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Posted by edw on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:15 PM

dwiemer

EDW, I had seen that video recently.  One of the guys in my group had priced it out and it was very expensive.  Unless you can pack your own rocket fuel, the purchase for each flight is also high.

You’ve got to like that German engineering, complete with retractable landing gear.

And speaking of jet engines, too bad Lionel never produced a model of this New York Central prototype.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:05 PM

Lee,

         I have heard bad things from others about E-machines too. You might want to check out Acer and Compaq. I was looking at several Dell laptops around last Christmas, and they seem a bit overpriced for what they offer IMHO. I settled on a Compaq laptop that was about $400, and the closest Dell in terms of comparable features was $700. My brother has an Acer that was $300, and it is a very nice laptop for the money.

 

I've been busy working on the second level of the layout this week. I had 4x8 to work with, and I got two Flyer loops plus a 799 Talking Station to fit in the space. I was trying to get a third loop to fit, but it doesn't seem possible.

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             I ordered some Anormal 1 Flyer smoke fluid this week, and the stuff is incredible. It is the exact original Gilbert formula, and it smokes and smells great. Try it sometime. What do you think of Flyer's 18B transformer?

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Posted by phillyreading on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:58 AM

Good Morning,

Raining and near 80 here in south Florida. Looks like hurricane Bill will miss the east coast of the U.S.

Texas got hit with a tornado yesterday. Sorry to hear about that one! Seems like some wild weather this summer.

On my newer computer as the old one won't get past the boot-up stage and my new computer keeps trying to install all sorts of updates wether I agree to them or not. My new computer is an E-Machines brand, next comp. may be a Dell or other better brand name comp.

Went to train show on saturday and bought a new MTH Z-1000 transformer for $60.00, works great. Also bought some Plasticville signals.

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Posted by jonadel on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:39 AM

Best site??????  And they are going to spend how many more millions to blast away when they could have more teachers and more classrooms if they found a site they wouldn't have to do this work?  I know location is important but so is using money wisely, good grief.

I would bet BIG money that the Supt., Arch., Bonding company, Contractor, etc. are in this together and their ego's do not want to hear of a better idea.   They have already spent your tax dollars and want you to go away quietly.  Been there/done that.  How long of a process has this been?  I think a new committee is needed Blindfold

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Posted by dwiemer on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:48 AM

Wow, lots of action these past couple of days.  Chief, tell them in the words of the late Daniel Patrick Moynahan, from NY, "You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts".  Sounds like you are on top of things. 

EDW, I had seen that video recently.  One of the guys in my group had priced it out and it was very expensive.  Unless you can pack your own rocket fuel, the purchase for each flight is also high.

Administration has informed us that we are to get ready for a site visit from one of the credential agencies.  These usually are not too painful for us, but the white shirts in the front office get their collective panties in a wad as most of the stuff comes down to paperwork.  I know it is a necessary evil, but I really could do without the paperwork side of things.

Hope everyone has a blessed day.
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Posted by sir james I on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:31 AM

Good Morning

Sun is up, going to 80s.

Sign...The spelling is wrong but the letters and numbers are all facing the right way. The sign maker must have ate INSTANT grits for breakfast. It messed with his mind.

Great chat with the guys last nite and the ride home with Doug M. I have a small outdoor paint project for today, thought I had everything done and then noticed the side garage  door molding needed paint. Oh well it's easier to keep up than  catch up.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:13 AM
Aloha. Cool this morn - 55 when I left. A harbinger of fall in mid-Aug. Nice ride home with Sir J and Brutus. Good purchase, Brutus, you should love that GP9. Looks like a nice day - maybe I'll trek down to Powell's bookstore annex before they close in a few weeks to see what I can pick up...

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:57 AM

Morning all.  Ribbon cutting at new High School [within 2 miles of the site we are saying is bad].  Then meeting with Chamber followed by Regional Transportation Comm.  ENOUGH!!!!!  May just pack up and go to the lake for a couple of days.  BTW: Wake Co Public Schools is now saying that the site is still the best in the area.  UNBELIEVABLE!!!!  No it isn't.  They have always done that.  New school board elected in Oct and should change the majority.

Later 

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Posted by cheapclassics on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:49 AM

Good morning all,

It is another interesting weather day in SE Indiana, rain, heat, and miserable.  Went to practice last night, but they spent most of the time taking pictures.  Worked on labeling "Victory" drinks (long story).  Did some Second Life.  I had the regular fare on the dining car as it rolled in from "Points East".  Beacon is lit, and it was very relaxing after a long, hard day at work yesterday.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:04 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cloudy 65 degrees. Going up to 80 today with a chance of rain later.

Today is a busy day. I have a couple of projects to work on. This will take most of the day. Looks like no train time.

Chief...They left the " Y " out of Roseyville.

