RAY,
You are correct, this is what they looked like. Real sharp.
http://www.mth-railking.com/detail.asp?item=20-80007B
laz57
Jon - Congratulations on the birth of your grandson.
Back home from the mountain. Got rained on quite a bit. The heater/AC controls went out on the blazer so I had no defrost. Had to keep wiping the window, but it got better as the elevation dropped. Good lightning show and rainstorm on the way back.
Got to run to the hardware store for a few things, then some more work in the garage. Think I might have a pack rat making the rounds in there, will have to check things out.
Jon - congrats on the grandson!
Have a great weekend!
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Evening all from beautiful Southern Ohio,
It was gorgeous today. Perfect temp and no humidity today. This evening is very pleasant also.
Cedar Point is great. Lots of great coasters. The camp ground nearby is nice. We’ve taken the Youth Group there several times.
Dennis – AF stuff to fix???? Bring it on! Jim & Jim and other will help you!
Jon – Congratulations!!!! Alex will be in my prayers!
May God bless
Jim
congrats gram-pa Glad to hear the news as said above I guess that trip to the train store was for his first train set.
Evening all not much going on talking to jim at present. (Brutus)
hope all have a good night
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Good Evening
A great day sunny and warm. Also first day of football so the tv was on today. I am going to see if I can catch Brutus on the chat line before he takes off in the thingy. Banilla and root beer are ready....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
TIRTF (Tardis Is Ready To Fly)? Hmmm - have to come up with something good.
Just had a really nice and relaxing day today. Woke up to rain, so no yard work - bonus! Took some stuff back to Lowes and got store credit, then spent twice that on more stuff. But, except for taking my son out for a hotdog at lunch, I mostly spent the day playing games with him or hanging out and watching some Studio Ghibli movies with my daughter. Just enjoyed some good family time today.
Jon - big congrats, Grandpa!
Nice talks with SJ and RT!
Prayers for all in need and our loved ones too
Ready to fly, cookies and banilla sounds good to me! Patrick - what happens in the Tardis stays in the Tardis Mike - compliments to the SW!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Congratulations Jon and Sharyl!!!! I see that you are already spoiling him....good! That is your job. That, and to watch how much he will drive your son nuts over the years and you just sit back and enjoy a parent's revenge!
Bob, hope you get that Blazer fixed soon. High elevations often require the defrost, and one wrong turn....
Got some layout work done in that I was able to wire a couple of activation tracks. Son helped, so it was long, but had some good lessons. Also had my legs go numb under the layout. Oh how fun it is to get old.
Well, time to do my daily reading and prayers, then get ready for church. I am still on call, so I hope to not have to go in. We shall see.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Morning all!
Jon: Congratulations!
Steve: Hang in there.
Spent a good deal of time on the wood coasters at Cedar Point. Spent my younger days at Bob Lo Island. 4-yo likes the coasters. I can't wait.
Could use some prayers. Thanks.
Kurt
HI GYZ,
58 here this morning and another nice day on tap. Going to take a 25 mile bike ride today. Great day for this then fire tonite with wife, and Ol Mils.
All B safe,
Stay frosty,
Good Morning
Woke up to fog but the sun is burning it off. Hi 70s today.
Dennis, I let other modeler's talk me into a 30 inch high table. Huge mistake and I knew it. I cannot sit up under it and laying on my back with arms streched upward is not pleasant. And if the youngins think it's ok, time will teach them it's not.
No special plans for today but I better be outside as Brutus is sending rain for tomorrow. Play safe.....S.J.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 70 degrees. Going up to 83 today with mostly sunshine all day.
Today is an easy day. I plan on relaxing and watching the Nascar race from Atlanta this evening. I will spend about an hour in the train room this afternoon.
Jon.....Congratulations on the new Grandson !!!!
Dining car was here for the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Aloha. Welcome Alex and congrats, Jon! Buckeye, you say bimini, I say bikini, you say tomato, I say tomato - sounds like a song. Brutus, let me know what you think about that Steampunk stuff. It's fun. Canoed eight miles with feuding youngsters but it was fun. My shoulders are a tad sore. Looks like I'm stuck with my game tics tonight because I didn't check with the bride. Maybe I can swap them for tomorrow' last game of the season. Good college football late last eve.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Jon,
Congrats on the grandson.
Brutus,
I replied to your PM yesterday.
I have been working all weekend again, so I havn't had much free time. I did manange to win a Gilbert 21166 Burlington Route steamer on ebay after I got home Friday night. It isn't anything like the earlier steamers in terms of quality or features, but my dad bought one for me about 16 years ago and it broke and was thrown out at some point, and I always wanted another one. At $14.95, I couldn't let another 21166 get away.
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.
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
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
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
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.
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
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 !
Don
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!
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.
Sir James I;
Thanks. I'll try that sometime today.
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.
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...)
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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