jimtrumpie Patrick, I hope that you deide to stick around. I've thought the same thing that you have in the past, but I found that it was not really the case. Personally, after reading to catch up with everyone, I can't remember everything that everyone has posted. As a result, I forget to reply. RT, I have learned that I will need to tear down both of my layouts as the sewage line under the basement floor needs to be replaced. This is not something that I want to do, but I don't have a choice. I plan to rebuild when the finacial situation allows.
Patrick,
I hope that you deide to stick around. I've thought the same thing that you have in the past, but I found that it was not really the case. Personally, after reading to catch up with everyone, I can't remember everything that everyone has posted. As a result, I forget to reply.
RT,
I have learned that I will need to tear down both of my layouts as the sewage line under the basement floor needs to be replaced. This is not something that I want to do, but I don't have a choice. I plan to rebuild when the finacial situation allows.
Jim,
Better to tear them down now than after something that requires the the sewer pipe replacement happens. Visualize a holding nose smiley here.
Almost midnite for you Easties so I'll take this oppourtunity to say to RT.
Jack, Since we will all be basking in warm sunshine and gentle breezes during the big game we can have all the doors and windows open. So should there be any unwanted breezes as a result of the chili unless they are extremely noisey they will more than likely go unoticed, hopefully .
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Brutus,
In a way, consider yourself lucky that the John Bull hasn't arrived yet. I've learned that getting trains early isn't always the best thing.
Well said, Chuck!
TAXES are DONE! I am full of pork tenderloin. Think it's time for a Cold Frosty Adult Beverage and maybe go land on Laz's roof and turn the speakers up ALL THE WAY so he can hear us this time? Pat, you can drive, Mike has dibs though, he was on the roster first! I'll grab Doug Murphy on the way - we were talking earlier (another fine gentleman on the coffee pot) and also RT is making some cake, I can smell it from here (talked to him today too - another f. g. on the c. p. as you can see).
At the LHS today I found out they don't know when the John Bull will arrive, but he said it will be the day after I have given up all hope it will ever come! I said, yeah - it will probably be the day after that, when I went out and bought something else and then I will have two big bills to present to my bride, lol! I picked up another Atlas ore car, so now have the set of Ind. Rail ore cars - 1, not the 2's. Also picked up "another" magazine and oh yeah, the Sir Topham Hatt Gateman
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good Evening from Blueberryhill....
Cold outside. No snow today. 15 degrees. Sunny.
Patrick L.............I am glad that you joined us here. Sorry that I missed your post on " Animals on the Rails ". Did you post it as a thread, or on the Coffee Pot ??. Anyway, I missed it. Would you post the item again ? The business of everyday life, sometimes lets us miss the treasures of the day.
Y'all have a great evening.
Chuck
Please excuse an outsider's intrusion.....perhaps one of you gentlemen could make a personal overture, if you are inclined, by using a PM? I think your responses so far are warm and inclusive, but if I were a frequenter of this thread, I would probably offer the gentleman a personal outreach and say it's just the nature of the thread at times....nothing personal...please stick around and enjoy the banter.
But, I like what you have said, and hopefully this person will cool off?
-Crandell
LawsonFarmsRR To all on this thread: I have come to the conclusion that this thread is a "click" of half a dozen people, and anyone outside the "click" is completely ignored. I haven't had a comment, positive or negative, over the last 10 posts. Sorry I invaded your territory. I particularly seem to have offended the "Chief", leader of this group. Perhaps you should state you are not interested in outsiders contributing to your coffee pot forum. Or perhaps you should define the "Rules" for participating in your thread. No comments from Chief, fife, RT, or any of the rest of the regulars on my Animals on the Rails, "Trains and Locomotives" on RFD-TV, NASCAR, Etc. The one thing I am appreciative of is the help from RT and others on finding unpainted rolling stock. I need to find a more friendly forum thread. I expect you all will be happy to here this. Patrick L
To all on this thread:
I have come to the conclusion that this thread is a "click" of half a dozen people, and anyone outside the "click" is completely ignored. I haven't had a comment, positive or negative, over the last 10 posts. Sorry I invaded your territory. I particularly seem to have offended the "Chief", leader of this group. Perhaps you should state you are not interested in outsiders contributing to your coffee pot forum. Or perhaps you should define the "Rules" for participating in your thread. No comments from Chief, fife, RT, or any of the rest of the regulars on my Animals on the Rails, "Trains and Locomotives" on RFD-TV, NASCAR, Etc.
