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COFFEE POT #3, March 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 dougdagrump on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:01 PM

Evenin' All.

Thanks Bill, got your e-mail. I didn't see it in the on-line manual, course that don't mean it's not there.

Finished the billboard to surprise the munchkin, not totally happy with results.

 

 Maybe I'll check and see if I can find some stickers to embellish it a bit.

Belated Happy B-Day to Bill & Brent, short term memory stinks.

 

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Posted by Ole Timer on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:09 PM

Dennis ... put their name in my lil book to look out for ... sounds great . Thanks buddy for the info ....  Thumbs Up  no that night was a once in a lifetime episode .... but sure was fun though . Those irish folks give you 100 times the price in entertainment .

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:10 PM

Great Irish meal.  Cabbage, cornbeef brisket and potaotes.  Delish!!! Dinner  Now popcorn and Coke Zero consumed.  Off to bed.

BTW: any one heard from HUDSON???? Bet he is having to work OT due to damages from storm. 

Good night all.

 

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Posted by submmbob on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:18 PM

 Happy Birthday 88 and 8N! and Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!

Spent another day up here at the scope working on the windbird. Almost done, just a bit more wiring. Wanted to get up earlier, but I decided more sleep was in order after the last day or two. Dealing w/ some interesting personnel issues. Here's praying I deal w/ it right. 

Mike - congrats on the new job!

Ol Timer - I'm mostly Brit myself and to my Irish and Scottish friends, I jokingly refer to them as "the colonies". "We invented the steam engine, you invented .... the hangover."Big Smile According to my grandmother, I should be wearing orange today, as I've got some Irish in me, but it's all Northern Irish.  If I was a farmer I guess I'd have to be an Allis and not a Deere fan.

Jack - I set the train up on the desk in the electronics shop, otherwise known as "my office". 0-27 just fits on it. It's the same room as the one in my profile picture.

Well off to try and key down a bit. Maybe run the train and continue to work on the battery eliminator. The 2025 is pulling her first freight for me, the 6472 reefer.

Bob

 

 

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Posted by 8ntruck on Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:17 AM

Brutus - did you look at going after the other headlight from underneath?  Might be better access there.  A friend of mine has a Lexus.  Burned out a headlight recently.  It is one of the LED type headlights.  Cost him $200 to have it replaced!  I think he said he paid $175 or so for the bulb - that was the 'good guy' price - and about $30 for installation.

RockIsland52 - I resemble that remark!

Got the router and the modem playing together now.  Turned out to be a setting in the modem that made it act like a router in the way it assigned IP addresses.

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Posted by laz 57 on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:06 AM

Hi GUYZ,

  32 and nice again today to hit 70.  Contractor dug out footers and poured concrete.  Today block and rough out for plumbing.  Looks great.

OLE TIMER, I know that woman, she is in my the 'skid row' section of town.

Stay frosty,

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Posted by RockIsland52 on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:13 AM

8n.....since we were off on your birthday by one day (early), it appears we will have to start over and send you insulting birthday greetings all over againYou conveniently forgot to participate in last year's forum survey of the members' ages......we can only speculate as to the reason for your action and therefore assume extreme age-related insulting b-day greetings are necessary throughout today.

Let the greetings begin......again!  Happy B-Day Happy B-Day

By the way..... remember, your train will work a lot better if you plug the transformer into an electrical outlet.  Chief puts a yellow ribbon on his throttle control for this purpose and it sometimes works for him. Big Smile

Jack

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:17 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a clear and cold 29 degrees. Going up to a sunny 65 today. I'm beginning to like this weather.

Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping. I have a few chores to do. Then, putting everything away, when she gets home. No train time today.

Dining car is here for the usual Cheerios breakfast. Then, it will depart for all " Points West "

Y'all have a great Thursday.

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:52 AM

Morning all

Yesterday a long day.  Completed the Concealed Carry course yesterday.  Last night was profeciency shooting.  Lots of fun.

Check back later

May God bless

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Posted by cheapclassics on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:54 AM

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps heading for the 60s.  Busy day at work.  Starting to do some transitioning.  To clarify the new job, I am staying with the same agency, but my supervisor will be one located where I am instead of three floors away.  Also I was part of the IT division before and now I work directly in and report to the HIV management.  To work in that particular field takes a certain mindset which I appear to have.  Thank you all for the support and the compliments.  I feel ten years younger already.  I am well and truly blessed. 

