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2008 [PART 2] and the Coffee Pot is still on and now 4 years old. Here we gather as friends with trains. Sweet ice tea too.

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Posted by sir james I on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:23 AM

Good Morning All

A nice morning going to 70 so they say. Time will tell.

Brutus  the cake was good,thanks. Chief we thought about you but figured you would rather have grits so Kurt at your peice. and his.

Still have no plans for today so I will say,Stay safe.,,,,,,S.J.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:15 AM
Morning all. I miss one day of posting - and missed the chocolate cake, Brutus getting TMCC, muddy Scouts, Brent and Fife "training" together, Buckeye invading Pittsburgh, the Chief eating Crappies, and miracle of miracles - a seventy degree April day in Michigan. Sad about CH's passing - an Illinois boy.

Have to get busy figuring out how to celebrate the bride's birthday this weekend. Almost forgot my wacky news of the week. Talked to my brother this Sat. Turns out he got married in Vegas last Sat. to a Brazilian girl he knows from visiting Rio. I thought he was April-fooling me, but I saw pictures online at their wedding chapel. How about that?

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Posted by laz 57 on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:54 AM

HI GIZ,

  42 here and grey skys.  Ugly day today but the good thing is the kids at the HS are stocking trout today.  Going with BRO tomorrow nite after school.  I won't go tonite because fish need that time to get aclimated with water.  We never catch fish when they put them in the same day.

BRUTUS, sounds like a winner with that vat car.  But SWEET TEA?

DOUG, did ELVIS marry them?

BUCKEYE, I'll be down to see you when you get to HERSHEY.  Then we can meet up with JELECTRIC in ETOWN and take you to BARRYs and COOL TRAINS and maybe to Straussburg?  We'll see?

B GOOD or B GONE,

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, April 7, 2008 11:03 AM

Morning.  Phone been ringing since 8:15.  Something all the time.  Went to gro and got necesseries [milk, OJ, bread and etc].  Now changing for County Comm meeting and Roseyville is helping County and School System buy land for middle school in Roseyville.  This is a first for Wake Co.  No other Town has done this.  Then got 4:45 meeting with Dr. who is opening a dialysis center here.  Town Board at 7 PM.  WOW, what a day.  Rainy and cloudy.  Need to be able to do beds in garden.  Tomatoes, cucumbers and squash plants are getting too leggy and are under shelter.  Growing too fast in greenhouse.  Need to transplant the 4' tall tomato plants too.  Got to go.  Have a great day.

 

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Posted by cheapclassics on Monday, April 7, 2008 11:22 AM

Good early afternoon all,

IIABSDISEI with temps near 70.  Somehow I missed posting this morning.  It is nice that the weather is getting better.  I had three hours of meetings this morning.  Ugh!  I do not have much to report since last night except that bacon and biscuits were on the dining car again.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by dbaker48 on Monday, April 7, 2008 11:25 AM
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  Now changing for County Comm meeting Censored [censored]Blindfold [X-)]Blush [:I] Shy [8)]Oops [oops]

 

Chief - You gotta remember this is a G rated forum !!  Not a good idea for you to be changing while posting !!  Whistling [:-^]

 

BTW - Over the weekend I developed a smph calculator that I needed for our clubs "Operations Session"  if anyone wants a copy of it, just email me.  It is done in a Excel program, the way it works is.  You define a specific distance on your layout, (eg 3 ft), measure the time for your engine to travel the distance in seconds, and walla there's the answer.  Will also work on various scales.  

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Posted by dougdagrump on Monday, April 7, 2008 11:54 AM
 dbaker48 wrote:
 ChiefEagles wrote:

  Now changing for County Comm meeting Censored [censored]Blindfold [X-)]Blush [:I] Shy [8)]Oops [oops]

 

Chief - You gotta remember this is a G rated forum !!  Not a good idea for you to be changing while posting !!  Whistling [:-^]

 

BTW - Over the weekend I developed a smph calculator that I needed for our clubs "Operations Session"  if anyone wants a copy of it, just email me.  It is done in a Excel program, the way it works is.  You define a specific distance on your layout, (eg 3 ft), measure the time for your engine to travel the distance in seconds, and walla there's the answer.  Will also work on various scales.  

