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

[Anonymous]

Dave, Im luckly not building in the basement. I actually have the whole main floor study too use.

[cnw1995]

Ah, with the heat and air I hope Jerry - it makes a difference - can't let this thread fall to the second page.

[wrmcclellan]

Thanks for the advice guys. I actually drink a couple of gallons of grapefruit juice a week plus eating fruit.

I actually get nailed with this stuff because I work with kids a lot. They have it for 1 day and I get it for 1 -2 weeks.

I will get better... I will get better...

Musta put myself together backwards this morning as my feet smell and my nose runs!
Roy

[ChiefEagles]

Just back from Mother-in-law's Birthday Party. Eastern NC pork bar-be-que, slaw and boiled potatoes. Tummy full. Two big meals today. Oh Duda, Kristina [at Crazy Fire] said, "Hi". [;)] No trains tonight. Did go by to see Miss Edna after going by Tom's Trains [the high $$ place]. What a difference in prices. Older couple was talking to the salesman at Tom's about buying a Polar Express for grandson. Poor folks did not know that Todd's existed and will pay full MSRP for it. Miss Edna gave me some of her cards for my wallet. Next time, I'll walk out with the folks and give them a card. Hate to see folks taken to the cleaners by over pricing. Time for bed. Good night all.

[csxt30]

Good Morning everyone! I'm putting the coffee on for all! Looks like a cold day ahead. 1 more day to work, glad. Off to Spankybirds' tomorrow! All have a good & safe day. John

[Anonymous]

So what will you guys do this time, Tom? Have grease guns?[:D][swg]

Here it is very cold, around 5 with a wind chill of -4. Yesterday I walked to school in that same temperature. BRRR, should've put on a scarf. My chin felt like it was going to fall off.

Im going to the Mad City train show tommorow. Cant wait. I have to be there around 6:30 to set up our clubs HO layout. Hope it will be fun. I'm bringing my two bottles of jt's megasteam to show ron, he wants me to show him how good this stuff works and smells. He always uses MTH "Cristmas" scented fluid.[xx(]That stuff smells like laundry detergent. Got to show him my cinnemon scent. Anybody else going to it.

Where is Dann? I havn't see him in awhile.

All have a great day!![:D]

[spankybird]

Good Morning All,

T G I F [:p]

NE Ohio is a cool 18 deg and quite. The WW person say we might get 1” to 2” of snow today.

We are having another OHIO Forum Meeting at Spanky’s Cove tomorrow. Csxt30 (John) and his son, his friend Ed and GregM with his wife. I will have to get out the oil cans. [8D][:D][:p]

Roy – hope you are feeling better [;)]

Pick of the Day
The end of the Week


all be safe
tom

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jerrylovestrains

So what will you guys do this time? Have grease guns?[:D][swg]

What a great idea! I wonder if Jiffy Lube would loan me their big ones that work off of the compressors. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] The next time I am heading to Spanky's Cove, I am going to take the air compressor to put air in the wheels of the engines. [:D][;)][;)]

Roy, I can't believe you are sick and it is nice outside. Only us Buckeyes get sick when it is nice out and it isn't nice out today. My wife the teacher brings home every germ that lives in Central Ohio being that she is a elementary teacher.

Cold day, oh, here's the coffee pot. ......................Who took the last drops? Hey Chief, make some more coffee. ..........................What'a you mean he's still sawing logs?

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Oh Duda, Kristina [at Crazy Fire] said, "Hi". - Chief

[cnw1995]

Ouch, Jim, my eyes, my eyes! I'm blind now. Bitter cold here today - hope you are all in a warmer place. Chief, I can just smell the barbeque....

