Hi, From North Central IL. Freezing out there now and only going to 42 tonight with more rain. Looks like the part time driving job is over till spring when the fields dry out again. Nice long weekend, too much to eat and I can feel the gout trying to re-attack my right big toe. Heard the dryer buzzing so I just got up. Cyber Monday = everyone shopping on their company computers on company time.. Time for some Cheerios and then got to go pick up some meds and bird feed for wife. Think I will start tearing the track off the layout so I can install ground cover. Hate to but have to. Have a great day everybody! Kev.
Hi, From North Central IL.
Freezing out there now and only going to 42 tonight with more rain.
Looks like the part time driving job is over till spring when the fields dry out again.
Nice long weekend, too much to eat and I can feel the gout trying to re-attack my right big toe. Heard the dryer buzzing so I just got up.
Cyber Monday = everyone shopping on their company computers on company time..
Time for some Cheerios and then got to go pick up some meds and bird feed for wife.
Think I will start tearing the track off the layout so I can install ground cover. Hate to but have to.
Have a great day everybody!
Kev.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a rainy, 50 degrees. Going up to 59 today with rain all day. Yuk.
Today is a busy day. I have a few chores to do and some paperwork. Then, a few phone calls. I will be taking a nap this afternoon.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Chuck
V8Vega I just won a black tank car ADMX on eBay for 10.49 + 8.35 shipping. Its in Portland OR and me ever the cheapskate I asked the seller how much to ship to Beaverton OR the next town over. I am going there to my brothers for Christmas.
I just won a black tank car ADMX on eBay for 10.49 + 8.35 shipping. Its in Portland OR and me ever the cheapskate I asked the seller how much to ship to Beaverton OR the next town over. I am going there to my brothers for Christmas.
Why don't you ask if you could just pick it up from him
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Cloudy and maybe got up to 40 today.
wrmcclellan - the blade on the track cutting jig is a 60 tooth, 7 1/4" diameter blade that is available at Ace Hardware. My table saw normally takes a 10" blade, so the smaller diameter blade reduces the tooth speed somewhat, which is probably better for cutting the plastic and metal in the track.
I moved the P.E. layout out of the attic and into the dining room today. Made legs, bolted them on as well as bolting the three table sections together. Got the risers screwed down. Will run some trains around tomorrow before securing the roadbed to the risers. Then we'll start in on the scenery. One more order to Digikey too, 'cause good old Radio Shack didn't have enough rectifiers in stock.
All for now.
Evening all!
Busy day today doing some chores, then a concert at my son's school, followed by some more projects. Found a few minutes here and there to watch "Miracle on 34th Street" in parts on the DVR.
Too bad the long weekend is over. Busy week this week.
Cold here - some freezing tonight.
Have a great day tomorrow all!
Regards, Roy
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Evening
39 degrees, still raining. In fact I closed the family room blinds and it was so dark I slept on the couch for 2 hours. JOE lots of truck swaps were made so prewar cars could run with the new PW trucks. It may not be worthwhile to spend extra money swapping out the trucks. As you already know I had a quiet day so I'll just guard the banilla till the thingy arrives...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
Ohayō,
I am at work now, but I have a few minutes to check in for a cup before I go to a meeting. I have to take the princess to a dental checkup this afternoon. I will take her and the older son to lunch prior to the appointment. My wife is having friends over for lunch today.
SJ - I have my eye on another auction; however, someone installed PW trucks with knuckler couplers onto these cars. I'm wondering how easy it would be to swap them out.
Sayonara,
Joe
Good evening all,
It was rainy all day in SE Indiana with temps in the 40s. Saturday was a good day to do some shopping and we went to a train show (no luck there), and visited both of the kids in Bloomington. Did next to nothing today. I had bacon and waffles on the dining car this morning for breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Buckeye Riveter Good morning from Rogers Corners, Ohio. In a few hours the game begins. Fighting a kidney stone for the last couple of days. I wish it would pass. Have a good day.
Good morning from Rogers Corners, Ohio. In a few hours the game begins.
Fighting a kidney stone for the last couple of days. I wish it would pass.
Have a good day.
No wonder they lost. Buckeye was in no shape to chear them on.
Home for a few. Picking up fresh turkey and ham Wifey just cooked. Heading back to "baby sit". Got a lot of leaves up. Really love the Sthil leaf blower.
Real warm for the last three days. Actually have glasses down in the stormdoors at the lake house. Going to change tomorrow night and Tuesday morning with low and cold front passing.
Headed back to VA.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
sorry Doug I missed it congrats on your 52 anniversary. That is a great milestone.
