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

[Brutus]

Dougdagrump - if you mean does the switch throw if a train comes into it from the "other" direction, then the answer is yes - I've got 4 remote O27 switches that I just bought new on this Halloween layout and while I don't have them powered yet (waiting for my Z10000), they throw when a train enters them from a different direction than that to which they were manually set.

[Deputy]

Thanks to everyone for the replies to my question about traction/power with the GG-1 without magnetraction. Definitely on my "must have" list

Dep

[Jumijo]

Hello all!

I'm at work on a Sunday night waiting for something to happen. I got called in from a family gathering. No idea when I'll be heading home.

Good to see Jerry back.

Jim

[csxt30]

Hello all!

I'm at work on a Sunday night waiting for something to happen. I got called in from a family gathering. No idea when I'll be heading home.

Good to see Jerry back.

Jim

Good to see you here today Jim !! Nice picture of your layout on The Sunday Photo Fun !! We don't have any donuts left but here's some brownies & maybe later The Chief will share some of his microwave popcorn !! 

 

Thanks, John

[Jumijo]

You're a good guy, John! Kind nice to be hanging out here on the weekend.

Jim

[ChiefEagles]

Jim, I won't tell.  BOOOM!!!!     At first I thought you were at the library.

[Jumijo]

Let's keep all that BOOM stuff on the down-low, Chief!

I love that 2065 of yours!

[ChiefEagles]

Jim A, check your email.  Hurting!!!! 

Pork shoulder cooked all day in crock pot.  Then salt and pepper and vinegar [to make sliced bar-be-que], fresh homemade potato salad [still warm], string beans and applesauce.  Now she is icing a chocolate praline cake.   OH NO, the cake is ready.

[Jumijo]

Go ahead, rub it in. All I've eaten since this morning was a hamburger!

Things are getting busy. Later guys.

[dwiemer]

CSXJohn, from your posting about your trip to Odd Lots, I would assume you have found something dealing with trains from your past visits.  How about a hint?

Hi Buckeye !! No, I never found too much at Big Lots before, I was just looking there today, as Dennis is always mentioning the stuff he gets there !!  He said they had a ferris wheel there & I was looking for it, but our store doesn't seem to have anything like that !! They didn't even have any of our diecast cars.

Thanks, John 

Hey John, they have a Carousel for $49.00 it is the Mr. Christmas and is really a nice looking piece.  Plays all kinds of music (Including Christmas).  They also have some ceramic buildings, and if you go to the back, by the crafts area, they have some different colored sand and some talus.  About $2.00 per bag.

Hope y'all have a good night.

Dennis

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

As beautiful as Saturday was, Sunday was the opposite with it being cold, cloudy and windy.  Spent the day inside running my Santa Fe equipment.  Watched a little bit of the NASCAR race and a little bit of the Colts game.  It was good to have a quiet day.  I was reading the CTT article on the Grand Central Terminal and I saw Roy's name mentioned.  I told my wife, "I know that guy.  He's on the forum."  Nice write-up.  Roger usually does a good job writng.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Jim A, check your email.  Hurting!!!! 

Pork shoulder cooked all day in crock pot.  Then salt and pepper and vinegar [to make sliced bar-be-que], fresh homemade potato salad [still warm], string beans and applesauce.  Now she is icing a chocolate praline cake.   OH NO, the cake is ready.

You sure know how to tease us with good food.

[csxt30]

Jim A, check your email.  Hurting!!!! 

Pork shoulder cooked all day in crock pot.  Then salt and pepper and vinegar [to make sliced bar-be-que], fresh homemade potato salad [still warm], string beans and applesauce.  Now she is icing a chocolate praline cake.   OH NO, the cake is ready.

You sure know how to tease us with good food.

Yeah, now I'm getting the munchies !!  Guess we won't get any microwave popcorn now !!

Thanks, John

Oh, almost missed it !!  Thanks Dennis for the info !! I'll have to go back !!

[ChiefEagles]

Always room for micro-wave popcorn [and a big glass of Pepsi One].  I think I just heard a beep in the kitchen.

[dougdagrump]

Always room for micro-wave popcorn [and a big glass of Pepsi One].  I think I just heard a beep in the kitchen.

Was that an RMT BEEP ?

[Buckeye Riveter]

Always room for micro-wave popcorn [and a big glass of Pepsi One].  I think I just heard a beep in the kitchen.

Was that an RMT BEEP ?

That was the microwave burning the grits.

[csxt30]

Always room for micro-wave popcorn [and a big glass of Pepsi One].  I think I just heard a beep in the kitchen.

No, it was smoke fluid in the Beep & it done blowed up !!   LOL !!

Thanks, John & pass the popcorn !!  Ha !! I have too much fun on here !!

[jonadel]

Good evening,

Still thinking about this last week and what a treat it was. Everything just seemed to fall into place, even with lots of pre planning I was prepared for something to go wrong, but it didn't. I'm glad we were able to be home last night as today has been one of catching up on laundry and phone calls with the kids.

I've been downstairs several times today to see if the new purchases still work (and they do) and try and visualize what I'd like to do in the future with the layout. My thoughts are to expand the current layout with more levels and redo certain parts of it. I'd really like to get rid of all the O31's and do minimums of O72's except in the trolley area. Not sure if that will happen.

Enjoying the World Series but it sure looks cold, I can't imagine how the hitters hands feel when they hit the ball.

Tomorrow will begin the BIG process of getting 5 acres ready for winter. Hard to do the leaves yet as most of them are still on the tree's, hopefully in the next two weeks they will be down.

