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

[ChiefEagles]

NE Ohio Summit. Better be careful as you all will be in one group in one place. Rebel spies might get all of you at one time. [;)] Would love to send your cold air back up nawth. Hope you all hav fun and don't pass out from Tom's smoking engines. [:D] Hope all of you have a great day and God bless all. OH, Skyray, the picture of daughter is too small. If you use the Shutterfly and click on it to full size view and copy properties, it will come out large and then we can click on it to make it larger for good viewing. You are learning. Tom had to lead me through it several times before I got it.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, Chief. I realized it was too small, went to Shutterfly, expanded it, and got the properties off the expanded version which was just fine at about 3 x 5. As I transferred the URL I noticed that it looked to be the same, and sure enough, it came out thumbnail again. At that point the wife began to feel neglected, so I had to drop it for marital peace. We have company coming in, and I am stealing this time from cleaning kitchen duties.

[Jim Duda]

Sky - SMU is only a 3 hour drive from Austin. Daughter Kim (Aggie - A&M) played soccer at their field - nice campus! Marital Peace? Oxymoron? (wink)

[dougdagrump]

Mornin' All, When is this [censored] weather going to end ! Whoever thought you could get "Cabin Fever" in SoCal. Was able to get a couple of pics at the museum yesterday before the doors opened, I'll save them til the Sunday thread. This morning just sippin my coffee and watchin the rain, trying to work up the energy to unpack and service the trains that were run yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Marital Peace around here is defined as a lack of train activity lasting over six minutes, and/or active hostilities. If you went to SMU with Kim, you know that it is in Hillcrest, where the cheap seats go for a million plus. Freshman or Sophomore year I passed a dorm room that had a sign on the door "SMU is such a nice school, it's a shame about the Neighborhood."

As I said before, we are whiddling it down. I got a decent picture to post, but when you try to expand it, it is going to take a T-1. I waited over two minutes and didn't get an image, although I could see my communications program trying. O.K., now I've got it bracketed.

[wrmcclellan]

Well good morning all!

Damp, cloudy, and 50's here today. Soccer season for my son starts today at 1:30. B-Ball season for him may end today at 5-6 pm (first round of tournament).

Skyray - be careful how much info you give Duda on those photos. Jim likes to operate on 'em.

Regards,
Roy

[cnw1995]

Sunny and cold. I got a phone call in the middle of teaching class from my gracious spouse who is suffering a meltdown with dogs, kids, house - and a dinner party she's putting on for her girlfriends tonight. I'm sure you may have gotten something similar in your married life - ie it's all my fault. [;)] I figure I have a respite of another hour of class - then go home to plunge in to help her -I shouldn't probably mention working on the layout today... [;)]

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Skyray
I got a decent picture to post, but when you try to expand it, it is going to take a T-1. I waited over two minutes and didn't get an image, although I could see my communications program trying. O.K., now I've got it bracketed.

Try resizing it to a max of 640X480 @ File Size of 3 in Photoshop BEFORE sending it to Shutterfly. This one is only 27K and should open fairly quickly.

[Anonymous]

First things first: that is one nice looking Aggie!

Second, yours won't open either. Maybe Shutterfly is swamped on Saturday morning. They have limited edit ability on site, and I cut mine down to 32K. That is not much more than 27K, and it should load. Before I cut it down it was nearly a meg. It still puts up the same image on the board, but the properties on Shutterfly now show 32K instead of 818K. I'm learning.

[Roger Bielen]

Laz:

Maybe it was a bit of instinct kicking in when I made up the Hicksburg coffee, I'm a pure bred pole also.

Spent a little time yesterday evening trouble shooting a Gargraves uncoupling section, found a bad wire splice. I almost fried the track, went to test it by jumpering it to the track power and holding a key over it, I noticed a bit of smoke, dummy me didn't think of the fact that keys are brass. After all it was the only metal object I had in my pocket.

Good think I did wiring diagrams when I built the layout, it's suprising how quickly one forgets how they wired something.

[1688torpedo]

Hello Skyray and Welcome to the coffee pot.Haven't had a chance to post early today as I was working.Be prepared to laugh a lot as this thread can be quite entertaining and very amusing[:)]...............Keith

[FJ and G]

Congrats, Doug J Ray on fast-learning to post pictures. Took me 3 years to do that and now I've got hi-speed internet at home, which will make me go broke.

I found out quickly that pop up ads come on so got spy sweep. However, that doesn't stop viruses so virus package is needed. Paying close to $60 for comcast (only provider), you'd think they'd toss in the spy sweep and virus pkgs for free but they don't.

Dozens of hands reach into your pocket for the wallet.

Nice picture of the kids

[Anonymous]

Hi guys just finnaly got back on line had to wait for a new computer it's been to long .But the good news is ,in all my time of I made 5 new strutures that look really good . I hope to have them up for sunday photo we will see what will happing . hope every body is well

[FJ and G]

BB the beagle says, "where's my T-bone steak?"

