Welcome all. Chiefy hopes he is asleep by midnight. With this cold and cough, may not be. God bless.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
I would protest his starting early but since he's not feeling good I will overlook it.
Get well soon chief
Happy March, at last.
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
Chief,
Don't be concerned, I won't let ANYONE know you started Pot # 3 a little early!
You can count on me!
Don
Hope your feeling better in the morning if not take two box cars and call the enginer in the morning
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Prayers for no Pneumonia, Chief! Get those meds and get some good sleep my friend!
Nice chats with RT and SJ tonight. Charlie too, but he had to go asap. Heard Wes Ole Timer is sick, so prayers for him too. Prayers for us all and our friends and families.
Not much trains today. Did buy an AC panel volt meter for my layout on ebay for like $9 shipped. We'll see how well it works. I think it's coming from Hong Kong.
8NT - I have had many moments like that about one grandmother. Funny how little things will bring back so many memories.
John - MAN! $1800! And you lived to tell the tale! You are Da Man!
TARDIS is ready, so let's hit the road guys - plenty of rootbeer, some Old MIlls, and plenty of snacks along with banilla!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Well we got another 6" inches or so last night. Still closed up due to clouds and frost. Often the weather is really good after it's really bad, so have been keeping an eye on it. The humidity gauge tends to get frosted up like a TV dinner so I go out and scrape the handrails. As they said in Star Wars, "pick up your visual scanning".
Jim S. - I work on Mt. Graham in SE Arizona. If you look on a map we are just west of the town of Safford. We are over 10K feet so even though we are here for the thinner atmosphere, we can get our share of weather. Before this storm we have supposedly had 17' for the season so far.
Doug M. - my laptop almost got a coffee bath after I read the comment about your dog
Chief - I hope your cold gets better. Take care.
Just finished watching the closing ceremony for the olympics. Now I can go back to not watching TV for another 4 years. I will watch some of the summer games, but lean toward the winter.
I did reassemble the 2025 last night and ran it a bit on the test track. It has very nice slow speed performance for the original setup. I think it's greater weight helps. NavyJack - the piston lever is actuated by the left crosshead. I wonder how many other Lionel locos worked this way?
Welcome to March
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Aw heck. Chief started the new pot early.
I was going to suggest that somebody in each time zone west of him call at local midnight to remind him to start another pot .
Chief - hope tonight's rest finds you feeling better in the morning.
Its March already! :)
Get well Chief..these colds are no fun!
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Good Moning all
Welcome March!!! I am ready.
Bob - Thanks for the location. From the pictures you posted it is beautiful of your site.
Prayers for you all and your needs.
May God bless
Jim
Happy March...Up early, I actually off today but I have a side job that pays better so it's worth it. Have to bq in Kingsbay, GA at 8 am.
for everyone including da Chief...Check back late tonight!
Rich
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
Happy frosty March 1st!
Dennis - I like the idea of a surprise drive down main street. Is it a slot car? By the way, I can relate to that dark space under the layout. I call it the "Cave".
Mike C - I totally agree with your assessment of Danica, NASCAR, ARCA and Indycar.
Banks - How about raising mushrooms in the barn.
Chief - Take a few days off and recoop (maybe at the lake without phones?).
My #1 goal today is to convince the Petroleum COOP their fuel truck can make it down our road.
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Hi GUYZ,
Happy MARCH!!! Coming in like a lamb here hopefully it stays calm and quiet for the month. CANADIANs did a nice job with the closing ceremonies last nite. Can't figure why NBC showed stupid show at 1030 instead of next week.
Stay frosty,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cloudy 32 degrees. Going up to 36 today with cloudy skies. The snow is slowly melting.
Today is a busy day. I have some errands to run and then, I have my physical therapy this afternoon. I really like that bicycle machine they have. The more I use it, the better I feel.
Dining car has arrived with the usual Cheerios breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Chuck
So the Chief whimped out and started the pot early. Good help is hard to find in Roseyville. Chuck, turn the SNOWOHIO Cannon towards are secret coordinates. No good deed goes unpunished in these parts.
Yes, it is March 1st. Sadly to say the snow that has been in my front yard has started a slow melt. Winter fun is ending again this year. I bet Jon is sitting at his front window today with a drop of salty fluid secreted by the lacrimal gland of the eye slowly running down his cheek due to his sadness that winter is on the downside.
Great hockey game yesterday. That is how all good games should look.
HI HO, HI HO..................
