MERRY CHRISTMAS
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Merry Christmas!
Good day yesterday. Had a NJTP assignment with minor injuries....
Fife, I understand, no calls is good stuff. No one hurt, passed on or displaced. Neighboring company had a CO alarm last night and was on standby, someone forgot to open the flue..... No harm no foul...
I'm late but John Baker, I'll raise a pint in your honor today!
I'll be home today, brother & family coming over for the night and then best friend and family later on.
Engine Exchange? If only I had a layout ....stellar idea, Fife!
Winter Storm Warning for tomorrow...white stuff? Bring IT!
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
A very Merry Christmas to everyone, life is good in the Heartlands. Had to spend about 3 hours yesterday keeping our steep gravel driveway open so the kids could all get up and unloaded. It wasn't bad but just as I would finish with the ATV/blade I would have to start over, our 2 1/2" snow ended up to be about 6" -- all of that happened in the morning yesterday.
Sure good to have everyone here for two nights, wish it could happen more often and play with the trains. The Polar Express is a big hit and the new Tin Plate from last Christmas was just beautiful in the 4 Season Room -- I really like that Tin Plate style.
Best to everyone!
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Merry Christmas all, pretty quiet in our neighborhood this morning. I remember when I was a kid we would all be out on Christmas morning going to each others house to see who got what and trying out new bikes etc. Today with all the electronic junk, everyone must be inside.
Went to early evening mass last night and grandson played Joseph in the Christmas story. We had dinner with friends after that at their home. Husband did the cooking as wife has health issues. It turned out very well and enjoyed by all. Today our kids are coming over with grandson for Christmas dinner of Ham and all the trimmings.
Hope you all have a wonderful day with your families.
Peace be with you all,
Ray
SPMan
Morning all. The Yankees from up Nawth are sending cold air. Now the Yankees from the mid west are sending more cold air. The Carpetbaggger in SC is sending moisture. What does that means. A big SNHIO attack. Could get up to 10" by Sunday afternoon. Us poor REBS are lighting our camp fires to try and warm the air. This would limit the amount of snohio. Someone yesterday commented that this will be the third weekend in a row we have had snohio. I am sending coal and switches to all Yankees for their Christmas presents.
Santa was great here. All got lots of presents from Santa including sissy kitty [got a toy with catnip]. Hope all are having a great and safe Christmas [Including the Yanks, after all it is Christmas].
Staying warm and watching TV.
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
laz 57 Merry Christmas Laz, couldn't help taking notice of your comments about the new Railking NS executive F units. The price sounds pretty good. Maybe Justrains has them for a good price too. I wouldn't mind having a set but I just purchased a Southern PS4 Crescent steam engine and haven't digested that yet. Are these units scale size or would they be like the Lionel PW F units? I run DCS so probably would go this way instead of WBB. Have fun, Ray (SPMan) Happy Merry Christmas Eve,YUZ GUYZ, Went down to Barrys Train Shop to take in BB for repairs and wasn't going to get anything. But Barry made a trip to MTH and low and behold my MTH NORFOLF SOUTHERN Railking F# ABAs were there. WOW what a pretty paint scheme and at a great price of 390 bucks. Couldn't afford the DAP NS but this is perfect. When I get DCS hooked up maybe this week I will take some picks. Also BARRY had the new SNOW GLOBE Christmas gondolas there so I got one. This is a great car all powered with track power no batteries. Put on track it has 2 switches one for the snow globe and the other for Chirstmas music. Thats right it can work with one or the other independently or together. Neat car Barry has a bunch of em, wife loves it. He also has the trackmobiles and MIKE there fired one up for me, real cool but I didn't buy one. After BARRYs spent about 1.5 hrs there went and got wife her gift, bought king crabs came home had nice dinner then ran trains. All ok NO PILE UPs. Gotta do some figuring on a block system to isolate two tracks gonna scratch my head on this one. SIR JAMES and CHARLIE, WOW nice layout and bet good fun. Wish I was a fly on the wall, naw YUZ GUYZ would have smacked me. PROBE, a football for DOUG M. Would you trust him with a Red Rider BB Gun with compass in the stock, clangin Ducks on the wing with spectacular hip shots.... CHUCK & BUCKEYE TGIF. Get that snow cannon ready for DA CAROLINAS. Heard SANTAs bringing some Anthracite down there? All B safe and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all from laz57 PS. Stay frosty!
