Good morning all,
It is supposed to be rainy in SE Indiana. I had the regular fare on the dining car before sending it on to "Points East". TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good evening on the West Coast and good morning in the East. It has been raining off and on all day here It has been really heavy at times tonight. Forcast is for two inches overnight. Will need to pump excess out of pool in the morning. Hope it doesn't overflow tonight. Local hobby shop here in Burbank had their annual sale this weekend. Reportedly, there was a big collection they took in that was up for sale featuring a lot of MTH and other brands as well. Wish I could have gone. Went to church this morning and got a severe cramp in my leg during mass. Had to go outside to work it out like a charlie horse or something. The priest probably thought I was panning his homily and walking out on him. I have been watching a do it yourself project unfold on the other forum about adding ditch lights to the new WBB F3 Norfolk Southern Executive units. I have some of these units on order and might take a crack at this myself. You can buy wig wag lights from an outfit in Colorado and install them in the F units as ditch lights. They were intended for model police cars and come in all colors. Well, if the creek don't rise and the pumps keep going I'll see you tomorrow. Good night all,
SP Ray
SPMan
Joe - I'm still hanging in at the top amount of wins but boy what a day of upsets and close games! My lead is hanging by a thread!
Enjoying the Madness,
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Just turn on your beacon, Joe - We'll come back in time and get ya!
Well, today was more laundry, video games for a while, then did the grocery shopping. Wife and kids arrived around 8:45 (early) On Amtrak, so I picked them up at the station in Kirkwood. Kids are crabby, because they have to go right to bed and tomorrow is school again. But, it sounds like they had a good visit. Only two worries in that it appears my wife's CDIF is flaring up again and also the nephew who spent the night with them, sleeping down in the basement with my son, woke up sick and was burning up, so they took him to the ER and he has strep. Prayers that nobody in my house gets strep, especially Charlene.
TARDIS is ready, so let's get going guys
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good evening all,
We had a wonderful Sunday. We went to church and then spent the rest of the day at home. The wife and baby had naps, and the two older kids and I played outside. Well, they played and I worked on the layout. I finished some buildings and added them to the layout. I also wired lights into the two Lionel homes I modified. The Glue Dots either Buckeye or Doug recommended work very well as I used them to keep the gas station sign standing. I will use them on people later on.
AF Ray – You are doing awesome, good for you. Today’s games did not hurt me too badly. I believe most people were surprised by the VCU win; however, ND is getting spanked right by FSU which is not good for me. Three of my final four picks are still on track, and if ND comes back they are my fourth.
It’s about time for me to get some sleep. I’ll be looking for rides on the Tardis next week after the kids get back to school.
Good night,
Joe
Good Evening
36 and raining
I rested today, had a couple neighbors stop in for short visits, probably afraid I might die and granny will sell the house LOL. I'm doin OK. Banilla and chocolate chip cookies are ready for the thingy...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
It is partly cloudy in SE Indiana. Rested most of the day. Did pick up sticks in the yard and played some games with Lucas, his girlfriend and my wife before the two of them went back to school. I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast. TBIL and I think it is Pat's turn to drive. I hope everyone has a good day. Real racing starts this weekend in Australia and St. Petersburg.
Back from the Lake. Went east to Holmes County on Saturday and the Amish farmers were plowing the fields with their big draft horses. Spring is one of the best times to visit Holmes County, Ohio. You can just watch the earth spring back to life after a long winter. With the new round house being built between Sugar Creek and Baltic, I expect my favorite Amish restaurant will get very busy.
Back to work tomorrow so that I can pay the Chief's SS check again this month.
Everyone have a great week.
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
laz 57 Hi GUYZ, Ran trains tonite for 2hrs. One ninor mishap, a TTUX car lost its rear truck had me in a minor panic, had to put the Ol Mil down find the Legacy unit to stop engine. WOW excitment in the lAND O laz! Took car off of tracks will put lock tight on tomorrow. Can't have this stuff happening on a Friday nite. Stay frosty, laz57
Hi GUYZ,
Ran trains tonite for 2hrs. One ninor mishap, a TTUX car lost its rear truck had me in a minor panic, had to put the Ol Mil down find the Legacy unit to stop engine. WOW excitment in the lAND O laz! Took car off of tracks will put lock tight on tomorrow. Can't have this stuff happening on a Friday nite.