Good morning all,
Thank you for the congas on our 52nd wedding anniversary yesterday. We feel very fortunate in todays world to have a union which has lasted this long. Some of my younger relatives have not been so lucky. I guess when the man said "until death do you part", I meant it. Its all about faith, hope and love.
Have a good day y'all,
Ray
SPMan
V8 Ray gas around here is between $3.02 and $3.08 but if you know where to go like I do its down to $2.97
Eating turkey sandwiches for lunch gee wonder how that happened lol
just relaxing today shopping is done
Good Morning
Rainy and 55, going down from there. Hi in the 30s before weeks end. JOE not to worry about the Bay loss, lots of prewar still out there. A nap for sure today, No Lions game till the 4th when I hope they will give a better national showing than they did Thanksgiving day. Working folk start fixing turkey sandwich's for Mondays lunch...S.J.
Aloha from a wet and cold Crystal Lake where that small plane crashed just a few miles away. So sad about the occupants didn't make it. Fife, I enjoyed the parade when the UP was absorbing the DRG&W. They based a GP20 in CL for a few months in that scheme with new UPX numbers. My faves were two MP15 in MILW orange flaking that were run by Chicago Terminal and based out of North Ave. Yard - which my commute runs through every day. Gone now - because their customers closed. Go Orange!Dennis, I build an under-bed layout for a toddler-aged child in our old house. He didn't damage it because I screwed the track in and set up / took away the trains and transformer each time we ran it. It was only 3 x 5 ft.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
It is 42 degrees. Just started to rain lightly. Looks like rain all day and 50 degrees.
Today is an easy day. I plan on taking it easy and relaxing. Need to finish my CTT mag.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Konbanwa,
Although I had to rake some leaves today, I was able to relax most of the day. The leaves chore only took about 45 minutes. The wife came up with some other honey-dos, but they were easy as well. I spent time playing the Wii and watching a Star Wars marathon with the boys. The princess was under house arrest (grounded in her room) so she did not have as much fun.
SP Ray - Happy Anniversary!
Dougdagrump - I sent you a reply. Thanks for the information.
Dennis - I believe I know which advertiser you are referring to and I sent them an email earlier. I went to their website but it was not easy to understand. I'm hoping their products are not too expensive; otherwise, I will have to get creative.
SJ - I was outbid again at the last second (probably a bot). Oh well, I had placed my max bid so I am not upset. The search for some Prewar continues.
Good morning. It's 48° and cloudy. The high will be 52° and it will be partly cloudy. There's a 30% chance of rain this morning. The projected low tonight is 32°.I may get a couple of small weathering projects done today. Other than that only general maintenance is planned. It's too wet to do anything outside as it rained nearly all day yesterday and into the night. Not heavy but enough to let you know it was there. As my father calls it too little to do much good but enough to make you mad. I didn't sleep well last night so I may grab a nap today.
Good morning everyone. Wife is still under the weather and not too happy right now. Have a few things to do to get the kids up and going and then off to church. I am on camera today, so I will pre-medicate with some ibuprophen. My back and neck take a beating with camera duty.
Joe, yeah, I guess a toddler could do some real damage to the trains if they were a under the bed type. Good luck with the ceiling. I know there is an advertiser in CTT with this style, but I think they are expensive.
8N, I think that Marty E had posted on installing TMCC or a cruise commander in a PE Berk Jr. some time back. you may be able to do a search and find it. A cheaper method may be to isolate that down grade and have it go to a separate transformer (phased) to have a lower voltage/speed. This way, you could adjust it as needed verses just using diodes and being locked in at the controls of the main transformer.
It is a cloudy day here. Supposed to have a storm front coming through tonight, into tomorrow with a 20 degree temp drop and rain. Should be good for the crops as they are getting the fields ready. Some farms have spread fertilizer and the nose knows which ones.
Hope each of you has a blessed day,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Morning all. Been up about an hour. Not a lot planed today other than sliced whats left of turkey and goto store for a few grocery's. Back to work tomorrow for 4 days then off for 6 not planning on going anywhere just have time I have to use or lose.
hope all having a good day time to make some breakfast talk to you all later
Mornin' boys. Partly cloudy and 39 in the Mid-Atlantic region. Have to run middle princess back to college today. Perhaps do a little Christmas shopping in Chesapeake City along the way. Strung the icicle lights across the front, then cleaned the fish pump . Took the ladies to see the Maxi-puppy. He and his siblings are 4 wks old, and very cute. I had to check their pockets and handbags before we left... Came home and spent some time with grandson. Need to crackin' with the trains.
Buckeye - the past couple seasons, we've been getting solid strings of W&LE hoppers (carrying ore I believe) through Baltimore and down to Sparrows Point. Once in awhile, CSX will leave the W&LE diesels tied on for the trip. I never cared all that much for the D&RGW engines, but the speed lettering looks fabulous on this regional. Just got to get MTH to crank out more samples...