Ray (SPMan)
Happy Merry Christmas Eve,YUZ GUYZ,
Went down to Barrys Train Shop to take in BB for repairs and wasn't going to get anything. But Barry made a trip to MTH and low and behold my MTH NORFOLF SOUTHERN Railking F# ABAs were there. WOW what a pretty paint scheme and at a great price of 390 bucks. Couldn't afford the DAP NS but this is perfect. When I get DCS hooked up maybe this week I will take some picks. Also BARRY had the new SNOW GLOBE Christmas gondolas there so I got one. This is a great car all powered with track power no batteries. Put on track it has 2 switches one for the snow globe and the other for Chirstmas music. Thats right it can work with one or the other independently or together. Neat car Barry has a bunch of em, wife loves it. He also has the trackmobiles and MIKE there fired one up for me, real cool but I didn't buy one. After BARRYs spent about 1.5 hrs there went and got wife her gift, bought king crabs came home had nice dinner then ran trains. All ok NO PILE UPs. Gotta do some figuring on a block system to isolate two tracks gonna scratch my head on this one.
SIR JAMES and CHARLIE, WOW nice layout and bet good fun. Wish I was a fly on the wall, naw YUZ GUYZ would have smacked me.
PROBE, a football for DOUG M. Would you trust him with a Red Rider BB Gun with compass in the stock, clangin Ducks on the wing with spectacular hip shots....
CHUCK & BUCKEYE TGIF. Get that snow cannon ready for DA CAROLINAS. Heard SANTAs bringing some Anthracite down there?
All B safe and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all from
laz57
PS. Stay frosty!
Merry Christmas, all.
Yup. It is a white one here. In the 20's and cloudy.
Quiet day here with just my wife and I. We went to the candle light service last night and slept in this morning. Our Christmas dinner was at a local cajun resturant - she had crab legs, I had red beans & rice and fried catfish. Enjoying Christmas programming on the TV. One of the KC stations had a show that consisted of one or two songs by choirs from a lot of the local high schools - really enjoyable.
All for now.
Evening all
Merry Christmas! Grandkids had a great Christmas. They are playing with toys. The services were fantastic yesterday and today. It is time for a nap.
May God bless
Jim
Chief Eagles..: I just saw the report about all the snow...good grief!! That is a lot down there!! Hopefully you are safe and sound where you are...
Welb, we had a good busy Christmas Day ...now, after we drove my sister back to her home we are now back home all cuddled up
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
SNOW now sticking to the ground. Still saying 5 to 10 inches by tomorrow night.
Now on the NS ABA units. I put a want to buy on OGR. Got prices of $2,000 to $4,000. I laughed. Now if you notice your newer CTT, Williams is reproducing them for around $390. Buy an ERR kit and upgrade and I can save money.
LAZ, that was a steal at your price. Wish I could find a set at that price.
Jesse Stone movie coming on at 8.
Later.
Chief its a little confusing here how much as they say tonight 1-3 inches and then for tomorrow its says snow in the morning tapering off to flurries in the early afternoon 1-3 inches so don't know to take it as total 1"-3" or total of 2" - 6"
Don't bother me thou as I know how to drive in it just have to watch out for the rest down here that don't. At least most of the way to and from work is interstate so that will at least be plowed and sanded.
Well not a lot going on tonight still feel its been a good Christmas and so does the wife. thats what counts I guess. we feel blessed to have what we have and thank-full for our health and all.
talk to you all later hope all had a Good day
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening all,
It is cloudy and cool in SE Indiana. Shohio missed us for the most part. Had a good day today with the family. "Saucy Wench" liked her present, which was a relief. Everybody had a good time. Lots of food for all. I had streusel on the dining car for breakfast. TBIL and I can drive. The next crew is due in tomorrow evening. I got an e-mail from my Norwegian soccer friend, and that always puts a grin on my face. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Christmas nite to all
Well besides the usual lump of coal I did get a train for christmas. My daughter gave me a Lego Harry Potter train to build. Should be fun to assemble with winter here. We had a very nice day with the kids. No new snow just the frozen stuff we got 2 weeks ago. Banilla is ready if anybody still has the strength for a Tardis ride.
S.J.
Good Evening All.
Was a great day with the munchkin and family & freinds. All have gone and the dishwasher will be workin' OT.
Found a great youtube link on the Garden RR side,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10f2w7T5CU think you'll enjoy as well.
First load done, time to unstack and go again.
Later all !
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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ChiefEagles SNOW now sticking to the ground. Still saying 5 to 10 inches by tomorrow night. Now on the NS ABA units. I put a want to buy on OGR. Got prices of $2,000 to $4,000. I laughed. Now if you notice your newer CTT, Williams is reproducing them for around $390. Buy an ERR kit and upgrade and I can save money. LAZ, that was a steal at your price. Wish I could find a set at that price. Jesse Stone movie coming on at 8. Later.
Chief, Payback is tough, hey! If you notice those snow flakes are falling west to east, those are coming from the clouds that did not get emptied out here.
