senior moment
Phish....nice prayer. The chickens will lay much better with 14 hours of light. Better to get them up early than to try to keep them up.
Tried to post yesterday and couldn't log on. When I did get on the (%^$%@()(& Windows decided to restart and kicked me off.
Best move on
Just read 88's post .......WOW! Hope it's done when the new fridge comes
Prayers fo those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Quiet day at work. Spent the day recovering from Sunday's jaunt. Worked on project. Went to see "Girl on the Train" at the library tonight. Good flick. Some good train action as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hello There......
Been one of those weeks. Had a nice long post yesterday and Win 10 decided to restart to install an update. That took forever and when it was done my post was gone. Any body know how to fix it so I can keep it from restarting any time it wants?
Fife
Christmas decorations are all down. Some need sorted and boxed then put away. Gonna leave the platform in the living room a while yet. Mrs wants me toput her Valentine tree on it. May get out my 259E and work on it if I can stay awake long enough.
Guess I should head to bed.
Prayers for those in need
Didn't start out that way, but shaping up to be another quiet evening.
88 - wow, that's just nuts, and even worse when you are not at the house to be able to deal w/ it.
Did the furniture polish trick this morning on the 623 shell. Came out looking pretty good. Was looking at Dallee Electronics options for a sound card and electronic e-unit. Original e-unit is loose and mounts right where you could put a decent sized speaker.
Kev - sounds like you need a pitman arm puller. I nearly knocked myself out using one pulling the arm off a truck in a junk yard once. Must have loaded it w/ at least three turns and when it finally let go I found myself up against the fender of the truck next to it. Nothing like tapered splines.
Train news: I was putting bridges together today for the elevated loop. Good thing for glue. Some tabs were gone. No wonder they were cheap.
Also made a double wound motor into a single wound motor and replaced the two position e-unit with a three position one on the 200 series ALCO A-A set I have been building from spare parts. I ordered some more of those pigtails I used in the four-motor set up so I can switch out the "dumb" powered A-unit (no e-unit) to either the ABA Santa Fe set or swap shells and use it with this A-A set.
Other stuff:
Bob, We used a pitman arm puller but when it would stall out the impact we would give it a crack on the driver bolt to help it along to get off those tapered splines. I told him to hit it like he hated it. I think he did. I had done it like this 100 times and never saw a box break. After looking it looks like the good old IDOT road salt did it in. Cast aluminum did not have a chance. So he did get a rebuilt one today on and will have it aligned tomorrow.
If you can post a picture of the 623, sounds cool!
Banks, You can go into settings/updates & security and change how up-dates are delivered. I try to leave the PC on at least one day for 2 hours so it can do it's thing but you can set it like I have windows 8.1 set to not update till you allow it.
Mornin' FellasIf you have your computer settings correct (sleep mode, etc) you should never turn off your computer (turn your monitor off if you don't have it go to sleep), have Windows apply updates during hours of non-use and when you 'wake up' the computer it will either prompt you to restart to install the updates, or it will tell you that it restarted due to a Windows Update. I've had my PC for 5 years now and the only time I shut it down is to install a hardware upgrade, or when I'm cleaning the floor under it. The amount of power used by the CPU and Monitor are minimal these days. The updates are critical in maintaining a healthy, secure, smoothly running PC.Yeah the fridge saga has been insane. The BBB rep from Sears couldn't believe how bad the situation had gotten. She said she is going to speak with her supervisor and she if she can build a customer service training around it. I've have never gotten so worked up over something like this, but then the guy from customer service hung up on me, it was not a disconnect as I could hear the handset hit the base.I like buying stuff online as it saves me a lot of time driving to the store, gas, finding a good, helpful, sales person, etc. I am usually very capable of determining what I need and how much I want to spend on the item. Appliances are a whole different story. This is the second appliance I've purchases sight-unseen and both were nightmares (for different reasons). Here in MD we have an appliance chain called Bray and Scarff, they are awesome, very friendly, easy to work with. From now on I'll buy from them and haul the item to the rental myself (they don't deliver that far away). Done with Sears. I can get my tools from Lowes or HomeDepot (Kobalt actually makes tools that are, in my opinion, as good if not better than Craftsman).
2/3 inches of snow this morning. No biggie for around here. 34 Hi.
Brent if you have a Lowe's near the rental they deliver and take away for free. No plans for today, train stuff coming up the next 2 weekends.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Morning all. Sunny and 50 degrees. Was 28 when I went to bed. Temps actually rose over night. Mid 60's today and tomorrow. Errands today and then dinner play at one of the elementary schools tonight. Off down east tomorrow to do some barn maintenance. Then do battery/timer removal from feeders and get stands "closed down".
Brent. We have had the same appliance nightmares with Home Depot extended warranty. LG all over the house. Finally got their attention. Local manager was the key. The main call center in Atlanta and emails were ignored. Also, agree on tools. Craftsman is not like it use to be.
Got to remember to fire up a new Pot this evenng or later tonight.
Have a good one.
Aloha. Grey and cold. But this is the snow-less-est January on record here (since 1870s) - wow! Finally feeling better after a week of some sort of respitory bug that started like a cold. Ugh. And I was locked me out of this site somehow - didn't recognize any login. Then it did... oh well. Catching up...
DonB, I think the best part of your layout saga was our getting together.Dennis, I've been pulled off my feet unexpectedly by our dog who then took off as soon as I dropped his lead. I'm glad you're OK. Our church is moving - renovating an industrial building for 8mil including the purchase. I think they're very fortunate. Fife, I caught some of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona - what terrible weather. I love your layout plans. Praying for your BiL and his family.Chief, glad you persisted in posting here. Sears is not long for this world...
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
lion88roar Mornin' FellasIf you have your computer settings correct (sleep mode, etc) you should never turn off your computer (turn your monitor off if you don't have it go to sleep), have Windows apply updates during hours of non-use and when you 'wake up' the computer it will either prompt you to restart to install the updates, or it will tell you that it restarted due to a Windows Update. I've had my PC for 5 years now and the only time I shut it down is to install a hardware upgrade, or when I'm cleaning the floor under it. The amount of power used by the CPU and Monitor are minimal these days. The updates are critical in maintaining a healthy, secure, smoothly running PC.Yeah the fridge saga has been insane. The BBB rep from Sears couldn't believe how bad the situation had gotten. She said she is going to speak with her supervisor and she if she can build a customer service training around it. I've have never gotten so worked up over something like this, but then the guy from customer service hung up on me, it was not a disconnect as I could hear the handset hit the base.I like buying stuff online as it saves me a lot of time driving to the store, gas, finding a good, helpful, sales person, etc. I am usually very capable of determining what I need and how much I want to spend on the item. Appliances are a whole different story. This is the second appliance I've purchases sight-unseen and both were nightmares (for different reasons). Here in MD we have an appliance chain called Bray and Scarff, they are awesome, very friendly, easy to work with. From now on I'll buy from them and haul the item to the rental myself (they don't deliver that far away). Done with Sears. I can get my tools from Lowes or HomeDepot (Kobalt actually makes tools that are, in my opinion, as good if not better than Craftsman).
Brent,
Even though the closing of my local Sears accelerated the demise of Century III Mall in West Mifflin, PA, I don't miss Sears.
Kobalt tools have impressed me, and their 1/2" electric impact is the best tool purchase I've made yet. Plus, I've never snapped the drive on a Kobalt or Harbor Freight ratchet, unlike Craftsman.
Latest rumor I heard was Craftsman was being sold to B&D. That will really bring down a quality product.
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