Good Morning Y'all!
Chief, get used to the doctors with accents. Medicine is becoming less of a field to enter. 60% of Cardiac Surgeon fellowships are going unfilled. Many foreign doctors are coming in to fill positions as they will work for quite a bit less. Many radiology departments are outsourcing the readings to India as they are done over the internet. I am sure we will see more and more of it.
Don, a good friend of mine who retired from the FD, but also is a electrical engineer (very smart) took his Ham tests. He did a whole lot of studying for it. I did not know how much it took to pass, but am impressed that you are doing it. No easy task and glad you are doing well.
Well, we've had a bit of a thunderstorm today and we are staying in as bride is making home made waffles. Later we have a birthday party to attend and bride is working tonight. Perhaps I'll get some time in on the layout.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Morning all. sunny and cool - supposed to rain / snow later. Off to men's breakfast complete with 'man toys' at church, then driving downtown to meet with brother for lunch (more food) and then finally to airport to pick up family - just noticed a few punch list items the restorers forgot - I'll try to get those fixed too.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Morning. 1.7 inches of rain in 24 hours. Cloudy now but more rain to come. Guess I will visit Miss Edna's. Not much energy as still got cough meds in me. Pam off to go shopping with friend. Chat later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Back to the forum after reading the other pages since I had checked in.
Chief, sorry to hear about Carter....glad he's OK. Kids can cause us much anxiety.
Krump, welcome to the Pot. Don't known much about Marklin, but one of the guys at work has a set and has some questions, I'll post and ask when we get the information into what he has, etc.
Watched "I LOve Toy Trains" this morning from RFD, then took in Best Sniper competition from Ft. Benning. Don't feel like doing much, the dog is laying on the couch with his head on my lap, the kids and bride are now playing Legos and dolls on the floor. Just want to be lazy for a change.
Catch up with everyone later.
Dennis
Brent......I must have missed the part where Susan changed jobs. Knew she was looking and about the UoP thing. Congratulations to you both. Did you make sure the A/C is working in her car? Sounds like neither of you will have much free time. And thank you for the Cliff Notes version of the usual suspects.and Pot insider's guidelines. Wish I had them when I found this place. I could have avoided a lot of mud puddles.
Chief.....you need to lay low for a while and get better. Close call with Carter, glad he's ok. We worry about that all the time with the granddaughter, been lucky so far and have had the stairways gated off. Hope Lucy is feeling better too. These pups get into and "sample" everything.
Later,
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Good Moorning,
Welcome Banks, sorry I missed your arrival,caught the "bug" from the chief and just made a quick pass yesterday.
Sunny this morning but storms expected for tonite and Sunday. Kids are taking us out for dinner tonite as our 50th. is tomorrow. Big problem is I will be staring at a plate of food I don't think I can eat.
Run some trains and enjoy the day...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Morn'in all'
40's, thunder and rain here - headed for low 30's and 2" of snow, so the weatherman says. This kind of day does not encourage activity very well.
Glad to hear that your grandson is OK, Chief. Quite a scare for everybody, I imagine.
Sounds like several of the group are not feeling well - take your meds, lay low and get better.
My wife just left to get her monthly massage. That is a good thing - mellows her right out for the rest of the day.
Think I'll go upstairs and run trains for a while. See if my fuzzy winged friend shows up again. Looking forward to the Australian F1 race tonight.
Morning all, not much time to scan the coffee pot. I'm getting ready to go to the TCA meet and hope to meet D Baker there. Decided not to go to Train Shack Sale today. Too many things to do, not enough $$$$$.
Don, I love that record feature on DCS too. Great stuff!