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
Morning everyone. Welcome to March. Time sure does fly when you're having fun. Chief, I sure hope you get to feeling better soon. You may have broken a rib from coughing....that could also cause some "stars" when you get to coughing fits. Either way, be sure to have it checked out. You should go see your doc friend to make sure you don't already have pneumonia.
Pat, it is remote control and does not need a slot. It simply goes forward, left or right as the remote has a steering wheel. I don't recall it having reverse. A rather neat looking car.
Well, going to head in. Have one case this morning and I have the information to report for the last month. We have to put this information out for the gov't to do grading. Fortunately, our numbers are above expectations and average.
Check in later for a sip.Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Good morning all,
It is cloudy and slightly warmer in SE Indiana. Snohio is melting. Watched some of the closing ceremonies and "Desperate Housewives". Long day yesterday. Looking forward to work just to relax. Probably long day here as well. Grateful to have job, tho. Chief, get better (replacing a target like you would be difficult for the snohio cannoneers :-) ). I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on "Points East". TBIL anytime tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Mornin' boys. Hope it's not pluracy (sp?) Chief. Had that a decade or so ago and kept me down for 2 weeks. Get well.
cheapclassics - Well stated. You can say the exact same statements about Ms Patrick's boss (and I've been a jr fan since '97)...
Either we are experiencing a meteor shower, or some fudgesicle has gone star happy.
submmbob, your opinion?
morning men, hope all you guys are fine. we are at the first day(meteorological)of spring. hope all the snow gos away. hope that things get better this spring. boys are concrete finishers and they were hoping to get called back to work. a senator is holding up road bill, and 2000 men will lose their jobs. oh well i guess we will have a full house and everyone will have to learn to eat crappies and corn. well wife and daughter in law will be able to get our garden planted in about two months. thank god we got the property to plant a garden. at least we can provide fresh vegetables to our kids and grandkids. anyone know how to deal with apple worms? have three good trees and every one has apples that get worms on every one. any help would be appreciated. fresh apples would be a godsend for the kids. in short we will have to go back to basics. got plenty of ammo also...357 and 12 gauge..... for hunting of course....have .223 for home defense. got to get the kids away from the habit of smoking. i guess that i worry too much, but lets face it....the kids need us....whether they admit it or not. take care guys navyjack
pat...thanks for the info it is great to have you at my back
Good Morning All
Brite sun and 30s today, still have about 4 inch's of snow to melt. Only plans for the day at this time is a funeral home visit, thats two already this year. I hope every one gets well soon and the rest of us enjoy the coming of March, hurray...S.J.
Aloha all from a grey and snow-flurrying Chicago where it is Casimir Pulaski Day so of course, the city schools and services are closed today. Love these bizarro holidays complete with paid-days-off. Of course everyone else has to work. Why is Buckeye always greeting our fellow HO modelers?
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Doug .... he was quite an American hero .... read up on him after your post .... this old geezer learned another important fact .... and my wife thinks my brain is done for .... LOL . Chatting with my buddy RT on the chat this afternoon ... nursing a heck of a lousey cold .... seems me and chief got it .... those darn yankees must have flew over and spread it !!!! GERM WAREFARE !!
DOUG,
That's where I go fishing for salmon in PULASKI, New York. Named after CASHMIR PULASKI.
He was quite the man, Wes, but his holiday was more in keeping when Chicago was the largest Polish city outside Warsaw. These days I can't see the city affording it. Hope you feel better.
Navyjack - Three ways to handle worms in apples on your trees:
Eat them with your eyes shut --extra protein is good for you.
Cut each apple up into small pieces, removing the pieces of worm.
Or the best way is to spray the trees when in the bud stage.
Sunny and warm. Off to the Dr. I go. Slept good until 5:30 and Lucy jumped on me. Did the dog thing while wife was getting ready for work. Codeine makes me hungry so cooked breakfast. Then we all went back to sleep until 9 AM. Dr. called and said come in [as I expected]. No County Commissioners but will have to make Town Board. Legal thingy with lawyer so need to be there. Regular lawyer had 8 lb. boy so this fill in one is aware of "conditions". Still neeed to be there. Chat later.
Chief, take care of yourself. Hope your cough is nothing serious. We need you here to fend off all the attacks from the Yankees.
