Good afternoon all, just got back from the TCA train meet where I was part of a twosome that set up and ran a layout featuring Southern Pacific trains. It went pretty well. We ran DCS and conventional both. I think I over did it by bringing too much stuff. I brought nearly every SP engine I own and there was not enough time to run them all. Weather was very hot over 100. Just got through putting the stuff back in my garage and it was baking out there. Drank about a gallon of water after I got back in the house. Hope those guys at the train meet enjoyed our display. They may never see it again unless it's in the Winter time. Next project is being part of the DCS team for the big Cal Stewart train meet in Pasadena in November. We should have more help at that one. Today I spent the entire time either setting up, running or tearing down our layout. Did not even look at table sales or participate in show and tell or anything else. Just not enough time. Just had time to choke down a sandwich on the fly while we were operating. Sweet little kids watching trains made it all worth while.
Ray
SPMan
Evening. Busy day. The Animal Control thingy was mostly a guy trying to sell his book and do it by touching animal lovers' heart strings. Came home and took nap. Wife wanted to go to the mall so off we went. No she probably wishes she had not gone with me. Bougth me a new suit, two shirts, 4 ties and two pair of shoes. She pays [special Belk's CC in my name but she pays it as 90% her spending]. One of the few things she pays. Was going to the lake house but got meeting Monday at noon with farmers about their Mexicans. Would drive up and have to come back tomrrow night. Suppose to rain tonight and more chances tomorrow and all day Monday. We need it as has not rained in weeks.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Hello to all.Sorry have not been here lately, just a crazy time of year.Tommorrow after church we are going to go see the John Brown.She is a wwII liberty ship that is visiting Providence.Kids are actually excited about it.Should be fun.Prayers for those who need them and hope all are well.
Hello all,
I'm finally settled back in after being out of town this past week. I returned home last night from my trip to San Antonio. It was very hot and humid down there. We stayed at a hotel on the Riverwalk and our conference was in the hotel as well. However, we had to go out for lunch and dinner every day which meant facing the heat and humidity. Considering we were wearing business attire it made for some uncomfortable walks to the restaurants. I am happy to be home and eating my wife's great cooking. Eating out gets very old after a few days; not to mention the cost as well. The conference was beneficial and I was able to catch up with some good friends.
I visited two hobby shops in San Antonio. I did not buy anything as neither one of them had a great selection of O gauge items. The one store had many Lionel MPC and PW items, but the owner wasn't around so the employee did not want to haggle the prices at all. I might have picked up an AF Minuteman Boxcar if the employee would have dropped the price a bit. The other store was very limited in its selection, but at least the owner gave me the two new Lionel catalogs for free.
I spent today cutting the grass and playing with the kids. I ran the trains for a little while but did not enjoy it as much due to the 1044 not being fully operable. I had it looked at a few weeks ago to see if anything could be done to get it to sound my modern steam whistle. The tech said it worked fine and that some older transformers just didn't sound the newer whistles. I was fine with that response and ready to move on. However, about a week after the tech had it, I was running trains with it for the first time when the direction/whistle lever felt as if it broke off and kept turning in one direction. I removed the case to find a spring and lug floating around. I called the tech and he informed me the way to fix it was to remove the black plate which required unsoldering and then soldering. I am not skilled in doing that and I'm not sure what I'll do now. The nearest shop is about 70 miles away, but I'm not sure I want to invest any more money into this transformer any way. I need to stop wallowing about it.
Good night,
Joe
Good Evening
sun and warm in ohio, cloudy and cooler here. 56 now.
Yep Doug, Fostoria has a very popular train watching spot. we were told up to 100 trains per day. We saw 1. As for the train show the kindest thing I can say is: it was a great day for a car ride. Came home and crashed on the couch..lol. Banilla is ready so bring on the thingy...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
Demay ... I totally agree on the eating out .... I really don't like restaraunt food anymore at all .
Spent the whole day with the wife ..... 3 states yard saleing then to an orchard to pick apples . Hope it rains here soon !!! I'm beat .... gonna pig out and rest .
sir james I Good Evening sun and warm in ohio, cloudy and cooler here. 56 now. Yep Doug, Fostoria has a very popular train watching spot. we were told up to 100 trains per day. We saw 1. As for the train show the kindest thing I can say is: it was a great day for a car ride. Came home and crashed on the couch..lol. Banilla is ready so bring on the thingy...S.J.
