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COFFEE POT #2, February 2010 for all to take a drink and chat. Welcome all posters. 4 yrs old and still going. Sweet ice tea too.

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:05 PM

Buckeye....The BIG gun is busy in NC.....

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Posted by Brutus on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:14 PM

Howdy guys - we're getting fallout from that snow bomb those guys shot at Roseyville's reservoir/beaver preserve!  Nothing much, just nuisance snow.

Wife's first follow-up after her hospital discharge.  Her numbers are climbing nicely.  Her PIC (PICC?) line was clogged up though on all 3 spots.  They messed with it for about 45 minutes, then took her back again and tried a different substance.  After an hour, it was still no-go, so they removed the PIC line.  She'll have to get stuck for all her work from now on.  She has an appointment on Thursday and they will do a bone marrow biopsy to see how that is working out.  So far, she is getting stronger and feels a little better each day.

After that, I did some grocery shopping.  Back to work tomorrow, but I'm off Friday as my son has a doctor appointment and my daughter has some stuff going on that afternoon and evening as well.

Tardis will be ready in an hour or two and we have some cake left over as well as banilla, rootbeer, diet pepsi, regular coke, and some Old Mills or Miller Lite Thumbs Up

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Posted by sir james I on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:28 PM

Good Evening

28 today and still gloomy. Very normal for feb. in Michigan. Mayhaps a few flurries overnite.

Got a hair cut this morning and goofed off the rest of the day. I did do a little training though.

Everything here is ready for the thingy so Brutus fire it up....S.J.

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Posted by dwiemer on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:28 PM

Brutus, sorry to hear about Char's Pic Line.  I know she is not looking forward to all the sticks, but the good thing is that it happened after the initial round when she get the most sticks.  Will pray for continued good reports.

Jon in Ioway, this is for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCX9UY143xI  This girl has some talent on the trumpet!  Perhaps she was one of your students?  Anyway, beautiful song played in a beautiful manner.

Had a couple of cases left over from the weekend.  One will get operated on in the morning, have to wait for labs and do the other at a later date.  Some folks are just too sick to operate on, so they have to be tuned up before we put them through a major operation.  Still, I am on call and have to be ready should I be needed.  Glad the snow has left us.  Was cold and raining @ 52degrees on my way home tonight.

Got some sad news when I got to work today.  One of the orderlies was found dead in his apartment this weekend.  He was only 33 years old and one great guy.  Always smiled and was very friendly and a hard worker too.  He had no family to speak of, so I am not sure what the arrangements will be.  From the reports I have, nothing suspicious was found, but they are sending the body to the state crime lab.  Sad.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, February 15, 2010 9:18 PM

Home and tired of meetings.  More tomorrow.  Chat later.  OH, it rained lightly and NO snohio.  Good night and sleep tight.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Monday, February 15, 2010 9:41 PM

I just checked the snow maps of the U.S.A. and there is more snow on the ground in Central Iowa, Maryland and Ohio than in Buffalo, NY.   Wow!!

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Posted by 8ntruck on Monday, February 15, 2010 10:10 PM

Partly cloudy, fading to gray and snow flurries today.

Won the Grand Trunk tender on e-bay.  Shipping will be more expensive than the winning bid!  Missed the drop center four truck flat car - not to worry, there will be others.

Those Ford GT's really were special in their day.  Those big old 427 NASCAR engines would make horsepower, not to mention torque, at a much lower, and durable rpm than the Italian targets.  When we visited the Henery Ford Museum with our Finnish exchange student we paused at a GT-40.  He asked what it was, I told him that it was a Ferrari killer, then related the history.  His reaction - 'well, it's old'.

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Posted by MichRR714 on Monday, February 15, 2010 10:23 PM

 Happy Birthday Wes!! Happy B-Day

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Posted by dougdagrump on Monday, February 15, 2010 10:35 PM

A day late and a dollar short but

Happy Birthday to

Wes & Ol' Timer !

 

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, February 15, 2010 11:54 PM

Buckeye Riveter

I just checked the snow maps of the U.S.A. and there is more snow on the ground in Central Iowa, Maryland and Ohio than in Buffalo, NY.   Wow!!

 

Sure wish PA was in that group. Whistling

Happy B-Day  WES!!!!  Happy B-Day

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:19 AM

Good Morning all from Snowy cold Southern Ohio

Chuck- Be careful where you point that

Fife-Our pink friends look cold.

