Good not so early morning everyone. Worked all day yesterday, then had to go to a school function for our daughter. Got home in time for a nice conversation with an old friend on the phone. I am on call so brought kids into school this morning. Dropped son off, then daughter, then noticed son forgot lunch, so had to swing back and go to his school again. Glad I didn't drive all the way home.
I already said my morning prayers, and of course, Chuck led in those intercessions. Have a lot on the plate for today and for the near future. Currently listening to some talking heads saying that food stamps actually stimulate the economy....HUH, doesn't make sense to me. I guess it makes jobs for those in government who run these programs.
Laz, while they are doing the tubes, will they re-do the bearings, etc? While it makes sense with the down time, I wonder if the expense and down time will allow for more extensive work.
Hope each of you have a great day. God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Hi GUYZ,
Countinued Prayers for CHUCK.
Ran an easy enjoyable 3.25 miles today on rails to trails at Ned Smith Lands. Took my dog MINNIE, she loved it. Told her we are going running she gets all excited. Now she is taking a nap. Gotta dig out clothes line pole today then replant it. Hope to get pics of Lokie retubing on later.
SPMAN and 8NTRUCK. after every day before we put him to bed we fill up the saddle tank then put and additive in the water to help prevent the scaling process. This stuff is green like antifreeze but we only use about 8 oz.
Stay frosty,
laz57
Good morning
80s today.
I'm leaving soon to spend some time with a toy train friend, we will be stopping at our favorite store before returning home.
Happy Hump Day...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
Hello all,
I'm several days behind. Prayers for Chuck. I'll see what happened later.
Prayers for those in need.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good Morning,
Continued Prayers for Chuck.
2 more days until TGIF and we are not working. finally a 4, 10 hr day work week.
I was supposed to be on vacation next week. The manager asked me to stay here Monday and Tuesday for a Environmental and Safety Audit. He treats me right and we were not going anywhere those days so I agreed. I just moved the days.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need.
Have a Great Day,
John
Good morning all,
Continued prayers for Chuck.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Prayers for Chuck. Good night all. Take a look at this. This video was shot [by cel phone] on the back side of Main Street Park 3 days ago. Debate. Young coyotes or distroted vidoe due to cellphone and they are foxes.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mahonemb1?feature=mhee
I set up caller this past evening at this location. Instantly got two foxes that came to the electronic caller barking and trying to get the caller. This went on for 30 minutes. No coyotes came. Going to use caller and video this coming evening.
Sleep tight.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Cloudy, rain showers and in the 70's today.
Interesting day at work today. Group of VIP type people jetted in and toured the plant. Of course, we had to stop everything and spiffy the place up. Wasted an hour and a half looking for parts of a couple of my projects as a result of them being 'put away' on one of the off shifts last night.
Laz - scale build up is very bad news in a boiler. Scale is a lousy conductor of heat. Might expalin some of the poor performance that you have been mentioning lately. Years ago, I had the opportunity to tour one of the power plants in Lansing, Mi. One of the things I took away from that tour was that the feedwater to the boilers in the power plant was cleaner than the drinking water supplied by the city water department! Was doing some reading about the care and feeding of boilers recently and ran across this topic. Was not really pertenant to the subject I was researching, so I just skimmed the section on scale formation. Seems like scale formation was porportional to water hardness?
All for now.
Prayers continue.
Work, work, work today. They think more overtime might help. Riiiiiiggggghhhhttttt. NOT.
Stopped at Walmart tonight for some supplies. Tomorrow, I need to pick up kids from school - first day back to school here. I'll stop and put some stuff in the mail on the way home. Also might need to stop at Best Buy for some computer stuff. Kids will love running around with me after a hard day at school, but oh well!
TARDIS is ready, so beacons. We need to make a special Cheerios run to a good buddy.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Evening all
Special prayers for Chuck!
Good day at work, swung by a friends house and helped him set trusses for his garage. Supper, football practice bathes, bedtime prayers then a Sam Adams.
I received the three rail track and rab the Marx train last night. It was really cool.
Good night and nay God bless
Jim
Good Evening
77 another beautiful day.
Charlie stopped by this evening and we spent about 90 minutes playing choo-choo. I don't see any new news about Chuck so maybe that's good. Banilla is ready...S.J.