Dining car just rolled in.  Time for breakfast. Then, off to all "Points West".

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:50 AM

Dear NC DOT,

It is spelled RoseyvilleLaugh

The next time you need help just call. Big Smile

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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:35 PM

Chief - great vids, shared with my wife and we were both laughing, you did a great job.  Don't know if they are listening though.  Maybe you could get that sign when (If) they replace it and put it in your train room?

Got some good advice from Sir James and then RT found what I was looking for - so now I have a GP-9 Wabash coming from MaPaJunction Smile  It is my first Williams locomotive, but gets good reviews from folks.  Nice chats with them both and also Doug Murphy on his ride home tonight Thumbs Up

Mike C - I agree with you wholeheartedly Smile  Also with what SJ said!  Lots of good friends here!

Tardis is ready - have to get back in the school schedule now, get up an hour earlier.  Luckily we have the way-back circuit that Rich and Laz perfected Laugh  Let's go!

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Posted by dougdagrump on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:24 PM

Need to add a few more numerals to that sign Chief, is it at least pointing in the rite direction ? Clown

To quote Mawell Smart "Missed it by this much, 2,563 mi" !  Oops

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:07 PM

Back from wife's nephew's 16th birthday party.  Birthday week.  Pam's is Thursday and Oldest's is Saturday followed by FIL on Monday.  Youngest's was last Friday.  Had bar-be-qued pork chops and grilled steak.  Ate too much.

Buckeye Riveter

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Wow Chief!  I guess they didn't do any borings before they bought the site...

Not only did they not do borings before the purchase, they didn't look a something simple like well logs in the area that are on file usually with some state agency.  Well logs might not tell the type of soils, but they will tell you the approx. location of rock.  We have done it many times to estimate the complexity of foundations.

Chief....We are working for three municipalities at this time that are all getting the shaft from the schools.  One school system is building a new high school on a road that is about 20 wide and of course they want the mayor and council to cough up money for the new widening.  

Doug M....Wes and I will want to get together with you when you hit the big city.Smile,Wink, & Grin

They did borings.  They know it is going to take 2 million or more in drilling and blasting.  Now you have the realize, Roseyville sits on a massive granite rock.  It is known nation-wide.  Runs from Stone Mountain to someplace in Maine.  It is named the Rolesville something?  Now there is land around here with rock but not sticking up out of the ground as big as a house [as this site].  The entrance to my pond is solid rock [been quarried].  The view you have seen looking across from a hill is on solid rock.

 
 
 
From top of the rock.
 
Now for the best joke of the time.  Seems NC DOT has moved Rolesville to CA.  Look at the sign.  Roseville is in CA.  Rolesville is in NC.  This is a new replacement sign just put up by DOT.
 
Chat later.  

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:33 PM

Good evening

Still 80 and no rain. Hi of 86.

So I cut the grass and played with trains. Had a short phone chat with Brutus and just goofed off. Banilla is ready so come on in with the thingy. I thought I saw the Tardis in a movie today but it turned out to be a blue port-a-potty.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:38 PM

kpolak
Wow Chief!  I guess they didn't do any borings before they bought the site...

Not only did they not do borings before the purchase, they didn't look a something simple like well logs in the area that are on file usually with some state agency.  Well logs might not tell the type of soils, but they will tell you the approx. location of rock.  We have done it many times to estimate the complexity of foundations.

Chief....We are working for three municipalities at this time that are all getting the shaft from the schools.  One school system is building a new high school on a road that is about 20 wide and of course they want the mayor and council to cough up money for the new widening.  

Doug M....Wes and I will want to get together with you when you hit the big city.Smile,Wink, & Grin

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:47 PM
Aloha all. Successful meeting this morning with the middle boy and high school guidance counselor. Then successfully signed him up for sophomore year, complete with lots of check-writing. Boy, adolescence drives me crazy - monosyllabic, morose... I was probably the same. LOL. Then took the train in - emptied a few dumpsters - and now prepping for my last class of the summer. John F, good news on your checkup. Looks like the Columbus Zoo will be visited. Jon, we have a committee on committees. They start-up or kill committees. Not many killed. Must be academia...

