laz - I am very envious. You got those NS OCS engines. I've seen the real ones up close, and they are gorgeous (former B&O). Time to start a Coffee Pot Engine Excahange. .
MichRR - Those styro risers look labor intensive. Nice photo.
anjdevil/dwiemer - Medic 47 had no calls during princess's shift. Perspective wise (no one lost a loved one, no one has to spend holiday in hospital, no one has to lose their car to the body & fender man, no one had to be placed by Red-Cross...) it was a good night. Still...
blownout cylinder Fedex should be renamed fedups... I've had issues with them before, but my nemesis right now is DHL who can't seem to find my address at all, even though we are on a main road here.... We are expecting a few days of blagh weather, dull dull dull with little bits of dribble snow or frizzle...yay Anyhoooooo---Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and have a good safe holiday!
Fedex should be renamed fedups...
I've had issues with them before, but my nemesis right now is DHL who can't seem to find my address at all, even though we are on a main road here....
We are expecting a few days of blagh weather, dull dull dull with little bits of dribble snow or frizzle...yay
Anyhoooooo---Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and have a good safe holiday!
Our problem is with FedEx and UPS. They claim bad weather, but our private road is one mile off the mail road and I think they just don't want to take the time to drive down. A bad deal when we expect deliveries form suppliers we need to ship to customers. Got a delivery yesterday that had been on four delivery trucks over a six day period (FedEx).
Merry Christmas to all. Notice I didn't say happy holidays.
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Merry Christmas !!!
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE
cloudy and 20s
I had a great time with some super guys at super O Bobs. He loves that rumor about that track cutting rollers in half.
Have a super safe christmas eve....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
Posted as that ad was looking a little froggy - didn't want to lose all that again!
Chief - You are 100 percent right in your assessment of our fine cohort here on the Coffee Pot. It's a blessing to know you all. BTW - hope you didn't have to shovel the driveway this morning!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Wow - just lost a big post I had done Switched to a go moto ad?
Snowing here in Saint Louis - thanks for the White Christmas, Chuck
Got the wireless going again while the cinnabons cooked this morning. I'm still the only one up, might need to cook another batch for the rest of 'em!
Fife - about half of our daughter's Christmas will be showing up in a couple weeks I think, but also she would not decide on some things until just this past week.
Laz - Neat Critter! Can't wait to see your new ABA set making the rounds
Charlie - great pic. As always, I really wish I was there too!
Anj - sorry for your loss and prayers for your uncle and your family! He sounds like a great guy. I've seen a few cases where a guy was in WWII and Korea and even one where a guy was in WWII, K, and RVN. In every case, you could see that the man was the Real Deal. Double prayers of thanks for his service.
Good Christmas Eve Morning!
A quick splash and I'm off....
Everything has been running smoothly, except one of my Uncles dued suddenly, we buried him yesterday. US Army veteran, Korea and WWII. Great guy.
Off to a breakfast with a friend and then back with the family. Daughter is with sister making cookies.
Caught up with my "missing" cousins at the funeral, all were glad I'm home.
Merry Christmas to my VERY good friends here. Great guys, one and all.
Will try to catch up tomorrow during the lull...Church tonight at 7 AM.
Merry Christmas From Exit 8!
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
Here's a video from youtube of the trackmobile. Guy talks alot but it is very well done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSL6ZO2YIo0
laz57
Here's a pic of the snow globe car.
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
PS. Stay frosty!
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. Gail warnings here in the Mid-Atlantic region, which will probably spare us from the snow. Unfortunately, JACK is in the bullseye of this round. Wifey in panic-mode, as some of the on-line purchases haven't made it to fifedom... Will buy backfin crabmeat later on for her Christmas crab cakes .
cnw1995 - Just ask for some tinker-toys. You'll shoot your eye out kid....HO HO Hoooooooooooooooo...
Merry Christmas.
Morning all. Going to be real busy today and tomorrrow. Kids coming for 1 PM meal and presents. To In-laws for a small meal and presents. Pam, Burg, Lucy, Finn and Neddles do presents tomorrow AM after I cook stuffed sausage biscuits. Back to In-laws for a big meal tomorrow. Then it is over. Pam teaches Senior Ladies class and we are off to the lake house unless we have too much of that [ugly word] on the highway.
