Mornin' Fellas.Not much news around these parts... so I'll focus this post on my 'friends'.Mike C. - Not certain as to what is going on right now, but we'll put you on our 'job prayer list'. We are dealing with a bit of a situation ourselves, aint easy let me tell you. This isn't the first time I've had to deal with this, hopefully it is the last, all I know is this time around my relationship is a heck of a lot stronger and we'll weather it together instead of in court. I kind of wish I had known this group of fellas back then as, for some reason, they seem to be solid foundation for many of us when times are rough. I know this is just words, but I really do find you all to be friends, if you or anyone else here needs to talk, shoot me an email I will provide other contact information as necessary.anjdevil - You too will be added to the prayer list.I've been off and on around here for the last 6 months and I do try to keep up with what is going on... just gets tough sometimes.Fife - shoulder shot? What the heck happened man?David L - We don't mind you 'hanging out' with us, however it would be nice if you participated.
Thanks guys, nope didn't throw myself on the fork, it was kinda thrust on me....
But I guess this is a wake up call, though not as severe as Mike's seems to be.
Mike, I hope you stick around, even if you check in once inna while. I found my family not to be as socible as I thought and my sister is working her problems out as well. This was just added to make this whole experience more "fun", on top of the fun I am having now.
Mike, for what it's worth, my friends at home in Jersey and my friends here, provide the support and encouragement (and a needed laugh - thanks again, RT) when you really need it. Nobody knows what you or I are going through, to be sure, but it's people from here and up there that will help us make it through the tough times. After all, with Deacon Jim here (and maybe the Chief), we have a little influence from the Maker, don't cha think?
Thanks again, guys. I might reveal all after the smoke clears ( and wouldn't cha know, my positive pressure fan is in the shop again - - firefighter humour).
See ya inna bit!
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
88 - "Shoulder shot" was a case Dennis reported on from GA.
anjdevil: Wow. Prayers for you and your Bride. I mentioned earlier, we are going thru the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace seminars...Christian based, 13 week seminar with small group interaction. So far very informative, and has brought the Bride back into the finances. I was doing all the shopping and finances, including trains, food and clothes. Accountability is a good thing. Dave also offers a couple of books, that should be worth the effort.
cheapclassics: Mike, prayers for your situation as well. I hope you stick around. You don't need to air your laundry here, simple chit-chat is sometimes a welcome diversion.
Kurt
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 35 degrees. Going up to 50 today with sunshine. Do you think that Spring is coming ??
Today is an easy day. Got my haircut yesterday and stopped for some leg therapy advice. Looks good. Maybe I will run trains for an hour or two this afternoon.
MIKE.....If you leave the Forum....who will I have breakfast with ??.....Stick with us and we'll help you thru this !!!!!!!!!
Buckeye.....TGIF
Dining car was here and headed to " Points West ". Had the usual menu .
Y'all have a great Friday
Chuck
Dennis - I went back through the animations book by Roy Everett and it is true, nothing is said about how the transfer table works. The same is true of his coke ovens with their red glow and changing scene, and his "Mousebelly Station" with its flickering fireplace. Maybe he was planing a second book. This one was Copyrighted in 1999.
Chief - I didn't see a response to my free scented smoke post. You do know it was a "Tongue in Cheek" thing. Right?
Patrick L
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
HI GYZ,
18 here today gonna get to 47? I am running trains tonite in the MAN CAVE in MILLERSBURG, Pa. Hope NO PILE UPs?
MIKE C. HANG in there BUDDY. You got the prayer TRAIN running for you and that does help.
BUCKEYE, as CHUCK said TGIF, BTW nice photos.
Stay FROSTY,
laz57
Wow, checking in this morning catches me with my head spinning. Rich, didn't know that was going on, but I have already said a prayer for you, and for Mike and Brent.....man, what a way to check in. Mike, stay with us....at least as a occasional check in. This is a place of res-peace. One caveat is that our families come first, so don't spend all your time here when you have a family waiting.
For those interested, the movie we did "Fireproof" is about saving marriage, and lifting it up. The DVD comes out on January 27th. If you can't afford it, email me and I will buy a copy and send it, as our marriages are that important.
Got stuck working late again. Came in and checked the pot, left the computer on and fell asleep. been a hard week. Have had lots of tough stories that make me take stock of all that I am blessed with. Watching a mother, desperate for an answer to save her daughter.....and not a good one to be found. A woman who, through some bad decisions had her arms amputated. Her life of drugs have left her without family to comfort her. And regarding that shooting, while the guy needed to be shot....he had shot at and hit a cop, he still had a mother who is mourning....just tough. I know that others see these kinds of stories....Fife, ya with me?, anyway, please know that we all have many blessings to be thankful for...and this site, to exchange with you all (Y'all...Chief), is one of those blessings.
