Re: COFFEE POT #11 [September], for all to take a drink and chat. Welcome all posters. 4 yrs old and still going.

[MichRR714]

Hope Everyone had a nice holiday. 

Pretty nice weather here and in the north country.  I did spy some red on many trees "Up North".  Does that mean Train Season is back?

[8ntruck]

Up late last night.  Stumbled into "Silver Streak" on the TV.  Watched about the last half.

Got the copper pipe finished up this afternoon.  No leaks when I turned the water on either.  Trip to Lowes for the heat duct parts was a bust.  I'll have to talk to some of the HVAC contractors in town to get what I want.

Kurt - thanks for mentioning Bob-Lo island.  That jogged some of the earliest memories I have of my grandfather.

Back to work tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

I did more work on the layout today. I made a lot of progress on the trackplan, and I should have it done tomorrow or Wednesday. I've been holding off on pics because things are a bit messy right now.

 Has anyone ever painted pegboard? One half of the basement is finished, but the other half that the layout is in only has brown pegboard on the walls. I was thinking of painting it white to brighten things up.

[sir james I]

Good Evening

Well it was suppose to rain so granny put a turkey *** in the oven. It didn't rain here but we had a practic run for thanksgiving, stuffing and the whole works.

Waiting for the thingy. Banilla and rootbeer are ready...S.J.

 

[Brutus]

A wise man learns from his mistakes.  A wiser one, learns from MY mistakes

[anjdevil2]

 Hey guys HAPPY LABOR DAY 2009!

Jon - Congas, Gran Pop!!

for those that need 'em

Nice to 'see" ya RR Charlie, miss our Saturdays at the 'Works....

Feeling better, got the energy to rip apart the layout and clean up things.  Removed the real thin piece of melamine and replace it with celotex /homosote.  re-did the track plan slightly.  I now have more room for buildings.  Been dry here for about 5 days now.  HD having more issues, brought it to HD couldn't shift it into or out of N to 2nd.  Another $250 repair.  I've only had it a year.

I'll try to post new pics on the SPF

Rich

[Banks]

 Hello all

Haven't read the Pot in a few days. I'll start now till I get too sleepy

Been busy here, finished second cutting hay, rye and oats are cut.

Wife & I froze Cauliflower this evening. Tomatoes are not doing well. only have two five gallon buckets to do, we'll probably use them for juice. Beets are lousy too. Moles ate most of them.  

 

Prayers for all who need them

[Wes Whitmore]

Was a great weekend.  Our band played one of the big parties down on Lane Avenue, and got to watch the Buckeye's work for their win against Navy.  Hopefully USC isn't too hard on us.  It was nice to have a day off today.  Just got back from Labor Day dinner.  Time to give Jack a bath and watch some Blues Clues...

Wes

[dwiemer]

Afternoon Y'all!  Well, what was supposed to be a nice weekend with the family went bust.  Got called out from Church to do a case, then, had to go in again at 0430 this morning for a emergency case.  Came home at 1345 to be told by SWMBO that we were heading to some friends for a BBQ and cake for our daughter's birthday....in 15 minutes!  I am a bit wooped.  Will work on the layout in the morning.  Right now, I need some sleep.  Have another case tomorrow, but not scheduled till noon.  One of our emergency cases was a truck driver from the mid-west.  Had no family around and I am sure his wife was besides herself while we were operating.  All went well.

Dougdagrump, got your email, but have been very busy.  Am interested, but the timing is wrong.  Thanks for keeping me in mind.

Dennis

[ChiefEagles]

Home.  Raining.  Got some things to tell.  Congrats to Jon with the new Grandson [he sent me an email as have not had time to read the POT].  Had one hour's "worth" of emails to read.  Dinner is ready.  Later.  

[cnw1995]

Back from the ball-game. Good guys won. The youngest got to run the bases. Now to grill whatever's in the fridge.  