Jim F - Continued prayers

No school for the kids.  The roads are still bad from yesterday's snow

Still have work.  Be care and may God bless

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Posted by laz 57 on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:28 AM

Hi GUYZ,

  22 and snowy start here, gotta 2hr delay!!!!!   I'll take it 74 days to go this year!

97 PROBE,  JIM if you do see a SHAY let me know, thanks.  Oh well sometimes its all in the hunt?

CHUCK nice SNOW GUN!!!

FIFE, nice snow, get da kid a bigger shovel, gotta build up da bicepts.

Stay frosty, BOYZ!

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:29 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a gloomy 20 degrees. Going up to 30 today with a few snow flurries. We need some sunshine.

Today is an easy day. So far. I am taking it easy. Legs ache from PT yesterday. Did a lot of blke time. This is going to take time. Maybe, I will spend some time in train room. I need to clean track.

WES....belated Happy B-Day

Dining car is here for the usual breakfast.

Y'all have a great Tuesday.

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Posted by dwiemer on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:29 AM

Morning all.  Have a blue sky and looks nice out.  I will be taking our son to school while wife takes daughter to pediatrician. 
Chief, I too have had enough of meetings, but looks like I will have to hit a few this week alone.  Do have one I am looking forward to that has the possibility of increasing my $$....but I'm not holding my breath.

Will tackle taxes tonight and hope to get onto the layout this week.  I figure that the year to come will yield a lower return with the way they spend in Washington.  Oh well.
Check back later.
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Posted by cheapclassics on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:02 AM

Good morning all,

It is cloudy but dry (for once) in SE Indiana as the Snohio has stopped for now.  Belated Happy Birthdays to Wes and Old Timer!  Made it into work today.  Wife and I spent the day working on the jigsaw puzzle.  I called the YMCA yesterday before I ventured out and it was closed!!!  Will have to do double shift tonight before "Lost".  I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East".  TBIL after "Lost".  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by navyjack on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:20 AM

Smilesweet tea....what is it?  wife and i drink arizona sweetened green tea all of the time.  is it like that?  please enlighten me.  found a picture of uss missouri firing its guns and was going to post but could not figure out how to post photo.  lame anyway.  

 

submmbob...you brought me back with the mention of neverdull.....

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:23 AM

Morning all just a regular day at work today so get to head home at 3:30 instead of 8:00 Smile. Like the Ot but also like to go home normal time a few times a weekSmile

A little depressed today as came in and found out one of the guys over in the nursing home side passed last night he was only in his mid 40 I would say. Young guy I do know he has been takening cemo so I guess he had some type of cancer but it was so rough yesterday seeing his mother sitting there holding his hand. while he was unconcious.

Glad I did get to see him one more time befor he passed thou. Don't think he was aware of my presents at that time but sure he knows it now. I enjoyed going into his room with his food just to joke with him.

On the train front can't wait to get my latest ebay item its the 1997-99 Virginian train set with 3 coal cars one each N&W,Virginian, And C&O and a Virginian illuminated Caboose. The engine is a rectifier with TMCC. Probably later add coil couplers. Be anice addition to my livery.

Got a Choochoo auction about a week ago which was a F-3' railking train set nib one of the sets that didn't come with track or transformer.

Also about a weekand 1/2 ago won another ebay it was the post war set 1501S came with all the boxes except the set box most boxes had tears on one end but still in fair condition the engine was painted by a young artist with yellow, red, white, silver, and purple paint in places. Buti already had a 2026 engine so it s now part of the set and the painted version which works and has a pill smoke unit will probably go up on ebay at some time as a parts or restore engine.

Hope all have a good day

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:27 AM

Hey navy jack heres my next to last ships home page http://www.usswisconsin.org/

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:26 AM

 Aloha! Sunny and cold today. Nice chatting with Sir J, Brutus and Charlie for a bit last night. Long night tonight with my class, then local train home - I'll look for fellow riders. Have a few more mags for my conductor friend. Trying a workout plan with our little weight set.  I can run the trains in the background at the same time. That'll be motivating.

Buckeye, only the Art Institute is free all month.  The others are free intermittently this month - a Tues here, or a Wed there. I try to make them all.

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:37 AM

Good morning

About an inch of snow overnite, sun is shining thru the clouds right now.

Granny is baby sitting this week, schools out for winter break, cripe they just had christmas. I sure miss her making breakfast. 10:36 and I haven't ate yet, hate fixing food. Train running today at least for awhile...S.J.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:52 AM

sir james I

Good morning

About an inch of snow overnite, sun is shining thru the clouds right now.

