It's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations Joe!!!!!!!! Glad to hear Mom and the little guy are doing well. I too see trains in his future.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Joe.....when acquiring that first train for your boy, getting past the wife's financial objections and more practical inclinations takes some doing. Here are some time-tested, successful excuses reasons and examples you can employ as to why the train purchase is a wise, educational, and critical child development acquisition:
1.) Color differentiation: "Son, is that color boxcar red or tuscan red?"
2.) Creative thinking: "Dad, it works better if you plug in the transformer."
3.) Hand/eye coordination: "Son, I got a little over zealous with the throttle again. Will you put those 17 cars back on the track?"
4.) Motor skills and manual dexterity: "Gee, Dad, when you run the train too fast the engine tips over. These pilot trucks on the Hudson are hard to get on the rails." "Keep working at it, Son. With practice you will get better at it."
5.) Patience: "Hey Dad, you've been hogging the transformer for the past 2 hours. When is it my turn to run the trains?"
6.) Social interaction and sharing: "Son, these are my trains and those are yours. Keep your hands off of mine and we will get along fine."
7.) Math skills: "Son, if I am running dual-motored F3s in an ABBA lashup and only the A units are motorized, how many motors do I have working for me?"
8.) Verbal skills/vocabulary: "Dad, every time you run the trains too fast and they derail, you blurt out all of these strange words you don't use around Mommy."
9.) Religion: "......and what does God have to do with the derailment?"
10.) Respect for electricity: "Dad, why is there smoke coming out of your ears?"
11.) Olefactory development: "Dad, that isn't smoke fluid I smell. Something is burning!"
12.) Sense of humor and empathy: "It's ok, Dad, pileups happen to the best of us.....just not 4 per hour."
13.) Planning: "Dad, why do you keep sneaking all of these orange boxes into the house when Mommy isn't around and hiding them under the train table?"
14.) Safety: "Dad, why do we have two smoke detectors above the train table and two fire extinguishers nearby?"
15.) Father/Son bonding: "Gee, Dad, we spend so much time down here running the trains I forgot what Mommy looks like. And I'm getting tired of eating all of my meals down here."
Congrats again, Joe.
Morning all
CONGRATS Joe
Jack - That is beautiful!
MAy God bless
Jim
Good morning
Congrats Joe, I hope mom and son are doing well.
Cloudy and 75 going to 85. very humid though.
No breaking news today,, enjoy your friday.....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Joe jr. Congrats Joe and wife. Hope all doing well
Hey if you can find a crayola train set that might be a way to break trains into the little guy lionel made them back about 15 years ago I think. of coarse Thomas train set always works too.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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RT .... WHOA ... I was in no way takeing up for midwinterauctions ! I was just trying to tell all the folks that's the way they sell and not to expect to get a working engine from them . With 99 3/4 % of the sellers being very courteous and honest ... many assume all the sellers are . THEY ARE NOT ! I'd avoid them like a plague and do so myself ... the problem is alot of buyers won't give the lousey ones negatives for all to see ... but I DO !!!
TGIF!!!! YEA!!!
We had rain today and it has cooled off.
Congratulations to Joe !!! (Brio can be bought used at garage and tag sales for less than 1/2 price.)
For those that are interested, CN announced that they were planning to hire 2000 engineers, conductors and mechanics. Check out TRAINS Mag website.
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
Good morning all, I just learned yesterday on another forum that Betty Kimball, beloved wife of well known train collector and Disney animator, Ward Kimball passed away recently. She was 97. Ward passed away in 2002. Condolences to the Kimball family.
Ray
SPMan
Evening all not a lot happening won another auction on Choochoo this time.
Wes didn't think you were but was just stating my feelings. And I agree with you I do buy power units but now need to just be more careful as had that bad deal with the guy in fifey's area should of sent engine to him and had him return it to him and get refund with fife in uniform bet he wouldn't of been so quick to mouth off then
Hope all have a good evening talk to you all later
Good Evening from the Jersey Shore, 80 with scattered thunder storms.
We went fishing at 5:30 this morning. A lot of Fluke/Flounder but just under the legal limit of 18".
Joe, Congratulations on the Baby boy. I am glad to know that Mom and Him are doing well.