Don,

When you have your first operating session will anybody be filming the activities or at least some stills of the aftermath? Censored [censored]Blindfold [X-)]Shock [:O]Dead [xx(]

When we run multiple trains on one line we have specific sidings for stopping to wait for oncoming traffic to clear, much simpler but we still end up with the "Ooops". Which results in having your photos posted on our web site if this occurs on a friday or sunday. For me it would be far to stressful to do it on a speed basis, it always seems that your attention is diverted by a guest and the next thing you hear is Crash.

Best of luck, and remember to to take your least valuable consist. Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by dwiemer on Monday, April 7, 2008 12:01 PM

Don, thanks for the smph email...great idea. 

As to selecting the TPC400, I have a tendancy to go with more than less.  My layout is a moderate size with a full yard.  I have several loops, all connected on the main level.  If I have some trains in the "hole" and want to keep them powered, as well has having some on the loops, I figure I could exceed the TPC300's capabilities, so it is just security.  I also have two other levels up from the main level that are isolated loops.  I want to have control of  these on my postwar items.  Probably can get away with smaller units than the TPC400.

Well, hope y'all have a great day,

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2008 12:17 PM

Afternoon all!

Another sunny, beautiful day with filthy piles of snow slowly disappearing.  Peliated (sp?) Woodpeckers have been making short work of a rotten Maple out by the driveway.  We park away from there, fearing the tree will come down at any time.  This morning there was 6 wild Turkeys struttin' across the property.  These birds seem to be new to the area in the last few years.

  Played a bit with the GG1 last night.  I'm afraid it's no longer brand new.  I just couldn't resist lubing it up and running it for the very first time in it's life to prove that it was a good runner.  A few laps around the layout gave the drive wheels an ever so slightly used shine.  I slept soundly knowing I didn't buy a piece of junk like the previous nylon geared MPC version.  It's back in it's box now, never having the pantographs attached and the rubber insulators installed.

When I connected a TPC 400 to the layout I must have done something wrong.  All I was able to get it to do was turn full power to the track on and off.  I could never run conventional locos by remote due to this and never figured out how to vary voltage.  Once Legacy arrived I yanked the TPC and now simply toggle myself a loop to run conventionally with one handle on the old ZW.  I'll save the TPC for the next layout in the attic when TMCC1 gets reinstalled on the old one.

Well, if they don't find ya handsome, at least let them find ya handy.

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Posted by kpolak on Monday, April 7, 2008 12:31 PM

Bruce:  Just read your signature...Laugh [(-D]  Hilarious.  I don't know why I haven't really paid much attention to it until now.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2008 12:49 PM
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Bruce:  Just read your signature...Laugh [(-D]  Hilarious.  I don't know why I haven't really paid much attention to it until now.

Kurt

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2008 2:32 PM
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Bruce:  Just read your signature...Laugh [(-D]  Hilarious.  I don't know why I haven't really paid much attention to it until now.

Kurt

Kurt,

I adopted ( read stole ) it from another online buddy.  It seemed suitable considering my past online habit.  Since then I really have been "Outside" more often.

Ignore that man from MA behind the curtain! Wink [;)]

Geez...I can't tell MA from PABanged Head [banghead]

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Posted by dwiemer on Monday, April 7, 2008 3:22 PM

Kurt, you may be interested in that the Henry Ford museum just purchased a GG1.  I was not able to read the whole article, but did see the headline.  I understand the HFM has some great pieces to check out.  They did a show of "Workin' on the Railroad" from there.

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Posted by kpolak on Monday, April 7, 2008 4:45 PM

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Because you're from Michigan? Whistling [:-^]Big Smile [:D]Shock [:O]Confused [%-)]Laugh [(-D]Bow [bow]

Shock [:O]  Hey is that light finished yet?  Laugh [(-D]  Big Smile [:D]

Brutus:  Picked up my remote and base today!  Time to start reading.  I think I'm going to go the Mini Commander route, instead of getting something to run conventional, and run conventional with the transformer.  Let me know how the Docksider turns out.

Bruce:  I know just what you're talking about...Time to get back to real.

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Posted by sir james I on Monday, April 7, 2008 4:58 PM

WOW a GG1 at the HFM: that would be outstanding. I only got to see one running once, it approched and past so fast I never had a chance to get a picture. Got inside one at the Penn.RR  museum. I think it was there, I know I was in one someplace.

Temp reached 72 today, a one day event but so what it did it.       S.J.

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Posted by kpolak on Monday, April 7, 2008 6:16 PM

I didn't find anything about the GG-1 in the news...trying to find out when it will be on display...That will be awesome!  There's an enormous engine inside...I was there about 5-years ago, so I don't remember the type, and there is a guided tour from inside the pit, under an engine in the roundhouse.