Granny is baby sitting this week, schools out for winter break, cripe they just had christmas. I sure miss her making breakfast. 10:36 and I haven't ate yet, hate fixing food. Train running today at least for awhile...S.J.

Grits are not hard to fix. Whistling  Water, grits and salt.  Boil on low for about 5 minutes.  Dump in bowl with butter and some black pepper.  Now you can go the quick way and get intsant grits.  Dump in bowl, add salt and add hot water and stir.  Stir in butter and pepper.

Morning all.  Sunny and windy.  Makes it feel chilly.  Off to dermatologist.  Then School Board were Rolesville is suppose to get a high school.  Long time fight.  Taking my bullet proof vest for a "funny" if I get cornered by news media.  Got to leave for my Town Board meeting so might not be there when they vote.  If not there, one will call me ASAP.

Jon, I like this Foxfire.  Seems to be faster and etc.  Underlines spelling mistakes too.

Jack, watched this week's Trains and Locomotives.  Was on the Boston and Maine.  Was in the late 40's to early 50's.  Wow.  Lots of passenger trains running all the time.  Funny, some of the ladies wore hats and all of the ladies wore white gloves.  One thing I saw was the RR crossings were attended by a person.  He hand cranked down the crossing arms.

Chat later. 

 

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Posted by Ole Timer on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:38 AM

Again ... thanks millions guys for all those GREAT birthday wishes !  Fifey .... second only to hobo items ... cabooses are my love in train items ... thanks for that birthday boy pic . Chief .. I love grits ... with over easy eggs ... Dinner ... had them with lil chunks of sausage in them in Georgia one time ... DELICIOUS !

 Snow they were calling for fizzled out .... thank the lord ... sunshine here ... but that darn snow won't melt away . Scored some great buys on the bay .... waiting for a few to arrive to finish up things . Yea .... I'm gonna be here for a while longer with you guys ... all those wishes will surely help ... I'm a firm believer in those sort of things ....  Thumbs Up

RT ... the anchors away music brought back some memories on that site ... fond memories ???? ... I don't know ... LOL .

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:04 PM

Old Timer, glad to hear the Wisconsin found a home in my home town, Norfolk, sort of.  Actually I'm from Portsmouth on the other side of the Elizabeth River.  It is fitting that she should be in a historical Navy port if she can't be in Wisconsin proper.  I saw many a ship sail into and out of that port from WWII onward.  Best wishes to all the vets who served on her.

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Posted by jonadel on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:07 PM

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Jon in Ioway, this is for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCX9UY143xI  This girl has some talent on the trumpet!  Perhaps she was one of your students?  Anyway, beautiful song played in a beautiful manner.

 

 

Dennis--thanks for that link, another friend sent that link a long time ago and I enjoyed seeing it again today, lots of potential for that young lady and it looks like she has nerves of steel.

Finally, a free afternoon/evening for me and it's NOT SNOWING Cool  We are just buried and as of today, we are at #8 for all time snow totals since they began keeping track.  I have to think with lots of winter still on the horizon that we will move up even higher on the total list.  It's been a struggle to be sure but we'll make it, thank goodness we have two 4 wheel drive vehicles and a neighbor who can use his John Deere back hoe w/bucket on our driveway if my ATV w/blade can't handle it.  Bigger concern right now is an ice *** on our roof valley and the imminent possibility of flooding when all of this melts.  We live at the top of a big hill so we won't ever have any flooding issues but we all need to pray for a very slow thaw this spring.

Super busy time of year for me making school visits and that's a good thing.  I'm happy that many folks still value my opinions but there comes a point that I need to learn the word no.  I worked with 4 schools last week, two so far this week and Saturday is one very large contest that I've worked at for many, many years.  Well organized and it's only 20 miles away---that might seem irrelevant but typically I have to travel close to 150 miles from home as I prefer to not be so close to all of the directors I know so well.  Once the middle of April and more importantly the first weekend in May arrive I am done until marching band season, YES!

I am planning two major trips this late spring and early August on the bike.  The late spring trip will take me down through MO (Branson), Arkansas and a day or two in Memphis.  Would love to get over to the Smokey Mountains but I don't know if my riding partner (youngest son) will have enough vacation time.  Plus he will probably want to get back to his new bride .....    He and I have had some great trips these last 5 years.  My bigger trip is taking me to Glacier National Park and hopefully Washington & Oregon in August.  I will be going solo on that trip.  I've never been to Glacier and I have a burning desire to spend as much time as possible hiking and shooting pics.  I'll be gone about two weeks so I guess it's a good thing I'm busy right now saving money for this epic journey!