Jack, Brent and Banks, I am going to look into the collar. I may get push back from my wife and son.
Banks, Good Luck on the colooscopy. Hope you come out a "Perfect ***". We need a little humor.
John
Hey, heard my name. Whatever it is, I'm in.
Well, back above the Potomac. Raid successful. We "liberated" a plethora of stuffed animals and YANKEE CANDLES from the hamlet of Williamsburg. We negotiated thru the 105 temps on Tues-Wed, and no one got burnt, nor sick. The CSX line to Newport News was pretty active during our stay, and it is still cool to see the old C&O signals in place.
Now to get caught up...
Fife, Welcome back and I am glad that you had a good trip. The last time we went to Williamsburg it was in the middle of a heat wave. We had a good time also. Come to think of it my wife conned me into a new rec room set and a time share.
Jack, I told my wife about the collar. She stopped home and was headed back to the store. She looked at the post real quick, scrolled down, read the reasons for the train set and asked me if you and I went to the same school for "logical reasoning". She said,"You train guys think alike and I bet that he has an old car in the garage." I asked her how she knew. She shook her head as she left and said that we are all alike. I think that we were married too long.
Demay - Congrats on the new bundle.
Hudson - Good luck to your boy.
anjdevil - How's that throwing arm? I hear the IGGLES are looking for a few good men at QB... Either way, we're getting closer to sharing that beer.
Chief - for school. for Mom.
Hi Guys
A nice day in the low 80s.
Had our friday out supper. Got banalla, lets go.
S.J.
Congrats Joe, hope Mom & Son are doing well !
John, Trainheads/Motorheads, ain't much difference.
Played hooky from the museum today, talk about a boring day. Didn't get squat done.
Night All !
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Big congrats Joe! I'll bet you are all exhausted! Thanks for keeping us up-to-date
Well, no OT tomorrow, but have to take that computer to my sister's house and set it up with her hubby. Then (I hope) he'll come back to my house and help me move two big desks out of the basement.
I picked up a SKIL laser level - going to use it in the front hallway to put up some shelves on the opposite wall from the ones we did before. Then, I'll use it eventually to do drop ceilings in the playroom, bathroom, hall, entryway, and bedroom in the basement. I hope this one works out - it was not expensive, but it is not self-leveling, so will have to take some time to make sure I set it up right.
Banilla sounds great - let's get it going, men! Beacons on
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Sunny and mid 80's today.
Demay - congratulations on your new arrival.
Suprise, suprise. I won the #225 Alco on ebay.
Not much else today - later all.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 70 degrees. Humid. Going up to 84 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. Lots of chores to do and a couple of little projects to finish. Then, I can relax. Nascar race is tonite.
Congratulations, Joe, on your new Son.
Dining car is here with the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
Chuck
Brutus Big congrats Joe! I'll bet you are all exhausted! Thanks for keeping us up-to-date Well, no OT tomorrow, but have to take that computer to my sister's house and set it up with her hubby. Then (I hope) he'll come back to my house and help me move two big desks out of the basement.
Now I see why you wanted me to skip OT and help you pack some trains up
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. Rainy and 75 (and way too humid) here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Getting caught up on laundry right now, then hope to go down to the dock (where it is peaceful) and work on a resume. Have a cookout later on to go to.
Good Morning from the Jersey Shore, 79, high humidity and thunder storms predicted, none as of yet.
We did not go fishing today because of the forecast, that did not arrive yet. They are to our East.
Fife, My son has been wanting to be a NJ State Trooper since he was young. His back up is being a local Officer and his third is to be a lineman or towerman where I work. He is 17 and he is a Cadet member of the Vol. Fire Co., he will be 18 in November and he will then become a Regular Member of the Fire Co. He drills with our Technical Rescue Team and loves High Angle Rescue. No fear of heights. His grades are good in school and he was on the Honor Roll, but missed it by 2 points in Chemistry.
Doug, For some reason they do seem to go hand in hand.
Brutus, My wife bought me the Skil leveler. Works great, after my son and son in law talked me into using it. They say that I am old school.
RT, You are not saying that Brutus has hidden motives for helping his sister with the computer.
We are heading off to my Mom's today to help her celebrate her 81st Birthday.
