COFFEE POT #1 January 2011 for all to take a drink and chat. 5+ years and going. Plenty of coffee but also grits along with country ham, redeye gravy and sweet ice tea.

[krapug1]

 

Good Afternoon All:

 

Our pending snow storm is now predicted to drop 13 inches tonight, and then 11 inches more

through the day on Wednesday.

 

Translation, bonus day to work on the layout !

 

For all those in the storms path, stay safe and warm !

 

 

Ken

 

 

 

 

 

[fifedog]

Stayin' frosty here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Might skate by on this current wintry event.  We'll see come morning.  It has already been a long cold winter.  Speaking of...

RockIsland - We got a mess of sea turtles from your region at the Baltimore Aquarium.  Seems it got too cold too quick in New England.  They'll release them down here in May.  As far as the Pats, don't worry...unless a healthy Ravens team emerges victorious on Saturday.  Jets barely beat a way-too-crippled Colts team, so let Rex blab.

dwiemer --->

[RockIsland52]

Fife......the games this weekend should be interesting to say the least.  SJ may have to skip a nap or two.  And the grounds crew at Gillette will be very busy clearing snow after our storm passes.  We've got a ton of sea turtles that beached on Cape Cod last month and were taken to refuge at the Aquarium in Boston as well.  Maybe you've got some of our overflow.

Ken.......our revised forecast just in from the New England Cable News network.  For my neck of the woods just North of Boston (at the entrance to Cape Ann), the forecast has just been changed from Winter storm warning to blizzard .  Forecasted snow levels have been revised:  was 10" to 14";  now 14" to 20".

Chief.......knock it off with the snow already!!!!!!!  

Later, gang.  While I have enough gas, I think I will go out and get some more gas, milk, and beer!!!!!!!! 

Jack.

[ChiefEagles]

krapug1

 

Good Afternoon All: 

Our pending snow storm is now predicted to drop 13 inches tonight, and then 11 inches more

through the day on Wednesday. 

Translation, bonus day to work on the layout ! 

For all those in the storms path, stay safe and warm ! 

Ken 

RockIsland52

Chief.......knock it off with the snow already!!!!!!!  

Later, gang.  While I have enough gas, I think I will go out and get some more gas, milk, and beer!!!!!!!! 

Jack.

I love it when it snows deep on those Yankees.   Gets even for them sending us their "mess".  

[sir james I]

Good Evening

26 and snowing

We are lucky I guess as 3/5 is what they are saying. No  toy trains ran today but I kept busy goofing off. Got OGR # 248 this morning, put it on the bottom of my pile. Banilla is ready, Brutus you may need the fog lites tonite...S.J.

Or maybe that red nosed whats his name.

[anjdevil2]

Good Evening!

First day of work was ..... not much.  Brought most of my tools and because the impeding disaster,  snow storm, I was told to come back on Thursday.  Soooooo, I brought my tool boxes with the Daddy Wagon and chilled the rest of the day.  And will chill tomorrow as well.  Wish I had a layout up.....

Jack, as far as the new/old wheels, runs great, hit 332,000 miles and  piled most of the drawers from my tool boxes into the neon and no problem.  Gas milage is good, like 30MPG. 

Just started light snow/rain mix....let the fun begin!

 

[laz 57]

HI GUYZ,

  SNO HI O is falling since 230 this afternoon.  Looks like NO SCHOOL for me or maybe a 2 hr delay?

FIFE game #3 for all the marbles this year.  Good Luck!  Boy wouldn't a RAVENS vs BEARS super bowl sound good?

KEN, I'm with you on working on the layout with all this snow.  But gotta do that great job of shoveling first, don't forget to stretch first.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[LawsonFarmsRR]

fifedog

Stayin' frosty here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Might skate by on this current wintry event.  We'll see come morning.  It has already been a long cold winter. 

Fife - I am trying to rework the directional code on the snohio deflector shield here to extend beyond Baltimore, at least to the NE Subs of the city. Sounds like it is working .Forecast is for 1" here. However, that does mean more white stuff for Jack, Ken and points North.

Next project is to direct snohio to OK for Joe. He sounds disappointed the stuff missed him!