Don
dbaker48 ChiefEagles: SNOW now sticking to the ground. Still saying 5 to 10 inches by tomorrow night. Now on the NS ABA units. I put a want to buy on OGR. Got prices of $2,000 to $4,000. I laughed. Now if you notice your newer CTT, Williams is reproducing them for around $390. Buy an ERR kit and upgrade and I can save money. LAZ, that was a steal at your price. Wish I could find a set at that price. Jesse Stone movie coming on at 8. Later. Chief, Payback is tough, hey! If you notice those snow flakes are falling west to east, those are coming from the clouds that did not get emptied out here.
ChiefEagles: SNOW now sticking to the ground. Still saying 5 to 10 inches by tomorrow night. Now on the NS ABA units. I put a want to buy on OGR. Got prices of $2,000 to $4,000. I laughed. Now if you notice your newer CTT, Williams is reproducing them for around $390. Buy an ERR kit and upgrade and I can save money. LAZ, that was a steal at your price. Wish I could find a set at that price. Jesse Stone movie coming on at 8. Later.
Sorry Charlie, this one is coming from the South. Cold air from the North.
Aloha. Glad to see so many others had a 'White Christmas!' Got to get up in a few hours to serve at church. Not sure how many will be there. Santa was good. The bearded dragon was successfully unveiled to the youngest. The bride surprised me with a few nice train magazines.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Had a great Christmas and lots of fun visiting and family time
Tardis is ready and I'll use the way-back circuit to get that banilla, SJ!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
CTT arrived Christmas Eve. Delayed by nearly nine inches of snow here.
John Baker
A few snowflurries here this morning...
Bit on the nippy side right now but we be heading out for a bit o a walk this morning...get some fresh air and some not so dark as well.....
have a good one...
Snohio coming down. Roads covered. This will kill the after Christmas sales. Pam said they should have just stayed closed on Sunday and do them on Monday anyway. Will sit home, watch TV and read my new CTT that came Christmas Eve. Finn has been out. Lucy, Burg and Neddles are smart and curled up asleep. Think I will reclinerize a while. Then get up and cook fried bolonia, egg and cheese sandwiches [on toasted bread].
Fifey, sending you some of this stuff. Jack, hope to share with you too. Rich and Hudson, blizzard conditions up your way.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold 26 degrees. No new snow last night. Going up to 32 today.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and some paperwork. Then, I will relax in the train room. Need to do some dusting.
I hope everyone down South is enjoying the beautiful snow they got for Christmas.
Dining car is here for the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Frank and Chuck you just a little over shot with the snow cannon we got about a 1" here so not bad none on the roads just trees and grass. nothing to really worry about . man that N.C. Mayor is sure crying about it.
Beautiful morning here. nice and pretty get tired of that green and dead brown all the time.
Hope all are having a good weekend talk to you all later.
Laz,
For the first time in six or seven years, I did not receive a lump of coal in my stocking for Christmas. Needless to say, the Chief's influence has diminished or I have been exceedingly good this year. I will post a few photos later of my outstanding gift. It will knock your socks off.
Chuck,
What a great way to put snow into Roseyville by bringing it up from the south instead of from Ohio. Of course, it reduces the amount by twenty inches, but it gives them more than enough to whine about for the next year or two. (Note that the whine has already commenced. See posting above.)
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
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. It's 30, and not one flake here yet Wifey and I are a little under the weather (thinkin' mine was related). Had a very nice Christmas day. My family pretty much outfitted me with a new wardrobe from NAUTICA . I guess they were trying to bring my style into the millenium, but I was thinking parachute pants and valore v-necks were gonna make a comeback. Only train-related item was a Hallmark train from my partner. Best moment for me is when fifepup played his new acoustic guitar, with me on the uke, and the littlest princess singing "Santa Baby".
Only thing on tap today is the RAVENS-BROWNS match-up. And, perhaps a few passes with the snow-shovel. Back to work tomorrow night.
Good Morning
26 and cloudy, no new snow
I think us old guys will always remember the Santa Baby song. I suspect today will be quiet as our little family were all together yesterday. What a wonderful thing memories are, watching the kids and grandkids enjoy christmas.
Have a great day and chief enjoy your white christmas.
No white Christmas for us (Fine with me). A dusting today. Most of it going down to the VA-NC line. Trying to fill up the Chief's lake.
We had 28 people here on Christmas: kids and spouses, grand kids and spouses, and great grand kids. Had a great time.
Pat
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First time since 1947 did NC have snow on Christmas day. Still snowing. More than forecasted. Everything is deep in snow. Trucks plow it off and it just covers it over. Down east where I am from [at the farm], they are getting even more than us. Sending it north to Fifey to drive in tomorrow while he works [wrecks and more wrecks]. On up to all those in NY and NJ in blizzard conditions. Then Jack. Getting even for me having snow.
Still no flakes here...
Update - a few flakes here now.
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