Stay frosty,
laz57
They will do that every now and then.
Back from the lake house. Real busy week for me this week. Then "off" for a week and planning to spend it at the lake house.
Record high yesterday but a lot cooler today. Back up to the 80's tomorrow and so on [because I'm home and not there].
Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
HI GUYZ,
Nice day here got to 54. Went to Cabelas got my dog MINNIE a e collar for the property lines. Made by Petsafe and what it is, is a wireless fence goes up to 90 feet. Hopefully enough to keep her in bounds. All the other neighbors here have the same so it will interact with one another and now she cane have play time.
Went to Gun Show yesterday saw a WWII halftrack with 50 and 30 cal MGs mounted on it was real cool. The guy that owns it uses it for re-enactments at Ft Indiantown Gap. They play ARMY there every year about Jan 30th pretty cool. Saw it one year lots of cool stuff. I didn't by anything at gun show just was checking things out. Had Wings and stombolis and oh yea beer afterwards with buddies.
Fairly quiet day here at the 'scope. Had a few fun computer issues though. Hopefully they won't reappear in the morning or I will have to wake my boss up.
Winds are starting to pick up and it is fairly overcast from the system coming in the from the west. Look like CA is getting hammered from north to south. Don, Ray, and Doug stay dry and off those mud slides.
Was reading about the reactor situation in Japan. That is a real mess. Two reactors had a hydrogen explosion and therefore probably partially melted fuel rods. Thoughts and prayers to those working to contain the situation. They are definitely in harm's way.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Just read where a six year boy got killed by a minuture train that derailed and 18 others where injured
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_park_derailment
It was one of those you ride in a park.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Good afternoon everyone. Church this morning, lunch with friends and because there was a special function today, no evening church...so will stay home. Caught up with some folks who helped on our latest movie project. We have a special showing of the final cut on Monday, with red carpet and all. I will start call at 0700 tomorrow, so have worked out a little trade for a few hours so I will be at the show.
Currently, we are watching a program on HistoryHD...on the Eighth Air Force in WWII. The conditions these guys had to endure were incredible. Andy Rooney was part of it as a reporter for Stars and Stripes on one of the bombers and you can imagine the story from the war over Europe. Right now, they are talking about the ball turret gunner trapped in the ball and the landing gear is shot....certain death.
Have to head to do some reading and research for some upcoming cases. Everyday is a school day, but it keeps the mind active. Hope that each of you has a blessed week ahead.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Roy - My buddy from work did that about 5 years ago along with about 3 other cars and a pace car. They even video taped it for him, everyone got a copy. Well, he bought it in to work one day and we all watched it. Something seemed wrong as his pal lapped him. We replayed the tape and timed his laps and calculated his speed. He did 60 to 70 mph! He said he was nervous!
Nice job, sounds like you had a great time!
Dougdagrump... How true you spoke !!!!!!!!
Chuck
Roy, That ride sounds great! All of us would have gone for that, me, son, SILs & grandsons. Probably at least one DIL and granddaughter as well.
Hudson John, If you decide to invest in the DCS system remember you can use that to run your TMCC locos as well. I rarely use my TMCC remote except for a few locos that don't like to run under DCS. Unless your layout is really large and has very complicated wiring you can add DCS rather easily.
Mornin' Y'all.
Blueberryhill RR Good Morning from Blueberryhill.... Wife is due home around noon. I have a few chores this morning. Then, I can relax the rest of the day. Y'all have a great Sunday. Chuck Translation: Gotta get rid of the burger wrappers, pizza box and beverage containers. I believe Brutus is in the same boat today.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
Wife is due home around noon. I have a few chores this morning. Then, I can relax the rest of the day. Y'all have a great Sunday.
Translation: Gotta get rid of the burger wrappers, pizza box and beverage containers. I believe Brutus is in the same boat today.
Weather guessers have some nasty weather coming in today, assuming they got it rite for a change.
