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

[ChiefEagles]

Baby Rabbits have no odor. Infact, BB could not trail a half grown rabbit . [take it from the guy who owned rabbit beagles for 16 years] Hardly no sent. Nature's protection.

[spankybird]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Baby Rabbits have no odor. Infact, BB could not trail a half grown rabbit . [take it from the guy who owned rabbit beagles for 16 years] Hardly no sent. Nature's protection.

I got to agree with Chief. Baby rabbits have no sent. The mother feed them in the morning and leaves the nest untill night. Many people think the babys are abonded when in fact, it is normal for this. Rabbits have very rich milk and only have to feed the babies twice a day.[:D]

[ChiefEagles]

Tom, hope you are feeling better. 70 degrees here. Off to bed. Good night and God bless all.

[laz 57]

Mornin GIZ,
GIZ that might be true with the scent of baby Rabbits but my dog did in fact stumble on the nest and it was all I could do to keep her from devouring about 5 of those little giz.
Nice tis morn at 65 degrees rain later.
Happy Friday Eve!
laz57

[Anonymous]

Good morning everyone . Well im happy now, local golf cource just opened.Another warm day here today. looking forward to a little game this weekend . hope all is well ,have good day everyone

[spankybird]

Good Morning All,

NE Ohio is at 63 deg with falling temps and rain on the way.

Thanks for all the get wells. We are still fighting this thing. Went to work yesterday and only stayed for 4 hours or so. When we got home, fell a sleep, still on meds. We are trying again today.

Looks like Jimbo’s nite photo has really taken off. Maybe we should do a theme photo during the week. What do you guys think?

Pick of the Day


all be safe
tom

[FJ and G]

how do beagles track rabbits if they've got no scent?

beagles appear to be sniffing their trail

I'm working on the layout all day; took day off

[ChiefEagles]

Morning all. Dave, for an Editor, you don't read good. Baby and half grown rabbits don't have sent or very little [half grown ones]. Grown ones do. You needed another cup of coffee I think. [;)] Cloudy and warm. Think those storms are due this PM and then tomorrow will have some spotty showers. A little tractor work this AM and then into town to eat with Frankie and his "to-be". Tom, get well. God bless all.

[spankybird]

Also if the mother rabbit stays to long at the nest, her sent will be there or if she pisses near the nest, it will have sent. This is why she leaves the nest during the day. To remove her sent.

tom

[cnw1995]

Go Sox! A nice start to the season against the Tribe - sorry laz. Cloudy and cold today - back to normal I guess, off to take the kids to get new eyeglasses. Hope to work on the layout a bit later - I want to adjust one of the connectors for a signal light - ever since I've liberally ballasted everything, it hasn't triggered correctly.

[Dr. John]

Morning y'all!

Lots of rain last night but not the bad storms that were predicted. Chief, it ought to be heading your way later today, so stay dry!

I have a day off today, so here I sit waiting for a guy to finish installing shutters in my house (He was supposed to be here two hours ago, oh well). I've spent some time drinking coffee and working on a track plan with RR Track software for my new Oneonta & Opelika RR. I have several ideas, but I have not settled on THE plan just yet. That's OK - to me, planning is part of the fun.

My dogs haven't scared up any rabbits but they did dispatch some moles the other day. Dachshunds love to go after burrowing animals. Interesting thing I discovered abouth dachshunds - although the AKC classifies them as hounds (they use their noses to track) they are actually part of the terrier family. If you've ever seen a wire haired Dachshund, you can see it!

Good day everyone!

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all,

Cool 60's here today and partly cloudy.

Doug, as I recall you are using the 153C pressure contactors. The ballast has likely limited the movement of the track.

Our dog Maggie caught a rabbit at a Cub Scout campout no less. She caught the rabbit on open graound after breaking her chain from the ground screw we had her tied to. Luckily we got yo her before she did any apparent harm to the rabbit.

Spanky, your photo today is just magnificent! Great scene and composition!

Dr. John - Oneonta as in Oneonta, NY? Beautiful country upstate there.

Have a great day all!
Roy

[FJ and G]

Spanky,

I 2nd the approval of the photo; appears to be available light.

I discovered the sunrise and sunset landscape button on the camera and a page or 2 back, I took the photo of the signals on the VRE, moving about 50 mph, approaching Alexandria Va.

Seems every day I'm discovering a new function. Also the other day discovered the "action" button which sppeeds up the shutter. And the "night" button, which I'll try to use soon to add to Jim D's night post.

Got to lay some tracks now. Great dog stories, btw. BB is tuckered out from rabbit running this morning after scenting the adult pissing rabbits.

[wrmcclellan]

The rabbits make it easier to track them because as soon as they see BB, they pp in their fur!

([censored] bifocals)

[spankybird]

Thanks Guys,

I was playing with different settings. I belive I had the camera set on landscap for that shot. Here is the same shot done on the night setting

[Dr. John]

Roy,
Nope. Oneonta, Alabama (as is Opelika).

[wrmcclellan]

Is Opelika the name for a condition where people still worship Opie from the Andy Grifftih show?

[bogaziddy]

***, there went the power for about the third time this week and my ups failed to keep my system up and running. Power goes out at least twice a week up here. We have Pacific Power & Light as our power company ... P.P.&L. ( Pathetic Pulses & Lightning )


Spank,

Cool trolley system. What kind of trolley car is that and how far do the tracks curving around to the left of the picture go?
Always enjoy your layout pictures Tom.