Soccer scrimmaging was cancelled because none of the kids showed up (spring break).  I visited with my dad for a while instead.  After I came, Lucas, his girlfriend, my wife and I played some dice games.  I had the regular fare on the dining car as it rolled in from "Points East" on the breakfast run.  TBIL anytime.  Loved the green beer!  I hope everyone has a good day.  Prayers as always going out to those in need.

Keep on training,

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Posted by sir james I on Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:39 AM

Good morning

We have sun and heading to 67, March can be crazy but I''ll take all of these days it wants to give us. No plans for the day, so this is it. Eggs, biscuits and sausage gravy is in the works.

Have a good day...S.J.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:21 AM

Morning.  Woke up at 5:45.  Got up and ate some breakfast and drank two cups of coffee.  Watched DVD'd Top Sniper and then reclinerized.  Just woke up again.  Cloudy and warm.  Might get some "spits" that were NOT forecasted last night at 11 PM.  I am now going to stop calling it weather forecasting but weather guessing.   Going to get 5X8 metal trailer Tractor Supply has on sale [$100 off].  Going to the gym.  Got ribbon cutting at 1 PM tomorrow and all are then leaving for the lake.  Middle to high 70's all weekend.

Hey, night take new engines out of boxes and setup in Legacy.  [about time]

BTW: we now know how much it takes to bribe an Ohio politician.  A flight in Air Force One. Whistling

Later

PS: Mike, does that mean you are helping manage the handing out of AIDS [HIV]. Shock  Just joking .  Congrats man.  That is great.  I know how it is to work under astreesful situation and then not.  What a relief.  Congrats again.  

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Posted by cnw1995 on Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:39 AM

 Aloha. Another beauty day here in Illinois. Good Irish meal last evening.  Happy B-Day to 8n on your real bday. LOL. Not too much work today - first soccer practice for the wee lad later. Hopefully some 'puttering around' time too - looks like snow this weekend.

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:12 AM

Morning....Banged Head

 

Had a lousy night last night, couldn’t sleep...those morons behind us partied until 4AM, still couldn’t sleep after...running on ooooh, 3 hours rest right now.

 

Devils Sweep the season series of those Pesky Penguins...and did it in retro jersey style.  Gotta love that.  They now share the Atlantic Division lead...

 

Not much on the train front right now, bank empty, waiting for a refill, so I’m hangin’ in there.

 

Got some disturbing news yesterday, one of my friends from the Hemi Owners club died of an apparent heart attack.  Great guy and friend, I know his wife as well, from the early days...MATCO tool guy.  Leaves his wife and 2 teenage sons at 54...We lost another great guy....so sad...I barely can believe it (yup, my age as well). Angel

 

Angel for us and our intentions....we are all blessed.

 

 

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Posted by SPMan on Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:41 AM

8N, I was going to say belated happy birthday but by being late I'm on time. Happy B-Day

Got to run and get ready for my dentist appointment now.  Got my new glasses back yesterday two days early and I feel much better with my vision.  Hope dentist does'nt find anything else to make more appointments for.

Have a good day all,

Ray

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Posted by dwiemer on Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:32 PM

Good afternoon everyone.  Bit tired as had quite a morning.  Had two big cases, first one try to die on induction of anesthesia, but we were able to get him back to doing well by the end of the case.  Second, tried to die after surgery was done....but she is back, although she will need intensive care for the short term.  Wife was asked to substitute teach this morning.  I plan to get to work on the layout shortly.  Need a nap for the time being.

Will check in later when I am more awake.
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Posted by cheapclassics on Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:58 PM

Good afternoon all,

Dennis, you are so understated in your observations.  You save two lives today and it is like just a normal, everyday occurence (which I guess it is).  Bless you for the work you do and those that help you.

Keep on training,

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Posted by navyjack on Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:56 PM

Smilei told you guys virginia was a great state.  senator jim webb, ex usmc and secretary of the navy, says according to my new issue of navy times, that he recommends that dept of the navy and marine corps personnel should be allowed to have booze in the war zone to help them relieve stress...hats off to you senator....finally a politician who figured it out....navyjack

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:49 PM

Scratch one fox.  Last night when I left pond, foxes were running around at the top of the hill behind "Miss Dorothy's" house.  They ignore trucks.  Tonight I was running about 30 minutes later feeding the deer.  The deer were standing in the sewer easement behind "Miss Dorothy's".  Went in and fed.  Came out and fed at the bottom of the hill.  Drove up to the top of the hill.  Stopped, left truck running, took out my .17 HMR Marlin bolt action with tectical scope.  Put it on 4 power as almost dark.  Suddenly across the flat rock [there is a big flat granite rock at the entrance you drive over and down to get to pond], a gray shadow came running towards the truck [yes, trucks running and I am outside of it] at a 45 degree angle.  I put the duplex cross hairs on the gray shadow.  About 20 yards away it turned "sideways".  I touched the trigger.  A loud boom and an instant scream.  Hornady V MAX "went home".  Gracious, all you do it touch that trigger.