Ray
SPMan
HI GYZ,
54 and cloudy here, got a little rain not much, suppose to get more tonite? Went to BARRYs for some repair work. Got there and saw the JOHN BULL set, WOW is that small. I thought it was HO but BARRY had a pic of the original right next to it and it is small. Nice for the collector but I will pass on it. I did get a DH GP38 that was yelling to me to take me home. Runs great! Oh yes, came home and then rain trains for 2 hrs, NO PILE UPs, but did spill a little bit o beer, BOY WAS I BUMMED. I knocked it over with my foot when I put it on the floor. Only half a cup but ahhhh .......
Stay Frosty,
laz57
Sir James: Congratulations to you and your Bride on 50 years! Hope you kick that bug.
More Clint Eastwood on the tube!
Great am swimming with the kids, they're sleeping now.
Kurt
hey Laz .... did you ever see those "BUFFALO BUTT " beer cars ? since you're a beer drinker I thought of you and laughed when I saw them .
Chief !! Slow the heck down ... you're burning yourself out .
Afternoon. Strong looking clouds all around. Home from Miss Edna's. Going to rest. Hot and sweating. That is a reverse. Usually chilly and freezing. Got to chat with Ray [SP].
Congrats Sir. J.
SLEEEEEEEPY. Later
Good afternoon all,
It is both sunny and cloudy at times in SE Indiana with temps in the 50s. Did weights at the YMCA last night and this afternoon. Also did one mile walking and shot hoops today. Watched "Dollhouse" last night. Got the new MTH Lionel Corp Tinplate catalog in the mail yesterday and drooled all over that. Odd thing was that I got it thru my Lionel Railroader Club number. Got both John Deeres ready to mow. Chief, hope the grandson is doing ok. Toe is doing better, not 100%. Must be bad week for grandkids as younger daughter's son dropped a ten pound weight on his foot at home. Only broken item is big toe, but foot is bruised. Long days for her. Good news is that real racing starts this weekend (open wheel) with F-1 race in Australia. Irony is that Honda worked all last year on the 2009 car, sold the team to someone else who is using Mercedes' engines and the new team is starting 1-2. I had bacon and biscuits in the dining car this morning for breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Chief, I enjoyed talking to you on D Baker's cell phone. Nice to put a voice with a picture and a name on the Forum. Sorry to hear about your grandson's crash down the stairs. Hope he is doing OK now. Kids can scare you to death sometimes. Your North Carolina accent makes me homesick. You sound just like my relatives in Eastern North Carolina. I've been out here in the land of fruits and nuts so long, I probably sound like a Yankee to you but don't worry,. Underneath I'm still a tarheel. I've been out here now for 41 years. I suppose some of California has rubbed off on me. D Baker and I chewed the fat for a couple of hours at the TCA train meet today. First time meeting for us.
DBaker, Great to meet you today and thanks for the introduction (sort of) to talk to the Cheif on your cell phone.
Hope you enjoyed the meeting. Some people get bored with the show and tell but I guess it's because of hearing the same stuff too much. As you can tell we have a few characters over there. Normally, I hang out with the guys in the back room running trains on the floor layout but wanted to shoot the breeze with you today. I told RAK that I might bring my Metrolink Train to run next month. I just went home after the meet and did not go to the Train Shack. Probably saved some money.
later, Ray
rtraincollector Brent thanks to Brutus figured out it was my firewall.
Brent thanks to Brutus figured out it was my firewall.
A few weeks back Brent had suggested cleaning out the cache. The increase in speed I experienced was substantial. The cache was something missing from my routine maintenace. Now I can get through all of the Pot insults much more quickly!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SIR JAMES !!!!!
So what did ya buy her????? ..........You did buy her something, didn't you?
Don - or should we call you Doctor Frankenstain? Good luck with the experiment
8nTruck - Wow! Bats in the trainroom, how cool! I am collecting the halloween stuff from Lionel - started about 4 years ago!
Chief - glad Carter is okay! I did something similar and the doc told my mom my knot was a bump of learning
Kurt - I think that grain elevator looks outstanding!
Ray, are you related to 8nTruck? You two look a lot alike
Laz, I hope you saluted that spilled soldier Sounds like a nice new locomotive man!