Bog the Zid

I almost forgot ... gas is up to $2.76/ gal. Seems to go up by about 8 cents/gal. twice a week. I'm almost afraid to drive downtown as my tank's getting down to the quarter tank level. That Canadian fellow - I can't remember who it was right now - spoke of gas at $.90 / liter. That figures out to $3.44 / gal. !!! Guess I've got nothing to complain about ... Yet.

[Dr. John]

Roy,

[:D] LOL!

Opelika is actually a town in eastern Alabama that is adjacent to Auburn (home of Auburn University). Most small Alabama towns have some elements of Mayberry in them.

I chose the Oneonta and Opelika name for the O&O reporting marks - The "Round and Round Route". (The reporting marks are not original, I've heard of several folks that have used O&O.)

[wrmcclellan]

Dr. John,

On my layout the O&O would stand for the Oh-Oh! RR. My son might call it the Old & Ornery RR in my honor.

[Buckeye Riveter]

I have just returned from Huntington, West Virginia. While I was there I found one of the best train stores I have ever visited. The store is east of downtown about two miles and they have just about everything. They had Lionel, MTH, Williams, Weaver, Marx and tons of used trains. The prices were also great and they had two layouts, one an O and the other HO. They had train lanterns and other memorabilia all over the walls.

The name of the store: TRAINS [:D]

It is worth a visit. Also there is several places in town that feature train themes including a resturant near the river. Huntington, WV was a major B&O and C&O terminal and station. Amtrak still stops in town.

[dougdagrump]

Takin a break. Been workin on the taxes all morning.
[:(!] [censored] [censored] [censored] [|(]
Federal forms suck but Ca is MUCH WORSE. I think my wife even heard a few expletives all the way out in the living room. Either way by the time you get finished you have the feeling you have just experienced what Chief had earlier in the week, only without any drugs.........

[Anonymous]

Hello All: You guy's sure do flip the pages fast, that's what happens when you miss a day or two. Congrat's on Graduating Sask. You make me jealous with the trip you have planned on the Canadian, I know you will enjoy it. I am driving to Alberta in July through the U.S. & loop back through Canada for three weeks. Hope the Gas prices drop by then ( 92 cts. Litre in Ontario). The pics are really good guys. All have a good evening & a great Friday. Kind Regards Steve

[spankybird]

QUOTE: by bogaziddy
Spank,

Cool trolley system. What kind of trolley car is that and how far do the tracks curving around to the left of the picture go?

The track has bumpers on the ends and is about in a “U” shape. You can see track layout on our web page. Click on the icon below.

This trolley is made by IR. I also have ones by MTH and Lionel.

tom

[ChiefEagles]

Buckeye, you trying to "upgrade" yourself??? You went to WV. [:D] Get us some info on the store. Might give them a call. Most have computers now and we could see some of their stock.
Dougsnotagrump, GW does not use KY gell either. [;)] Pay pay pay!!! Pam off to Chimes Choir. Think I'll run the trains. No rain???? Yet Durham [25 miles away] got 2 inches. Ending of Durham Bulls game postponed till tomorrow. Hey, I hear cherry pie and ice cream calling me. [}:)] LATER!!!!

[FJ and G]

dougagroup;

I can't stand doing taxes. The wealthy find loopholes and lots of people cheat. The system needs to definitely be revamped. Too many regulations and stacks of forms and instructions. Enough to drive anyone insane. Then there's state taxes for some.

I'm going to log off now b/c for the last 2 days my computer has been sloooow. It took 5 minutes just to open CTT forum. And I'm using hi-speed modem. Used to work in a split second but I'm at a loss as to what to do now.

I disconnected the modem and opened a word document. Took a minute to open that too.

To test the speed of the computer, I played a game of solitare, won the game, and the cards traveled slow speed across the page.

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm ready to beat this thing to death w/a sledgehammer.

[spankybird]

Dave - do you have ad-ware. If so, run it and see if it imporves things. also on your borwers, delete all internet temp files.

If you don't have ad-ware, here is a link to down load it free
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

tom

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Buckeye, you trying to "upgrade" yourself??? You went to WV. [:D] Get us some info on the store. Might give them a call. Most have computers now and we could see some of their stock.

Main Street Trains
[phone]

Address:

4341 Us Route 60 Ste 133
Huntington, WV 25705


[Dave - Spankybird has some real good advice. Also, if you are not storing all of your digital photos on the same hard drive as where the programs are running it can fill up the HD very quickly and slow things down.

About two years ago, I put another hard drive into my computer just for the storage of photos, video, web pages, etc. It seems to have kept this old machine running fairly good and I am on a high speed modem.

[Anonymous]

Hey Everybody,

Here in Vancouver, gas went up to 102.7 cents a litre and now tonight it went "down" to 92.9. You can add a dime a litre for premium. That translates to roughly $4.00 Canadian for a gallon of gas. My well kept V8 Buick LeSabre is going to be stored indefinetly. Your looking at 100 bucks for a tank of gas. Luckily I live by a transit hub and at $68 for a monthly city bus pass the car is just turning into a hobby.

Dave, I run a Macintosh which is running great with 3G left free on a 40G harddrive. Nevertheless I used to run Windows IBM type computers and mine would slow right down once 75% of its hard-drive was full. Find out how much memory you have. If your hard-drive is full that would be the likely culprit.

Everybody have a happy Friday,

Mark

[TurboOne]

Hey all, lots of work and kids stuff the last two weeks.

First off [bday] belated, but still wishing Dave had a great one.

Hope everyone is doing great, gotta catch up on my reading.

Take care all,

Tim