Brutus!
Good Morning
Sun and 32, going to 60.
I have grass to cut with the leaves on top, to chop. Also have a jaw doc. appointment. We had company for dinner yesterday and I ran some trains for them..NO PILEUPS. Have a great monday...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Aloha all. Sunny and warmer today. Had a good day video-directing at our church services. Lotsa of babies being dedicated. Read the paper whilst watching a lackluster Bears win - though we'll take the victory, Laz! The paper was reporting on measuring diesel particulates from the commuter trains. Apparently on the trains is the worst air. Good thing I've been breathing it for 20 years. LOL. Glad you had a good day, Brutus. Welcome home from a good trip, SJ. Read the Christmas CTT on the ride in.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning everyone. Not much happening. Late case, so I am heading in later. Nice to see some folks checking in. Hope it was a great birthday Brutus!
Today is beautiful out. A bit brisk in the mid 50s, but supposed to hit mid 70s. It should be a relatively short work day for me, so I hope to get some work done on that building I am working on for the layout.
Hope each of you has a blessed dayDennis
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Good morning all,
It is a little warmer outside today; the high will be about 68. It was 49 when I went out for my morning run. Fortunately, it was not very windy this morning. The past two days have been very windy.
I have an annual report/assessment I need to finish at work. The deadline has passed (no fault of mine), and hopefully I will complete most of it today - as long as nothing else pops up.
CNW - I'm sure those diesel particulates have only made your lungs stronger.
S.J. - I can honestly say my grass has not grown in about two months. I feel as if I should run the mower over it just to be sure. Nah, I'm sure my wife will tell me when it needs to be cut.
Good day all,
Joe
Good morning all, a little light rain before daylight today. Went to mass yesterday AM and visited with #1 son after church. He said he got a ticket for forgetting to turn on headlights on a brightly lit street. He had turned them off temporarily while parked to avoid shining through a restaurant window. Anyway, he admitted his mistake and took the ticket. Only bad part is now he has to go to traffic school to keep it off his record. If he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all. The whole thing happened while he was on a mission to get his wife a birthday cake. Sometimes he reminds me of the poor soul character portrayed by Jackie Gleason.
Fifey, what issues of CTT is your layout in and what is the title of the article? I am behind on my reading and magazines are piling up.
Happy birthday Brutus Hope Char is doing better.
later,
Ray
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Brutus (Jim F) How does it feel to be 29?!
Free cake, banillia and rocket fuel for the Tardis tonight.
TBLT
Pat
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Beauty of a day here. Walked to the Shedd Aquarium at lunchtime to visit with the fish. Enjoyed watching the Metra Electrics run in their IC canyons through Grant Park.
Gone to the lake house!!!!!! finally.
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hope all my buddies are fine. get choked up this time of year as i remember many of my friends who are deceased. cant forget three guys i enlisted with from evanston, il who died within 9 months of receiving orders. won thunder valley lionel engine and three north pole lionel passenger cars. wife loves my henry 30-30 says she wants one, fancy of course. lots of brass fanciwork. found i can fire it over my dead hand. grandson caught a bunch of large walleyes at our lake this weekend. tasted good too. had two bottles of sweet green iced tea today. love that stuff. pat, wife bought lots of big sweet taters for thanksgiving. said she wishes you and laura were closer so you could come over and sample her sweet tater pie. she makes sweet tater patties too. i found out to never give up on a bro. found one who i thought was long gone today..navyjack. p.s. great conversation with hudson 685. also hello wes
Evenin' All.
to Brutus.
The last of the Halloween layout lookie-loos left a little bit ago. Had a housefull of kiddos here yesterday for a belated Halloween party for them and their parents, the trains were a big hit with all. Especially the dump cars on the grandson's Thomas layout with the big Milky Ways, Snickers, Snickers w/almonds, and Twix bars. All went home full of lunch and with their choice of goodies from the dump cars.
Did learn one thing though, as a result of a short on the upper level saturday nite I was up quite late trying to find it. Next year power blocks will be instituted to make it easier to isolate and fix these kinds of problems.
Dismantling has commenced.
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Good Evening
Not a bad day for november, sunny and 50s.
Well I restocked the banilla so I am ready for Brutus and the thingy....S.J.
Hello, Coffee Potters!