Train related, I am currently watching a program on Grand Central Station. It is a National Geographic show. Several good shots of old steam and current trains. Lots of history.
I hope everyone has a great day.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Good Morning from beautiful Southern Ohio,
It is a sunny 32°F to get to the mid 40’s today. Nice day to be off. I did get the cars washed yesterday. I will sweep them out today. I also got the 751 painted yesterday (Thanks RT) I baked it overnight in the drying booth. After un-masking we shall see how it turned out. I may reassemble it today.
We don’t have praire dogs but we do have ground hogs, little bigger target. We used to go to the dump and shoot rats. Never ran out of targets.
Mike C – If you ever want to “talk” we are here.
Charlie – Prayers for your bride and her mom and all who loved and will miss her
Rich – He will bring you to it; He will bring you through it just ask then listen.
Chief – on the rare lure, I would tell the person, and offer him half and you both are in better shape than you were before, and no reason for hard feelings on either part.
Dennis – My copy of the DVD is in at Praises bookstore and I am going to pick it up today
Chuck – Good news on the leg.
Buckeye – TGIF
Laz- TGIF, still prayin’ for your bro
May God bless
Jim
Good Morning
Prayers to many this morning, and I can tell Dennis is writing with a heavy heart too. If I start with names I will miss someone so my prayer is for all in need.
Overcast in the 20s, going to 30 something, but they said that yesterday and it never happened. Doesn't matter much as temp is taking a dive tonite. I think a little training this morning and out to a afternoon meal might cover most of my usefull day. 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
Mike,
You're an important contributor here, and I hope you are able to continue!
We all have had our little tribulations, and finding the right words to offer someone is always difficult. I received the following in an email from my wife, and have been saving it.
Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away. Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, I love your cake." "Here, have some cooking oil, " her Mother offers.
"Yuck" says her daughter. "How about "a ! couple raw eggs?" "Gross, Mom!" "Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?" "Mom, those are all yucky!" To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful! God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise Every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
I hope that maybe this may have helped you as it has me.
Don
Morning all. Grey today - Long commute in after the train ahead hit someone running across the tracks... I don't get it - a little late for work versus dead. Hang in there, Rich - prayers for you and Mike C and Charlie. I've also found some wonderful solace from fellow forumites.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good to see all the support here. Makes my heart feel warm. Rich, we ALL have a lot of influence with the Maker. By believing and using the name Jesus, we are all sons of the "Maker". Can't have anymore influence than that.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good Morning,
Warming up for the weekend! Might see 70 for a daytime high on saturday. Yesterday if I sent anyone some orange juice it would have been frozen any place outside or at least it felt that way. I live in south Florida(West Palm Beach, currently half frozen) and should be able to go to the beach without having to bring along jackets even in January. Anjdevil2, I hope you are getting some warmer weather up there in Jacksonville.
Have to get up early tomorrow for train show, got my cash ready for tomorrow. got some stuff together to sell and got some older Gargraves track cut off even at the ends and put pins in the ends, maybe it will sell.
Lee F.
What a Great bunch of fellows on this coffee Pot. Prayers to Rich, Mike and Charlie, stick with the Guys here on the Pot, I find that you can count on them when things are tuff.
Chief: Went by Enola yard today and there were many flats with John Deer tractors. I wonder where all of this equipment is going, last week there were many flats with blue and white tractors on them don't know the make of these.
Hang in there.
Lew
Lew, have to agree with you on the great people here on the Pot. As to the blue and white tractors, probably either New Holland or Ford. Funny, tractor owners are like train folks. Either you like John Deer Green, or New Holland, Ford, Kubota, etc.
Dennis
Thanks for all of the support. As my wifes Grandmother was Canadian and was here staying in the US, We've had to jump through some hoops today to get her body back over to Canada. Finally got everything cleared with the Medical Examiner and Customs. Funeral will be on Tuesday..visitation Sunday and Monday. Again thanks for all the support.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Charlie....Condolances to your family.
Mike C....After being wrongly fired (Yes, I took somebody to the cleaners for the dismissal after we discovered that a young blond skirt was taking my place.), put on part time and an office closed, I feel your pain. Tomorrow will be a better day. Been there and done it.
anjdevil2....Take care of yourself. Keep a clear head and think forward.
TGIF
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
D&H 702 What a Great bunch of fellows on this coffee Pot. Prayers to Rich, Mike and Charlie, stick with the Guys here on the Pot, I find that you can count on them when things are tuff. [A little questionable when it come to Yankees] Chief: Went by Enola yard today and there were many flats with John Deer tractors. I wonder where all of this equipment is going, last week there were many flats with blue and white tractors on them don't know the make of these. [John Deeres coming to NC] [New Holland/Ford going to the Yanks as they are Yankee blue] BTW: I think New Holland and Ford are one company now. Hang in there. Lew
[A little questionable when it come to Yankees]
[John Deeres coming to NC] [New Holland/Ford going to the Yanks as they are Yankee blue] BTW: I think New Holland and Ford are one company now.
