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Lots of familiar faces around here.
Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:48 AM

Howdy all. It's been a while. Don't know if I'll stick around but it's good seeing my friends' posts. 

Chip

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:05 AM

Hey, Chip, Welcome back! Big Smile

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:42 AM

Thanks Wayne. 

Chip

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Posted by steemtrayn on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:58 AM

Have you left the one you left us for?Wink

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:04 AM

If you mean my wife, nope.  If you mean Facebook, I still post there. 

Chip

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Posted by Paulus Jas on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:00 AM

Hi Chip,

Hopefully you're doing well. I am still missing your webside.

Paul

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Posted by bogp40 on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:59 AM

Nice to see you back, Chip. Hope you can stick around.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:33 AM

Welcome back, Chip.  I hope everyone in your family is doing well.

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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:41 AM

Chip, good to see and hear from you again.  It's been way too long.  Hope you and your family are doing well.  How old his Shane now?  15-16?

Tom

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:53 AM

Welcome back SpaceMouse.

Running Bear, Sundown, Louisiana
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beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam


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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:31 AM

Welcome back Chip. Smile, Wink & Grin Hope all is well on the home front. You have been missed around here.

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:41 AM

You´ve been missed, Chip - good to see you´re back, hopefully to stay!

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Posted by dstarr on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:57 AM

Good to hear from you.   Stick around, we all enjoyed your posts.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:58 AM

Nice to see you are back, Chip.Smile

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Posted by BRAKIE on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:04 AM

Nice to see your smiling facing again Chip..Thumbs Up

Welcome back..

Larry

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:09 AM

Thanks everyone. Just to catch you all up. I am between layouts. I got the benchwork done, I got stalled coming up with the money for track, my wife's art career took off and she needed the space. I prepared a new space and now we are moving to Arizona and now that room has been abandoned to sell the house. 

Moving to the Cottonwood area outside of Sedona. There is a railroad museum with a layout, but I haven't found a local club.  

Anyway, the wife is looking for a new house with my railroad in mind. I'm thinking 20 x 30, hehe. 

Chip

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:48 AM

Paul,

I'll probably start up some form of website when I start my new layout. I still have the old one on ice. 

Tom, 

Shane is 15, almost 16. I tried to sell his 2-8-0 last year, but he wasn't having any of it. Maybe he will get interested when I build the next layout. He's mostly into video games and wants to make videos about video games. 

Brakie,

You still keeping these foamers in line? 

Chip

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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:55 AM

Sedona is a pretty part of AZ, Chip.  I love the drive up along 89A.  Is Cottonwood artsy like Sedona?

You know you'll eventually have to make the trip down to Tombstone.  Given your six-shooter skills, you could probably become a regular for either the Clantons or the Earps.  The fellas walking around town in costume are pretty gritty and look the part.

Tom

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:06 AM

Tom,

Cottonwood has not quite the views for a lot less the price. My wife has gotten her paintings into a gallery in Sedona and another in Scottsdale--plus she has a sister in Tuscon. 

I considered selling my competition guns before I left, but I think I will keep them. I think the Clantons are safe however.  

Chip

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:12 AM

Chip, it's been SO-O-O-O-O long since we have heard from you. Good to welcome you back again, please stay in touch, and keep us up to date on your relocation plans. Hopefully, another layout will start growing shortly after the move.

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:21 AM

SpaceMouse

Thanks everyone. Just to catch you all up. I am between layouts. I got the benchwork done, I got stalled coming up with the money for track, my wife's art career took off and she needed the space. I prepared a new space and now we are moving to Arizona and now that room has been abandoned to sell the house. 

Moving to the Cottonwood area outside of Sedona. There is a railroad museum with a layout, but I haven't found a local club.  

Anyway, the wife is looking for a new house with my railroad in mind. I'm thinking 20 x 30, hehe.

Welcome back, SpaceMouse! Have enjoyed your website and your posts in the forums. Best wishes on the move to sunny Arizona (Make sure your house has a swamp cooler...). And is the 20 X 30 the house, or the layout size? Whistling

Blessings,

Jim in Cape G.

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Posted by galaxy on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:24 AM

Hi chip

Don't stay.

Don't come back.

Don't post anymore.

Ignore this site.

{maybe reverse psychology will keep you here this time!}

Geeked

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Posted by BRAKIE on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:47 AM

SpaceMouse
Brakie,

You still keeping these foamers in line? 

 

Trying too but,its a big job..Laugh

 

Need your halp..

 

Larry

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:51 AM

Jim and George,

The new layout space is part of the move. Either a basement, a room, or an outbuilding. And yes, 20x30 would be cool. Not that wouldn't settle for 12 x 12. 

G-man,

Don't try that reverse shrinkology on me. I've been to the Spock School of Emotional Control. (And I know the shoulder pinch too.)

Chip

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Posted by selector on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:53 AM

Hi, Chip.  It is good to hear from you again.  I figured your work kept you busy because it involved some learning, practice, and then the actual application a few years back, and I expect that it has been a going concern for you since then.  I recall you dropped in for a brief 'hi' maybe three years back already.

A move is a very big deal, as you surely know, but it is always a fresh start in so many ways.  I hope it works out well for both of you, and your lovely boy...now a teenager?  Time flies.

I wish you well, and hope you will soon be a regular here once again.

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:55 AM

Larry,

Would that title be Deputy Brakeman, or is this an executive assistant job?

Chip

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:00 AM

Crandell,

Glad to see you are still here. It seems kinda peaceful. You must be doing a good job of it. 

As you read, I'm doing the arm-chair modeling thing now. How's your layout doing? I bet by now you've ripped it up and moved up in the world. So, how many double slips?

Chip

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:10 PM

Hey Chip!

Good to see the Spacey Mouse back in here...  So you're moving to Adrid Zonah huh?  Hope it works out wonderfully for you and you get a huge space for a new layout!

Don't forget to show us what you do get and what you make of it!

We have missed you around here!

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:22 PM

Wow Ray, there's some nice stuff on the SLOW.  You have any wide angle shots so I can get a feel for the entire layout? Last thing I saw was your then-new gazebo. 

Chip

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:53 PM

Hi Chip,

Glad to see you back here again for the moment at least. I haven't been here as much myself because I just rebuilt my layout, no scenery or structures yet so nothing worth photographing.  [I do however sneak an occasional 'old layout' picture onto the "Show Me Something ______" thread.]

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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