Mike - good news on the toe, hope it continues to heal up fast! Picked up some breakfast to take into work for me and a buddy - jalopeno sausage rolls and bacon and scrambled eggs sandwich on an english muffin. Good!
Jack - I think he got her a Sager Place car?
Sir James 1 -- BIG Congrats, man! 50 Years - wow!
Had nice talks with RT, then Doug, and then Charlie last night. Got up early and worked 6 hours of OT - got off at noon. Picked up a cake for a party tomorrow for my wife's birthday, which was last week. We already celebrated as a family, but this will be to share with friends. Got home and checked emails - caught up with Sir J for a little while. Then I worked on the basement for a few hours. Finally, my son and I ran up to Subway and picked up some $5 footlongs for supper for us all. I had the meatball sub with provolone and extra provolone, parmesan cheese, and banana peppers for a little zing!
Now, we are watching Escape from New York, which was filmed here in St. Louis when I was in High School. I took Heidi Cerneka to see this movie. It was so good, I went back with a couple buddies so I could see the movie
Prayers for Doug's wife and kids, stuck in KC the last I heard!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
First off-
HAPPY 50th to Jim and Pat !!!
This is coming via a very shakey dialup in the north woods!!!!!!!
Kurt- the Ore Tipple/Grain Elev. Looks Great!
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Got lots o things done around the house today, cleaning. Got churchin done, then went to WAYNES for WISCONSIN CHICKEN. It's chicken ans green and red peppers with you guessed it cheese sause on it. Great!!! Then came home and watched HBO, with wife, Sex in the City. Absoutly the worst film I ever watched. Nough said.
BRUTUS, on the other hand, ESCAPE from NEW YORK, is in my top ten. Love the part when SNAKE PLISSKIN takes on OX BAKER in the weapons match. Me and BRO count up the times that the baseball bat with spikes is in or out of OXs head. Great stuff, SNAKE is soooo hard in that flick, but everyone thought he was dead?
SIR JAMES HAPPY ANIVERSERY!!!!! Hope you have 50 more.
Gave up 2hrs of train running for that stupid movie on HBO. DA!!!!!
CHIEF,
Better start a new POT O COFFEE, just got the OOPS sign.
Sir J conga on the 50th!
Welcome to da new guys - sorry, been a loong day....and the 'puter ate my post from Friday
Sales were brisk today at the LTS and alot of stuff headed out the door..for you Flyer guys, we had a CNJ Blue Comet with the 2 car add ons get sold and an Erie loco with tender - both Lionel AM Flyer with TMCC. The Comet was a beautiful engine and it went to a good home.
OK Legacy guys I need help on this deal...I now have Legacy, the NEW ZW with 1 brick, TPC 400, the TMCC/TPC cable set (6-14194) and a PowerMaster, but the PowerMaster Bridge is on pre-order from Trainz, just so I have all the current stuff with the circuit protection.
The Legacy manual is woefully inadequate as far as hooking all this stuff up to run conventional and TMCC. And please make it simple - I'm sooo confused (right Brent? ). Once I figure it all out, I'll get it hooked up and running. I'm in no rush, just want to get it all layed out so I'm confident it will work all the TMCC and Conventional stuff I have.
I also picked up a Plasticville coal tower, preassembled for $18 on sale at Hobby Lobby and the Town Hall for the same price. In May or June, I'm ripping up this sucker and doing 12X7 for sure. I have more stuff....including the MTH curve Tunnel, K-Line Milk unloading depot, car and dock, K-Line Signal Bridge, Lionel Position Signal and a few other goodies. Looking real promising right now.
OK it's late and I need some sleep...see ya in about 9 hours....
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Brutus, I think we both look a little like Jack (Rock Island)
Morning all!
Thanks for the props on the Ore Tower. Charlie, Glad you like it! We need to get together and exchange that photo for secret project no. 2.