Hudson John, If you are running PS2 engines you can get quite a bit of the functions with the addition of aTPC. You also mite check out the DCS Remote Commander, kinda like DCS Lite. It has some limitations but for my use it is great.
Refill time !
Later
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Morning all!
Had a fun day yesterday. Son and I went to the Good Guys Rod & Custom Spring event at Texas Motor Speedway. Over 1500 vehicles. A bit boring for my son as we thought we might see some modern car customs - but the entire meet was old stuff - fine for me - not so great for him. Also strange were no vendor booths for audio systems - which he was hoping to check out. The event was held in the TMS infield and pit garages.
What made the day was seeing what we thought was a demo of NASCAR cars runnning the track. Twelve cars in 2 tight formations of 6 cars each. Very cool. So we went over to where they were pitting and found out they were giving rides (for a fat fee). Well we signed up. My son and I were in 2 cars (#7 Jack Daniels car for him - he picked of course - and #14 Old Spice - Tony! - for me) next to each other in the third row of the first flight. Three laps at 160 mph, 1-2 car lengths apart and about 1 car width apart. It was like the in-car video from the real races without the bumping. We had to put on fire suits, helmets, etc., and tightly strapped into a bucket on the passenger side. The cars looked like older vintage Nationwide cars before the front splitter. Out on the track the cars changed position - went single file into a corner - side-by-side through a corner - passed each other, etc. Very cool! What was interesting is TMS is a 200 mph track - and watching the wall up the corners from in the car - one could imagine the force of a hit into the wall if one lost a tire - yeow! If you ever get a chance to do this I highly recommend it! I never thought they would do something like this with 12 cars at the same time. Any rides I had seen before was one car at a time.
Sunny and 80's here today. NASCAR Bristol and chores around the house.
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
Good morning all!
How's this for "I hate this when it happens" I won a track trip a month ago and paid what I called the going rate. Then yesterday I won something I needed and with it was a track trip that was "thrown in" with the deal. Well, you guessed it, it cost me less than what I paid for the track trip a month ago!
John - You're forgiven as I was off too!
Joe - After last nights games I'm in first , 1st, the lead, ahead of everyone else! Unfortunately there are more games to be played. That Pitt team kills me every year as I had the in the final 4 this year, when will I learn? But the rest of my bracket looks great as I have won 31 of the 40 games played.
Mike - That Butler vs. Pitt game had one of the wildest ending I've ever seen. That's what makes this tournament so great.
8 more games today!
Have a great day everyone!
Think good thoughts, do good deeds!
Morning all had good nights sleep and in fact slept in and was a lazy man today didn't get up till 10 lol. Time for breakfast. Not a lot on the menu to do today but will see. Well wife just came in and said she wants to put all the plants outside that where brought in for the winter. Well theres a good hour job as she can't lift most of them. well guess better go eat to build up my strength lol
I read the news today, oh boy...
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 39 (seems to be chilling off) in the Mid-Atlantic region. Laundry and maybe some driving with the fifepup today, then dinner with close friends. I am a lucky dog.
Steelton was a bit of a disappointment, sorry to say. Nice cross-section of "stuff", just nothing grabbed me. Only purchase was a 1:43 pink '50 Buick convertible, that someone had inserted 2 people seated inside. More and more, just looking for things that "fit" my layout. However, if you are collecting railroadiana related to the PRR, not a bad venue to check out. Made our way to HARRIS tower, then onto ENOLA/Rockville Bridge. My buddy Tom presented me with an early bday gift, the Home Depot building that was offered at the store.
Good Morning from the Jersey Shore,
Another Beautiful Day. OK Ray, it only hit 67 yesterday.
I got the John Deere lawn & garden tractor ready for the season yesterday. Changed the brake pads and it stops like it has power brakes. It has been a great machine for the past 21 years. I really should look for a new mower deck. I am patching the patches.
Ran my trains last night. I stretched the wheels on my 2055 and my MTH Aerotrain. It was times last night that I wish that I had the MTH system instead of TMCC. I miss a lot of the features of my MTH engines running in conventional mode.
