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

[ChiefEagles]

Jon, Cincinnati airport is like 4 or 5 buildings [not together]. Bet you off load in one and have to catch a bus shuttle to anther one [probably C if Delta]. Then sit in big waiting room with lots of doors off of it. Then walk down long hall with more doors [gates] off of it. When do you arrive at RDU? If I am in town, I'll meet you.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Morning gang. got in at 12:30 this morning. Always love the Cincinnati airport [Yankee hole in the wall, stay away if you can [:(]].

Again, you were lost. The airport that you landed at was not in the North but it is in the South. The Cincinnati Airport is in Kentucky and they consider themselves the South. Some of them talk worse than you do.[:0]

I can't wait until you fly into a big airport. The key to finding your way is based on a skill set that we call reading and we know where that leaves you. Behind the [8]

Boy did I screw up. I had the chance this last weekend to pile on the southern jokes and I missed my chance.

[spankybird]

Just run out for lunch and there is this White stuff coming down. It must be SNOW in May. Got to love Spring in NE Ohio.

[FJ and G]

Johnny,

Thx for posting photo instructions. They were a big help to me.

Tom,

Agree reg. the photos. W/out a digital, I wouldn't be taking 1/100th the amt of photos.

Keith,

I wrote a short novel and a screenplay that features BB the beagle prominently. It's probably good to publish right now but I'm not satisfied with it yet and am crafting more of a cliff-hanger plot to it so that you MUST turn each page. If you or anyone is interested in seeing it in draft form (around 70 pages single spaced in MS Word), I can email it. I already copyrighted it with the Library of Congress.

I'd rather, however, not send it out to anyone who is not a regular on this forum. I'm primarily interested in feedback.

The genre is a coming of age adventure set in the Civil War timeperiod, featuring a 16 year old boy and his beagle, whose name, coincidentally, is BB. There are also trains and toy trains figuring prominently in the story.

But today, I'm home working on the layout. Developed 3 bumpers based on prototype digital photos I took about a month ago, which, if I have time, will post manana.

[ChiefEagles]

OH Bucky Boy. Been in a few biggies like LA, Ohare, Detroit, Atlanta, Philly and Dallas. We followed the big river for a long ways and then turned south. When we flew over Columbus last night, the pilot dinged the bell thing twice so I could run to the lavatory and flu***wice. [;)]

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

OH Bucky Boy. Been in a few biggies like LA, Ohare, Detroit, Atlanta, Philly and Dallas. We followed the big river for a long ways and then turned south. When we flew over Columbus last night, the pilot dinged the bell thing twice so I could run to the lavatory and flu***wice. [;)]

You missed, but I think you hit Tom. [:D][:D][:D][:D]

[pbjwilson]

It's a chilly one in Chicago. My son has a baseball game at 5:45pm. Temperature is around 42 degrees. By the end of the game and near sunset we'll be in the upper30's. Gee can't wait to spend two hours in the cold. Actually I'm gettin out my insulated pants and my winter jacket - the poor kids though need to hit and throw so you can't bundle em up to much.Looking forward to higher temps.

[ChiefEagles]

Guess my bomb sight was off. [;)][:D] Don't mess with the Rebs. [;)][}:)] Tomato plants are over a foot tall and blooming. Had to "sucker" them. Squash and cuks, we will not discuss. Only 3 squash out of a dozen living and only 4 cuks out of 9. More in the greenhouse ready to go out. Cabbage and onions are doing great too. Town Board meeting tonight. May have to give Barney his bullet as Andy is retiring [PD Chief]. Later

[spankybird]

Weatherperson told me not to put away the S---W removal thing, it might do somemore tonight. Most likely it will be south of us, not by the Lake.

Gee Chief, you did it twice over Ohio, see we alwas knew you were full of it.

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Squash and cuks, we will not discuss. Only 3 squash out of a dozen living and only 4 cuks out of 9. - Chiefie

See Chiefie - Bucky put a curse on your truck patch stuff for sending Ohio all that bad weather...underdeveloped squash and cukes. You know what the girlies will think of you now...

[Buckeye Riveter]

Tom, I'm going to Cleveland on Thusday. I have a meeting at 5:30 pm to about 7:00pm downtown. I am then going to head back to Buckeye Land, so it won't be a long trip. Keep the snow away.[:D]

[spankybird]

Buckeye, as always, if you have time and wi***o stop by, you are more than welcome, Only 15 minutes from downtown Cleveland.

tom

[Roger Bielen]

Been out in my shop working on my power pack for converting 12VAC to 4.5VDC. I decided to do it myself instead of buying Miller Engineering's unit, I like the challange.