Bride and I actually sat together on the couch for a couple of hours and just watched some TV...normally we're in the same house just doing different things.
Charlie et al: Planning to go to Trainfest on Friday with the girls. Just realized 4-yo has never been next to a real train.
LAZ, Brutus: 'I thought you were dead'....a classic line, just like Roadhouse's 'I though you'd be bigger' comments to Patric Swayze.
SJ....Congratulations on the celebration of 50 years of blissful marriage. Would you please elaborate on your methods of saying, "Yes, dear", in the near future for the edification of the masses.
One of our local retired traffic engineers passed away this weekend and the obit was very detailed. He is credited with something you see on almost all state highway, the white edge lines. Many of us remember when there were not white edge lines
Chief.....Instead of badgering you today for your multitude of sins, I would suggest you take it easy for a while. Head to the beach and relax.
Laz.....I believe spilled beer is one of the first signs of not running enough miles. I believe you better take your run to forty miles today.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
anjdevil2 ... welcome to the club .... everytime I have it all down to begin laying out the layout finals ... there I go again adding more components to the pile . My wife calls it the pile ... boxes of components -buildings - cars all boxed and just sitting there waiting . As soon as it warms up I have to move alot to the building I built for train work ... but funds held off the heat and too darn cold and chilly yet . Picked up a couple k-line diecast skeleton log cars ... one here - one on it's way ... have to take off those plastic logs and go to the backyard and cut some more real ones for them ... my backyard is about 8 acres of woods ... LOL . I have 4 great connections on ebay for diecast ... luck of the irish ... wife is not me . I'm really starting to worry about Chief ... afraid he's running himself down physically .
Buckeye -- it was a double good day here yesterday, snow and freezing rain for me as I traveled to southern Iowa for a day of judging!! The only drawback was that I was looking forward to the drive home late yesterday afternoon on the roads less traveled, sadly I had to take the super slab just to stay on the safe side.
Then last night the Iowa State Cyclone Women's basket ball team sent the Michigan State Women back home with a thrilling come from behind victory.
It was a double good day
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
GoodMorning All
Oh shaving cream, I was suppose to buy her a gift? Hmm 7/11 is open.
As for yes dear, we all learn those two words pretty quick. My dad use to say "the husband is the head of the house but the wife is the neck and she turns the head". I made it through a very nice dinner, but did not eat much. I'm feeling better but a long way from good. Lost about seven pounds in two days but don't worry I have plenty. At least my body functions stayed normal.
Storms and downpours overnite wiith a teeny bit of snow for later today. Have a great Sunday and ole james is looking towads the couch. S.J.
47 here and a good rain last nite. to get to 58.
BUCKEYE, ouch! 40 miles I better start now. My toe nails will fall off with that many miles.
ANJDEVIL, If you have the new ZW with bricks, look in the manual. You can have 4 tacks running at one time. Channel 1 and 4 the two handles of the ZW are programmed to run off of track power via Cab1. By punching in TR1 and then rotating the red knob, this will supply the power to track 1. By hittin TR4 on the Cab1 and turning red knob you will bring up power to the 4th track. This is how you can run your conventional engines via CAB1 or with Legacy. The ZW has the TPC built right in it. I run mine all the time with Legacy or Cab1. Tracks 2 and 3 will have the full 18 volts going to those tracks. Make sure Cab 1 or Legacy ground is hooked up to Ch.1 common. That's all that there is to it. Hope this helps?
Stay frosty,
DEVIL,
I just reread your post. You should have got 2 bricks with the ZW? This is odd if only one? One brick is for Channel 1 with a jumper to Ch2. And another brick for Ch3 and jumper to Ch4.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 46 degrees. Going up to 56 today with some rain later tonite.
Today is an easy day. Legs feel better than yesterday. I have a few things to do and then relax. Nascar race today from Martinsville. Short track.
Dining car was here and then headed for " Points West". Had the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
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