A Special Christmas Eve and a Merry Christmas to all. Best bunch of guys in the world here. God bless you all.
Fedex is horrible. I try to insist on UPS here. My UPS driver is a buddy. Fedex might leave your package anywhere and not ring the door bell.
Got to rush.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cloudy 32 degrees. Going up to 40 today with a chance of sunshine.
Today is a busy day. A few chores to do and then I have an errand to run. Maybe, later, I can run trains for awhile. Need to dust layout too.
Buckeye & LAZ.... TGIF
Dining car is here with the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Christmas Eve.
Chuck
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/
Well fedex changed my delievery date over night from the 24 to the 27 so surprise I didn't think it was really going to get here next day.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Sunny and about 40 again today. Won't last though. The temp is falling, and that low pressure system that dumped so much rain on the west coast is headed east. Weather map has it just clearing the Rockies tonight. Will be here for Christmas.
Slept in today, then putzed. Got some clean up and winterizing done out on the deck and some odd jobs done inside.
The log dump car I scored on e-bay showed up today. It is well used, but it also looks like somebody has been through it doing some maintenance recently. I'll try it out tomorrow.
All for now.
Brutus sorry we missed you and Doug tonight. SJ and I were at a Christmas train party at Super O Bob's house.
Merry Christmas guys!!
It's 33 at exit 77!
Well it's 1:14am and we just got back from watching A Christmas Carol on stage at McCarter Theatre in Princeton which we do every year, great production, followed by a trip to a local diner. And being that it's now Christmas Eve, I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and if you are travelling be safe and arrive home safe!
Enjoy the day
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Hiya guys! Well, my internet problems are temporarily fixed by hooking my computer straight to the modem. No wireless and no xbox connections tonight anyway. Charter guy got the modem working anyway. Apparently they have a wireless modem/router we can upgrade to so I might do that as this is the 2nd wireless router I've purchased and I am not feeling the value at this moment. I need to get this done tomorrow I guess after the snow stops or my son will go crazy without his online games.
Nice chat with Doug tonight anyway!
I'm really grateful for all of you guys here and I pray for us all and for our families and loved ones. I know we are very grateful here to have my wife at home for Christmas. We bought the kids a bunch of stuff, but we just upgraded our phones and called it good - after we get our rebates, lol! Oh, I did get her an ornament she doesn't know about.
DId shopping tonight and got the food for the feast on Saturday - sure hope the family from KC is able to come visit or we'll be eating ham for a month, no joke! It freezes well though.
Tardis is ready and I can drive tonight - just have to add the reindeer decorations to the front :)
Laz,
Football? What's a football?
Not much going on tonight. Work has been crazy these past few days. Still need to fix the 30B and make the gaskets for the 314AW. I have also found out what is inside the original control box, and I'll have to play with that.
Good evening all,
It was cloudy in SE Indiana with temps above freezing, but more Snohio due in tomorrow. "Saucy Wench" was baking up a storm today. She made cranberry muffins, snicker doodles, and pixies. Yum! Went out to see my old boss from the factory. I have considered working for him again, but I am not sure I want the headaches. I did some Christmas wrapping as well. I had bran muffins for breakfast on the dining car. TBIL anytime. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello Banks. Merry Christmas to you. How is the farm? Cold and frozen, I bet. Glad to see you post. Had "senior moment" last night and could not come up with name but all I could think of was farmer in PA.
COLD and windy. 38 and wind chill in the low 20's. Went fox hunting about dark. Took .22 with iron sights that stays in the back of pickup. Shot at one and then saw several. Fred had been there since 3 PM but was in ground blind and out of the wind. Shot one as he was exiting the blind to quit. Had to have been close to see it in the dusk.
Staying warm and watching TV. Meatball sub [meatballs left over from last night]. Cherry pie for desert.
Later.