Chief--glad you like Firefox, we've had good luck with it.  I still use Safari a little, not sure why.

That's enough rambling, need to grab the snow rake and pull some snow off the roof as it's a gorgeous day here.  PLUS--the trains are calling to me Thumbs Up, they have been neglected lately.

Jon

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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:27 PM

Evenin' boys.  Sunny & a blustery 37 here in th4e Mid-Atlantic region.  Still gonna try to cook steaks on the grill. Dinner

jonadel - You know I value your opinion. Approve And we all know that Chief clings to every bit of wisdom you bestow him.

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Posted by navyjack on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:59 PM

Smilehello rt were you really a crewmember on the wisconsin?  i had lunch on the mighty mo when she was in the ship repair facility at long beach when she was being modernized.  she was awesome.  she still had the podium where wwii was surrendered by the japs.  i remember they added tomahawk cruise missiles and phalynx guns to replace six of the 5 inch turrets.  she was built in ww11 but still fast enough to keep up with modern ships.  the armor around cic was 22 inches thick.  in the 80's Ron Reagan, a true conservative decided the navy needed 600 ships and we needed 15 carrier battle groups, we only had 11 with one aging carrier, so he retired one carrier and brouht the four iowa class battleships back on active duty to create surface battle groups... those were the days...navyjack

p.s. the navy now has 280 ships...expected to go down to 230

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:06 PM

cnw1995
Buckeye, only the Art Institute is free all month.  The others are free intermittently this month - a Tues here, or a Wed there. I try to make them all.

My first visit to Chicago was in 1962 with my 5th grade class, who incidently are still some of my best friends and we were turned loose in the Museum of Science and Industry.  I returned in 1967 with the Boy Scouts and it has been a love affair ever since. 

Congratulation Blueberry Chuck!!!!! I see you were nominated as the SNOWOHIO person of the year.  I do hope that you are the honoree this year.  I can't remember another year when SNOWOHIO has been such a pain in the butt to Maryland, Virginia, N.C., Georgia, Mississippi and Florida.  I also hope you wint the SNOWUSA award, but it is hard to beat the guys from Michigan and Wisconsin.

Jon.......I have been to Glacier.  It is fantastic!!!! One of our best National Parks.  The Going to the Sun Highway is fantastic.  Make sure you see the railroad stations in the park.

 

Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:17 PM

Buckeye Riveter

Congratulation Blueberry Chuck!!!!! I see you were nominated as the SNOWOHIO person of the year.  I do hope that you are the honoree this year.  I can't remember another year when SNOWOHIO has been such a pain in the butt to Maryland, Virginia, N.C., Georgia, Mississippi and Florida.  I also hope you wint the SNOWUSA award, but it is hard to beat the guys from Michigan and Wisconsin.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....................

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:59 PM

navyjack

Smilehello rt were you really a crew member on the Wisconsin?  i had lunch on the mighty mo when she was in the ship repair facility at long beach when she was being modernized.  she was awesome.  she still had the podium where wwii was surrendered by the japs.  i remember they added tomahawk cruise missiles and phalynx guns to replace six of the 5 inch turrets.  she was built in ww11 but still fast enough to keep up with modern ships.  the armor around cic was 22 inches thick.  in the 80's Ron Reagan, a true conservative decided the navy needed 600 ships and we needed 15 carrier battle groups, we only had 11 with one aging carrier, so he retired one carrier and brouht the four iowa class battleships back on active duty to create surface battle groups... those were the days...navyjack

p.s. the navy now has 280 ships...expected to go down to 230

Yes I was on her durning the first gulf war. I actually went aboard her in January of 1990 and left around June of 1991 as she was getting ready for decom come September. wanted to stay to the end but couldn't they wouldn't let me actually wanted to ride her to Philly but they had just a few boatsnmates do that as she went from Norfolk to Philly by tugs.

that is the only ship I really miss as I really like being on her. Its hard to explain but there just something about being a Battle Ship sailor you get a sense of pride when you were on her I didn't any ship befor and didn't feel it on my last ship.

I was a MS2 on board her most the time in the bakery.

well did it again I won a ebay item tonight listed as Williams? Pennsylvania trainmaster. Needs railings

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:36 PM

Aloha from my class computer lab - looking forward to my train ride home with my virtual fellow riders.  I remember seeing the New Jersey squeak through the Gatun Locks in the CZ on her way to Vietnam. Quite a sight! When we were in HI back in June, they were prepping MO to move into dry-dock.

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