Good afternoon all,
I've been so busy with work the past few days I have not been able to post anything - most of it consisted of driving to OKC and Stillwater. Today and tomorrow I will be glued to my desk catching up on paperwork. The wife and I have to attend a farewell dinner tonight for an outgoing commander and his wife. My wife is very good friends with his wife so she will have a good time. I will have a good time for my wife's sake.
Jack/AF Ray - The Yankees are winning as well so I am not concerned with how well the Sox are playing. I'm betting Jeter will be on fire after his stint on the DL.
Traindood - Thanks for the info on the lights. As for young families managing today's higher prices: It's all about making smart choices with their money. The simple formula Spend less than you earn will always work too (too bad Politicians are not schooled on this). My modest income supports our family of five very well, and we even fully fund a Roth IRA and college funds for all three kids. We stick to a strict budget and do not use credit cards or have debt. If we don't have the money, we don't buy it. We set goals and save towards them. End
Charlie - Congratulations on the anniversary.
Good day,
Joe
Lunch Time,
Beautiful day, 70's and no rain. At least until tonight.
Chief, you mean that Shake and Bake is, to quote Ralph Kramden, a Blabber Mouth!!!
Jim, Probe/Stang GT: the clutch will come. My daughter has the twin to yours but her's is a convertible. Great car.
Buckeye, Where Traindood lives is really nice. I am sure that they will enjoy themselves there.
Have a Great Day,
John
Morning [almost afternoon]. Heating and Air buddy came by and seviced A/C unit. Doing an estimate for zone system. That way the train room will stay cooler in summer. On the way to service oldest's JD mower. Got to run. Have a good one.
BTW: if you want things told nationally, call the national news networks or tell Shake and Bake.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Hi All,
Everything is fair out this way. Since my layoff two years ago, my wife still has to work at the dentist office three days a week. Can't find anything substantial. Wild Bills is see more of me but less cash. Could probably get something on weekends but after 35 years being on call I love the time to enjoy the grandchildren's soccer and baseball games. Yesterday we were able to see my daughter (41 with 4 children including 7yr old triplets) complete a triathlon in 2:12.
Jim, A year ago, my son in law purchased a 2010 Cobra (yes patent attys can afford them and still support a family). He joined a Mustang owners on forum and had many questions answered. ALSO, last Memorial day he went to Danville, VA and was able to mingle with many SVT owners. Also was able to drive on the Virginia Intl Speedway 4.2mi course.
Prayers for all in need, ESPECIALLY for those "IN HARMS WAY"
Think good thoughts, do good deeds!
Good Mornin' Ya'll From Sunny and Warming Taxachusetts,
Clear and low 80s today. Today's sun and temps are going to finish off all of the Boston Bruins fans who hit the downtown area bars at 5PM yesterday and partied before, during, and after the Bruins decisive and convincing game 7 victory over Vancouver for their first Stanley Cup in 39 years. Only 6 arrests in Boston outside the Garden while Vancouver erupted in something far worse.
Mitch........... congratulations to you and your better half on the occasion of your 9th anniversary yesterday. You are right, the years fly by.
Dennis......I was sorry to hear about your firefighter friend. Prayers for him and his family.
JimmyT.....patience! The shifting smoothness will come with time and practice. With that engine, if you tried you could probably get the M-GT rolling on level ground in first gear at idle without giving it any gas, if you let the cluch out slowly and smoothly enough. In the beginning for all of us, it is a matter of not enough gas and a too-quick clutch release......but it will come quickly.
Chuck, Laz, and SJ......keep the faith. If you check the records, the Indians and Tigers have the third and fourth best records in the American league. And they have played 7 and 6 more road games, respectively, than the TEAM just ahead of them in winning percentage. Sorry JoeD and AF. Seriously, this Boston team although balanced and talented are due for some doldrums, though last night's one hit shutout victory over Tampa last night was encouraging.
8n........re the lawn mowing physical therapy suggestion, you have quickness on your side for the time being. But ya gotta go to bed sometime.