Well, I worked 2 of my 12 mandatory hours of OT for this week tonight. My mother-in-law showed up and had the kids, so I signed right up. 10 to go! If I work this right, I can just work Saturday and have next Sunday off. We do get off on Thursday, which is nice
Thanks again for all the birthday wishes! Nice chat with RT tonight.
Tardis is ready and screen shows some beacons coming on, so let's hit it!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good evening all,
It's halftime so I thought I would quickly check-in. Today at work I accomplished most of the annual report I have to complete by tomorrow. I see no reason why I will not finish it by the end of tomorrow's duty day. The wife made Italian pot roast for dinner tonight and it was so good I had to stop myself from finishing all of it tonight. I cannot wait to have it on a sandwich tomorrow for lunch. After dinner I watched Star Wars with the kids. It was the fifth one released, but second one in storyline order. I believe I have explained the whole order thing about 100 times to the kids.
Navyjack - Congratulations on your auction wins. It's nice to see you back.
CNW - Nice photo - it seems like a neat place.
Doug - Sorry you started the tear down process. It doesn't seem as if the layout was up very long.
S.J./Brutus - I'm ready for some banilla.
IIABSDISEI with temps near 70. I had the regular fare. TBIL anytime. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,,
Mike C. from Indiana
happy belated birthday jim, hope you had a good day man, rt has sent me some great patriotc emails. thanks navyjack
Hi GUYZ,
40 here to get to 55. Did a little cleaning in the train room last nite, not much but a little at a time will get r done.
DOUG M, BEARs this week against the VIKEs might be pretty interesting? What happened in CHITOWN yesterday? Heard they closed done the roads because somebody left their suitcase in the RR station?
Stay frosty,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is 28 degrees. Sunny. Going up to 64 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. After the usual chores, I have an errand to run. Then, I can relax. Got the car ready for winter. Now I have to get ME ready for winter. That will not be easy. Love the summer.
Dining car is here and it's Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Tuesday.
Chuck
Aloha. It's a beauty of a day here in Chicago. The museums are free this week for some reason, so today I'm going to try to make it over to the Adler Planetarium during lunch. Boy, Laz, what a screw up - someone left a small briefcase on an L station platform that runs between the major northwest expressway so after someone called it in at the height of rush-hour, they stopped all the trains and both inbound and outbound highways so basically no one could move. Fortunately my Metra train on the other side of the highway sailed past. It took hours to untangle the mess. Too bad it's so difficult to have a proportionate response.
I have a good book suggestion to those of you who are readers "Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad" by Walter Borneman. It's on the construction and development of the Santa Fe, SP and Rio Grande -- after the CP-UP were built.
I've been browsing for Marx lately. Any recommendations, beyond e-Bay, for sources?
Sunny going to 59. I'm back from PT on my neck so after the 12-0-clock news I will run the mower over the leaves that my neighbor kindly shares with us. She never cleans them up just lets them blow. Grannys out so Corn beef hash this morning....S.J.
Lunch Time at work,
I have been trying to catch up on the posts. I missed a lot.
Brutus, Happy Belated Birthday and anyone else that I missed.
Doug, that was a great idea having the Halloween Party when you did. The kids got to use their costumes again and incorporating "Thomas" introduced the kids to trains.
Navy Jack, I will give you a call this Sunday. Sounds like you are feeling better.
This past week was the week of train deals. I won 1 K line and 2 Williams Box Cars on E Bay. On Sunday morning my son and I went to a local train show and I scored a Lionel 6250 Seaboard Switcher priced right.
I looks like my Department and I will miss the axe. After auditing and bechmarking they found out again that we are on top of our game.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need.
Back to work, Chief needs his SS check.
John
Good morning all, How come I have to log in twice each morning to get on the Coffee Pot?
Fife, still waiting to hear more about your layout in CTT. What issue?
Ran trains a little yesterday without any derailments. I have beaucoup voltage drops on my inside loop. Got to fix that one of these days. I get lazy running DCS because the high voltage overides the voltage drops but when you run conventional, you really notice it.
Picking up a GGD depot scale pullman car yesterday, I accidentally pushed out one of the windows. Have to take that puppy apart now to fix the window and it looks like a major project to take one of these things apart. A lot of tiny little screws etc.
