COFFEE POT #2 February 2011 for all to take a drink and chat. 5+ years and going. Some chocolates in a heart shaped box. Plenty of coffee but also grits and sweet ice tea.

[submmbob]

Greetings from a winter wonderland in SE Arizona. Got a storm going thru and we are buttoned up for the weather. Not a lot of snow, but the wind is still blowing pretty good out there. Supposed to clear off tomorrow.

Finally got the Zenith radio for the garage working yesterday. Need to put an antenna on it today and see if I can get anything. The telescope makes a wonderful Faraday cage though.

Watched Dr. Strangelove last night. Always entertaining.

Chief - congrats on selling your mom's house. Hopefully you can get to the lake now.

Mike - So sorry to hear about your dad. Thoughts and prayers for you and the family. We're here if you need us.

Probably won't be too exciting of a day just waiting for this storm to clear. Kind of hard to train the new guy when we are not operating, but that's the way it goes.

Enjoy your Sunday

Bob

 

[laz 57]

HI GUYZ,

  27 and a big difference from a few days ago.  Ran trains last nite for 1.5 hrs, NO PILE UPs.  Worked a little on roadway up to Snob Hill, still tweeking some decisions?  Maybe a little work this afternoon?  Taking dog for walk right after I get done posting here.  The forum wasn't accessable last nite.  Don't know what happened?

BUCKEYE, glad the COPs didn't show up like they did last year? WOO!

Stay frosty,

laz57

[laz 57]

MIKE C.,

    Prayers for you and your family, Sorry for your loss.  I'll be blowing the whistle on the NS F3s this afternoon, one long lap around the layout.

laz57

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold and frosty 28 degrees. Going up to 46 today with cloudy skies.

Today is an easy day. I have the usual chores to do and then I will be watching the Daytona 500 on TV. Glad the racing season is back.

Mike C.,.....My condolances to you and your family for the loss of your Dad. Train whistle will blow for him today.

Dining car is here with an omlet for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Sunday.

Chuck

[Buckeye Riveter]

I want to thank everyone for the great birthday wishes.   We had a little party at Roger's Corners last night.   The police did not show up this time.

Mike C.  --  My Condolances to you and your family.  The whistle on the Hudson 5412 will be sounding.

[AF53]

Mike C. - prayers for you and your family. May you and your family find peace during this sorrowfull time.

Ray

[ChiefEagles]

Good night all.  Someone named Buckeye tried to say this site was not working.   Oh well.  Off to bed.  Busy day.  Mom's house is no longer mine.   Only one more trip later to clean out the barns.  No rush.  Now to  get all this "stuff" put away.

OH.  Buckeye.  

As usual, your special birthday engine present is being shipped.

Sleep tight.

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

IIABSDISEI but a bit cooler with temps in the 40s.  Happy birthday, Buckeye!  I had bacon and biscuits on the dining car for breakfast.   

To all,

I have one request the next time you run your trains.  Would you please blow the whistle once long and loud for my dad?  He passed away this afternoon a little past 1 PM.  My wife, my sister, her husband, the one daughter who is a social worker, her husband and myself were with him.  He was in no pain when he left this world, and he is at peace and with my mom.   Thank you all for your prayers and support during this time.  I love you all and consider you some of the best friends in the world.  The visitation will be Tuesday and the funeral Wednesday.   The obit (hopefully) will be in the Greensburg paper Monday.  I am not sure when or how often I will be posting the next few days. 

The beacon will not be lit the next few days.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Buckeye Riveter]

laz 57

[bday][bd[bd[bd[bd[bdBUCKEYE!!!!

Man thats alot of candles.

Hope you get something with flanged wheels?

Enjoy your day,

laz57

Thank you Laz, but my computer just caught fire from all the candles. 

[laz 57]

[bday][bd[bd[bd[bd[bdBUCKEYE!!!!

Man thats alot of candles.

Hope you get something with flanged wheels?

Enjoy your day,

laz57

[LawsonFarmsRR]

Buckeye Riveter

 

Blueberryhill RR:

 

Happy Birthday Buckeye,,,,

Chuck

 

 

I knew my good buddy Chuck would get it right!!!!

You ether changed your birth date or a Facebook update is in order. When ever your birthday is we wish you well.

Pat

[traindood]

Hello fellas and gals:    really and i mean REALLY windy up here on Sparta mtn. had the chain saw ready just in case. glad i put those hurricane ties in years ago when we built the house. otherwise we'd be like Dorothy Gale in that OZ flick. come to think of it; would'nt be so bad to get away for awhile; just have to remember the slippers so i could get back.        you'll have a great day.  