[cheapclassics]

Good afternoon all,

It is a cloudy day in SE Indiana.  We are cleaning windows and I will be going to practice with "my" soccer girls.  I had cereal and donuts on the dining car this morning for breakfast.  TBIL.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[RRCharlie]

Somewhat cool and overcast in South Georgia today. Went out to look at areas I still need to weed and decided trains were more important. Dis-assembled the tugboat again, tested the resistor, and no heat. Sent an e-mail to Lionel to see whether they will repair it for me if I send the board back. I took pictures as I was taking the boat apart but I don't know if I can still get to my Photo Bucket account to get them posted on the Forum in case any one else decides they want to get into their boat for repair work.

[SPMan]

dbaker48

but just can't wait to find out what Ray came up with at the local train shows

Morning all, boy did I goof.  I said the TTOS Southwestern Div. train meet was yesterday, Sept. 6th, however it is not until next Sunday the 13th.  Luckily, I looked at my meet notice before I went down there.  I hope nobody else went on account of my post.  I doubt it, I don't think anyone even noticed except maybe dbaker.

I did pick up a GG1 Tuscan red shell only for my Williams scale engine off one of the buy sell sites and have been running the heck out of that lately.  I don't have any Pennsy passenger cars left so I'm running N&W tuscan colored cars instead.  What the heck, works for me and looks good too.  Cheaper than buying more identical cars just to get a different name on them.

Smoke from fires has finally cleared up here.  Took my first two mile walk this morning in about two weeks.  I have been taking shorter ones while the smoke was a question.

I have a circus train given to me by a dear friend who because of health problems can no longer do anything with his trains.  He sold them all except the one he gave me.  I need to run it more.  That GG1 would work with it but I think my Santa Fe warbonnet F units look the best cause it gives it a little extra flash.  He kit bashed some extruded aluminum cars for the train by taking the skirts off and mounting underbody detail that you can see.  The cars were alreadly lettered for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey.  The train also has four long flat cars for other circus equipment.  It has some cages, trucks, human cannon, containers of all types etc.  Unfortunately, I don't have enough shelf room to display it so I keep it in a box and rotate it out once in a while.

Wife and I have to play host to our church social group that is meeting tomorrow night.  Have to round up refreshments today and get everything ready.  Put some chemicals in my pool yesterday and it should be ready for swimming today if anyone in the family cares.  After this current hot spell, the swimming season will be over when the water starts to cool down.  At least it will be over for me.  When it goes below 80, I'm out of there.

Have to re new some magazine subscriptions soon.  I'm sure CTT is closed today so I will call them tomorrow.   Now to run some trains before it gets to hot in the garage.

Have a good holiday everyone,

Ray         

 

 

 

 

[cnw1995]

 Aloha all. Beautiful morning bodes well for the baseball game later. I love the minor leagues - called to see if I could swap my ducats for today - guy picked up the phone, said sure, got 'em right here. Love that small-town environment.

Chagrined I didn't get to chat but briefly with Brutus, Sir J and RT last night last eve. Had to leave to pick up my middle boy and got stuck in end-of-summer festival traffic in a neighboring town. An hour to go 4 miles at 11 pm. Ugh.

Looks like Don had a nice, but exhausting day. Someday want to try a 'real' tomato - not these rubber balls from the supermarket. Just can't grow 'em without killing them.

Fife, I'm jealous of your weekend. What a nice Inn and museum. That reminds me, my cousin, from that town, is a major in the Army, just deployed last week to Kabul. Have to send him a care package. I got a stack of pre-authorized boxes from our local P.O.

Hope you enjoy the day.

 

[rtraincollector]

Morning all. Man Did I sleep in lol. just got up time to go find the dinning car on the side track where they park it to see if anything is left.

Nothin much planned for today other than to clean this room up some so I can get stuff out of the so called train room into here so maybe Ican paint the qwalls in a couple of weeks ( it'll take that long getting this organized enough and to get that stuff in here so I can paint. Might not be able to get it all in here but should be able to get enough so I can paint in there with out having to stop half way thru.

