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

[FJ and G]

Tim (turbo1)

I gave my support to the Garden thread.

Those garden RRs are really something else! What a way to model the real thing. There's a rather interesting post there about lightning strikes. In future, would like a small (but expandable) outdoor layout, but will likely be a 3-rail one using N/S rails.

[dougdagrump]

TurboTim, If you haven't already seen it drive out to Poway and check out the garden railway at Walter Anderson's Nursery. It is absolutely Awesome. Needless to say they don't have the gopher problem like I do. Hopefully all this rain drowned some of the little [censored].

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!.

Finally warming a bit here. Could be high 60's today.

Buckeye - excellent! [8D]

Gotta leave for soccer game. Have a great day all!

Regards,
Roy

[jonadel]

Good Afternoon,

We are back after a fantastic week in Colorado, skiing 4 days and traveling two. Spring skiing is the only way to go and when we left yesterday the spring break crowds started arriving, great timing! Saw several very long coal trains being pulled and pushed by BNSF and UP. As some of you might remember, we were out there last fall riding steam trains so on this trip I thought perhaps I should consider property, HA! We will continue to make the 9-10 drive, no problem. A beautiful day here and supposed to be even better tomorrow. The trees in western Nebraska are beginning to bud out, not here though. Good to be home.
Jon

[TurboOne]

Doug, had a blast at Walter Andersons. Awesome layout They got a lot of money in raisng up all that dirt, and block. Cool bridge up there.

David, he got worse on his posts now he has threats. Nice guy.

Take care all

Tim

[csxt30]

Back from Tom's to post a pic. Also, thanks Tom for all the help! This is one corner of my layout, thanks, John

[csxt30]

Oh, Boy!!! I did it! Also to add a little to it , what a great time I always have at Toms', so in case any new guys get a chance to go to his house, you'll surely have a good time and learn a lot. Tom's talkin about a get-together this summer, maybe. Stay tuned!!! John

[ChiefEagles]

The eyes of Chief is upon you. Jim, I saw his pictures. He is the VA guy that I was referring to. Jon, glad you had fun. Been asking what happened. Glad you were on a trip. Was going to try to find your number when I got home Sunday night and find you if you had not signed in by then. Dougsagrump, Turbo Tim started the rains by being ugly to us southerners yesterday. [:D] Cough cough cough. [:(]

[Buckeye Riveter]

John, I'm glad you are able to post photos, gotta run the Chief is after me.

[FJ and G]

John,

Nice, keep the pictures comin'

[csxt30]

Thanks Dave & keep your pics. comin' too, I sure like your sunrise in the morning. Now I want to have that. Thanks Frank too, with the help on pics, and we got em' out numbered now !! Laz, we're already thinking about going to the Allentown show, & maybe see ya there sometime future. Thanks, John

[ChiefEagles]

No, you do not out number us. Takes a half of a dozen [6 for you Yankees] of you Buckeyes to take one of us Rebels. [:-^][:-,][;)] Glad everyone is having fun [except me]. I'm working so hard. [:D] Jimbo, got real sore eyes [you get my drift]. [:D] Going to go up and eat some microwave popcorn and go to bed. Fly out tomorrow afternoon. Good night and God bless all.

[Roger Bielen]

Was able to spend some time working on the railroad this afternoon. I "planted" some trees, made a dozen more for tomorrow and took a couple of photos. I just finished uploading them to Shutterfly, hopefully I'm successful in transferring one of them over here to the forum.

[FJ and G]

looks great, Roger

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Buckeye Riveter

John, I'm glad you are able to post photos, gotta run the Chief is after me.

I'm gonna hide out in Idaho in that new JAILHOUSE that my friend, PETim is building...after Chiefie marches through Ohio, he'll head down to Texuss and wipe us out too! Maybe it's time to be nice to him...so...Chiefie, we LOVE you!

[spankybird]

Roger, your on your way, the pic looks great.

Jimbo, not to worry, we have enough OHIO forum members to hold off the Chief.

John, I am glad we could help. Stop over anytime that you are in the area.

[Buckeye Riveter]

[wrmcclellan]

Man,

It's getting so deep here that I am holding my arm up to see if I can save my watch!