I'm trying something a bit different with this one, instead of using two resistors and trying to find the pair that gets closest I'm using one resister and a 1K pot. to allow for fine adjustment. Bench wired using jumpers so far so good. Tomorrow I'll mount all the components on a piece of aluminum and hard wire it.

Nite all.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Roger Bielen

Been out in my shop working on my power pack for converting 12VAC to 4.5VDC. I decided to do it myself instead of buying Miller Engineering's unit, I like the challange.

Yes Roger, I too do the same sometimes. A challenge is good for the brain

Buckeye,With a lot of horse manure, a heated greenhouse with an automatic sprinkler system we can extend our growing season here to almost 60 days. And yes I kept looking for the Chief jokes this past week, man are you slipping.

Welcome back Chief.

I think we are having an Idaho/Washington Forum summit here next Sunday. One of the members from WA. is coming up to Gods Country to run trains. Have to get some oil for the traditional oiling of the Cab-1...................Later....Tim

[spankybird]

Good Morning all,

NE Ohio is cloudy and more rain on the way. Remember when the groundhog said only 6 more weeks of winter 12 weeks ago[?] And yes there is Snow mixed in the rain, temp at 37 degs.

PE Tim – for proper instruction on oiling your remotes, please read this thread. You will love it

http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/93360682/m/1881087202/r/9931033012#9931033012



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all be safe
tom

[laz 57]

MORNING GIZ,
32 and cool here today to get to 55?
Have agood one only 23 days of school left.
laz57

[ChiefEagles]

Morning gang. 30's this time of year is COLD not COOL. [:p] I see I will have to take my coat to LAZland next week. Jon, give me some times and dates for your Wilmington [RDU] trip. Got weeds "scratched" out of garden and mowed grass. Will work at pond today. Have a great day and God bless all.

[jonadel]

Good Morning,

Wowser bowser, we were 2 degree's from a record low this morning, this is CRAZY. We use propane for our heat and I was hoping for a nice carry over this summer, now I hope we make it to the end of the week! LOL :)

Chief, I will email you our time frame for Wilmington. We plan on renting a car and will have the freedom (after the wedding) to get away from the tribe and explore the area. We definietly need to get together.

Have a great day.

Jon

[laz 57]

CHIEF,
Good news for next week to be in the 70s? I heard it this morning.
We will see what the GREAT CHIEF will bring?
laz57

[cnw1995]

Cold and gray again today - a perfect day for my rescheduled review. Where's the 70s they keep forecasting? Hope to go to the IL Railway Museum this weekend for 'opening day'

[cnw1995]

Forgot to mention - I saw an all-fallen-flags consist in the Crystal Lake sidings today - mostly flats and gons - MSTL, DRGW, IC, CNW, MoPac, Soo, and WC - usually they are just CN, NS and all those company X marks.

It's springtime on the UP, lotsa of track fixin' equipment around - and cubes of new ties - here's another interesting consist I saw: flat, Burro crane, flat with short container on it (not quite a transfer caboose), then another Burro, and another flat.

[wrmcclellan]

Hello All!

Just back from York. Had a great time. Laz - I am sorry we didn't get to meet. We ended up in the Orange hall next to Lionel and Island Trains.

Found some good stuff and as usual spent too much money. Found a nice set of Lionel PW 2400 cars (the green ones) to go with my Pennsy Turbines. These cars were in Wiliams' booth and supposedly were part of Jerry Wiliams' collection. Picked up a Williams 027 FA UP A-A set for $180 (wow). Got an Industrial Rail 3-car log car set for just $25 and an Industrial Rail UP cattle car (these are getting scarce) for just $18. There was a guy selling a 2-car set of the IR UP cattle cars (they made two car numbers) for $125! I passed on that.

LIonel had a really cool booth, a full size replica of the pre-war Power Station. It was nearly 3 stories tall with the smoke stacks! Got to meet Jerry Calabrese (really nice guy and appears in tune with the market). Also met Lenny Dean and we got our picture taken with him. Saw Neil Young each time he came in Once each day). Some were able to get his autogragh on a car. The Cab Forward being demonstrated was excellent (one of my co-horts bought one at the show).

The Lionel Acela was a non-operating prototype, so that was disappointing. Lionel was also rumored to make some TMCC II annoucement, but I did not hear any nor did anyone else I spoke to.