Garden is ready to make beds, plant lettuce, spinsh, onions and cabbage.  "Broke" with bottom plow and then disked my garden and two neighbor's gardens.   

Bought 5X8 metal trailer at Tractor Supply today.  Had 1 7/8 inch hitch.  It is at welder's getting 2" hitch welded on in place of 1 7/8.  All my other trailers have 2" ball hitches.  Do this and I do not have to change hitch piece every time I pull a different trailer.

Now to clean a rifle. 

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Posted by sir james I on Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:12 PM

Good Evening All

Another great day at 67.

But not a big news day so I'll grab the banilla and wait for Brutus and the thingy to swing by.

S.J.

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:13 PM

Evening all, It is quiet on the home front.  Kids in bed and a few pictures of rolling stock for SPF up loaded.

Good Night and may God bless

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Posted by 8ntruck on Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:18 PM

Sunny and low 60's today.  Supposed to be the same tomorrow, then snow?? on the weekend.

The potential customer visit went well today - hopefully well enough to advance us another notch towards getting business awarded.

Got home to find my 3472 from e-bay and the milk cans from TT on the front porch.  Good timing.  Unpacked the 3472 milk car and was pleasantly suprised.  One small crack under the operating door, 50 years worth of shelf dirt were all that turned up on initial inspection.  Up to the train room and put it on the operating track.  The mechanism cycled, but unfortunately the first milk can was sideways in the chute.  Pulled the body off and noticed that the insulation on the wiring was going away.

Got to wash it, lube it, and rewire it.  Not bad for $13.50 plus shipping!

Can any of you gurus out there give advice on the operation of the can sweep arm?  When operated by hand, it does not seem to retract far enough, consistantly enough to allow the next can to drop into the 'ready to load' position.  I'm not going to worry much about this until I get the re-wiring done and set it up for bench testing.

My wife and I went out to one of the nicer resturants for my birthday dinner tonight.  Turns out that the plant staff, V.P. of operations, Americas Group, some of his staff and todays visiting customer rep. were having dinner there too.  Can't complain - they picked up our dinner tab and sang happy birthday when the waitress brought out my cheese cake decorated with a lit candle.  This is the sort of neat thing that happens when one lives in a smaller town.

As far as my age, I'm one year older than the Space Age.  DIrt was invented a year or two before I was born!  You guys figure it out.

All for now.

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Posted by Brutus on Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:58 PM

8NT - Wow!  You're OLD!  Laugh  Cool buy, I'm sure you'll have it humming in no time!  Happy real Birthday too!  I'll mess with that bulb this weekend some time, I think.

NavyJack - GROG for the Sailors and Marines!  The British Navy conquered the world on a diet of grog and salted beef and wormy biscuits Thumbs Up

Chief - that's all she wrote!  Thumbs Up

Spanky - sorry about the knee, hope they can get you fixed up soon.

Dennis - Bow

Took some bags of trash from the basement out to the curb today - they are heavy.  Fully of broken up bits and pieces of drywall, cutoffs of wood and metal, etc.  I still have 4 more bags to take out, but can't overfill the cans too much.  Found some "plans" I can adapt for a little project - will make a cardboard mockup first and see how that fits with the layout.

Tardis is ready to fly!  Come on over Mike and let's hit the sky road!

RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.

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Posted by John Bakeer on Friday, March 19, 2010 2:11 AM

Message for Brutus...

Stockport Police want their phone box back. If you return it unmarked no action will be taken. Otherwise it'll be five years hard labour in the jam butty mine for you my lad!

0700GMT in a sunny warm Stockport. Weather Totty says we are to get 16C today, that's 11C up on last Friday.

Time for my dental check up and diabetes check, dinner grinders should just need a scrape and polish but the vet. will tell me (again) to stop drinking and eat my five a day. I don't know about you guys but five servings of veg' is more than I can eat in a whole day!!! and leaves room for nothing more. Except for a drop of Robinsons Elixir that is?

The warm weather is raising thoughts of Lionel again, I really must make some firm moves before I get too frail to do the work. I do have a computer dedicated to train simulators with a RailDriver and about a hundred and fifty gig. of software that lets me sit in the engineers seat and drive across N America the UK etc. The Shinkansen and TGVs are very demanding.

That's all from jolly England for now TGIF, have a good and healthy weekend you all. We have friends from South Africa with us this week, so the Robinsons brewery will be on overtime.