Shows you need new glasses.
Howard, are the apples gone up our way? Mine all are finally gone. Bet your leaves are already changed.
Banks, got all your corn and hay in???? Most of our tobacco is gone and stalks disked in. Some corn picked and soybeans are still green.
Bob, have not heard from you but guess you are working at the big spyglass.
Jack, are you still buzzing?
Dennis & Pat, you will love this bumper sticker I saw this AM. It goes:
I [a big heart made from the Stars and Bars] G. R. I. T. S.
GIRLS RAISED IN THE SOUTH.
Good night all.
Greetings! Got up early and worked 6 hours OT, then mowed the lawn and did the trimmer. Not too hot out today, so it went pretty well except all the rain made the grass grow pretty tall and it was very wet in places. A friend and his family came over and we put a gauge on my gas tank - empty! Picked it up, because I thought the gauge must be broken - nope, the tank was empty! Just since last week?! Oh well, ran out and got a refilled tank, had a nice bbq dinner, and then played a card game with my friend and the kids while the wives talked. I'm pooped!!!
Tardis is ready and some banilla would be great, so let's hit it!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Morning all Not a lot going on at work woopie yeah right! oh well it does help pay the chiefs S.S. so guess I need to keep working.
Hope all have and are having a good weekend. Mine hasn't been good seeing our A.C. died friday and the window unit I have is too big for the bedroom windows only fits the den windows uggh. Haven't slept well at all for 2 night now thank goodness he the repairman will be there come monday afternoon. Guess tonight somehow I'm sleeping in the den if its on the floor. (furniture in den is my desk chair)
As thats where the trains are going to be going once I get it all going. But heres just another delay as something need done but not really budgeted at this moment. I know i need to budget a houshold expense account well a few things have come up recently and its just not happening. but we will survive as we always do as the good lord usually shows us a way to do it .
Talk to you all later you all have a blessed sunday
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It's a cloudy 60 degrees. Going up to 78 today with some sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I plan on running trains today and watching the Nascar race. Maybe a nap. Not too much else going on.
Dining car is here and the usual breakfast. Then, I will send it to "All Points West".
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
WOW, up in time to go to early Church. OH well. Guess they will let me in. Haven't been all summer. Only go to Sunday School when in town. Clouding up. Much needed rain on the way so they say. All have a great day and week. Later.
Morning all. Sunny and cool. Leaves turning fast. Got the new CTT in the mail yesterday. Looks like a nice issue - high rail-ish. Off to church now too. Then hope for a quiet day.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning
Wow 2 days ago it was 87, todays hi 56.
Grannys at church and I'm not sure about any plans for the day. I will probably turn on the Lions game so I can fall asleep this afternoon...Enjoy your day ......S.J.
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A Big AMEN to that! If I had two of them they would be on each bumper of the truck. Breakfast Grits and southern girls, two of my favorites!
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Good morning all, went for early walk today account hot weather later. 103 forcast for today and 107 for tomorrow. Got all my trains put away this morning after the TCA show yesterday. I probably won't see my train room until the end of next week if the hot weather keeps up. Just pray we don't have any wild fires. Have a good Sunday y'all.
IT'S RAINING HARD!!!!! Thunder and all. First storm we've had in over a month.
Good afternoon everyone. Been a great day. Started off with church and then home with the family. Had visitors in town as it was Wife's, Sister-in-Law's, and Mother in law's birthdays. We had two cakes and lots of good food.
Chief, I like it! If I had one, I would have to give it to the bride as I would not want to have folks thinking I am looking for more than what I have.
We too had a lot of rain come through. Figures, I had just had the wife's car detailed. The crops and grass need it though.
Got to run.God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Evening all not much happening here just moved the extra bed to the den as we don't have any AC in rest of house as central unit went down Thursday night/Friday a.m. and I haven't slept good since we have a window unit in den ( won't fit in rest of the house windows there too small.
Worked all weekend off tomorrow have doc appointment tomorrow am and A/C repairman tomorrow afternoon.
Watching Andy Griffin on Nick at night.
No train activity going on yet but did clean the den up the other day so it did help me vision a little better how things are going to go in here will have to get bed back out of here either tomorrow night or next weekend when I will be off.