Had a pretty quiet day yesterday. Went on a walk through of next door neighbors house which is up for sale. It is an old house built in 1912. It is as cute as a button. Looks like a doll house. They have it fixed up real nice and I'm sure someone will buy this place soon. Only down side on the place is two big avacado trees that need care and a big hedge around the front of the house that always needs cutting. My neighbor of 34 years who passed away recently used to like puttering around that place. It was perfect for him because he enjoyed it. That house was the only house on this street when built and was the farm house for an orange grove which surrounded the place. My garage was built from wood that came from a barn that was behind that place I am told but my place was not built until 1952. Still hoping for nice new neighbors. I'm sure going to miss the old ones.
Ray
SPMan
Happy Pulaski Day Ya'll From Temporarily Clearing Taxachusetts,
Got about 3 inches more of Slurpie overnight plus more sleet and rain. Coastal flooding now, at high tide, here on Cape Ann. High wind advisories continue and a 1 foot storm surge expected. Gloucester and Rockport MA. about 12 miles North of me, hit hard. Compost centers opening a month early for folks to properly dispose of downed trees and related debris. Snow melt and continued precipitation = flooding, bodies of water above flood stage, and dams/spillways giving way. Some downstream evacuations.
This stuff started up last week and by last Thursday we were getting a persistent monsoon, winds gusting to 60mph, and sustained 30+. Lost power for 22 hours, and I was lucky as many are still without power. Trees and power lines are not a good combo. NH crews and many from other locales and states still working 17 hour shifts to get the power back up. Some in my world here close to home in MA still without power, day 4.
So last Thursday evening (before I lost power)...... a normal person listens to the warnings to stay off the roads if possible while this abnormal person decides a wake in Maine for a friend's son must be attended. You should have seen the looks and the welcome I got......."You are an insane idiot, what are you doing here?" Was invited to stay the night up there but had the dog back at the ranch and had to make the return trip.
Interstate 95 mostly empty during the round trip, but those on the road were driving like idiots and not holding their lanes. Evasive maneuvers required loafing along in the right lane so as to only have to defend from the left and making sure speed was adjusted to keep cars away from me. Truckers were doing the same and provided interference out in front and defense from the rear. Got home and the power promptly quit. Spent the night on the sofa with the dog as wifey was still in CA visiting Ray, DougDG, and Don. It got cold in the house! Candlelight with the dog is not romantic. Was tempted to fire up the fireplace, but if I had to leave the house.....
Power outage continued into Friday. Boston Logan Airport Friday night was total chaos, picking up the wife who refuses to use livery EXCEPT for the RockIsland 52 Limo Service. Backlog of flights along the entire East coast. Flights all delayed because of the continued high winds. All these folks endlessly circling the airport in their cars, waiting for their passengers' plane to land. I was smart enough to pick up Ronald MacDonald on the way there so my belly was full while I joined the circus. Security and the MA State Police were forcing the herd to keep moving. Then I made an executive decision while waiting......called daughter and SIL and said wifey and I were dropping by for dinner and some warmth on the way home. Period! Power came back on about an hour before we finally got home, furnace cranking, hot water being restored, cordless phones now working, PC screwed up from not closing down properly, and dog still acting like this was all so much fun, except when he had to go back out in the monsoon with me standing there in my wet weather gear.
Saturday AM early, departed for the trip back to up to Maine to complete obligations up there and attend a get together. You should have seen the long convoy (36 strong?) of NSTAR Boston electric crews in their trucks making their way North to help out with the power outages. They were all stopped and lined up in the right hand toll booth lane awaiting......I don't know what. But if it was to pay the toll and I was the supervisor in the lead car, I would have passed through the booth and given the toll taker the one finger salute.
While I was at the get together in Maine, Chief called out of a deep abiding concern for us Yankees. He knows how miserable and boring his life would be without us and wanted to make sure I was OK. Good to hear his voice, even if it was beginning to turn. Chief, hope your trip to the Doc puts a lid on that nasty stuff.
Sorry if I am about 10 pages behind on the POT. Prayers for those who need them. BTW....DougM, I'll take the dog vomit over dog diahrrea every time. Those wind up LED flashlights that require no batteries are stellar.
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Wow, Jack,adventure tres grande!
Wandered the South Loop at lunch looking for a used bookstore I just knew was there someplace. Climbed the Dearborn station clock tower when the security guard wasn't looking. It sure is... smaller than I thought but great view.
Well jack glad your safe and sound after all your adventures. Aw why not a candle lite dinner with the dog
afternoon all well its been an interesting day started with no heat then about 10 it started back up by itself no problem since wondering if maybe city cut natural gas to this area for some reason early this am and then turned it back on.
well will talk to you all later have a good day prayers out for all especially chief and his cold
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