DougDG.......you are brilliant, stating the obvious. I am surprised those guys didn't try out another similarly outfitted engine to rule out the track and connections as the root cause.
Later, gang.
Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Good Morning
64/70s today
I'm not sure what today will bring so I'm just going to roll with it.
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
Mornin' boys. Passing showers and 77 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Bubba Gump Shrimp is coming to Baltimore...that's all I've got to say 'bout dat.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cloudy 58 degrees. Got a light rain last night. More due today. Going up to 76.
Today is a busy day. I have chores to do and the wife is grocery shopping. I will be busy until the afternoon nap.
LAZ..Today the Indians play an afternoon game @ 1pm. It is not televised on the regular channel. You'll have to look for the right one. I hope they win again.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Chuck
HI GUYZ,
60 and nice here only ran a 2 miler this morning, now weights and then pull weeds. Later is GOLF that is why light workout, can't get stiff. Spend 4 hrs in dentest chair yesterday getting bridge, not a RR bridge either. WOW that was bad, I had to ask to get up and do a few laps in office to strech out. Came home and took dog for a 1.5 mile walk. I needed that.
BUCKEYE, on the Mt. across from the tracks are 125 wind mills, that is our breeze up there and sometimes when its hot they turn them on for us. So it will keep you nice and cool.
CHUCK, please take another nap tonite.
CHARLIE, CONGA!!!!! on Aniversery.
Stay frosty and watch your topknot,
laz57
Good Morning,
Brutus, I wish Char the best with the rash.
RI Jack, Nice info on the B17. Thanks for sharing.
Charlie: Happy anniversary.
Jack / Traindood: Between the boat and the truck I do not know what is worse on gas.
Dennis: Condolences on the death of your friend.
Prayers for all in need.
Good morning all,
It may be rainy in SE Indiana today. Too much rain sogged the fields for last night's game. I guess they were afraid we would tear the fields up too much. Rested and did financial stuff. Good day at work. Good night driving the Tardis. I had the regular fare for breakfast on the dining before sending it to "Points East". TBIL after soccer scrimmage tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening,
Congrats Charlie and Toni !!!
June is my Dr month here, had a root canal on Monday, went to Neurologist Tuesday, to the Lab on Thursday for Bloodwork, then next week back to the Dentist, Primary Physcian, and Dermotologist. Glad when this is all over!
Tuesday, worked on the Dr's layout, disconnected all wiring and coiled it up at the item it controlled. Took 5 hours, hopefully it will go back together well. Will move the layout Thursday and Friday. Then start reconnecting everything next week, (between Dr appts.)
Did manage to get to the train club today. As I walked in a one guy was in the staging area trying to get a TMCC engine running. Problem was that the engine would just take off when power was applied. He and another guy was trying everything, reprogramming switching tracks, cycling power, to no avail. I asked if the engine had been involved in a collision, sure enough it had. And, the last time the engine was run was a week ago. I tried to get it going, no luck. Then suggested possibly a board may have come loose. So he started taking the cab off, to check. He had worked on it for a half hour trying to get it open. In the meantime I was putting my DCS on the track and it worked fine. About that time another guy came in and was having a similar problem. They thought maybe it wasn't the engine, and pulled a club owned engine out and it wouldn't work either. Seemed a little to strange to me, thought maybe the ground wire may have come loose off the Command Base, or Legacy Base. Went over to check, the Legacy remote couldn't find the base. Looking further found that the Power Strip that the Command Base and Legacy unit was plugged into had been turned off! Turned it on, had them try the engines again, and of course they all ran fine. Took the first guy an hour to get his engine put back together. Lots of frustration by everyone! Advantages of a club environment. Everything ran great for the rest of the day.
8ntruck, Glad I could be of some help!! Cooler weather is headed toward Bob and yourself. However, the jet-stream is carrying all the grits dust up to Michcigan, as I understand it from the Chief it will be welcome. Seems SJ has this secret clandestine attraction to the stuff, I was informed that he really liked them and they were part of his daily diet, but didn't want anyone to know. So need to keep it a secret, OK?
Looks like Buckey is extending his area of influence to include NJ. Or, maybe this maybe a flanking move, all I know is he runs a tight ship, and Chiefie may be in danger.
Hope everyone has a great day, be safe and healthy!
Don
Buckeye Riveter ChiefEagles: We do not go to McDonalds anymore because they threw us out for behaving badly and not wearing shoes. They offer great Northern oatmeal. We now only go to BoJangles because they have tastelss food and they offer SOUTHERN style grits in 55 gallon drums we use to repair the Interstate. Have a great day while I swat mosquitoes in the unbearable heat. Chiefie Edited by the bottom pond sucker Buckeye.
ChiefEagles: We do not go to McDonalds anymore because they threw us out for behaving badly and not wearing shoes. They offer great Northern oatmeal. We now only go to BoJangles because they have tastelss food and they offer SOUTHERN style grits in 55 gallon drums we use to repair the Interstate. Have a great day while I swat mosquitoes in the unbearable heat. Chiefie Edited by the bottom pond sucker Buckeye.
We do not go to McDonalds anymore because they threw us out for behaving badly and not wearing shoes. They offer great Northern oatmeal. We now only go to BoJangles because they have tastelss food and they offer SOUTHERN style grits in 55 gallon drums we use to repair the Interstate.
Have a great day while I swat mosquitoes in the unbearable heat.
Chiefie
Edited by the bottom pond sucker Buckeye.
Congrats Charlie and Toni [notice I toasted you more than Buckeye]
Worked in train room this afternoon and tonight [after returning from a meeting]. Got shelves up so I can store extra cars, engines and my new Amtrack set. Ran trains for three hours with no problems. Did notice a MTH thingy. Was close to my lashup of Legacy engines and remote kept saying check track, engine not on track but the engine responded to commands anyway. Once it backed about 4 feet away, all was fine. First time I've had that happen. Was also in back room as far away from TIU as could be.
Got early haircut and then A/C guy coming to service unit and see about an upstairs unit or a Honeywell duct control system.
Off to bed. [think I will ship 8N a train car, some know what I mean after car exchange ]
No time for too much tonight. Will catch up tomorrow. Just saw about "Happy Anniversay Charlie and Toni"
NICE!
Later
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Happy Anniversary, Charlie and Toni! Nothing much going on here today. Had some computer updates and killed some zombies after work on xbox. Mike's driving tonight, I think I'll go to bed. Ciao!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Sunny and mid 80's today.
Chief - Shake & Bake got my back today, arranging for the wind to come out of the west, keeping those nasty old grits fumes east of the Mississippi, and south of the Ohio.
RI52 - I'll pass your therapy tip on to my wife - from a healthy (safe) distance.
Probe - you've got to add a touch of throttle when you reach the friction point on the clutch - a heavy touch if you want tire smoke!
Brutus - good news about Char.
All for now.
Good evening everyone. Been another long day and schedule calls for another tomorrow. While I am on call, they have a special request for me on the first case out of the door, so that means that I will be up and going at 0430. Due to the number of cases and the limited resources, it will make for a big day.
Traindood, have a great time at The Train-Station. I am friends with one of the owners. They certainly know their stuff and have plenty of it. They have a Father's Day special going on right now. Not sure if the warehouse is open, but on those days, you need lots of extra time to look around.
Well, after 105 degree temps today, we have a thunderstorm coming through and a good amount of much needed rain. Hope it lasts for a few hours. Also hope that I don't get called out in it. When I first logged on tonight, I checked out Bob's Train Box and WOW am I impressed by that new Lionel Vision Hudson. I may have to drop some serious coins down on one of those!
Time for bed. On a sad note, one of the guys I used to work with at the Fire Department died today. He was a great guy and will be missed. I last saw him at Mom's funeral. He was always there for folks.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Good Evening
72 kind of overcast, but no rain yet.
We spent a few hours this morning shopping for things.On this trip I got some things for a change. A fresh supply of banilla is waiting for the thingy crew...S.J.
Jack,
I actually get better mileage with the Mustang than I did with the Sunfire. Right now, I am getting 16.4 MPG, and the Sunfire could only do 10-15 MPG at best (yes, you read that right). Ford also calls for 87 octane, so that is a plus. The only small downside is that I have to drive the Probe everyday, but it gets 30 MPG on a bad day. 35-40 isn't uncommon, and it is running the best it ever has for me at 189,897.
Ken,
I was going to try my steel toe boots thinking that my regular shoes were the problem, but it turns out that I was taking my foot off the clutch at the friction point. Tonight, I let the clutch out slowly and evenly until it was all the way out, and I did much better. Only stalled it once accidentally.
Buckeye..... I dozed off and suddenly woke up in my coaching chair. The Indians are leading 4 to 3.
Happy Anniversary..Charlie & Toni.
cnw1995 Aloha. Sending rain and cold your way SJ. You can thank me later. Ran the trains last night. Thomas has started noisily 'slipping' - sounds horrible when it happens like all his gears just stripped - I think it's a combination of the elevation changes on the layout and pulling too heavy a train - I'm not going to ask him to pull more than Annie and Clarabell for the time being.
Aloha. Sending rain and cold your way SJ. You can thank me later. Ran the trains last night. Thomas has started noisily 'slipping' - sounds horrible when it happens like all his gears just stripped - I think it's a combination of the elevation changes on the layout and pulling too heavy a train - I'm not going to ask him to pull more than Annie and Clarabell for the time being.
Doug M,
Check Thomas's siderods. Lionel seemed to make them all pretty loosey-goosey on the Thomas & Friends locos. Sometimes ours will clatter so loud you'd think they were about to jam.
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ChiefEagles We do not go to McDonalds anymore because they threw us out for behaving badly and not wearing shoes. They offer great Northern oatmeal. We now only go to BoJangles because they have tastelss food and they offer SOUTHERN style grits in 55 gallon drums we use to repair the Interstate. Have a great day while I swat mosquitoes in the unbearable heat. Chiefie
I have been proof reading all day so I just continued when I hit the forum.
Laz......Mmmm, the train is running this year and I'm looking for a place to vaction in the North where the air is cool and clean.
Chuck....Have you been falling asleep in your coache's chair during the Indian's games?
TrainDude....I have some bad news for you. Please sit down. Baby Buckeye, SIL and Bouncing Baby Boy Buckeye are moving to your town. After looking at several places to live in NJ they picked your town because it was like Westerville, Ohio. Baby Buckeye has her own Polar Express Train Set and BBBB has a huge set of wooden Thomas.
Vancover 2, Boston 1
Charlie and Toni, Congrates!
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
Howdy All.
Beauty of a day today, trying to recover from the runnin' around.
Congrats to Charlie & Toni, may you many many more.
Spent yesterday at the county fair, unfortunately we sat in the truck stuck in traffic, entering & leaving(), than we did at the fair. Worst I ever saw. However Laz would have been proud of the high school woodworking display, I saw some extremely intricate and detailed furniture that would have made a custom shop proud to put their logo on. That was one of the few things worth visiting, everything else was pretty much the "Same Old Stuff". Think this was my last visit.
Brutus/Char, Better a small bump in recovery than a big bump although no bumps at all are in everyone's prayers.
RT, The "Gold Rush Set" is not the battery powered one, thank goodness. Still can't believe how pristeen this set was for $25, entry level but will earn it's keep when the kids run it.
Pickedup an engine on evilbay, looking forward to it's arrival. After a little bit of testing/breakin I think it will be the main motive power on my 4th of July Train.
Later Dudes & Dudettes
sir james I HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Charlie & Toni ...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Charlie & Toni ...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Charlie & Toni ...
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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A beautiful day in Michigan today. Just happens to be my anniversary, 9 years today. 9 years seems like a long time on a calendar, however when you consider everything that has happened in those 9 years it seems short to me.
Have a nice day guys.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Laz
A beautiful fire breathing dragon, I love it.
Nice video Laz.
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