Evening all not a lot going on right now. hope all have a good weekend and Christmas. I'm off Christmas and Sunday woo hoo but have to work new years but thats okay I also off new years eve but normally don't stay up for the new year anyway. Not to much going on hoping my train set that I won from Choochoo makes it here tomorrow I'm not that far from him and it says picked up today estimate delivery 12/24 but normally it takes another day in there but we'll see. unless they upgraded the shipping to overnight as I did pay for it back on Monday and normally if I do that it gets shipped Tuesday and it gets here Thursday. I think lol maybe its wednesday I don't remember lol anyway supose to be here tomorrow woopie. Its a Lionel service station set from 1987 unopened in original box even thou the box looks a little rough. ( shelf/storage wear I would say.) Talk to you all later
cnw1995 If these squirrels keep attacking the bird feeders, I need an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle! With a compass in the stock. And this thing that tells time.
If these squirrels keep attacking the bird feeders, I need an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle! With a compass in the stock. And this thing that tells time.
You'll shoot your I out DOUG. How about a football?
Hi Guys
Charlie will be here in about an hour, so in case I miss the thingy tonite Brutus knows where the banilla and rootbeer are kept. Don't wake up granny....S.J.
Hey,
Man is that sunlight ever bright! As reported it seems the rain has passed, we have had a total of 8 1/2" on my patio. (According to rain gauge.) I've never seen that much here before in that short of time. There still plenty of big clouds floating around, and we're suppose to get more on Sunday, then again next Wednesday. But, this will give people a chance to clear drains, mud piles, etc..
Chris' gf, has got the two of them tickets to go to Catalina this Sunday. I've suggested they cancel the tickets and do something else instead, he's for it, if he can convince her. The trip over wouldn't be a whole lot of fun, and wouldn't be a whole lot for them to do once they got there. And I KNOW Mom, won't be keen on the idea of them making the trip when its raining, on the ocean. So we will see.
Got most of the Christmas shopping done, need to pick up one more item. Even have Kay's primary packages wrapped !
I think today is going to be a baking day, not sure though. I'm going to see about spending some time in the train room. Want to see if I can get an AF water tower working correctly. I think the coil has a broken wire.
Speaking of trains, a friend of mine has a MTH PS1 4 truck shay, (catalog '97), the owners book says it will work on O-42, I have some doubt of that. He put it on the track it got 1/2 through a curve and stopped dead it it's tracks. Ended up breaking a drive shaft. I tried looking up more detail and not much luck. (20-3023-1), I was able to find 3 truck Shays in 2005. And that's real interesting! Catalog says it will do O-44. The reality is, (when you read the fine detail), that the O-44 is for 2-rail only, 3-rail requires O-72. I thought it was somewhat misleading. So going to try and find a drive shaft for one of the newer ones and see if it will work in the older unit.
Really looking forward to Christmas this year, we almost lost my FIL, but he is really doing good. The rest of the family are all enjoying good health, everyone's "want list" exceeds availability. But all the essential are covered. And that is what is important. (Like not having any storm damage, etc.)
In the event I don't get back here before, Hope the Chief gets that White Christmas, the Snow Canon doesn't explode in the midwest somewhere, and ALL your families have a great holiday.
Don
hello guys, i got my north pole passenger cars today and they are really nice. also the thunder valley dockside is a great looking little switcher. i highly recommend them and lionel should geet a lot of credit for making affordable good looking engines. merry christmas lionel, you hve made one for me. navyjack
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Hello all,
Busy week. planned to be of for two weeks but that didn't happen. Getting ready to head for home now. Be back the 3rd. Trains will definitely be run.
Been lurking this week. I'll wish all a MERRY CHRISTMAS now as I won't have a chance to get on till Sunday. May it be Blessed and safe for all of you.
OFF to buy a tree and get it put up.
Younz on the west coast watch out for mud slides
Chief, Hope you get your WHITE CHRISTMAS
Brutus, I'm praying your journey that started about this time last year has a happy ending soon.
Prayers for all in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good morning all, Yippeee! no rain for the first day in a week. The sun never looked so good. Got a dentist appointment today for cleaning. After that, 1 and 1/2 shopping days left. Humbug! Just plan on getting everything dried out for the next couple of days.
We have completed all our Christmas party obligations for the year so there is nothing left to do but run trains. Sounds good to me.
Have a good day y'all,
SPMan
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