She doesn't follow world events on the news but she was upset to hear that the British have called off the hounds and no more fox hunting. She hopes no one calls off the rabbits in this country

Dave Vergun

[daan]

Hi guys,
Since we got our new toys in the shed in the backyard weather has changed for the worst. We had nice winterweather in January, sunshine, not too cold, and since the motorbikes are in it snows...
Got a bit further on building the mountain on my track, but I'm now busy building a new shed in the front garden of our house. We can't get the bikes in the backshed easy, it involves too much sharp curves and possible damage to get them inside..
I hope you have a better weather view if you look outside your windows..

Cheers, daan.

[ChiefEagles]

Daan, do not mash any fingers building. Just finished disking the garden and then breaking it with bottom plow. Tired of pulling on all that farm equipment. Now I can spread lime and disk that in. Make my rows and beds and hopeful the plants will be ready in the greenhouse. Waiting on Burpee to get seeds here. Got some new varieties of tomatoes this year. Think I will rest for a while.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

Congrats, Doug J Ray on fast-learning to post pictures. Took me 3 years to do that and now I've got hi-speed internet at home, which will make me go broke.

I found out quickly that pop up ads come on so got spy sweep. However, that doesn't stop viruses so virus package is needed. Paying close to $60 for comcast (only provider), you'd think they'd toss in the spy sweep and virus pkgs for free but they don't.

Dozens of hands reach into your pocket for the wallet.

Nice picture of the kids

Thanks. I was office manager, digital technologist, and chief pilot for an aerial photography place for several years, so I had a head start on the digital photography part. My problem now is that I consider 35mm low resolution so I eat bandwidth like a madman. For comparison purposes, the new 11 and 12 Meg digitals are just beginning to approach 35mm resolution. We used to shoot medium and large format and scan them. Nothing quite like a 9 x 9 Zeiss with a six inch lense for revealing detail. On the other hand, Jimbo will be quick to tell you that anything over 72 pixels is overkill on the internet. That's the resolution it posts at if you don't restrain it. That second picture of the girls would have posted at something like 25" x 30" before I cut it down. Since most of us don't have 25 x 30 inch sreens, you have to scroll around and look at it a little at a time. Great for maps, not so good for girls.

As for everybody having their hand in your pocket, i was running in the local park a few weeks ago and ran into a prominent downtown lawyer. I asked him what he was doing out of the office in the middle of the week, and he told me that he was working out of his home now. I asked why, and his comment was that he was tired of working three and a half weeks a month for everybody else, and two or three days a month for himself.

Software will eat you alive if you don't control it. Not a day goes by that two or three software companies don't try to sell me something I don't need. I have MacFee for virus, and Windows XP has a pop up blocker that I keep forgetting to turn off, so I miss catalogs on train store sites. I have spyware software, but it kills my cookies and I have to remember all my passwords, so I don't use it much. Let'em track my consumer habits; I make it a practice to take spammers off my purchasing list. I make the office spring for the cable subscription because I have to have it to run VPN (virtual private network)

You got some pretty nice pitchers, yourownself. I am particularly intrigued by what appears a scratch build of three rail. I am not to that point yet, but I am intrigued.

[spankybird]

HI Guys,

THis weekend is Buckeye's Birthday. so

Happy Birthday Buckeye

[bday] [bday] [bday] [bday] [bday]
[bday][bday]

[ChiefEagles]

Happy Birthday Buckeye. Are you and the Buckeye State the same age??? Hope all our Left Bankers are OK. I see a news flash about mud slides again. Good night and God bless.

[Anonymous]

Hi gang, I know yall were worried about me since I haden't posted in a few days. Have been very busy ripping the guts out of the new Cop Shop. All demolition is done so can start rebuilding next week.
I will be waiting with bait breath, or is it baited breath for a FULL report on the big Buckeye Summit this weekend , including photos.

Also a hearty welcome to Skyray[#welcome][#welcome][#welcome]
I know how you feel about college tuition, my Daughter recently graduated from Baylor. Maybe sometime I'll tell everyone about the hunting camp I built in Nana Warrior MS near Philadelphia MS in Kemper County.......Tim

[dougdagrump]

With this weather we've had today I had flashbacks to our time in the Texass panhandle. There were actually three tornadoes on the ground in SoCal. [:O]
It's weird enuff that we have had some nasty lighting but now tornadoes.......I know we'll blame on them "Buckeyes", sound good Chief?
Still haven't decided about going to the Greatest Hobby Show, wait til mornin I guess to check on the weather. Today it would be pretty nice then all of a sudden the dark clouds roll in and it rains like a cow whizzing on a flat rock for a bit and then it moves on. If I don't get after the weeds in the back yard, rain or not, I'll have to buy a machette to cut my way thru before I can get a mower in there. [(-D]
Oh yeah, [bday] [bday] Buckeye, even if you guys did send this weather....[(-D] [swg]

[FJ and G]

Thanks, Doug J. for compliment on 2 rail + wire track. I'll put up pictures of progress perhaps tomorrow. I wouldn't recommend my method to someone in a hurry to run trains. I do it for the dabbling value.