[Sturgeon-Phish]

HappyBirthday Buckeye!

   And many many more!

Jim

[sir james I]

Happy Birthday Buckeye

Bright sun and 28

Doug if the hot wife is having a shower, wouldn't she get herself clean?

Grandson(9yrs) spent the night we watched Ghost Busters, sat on the floor and played dominoes and I taught him how to shoot marbles. Fun for us both. Oh and popcorn.

???we had about 30 hours of strong winds, Why is it plastic bags and paper can blow into the yard but never blow out???

S.J.

[cnw1995]

Aloha. Looks like a purtiful day in the 40s but sunny! Chuck beat me to it Happy Real Birthday, Buckeye! Off to church for a meeting, then helping the bride clean for the shower she's giving her friend tomorrow. I was thinking what to do with the boys during that time - and it suddenly occurred to me - we'll go to Volo! (to see their Auto Museum)

[Buckeye Riveter]

Blueberryhill RR

Happy Birthday Buckeye,,,,

Chuck

I knew my good buddy Chuck would get it right!!!!

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a sunny 45 degrees. Going up to 60 today with sunshine.

Today is an easy day. I plan on doing some reading after the usual chores. Maybe run trains later. Then, a short nap before supper.

Happy Birthday Buckeye,,,,

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Saturday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  Big winds here today got some with 50mphs WOW!  Batten down the hatches.  Ran trains for 2 hrs last nite all good NO PILE UPs.  Watched Gold Fever but fell asleep at 1030. 

ANJDEVIL, should a told me you had those dancin girls there, I would a made a road trip.

DOUG DA GRUMP, hope your feeling better, good luck with the CRUD.

Gonna work on SNOB HILL today downstairs on the layout.  Hope to post some pics?

Stay frosty,

laz57

[anjdevil2]

Good Saturday Morning...

Just a splash before I go, I have a bunch of errands to do today

VERY windy right now, up to 45, wind has been howling most of the night20-30 with gusting up to 45-50.  Should make for an interesting day, driving wise.

neon hit 30 MPG, so whatever I've been doing has made it better cuz it was 22-24 MPG.

Full Moon last night and......nothing.  WOW!! that's a first for sure.

[angle] for us all...

Mom & Dad come home tonight so I have to move the Vegas style Dancers out the door and tidy up the place a bit...

The feral cats have been fed, so I'm out the door!!

See ya later!

[Demay]

Good evening all,

It hit around 68 today and it was sunny.  Yesterday's paper ran an article how in one week's time the temperature in Enid changed 103 degrees from a record low of -23 to a record high for Feb of 80 - that's pretty amazing.  It was a busy day at work; our network was fixed and we frantically attempted to catch up on the paperwork, but at around 1800 the network went down again.  That's when I called it a day.  I grilled rib eye steaks and asparagus on the grill and the wife fried some potatoes - it was a fantastic meal.  I will be using some leftover steak and potatoes to make quite the omelet tomorrow morning.

I started cleaning our carpets tonight using a Bissell carpet cleaning vacuum.  It will be a lengthy process since I have to add cleaner and change the water about every 10 minutes.  Is that typical?

We should have a nice day tomorrow weather-wise.  We will be driving to Stillwater, OK (about an hour away), so our 7y/o son and I can attend a model train show.  This will be the first time for me to attend this show.  We will also have dinner while in Stillwater before we come home.

Good night,

Joe

[dbaker48]

dougdagrump

Been down with the crud since monday morning, can't remember the last time I slept so much. Hope your feeling better SOON.

Don, One of these days, if schedules can be worked out, you & train-doc and Ray need to make a road trip down this way.

Doug,  That sounds fine.  Now, the challenge....

If you were to run that same trip backwards, (be on the East side of I-5 first, then return on the West side of I-5, opposite of what we would do.)  There would be 3 layouts to view.  Train-Doc's, Ray's, and mine.  Now that's 3 for 1.  AND, you have never seen any one of them, now I know Ray and I have both seen the one in the museum, and I am 99% sure so has the Train Doc.  So see, the scheduling would be easier, and you wouldn't have 3 old guys stuck in a car for 4 hours each, representing 12 hours of jabber, compared to only 4 hours for one fella.  Now doesn't that make sense?  So hurry up and get better, and hit the road Dude!