[laz 57]

HUBA HUBA DUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE THE CHICK MAGNET. When they introduced MAGNETRACTION they should just put a pic of JIMBO[;)][;)].
SPANKYBIRD YES T>G>I>F> couldn't get here quick enough.
BUCKEYE, I was thinking the same with the Jiffy lube might need some kind of Industrial Strength Oil Dispeser. GIANT CAN O WD-40.
Have agood one and lets be safe out there.
Oh yeah it was 21 degrees and snow squals this morning, I was distracted by DUDAS CHICKS[;)].
laz57

[Anonymous]

Oh baby! Duda looks like your in trouble now!

[FJ and G]

She looks like one of the Krispy Creme calendar gals

[1688torpedo]

Looks like Jim found a picture of one of the Hee Haw Honies from 30 years ago.[:)]..Keith

[Jim Duda]

...pretty clear to me why Chiefie loves to eat his BarBQ at that Crazy Fire place...!

[ben10ben]

Morning Folks,
It's been a while since I posted to here. Hope that you all are doing well, as I haven't read the posts that I've missed yet.

We're off school today and Monday, so I have a good weekend.

After a week of warm weather down here, it's turned cold again, and they're saying maybe snow.

Buckeye, how was the trip to Lexington?

[ChiefEagles]

Who did it???!!!!!!! Was it the guys from Ohio or that dude from PA? It is cold here. 39 right now. You just wait and see what happens when I get to those two states. I'll not let you all have any warm weather at all. Duda judges our women like he does his women. She would make three of Kristina. [;)] Think I'll run trains. Got a refund check from a Dr's office yesterday PM. Yes, they sent me money as over paid a bill earlier when figuring my deductable before I blew the top off with the bypasses. If I had gotten it earlier, I'd spent it at Miss Edna's buy train stuff. [:)] I guess the good Lord was looking after a poor boy this time and did not let me blow it. [;)] Should I go back today and spend it??? Have a good one and stay warm. God bless all.

[Anonymous]

Hi, guys. I am a new guy, and I just read the last six pages of the coffee pot thread. Looks like I have a lot in common with a lot of you besides an interest in trains. Don't know how much time I am going to have to participate, but it sure looks like some place I want to be. The name is Doug Johnson, I live in Miami, and elsewhere on these boards I posted a short story of my revival of interest in toy trains. I am three years past turning 21 for the third time, and I am originally from Mississippi, which runs about fifty years behind the rest of the country in technical progress, so I reach back well into the steam era. My dad ran a cotton warehouse which had its own spur off the ICRR, and the local yard was right across that spur and the main line. I am an "O" guage type of person, and my wife is gainfully employed. Right now I am just getting interested in modelling, but having been an O guage person for the last sixty years, rail height and coupler size don't bother me too much. One of the projects that I am looking at is the yard where I grew up in Cleveland, MS. Another is "where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog" at Morehead, MS. There are some interesting stories about how the Yellow Dog got its name, its official name was Yazoo & Delta for about three years, and then Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR. W.C. Handy wrote a blues piece about it in around 1914, but the story was that he got the idea from an old passenger with a guitar waiting for the Yellow Dog in Tutwiler, MS in 1903 who was going to "where the Southern cross the Dawg."

I clearly don't have enough gold or space to accomodate both projects, so I am still doing research. The Yellow Dog is hard to research, because you get all these blues sites that don't say anything at all about the railroad except that it ran from Tutwiler to Morehead. Weighing in slightly on the other side is that Mike Wolf just introduced a 2-8-0 in ICRR livery in the Premier line. The price of it makes me wonder if I can afford this craziness or should maybe go to half O.

Love the layout pictures, Spankybird. How do you get such thick smoke out of the engines?

And Jerry, the subtle barb at Lionel in your signature line cracks me up. I have an immediate postwar freight consist that is still running fine, and one that is about four years old that won't pull two cars.

Doug M, I use a Simpson 260 Multimeter that I got used for sixty dollars. It might be overkill for what you are doing, but it has an AC voltage position which is invaluable for chasing line breaks. I have a real prejudice against Radio Shack because of really poor quality control. If there is a HAM radio store in your area, they are usually very helpful, they can even lead you to which Radio Shack meter is better for your purpose and well built enough to last.