Well will talk to you all later

[Anonymous]

Jim,

         So far, the only thing that appears to be missing is the paper insert for the headlight. I think that I have the body from the 21166 that I had before, so I'll get the insert from that if it is still around. I know that the tender shell is around here in one of my junk boxes. I was considering a 21168 Southern with smoke and headlight, but they are too pricey for what they are IMHO. I'd rather put that money towards another shell for the 490 Northern Pacific.

Is the 732 that you got on ebay the boxed green one? If so, you did very well on that one.

[sir james I]

Good Morning

Overcast but no rain  yet. 70s today

BLTs this morning, used my last red tomato. Still have green ones on the vine. No I am not going to fry them.

Me thinks I will cut the grass before we get rain. Good chat with the guys last nite all because we met on this forum. Thanks CTT......Have a great holiday....S.J.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Happy Labor Day from wet Southern Ohio

Off today but working on a rental we own.  Nasty.  Left it quite dirty.

Jim – You see in the 21165 how Gilbert went downhill fast on their lower end stuff.   Night and day from just a few years earlier when the low end loco was the 21160, which was still bulletproof reliable.  I’ve got a couple 21165’s if you need parts.

Jon – Congrats and continued thanksgiving prayers for the baby

Kurt –Prayers for your intention

Time for morning prayers

May God bless

Jim

 

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Small craft advisory until 1800 hours tomorrow here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  May just take a book down to dock and listen to the "chimes".

Had a nice trip to Richmond/Ashland this weekend.  Stayed at the Henry Clay Inn, which is located immediatley behid the Ashland train station.  You can pull up a rocking chair on the big porch and watch trains roll by (street running) on the busy CSX (former RF&P) north/south main, from about 40 yards away.  The wedding reception we went to was in the Virginia Science museum, located in the former RF&P train station in Richmond.  Pretty facility, and everyone asked me about the various train photos inside.  Just north of Ashland is Doswell.  There is a RR xing where the old C&O (now Buckingham Branch) crosses CSX.  Lots of action there on both branches (got lucky).  During the downtime, went into the SQUASH-A-PENNY antique store.  Picked up an antique O-sized blacksmith with large anvil (stamped England; not Britains though).  Might look good outside my sawtooth factory in the foreground.  Really good condition with no paint chips. 

jonadel - Nice job, Grandpop!

laz - LUCKY!  I have been waiting to photograph that NS OCS for two years now.  The A-units are original B & O units, that saw commuter service on MARC into the 90's.  For some reason, they tend to follow the PGA tour around.

Oh, almost forgot...HAPPY LABOR DAY to all the MOM's out there!

(Hope we were worth all the pain...)

[laz 57]

HI GYZ,

 58 here and cloudy.  Did a nice bike ride yesterday afternoon, went only 21.25 miles felt fantastic.  Only took 1.5 hours, for a mountain bike thats not to bad.  Made pitza with wife and had a few OL MILs.  Life is good.  Not much happening today, might have to fire up the trains?

MEL as SIR JAMES said with the smoke unit, thats how I check mine.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[RRCharlie]

Sir James I;

Thanks. I'll try that sometime today.

 

[8ntruck]

Overcast low 70's today.  Damp too. 

Slept in, out for breakfeast, then sweated copper water pipes this afternoon and evening.  Things went well, only one trip to Lowes for more fittings. Didn't catch the house on fire with the torch, either.  I've a few more joints to do tomorrow, then I can turn the water on and look for leaks. 

While I was working on the copper, I got a brainstorm on how to get the heat duct out of the middle of the floor.  I see another trip to Lowes tomorrow after the copper gets done to get the heat duct moved.  Brutus - I'm doing the heat duct before the drywall, hopeing that I only have to do the drywall once. 

Didn't get pictures taken for SPF, as I have not gotten the subject car back together.  It is almost clean now. Maybe next week.