Dennis!!

Pat

[rtraincollector]

laz 57

HI GUYZ,

  SNO HI O is falling since 230 this afternoon.  Looks like NO SCHOOL for me or maybe a 2 hr delay?

FIFE game #3 for all the marbles this year.  Good Luck!  Boy wouldn't a RAVENS vs BEARS super bowl sound good?

KEN, I'm with you on working on the layout with all this snow.  But gotta do that great job of shoveling first, don't forget to stretch first.

Stay frosty,

laz57

Steelers / Bears would sound better to me laz

[fifedog]

Just shovelled one inch off cars and driveway, and in that time one inch fell.  Weather radar looks like we might be done by 0100.  Hope Lawson's deflector works.

Actually want to see RAVENS-FALCONS.  Wouldnt mind Packers-Steelers. Mr Matthews, meet Ben...

Have a nice day.

[dwiemer]

Good evening everyone.  Thanks so much for the wishes.  It was a good day in that I went in and did a big case, came home and had lunch with bride.  Picked kids up and wife took daughter to ballet, son and I went to Sears.  They had a Pennsy Flyer set for $199 and I have been waiting for it to go on clearance.  Well, trains were nowhere to be found, but I did come across a 10" "jobber" Craftsman table saw for $139 ($60 off regular price), so I bought it.  Then, they had a full size table saw that sells for $800.00 in the clearance section.  It has a broken blade guide (can be bought for $50 for the guide).  Anyway, they didn't have the current price on it, but the guy told me the last price was $259.00.  Plan is to go back tomorrow and see if the manager is there.  If so, I should be able to pick it up for just over $200.  Can't beat the price, so I may return the smaller one.

As some of you know, I damaged my eye on Saturday.  Took a Christmas tree branch to it and according to my opthamologist, "took a chunk out of your cornea".  Fortunately, eyes repair themselves pretty quickly (most times).  Mine is getting there quickly, but the drops still cause some blurred vision.  I was lucky/blessed that more damage was not done.  As it is, I had to stay home yesterday because I couldn't see.  We had a ice storm Sunday night, which left the local schools closed, so I had the kids to keep me company.

Gotta run to get some sleep.  Again, thanks for the kind words and it is a good to come to such a friendly place.

God Bless,
Dennis

[Anonymous]

Dennis,

                

Brutus,

                If you want to play Hot Pursuit online, just let me know. 

Ray,

          I haven't had a chance to get the video done yet due to work, but I'll get the SIT 312 off the shelf tomorrow and get it done.

 

[dougdagrump]

Dennis, enjoy some .

Any word on a westward excursion?

Beautiful day with blue skies and 70*, a few more days like this and the yard should dry up enuff to do some needed clean-up. Still getting some run-off from the hills above us though.

Watch out for them nasty ol'snowsnakes guys, ya never know when one will just reach out and grab your tires causing a spin-out.  

[AF53]

Well its 10:46 and no snow yet, 39 and just rain at exit 77 (GSP)

Dennis - Happy Birthday!

Jim- Thanks, no rush!

As far as the games are concerned....since my jints are out of it, and have been, I just root for anyone against the Eagles and Rex Ryan (noone deserves to be that brash). So since I have no dog in the fight I really don't care right now but I'm sure once it gets down to a few teams I be pulling for someone.

Ray

 

[MichRR714]

Happy Birthday Dennis

[Brutus]

Dennis - Happy Birthday and prayers for your eye!  Take a few days off and just enjoy some family time!  I had a Craftsman Contractor Tablesaw and it was good for some projects I built.  Be sure to weight it down if you are going to push some plywood through it, so the saw doesn't slide away from you.  You can use some bags of sand or something like that.

JimGP - you got it, buddy!  I saw you tonight when I first got on, but then you were gone.  I just was installing it and getting it all set up, but I did race my son for a while and had some fun.  I've done a total of 4 races now, so you will kick my rear end I'm sure

Jack, she's doing pretty well.  PT is really helping already.  Mom wants to take Dad out of the rehab center, but then medicare won't pay for the IV meds at home or something?  I'm not really up on that.  Jeff tried to work yesterday, but was barely able to walk.  I told him to take off for a few weeks and heal up, but he thinks he is superman or something.  I  hope he doesn't screw up his surgery.   I had a doc appt yesterday and did get my BP down a little bit.  Need to lose weight and keep working on sodium etc, but so far I'm okay.