Laz, do they use treated water in the boiler on the lokie? A friend of mine used to fire a steam engine at Knotts Berry Farm out here (near Disneyland) and they always dropped something in the water tank on the tender when they filled up with water. The old timers used to have a saying that "if you wouldn't drink it, don't put it in a boiler." Sounds like that scale could be a real problem. I feel the same as you about Chuck. We are all concerned about him.
More prayers for Chuck
Ray
SPMan
Hi GIZ,
I am taken back by the news. Had to take time for a prayer for CHUCK and will say one tonite too.
Went up to help work on the Lokie at the PIONEER TUNNEL. We got all the tubes pulled today all 79. Toke out the blower pipe, main drive extension pipe for the cylinders, intake and exhaust pipe assembly. and bonnet. cleaned and grinded all those surfaces, and cleaned up all internal surface of the boiler. Tomorrow the boiler guys are going to spin in new tubes and hydo test it and then the guys will pt all the parts back in and have it fired up for friday? The big Pioneer Day is set for Saturday so we hope all is ok. The big thing I learned today while working on this is that these tube when they get a 1/16 inch scale on it it actually is like having 3-4 inches of insulation on the tubes and that is not helping in the steam process. Just that little amount of scale makes it very inefficent in helping produce steam. The tough part was cutting out all the tubes after that its easy.
Will post pics tomorrow?
CHUCK,
Please Get well soon and I am now saying a prayer for you. I NEED my TGIFs from you.
CHUCK, TGI EVERYDAY!!!!! Get well!
Chuck - We are all thinking of you.
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Prayers offered for Chuck today. Sorry you are having such a rough time buddy. Get well soon.
Jack, my garage window is the sliding type. One half is stationary and the other half slides. Probably would have to redo the entire window. Thanks for the information. I need to rewire the place also. Definetly would have to if I put in A/C. At the moment, a lot of little chores are piling up. Need service on the car and need dental work. Went to doc today about the back trouble following up on ER visit back on the 4th and 5th. He is trying prednesone for a short course of 5 days only to reduce inflamation. I have been holding my own with just Aleve but he says prednesone is a lot stronger. Only problem is too many side effects for long term use. Doc wants to see me again in two weeks.
I need to get walking again as soon as I'm able to help with weight gain. Put on 5 lbs in the last 2-3 weeks.
later,
Get well soon Chuck
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Looks like my 1-year-and-five-days old lawn mower is dead. Good excuse not to cut anything I guess.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Morning
70/83 today.
Your right Doug, the last post I could find from him was Saturday, no mention of being sick. Special thoughts for him today.
I wanted to cut the grass early before it gets warm but everything is wet from overnight dew. New frying pan survived my first cook with it, but left it for granny to clean...s.j.
Not the same start-of-day without news from Blueberry Hill. Prayers for Chuck
Morning. Busy day for me.
for Chuck and hope he is now well enough to eat those Cheerios.
Later.
Blueberry Hill ---> .
An "extra" with a load of prayers is headed to "Points East" this morning. Get well soon, Chuck!
Another Rainy Morning in NJ, Good Day to be at Work. I must be nuts!
Chief, I know what you mean about people and being "Humane". We have the same problem in NJ with the bear & deer hunts. Now that bears are breaking into houses, deer are doing property damage it is ok now.
AF53, Ray I heard the Chrissy Story at the Firehouse last night from the Birthday Boy.
Prayers for Chuck for a quick recovery.
Prayers said for Chuck...get well soon!
An extra prayer tonight for Chuck. I didn't know he wasn't feeling well.
Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Evening FellasWas really busy today... but nothing seems important other than praying the Chuck recovers.
Prayers for healing are in order tonight.
Got back to doing my part to keep Social Security solvent today.
Other random thoughts - sure was a strange finish to the Indy Car race yesterday. Go Tigers! They haven't blown their lead yet.
Prayers for Chuck for healing and the very best care! I pray too for his wife and family!
I finally received that K-Line car I ordered, so I can get that project moving now
Chief -people always think it's a good idea to let nature run wild, until someone gets hurt or suffers some serious property damage from some wild animals.
Bah, Monday!!! Oh well, tomorrow will be here pretty soon now. TARDIS is ready, so beacons on!
Special prayers for you Chuck; may God bless you
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