LVR, I'd love to buy your engine, but I don't do TMCC, and my wife would kill me.

[FJ and G]

Skyray, or is it Ray?

Welcome to the club. BB my beagle said she thinks Yellow Dog Mississippi might be good rabbit chasing territory. Are there many beautiful Crispy Creme gals there like the one pictured above?

I lived in Arkansas for 7 years and east Texas for 2 and have a fondness for delta country and trains.

Dave Vergun

[Anonymous]

Dave,

I read Skyrays post, and his name is Doug [;)]

Chris

[laz 57]

SKYRAY,
[#welcome][#welcome][#welcome] to the coffee pot.
These GUYS are an OK group that meet everyday and have some good barbs to throw around, enjoy and have some fun.
Welcomw aboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
laz57

[ChiefEagles]

Welcome Skyray. [#welcome][#welcome] Glad to have you. Got another good ole Southern Boy to help me "fend" of those YANKS. [;)] Especially those boys from OHIO. [:D] MTH PS2 trains are great. Tom [Spankybird] cranks up the smoke button on them. Lionel TMCC are great too. I got back into to this mess last winter/spring from over 20 years of storage. Will cost some $$$$ but worth it. I do recommend that you work toward adding DCS [from MTH] and then the TMCC command module. I have my old track on the extra bedroom floor until I can build a layout in another spare bedroom [kids are all gone now, just will not move all their stuff out [;)]]. I was going to stick to conventional but then changed my mind. Glad I did. With the help of Tom and encouragement of the old man Duda, I got DCS going and then I added the TMCC module. Now I can run every type of engine. Glad you jumped on the Coffee Pot. It is for fun as well as trains. Keep on posting here and God bless.

[Anonymous]

Sorry guys. I haven't got the forum mechanics under control. I just added a signature line with my real name and a link to my personal page. Now to see if it works.

[ChiefEagles]

Chirs, you are suppose to be in SCHOOL!!!!! LAZ, go back to WORK. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Chief, how do you get that picture to post? And while we are about it, how do you post pictures in general? I have been back looking at my avatar, but it won't let me put anything there. I also put my name and URL on the signature line, and when I go back there it shows it to me, only problem is that it won't put it on here.

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Skyray
I am three years past turning 21 for the third time, and I am originally from Mississippi, which runs about fifty years behind the rest of the country in technical progress, so I reach back well into the steam era.

Man, where have you been? I'm not good at 'rithmetic, but it seems you might actually be my senior...good gawd, Chiefie won't be able to call me "the old man" anymore! Yeah right...

If you can recall anything from those last 6 pages you read, you already have a pretty good idea which of us to wonder about (wink)...we'll try to keep you entertained - maybe even informed a little.

Welcome!

[ChiefEagles]

We have so many Dougs I guess you will have to be SR Doug or just Skyray. You put the avatar in the signature and graphics section. For posting pictures, most of us use Shutterfly [free]. Go to the last Sunday Photo section and read Tom's instructions on posting pictures. That is the best way to help you.

[cnw1995]

Welcome Skyray - always happy to greet another Doug -and thanks for the advice

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: For posting pictures, most of us use Shutterfly [free]. Go to the last Sunday Photo section and read Tom's instructions on posting pictures. That is the best way to help you.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt, but I got no clue how to do what you said. I have been through the FAQ, and if the answer is there I missed it (both on posting pictures and finding the Photo section.) I did find the Photo Gallery, and it had some interesting pictures, but nothing I could find on posting them other than email them to the gallery.

Doug Johnson

[spankybird]

HI Skyray,

welcome to the CTT forum and coffee pot [#welcome]

here is a thread for posting pictures [:D][:p]

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20382

Our great smoke output is thanks to MTH. Most MTH steamers will have great smoke, we also use JT Mega-steam fluid.

tom