My photo expertise is as a photojournalist/editor in Marines for 20 years and now I do the Army's homepage (www.army.mil) with daily photo and story updates. I use photoshop and know enough code to write a website but am in no wise technical savvy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I read on this forum that if you put (Xs are the file name), the photos automatically resize to the correct pixel width, which I think is about 400 max.

Dave Vergun

[spankybird]

Good Morning All,

NE Ohio has the quite before the storm, 3” to 5” of snow on the way, then turning to rain or freezing rain over night. Some fun ahead.

The SUMMIT was great!! It’s really great to meet members in person. I am glad that we have so many members in Ohio.

We have a toy show today. Not many trains there, but usually great diecast cars.

Dave – you are correct about the forum resizing your pics. When you click on them to enlarge them, they will enlarge to the size that you have them hosted at. If you hosted them at 640 then the forum will show them at 400 and they enlarge to 640. Shutterfly displays them at 480.

All be safe
tom

[Roger Bielen]

A light drizzle and 44 here this morning. Great to soak in the pre-emergance weed and feed I put down in the back yard Friday. Guess I'll take a couple of doors from the bedroom we're painting out to the barn this morning and paint them out there. It may take a bit long since that's also where my train room is. The Mrs. will wonder what takes sooooo loooong (as in whooo-whooo) to paint three doors. [:D]

With the Mrs. being out for the afternoon, and if rain doesn't reach Daytona this afternoon, I'll nap while watching the race, yard work'll wait till nicer weather, and then run some more trains this evening.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning gang. Cloudy and 40's. Suppose to rain. Said we might get some SNOWHIO and sleet but that will be hard to accomplish as never got below freezing and don't think it will today. [beginning to like the "weatherman" commercial each time I see it [:)]] Frankie is suppose to come and help clean his stuff out of the train room so I can get some things started there. Pam did not feel good this AM and I was tired, so we slept in. That heavy farm equipment gets me tried. Bottom plow is stored behind the disk so I have to drag it around to hook up. Double bottom plow is not light. Then wash it after use, grease it [to keep the shinny parts from rusting], and drag it back in place. Worth it??? Yes!! Fre***omatoes, squash and etc. UMMMM Well, will run trains while Frankie is here. Hope all have a good day and God bless all. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Beautiful bright sunshine morning here in Miami. Wife's cousin from Norfolk visited and spent the night last night, and I discovered that he was a toy train freak. Oh, glory, something in common with an inlaw! I have a DRG Galloping Goose, and he was more intrigued with that than with any of the stuff I'm proud of. He and his spouse of fifty or so years split their blanket several years ago, and his trains are in boxes, and I supposes they were boxed up before there was Gooses. It's a Proto One, and "Stops for mail" and stuff like that. He couldn't get the "Texas" and the "Panoramic view of the Rockies" off the rails fast enough. Frankly, it don't do much but go forward, backward, and make chatter, so his interest didn't last long. He's up now and having a cup, so I'm headed out to the kitchen to be a host.

[laz 57]

HI GUYS,
Sorry did not post yesterday me and my brother, he lives a half amile form me , were working on his layout all day yesterday. We built the bench work, he too is an Industrial Arts(wood shop) teacher. Got the track laid down and run his six ovals all worked great. His layout is all conventional engines with just transformer controlers. Its kinda nice just to do that every so often.
DAAN nice to here from you again.
BUCKEYE[bday][bday][bday][bday][bday][bday] to you!!!!!!!!
Hope it was agreat one and hope you got something nice for your layout.
ROGER wife had cold all week and consumed lots of POLI***EA?
CHIEF remember when ya do that yard work pace yourself your not as young as you use to be.
SPANKYBIRD you might want to consider callin that SUMMIT in NE OHIO, OTTS as in OHIO TOY TRAIN SUMMIT. Then you could say CHIEFIE you OTTS to be here next Saturday mornrning gonna have some fun.
laz57

[FJ and G]

got back a little while ago. light flurries. BB the beagle decided to go for a swim in the stream, despite the cold. She got covered in mud near the stream, trying to dig a rodent out of the hole and the water cleaned her up good. Didn't know she enjoys swimming. She hates taking a bath, however, and likes to roll around in anything that's smelly tocamouflage her odor so she can hunt better. Well, time to get back to layout construction again so I can bore you with more pictures. :-)

[ChiefEagles]

Frankie and I worked on the train room. 3/4 cleaned out. Think the other 1/4 is wife's junk she sneaked in and some youngest too. Found a big box of Model Railroader mags. Wonder if anyone wants them. Got another box of even older ones in the garage. Got some work to do in there and then start building benchwork. Frankie had not seen the big Lionel SD80's lashed up with the MTH Dash8 dummy in the middle. "Big engines." Off to youngest's house for dinner [supper in the south [;)]].

[spankybird]

We just got in from my Mother-in-laws dinner. Boy is it snowing out. Must be coming down at 2” per hour. When I finished brushing off the car, I was covered where I started it.

Laz – your right, Chief OTTS be here for one. Did you like my new oil can [?]

We got some great deals at the toy show today, check out Sunday Photo Fun, or was it Saturday this week [?]

tom