I am going to the Home Show with my daughter and son in law today. My wife was going to go with us but they have gotten real busy at the ice cream shop and she has to work.
Everyone have a great Sunday.
Prayers and thoughts for all in need.
John
Good Morning Potter's
sun and 40s, rain tonight
My only plans for today is rest, Have a great Sunday..S.J.
It is a cloudy 42 degrees. Going up to 56 today with some sunshine.
Today is an easy day. Wife is due home around noon. I have a few chores this morning. Then, I can relax the rest of the day. Nascar race from Bristol.
Dining car is here with the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
We had thunderstorms this afternoon and they produced quite the hailstorm as well. The boys and I had the garage door open while doing some layout work when the storms started. The hail wasn't too big - last summer we had baseball size hail once. I finished some buildings before we went to dinner and then after dinner I fixed a wiring issue for two buildings and then wired two houses on the layout. It is coming along nicely and I am learning new tricks along the way.
The wife made chocolate chocolate-chip ice cream tonight which I will enjoy tomorrow while watching the tournament. I caught glimpses of a couple of the games today and just watched the end of the Wisconsin-Kansas State game.
Mike C. - Butler beating Pitt is not a big surprise to me. Pitt was knocked out of the Big East tournament early as well. They struggle with big time games. I believe a Duke-Butler final is unlikely as well; however, not because Duke won't be in it .
I am also saddened to hear of Jack's passing. I've never exchanged emaisl or talked to him on the phone, but I really feel like I knew him well because of what we have here.
Brent,
Did you call my cell earlier today? I got a call from a number that I didn't recognize, and I didn't pick up.
I bought some shelves and a small cabinet today so I can store some of my impulse buys and get the PW Lionel layout running again. I keep asking myself why I need nine 3656 stockyards, but I can't come up with an answer.
I also picked up an orange 3562-75 barrel car today. I was looking at my other 3562s last night, and I decided to get the orange variation to complete the set. I couldn't find a reasonable one online, but I remembered seeing one at Toy Town in Berlin, MD last summer so I gave Rich and Debbie a call. Suprisingly, it was still there and will be on it's way here Monday. I've dealt with Rich and Debbie several times in person and this time on the phone, and I can't say enough good about them. Great people with a store that I could spend my entire week of vacation in and not want to leave.
40s today but sun
The house is quiet now. Our little family of 14 souls celebrated granny's birthday. So I am full of pizza and cupcake and banilla. No loop-D-loops tonite unless the Tardis has a barf bag aboard. But the beacon is humming...S.J.
Well, a storm just rolled in after I told RT we didn't have any bad weather today Guess that's just the way it goes!
Went to Charter today, but the local shop was closed. Went to Best Buy and used $10 in reward dollars to help pay for a new cable modem. This one is the fastest one they have. Apparently when we upgraded speeds years ago they never told us that the old modem they were renting to us was limited below that speed? I noticed a big improvement on direction connection. Not as much on wireless, but of course that is limited by the router at 54mbps? So I was probably near the top speed on that anyway. Also picked up a floor protector for an office chair and some new el-cheapo headphones for my mp3 player.
Chewy and I are on day two of our Pizza crazy bachelor (but she's a girl?) weekend. Today it was black olives with tomatoes and green peppers. Not sure how much salt in those olives though, maybe have to get something different next time. Need to start tracking my BP I guess to see how well I am doing.
Watching Let Me In - which scared Chewy! Nice chat with RT
Tardis is ready and Pat or Mike can drive, I lost track of who's turn it is
Good afternoon all,
IIASBSDISEI with temps in the 50s. Spent Friday night and most of the day Saturday with my sister going thru stuff. It is interesting what you find. Found a painting of my mom and dad on their wedding day rolled up in foot locker. Took dad's vehicles to dealers to see what they might bring. Cleared out more areas of items.
They're BAAAAACCCCKKKK! Butler beats another "No. 1" team to go to Sweet 16. Chief and Duke, be afraid. Be very afraid. The way the pairings are set up, Duke and Butler would not meet again until the final game (if Duke makes it that far....)
I had bacon and pancakes for breakfast on the dining car. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
AF53, your thoughts earlier about the pot were perfect.
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