Cloudy, some drizzle, and getting colder here. Some areas to freeze tonight.
Wrapped up the visit from the wife's sisters. The whole gang went to a Christmas Tree farm about an hour away, we had a picnic, and then rode a hay wagon out to cut several trees (we watched - we have an artificial tree) for the various families present (about 20 folks, 5 families). Then some of us went to Texas Roadhouse for supper. Had a good time. All the in-laws leave in the morning.
Buckeye - sorry about the kidney stone.
Ray - mega-congrats on the 52nd anniv! Wow!
Joe - glad the move-in is going well!
8ntruck - thanks for the track cutting jig photo. I believe you said you were using a high tooth count carbide blade (80+ teeth?)?
Have a great evening all!
Rainy, windy, and in the 40's today.
Jonadel - The Polar Express layout I'm working on is 6' by 9'.
SPman - happy anniversery.
Ordered some scenery and wiring goodies for the layout today. Ran it for a while making notes for improvements in the benchwork and getting ideas for speed control on the grades.
A Cruse Commander conversion would help, but it is not in the budget at this time. Seems like I've read about a TMCC conversion on a Jr. Berkshire sometime, somewhere.
My new CTT arrived today - wet around the edges.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.Head on shot of my GP38-2
dougdagrump 8ntruck: The mini Berkshire will haul all 7 P.E. cars up that grade - but it is working extremely hard to do so. It seems happier with four. All for now. Wonder how difficult it would be to add an ERR Cruise Commander to the PE to aid in going up-n-down those grades.
8ntruck: The mini Berkshire will haul all 7 P.E. cars up that grade - but it is working extremely hard to do so. It seems happier with four. All for now.
The mini Berkshire will haul all 7 P.E. cars up that grade - but it is working extremely hard to do so. It seems happier with four.
Wonder how difficult it would be to add an ERR Cruise Commander to the PE to aid in going up-n-down those grades.
I don't think it would be that difficult to add an ERR Cruise Commander to the PE. A couple of years ago I did some research on this installation and learned that the original PE is not the same as the model now being sold. ERR always can tell you if it will fit if you have basic info on the model.
You can see photos of diesel installations at:
http://www.mttponline.com/#!pictures
Fife - Wheeling and Lake Erie is an Ohio based regional railroad. Their main office is in Brewster, Ohio and there locomotive do have the black an orange paint scheme.
Thanks guys for all the thoughts. Stone is still burning tonight. Drinking a lot of clear liquids.
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
Hi guys! Had a typical Saturday at work and logged in the normal 9 hours followed by a nice time at HudsonJohns' kids birthday party. Good food and , but no Becks, I guess he didn't read the Pot yesterday. Then to the "Saturday night poker game" at the inlaws, great day.
SPRay - Congrats on the anniversary! Many more!
That's about it,
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Page 41.....NICE!
Been a long weekend thus far, Thanksgiving in VA, rushed and got the train layout up and running just as zero hour loomed, Santa and town lighting went off smoothly. Unloaded 300 trees for sale as a fund raiser for the FD (Station 41)and we start selling tomorrow!
Went shopping then picked up Princess in Newark (came home from VA via Bolt Bus) and her bus was 1 hour late. Home now, her new BF showed up for a visit and here we are.
Good to see all had a great Turkey Day, ours was great as my twin nieces and nephew were home from college. A nice feast.
Missing all the good riding weather 'cuz of the many responsibilities lately....neon, however is about done in, as the ravages of high mileage and flooding is hurting it. IF I could get up $3K ( could repair it...or replace it!
RT - Thank you! You continue to serve!
Should have pictures later...to all a good night....
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Hi All,
Rain still and more to come then cold in north central Illinois. About time, it is after all November 26th.
God made sure I had something to do in the basement today. I got my new smoke generator for my USS docksider from Lionel in the mail. That engine is 5# of C&%p in a 2# bag.
My N&S caboose came FedX from kgtrains and was not as I had thought it would be. So I had to take it apart to do repairs on it...... Burnt out light, bad pick up roller, glued brake wheel and bad dirty. It was advertised as excellent?????? Been runing trainc all night.
cnwDougM: What about that plain crash ?? Was it by you?? Saw something about it on the news, sounds bad.
Night guys!!
Doug how close to you was that plane crash they said near crystal lake
59 degrees now. but next week, down we go.
SPman congrats on the anniversary.ours is March of 59.
JOE thanks for telling me where the PM was
and BUCKEYE, I sent you a long overdo reply.
I spent part of the day watching football but I also got an hour on the couch. Banilla is ready....S.J.
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