Navy Jack, glad to see you posting a lot and getting feedback from your friends. Do you actually fire that 30/30? Speaking of our friends from the past, I miss two especially who are now deceased. One who I knew since high school and came to California with from Virginia in 1958, The other, a great railfan friend with whom I traveled many a mile chasing trains over the years and belonging to the same model railroad club. They were my best friends. I continue to make new ones, but there will never be friends like those old ones I fear. Well, its like that closing line from Gone With The Wind, "Tomorrow is another day".
Have a good one today y'all
Good afternoon Everyone! It was a good start to the day. I had a early case, but we were delayed a bit, so finished a little later than we could have. Wife should be home soon with the kids, so we will have plenty to do.
On the way home yesterday, I went through the NS rail yard in town. They had a SOO engine in a consist with some black ponies. Funny to see that red and white in a sea of black.
John, glad you have that past you. Hope they are able to turn things around and not have you worrying about that from year to year. Always a concern when they have bean counters coming to a department they know nothing about, trying to decide on your value to an organization they don't understand.
I am looking into metal detectors as my son wants one for Christmas. Hobby Lobby has one that looks promising, but I am open to any suggestions.
God Bless,Dennis
Back from today's lunchtime destination.
Evening all well got my number boards in yesterday just to find out that theres a piece missing that they go into but Lionel never listed them as a part. its about 3/16" wide by 7/8" long that go into the front of the cab. Then while changing the front pick-up didn't realize it was a bolt and nut thought it would of been a screw into the truck well the nut went bouncing across the desk to who knows where so need to get one of those I see lol.
The Trainmaster did have a bad R2LC board. Its now working good.
Hope all had a good day. Working OT tomorrow so will be a 12 hour day ( my 8 plus 4 OT) also doing 12 OT on sat.
Haven't done much else train wise.
Talk to you all later
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Grass is cut, leaves are chopped, trimmer is drained and got a shot of defogger. I'll wait on the mower just in case. RT you've been a busy boy, easy does it man. Banilla is ready for the thingy, and maybe we can catch a ride home with Doug M.....S.J.
Howdy guys - another day of overtime, 2 hours again tonight. Only 8 more hours of mandatory OT for the week to go. Looking forward to Veterans' Day on Thursday! Have a new issue of Trains magazine to read also == Tardis away!
I had a steady day at work today, but mostly mundane paperwork, nothing exciting. After work I made some pasta for dinner. My wife was busy running errands and transporting our daughter to and from ballet. We ate dinner late due to her ballet class. After cleaning the kitchen, it was time to read to the kids and put them to bed.
Now, I can relax for a little while before having some banilla.
Brutus,
I finally got the layout reconfig finished last night. I picked up the December CTT before I left work today, and it looks good. I didn't think the store carried CTT, but I saw it poking out of the magazine rack as I passed. The parts that I ordered are finally supposed to arrive tomorrow, so I'll have to get a soldering iron to make these projects easier.
Good Evnin' Ya'll From Dreary Taxachusetts,
We haven't seen the sun for over a week in these parts. Some crummy storm that has circled back around and is now hitting us out of the Northeast. Rain continues into tomorrow, clearing by evening. Wifey and I are both still battling the crud that won't quit.....day 12.
There seems to have been an undercurrent of job woes the past couple of weeks on the Pot.
NavyJack....glad to see you are back posting. Did you ever settle on on car for your wife?
Brutus.....it won't be long now. Prayers continue.
Dennis.....your posts got me to thinking about the parents we have lost and miss. I would think the memory of my folks would ebb and flow throughout the year, but it doesn't.
SJ....if it would stop raining here I could follow your lead and launch that final yard cleanup of the year. The high winds we have been having for the past 6 days have added more debris to my yard and gardens than it has taken away.
DougM.....folks who have never been there just can't begin to understand Chicago's beauty. Something for everyone. You get to enjoy the downtown, train rides every day, and the quality of like that is CL.
Rich.....your physical tests have been gruelling. There's no quit in you.
JimSP.....hope you are enjoying the Odyssey. It does so many things well.
DougDG, RaySP, and DonB.....we are depending upon you to get us through the winter with your complaining about the Southern CA weather.
Laz......any more updates on your new layout?
RT.....I have to agree with the others. Today you have a room for your layout, but this opportunity may be fleeting if you delay.
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
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