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

[spankybird]

Yea Doug it is,

But this doesn't look to bad, does it [?]

[Jim Duda]

Yippee! I found a picture of the Chief! Now I know why they wanted him to ride on the float in the parade...Buck and Spank - stay in Ohio! I'm stayin' in TexASS! Everybody else stay clear of Rolesville!!!

[ChiefEagles]

Now figure out which Frank is which?????????? [;)]

[Jim Duda]

There are 5 neighbor girls headed your way to give you a hand...(wink)

Handsome dude!

[FJ and G]

Those photos are sure to attract girl toy train groupies.

Here's the only photo I could find of me:

http://www.usmccca.org/cc/cc.nsf/3344bc044562d29186256d28003e18f3/68f8324a5b892df288256f62003ad16c?OpenDocument

[ChiefEagles]

D#^* David has now streached out the screen so you have to move it to read all the
info. [;)] I'm tired. Put up a drapery rod in diningroom, cranked tractor and lawnmover.
cleaned accumilated mail [junk] off of kitchen island and side table. Now got
Christmas tree lighting at Town Hall and Town Board meeting.

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon!

Well, I did my tour this morning. It couldn't have gone better! Everyone was very interested in the trains and we all had a great time! The trains and accessories ran well. They were all taken aback by the amount of trains. The teacher intern had said that when she heard about my train "collection" that she was imagining maybe four or five trains, so she obviously was in for a shock.

[Jim Duda]

Sask - I'd love to have a picture of you surrounded by your class (all girls!) in your train room! You'd make us all jealous!!!

Nicely done!

[spankybird]

Hey Chief, I like your pic, JimBo did a good job on it.

Doug - If you right click on you pic that I posted, you can check the Properities and get the URL address or use the one you have on OGR


Dave - I will do the same for you.

tom

[ChiefEagles]

Now we need Buckeye to put two pictures on his. The one he uses now is great but
we need a current one too. [;)]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Okay, okay, I give up here is a more recent photo of me and my dog. [:D]

Well I guess the jig is up and the Chief wants a recent photo.

Sitting in an FP40 that belongs to the Ohio Central RR at the Denison Railroad Festival this summer.

[spankybird]

Good Morning all,

NE Ohio is warm with 51 deg and rain. Temp going up to 62 today, it must be spring. Did I miss winter [?] NOT

I am glad to see so many adding there pics to their signature lines, it looks great. Got to get Big-Boy to add his.

This is how we test our smoke alarm



What fun we do have.

All be safe
tom

[ChiefEagles]

Tom looks like real steam town. Morning gang. Slept the best and longest since I
got home from hospital. [:D] Sure feel good this AM. Now for the coffee. All the
pictures sure are great. Liked the one of Buckeye and his pup [which was the
pup? [;)]]. Have a great day and God bless all. [be glad when we change this page.
Got the margins off]

[cnw1995]

Rainy today - Tom, speaking of smokem, couldn't do my usual walk-through that Chicago high-rise which burned yesterday. Chief, I'm so glad you continue to be on the mend. Now that I know what some of us look like, I'm going to keep an eye out for you. Let's see if this picture thingie works.

[FJ and G]

Thx Tom,

Buckeye's in the driver's seat. Watch out1

[1688torpedo]

Hello everyone ! Tom probably has to keep his house well ventilated with all of that toy train smoke in it.I wonder if he plays Burl Ives song "On top of ole Smokey" while running his trains[(-D] Orrr it could be smoke from guest chef Loretta Lockhorn drifting over into the train room.[(-D] Take care and have fun......Keith.

[Buckeye Riveter]

And you know what is more incredible about Tom's layout...the little engineer and fireman in the cab are smoking big cigars....look real close.[:D]

But the brakeman in the back is chewing and spitting. [:0]

I know, I done seen it with my own eyes when Spankybird let me run his trains. In fact, if you are ever invited to Spankybirds trains, make sure you go see his layout. You will learn a thing or two. I learned about ten new things.[:)]

Tom, as a refresher for those that want to post photos on the forum, can you give a brief primer of sorts as to the sites you use and also, something that I have always wondered about, how do you do it so quickly.[?][?][?][?] I can post them, but I'm not even close when it comes to the speed.

[daan]

Hi everyone; I must say I really like the idea of the photo's. I'm going to fix that too! On the attic I installed my rooflight. It turned out to be a simple job, and the result is more then worth the effort. I now opened the window to ventilate the room and let the humidity drop to normal values.. Then I'll clean the mess upstairs and start isolating the place.. It's starting to seem like a real train room!
Nice to see how everyone looks like!
Stay safe all!