The one thing I am appreciative of is the help from RT and others on finding unpainted rolling stock.
I need to find a more friendly forum thread. I expect you all will be happy to here this.
Patrick L
Thats strange ? I said the same thing about a year ago ....
I mostly read now...
Chief is a great guy. We have talked in the past !
I am probably just as guilty as anyone else. We all kind of live in our own little world. I make comments everyday and probably 99% do not get a reply. However, all of us here have been thru some dark times and that is where this place shines. We support each other. We have quirks and idiosyncracies that even the long timers do not fully understand. We do have some people come and go on occasion, but the "regulars" do keep coming back. Stay with us a while and you will hear stories that I guarantee will capture your attention. You will hear stories about "my" soccer girls, and a certain Norwegian soccer friend of mine, and the "saucy wench", and Lucas and his adventures, and a passion for the Indy 500 and the IRL that is matched by very few. You will also see few comments on any of those stories and that is ok as well. You will hear stories about "tidy-whities" and Corvairs and GRITS and Rebs and Yanks and Snohio and snow blowers and the Tardis and our children and grandchildren and in-laws and "outlaws" and movie making and matters of life and death and maybe, just maybe, a comment or two about toy trains. All this awaits you and I would hate for you to miss it.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hey Patrick, sorry you don't feel appreciated because I have enjoyed reading your posts! I think a lot of the time we all just read each other's posts and then a few of us have got in the habit of "waving" at each other with Tardis rides, banilla, popcorn/recliner jokes/or "feuds" over N vs S etc. Just hang in here man! Also, you know on the weekends if the weather is good a lot of guys just pop on long enough to update the pot with their current status, do a quick read and get back to other stuff.
I hope you hang around! Why don't you PM me, okay?
Good Evening
Patrick everyone welcomed you and many "regulars" do not get replys on a everyday bases, and me, to some of these guys I'm a newbie , but I still enjoy the company. And they are there when you are down.
Cold today again but no snow, above 32 tomorrow but a one day event. Ran some trains today and couched.
Banilla is ready and a fresh box of A&W,,,S.J.
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Patrick sorry you feel that way as no one in here means to be that way to anybody especially chief you have to get to know the chief as he really is a great guy.
We all appreciate all comments in here at times we get caught up in our own little world but do not mean to come off that way and I personally hope you stay around. I'm sure the rest do to including the chief.
A lot of it may be as you call our own little click but we don't mean it that way after a while you will to be part if you stick around. I felt like you do at first and bunch of us have in fact after a while you'll see I'm still learning do and don't with who in here. you see I started out in model railroad forum but that basically is HO and n scale.
Now let me buy you a cup of coffee and we all can talk and I'll even put it on the chiefs bill if you want as hes a mayor so he can write it off
I appreciate you signaling me out about the boxcars but theres a lot of great folks here please sit back relax and let things come around they will. keep making comments and they will start commenting back another thing also and I'm very guilty of this a lot of time I'll read about 1 out 4 post and then I'll catch something that will get my attention and I have to go back and see what it was all about so I miss a lot in here and thats why I don't respond to everything. I also seem to try to make a joke out of most things like my comment to fife today for double posting I was skipping over when I caught his double post .