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Posted by jonadel on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:50 PM

Seems like the one to start with would be the Supt., he/she is the one that guides the board--in most cases the board mirror's the Supt. and simply rubber stamps his wishes.  Or on my favorites, "let's form a committee to look into that" Banged Head  One of my best friends teaches in a huge and very affluent district that is quite top heavy with administration and they love committee's, they had so many committee's 7 years ago they formed a committee to look into committee's I KID YOU NOT, IT'S A FACT!  I would think with that kind of money discrepancy that A. someone's head is going to roll or B. the whole project is DOA.  Chief--keep us posted, you can't make stuff up like this.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:37 PM

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Frank, After watching those clips had to chuckle. Forgot which one it was but their closing comments sounded like they were more concerned about delays to football field construction. Reminds ya of the old adage "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is already made up". Sad

The one with the tar, feathers and rail should have had the "lead in".  I asked the Commissioners if they remembered reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in school.  They all responded yes.  I then said they would remember Tom and Huck getting in with two "shister carpetbaggers" who, when caught, got dipped in tar, rolled in feathers and rode out of town on a split rail.  They laughed and nodded yes.  Then came the part about the permit, picketing and tar, feathers and rail.  Whistling

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Posted by LawsonFarmsRR on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:34 PM

edw
Check out this amazing video. Now that's what I call a model airplane.

http://www.videosift.com/video/RC-SR-71-Blackbird-with-actual-JET-ENGINES

 

 

 

WOW! Enough to make you want to change hobbies (almost). Or add a new hobby to the list.Thumbs Up

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Posted by edw on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:11 PM

Check out this amazing video. Now that's what I call a model airplane.

http://www.videosift.com/video/RC-SR-71-Blackbird-with-actual-JET-ENGINES

 

 

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Posted by dougdagrump on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:01 PM

Frank, After watching those clips had to chuckle. Forgot which one it was but their closing comments sounded like they were more concerned about delays to football field construction. Reminds ya of the old adage "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is already made up". Sad

Those "Teardrops" are nice little travel trailers, towed & trailed great. Thank goodness they were light so you could dis-connect and move 'em around by hand, with those short tongues they were a pain to try to back-up.

 

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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:03 AM

Chief - Got to be a money trail somewhereSign - Dots  You looked good. CowboyThumbs Up

Phish - It's been a longtime since I've seen one of those campers.  Local RV place is actually marketing newer tear-drop pull-behinds.  You got the grass carpeting thing going, but still the site needs something...

jefelectric - Good to hear you're running on all 8 cylinders.

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Posted by LawsonFarmsRR on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:17 AM

 HATS OFF TO THE CHIEF!

To bad he isn't Mayor of a certain Central Virginia town. We have several School Board members and Supervisors with questionable conflicts of interest (land developers, contractors, mortgage lenders) that a good tar and feathering might be in order.

We just opened a second high school that ran well over budget, payed for by some of that taxpayer gold from the Yellow Brick Road.

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:17 AM

Good Morning

Sun is up going to 85.

Walked to the store and picked up a few things. Best part of walking is I can only buy what I can carry home. Had a good chat with the guys last nite, all these friends are from the forums, so CTT there's more to this than toy trains. Well grannys doing some house cleaning and I am trying to be invisible, where's the Tardis? BLTs for breakfast umm good.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:03 AM

Morning.  Telephone interview.  Borings were done.  Lots of "unexplained" things here.

Sturg, good looking camper and truck.

Off to DR.  Probably get spots "frozen" and hope none cut out.   She likes my visits as she gets bags of tomatoes.

Got to sow turnips.  Wish I had them in the ground yesterday.  Had 1/2 inch of rain late yesterday afternoon.

Go to run.  

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:02 AM

Sturgeon-Phish

Morning all from cloudy Southern Ohio

This is the last day of vacation.  We took the truck camper to SLeeping Bear Dunes Natl Park in Michigan.  It was great.  The truck camper worked out great.  The fifth wheel was spacious and comfotable but the mobility of the truck camper is a real plus.

There is a furneral today and I hope the rain holds off. 

May God bless

Jim

Jim..... That's a nice truck camper.  I took my kids to Sleeping Bear, years ago. Had a great time.  That's a neat place.

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:10 AM

Morning all from cloudy Southern Ohio

This is the last day of vacation.  We took the truck camper to SLeeping Bear Dunes Natl Park in Michigan.  It was great.  The truck camper worked out great.  The fifth wheel was spacious and comfotable but the mobility of the truck camper is a real plus.

There is a furneral today and I hope the rain holds off. 

May God bless

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Posted by dbaker48 on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:09 AM

Chief,

You have done us proud!  It was interesting watching the expressions on the folks around you when you were speaking.  I would think there are a lot of embarrassed people this morning, and sure you are the topic of many breakfast conversations.  Hopefully commonsense will prevail.  Seems like their may be some "hidden" agendas somewhere.

Great Job !!

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Posted by kpolak on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:51 AM

Morning all!

Wow Chief!  I guess they didn't do any borings before they bought the site...I bet it will get built there anyway...sorry to say, with the costs, passed on to the residents.  The worst part is they (school board, and commissioners) all keep their jobs.  Additional inquiry into who owned the land, and any possible connections to those who voted for this are in order.  We have some of that here, too.  Responsible parties were voted out, but we're left to carry the financial burden.

Busy day of running around today.

Kurt

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