Morning Folks,
Made a fresh pot.
RT - Seems as though things are headed in the right direction. Hope you find a place in SC and get the fingerprints back soon so you can start the new job.
dweimer - Hope you kick the crud. Lots of folks here have been sick.
jefelectric, brent, fife - Just been thinking about B's layout and what great progress he has made. Really enjoyed the visit last weekend. I wish I had more layout space. Several times in the last few months the Mrs. has mentioned moving, but I really don't want to move. I love Gettysburg. In addition we have too much junk and we have less than a year on our mortgage. Plus a move back to MD would bring taxes on my pension if I ever retire.
Chief - I am jealous that you have tomatoes that big. You'll be eating home grown tomatoes before I get any planted at the rate I am going.
Really busy at work. Lots of little details to get ready for the move into the building plus hiring a bunch more people. Cafeteria Manager is the next hire, interviews Monday. Interviews for Reading Specialist are Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Posted more pics on the website if anyone is interested.
http://www.carrollk12.org/ebbvalley/Photo%20Page.htm
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Brutus wrote: Kurt - I think they do make opaque paint markers? Did you try a Michaels or another store like that? Are you painting right over varnished wood? What color do you want?
Yup...paint over varnished (poly-finish) wood. I added the color yesterday with the paints...didn't turn out as well as hoped. Thanks for looking. The good news is this will stand up to the poly over the top.
Bottom are switches, centers control blocks and UCS, and top are the fuses. To the left is a crane controller, and various other switches, for lighting and accessories. I'll post again when complete.
Rain expected off and on most of today after 4-days of Sun and 70+. Maybe get some track laid, and get the trains a rollin'.
Kurt
HI GIZ,
45 and nice here today. Going up to 76. Gotta cut grass tonite then maybe go TROUT FISHIN?
BRUTUS, the only swinging here is done with a GOLF club. Speaking of which, Me and BRO played last nite and it was uGLY. Played the back nine and both couldn't hit good shots ended tied. Oh well beers tasted good.
BUCKEYE, TGIF!!!!!!!
B good or B GONE,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cloudy 59 degrees. Going up to 75 today, with a chance of showers, later.
Today is a busy day. I have a lot of little things to do around the house. Then later, I will spend some time in the train room, relaxing. Good day to run trains.
Dining car has arrived, early, and is ready for breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Friday. TGIF
Chuck
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with a threat of thundershowers during the day and temps in the 70s. Survived the trip to Bloomington yesterday. Felt out of sorts and sleepy during visit with one daughter while we were down there. I think the visit to IU helped Lucas confirm his decision to go there. When we got home, we found he got a little bit more financial aid from IU, which was good news. More would help, but any is good. I did do weights at the YMCA, but I taped "Lost" since it is on so late. I may watch it tonight. I had English muffins and cereal on the dining car this morning. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 50 here in the Mid-Atlantic region; s'posed to rain later.
mitchie - Why in the world would your lady want to forsake G'berg for Marty-land?
88 - instead of securing from the bottom, why not tie down that truck with black elastic thread, and chock the tires?
Good Morning everyone. Hope all are well and happy today. Thanks for the kind thoughts. I am feeling a little better, but still on the junky side. Mitch, nice looking school. It looks a lot bigger than the high school I attended. RT, continued prayers. I think you will be much happier in the VA System. Benefits are much better than most other employers.
I saw Tony Orlando on Fox this morning. Great that he lost all that weight, but I am more impressed with his hard work for the Troops. I always look up to folks who give of themselves to help our fighting men and women. Now if only our political types would support the troops with actions instead of words.
Well, I have a relatively light day here, so I hope to just hang around for a little while and then head to the house to wait on the Dishwasher repair folks. Maybe that will be some time well spent working on the layout....I hope. My head is hurting, so maybe I'll rest.