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps near 30. I went to the YMCA last night and early this morning. Lucas surprised us by coming home, and the one grandson is here tonight for a while. Ran the Alaska set for him a few times. He loves blowing the horn. Dug out some old Shining Time Station tapes. 15 years old. Still play. Trying to fight a cold. The "saucy wench" had pancakes and sausage for breakfast on the dining car this morning. Brutus, the beacon is lit. Listening to some Olivia Smiley on the CD player. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hey Jim glad the paint worked so well for you. It did look great. I will one of these days get into airbrush painting but not right now lol
Evening all
Been real busy with a furneral this morning , more walk cleaning the services tonight. Bride made a wonderful supper and I am looking forward to a low key evening.
RT - Happy birthday
All with sinus issues - Our daughter reccomended to my bride who has been fighting a sinus bug since fall, with this thing called a neti - pot by NeilMed. It is a sinus wash and it really works for cleaning up infected sinus'. They are ~ $15 at Rite Aid, CVS Walgreens and the like.
Take care and may God bless
Jim
Just checking things out on ebay notice my rating # a little higher so go check to see what feed back I have gotten, Got a pos from a sale back the 5th of december, Never heard from the guy but leaves the following feedback" didn't work when received might have gotten broke in shippment" I leave following response in my feedback to his comment " almost 2 months later leaves feedback??? Never heard from him??? "
Oh well guess its better than a negative.
Went and payed for my Dale Earnhardt JR train set this evening. So should get that sometime this week.
Not to much happening here tonight guess its time to go bake my birthday cake for tomorrow.
Evening all. Tired and sore. Shoveled 200 lbs of lime from wheelbarrow to edge of pond. Wheeled through the woods. Now I have 220 lbs to put out by boat. Then shoveled 6 wheelbarrow loads of sand from the edge of the hill and filled mud holes. As I finished two big holes, guy who uses my shooting range to qualify his carry conceal students walked up. OH, I'll bring you a load or two of crush and run for all these holes. So I quit that project. Then shoveled a nice load into pickup and brought home for a path wifey wanted. It is actually decomposed rock. It just crumbles into a coarse sand. Stabalizes real well. Then watered the greenhouse. Now for some Southern Fried Chicken and collards. Did drop by Miss Edna's for an hour after getting the load of lime. Putting on "comfoy" [Pam's word] clothes and slippers. TV time too.
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Afternoon All.
Boy was it ever dead at the museum yesterday, with this weather they must have decided to go to the beach instead.
I'm in the same boat with the sinus crud, with this crazy weather swings hot/cold/damp/tinder dry. It feels like the head is about to explode, heaven forbid you have to pick something up off the floor. It has even created some issues with the lift bridge on the club layout, track alignment on both a vertical and horizontal plane.
RT, perhaps a little premature, but still hope you have a Happy Birthday! Also hope you are feeling better as I recall your back was hurting?
Brutus, yeah, they say we are getting a tax cut, but I doubt it will come my way. Besides, they are talking big tax increases elsewhere....like Ammo, guns, etc. If they don't like them, they will make you pay more for them. Besides, he can't pay for half the promises made during the campaign.
Well, wife is taking a nap...she will be working her first night shift that she has ever done. The hospital has come up with some new protocols and all employees have to work at least 24 hours a month. She has been called off for low census a few times, and nights were the only way she could be guaranteed her hours.
I have to take the kids to a birthday party today at 4. Nice idea, instead of buying the kid a gift, everyone is supposed to bring $10 for a fund for a sick child. Besides, if their kid is like ours, they have too many toys as it is.
Looks like I won another car at auction. A NYC pacemaker car is coming our way. Also took delivery of another item last night.....a book called "Scenes Along The Rails" on the DL&W RR. great book for someone planning a hirail layout as it has lots of images from the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Gotta run and get kids ready. May God Bless.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Oldtimmers has finally hit Fifedog what a shame hes now double posting
Thanks for the birthday wishes but there not till tomorrow thank-you lol. I hit the big five-four
Well wife had me put up one set of drapes ( brackets and all ) and 2 set of shutters for windows in den ( brackets and all again here)
Been giving me honey doo's all day told her none tomorrow its my day.
rt --->
Well, back from Timonium train show. Big crowd, little "O". Did pick up 2 packs of trees to use in the background areas. May have found a source for Grayson.