SoapBox [soapbox] 

I did see some clown flapping his mouth about having the Michigan Central Station demolished.  Like it's the only old unused building in Detroit...  Someone must want the property, and not want to face up to taking down the building.

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Posted by GregM on Monday, April 7, 2008 6:40 PM
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  There's an enormous engine inside...

 

Here is a link to a thead on the enormous engine.

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1317402/ShowPost.aspx

 

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Posted by fifedog on Monday, April 7, 2008 6:43 PM
Evenin' boys.  I've read recently where the 1st Ohio has been leading expeditions into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Fearing meeting a superior force, the 44th Carolina (the famed GRITS brigade) has cancelled its planned raid on the hamlet of YORK.  I think a war council is in order for early June.Pirate [oX)]
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Posted by jefelectric on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:11 PM

A little more info on the GG1.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4909, which has spent years rusting alongside a highway in New York State, will get a new home at the Henry Ford Museum, the New York Daily Star reported. One of the nation's premier history and culture museums, the Henry Ford is buying the engine from the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society.

No. 4909, one of 16 surviving GG1s out of a class of 139, will be restored to PRR Tuscan Red with pinstripes. Before it moves, the museum will remove asbestos from the engine, as well as its transformer.

The Leatherstocking group had long wanted to restore No. 4909, but was never able to raise the money. "I think it's fantastic," said Bruce Hodges, Leatherstocking's president. "I can't think of a better home to go to than the Ford Museum."

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:17 PM
 jefelectric wrote:

A little more info on the GG1.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4909, which has spent years rusting alongside a highway in New York State, will get a new home at the Henry Ford Museum, the New York Daily Star reported. One of the nation's premier history and culture museums, the Henry Ford is buying the engine from the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society.

No. 4909, one of 16 surviving GG1s out of a class of 139, will be restored to PRR Tuscan Red with pinstripes. Before it moves, the museum will remove asbestos from the engine, as well as its transformer.

The Leatherstocking group had long wanted to restore No. 4909, but was never able to raise the money. "I think it's fantastic," said Bruce Hodges, Leatherstocking's president. "I can't think of a better home to go to than the Ford Museum."

 



OH THE TRAVESTY!!!! A true PRR Icon relegated to residing in Michigan!!!! Sigh [sigh] Guess that means I'll have to make another run to Michigan to see her in her restored glory. Oh well. Wink [;)]
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Posted by cooltech on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:19 PM

Well Sunday was cloudy and cool. For three days the local weather folks said it was to be the best of the three, Fri.-Sun. Where else can you work and be wrong 50% of the time and still keep your jobBig Smile [:D] Just kiding to all you meteorologists out there.

A couple pages ago there were some remarks about job issues and such. I actualy went back to school after job problems and chnged carreers. Cost me in salary but some benifit advantages and at the tender age of 54 it is a very nice atmosphere where I'm at now.

Church was nice yesterday and I hope the best of blessings on all.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:20 PM
 laz 57 wrote:

BUCKEYE, I'll be down to see you when you get to HERSHEY.  Then we can meet up with JELECTRIC in ETOWN and take you to BARRYs and COOL TRAINS and maybe to Straussburg?  We'll see?

B GOOD or B GONE,

laz57

Laz, John, 88,

The conference is at Hershey Lodge.  On Friday, June 13th , they have a tour of the Straussburg Railroad.  I assume they will let me run the engines since it is an engineering conference.  Cool [8D]  Knowing my luck, the darn thing will fall off the track and I will get blamed.

I'm required by the laws of the State of Buckeyeland to have several hours of continuing education.  To meet this requirement for continuing education, on Saturday I will be taking a technical tour of the Conway Yard and some old stone railroad bridge near Harrisburg.  I know it will be real boring and technical, so most of you would not want to go.  Sigh [sigh]  

Saturday night they have a banquet where you wear your Sunday best and eat with more than one fork.  I think we are also getting a personal tour and dinner at some old car place near Hershey.  If I wanted to see old cars I would just head to Roseyville.  They have a bunch of old cars.

Is there any fish around Hershey?  When do we want to meet to go over the "Roseyville Rascal Control Plan, Version 2008"? What type of beer is good in that part of the country?  I don't like that green bottle stuff that you guys send west, so I hope you have something better. 