Everyone have a GREAT DAY.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need.
Sun and 86
A birthday party this afternoon for # 4 grandson.
John happy birthday to your mom.
Fried egg and Spam sandwich for breakfast.
On the lake at 6 off at 11..... 4 walleyes, 12 gills, a pike and smallmouth all made it in my boat. Fish for dinner.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
MichRR - That's a pretty good day, Charlie. While at Williamsburg, kept seeing promos for Michigan tourism, and fishing appeared to be the center of attention. Truth in advertising...?
Brutus ... I never used the Skil leveler ... but the Black & Decker one is great ... it's self leveling though . 2 huge desks to move up stairs from the basement ... OUCH !!!
Fife ... I'll take this rain and a bit of humidity over that scorching heat of 100+ anyday though !
John .... sounds like your son is well on his way to become a police officer ... it's a fabulous career ... tell him to go for the State Trooper job ... sounds like he'll do it .
SJ ... everytime I hear of Spam ... it reminds me of my dad talking about having to eat pounds of it in WW2 .... he learned about a 100 ways to prepare it ... LOL .
Off to a pool party with a 6' HERO as the meal in Frederick this evening ... supposed to rain ... but heck ... ya get wet swimming anyway . Have to remember to pick up a 6 pack of non-alcoholic beer ... darn BP meds won't let me drink the real stuff anymore ... a few real beers and it's like somebody gave me a mickey !!!
CHARLIE ... wow ... fresh caught fish dinner .... NUTTIN FINER in the world !
here i am asking for your kind advice again guys. on wifes 96 hyundai elantra, a friend did brake job about three weeks ago. brakes have worked fine. day before yesterday, red brake light went on on dash. brakes continue to work fine. any ideas? a friend says it might be a sensor problem. brake job was a back-alley one. when brakes are applied, brake light on dash goes off. rt, sounds like you should only buy like new from established dealers like trainz. some guys are just out to make a buck. they do not love trains for the reasons we do. sbmmbob, your mgbgt looks great. i had forgotten they made that model. anyone own an opel manta gt? navyjack
fifedog MichRR - That's a pretty good day, Charlie. While at Williamsburg, kept seeing promos for Michigan tourism, and fishing appeared to be the center of attention. Truth in advertising...?
Strangely enuff those have really seen a lot of air time here as well, needless to say my first thought was the "Uuppers"(sp?) and "Deer Camp" comedy skits from some years back.
Picked up a really nice Atlas SF, Blue & Yellow, U-23B from the OGR Buy/Sell Board for a really nice price. Found a good buy on da bay for a matching caboose from the folk's who took over Glenn's in Akron. If the U runs as well as the Atlas GP-15's I'll be a very happy camper, test run on the ceiling track was good.
NavyJack, It may just need to be reset, but by all means a readout should be done to confirm.
Later All !
Hi Ya'll From Thunder/Lightening/Torrents Taxachusetts,
Been praying for rain for a few weeks now. Apparently someone upstairs got the message. It's dark and pouring out right now. Over 1 inch forecast, but the way it is coming down we may exceed that. Wish it were a soaking rain as too much will run off, but I'll take it! Wife wants me to go outside and grill steaks in this downpour. Does that ever happen to you? HMMMMM, a metal gas grill. I think she may want me to get struck by lightening and then blown up!
I have to make an airport run later to drop off family for a flight out. Guess they can expect some flight delays.
Stay frosty as Laz would say.
Hudson#685 RT, You are not saying that Brutus has hidden motives for helping his sister with the computer. John
John i would never do such a thing
Joe, congratulations! Glad to hear Momma and Baby are well.Been real busy lately, so have not had time to check in here. Today was long with plenty of honey-dos to catch up on. Got lawn mowed and cut down some trees. I have not touched the trains lately, but that is about to change. I am on call this week, but with any luck, I will get some train time in. Not sure where to pick up with the layout.
Currently reading a great book called "Anchor Man" by Steve Farrar. Lots of great information on being a better father and husband. I hope to be proud of the way my son turns out and the only way that is going to happen is by being a good example.
Hope everyone has been doing well. Sorry that I have not been able to keep up with everyone here. I hope to be better at checking in. Really miss the conversations and friendship shared here.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
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