Well, it didn't take them long.... Just found out that hidden in the next "Bailout" plan, they have allocated $600 million dollars for the "preparations for Universal Health Care Discussions". and they aren't even gonna kiss us. Actually, once socialized medicine is here, I'll be getting a break. No more call...if you have your heart attack at night, or on the weekend, better hope you survive till monday when I come in to work. Also, instead of having to work long hours, folks will be put on a waiting list, we do X number of cases a day. If it takes you several months for your surgery, good luck. One of our guys trained in London for awhile. Had a gentleman come in with a abdominal aortic aneurysm. He could have easily been healed with emergent surgery, but the administrator said that the patient was over 70 years old and we don't operate on them. We will send him home with some medicine.....boy, I can't wait! Of course the ethical side of me screams out that this just isn't right.
Sorry for my diatribe. Looks like we will be forced to re-evaluate our thoughts on the value of a life.
dennis
Had a co-worker from Great Britain a few years back and he said the same thing. I hoped for better from this admisitration, but as it is, we'll kill our own people with socialistic medicine and let loose the terrorists.
Just got my CTT and conga's to out own Buckeye for the great suggestion. Cheers to you Buckeye!!!
Time for basketball game and whatever else, I'll keep smilin' and hope you all will too. Besides, makes people wonder what you're up to....
Rich
Just this little tid bit from the News Pages of Yahoo....You can call your service companies and request lower bills. One guy they interviewed called AT&T and was able to get more than $50 per month off his bill, without any change in service. Also, another customer did the same thing with cable and DSL service. Y'all may want to check, can't hurt.
Dennis and Rich - If you (and I doubt you did) or anyone else in the forum voted for Obama, my question is What did you expect he would do to Health Care? End of my rant.
cnw1995 - Thanks for looking for PIXAXE Information. I will keep looking.
By the way all, I joined "the other" form with the same Avatar I use here, and they deleted it because it wasn't my picture. What is up with that?
You are correct on my vote, but I thought that they would have gotten through the first week without trying to stick one to us......Oh well.
Had to take advantage of the warmer weather today and wash the salt off the car. Almost forgot what the real color was.
The avatar requirements on the other forum have been questioned a few times but the rule is it must be a picture of poster.
Thought about going to the OTTS meeting tonight but decided to stay home.
Almost forgot, received my CTT today too. Haven't looked at it yet.
Good evening, It's been a few days since I posted here, been real busy. Grandson called last evening and told me he has the day off tomorrow so we will be working on his HO layout.
Yesterday I helped my sister with her computer problems, think everything is OK now.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Wow, go to work for a day, get home and the Coffee Pot is full to the brim! Mike - if you want to, please PM me. Rich, Ditto. Charlie, prayers for the family, it's a tough thing to deal with and made tougher by circumstances. God bless us all as I know there is more pain and stuff going on that people just want to keep inside. One great thing about all you guys and this Coffee Pot is that there is so much support and fellowship here. I hope we all can continue to uplift each other for years to come. Every day I come here to find out how you are all doing and even when I don't remember or think it's important to comment on your posts, I have read them and feel that you are all part of my extended family in a way. All my little smiles and sad faces and frowns and even a few tears here and there don't show through the screen for you all to see, but these posts all touch me one way or another. Except for Dave L, the invisible one, of course ;-) Ah, he made me smile anyway. Seriously, prayers for us all guys.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Evening Folks,
Thought I'd drop in for a quick cup. It gets harder and harder to keep up. Life gets too busy, or should I say work gets too busy.
Got my March CTT and my friend Bob's layout was featured in the photo spread. His layout is the photo with the Williams Blue & White B&O. Really a super layout featuring some HO, S and O.
Had to go to Dr yesterday as having trouble breathing, tightness in chest. haven't really felt bad, no fever or cold symptoms. School nurse had heard wheezing when I exhaled a breath. Dr. said I have symptoms of asthma, something about bronchial spasms or some such. Prescribed an inhaler and have to go back next week for recheck. It is getting older.
Prayers to all that need them especially MikeC. This is a good group of folks. Try to stop by we enjoy your company.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Mitch, inhaler will help. Brutus, beacon is on - let's go visit Mike. Got my March CTT too. Saving it for the train ride next week.Just got back from picking up the youngest at a birthday party at a 'chocolate store' - imagine a gaggle of six year olds let loose there - wow!
Good evening
I had a R.R. accident tonite, was letting a train run while I worked on another and I ended up with a 20 boxcar derailment. No damage all is well. Oh I don't know what caused it, put it all back together and off it went. It got above freezing today but no sun to melt the snow so it might be here till april, who knows. Waiting for Brutus, banilla is ready....S.J.
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