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Good Mornig All: Not even on my first cup of tea yet as the water is slow to heat. We had an ops session last night - 5 engineers and one dispatcher. I got to run my BLI 4-8-4 and it was nice to watch it run through scenery with a string of cars. Makes me want to come home and start working on scenery on the Almost Nothing. John: When we get there would you show me how you did those multipull (SP)quotes? I was talking to our Winnipeg guide on one of our trips and was lamenting about the hot weather in TEXAS and how comfortable it was in Canada and how I should move to Winnipeg. His comment was " Yes Bobbie but you must remember that last winter we saw 50 days and nights where the temp never got up to 0 degrees C". Heck, we have had several winters were the temp never got DOWN to 0 degrees C. You are my type mathamtician - time for tea Santa Fe also used rail for pilots on the steamers at rebuild time. Ed: I know how you feel about laying a switch that doesn't work. I laid a Walthers #6 in the ladder only to have the points break (come unsoldered). I sent it back to Walthers and they said it would be six weeks before they could replace it because they were out of them. Next time I'm going to fire up the iron and fix it myself - new or not. I'm like you, it was the last switch in the ladder so that yard is waiting for parts. That makes for a good reason to run trains. The track spacings in my main yard are 2 1/4 to 2 3/8 and I have room for my hand down from the top. The spacing in the staging yard is at least 2 5/8 because They are both covered with towns and the vertical clearance is only 4". I know that that is poor design but I didn't want a steeper grade. It was a trade off, you know how that goes. I did put several home made (read cheap) re-railers on the staging tracks to help with derailed cars. They are just pieces of bass wood sanded to the right shape between the tracks and then a piece of bass wood on the outside at rail height. I don't know it they are working or I just haven't had any derailments since it is straight track, but I'm happy. Krump: I mailed some stuff to Lupo on a Thursday and he got it on Monday, and that's from <s>Beaumont</s> Houston, you know, to the Netherlands. I couldn't believe that they could move mail that fast. How does one sleep in a spiderman room? It looks like the patterns would keep you awake. stumpiesgrump: [#welcome] The tea and coffee are very good and fixed just the way you like it. Of course you also get to be the waitress. Fla Phil: The magic words are "..should fall into it". You're right and that's an idea that I'd forgotten about. It sure beats crawling around on the floor with the flashlight. Sounds like you fared pretty good with this storm. I have some friends in Palm Bay and she said no loss of electricty, phone, gas, or water. They did cut off the water at 2:00PM untill 6:00PM yesterday. The only thing damaged was mobile homes and flimsey carports, no brick and mortor buildings. I went into profile yesterday and did some updating so I don't know what the end of this post is going to look like. Let me get out of here as today is Dr. day Bob
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