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Posted by submmbob on Friday, March 19, 2010 2:29 AM

Well, back home after an extra day on the hill, but it was worth it. The windbird is flying again! For various reasons, this has been a long project. Lousy initial design and construction. Numerous attempts at repairing what had been done before proved fruitless. After consultation w/ one of our engineers, we have basically rebuilt the system. This is the only bird on the net, so everyone on the mountain was interested in it's reappearance.

Since you guys have heard me talk about this crazy thing enough, I though I'd throw in a few pictures:

The windbird power supply  and fiber optic transmitter updated and now in a project box (not tupperware container).

The power supply  and transmitter and battery in it's home on top of the VATT. The battery is charged by a solar panel during the day.  The battery voltage is zero because the gauge is only for monitoring purposes.

 

The bird itself. Of course there was no wind when I took the picture.

 

The view from my workplace for the last couple of afternoons. My scope is on the left and the big box in the background is the LBT. Two 8.4 meter mirrors, the largest yet built.

 

8N - Happy Birthday!

Anj - sorry to hear about your friend. Thoughts and prayers for his family.

Dennis - ditto on what Mike said. I'm proud to know you.

Going to have friends over w/ their son this Sunday to see the place and the trains (he loves trains). I finally need to get the second loop and some switches set up. 

Bob

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Posted by dwiemer on Friday, March 19, 2010 4:43 AM

Morning all.  Going in early as one big case and one small case to do.  Thanks for the kind thoughts, but I am only one spoke in the wheel.  It is a team of several that are on these cases and each one has a significant role.  In the end, it is up to almighty God for how folks do.  I have seen a number of cases where you think "this person shouldn't be alive" and they are.  I have also seen a couple of cases where you know everything went right, but the patient still dies.  These times remind us of how insignificant we really are in the big scheme of things.  I have been humbled too many times in the past to take credit for the many times things go well.

Well, did get some work done on the layout last night.  Hope to get more done today, but son has a friend coming over today, so we shall see.
God Bless,
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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Friday, March 19, 2010 5:21 AM

Good Morning all

8N - Happy Birthday!

Anjevil - Sorry to hear about your friend. My and prayers for him and hs family.

Subob - Really neat pictures of the workplace.

Dennis - You are an important spoke in an important wheel.

TGIF

May God bless

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Posted by laz 57 on Friday, March 19, 2010 6:08 AM

Hi GUYZ,

  34 and nice again today.  To get to 71.  GUYZ did the foundation walls yesterday all looks great!  They are going to back fill today and do rough in plumbing.

DENNIS, U DA MAN.  BIG CONGAs on the LIFELINEBow!

BOB, cool wiring on all dat stuff.

BUCKEYE,TGIF!!!

THANK

GOD

IT's

FRIDAY!!!!!!

Rock ON !!!!

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Posted by Banks on Friday, March 19, 2010 6:11 AM

 Hello all

TGIF

Busy week. Belated Happy B-Day to a couple of you.

Snow's all gone. Thankfully flooding was not much of an issue around her. A little in the flood prone areas.

Went to the Altoona train show on Sunday. Didn't spend much but I did get to spend time with old train friends.

Seafood buffet was crazy again last Friday. 863 paid meals. I'll be headed there after work today, keep me busy till about 8:00. By then I'll be ready for a glass of wine and the Hot Tub.

Another good thing. Son and a friend are going to haul manure today. Then plow the top of the hill for corn. Will have to wait till mid-May to plant. Sooner than that and there is a good chance a late frost will kill the corn if it's up. It will be a while before it's dry enough to plow the bottom.

Since the manure will be done I can spend some time teaching grandson to ride our old Honda 50 tomorrow.

Still try to squeeze in a few minutes to run trains once or twice a week. 

Laz, nice display case

Chief, that seems like a lot of lime for a garden. are you using burnt lime or ground lime stone?

Anjdevil,  Prayers for your friend

Bob, neat project

Dennis,  good job

 

Prayers to all who may need them.

 

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Friday, March 19, 2010 6:35 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a clear 31 degrees. Going up to 66 today with lots of sunshine.

Today is a busy day. I have the usual chores and then, an errand to run. This afternoon, I have Physical Therapy. That's the nice part of the day. Next month, I am joining the fitness gym at the same building. I can go there and work out as many times, a week, as I want. I will continue to go to PT sessions twice a week. I plan on going to the gym twice a week, also. The PT therapist suggested I do this, to keep active.

Dining car is here for an omlet breakfast.

Buckeye........ TGIF

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

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