George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Yeah concretelackey except I had to go home for lunch.
Dave
sparkyjay31 wrote:All I can say is that it does give me more time to play trains. Is it Spring yet? 6 - 8 more inches today.
What started for you in the morning got to mid-coast Maine around lunch. All our snow and most of the ice had melted away before this. At least this storm is supposed to be all snow. The past few we got started snow, changed to rain, then got cold and froze everything up. A couple of times, I had had to carry my small snowblower up on the deck to clear the mess away; it was too heavy to shovel. At least the dog loves it, but sometimes on those cold, wet, sleety, rainey evenings waiting for the dog to find the right place, I almost see the advantages of a cat; even cleaning the litter box.
Definitely a train layout weekend, I've got too many projects under way and need to get some of them finished! Then I can start some more.
ChrisNH wrote: TrainManTy wrote:I don't have one.... my parents don't heat the basement at all, it's freezing down there...I wear a sweater. After a while, I get used to it. The downside is I come upstairs to a 68-70 degree house and it feels intensely hot. Chris
TrainManTy wrote:I don't have one.... my parents don't heat the basement at all, it's freezing down there...
I wear a sweater. After a while, I get used to it. The downside is I come upstairs to a 68-70 degree house and it feels intensely hot.
Chris
I wear a long sleeve shirt, 2 sweaters, a woolen hat, and fingertip-less gloves. I'm used to it, just it's hard to go down there in the 1st place. "Hmm, I can surf the forums and railfan sites, or I can go down in the cold basement and attempt to run trains on tracks that haven't been cleaned in a week and a half! Hmm.... which one will I choose... my 1,314 posts probobly say something about my decision!
Let me tell you all something here.....When I was a kid we had to tunnel thru 10 feet of snow to get to school, 2 miles, 4 miles away.....and guess what? IT WAS UPHILL BOTH WAYS! And then over night the snow plows would plow the road clean....so the next day we had to tunnel our way to school again.....5 miles away.
When I was a young man we had to tunnel thru 14 feet of snow to get to work......6 miles, 9 miles away, but this was downhill both ways. The managers at the factory were sure glad we could show up to make those little umbrellas for martinis or whatever those drinks were. But then the snow plow would come, clear the road, and we had to tunnel all over again the next day. But at least it was all downhill from there......
On the weekend we had to tunnel to our sweethearts home, shovel her parents driveway, and then ask if we could court their daughter. IF they said yes then we had to tunnel to the drive-in and hope we were early enough for the movie. (You have no idea how difficult it is to go parking with the girl of your dreams in a snow tunnel! You just can't see when the drivein manager is doing his walk thru!).
Now that I'm a man of maturity......I"M DARN GLAD THEY INVENTED DVD PLAYERS FOR IN THE VEHICLES! now I just need to tunnel to the garage!
Oh yeah, we have almost 4" on the ground as of now. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW CHALLENGING IT I TO TUNNEL THRU 4" OF SNOW!
TrainManTy wrote: I AM SICK OF SNOW!!!And the problem is it's way to cold in the basement for trains, for me, Summer is train season! (No school then too, so plenty of time!)
I AM SICK OF SNOW!!!
And the problem is it's way to cold in the basement for trains, for me, Summer is train season! (No school then too, so plenty of time!)
My little electric heater is killing my power bill. But I HAVE to play!!!
Yup, snow day! The snow is on top of Mount Charleston, about 5000 feet above my viewing position here in the Las Vegas Valley. Sure looks good in the bright (HOT) Southern Nevada sunshine.
Gotcha!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
BurbankAV wrote:Sorry to be a party-pooper, but I really can't resist. Here's our current "rough weather" taken from my office window a couple of moments ago...
Sorry to be a party-pooper, but I really can't resist. Here's our current "rough weather" taken from my office window a couple of moments ago...
That hill side isnt burning or sliding off.. so a good southern california day indeed!
It is snowing here too. It is supposed to snow on and off all weekend. To top it off the wife is down with a cold so...
Looks like I'll get some (long delayed) work done on the layout this weekend too!
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
sorry to buck the trend here guys...SKI DAY!!!!!!!!!
Dan
The word here is still snowing . We melted off 30" back in jan. and its all back. Oh well summer will seem that much better if it ever comes.
Dave in the great white
My snow blower broke two storms ago and now there is so much snow between the shed and the driveway that I can't even get it out to take it to the shop!! I am just glad its happening into a weekend so I have time to deal with it.
jrbernier wrote: Yup, time to work on the railroad(after blowing out the driveway again). I have not had to shovel for almost a week, but the sub-zero temp(it is -3 as I write this) is taking it's toll here in Minnesota! It has been very cold(usually the winter 'breaks' in mid-February here in Minnesota and starts to get better). I could use some of that 'Global Warming' about now. I wonder if Al Gore has to give back some of his Nobel prize money if we do not get a thaw pretty soon....Jim Bernier
Yup, time to work on the railroad(after blowing out the driveway again). I have not had to shovel for almost a week, but the sub-zero temp(it is -3 as I write this) is taking it's toll here in Minnesota! It has been very cold(usually the winter 'breaks' in mid-February here in Minnesota and starts to get better).
I could use some of that 'Global Warming' about now. I wonder if Al Gore has to give back some of his Nobel prize money if we do not get a thaw pretty soon....
Jim Bernier
Actually the two kinda go together - that is, there's a sort of boomerang effect where warmer summers can lead to colder winters. As a fellow Minnesotan, I'm sure like me you grew hearing about 1936: the unbelievable heat in the summer (something like 22 days at 99F or hotter) which was followed by one of the coldest winters on record.
Of course on the other hand, someone pointed out on the news that the number of subzero days we've had so far is about average for the last 40 years or so, it's just that the last couple of winters have been warmer than normal, so we're not used to it.
In either case, I'm about ready for a balmy 38F day !!
EmpireStateJR wrote:Train Day !!!!!
Work day, train weekend!!!
John R.
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin