sir james I Another sucky weather day, better than winter but not spring either. It's 43 right now, should be 70s.S.J.
Another sucky weather day, better than winter but not spring either. It's 43 right now, should be 70s.S.J.
Usual Yankee SUCKY weather.
Home early from the meeting.
Now for TV and some popcorn and gingerale.
Dag nap it!!! Someone switched the grits for a box car.
Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Another sucky weather day, better than winter but not spring either. It's 43 right now, should be 70s. Regular gas is $3.95 here, I've been using E85 in the P/U but even that is $3.29 with less MPG. Banilla is ready for Brutus to follow the beacon...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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RockIsland52 Life is good!!!!!!! It is a miserably damp and cold 48 degrees outside. We are not expected to get into the 60s for a few days. The furnace is running and eating fuel oil at $3.89 per gallon, in May no less! It rained all night with thunderstorms, woke me up, couldn't get back to sleep. I am dead tired. The dog wouldn't go out in the rain earlier this afternoon and pooped on the rug. It is raining cats and dogs right now with rain forecast until at least Saturday, so I am going to get way behind on the lawn and the wife's "honey do" continued yard cleanup. And the Red Sox swept the Yankees. As I said, life is good!!!!!!!!! Jack
Life is good!!!!!!! It is a miserably damp and cold 48 degrees outside. We are not expected to get into the 60s for a few days. The furnace is running and eating fuel oil at $3.89 per gallon, in May no less! It rained all night with thunderstorms, woke me up, couldn't get back to sleep. I am dead tired. The dog wouldn't go out in the rain earlier this afternoon and pooped on the rug. It is raining cats and dogs right now with rain forecast until at least Saturday, so I am going to get way behind on the lawn and the wife's "honey do" continued yard cleanup. And the Red Sox swept the Yankees. As I said, life is good!!!!!!!!!
Jack
Life is good part 2
the cat has diarea and is pooping all thru the laundry room ( at least its trying to get to its box) Got shrub cut back ( did you get yours trimmed jack ( oh guess not its raining) Turned A/C off as its in the high 60's here today, Went to Gas station ( $3.69 a gallon but remmeber because of buying some items at local Grocery store I earned a discount so put card in wow now gas is only $3.04 a gallon 25 gallons later as truck was empty still $76.00 to fill but would of been $92.00 so I'm happy. got $.65 a gallon savings Life is good
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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I just received a Lionel CHEERIOS box car from you guys for my birthday.
I was really surprised. Thank you, to all of you, for it. You are a great bunch of friends.
I thought it was a box of grits from Chief. I almost got scared. LOL
I will post pictures in the next couple of days.
I told my wife that , now I need to build a layout in the kitchen, so I can watch my Cheerios car go by, as I am eating breakfast. She replied " Take your bowl of Cheerios and eat it in the train room."
Oh well........
Thanks again Guys,
Chuck
Got phone call ( automated) Friday evening telling me I have an appointment Tuesday ( tomorrow) at 9 am so I called and canceled then the appointment called me and said there mistake its June 17th not may 17th Which ii thought it was. not much going on here went to doctor today because I want a new pair of sneakers instead of the shoes they want me to where (prosthetics) they gave me a pair of sneakers about a year ago I where them all the time its all I wear. well they want me to get fitted for another pair I have and I have been thru this before it doesn't work with my feet It starts giving me cramps and all kinds of stuff ( My feet are weird lol) anyway doctor shook his head and said this is senseless so sent them a note we will see lol
Well time to go make some banana bread
well came home and started cutting shrub back again and found another wasp for the wife to take care of ( I'm allergic to them) but at least I got it all cut back to the main trunk so once its gone I can start digging them out again. Well talk to you all later not much else planned for today
Good morning all, Next to last space shuttle got off OK this morning. Hate to see this program ending with no replacement ready yet. Have to depend on the Russians for transportation to and from the space station. What ya hoo figured this move out!
Rain showers predicted here tomorrow which is pretty late in the season for us. It's cool here today.
Doctor appointment at 3:00PM today but no other outside business.
My layout is temporarily shut down until I get on my feet again.
Have a good week all,
Ray
SPMan
Lunch Time,
Rain on and off. Temp dropped from 62 to 54.
Doug, nice Coal Loader.
Trindood: We have to remind AF53, Ray, that the house that Ruth built is not there anymore and the curse is gone.
John F, Our location is going to 4 -10hr days with Fridays off, starting next month for the summer. I figured time for Lancaster and the museum. At the staff meeting I was told that I am working 4 - 10hr days plus 10 hours on Friday until we get caught up. I guess I might as well pay for the Chief''s SS.
Everyone enjoy the day.
John
Morning everyone,
Nice coal loader Doug. I have one just like it on my layout. They work great. Sounds like you had a nice birthday celebration.
Yesterday we visited the Lancaster Kennel Club dog show. Nice show and since it was indoors, even better, because it rained like the Heavens had opened up. A dalmatian won the best of show award.
Aloha. Sunny and only 46 for the new mayor's inaugural a few blocks away. At least it's not raining. Let's see if this effort to post a few photos works. I road this C&NW GP at the IL Railway Museum on Sat.
and also this 94 year old CA&E interurban. It can really fly. Note the enthusiasm...And here is my birthday gift. Have to find some coal...
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
More rain overnight, not gonna get warm again till Thursday. No big news this morning, just putting things back where they were after Saturdays train meet..S.J.
Sunny and warm. Meetings from 10 AM until 9:30 tonight. Have a great week.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a wet 48 degrees. Rained last night. Going up to 68 today with more rain all week.
Today is a busy day. I have some chores to do around the house and a project to work on. I'll be busy until afternoon nap time. No train time today.
Dining car is here with the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Hi GUYZ,
Drizzle here today and rain entire week. Didn't run trains yesterday, was off and on showers so got some things done around the house.
Stay frosty,
laz57
Good Morning,
Foggy, drizzle and just a dreary morning in Jersey. Rain is forecasted the next few days.
I have been very busy and not much on the train front. AF53, my son and I did check out a transformer and trolley that he bought and we did put some run time on his Pre War AF S gauge w/ O gauge trucks.
Time to get the Safety Huddle together.
Birthday Wishes for the folks that I missed.
Prayers and Thoughts for all in need and on the mend.
Have a Great Day.
Good morning all,
Not sure what the weather will be in SE Indiana. Busy week both at work and home this week with no rest scheduled at all. Belated birthday wishes to Doug M. Regular fare on dining car. Good season ending to Desperate Housewives. TBIL late tonight. I left the keys under the seat again. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good night all.
Great news Ray. Good recovery ahead.
Rich, hang in there. Been there and done that. Worked out to my good by being nice and patient.
Doug M, can't remember if I actually said . If not , you know I ment too.
Joe, why so many diesels. Its CSX. They run junky worn out diesels. Reason I say that is: last week when I went to the lake house, about 10 AM I was driving along US 1 N and the CSX tracks run along with the highway. Up ahead I saw what I thought was a woods fire. Got near it and saw on old CSX engine and three cars headed north. Engine was smoking so bad it looked like a woods fire.
All you workers [especailly Buckeye] get up early and get a good start so my SS will keep coming.
Chuck, I'm telling you. A box of grits is scheduled to be delivered by "Brown" tomorrow.
Sleep tight.
Cloudy, drizzles and 50's today.
Happy birthday to those that recently had them.
SPman - doing the rehab is key for my wife's recovery from her knee replacement. It probably is for your recent knee repair too. Good luck.
Made a quick trip to Detroit the end of last week. Went t o a reunion of folks I used to work with 25 to 30 years ago. Good bunch of people. I always enjoy these anual get togethers, when I can get to them.
Visited a couple of train stores while I was there. Came home with both 2011 MTH catalogs and a 1996 version of the EMD generator car. Couldn't pass the generator car up, as it was a good price to start with, with another 25% off to boot.
All for now.
Howdy guys - cool and rainy all day today in Saint Louis. Record lows scheduled for tomorrow? Went with my son and some friends to see THOR today, which was really a fun movie Then out for pizza and Coke Zero. Had some Chunky Monkey icecream as a treat a little while ago - good hippy food Nice chats with RT, SJ and Charlie. Glad to hear that knee surgery went well and hope for good results No Sam Floats tonight, but TARDIS is ready, so let's hit it guys
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good evening all,
I arrived back home from GA on Friday night. I spent yesterday relaxing with the family and catching up on some chores. We had church today, more relaxing, and some layout time. I ran trains yesterday and today with the kids. I completed the latest Ameri-Towne building I bought a couple of weeks ago. I am watching the Yankees to see if they can prevent the sweep.
Prayers for all those I may have missed.
Here is one of the videos I shot last week at the Folkston Funnel in Folkston, GA. You have to click the photo to get to the video. I will not post all the videos due to their size. I chose this one due to the six-loco lash up.
Good night,
Joe
A fairly good day here on the hill. Fixed one of my antique radios so I can use it in the garage and ran the N-gauge on the new Kato track after I got off shift. Now another quiet night collecting photons.
RT - the Japanese train runs on 3 rail O-gauge track. My grandfather gave me the set in 1979 because I had no track for the Lionel #258. I can't remember the name of the manufacturer, but I guess they were fairly common. I was built right after WWII.
Traindood - turkeys in the front yard, cool! I've seen a number of them up here since they were re-released about 6 years ago. Once saw a whole family of 13 cross the road.
SPRay - glad to hear you are on the mend.
Anj - like the new avatar!
Off to find some breakfast
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Happy Birthday again, Doug.
Chuck.....The asphalt road at the lake house broke up this winter, so save me some grits so we can patch the road. Next week we will be using grits for what they are made for if we can stand their smell; patching the leaks in a sewage treatment tank.
Finally finished the TMCC and RS installation in my Williams BL-2 locomotive. Tested it and and it seems to work fairly well. Need to cut out a side window for better sound.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
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Doug M --- So sorry I'm late on the Birthday!! Shouldn't have happened! I feel asleep at the keyboard, keying in a post. (Chris shut the laptop, and that turned it all off.)
SP Ray --- Your news isn't so bad either. That sure was a quick ride! Discussed, decided, resolved all in a week!! WOW ! I'll bet the Insurance company will probably have an indepth investigation going on with the timing so quick.
On our front, nothing special going on here! Worked some this weekend, what started out as a rainy day, ended up pretty well. Looking forward to possibly having a visitor this next week, so will see how that goes.
See the Chief got his License, hmmmm wonder if that cost many political favors??
Later
Don
45 and the rain finally stopped. Suppose to be 70s.
We got lot's of banilla and party snack's so Brutus come and get me..s.J.
Good afternoon all,
It is rainy in SE Indiana. Lucas and I loaded up some more stuff to take to his sister. One more load will go up Tuesday and then we will be done with uploading that branch. No action at the track today so SFR is still fast time...so far. Weather will clear off tomorrow so plenty of track action hopefully then. TBIL after Desperate Housewives. I hope everyone has a good day.
Bob thanks on the comment about my shelf layout. Its fun to watch it. maybe you could build a shelf layout for your set from japan only thing is does it fit track you can get today somewhere? Wish I had a better camera to take the movie with but it didn't do to bad seeing the camera is only a 3.3 by kodak that we got about 5 years ago lol.
off tomorrow :) have doctor appointment in morning. Talk to you all later
Good afternoon all!
Doug M - Happy Belated Birthday!
Ray - glad the surgery went well! for quick recovery!
SJ, Charlie, and Jack - looks like a nice running session you guys had!
70's and sunny here. Very nice and same predicted though Wed this week! Maybe rain on Thurs. Due to rain we have had most of the lakes here are back to normal level.
Watching and napping through NASCAR Dover Race. The last 3 laps of the Nationwide race at Dover yesterday were pretty wild!
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
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