The pot of coffee is always on [even after 2 years have passed]. Come on in. Sweet ice tea too.

[laz 57]

Morning GUYS,
TOM sounds like a neat thing to do with the muxxleloaders. I would like to build one from scratch some day maybe a good retirment project?
Going to see the REBEL today, maybe if he is free take him to the train shop to get some stuff, we'll see?
TGIF have agood one and lets be safe out there.
laz57

[Roger Bielen]

Morn'n all. A bright and sunny 29F here this a.m.

Laz, one of the guns was also a muzzle loader, I also browned the barrel, the other is a 25-06 Mauser actioned rifle, a tack driver. On both I used a hand rubbed oil finish. With my Dad having been a retired engraver he did a bit of engraving on the muzzle loader for me, my initials in Germanic letters on the patch box, some fancy scroll work, etc.. On the 25-06 a friend of mine, when I lived in MD, was a retired gunsmith and he jeweled the bolt for me. If I part with any guns these will surely be the last to go.

Today is my day off but the girls are also off from school, parent - teacher conf., so it's questionable if this is truely a day off. Probably kill a little time taking them to the train store to drop off a #50 gang car for overhaul, runs hot, pick up roller worn halfway through, saw a lot of use when I was a kid. They also enjoy seeing Mr. Lewis and checking out the trains.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Good morning from Lexington, Kentucky, the heart of America's horse country. I had a dinner meeting last night and more meetings today. Kentucky is a beautiful state, but it needs more Ohio snow.

Thank you for the congrats and like the photo says, it's been fun.

Spanky, it was great driving that snow to Cincinnati yesterday just to mess with the Chief.

[laz 57]

ROGER B,
Boy they sound like some real nice guns ya got. That engraving is just great when its done right makes the gun look so much more personable. Keep up the good work. And remember keep um in the 10 ring. Gee I soiund like Jim Scouton?
laz57

[cnw1995]

A little snow here overnight but supposed to be 40 today - (and 50 tomorrow). Hope to finish up the 'great insulating track project'. Have you ever named your layout? I think I've come up with one: Illinois Pacific. Just made a hotel reservation in Lexington for June - beautiful country - going to do my favorite drive: IL-IN-KY-TN-NC-SC to Hilton Head for a week. Have a great day!

[FJ and G]

BB the beagle's best friend, a hound named Jefferson, wasn't too happy yesterday. Jefferson is one of those "Hush Puppy" hounds, don't know the name, that often romps for rabbits with BB.

Last night, we passed by Jefferson's house and Jefferson ran out to go rabbit chasing with BB, but was suddenly jolted back and started howling with pain. You see, Jefferson's owner installed an invisible electric fence around their house.

I feel so bad for Jefferson, but we have to pass by that house on the way to the woods. There's no bypassing it. What a shame!

[Boxcar Bill]

Good morning all

Chief when you come back to ohio we will feed you plenty of Southern fried chicken, lots of ice tea But No Sawdust(grits)

[cnw1995]

BB might like Rudy, our long-haired dauschund - he likes chasing rabbits too - and Frodo, our cocker spaniel-poodle mix (I hate cutesy names like cockapoo) loves chasing everything - including the cats - but then he's only 6 months old

[Anonymous]

New trains again... Lionel SBD S4 switcher as well as the Beep I got monday!

Chris

[dougdagrump]

Good evening all, we're having a great day here, if you're a duck. We haven't had this much rain in one season since the El Ninio of the early 90's, and according to the "Professionals" this isn't an El Ninio event. Makes one wonder how much rain we would have received had it actually been an El Ninio event. A few homes have been slowly sliding down hill but they didn't get the spotlight like the ones in Anahiem Hills, they weren't in the $2.5M bracket. But at least it ain't Snowing or Freezing. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Beautiful here today and 38 degrees. No Idasnow or rain. Looks like it may be one bad fire season unless we get some precip in the next couple of months. Trying to get all the 022 switch controllers hard wired this weekend and order some bulbs for them.........Tim

[Frank53]

I left the house on my bike this morning at 9:00 and was gone until 4:00.

I am officially a popsicle

[cnw1995]

Tell how you like your new engines, Chris. Give us a thumb-nail review.

I'm watching the road with the dogs - waiting on the parents of a little girl I'm babysitting so they can have a night-out. She's doing puzzles in the other room. Have a good night.

[FJ and G]

Hi guys,

I'm now hooked up to Comcast hi-speed Internet. Although I've only visited 2 sites thus far, CTT and OGR, I'm getting popups about one per minute, but about one every 5 seconds when I first turn on the computer, even before I click into the Comcast icon!