Talk to you all later
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 70s. Busy weekend. Went to a movie premiere Friday night. Friends of ours were involved and so they invited us to be part of it. It was part of a B Movie celebration at Franklin Indiana. It was a nice evening with good (free) food, a rock band for entertainment before the show, and the movie was very good. It was low budget, but well done (sort of like D Weimer's works), but more pointed to a general audience. Still had a good theme and a good ending. Saturday I reffed two youth games and then went to Bloomington for a family gathering on her side. Sunday was spent cleaning accumulated stuff around the house.
Train related news: got a 9385 Alaska gondola off eBAY, my new Lionel Scout set was picked up Friday night (surprisingly nice) and I got the latest CTT.
I had pancakes and bacon on the dining car for breakfast this morning. TBIL anytime. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
A gloomimg 62 today but I think they read the temp with a bic lighter. Whenever I looked it was 56. As predicted I shut the Lions game off before the end of the first half and enjoyed a nice nap. They lost as usual. Banilla is ready for the Tardis guys so swing on by the beacons humming....S.J.
SJ .... it was 95 degres here friday .... 74 today .... now that's a change ... no rain yet ... we need it extremely bad . Don't feel bad about your team playing badly .... my Giants played worse than a middle school team against the Colts .... had 2 sons ... Colt fans razzing the devil out of me .
Got real lucky the other day ... my oldest son won 2 copies of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional at a microsoft training/seminar ... and he gave me one !!
Wife baked some homeade apple dumplings ... .... delicious in a bowl with milk and a touch of cream to richen things up . Have been burning movies for the family and friends .... seems they all come at once for them .... no rest for the weary .....
Wes,
I thought about getting Office 2010, but 2007 is fine for now. I can't say anything about the price because I just bought the Everybody Loves Raymond complete series boxed set. Love that show.
I rewrote and beefed up my resume, and I've been busy applying for jobs. Not much new on the train front, except that I was tempted to buy a high grade AF set of N.P. 490-492 diesels. I decided to pass due to the seller.
Wes you brought back a memory. My dad use to eat apple pie with milk. Actually as I recall it was pretty good that way.
I'll take banilla icecream on my pie, in lieu of the milk. But, that does sound like it would taste good
Didn't do much today as back was stiff. Played some card games with the kids, watched 4 episodes of X-Files from the 2nd season set, killed some zombies on the x-box, visited with the in-laws and took them out to dinner, and that's about it. I did get some nice chat time with RT and then with Charlie and SJ.
Tardis is ready and I think I have some Coke Zero, Dt Pepsi, Sam Adams, and skim milk for those that want some - let's go boys
Just finished watching the Dolphins and Yankees games. The Dolphins could not pull it out, but at least the Yankees won and clinched a playoff spot.
The temp dropped quite a bit today. I actually had to wear a sweatshirt at the church picnic today. It was a pretty nice day and I did enjoy the cooler temps.
Time for bed,
Hello all
Had a good but busy week. I had a good visit w/ mom as well.
Back at the 'scope and tomorrow we climb on the roof to check the seals and then jack up the building to adjust the bearings.
Dennis - congrats on 10 years!
Harold - I've seen the SS Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty ship in San Francisco. Always wanted to see the John Brown. I know she was used as a school ship for years.
NavyJack - hope you get to feeling better soon.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Good morning all,
It is supposed to be rainy and cooler in SE Indiana today. We shall see. Watched "Desperate Housewives" last night. It was good. Funny and sad at different times. I had some pancakes, bacon, and cereal on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East". TBIL after the HS boys' game tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Morning from Edison, NJ, Rain and Damp, Good Day to be here at work,
RI Jack & Dennis, I remember when Woodbridge Center was a Dirt Pit for the White Elephant Trucking Company. The Mall was built around 1970. Bergen County still has the Blue Laws.
Harold, My Uncle Stan served on the Liberty Ships during WW2. He had a fascination about them and he hand carved quite a few of them. My Mother has some in her attic.
Pat, I like the sticker, GRITS.
Navy Jack, Glad Gigi is better. How about a Thomas set for the little guy.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need
John
It is a dark and cloudy 58 degrees. Looks like rain and 74 today.
Today is a busy day. I have paperwork to do and a few chores. Later, I will go to PT for a few hours. No train time today.
Dining car arrived from "Points West". Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Good morning from Roger's Corners, where it is beautiful weather all the time except for days that end in "Y".
Raining this morning and several of the interstates are shut down due to overturned trucks.
Everyone take care.
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
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