Roger - great pic!

Buckeye - Quick, Duck! (quack quack) Chief is on the warpath - cough cough! [:-,]

Tom - very brave - keep that stiff upper lip! [;)]

In case you haven't noticed - the chief is coughing on all of us - everyone is gonna get a virus! [:O]

John - good to see you active here - keep it coming.

Had dinner tonight at a place in Plano, TX, that has great fish and is a great fishing lodge theme restaurant. Chief would approve.

Have a great evening all!

Regards,
Roy

[Jim Duda]

According to CNN, Buckeye was ambushed from behind...he didn't see 'em comin'...
I'll miss you, my friend!

[wrmcclellan]

Jim, Buckeye,

LOL [(-D]

[laz 57]

JOHN,
Allentown is a great show Saturday is thick with people but its great . Sunday is where you get the deals. We usually go for Sat. because we take the women folk and they go shopping the day and we giz look at trains. But if you go let me know and we will hook up. Also the York show is in April on the 30th and if you are a TCA member I'll be down there on Sat.
TOM sounds like another great OTTS you had maybr we will have the great RONDEZVOU this summer in Willoughby?
JIMBO those giz look like people I know are they your neighbors? My type of GIZS!
laz57

[csxt30]

LOL TOO!! I don't think I can sleep tonight, boy this is really getting exciting! OH, LAZ, I haven't rejoined the TCA yet but will, and Ed is still a member . We were always gonna go to York, so hope we can down the road. Ed just mentioned going there earlier. Thanks Roy, too, always like your posts too! John

[laz 57]

JOHN.
Let me know if you decide to go to York we'll hook up. Lots of good stuff but sometimes it is too big for one day. Me and the wife went in October and we had to run through it all in one day. Saw some good stuff and the wife bought me Christmas Gifts but it is too big. You need two days if you decide to make the trip. I am only about 60 miles away so it is no big deal for me.
laz57

[FJ and G]

I would like to post more photos but my web spaces are filling up. How do you guys have so much bandwidth. I'm using comcast. Went to their homepage but didn't find anything about free web space. I'm gonna email them and ask.

[spankybird]

Dave,
I must have over 1,000 pics stored on Shutterfly. I don't believe they have a limit, same with MTH site, I don't know of a limit there either.

[FJ and G]

thanks, Tom, I'll keep posting pictures then and look into the MTH deal real soon

[Roger Bielen]

Bright and sunny here this morning with temperatures to reach into the 60's. Guess I'll see if I have enough gas to crank up the genset, take the hege trimmers, and go cut back the wild privot along the driveway and road edge of the woods, it's a pain but not a bad as kudzu.

"Planting" the trees I made yesterday may have to wait until this evening.

With photos on a host sight is there really an reason not to delete them after a given period of time, say 12 months? Does anyone ever go that far back to look at photos?

[spankybird]

Good Morning All,

NE Ohio is quite and mild, temp at 30 and going up to 45 today.

For all the Buckeye forum members, Cleveland PBS station Ch 25,WVIZ, will have Great Scenic Railway Journeys from 6:00pm to 9:00pm today.

UPDATE OTTS Ohio Toy Train Summit [8D]

Maybe we should plan a summer picnic one weekend. The weekend should be when the Lake County Captains (Indians single A team) is having a game and also the Indians have a game. The Captains stadium is walking distance from my house and the JAC is about 15 miles. And of course there is always playing with trains.

Jimbo – we are sorry to here about Buckeye.

Chief – better be careful, NSA may check to see if you are spreading bio-chem warfare.

All be safe

tom

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone, I'm off to Erie, to a train show. Also tried to post a pic. & guess I got something wrong. Later, John

[jonadel]

Good Morning,

A wonderful day on tap here with temps in the 60's but the darn wind will be picking up which makes cycling a whole lot more challenging. Need to go kick tires today as we need to replace a car, I always like to look when there are no salesmen around.

Tom--I think a summer picnic would be a great idea. I would sometime like to take a summer tour and hit several baseball stadiums, maybe this summer? How about the rest of you? Ohio is very centrally located!

Have a great day!

Jon