[ChiefEagles]

I don't quite look the same as the picture. I have lost weight and the
face and neck is not so round and full as before. [;)]

[wrmcclellan]

Ugh - stayed up late watching the Cowboys and Seahawks game. The good news for me is that the Cowboys pulled off a 2 minute 2 touchdown drill to win with the best on-side kick recovery I have ever seen.

Sunny and 50's/low 60's here today.

Will have to work on the picture.

Have a great day all!
Roy

[ChiefEagles]

Hey Roy, I've always been a Cowboys fan. Well, the Cowgirls more than the guys. [;)]

[Jim Duda]

Guess what the Cowgirls wear when they cut their grass...(wink) Stay away from Texas, Frank!

[FJ and G]

The Redskins actually won a game and for this rare feat, got a photo on the top of the front page of the Washington Post.

Navy beat Army so nothing for me to run on the Army homepage (www.army.mil)

[GregM]

Wow this thread has had a lot of activity in the last two days. Here is my mug shot too.

[Buckeye Riveter]

It has had a lot of activity all year long....
The Chief's Pot of Coffee wins hands down and going away.
Thanks Chief for the intial posting. It has been a lot of fun.
As of today, the top ten topics and the number of posts per topic on the CTT forum for one year

The pot of coffee is always on 2175
Never-ending story 631
OGR Website RIP 151
OGR Forum Refugee Roll Call 139
RED SOX #1 117
Lionel to seek cooperation on TMCC 2 Standard 95
Not impressed by OGR Run 202 83
Thought on the O/O-27 Gauge Market Today 81
Welcome Everyone!!!!****Please Read this First 78
OGR will remain free!!!!!! 76

I can't believe the Red Sox made the top ten. [xx(]

[cnw1995]

Speaking about a pathetic football team - try being a Bears fan - we should've won that Cowboys game if we had any sort of quarterback - maybe we've found one now after Cowboy's reject Chad Hutchinson thumped the Vikings this Sun. Just blew a wad of Christmas cash on some spouse gifts - now I have to order something for me - a Marx Girard station! Hope to find an inexpensive semaphore or signal to go with it so I get something train-related along with the usual dad gifts.

[daan]

I stopped being a fan of any sports, except something related to trains.. (train surfing??)
In Holland we have a 1000 soccer clubs and everyone is a fan when they win. It's actually a looser's game. Whatch a ball and 22 people running around a field for 2x 45 minutes and the ones who kicked the ball in a fishnet the most is the winner..
Mwoah, not for me.. I can use my time better.
The most pothetic are the supporters who break down the city when "they" loose..
(It's always "WE WON!" or "They lost", never "we lost"..)

[spankybird]

Good Morning all,

Sports – let’s not even talk about the Cleveland Browns, gee, do I live far enough east to be on the west side of Pittsburg [?]

NE Ohio has a cooler morning at 42 , rain, and still strong winds. According to the weather man, today is our shortest daylight of the year, gee, I thought that was the 21st.

This is one of my best pics that I’ve made. To have the timing of both engines and still have time to pick up the camera and get the shot.

Pick of the Day


Buckeye – I work up something on the photo thing.

All be safe
tom

[ChiefEagles]

Morning gang. Tom, I think you are right on the shortest day. Sunny and high to be 70. Wow. Was in high 60's yesterday. Walked about a mile yesterday. Will try that again today. Daan, I don't watch sports on TV either. I do watch huntiing and fishing but once in a while, baseball. Everyone have a good day and God bless all. BTW, anyone heard from Jon and Dr. John. Jon's last post, he had or was getting over a bug. Dr. John has been a while. [have to count noses once in a while to be sure everyone is OK]

[railfanespee4449]

Here's a joke Two competing railroads (the AB&C RR & the DE&F RR) will do anything to delay the other RR, even derailing the trains. One foggy night, a AB& C train discovers that a bridge was out. The DE&F express goes off the end after passing the AB&C train by the bad bridge. The DE&F sues the AB&C for the accident. The AB&C brakeman testified that he had tried to signal the DE&F engineer with a lantern. The DE&F loses the case. Later, the engineers & the brakeman talk about what happened.
The brakeman says "I was getting really worried during the case."
An engineer asks "Why, did you lie? The brakeman says "No, but I was hoping that they wouldn't ask if the lantern was lit!!!"