BTW, do you think you could delay York until I get there in June?

More later.

Almost forgot............

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Posted by sir james I on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:25 PM

EVENING ALL

Oh boy a GG1, thats great,but like Kurt I have not heard anything locally about it. I guess tv news producers are not railfans.   Plus we had a great weather day. Now if I could just win the lottery. Played outside today,no trains. Degassed the snowblower and its in its summer spot in the garage. Went for a walk,but to early to smell roses.Going to leave you and watch a tv show thats been off due to the writers strike. Sleep well.....Chewy behave and good nite,,S.J.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Monday, April 7, 2008 8:53 PM
 sir james I wrote:

 Degassed the snowblower and its in its summer spot in the garage.

We won't do that in Buckeyeland until the end of the month.  One of our largest snowfalls recorded 10" in April 1987. Shock [:O]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:15 PM
 Buckeye Riveter wrote:
 laz 57 wrote:

BUCKEYE, I'll be down to see you when you get to HERSHEY.  Then we can meet up with JELECTRIC in ETOWN and take you to BARRYs and COOL TRAINS and maybe to Straussburg?  We'll see?

B GOOD or B GONE,

laz57

Laz, John, 88,

The conference is at Hershey Lodge.  On Friday, June 13th , they have a tour of the Straussburg Railroad.  I assume they will let me run the engines since it is an engineering conference.  Cool [8D]  Knowing my luck, the darn thing will fall off the track and I will get blamed.

I'm required by the laws of the State of Buckeyeland to have several hours of continuing education.  To meet this requirement for continuing education, on Saturday I will be taking a technical tour of the Conway Yard and some old stone railroad bridge near Harrisburg.  I know it will be real boring and technical, so most of you would not want to go.  Sigh [sigh]  

Saturday night they have a banquet where you wear your Sunday best and eat with more than one fork.  I think we are also getting a personal tour and dinner at some old car place near Hershey.  If I wanted to see old cars I would just head to Roseyville.  They have a bunch of old cars.

Is there any fish around Hershey?  When do we want to meet to go over the "Roseyville Rascal Control Plan, Version 2008"? What type of beer is good in that part of the country?  I don't like that green bottle stuff that you guys send west, so I hope you have something better. 

BTW, do you think you could delay York until I get there in June?

More later.

Almost forgot............

Mike C.........My neighbor won his first IRL race yesterday.  Nice kid.Thumbs Up [tup]



This sounds an aweful lot like work! Wink [;)] Isn't Conway Yard outside Pittsburgh?

Since you seem to have a packed weekend, you better name the time, Laz and JohnF will have to name the place.
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Posted by fifedog on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:18 PM
Buckeye - Conway Yard is in Pittsburgh.  Enola Yard is across the river from Harrisburg, around the bend from that old stone bridge you're talking about.  I am familiar with these places.
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Posted by sir james I on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:18 PM

Buckeye what you say is very true. But if it snows now it can stay till it melts. I'm done with it.

I always remember a tiger opener that the snow was so bad you could not see the outfield.

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Posted by Brutus on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:33 PM

Hey guys, was reading the coffee pot and got a nice call from a fine gentleman, Rt!  Had a short talk, because we were putting the kids to bed at the same time, sorry buddy!  Might type more in a few minutes, but wanted to say good night to all and we still have a piece of cake for you Chief, if you want to mosey over here later!  Chewy knows the secret knock and will let you in!  Shave and a hair cut.

 Sir James, Kurt, Doug and ALL are welcome to stop by and have some Karmel Sutra or Chocolate Cake - also have diet root beer!  Laz, we have a Bud Light and two Sam Adams in the Fridge too, if you want a sip!?

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:50 PM

 fifedog wrote:
Buckeye - Conway Yard is in Pittsburgh.  Enola Yard is across the river from Harrisburg, around the bend from that old stone bridge you're talking about.  I am familiar with these places.

Yes he does.  He is a great guide for NS but that is all he is good for. Whistling [:-^]

Meeting are over until tomorrow AM, then Dr's apt tomorrow afternoon ended with a RBC grand opening [free snacks]. 

Off to bed after popcorn.  Good night all.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Monday, April 7, 2008 9:52 PM
Yeah my dinner was about ready as we ended ( I eat late as work late lol.) Was great talking to you Jim. Not to much happening here I almost forgot when you work for the goverment its hurry up and wait It all coming back but I'm not even working for them yet Jim but guess I will be soon lol.

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