Tardis time!

[Demay]

Good evening all,

We had a nice, quiet evening at home.  My wife made potato soup and spinach salad for dinner.  After dinner I had to go check on my troop's house.  He is out of town and turned off his heat.  I wanted to make sure the pipes were not frozen since it only hit about 18 today and with the wind chill it was probably closer to 10.  The temp in his house was 34 and the pipes were okay.  I turned on his heat and ran his water as well. 

Enid, OK, has been a little crazy the past two days: yesterday there was an attempted bank robbery and tonight there was a bomb threat at the Wal-Mart.  The bomb threat is probably a hoax, but I don't think the bomb dogs have finished their sweep yet.

As for the playoffs, I'm kind of with Ray.  My team, the Dolphins, was not very good this year.  Therefore I tend to root for my home state (PA) teams.  I also agree about cheering for any team playing the J-E-T-S due to Ryan's loud mouth. 

Pat – Send as much as you can, I'm more than ready to take it off of everyone's hands.

Dennis – I’m glad your eye is okay and healing. 

Good night,

Joe

[submmbob]

Last shift for the week. A fairly quiet night and the system is working well. Looking forward to going home and running the new  NW-2. Also want to paint the track so I can give the train to my friend's son. Hope to get some work done on the van engine as well. Have a few doctor's appointments to keep me busy.

RIJack - the Marx clockwork does run really fast. Just the engine alone won't stay on the track. I was thinking about banking the turns, but w/ the three cars it seems to do ok. Malcolm is used to accidents from watching Thomas anyway, so the occasional derailment will be ok.

I was wondering if I could find a DCC decoder small enough to go in the tender of the N-scale 0-6-0. Train Control Systems sells one that is pretty small for N and Z locomotives. I'll need to get a magnifier to install it though.

Bob

 

Happy Birthday Dennis!!

[dougdagrump]

Here's an oldie but a goodie. One never loses their love of planes!

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=19448*

[8ntruck]

First post this year.  Busy lately.

Made a trip to the Orlando to help our youngest son move back here - was also doing some advance spotting for the snow cannon.  Managed to miss the storms while we were traveling.

Also took the opportunity to stop at the Don Garlets drag racing museum.  Interesting collection of stuff there. 

My wife has scheduled knee replacement for early March.

Got about 6" of snow yesterday.  The bottom is dropping out of the temperature tonight to keep things interesting.  Speaking of interesting, my Cobalt SS is that in the snow.  Front wheel drive with a posi-track differential gets really interesting - directionally challanging at times.  Got to be really easy on the throttle to keep it out of boost.

All for now.

[dbaker48]

Morning All

Dennis, Glad to hear the eye injury isn't permanent and healing quickly.  You need to come up with a better way of getting a day off, though!  (Glad you were not in a "blinding" snow storm.)

Here I was complaining about the weather here.  Hope you guys all get through the storm OK.  (Doug, Never hear of a snow snake before, that's a new one.)  Not to be discouraging, or bragging, just feeling elated... The weather forecast here for Fri., Sat., Sun. is mid 70's to low 80's !  Someone must have heard my complaints.  I know its tough, but someone has to put up with it.  So this weekend while I am trying to keep the beer cool on the patio, I will be thinking of you guys.  On the positive side, it just means warmer weather will be headed your way as soon as we're done with it.

Got through the dental appointment today, he thinks I need an implant.  To the tune of $4600, this will not go down that easy.  How do you say, "Shop the dentist, and 2nd opinions?"  What was really noticeable was all the NEW implant credentials and certificates recently hung up in the exam room.  Hmmmm

Had a presentation tonight, it was a PC user group in LA.  Was really impressed with the detail and depth of questions that were asked.  It was actually challenging for awhile, which made the presentation more enjoyable.  I was even listening to what I was talking about and learned a little.

Going to be working with a couple of the new TIU units from MTH in the next few days, looking forward to that.  Want to see what improvements and enhancements have been made.