Does anyone else have these problems. Guess at work I'm spoiled because I have a Mac and the Pentagon pretty much filters most stuff out.

I'm trying to search for how to use email with this computer and looking to see if I got any free web space so I can start posting photos more directly to CTT forum.

Any suggestions appreciated.

BTW, I ran BB about 5:30 this morning. I think she woke up the entire neighborhood. She usually doesn't spot rabbits on a cold dark morning but she was going after something. Rabbits seems to like the temps just above freezing so they don't munch icicles.

[FJ and G]

Oh, one other thing. My layout is progressing and layed 3rd rail down on some parts and went to test it and my TIU (DCS) no longer is functioning. The red lite doesn't come on and no commands go thru the remote. Even tried using Aux power and still no lite.

I emailed MTH and told them what happened. I'll probably get a response in a week or two. I'm not in any big hurry since I'm doing other stuff w/the layout. Sure hope the TIU can be repaired cheaper than buying a new one!

Anyone else had this happen?

[spankybird]

Good Morning Dave,

Good to see you on the weekends.

you should have a pop-up blocker on comcast. I do on DSL.

For you photoes, you should have a site as part of your package, Big Boy has comcast and he does. If you don't try www.shutterfly.com It's free and works with our forum. I use it.

tom

[spankybird]

Good Morning All,

NE Ohio is cool and clam, just like yesterday, temp at 28 and going into the 40’s.

Good to see Dave on line over the weekend.

Laz is hunting down the Chief. See Chief should be at a train show, we could find him better.

We are off to our favorite MTH train shop today, Glen Trains in Akron, Ohio. We have some rolling stock to pick up (and pay for)

Pick of the Day


all be safe
tom

[cnw1995]

Morning all. This might be the last nice day for a while. Off to sign up one of the boys for baseball. Sure sign Spring is coming to northern Illinois. Doesn't look like I'm going to have 2 minutes to myself this weekend though - to run trains let alone work on them.

[FJ and G]

Thanks, Tom

Does that ramp track on your photo lead to under-table staging?

[Anonymous]

Doug,

I will do that! I'll take some pictures too!

Chris

[spankybird]

Dave, no it the down side of my small mountain which does a crossover of the lower track


tom

[Buckeye Riveter]

Speaking of posting photos, has anyone successfully used the web space provided by Road Runner?

[spankybird]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Buckeye Riveter

Speaking of posting photos, has anyone successfully used the web space provided by Road Runner?

HI Buckeye, Chief has roadrun, but he host his pics on shutterfly. My DSL has a Yahoo photo site, which does not allow posting of pics, and that's why I also use Shutterfly, (and as you saw, it's easy to do [:D])

tom[;)]

[FJ and G]

Tom,

I joined Shutterfly and put 2 photos up, one of current construction and another photo comparing my track with 2 other types that I took last year (ties and stuff look better now).

It is here:

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/share/welcome?i=EeoMnLhw2cOHg¬ag=1&x=1&sm=1&sl=1

next step would be how to post them in a post or reply so they show up without having to click into the link. Is that fairly easy?

Thanks.

[FJ and G]

testing, just a test

[Jim Duda]

DavidV - you did it correctly because here is one of your pics. I use villagephotos.com so I'm not familiar with the procedure required from Shutterfly. I think Tom is out buying trains and I'm sure he'll give you step-by-step instructions when he's available. All I did was enclose the pic URL between the image brackets with NO spaces. Stay tuned...Tom will explain...

[wrmcclellan]

Hello all!,

Back from the 5th grade nature camp this past week. We all had a fantastic time. The down side is one of the kids came down with a 24 hour stomach virus the first day and spread it to about 5 other kids and one of the chaperones. All I got out of it is a really lousy cold/upper respiratory virus. I did not come down with it until we got home last night. Feel pretty slow so I may not be posting too much this weekend.

At least I get to stay home for a while.

Have agreat day all!
Roy

[FJ and G]

Thanks, Jim D.

That was an early photo so the track looks a lot better now.

Since my DCS is broke, I pulled out the old trusty cheap starter set remote and the trains run flawlessly over the 2 rail track w/center wire that I just installed. I'll put some more wire down and then likely take pictures tomorrow and post perhaps on Monday. That center copper wire really is a great conductor.

[spankybird]

Dave -

Here is instructions on posting pics

Photo Posting

tom

[Anonymous]

heres the S4