Nothing comes close to YORK...
Old Timer -
A few drops of Virginia Gentleman in her isn't bad nether.
Good Morning Y'll:
Up early to hay the cows and seed the birds before breakfast.
Watched an interesting show on the history of traction on the weekly Sat. Morning "Trains & Locomotives" on RFD-TV. I didn't know traction motors pulled freight cars through the middle of large cities in Ohio in the 1930's. Showed a traction car and plane race in the 1920's - traction won. Also a traction car and race car race - traction won that too at 90 MPH. Also showed a series of traction car wrecks that spelled the beginning of the end for the CL&E Traction Co. in Cincinnati in the 1940's.
Going to do some scenery building and train running this after noom, probably more running than building.
#@*&!?+*%@##!! The cat just ran across the keyboard.
Going to do a fifey tonight and grill some steaks outside. First grilled steak since mid-Nov. (Mouth Watering Smiley Face Here).
to RT and all NASCAR followers!
Until later.
Chief ... I had stuffed sinuses and sinus headaches out the bazoo until I got a room steam humidifier and ran it in my bedroom ... WALLA .... not saying it will cure you but it helped me alot . You can even put a few drops of menthol/vicks type vapor juice in her . That dry heat in the winter is horrible on one's sinuses . Try one from walmart ... if it does'nt help ... take her back ! I even put it in my train/computer room at times . They're small but great . It's that pressure caused by packed sinuses .... it'll keep them open and moist .
Jim, sorry to hear about your daughter losing her job. It is unfortunately very common these days. I get email messages every day from Indeed.com with new jobs that have certain key words in the description. Here is a link to Human Resources jobs in Ohio as a starting point.
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=human+resources&l=Ohio&fromage=last
Morning all. Sunny and hopefully will be 30s today - woo hoo! Officially coldest Jan. in 25 years. Happy day-before-your-Birthday, RT- you're right, I calculated it 'til 1201 am tonight or rather Sun. morning. anyway! Back from church where I held my small group mtg. Then back at noon for a big video team brainstorming session. I'm tired. Daughter had friends over late and middle boy still wanted to go to wrestling meet - with a 5 am bus pick-up! So I got up, got ready, got him - and he decided his knee hurt too much to go - or rather he wanted to sleep. LOL. Ah teens! Hope to get time to try to wire a few blocks again too. Don, I swear I saw a loco named Gordon! What a great video. I can't get over how 'sloppy' the latter-day steam looked in the more rural collieries. Steam leaking everywhere, the engine rolling on terrible track - but everything still worked.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
ChiefEagles Watched the Return of Frank James on AMC. One good quote in there by the newspaper editor and his lawyer. "You Yankee skum."
Watched the Return of Frank James on AMC. One good quote in there by the newspaper editor and his lawyer. "You Yankee skum."
In the court scene, they sure sat the justice system behind a number of years. Talk about bias, even though it was a movie. Was comical the reference to "THE REVOLUTION" that was begun in 1861.
Have to admit did enjoy the movie! Sure could see how a number of "early" tv shows could have been born or conceived from that movie.
- Beverly Hillbillies
- Sanford and Son
- Matlock
- Andy Grifith
- Petticoat Junction
- Dukes of Hazzard
Don
Good Morning
Ten degrees this morning, overcast and going to the middle twentys. No big plans for today except some trains to run later. There were no pileups last nite so I'm good to go. My wife will watch her Red Wings this afternoon so maybe I will just play golf w/PS2. Menu for today, roasted potatoes and chicken with Open Pit on top.
Have a safe day....S.J.
Happy Birthday RT
Jim - Sorry to hear about your daughter's job loss. Hope things will pick up soon but the news seems to get worse and worse everyday. Local department store BonTon announced layoff of about 1100 folks yesterday.
Busy day today. Had scrapple and eggs for breakfast. BIL, SIL and two tweens are coming for lunch today. They are snow tubing at a nearby ski area this AM. Have lots today before they arrive around 12:00. Better get my act in gear.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
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