Got some pork chops I am planning on cooking in the dutch oven on the grill tomorrow - taters, carrots, onions, apples.  It is gonna be good!

Later all.

 

[Brutus]

Tardis is ready and beacons are bright on the screen   Had a nice chat tonight with RT, SJ and Doug.  We ended up spending the day with my folks' as my aunt came in from out of town.  We did get to Trader Joes as we had a $50 gift card - we spent about $30 worth on snacky food.  TTFN!

[dbaker48]

Good Evening All !

First, Great News Jon !!!!!  Congrats to you and Sherry.  Hope I will experience that some day, not to soon though!  (Son is only 20).  So What is it going to be ?  John Deere, Lionel/MTH, OR maybe a John Deere train set ????

Of course we had to work all weekend, which is really a drag!  But, on the high side made quite a few new customer contacts, and will most likely benefit as a result.  What is this thing some of you talk about?  "Retirement", how does it work?  And how do you get paid?  Do I need to write a letter to the man in charge? or what?   Need to know !!!

Tomorrow will look at a full day off!  Let me think, day off....... Oh yeah, mow the grass, check around the house for urgent things that need to be attendeled too, check the cars out...... That kinda stuff.

Not complaining, but just can't wait to find out what Ray came up with at the local train shows, and how much the Chief enjoyed the weekend at the lake, don't even want to talk about Fife out on his Yacht !  (Do I have your sympathy yet?   LOL

Seriously,  Life is good!  And I sincerly hope and pray that things work out for Steve, Kurt, Brutus, and everyone else.  Lord knows Doug and his family are going through a lot of adjustments to.  Nice to hear Roy is doing well, (other threads).  

Getting a little late here, so hope everyone else is doing well.

(BTW, I need to keep this civil, but you wouldn't believe what it was like the past 2 days, watching the "people" at the Orange County fairgrounds!  (Less than 10 miles from the Beach, and 90 deg weather, it was difficult trying to concentrate on ink and cartridges, with the "Parade of Humanity" as it strolled by!  I'm exhausted !!!   

(Special Note to SJ:)  Picked up some "Beef Steaks" not home grown, but really good!  4 for $1, AND they weighed 1 lb each !  BLT's, tonight!!!!  Yahoo !

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

It was rainy in SE Indiana, but "the window over Terre Haute" opened up over Bloomington and the sun shone on the soccer game.  Unfortunately the Hoosiers lost 2-1 to Wake Forest (do not want to hear about it, Chief :-) !), but it was a good day overall.  Got to spend time with Lucas, our daughter Rachel, and the "saucy wench's" sister and her family.  Saturday got to watch one of "my" soccer girls play division 3 three soccer for Franklin College.  She played about 60 minutes and got an assist in a 5-2 win over Knox College.  The "saucy wench" is glad you liked the cookies.  I had cereal and donuts again for breakfast.  TBIL.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[sir james I]

Good Evening

A nice day, reached 80.

Mel put a set of transformer leads on each side of the resister, it should get warm to  hot. Easy on the voltage you just want to feel it get warm. I assume you do not have an ohm meter as that would  be the best way to check.

I enjoyed the afternoon on the patio with CTT, got it finished. Now on to that other mag. I am waiting for Brutus and the Tardis with banilla ready....S.J.

[rtraincollector]

Dougdagrump sent you an email thru the forum for some reason I can't find your email address and I thought I had it in fact thought the chief gave it to me once oh well this is an email you will really like I think.

Evening all hows it going not much going on here. Just got off work but I'm off tomorrow

hope all been having a good weekend. and continue to tomorrow and all have a safe holiday.

talk to you all later

[Brutus]

Jim - got your PM, need to get on the xbox and online to see how it worked   Be back later guys, just checking emails.

Kurt - prayers for your intention

[RRCharlie]

I got adventuresome just now and have my NYC Tug Boat in pieces on newspaper on the dining room table. My question is, how can I determine if the resistor in the smoke unit has or has not burned out? Any answers would be greatly appreciated.