God Bless,
dennis
TCA#09-63805
Morning all. Grey but warm. Probably going to rain. Thanks for the tips, Doug and Brutus. I read about scale couplers but it didn't sink in. I'll figure something out. Mitch, the school photos look great - it's really coming along. Dennis, hope you can rest today. Think I'm taking the middle boy to a coffee house tonight so he can play his gui-tar. It's not his usual heavy-metal-ish sound :)
Almost forgot, Brent, in similar circumstances, I made a new pin from an old sprue from plastic model kit. Cut it, shaped it a bit so it would plug in but glued it in.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
GOOD MORNING
It's warm for here 60, might rain and might not? I haven't started my day yet but reading the post I see many of you are very busy. So good luck as you go through the day and Dennis I hope you feel better real soon. It's probably too early for banilla.......S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Sorry I've been absent posting of late. Son's car died again (auto disaster...., a semiannual tradition), and (surprise again, NOT) no money to fix the transmission. I have been successful so far convincing wifey that we should just let him stew (see what you have to look forward to Roy?), keep the bank accounts in the black, and stop being the perpetual free answer to transportation issues . When I was his age....... One question: at one point do the kids who have ostensibly moved out to stretch their independence legs remove their from the homestead and move on financially and emotionally? Need to move to Roseyville while leaving no forwarding address.
Meanwhile, we nearly lost our (wife's child replacement) 9 year old rescued Doberman Duke to "hemorrhagic gastroenteritis." Vomit and diarrhea city, dog went from near normal to what appeared to be death's door in about 10 hours.
Took dog to the veterinary hospital emergency room in the middle of the night. Upon arrival, nearly lost my mind when we were presented with the "estimate" for his care, 70% down and balance due on pickup of either carcass or dog, whichever. Weeping wife asked, "What do you think we should do?" A trick question, I thought. If something like this ever happens to me, she might conclude "Jack was a faithful and loyal old boy, but we've got to let him go. Can't stand to see him suffering like this. Give him the needle and throw his carcass in the trunk of the car."
36 hours later the dog was home. Doing the math on a per hour basis, you would have thought the dog was staying in the penthouse suite at the Boston Four Seasons Hotel with caviar, running Dom Perignon champage, and a half dozen in-heat female poodles at his beck and call. Come to think of it, that would have been cheaper.
Anyway, it was 36 and sunny this AM in my neck of the woods North of Boston, a far cry from 82 just two days ago. When I read all of you guys out there with overgrown tomato plants and about to drop that second coat of fertilizer.......In March we were deluged with rain and runoff. Now we have a "fire watch" and .3 inches of precipitation in April with no appreciable rain in the forecast until the middle of the coming week.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Morning. Three rows of corn planted, "scratch" one squirrel with new high powered airrifle and then breakfast cooked. Now out to weedeat and mow grass.
Jack, good luck with the dog. Hope it gets better soon.
Got Town Hall stuff to do later today.
Have a good one and God bless.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
fifedog wrote:88 - instead of securing from the bottom, why not tie down that truck with black elastic thread, and chock the tires?
cnw1995 wrote: Almost forgot, Brent, in similar circumstances, I made a new pin from an old sprue from plastic model kit. Cut it, shaped it a bit so it would plug in but glued it in.
Howdy Boys n Girls...
Well the celebration is on.....but first:
The boss caught wind of the pending job interviews and freaked out in a good way....I'll be turning down 1 job, as the inital pay plan would have me starve until July...not gonna happen.
2nd job interview went very well, in-person will happen on Tuesday afternoon.
The boss says don't do anything until the group Vice President and the Comptroller return from St. Louis, Monday. A bigger pay check? Weeeeeee'll see....
Very busy here, just makes me crazy (which isn't a far stretch..stop it Fife...) keep on keepin' on and all that....
Nice day today, 'bout 80 or so, light wind a little cloudy. I'm thinkin' this is a Dave & Busters night, a little Def Leppard (Pour Some Sugar On Me) on the computer speakers 95.9 WRAT in NJ, so we be rockin' out a bit (boy THIS is gonna aggravate my Tinitus.....
Workin on the RailRoad (Train Works) 2 morrow, so gotta be good as tonight:I HIT 53!!!!
And I look darn good for my age!!!!
So you all forgive me for tootin' my own horn here, but it's great to be here and, the way I figure it, I have another 72 to go. Gotta stick around long enough to tee off the people that don't like me, and check out the Great Great Grand kids (don't have any Grand kids yet...it's a good thing!)
Dennis: Hope yer feelin' better
Prayers and salutations to all that need and deserve 'em. I'll be raising a glass to my forefathers, my living family and friends and those firefighters & warriors that make it all possible.
CHEERS!!
Rich -- age=wisdom, and boy am I wise...
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Happy Birthday, Rich!