Seems late and it's only 9:30........ GO DETROIT!!

Jon

[Brutus]

Won an 0-6-0 Lionel Docksider + Caboose, a breakup from the Copper Range set.  Waiting to see if I win some Accessories.

[Jumijo]

Jim A, check your email.  Hurting!!!! 

Pork shoulder cooked all day in crock pot.  Then salt and pepper and vinegar [to make sliced bar-be-que], fresh homemade potato salad [still warm], string beans and applesauce.  Now she is icing a chocolate praline cake.   OH NO, the cake is ready.

You sure know how to tease us with good food.

Yeah, now I'm getting the munchies !!  Guess we won't get any microwave popcorn now !!

Thanks, John

Oh, almost missed it !!  Thanks Dennis for the info !! I'll have to go back !!

If you think that food sounded good, you should have seen what he e-mailed me! No-calorie sweets!

Good morning everyone. It poured here last night. Supposed to dry out today though.

A lousy weekend after many good ones. Me and the kids have some virus, along with half the state from the sounds of it.

Gonna be another busy one.

Jim

[mitchelr]

Good morning from Gettysurg. High to be in the mid 50's with winds 20 to 30 mph, maybe the leaves will all blow in my neighbors' yards.

Haven't been on the forum too much as my SIL is here from FL.  As always York was great but as LAZ and I were commenting,  after a while your eyes begin to glaze over and you kick into overdrive and you get into the "I have to see it all mode" and then I am sure I missed some stuff.  I was happy with my purchases.  I got some vehicles for the layout, a '53 T-bird and a '69 Vette, a VW bus and camper, and a Lionelville Divco Milk Delivery van, as well as a '42 Ford pickup . The Ford pick up reminded me of my first vehicle, a '47 Ford pick-up.  I'll save the saga of the '47 Ford for another day (a tale of youthful foolishness, pennywise and dollar foolish).  I also picked up the K-Line Plymouth Switcher and Ore Cars and a Williams GP 9 both decorated for WM.  I also got some paint and replacement parts for some pre-war stuff.  The  worst part is that the Mrs. (and my parents) purchased the bulk of it for Christmas/birthday and I can't even open it or run it.  I tried to explain that I should test it to see if it is OK but she would hear nothing of it.

Well I must get on the road.  Long day today, I'm on the committee interviewing for a School Pyschologist.

Take care,

Mitch

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

   41 and breezy here only to get to 52.

I put in a new turbo smoke unit in my Lionel Mohawk last nite that I purchased from TAS.  It wasn't to bad to put in hooked up all  the wires and tested it, wouldn't work in forward, so changed wire leads around and now it won't work in reverse.  Got to call the TAS GIZ today and ask why it will only work in one direction?   There really isn't that much to hooking the smoke unit up, 3 wires, one hot one ground and one that goes to the cherry switch.  Maybe those GIZ will tell me whats going on?

MITCH, and allthe GIZ at YORK, my eyes are finally getting back to normal, the glaze is fading from all the train stuff.  Had a great time there again.

All have a good one.

laz57

[jonadel]

Mitch & Laz--

I have to agree about the overload glazed look. The first day was easy, the second one was tougher. I think if we would have taken maybe a two hour break on the second day it would have been easier to keep searching. There are certain buildings I wouldn't spend much time in next time.

Have a good week.

Jon

[GregM]

Today is my last vacation day until Thanksgiving week.  Have Dr. appointment this afternoon, so that kinda crimps the day.  Planning to go pick up my Lionel Lackawanna Trainmaster before Dr. appt. 

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a gloomy, 37 degrees and only going up to 47 today. Good day to stay indoors and work on layout.

I have a few things to do today. Then, I think I will start spending a few hours each day in the train room. That would be nice.

Chief....Hope you enjoyed the cake. Nice talking to you.

It sounds like all of you guys, who went to York, had a good time and now are getting rid of the " glazed over "  look. Good luck.

Well, time to make my way to the Dining Car for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Monday.

Chuck

[jefelectric]

Good morning,

Jim,  I had the same problem when my kids were small.  Seemed to get everything that was going around.  Once they hit HS it wasn't nearly as bad.

Greg M., Got my Lackawanna TM about 2 weeks ago, I love it.

Mitch, Maybe you can sneak the stuff out and let her wrap the empty boxes.

Well, off the the fitness center, then need to finish winterizing outdoors, I think the warm weather is over.  

 

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

It is cold, cloudy and miserable in SE Indiana with temps barely reaching the 40s today.  The entire week is supposed to be lousy with some sunshine possible on Wednesday.  At least "Desperate Houswives" was funny last night.  Not much else to report.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[dbaker48]

Home !
Finally, now to get all the honey do's caught up, get to know the family again, and just being home.
GREAT!!!!

Thank the Lord for a safe trip, and yes TOTO THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME !!!

[Buckeye Riveter]

Today, October 23rd, 2006, we are pleased to announce that it is snowing for the second time this season in Columbus, Ohio.  

Put the York dates on my calender for next year.  Would really like to go, but work seems to get in the way of so many things.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Yanks left the door open.  It turned cold!!!!!  In the high 40's and going into the 50's but breezy.  Off to Raleigh for Craftsman Club sale.  Need a couple of smaller items [saw blades and etc].  Dennis W., shipping box.  Jim A, I need to go fishing more often.  Don't you think?   Only thing glazed over here is the chocolate praline cake [it will make you slap your mama].   Mitch, are you sure you don't have to see the School Pyschologist.   Have a good one.

GO SNOHIO!!!!