Toy train operating and collecting

 Happy Birthday John Philip Sousa!!!!  Number 155, rumor has it that Chief was a triangle player in the band unders Sousa's baton   I'm sure the Chief will "chime" in soon ......

TGIF

Dennis --> Prayers for your mother and family.

Fort Hood ---> Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by this tragidy.

Hey,

- Dennis, Jim Phish & Ft. Hood victims.

Lots of issues here - leaving for NJ for a week, hope that things will get better during my stay.

Yeah, Fife, I agree....

Check back later.

Aloha all. TGIF - the day before Brutus' birthday.

Good Morning

Frosty and 20s early this morning. Sun is warming things some. No plans for the day, nice chat with Brutus and RT last nite. Big event in Mo. tomorrow, as already noted Brutus is having a birthday....S.J.

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a clear, sunny 34 degrees. Going up to 54 today with sunshine.

Today is an easy day. This has been a very busy week. I plan on relaxing and running trains , later. Trainroom needs some dusting.

Buckeye....TGIF

Prayers out to all those in need. Especially, the folks in Fort Hood.

Dining car has been here from " Points West " . We had the usual for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

Good Morning all,

Just wanted to report a BUSY weekend ahead, A Maintenance Car arrived!!  And a whole lot of work scheduled for its stay.  Looks like the crew has been working very hard, seems they are losing weight.  Won't be too rough on them.

Take care and have a great day !!

Morning all.  Back from Court with Grady [neighbor].  Got him a Public Defender.  Judge says if found guity, you have to pay Public Defender.  How do you do that with no income????   Ended up helping lady who is a wittness of a theft at Dollar General.  Guy didn't show [one of the gang at the pond] and they don't notify wittness that they can leave.  One of my PD officers was the arresting officer and she got it taken care of early so lady could leave and go back to work. 

Got to go finish getting up leaves.  Then we will suck up Grady's leaves.

20 degrees!!!!  Not here.  Might have our first freeze tonight.

Sure glad Shake and Bake has to work all weekend as I have to do Mayor things all weekend.  Well, maybe not Sunday.

Later.

BRUTUS

 It's been along time for me on here. Mid 40's now ,up to 50's later.Heading to son's pond tomorrow to get some fishing in before the ice covers the pond.Obama signed a bill for near $500 million to help the Great Lakes,most of it will go to Lake Erie.Walleye,smallmouth and perch here I come.

 Wrote my congressman about how retired federal employee are getting the shaft Tim Ryan,my congressman and Betty Sutton,the one next door to me,are pretty good for helping the middle class folk.In fact it was an Ohio congresswoman who got theCash for Clunkers.(Worked for Me got a new Ford Flex)

We just have to remember the USA has a history of picking lousy leaders.(name your own) But WE WILL GET THROUGH IT! We always bounce back

 

 

Don Thompson

fifedog:

Mornin' boys.  "I heard the news today, oh boy..."

Ole Timer - Ignore him.  I do.

SPMAn - The HO crowd has been running command control for over 30 years, hence the cheaper costs.

Fifey, I will take your word for it but I never heard of it that far back.  I used to belong to an HO club in the 1960's and dabbled in it with my klds through the 70's but everything I knew about then was conventional.  To me the electronics would be about the same in HO or O but I suppose speaker sizes and things like that would be smaller to fit in HO engines.  Other than that, what's the difference?  Electronics are electronics.  My adult son told me that some of the HO engines sold now are command ready so I guess it would be a matter of just plugging in some electronics.  Just a my guess.  Apparently upgrading O gauge stuff is more labor intensive than HO.  If not, then we are being taken for a ride.  The amount of HO trains sold must be a lot greater than O so maybe that is a factor in the cost.

Ray

 

cnw1995:

Aloha all. TGIF - the day before Brutus' birthday.

 

HAPPY B-DAY BRUTUS! you still counting birthdays?

I will furnish the cake tonight on the tardis. SJ has the Banilla. TBIL

Pat

Hard to believe we have better weather than down southwards. Almost 60 and sunny! Well, one big difference is the closed-ness of our proprietary command systems vs. those in the smaller scales -- DCC is an open standard that many manufacturers can build to - I was putting DCC into N scale locos more than a decade ago.

MTH HO steam is cataloged from $449.00 to $599., thats not cheap from where I sit. If I were in HO on the store shelf is where they would sit. 2010 Vol. 1,pgs. 9 and 10.

Not much going on today. I had another potential Christmas gift fall through. I saw an ad on that popular classifieds site for an 89 Probe LX, but it has been sold already. So, I'll start calling the yards next week to see if I can find one that hasn't been wrecked. I shouldn't have passed on two of them a few years ago. The smoke unit parts for the 302 didn't get here today, so it is still in pieces. I need to replace the link coupler anyway.