Well, I'm just hanging out with Chewy, waiting for my son to get home from school outing so we can go to boyscout camporee - of course it's overcast, big storms coming, and temps to drop all weekend after a nice couple of weeks. I think this is one of those things where whatever can go wrong will go wrong? So, just stopping in for a quick cup of joe, a donut and to say hi and I hope you all have a great weekend! TTFN
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good Evening All,
Barely avoided a big scrum of cars on my way home from East Boston. Half wound up facing the wrong way, debris everywhere, About 10 people standing outside their cars in the middle of the road. Good idea to exchange info. Bad idea in the middle of the evening rush when those still with operable cars are in a hurry to get home and are dodging the people and the smashed cars like a yellow cauition during a Nascar race.
Sir James......thanks for the photos of your layout. Brutus' expertise scanning old photos was impressive. Is that a Lionel #115 lighted train station covered in plastic on the corner of your layout? Nice diesels!
CSX.......continued wishes on your successful quest. Bet you are going broke buying new clothes, unless you are like me and saved the ones from 10-15 years ago in the unlikely event I would ever see that weight again.
Mike C.......sounds like the past couple of months your Y workouts have gone from difficult and challenging to boring. That's good. And on the topic if IU, there's a home equity loan commercial on the radio here where the Dad gets the news from his wife that Junior just got accepted at "$50,000 A Year University."
Chief.....hope the wife is back to normal and you continue to work your way back at a sensible pace, though it sounds like you are pushing the envelope a bit. Except for the popcorn and reclinerizing.
RT......we're going to have to give you the nickname "Rocky" because you refuse to quit. My prayers that your househunting trip is encouraging and Uncle VA makes a but correct decision in your favor.
Dennis......look at what the "crud" did to Chief. Hope you don't have to go through what he did. Messed up his typing and spelling big time, and no mention of grits for a while. Serious repercussions. The squirrels are paying the price.
Laz......put some bait on that hook this time....the trout like it, and you can be the one with the larger catch for a change.
Mitch.....thanks for the construction project pics. Our town is breaking ground on a (at last estimate) a $63 million renovation and expansion while at the same time cutting the number of elementary schools by 2, and wondering how to close another school budget deficit, $2.5 million this time. No money, and the City will come looking for the solution through a steep jack in the property taxes, yet again. Welcome to Taxachussetts. Re train space or a lack thereof, join the club. It dawned on me that one day I have to pay off the mortgage, downsize, and still acquire train space. Too much junk laying around. I need a good fire (insured), after I move the trains out of the house.
J&J John.....haven't heard how you are recovering. Hope you are mending nicely.
Brent.....coffee spraying out my nose with your earlier post. Let's see......work, school, house projects, building a dream layout at breakneck speed, and you note "Not much going on here." Compared to what? The building of the pyramids?
Rich..... #53. Remember, old=your chronological age + 20.
Thanks for the kind thoughts guys. I am a little better, but I do believe the wife has it too. It is bad when we get sick, but when the matriarchs of our abodes get ill, it is really bad. The kids, the house, so much they do, so much we get to take for granted. Guess I am going to have to get busy.
Well, the repair folks came by for the dishwasher.....$80 to turn the thing on, say the noise is a impeller for the pump and that they come as a single unit...will call with estimate....$410. I think it is time to go for a new one.
Rich, Happy Birthday...you don't look a day over 60...just kidding! Congratulations on your special day. Best wishes in the job front. Watching cartoons with the kids...reminds me of my days in the firehouse. Hope to get into the train room tonight. Have to make sure kids are taken care of. Might have to wait till after bed time.
Hope y'all have a blessed weekend
Dennis
Good evening All
Happy birthday Rich. 53 ah to be young again.
the 115 station in the pic.,It is a 1988 Lionel Classic remake,I use two of them. The Lionel Classic's were produced by MTH for Lionel during the good years when they were on speaking terms. Why their arrangement broke down is another story.
Our temp reached 80 today, but rain expected before morning is bringing cooler temps. that are going to stay awhile. But its been a beautiful two weeks. No trains ran here today but I did talk to my train friend about trains so that counts. Enjoy the weekend,,,S.J.
edit Roger B I have this MTH number from that other forum-Midge-410-381-2580 You will leave a message and she returns the calls, I believe she is the only human working there.
Well I bought a house today you might say we made an offer and they have verbablely accepted it. It was listed for 69,900 and were getting it for 61,000and they pay all closing cost. 1300 sq feet with a fireplace in the den. Oh yeah 3 bedroom one bath guess one bedroom office storage one bedroom ours and one bedroom will be a train room!!!!