MTH had the same booth as last year, so no big changes there. They did have some Ga 1 protoypes (also non-operating) on display. What disappointed me was they did not have the new Premier 4-4-0 for display (it was supposed to deliver in April). I asked around and out of all the people on their booth (8 - 10), only one guy (Mark) knew anything about the product (six - eight weeks late and he did not understand why they did not have a prototype either). I was blown away that no one other than "Mark" even knew they had the 4-4-0 as a product! What was also interesting is that MTH had a roller track display with a Premier Santa Fe Hudson, a Premier NYC Hudson, and a Premier (I forgot the road name) articulated. So I was able to test all 3 side-by-side. They all have the exact same chuff sound. Only the whistles differed sightly (between the 2 Hudsons - very slightly - the articulated had a steamboat whistle that sounds almost identical to my PS1 SF Northern). I had suspected this on some other MTH locos I have, but I will have to say that Lionel has MTH beat in attempting to provide some "personality" to each type of loco offered.

K-Line had their same booth from last year. Some nice new products with the roadrailers (streets with operating cars) and I really liked the new suburban "tank" locos (4-6-6). I am propbably going to get one of these in the NYC scheme.

Lots of other cool displays at Weaver, Ross, Train America, etc. I also saw a lot of very interesting pieces (out of my price range) and talked to a lot of very nice people.

After the show ended Sat, we spent Sun and Mon going to the TCA museum (very nicely done and what history), the Train Barn layout, road the Strassburg train, pumped the Strassburg handcar down and back on their side track, PA State RR Museum (very cool and nicely done), B&O RR Museum (rebuilt and very nice - the Tom Thumb and other 100 - 170+ year old locos are magnificent), and toured the ships in the Baltimore harbor area.

All in all - an excellent trip and lots of fun!

Have a great day all!
Roy

[Dr. John]

Got to spend three hours at the doctors office with my son this morning. He banged his hand on another guy's helmet yesterday in football practice (spring training). The trainer thought it was just a bruise, but it was pretty painful so the trainer got us hooked up with the team doctor today.

X-rays: 5 minutes
Time doctor spent with us: 4 Minutes
Time nurse spent putting splint on his hand: 3 minutes
Time spent walking from office to radiology and back : 3 minutes
Intervening waiting periods: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Too bad doctors' offices don't have drive-through windows!

[bogaziddy]

It's trying to turn into Spring out here but it's not having a lot of luck. Still getting quite a bit of shower activity. I'm getting my raft and kayak ready for the Spring run-off. Took Hoppy up the mountain the other day for a little frolic in the snow. He's quite the snow dog.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pigseyes

And yes I kept looking for the Chief jokes this past week, man are you slipping.

Please accept my apologies for being so lax. I've got some new jokes in the works that should make the Chief go pound sand.[}:)][}:)] [:p][:p][:D][:D]

QUOTE: Originally posted by spankybird

Buckeye, as always, if you have time and wi***o stop by, you are more than welcome, Only 15 minutes from downtown Cleveland.
tom

Tom, thank you so much for your gracious offer of Northern hospitality while I’m on the road in Cleveland. Needless to say, on Friday, I am needed in the Cincinnati area, and will scoot out of Cleveland fairly quickly. (Isn’t it interesting that when I get close to NC that the hospitality seems to be caring a firearm? And when the Suthern gentleman that we all love, visits the Great State of Ohio, home of U.S. Grant, he flushes twice.) [:D][:D]

In the event that my plans change, I will give you a call.

[Anonymous]

Hello All: Glad to see all are happy & healthy. Weather is still miserable up here. I have been working a ton of hours, I have taken the time to read but not post. As usual your pics are always a delight. Buckeye: Your green light video was good ( I couldn't get it out of my head for three day's). Glad you fella's had a good time at York, hope to make that trip in the fall. Hope you people take the time to post on my new post Re: the WW2 trains. Kind Regards to all Steve

[cnw1995]

Wait'll you get the bill Dr. John...I'm glad he's OK. Well, I got postponed again with my review. At least I have a job. Greetings by the way from my class computer lab - my students are working on an assignment so I thought to drop in and say hello. York sounded neat, Roy. I'm glad you had such a good time.

[ChiefEagles]

Buckeye, did you mean play in the sand???? [?] Yes us southerners have a beach to play int he sand. You Yankees do not. If any Yankee state has a beach, it is too COLD to play in the water. The only beach Ohio has is the muddy river. [;)] Good night and God bless.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Buckeye, did you mean play in the sand???? [?] Yes us southerners have a beach to play int he sand. You Yankees do not. If any Yankee state has a beach, it is too COLD to play in the water. The only beach Ohio has is the muddy river. [;)] Good night and God bless.

Yes, you are right about the sand. Go play in the sand at the beach. , NC has beaches with big white sharks and hurricanes. [:D]

[spankybird]

Hey Buckeye, did Ohio sell Ceder Point [?]