Hope everyone has a great day, going to call it a day.  (And make sure I get this posted while I'm awake.)

EDIT

Doug, The low flying aircraft video is great!  When I was in USAF, maintained the Auto Pilot systems on fighters.  When we were in tech school, studied the B-52 system.  It had the capability of TFR (Terrain Following Radar), which could be set as low as 50'.  And had a moderate or abrupt sensitivity adjustment, the feature was de-activated because of high risk of collision potential.  Some of the features that were available on the fighters were REALLY staggering!  (Maybe that is why I enjoy using the DCS system so much.)

[dwiemer]

Good morning guys.  Had a pretty good night's sleep.  Up early, though I don't need to be.  Wife is up doing her hair and soon the kids will be up.  Just taking a quiet moment before doing my morning reading.  I usually do that first thing, but I have to wait till the eye drop "blur" wears off so I can see well enough...Perhaps I should get a bible in large print!

8N, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, I saw him race years ago.  Have passed by the museum a few times, but never stopped.  At one point, didn't he have a "Jet Powered"  Kenworth truck?  I saw that go down the strip too, but not sure if it was his or not.

Cold and windy out right now.  Hear the  wind chimes ringing for some time now.  Will dress the kids well before heading out to School.  Schools are open here, but I understand Atlanta area is still out.

Brutus, yeah, those rules are rather silly.  Folks are willing to do some effort to save both Medicare and themselves money and trouble, but the powers that be have placed rules in there that work against any such thought.  We have that too with hearts.  In many cases, the rules are there to prevent fraud, but actually do little to fend that off.

Hope each of you has a blessed day.
Dennis

[Buckeye Riveter]

Happy Birthday Dennis!   I hope you enjoyed that little gift of SnowOhio that we sent you.

Chuck....Your aim with the snow cannon has really improved this year.  Roseyville is getting pounded and his Honor is peeved.

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  20 here and about 5 inches on the ground.  Just got r down with shoveling the driveways.  Did my run and lifted a little in the basement.  LOVE these 2hr delays.  No trains but maybe after school?

Stay frosty,

laz57

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is 24 degrees. Going up to 32 today with more snow.

Today is a busy day. Chores, errands to run. I have a bunch of projects to do. Maybe a nap, later.

Snow cannon is zeroed in on the Sawth. Lots more snow is coming for them. They need to buy more snow plows from the North.

Dining car is here with the usual breakfast.

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

Chuck

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Mornin' English.  Just 2" of SNOHIZO here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  If there is such a thing as "good" snow, we got it.  2 hour delay, looks pretty, streets are almost clear, and I get the house all to myself after 11.

dwiemer - How in the wide-wide-world-of-sports did you get a Christmas tree branch in your eye...?   Will you be phobic next December...?

Demay - 1) New Orleans. 2) Washington, DC. 3) Baltimore. 4) Enid, OK.   I'd say it's time to move...

dbaker - Soooooo, what size implants are you going with...? 

Probe - Whenever you are ready to play Hot Pursuit off-line, just give me a call...

[cheapclassics]

Good morining all,

It is still Snohioing in SE Indiana, but I did not care as I was not driving today.  If intestines and rest of anatomy will let me, I will be playing soccer tonight.  The "saucy wench" says thank you for all the thoughts and prayers.  She is a little sore where they sliced and diced, but she is doing ok otherwise.  "Glee" was a repeat, but "V" was new.  Did some errands last night, but otherwise took it easy.  I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast.  TBIL after soccer.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[krapug1]

 

Here is the storm we woke up to.

Shoveling (after warming up), some work, and trains, are the order of the day !

 

Ken

 

[laz 57]

KEN,

  Sorta kinda looks like my backyarden.  Lift with your legs.

laz57

[cnw1995]

 Aloha all. A mere 7 inches overnight. Means nothing here. Everything normal. Nice class last night and found a free 'old time radio' app to pass the time on the late night train ride home (esp. since Messenger doesn't seem to work lately). Glad your eye is healing, Dennis. Sounds like a nice b-day. Today should be a nice day at work too. Those implants sound impressive, Don. Get a second opinion.