It was 80 degrees today when we were init with no electric on and it was cool inside I'm guessing from the shade of the trees.
Talk to you all later real tired
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Roger,
MTH customer service can be reached at: 410-381-2580, ask for Midge Wilburn.
Evening fellers. It was a big day today, my birthday! The big 1-4!
Just yesterday me and a friend at school discovered that we are actually older than we say we are. Why? Leap years. Each leap year adds and extra day to that year. So, in truth, 14 years ago today was not April 25. It would be April 28th. Funny, huh?
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
#14, Grayson! Your post made me stop and think. I sat here for a while and tried to remember what it was like when I was 14.
Let's see. I turned 14 during the second semester of my Freshman year in high school. The downsides.....I was too small and uncoordinated to make any of the sports teams, but that changed. Wasn't much of a student, but that changed too. Things I worried about one year seemed funny the next.
I had my Postwar Lionels cranking on the layout my Dad built for us, a 2 line affair with inner and outer loops powered by a ZW and connected by 4 electric switches and a single switched siding, mountain and tunnels made by hand with wood, chicken wire, paper, and plaster. Strombecker and Eldon 2 lane car race car sets to compliment the trains. Slot cars were huge, and you could go racing your stuff with your friends on large 8 lane commercial tracks.
396 Corvettes, 421 Grand Prix, 389 GTOs, E-Type Jaguars, the new Mustangs, Lincoln Continentals with the suicide doors, and some of the most beautiful Thunderbirds ever made, except for the 55-57 model years. Ford, Chrysler, Pontiac, and Chevy all duking it out on Nascar with 7 Ltr. monster motors, no stinking restrictor plates. Clark Super 100 gasoline......100 octane from the pump!
Our first color television! There were no cell phones, so my friends and I saved our money and bought 2 way radios, Walkie talkies with a .5 mile range if you got the good ones. Air conditioning was called a window fan. My transportation was a lime green Schwinn Varsity 10 speed bicycle purchased with money ($69.95) earned from a paper route, mowing lawns (the term landscaping hadn't been invented yet), and shovelling snow by hand. Keds and PF Flyers, shoes we called sneakers. The NASA efforts to be the first to put a man on the moon. Rotary dial telephones that lit up in the dark. Seatbelts in cars were a rare option. We had hi-fi because stereo hadn't been invented yet. A 23 inch television was the largest, if my memory serves me correctly......picture a room full of 15 people gathered for the 1963 NFL championship game and trying to watch it all on a screen that size! Gas was about $.25 per gallon and a McDonalds cheeseburger $.12. We had it all, or so it seemed.
Now that you've stopped laughing, go have a ball. You're only 14 once, and you'll be telling similar stupid stories to your kids and grandkids.....though I bet you didn't have to walk to school in 4 feet of snow, uphill in both directions, braving -15 degree temps and 40 mph winds. We didn't have snow days back then, they hadn't been invented.
RockIsland52 wrote: CSX.......continued wishes on your successful quest. Bet you are going broke buying new clothes, unless you are like me and saved the ones from 10-15 years ago in the unlikely event I would ever see that weight again.
I have been going to the thrift stores to get a pair of pants now and then went from a 58 down to 44 and even that is becoming to loose on me.
Got up early and washed both car and truck, played with Space station sim and even ran some of my trains the day went downhill from there on.
Congradulations !!!!!!!
RT - On your new home !!!!! And, certain job !!!!!
Grayson - Happy 14th (+ 4 days)
CSSX - On the tremendous weight loss.
Don
Greyson Happy 14th CSXect congrats I need to look into loosing some weight again once I get settled in ( and no I'm not one to say and not act I might not accually keep with it but at least I will give it a try again )
Up early as went to bed early but will go back in a couple.
Just wish job would come thru now.
Morning!
Rich: Happy Birthday!
Grayson: Happy Birthday!
RT: Great news on the house! Congratulations!
It is a partly cloudy 66 degrees. Going up to 70 today with a chance of rain.
Today is a busy day. Need to mow grass, if it doesn't rain. Maybe tomorrow. I have a few chores to do and then I will spend some time in the train room. The usual cleaning and putting things in place. Not much else new here.
Indians beat the Yankees last night. 6 to 4. Wife is happy.
Dining car is here and it's time for breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
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