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Evening all,

Man this week went by fast!  Going to be a busy weekend too.  Got a few projects.  Repaired the bathroom sink drain tonight.

Goodnight and may God bless

Jim

[SPMan]

dougdagrump

Hey All !

No museum today.

Been down with the crud since monday morning, can't remember the last time I slept so much. Although with the rain that has been forecast for us this week I had to go up on the roof to make sure the gutters were clear. Was a tad wobbly on the feet so I had the other half act as a spotter just in case.

Don, One of these days, if schedules can be worked out, you & train-doc and Ray need to make a road trip down this way.

for all our friends and family in need.

Need to go grab some meds.

Doug, that sounds like a good idea if we can get our schedules together sometime.  I made the trip once with some other train buddies.  We came down on Amtrak and got a cab over to the layout.  Probably be cheaper to ride the bus or trolley if we knew our way around.

I'm having DCS troubles today.  Got some kind of grimlin in an E6 proto 2 diesel.  It seems to have lost it's I.D, #.  It stopped running and I tried doing some resets to no avail.  I'm recharging the battery over

night now and hope that will help.  Keep getting no engine on track messages and no engine found.  Battery might be low because I don't run this one enough to keep it charged.  I have a Metrolink F59PH that is doing the same thing.  Put new batteries in hand held controller as well.

Getting ready for more rain now.

Later,

Ray

[sir james I]

Good Evening

43 and windy.

Ole james has grandson # 5 here for the night, just out of the blue he asked to stay. He's eaten popcorn and watchin Ghost Busters. Banilla is ready, we might as well take him with us he can sleep when we get back...Grannys flower bulbs have popped up under the snow and got bright sun today..S.J.

[dougdagrump]

Hey All !

No museum today.

Been down with the crud since monday morning, can't remember the last time I slept so much. Although with the rain that has been forecast for us this week I had to go up on the roof to make sure the gutters were clear. Was a tad wobbly on the feet so I had the other half act as a spotter just in case.

Don, One of these days, if schedules can be worked out, you & train-doc and Ray need to make a road trip down this way.

for all our friends and family in need.

Need to go grab some meds.

[rtraincollector]

wrmcclellan

Thanks Traindood - guess my son is already half way there - don't ask him to change a tire either!'

This news just in:

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that
their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a
California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a
Story in the LA Times read: " California archaeologists, finding  200 year
old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced
high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New
Yorkers"

One week later. A local newspaper in North Carolina reported the following:
After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Rolesville, NC, Mayor
Frank Eagles, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely
nothing.

Mayor Eagles has therefore concluded that "300 years ago, North Carolina had already
gone wireless."

I believe it

[traindood]

 Hey Roy:   This is another  fine example of rebel ingenuity!       Really, who would  think of watching automobiles     going around in circles and have it become the second most watched eh, sport in the U.S.?  Of course, if you don't care to get dizzy, there is also the next  almost  most popular sport, it's called noodling and has nothing to do with soup.     What unusual and interesting sports these rebs have!  I am glad we live in a country where our diversity gives a change of cultures. How boring we would be if were all the same.   later.

[wrmcclellan]

Thanks Traindood - guess my son is already half way there - don't ask him to change a tire either!'

This news just in:

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that
their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a
California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a
Story in the LA Times read: " California archaeologists, finding  200 year
old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced
high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New
Yorkers"

One week later. A local newspaper in North Carolina reported the following:
After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Rolesville, NC, Mayor
Frank Eagles, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely
nothing.

Mayor Eagles has therefore concluded that "300 years ago, North Carolina had already
gone wireless."

[traindood]

Hey Roy:   Read your  post on college tour.  No amount of energy should be spared in using the time for your kids to feel comfortable at their chosen school. Save you a lot of grief later on.  Back in the day, wifey and i went all over the place to place kids in right schools. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy. However, the results were unmeasureable. Daughter  became an executive secretary; two boys have FOUR, yea FOUR degrees each!!  I can assure you they didn't get the brains from me.      By the way, don't ask them to change a tire!    

[submmbob]

Back at work for another week. Going to be a slow one as one receiver is down for compressor issues and the weather isn't good enough to use the other. Looks like we will be enjoying some of that weather coming in from CA this weekend.

Ray - the cheapest way to go on your CV boots may to put in rebuilt axles. It saves the shop at lot of time in repacking the old joints.

Chief - more contractor projects? What else are you having done?

Laz - nice job on the layout. And you have an impressive collection there as well.

Hope everyone has a good weekend

Bob