Dennis,
I am hoping to make the ceiling layout work. The bedrooms are small and my older son's bed is a bunk bed with a single-size mattress. However, he and I have discussed running the train under his bed should the ceiling plan not work. I don't believe we will be able to do that in the 16-month-old's room. He likes to play on his floor a lot and he also likes to smash things with his toy hammer.
Joe
Ohayō,
We don't have much planned today. We will go to church and then relax at home. The two older kids and I have some leaves to rake. I don't like to work on Sunday, but I ran out of time yesterday. The base inspects yards every Tuesday morning so it has to be done. I cannot wait until I get home from work tomorrow because it is pretty dark by 1700.
SJ - Thanks for reply. I'm glad you learned how to PM on here.
Doug M - Yes, it was quite the feat. And to think we placed about 2,500 pounds of our stuff into storage.
Dougdagrump - How do you have the track suspended from the ceiling? Do you have any photos posted? I will be using FasTrack.
Sayonara,
Ray, Happy Anniversary! Hope you and the Mrs. have a great day. Chief, you should have said "Michigan beat THE Ohio State", I was corrected on that a time or two.
Wife has been under the weather all day, so I have had to step up and be Mr. Mom. Lots of work goes into that, hope she is back to speed soon, I can't keep up for long.
Doug, it is expected that you would have moments of up and down on both weight and BP. Just don't let the BP get too high, or low! Sustained high BP can cause a number of issues...none of them good.
DougM., thanks for the kind thoughts, we did have a great time. Glad we were able to as such moments are real special, and they are only young once. Trying to shape his life experiences. If he chooses to hunt in the future, that is his option, but he is learning how...and patience too.
Both kids spent a good bit of the day shooting tin cans with BB guns. Was fun to watch them. They play well together...mostly. Tried to do some layout work, but what I need to do requires power tools and I didn't want to get into the noise till my bride is feeling better.
Joe, sounds like you are getting settled there. Hope you are able to figure out the layout plan soon. If a ceiling layout is not possible, what about under the bed? One of the mags and also the O-gauge video had some ideas on making one.
God Bless,Dennis
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Have to post Michican has beaten Ohio State (:-))
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Aloha from a grey and drizzly Crystal Lake where I'm ready for the college kids to go back to college.... Happy Anniversary, Ray! Fife, W&LE is a great scheme - I like orange - like used by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend and the Elgin Joliet & Eastern. Accompanied my wife on a few of her errands today. I had nothing in particular to pick-up but found an inexpensive string of LED lights and a nice ceramic house for the layout at Ace Hardware. Joe, unpacking 600 boxes is quite an achievement... Dennis, glad you and your son had a good outdoors experience. 8n, the layout looks great!Hope to run trains a bit later when my wife takes the youngest out to a movie.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
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.
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.
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dougdagrump Re: Black Friday Shoppers, I've seen hogs at a feed trough with better manners than displayed by those shoppers. I believe their motto is: Hooray for me and ***** everybody else.
Re: Black Friday Shoppers, I've seen hogs at a feed trough with better manners than displayed by those shoppers. I believe their motto is: Hooray for me and ***** everybody else.
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Mornin All.
The scale told the tale of an over-indulgence of sodium on Thanksgiving, stepped on it yesterday morning and it's first comment was "please one at a time". Between thursday and friday I gained two and a half pounds as well as the BP going up, this morning the BP is back down a bit and the weight is down about three quarter pound. No salt today. With a below normal EF water retention is very bad news.
May go to the museum tomorrow, nobody is signed-up to run. The better half has said it is ok with her, she is my support crew when I go there. If I do I think I'll take the munchkin so he can run some trains there. Since he has done this before he doesn't get quite the charge from his Thomas layout that he used to.
Joe, I used a combination of both styles for my ceiling track, one section that passes in front of an 8ft wide closet with floor to ceiling doors is suspended from the ceiling rafters while the rest is mounted on wall brackets. By the way, what's with all the Ok seismic activity since you guys left?
Supposed to have some gorgeous weather for the next 6 or 7 days.
Forgot what else I was going to say, later all.
Time for morning pills, Cheerios done.
Dennis no I didn't but thanks anyway. sorry meant to tell you that but I got sniped at the end with a couple of bids I wasn't ready to meet lol.
But did the other night get the Lionel's 11718 N&S DASH 8-40C UNIT TRAIN its from 1992 it has the 5 trailers on flats the trailers are triple crown.
Not a lot else going on here today list a few items on bay of E as just getting rid of items don't need anymore some trains some not lol.
did set up my G gauge train set the other day it's has a oval on the floor in front of the fireplace ( we don't use) waiting for the Christmas tree to jump in the middle of it lol. I guess I will put some buildings in there with it like my dept. 56 buildings and all will look good with it just need to get down and do it. Have a PRR 4-6-0 with a boxcar, a passenger car, and a observation car behind it. need to clean this room up some first lol thats what I'm working on today as wife cooks our turkey.
Probably make some turkey salad out of some of the left overs if I can cut it up small enough suppose to be getting a meat grinder that attachés to my mixer but that probably won't come till after Christmas as it said 6 to 8 weeks. Need to get some 9v batteries for my tender for engine chugging sound and for lights for the passenger cars wish I could hook them up to track voltage some how would need different wheel sets first thou with a isolation in the middle of the axles.
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8ntruck--
THANKS for the terrific pics, nice work for sure. What are your over all dimensions for that piece? Thanks again.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Good morning. It's 72° and cloudy. The high will be 76°. Wind is SSE at 9 mph with gusts to 21. There's a 70% chance of rain at the moment going up to 80% this afternoon.No real plans for today as it's quite possible I won't have power later. That depends on the severity of the storms. There's a big band ranging from light to heavy coming across east Texas and it's coming right at us.
Good morning all,
Wife and I are celebrating our 52nd wedding anniversary today. We went someplace special for the last two years but have decided to stay home this time. It's not the best time for an anniversary between Thanksgiving and Christmas with too many other things going on. We were actually married on Thanksgiving day in 1959. We thought that would make it easy to remember but we forgot that Thanksgiving is not always on the same date.
Buckeye, as a person who has had many kidney stone attacks over the years, I can really sympathize with you. I send my prayers and hope that yours will soon pass.
Nice weather returning today with high of 80 predicted.
Ran some trains yesterday with no pile ups. My local TCA Western Division is putting on a train display again this year at the Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California. There is something on the internet about it. Looks like mostly standard gauge trains but also a Lego set up by another organization there as well.
Will miss the Traditional Jazz festival this weekend in San Diego but they have good weather for it.
Still have a lot of turkey to use. Might have to freeze some of it.
later,
Ray
SPMan
OK found it, sent reply. They look nice but restored lowers the price. Don't bid too high unless you really want them.
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Good Morning
49/50s today
Joe good to read your post, seems your family is adjusting nicely. If I can find your PM I will respond..lol.(haven't found it yet). The 4 females in our little family use to sit at the table after thanksgiving dinner and go through the sales papers. They would combine their wants and then each started at a different store with the list for all. We are all getting older now,,,they went out yesterday at 9am...S.J.
Buckeye, pass that stone. Had 2, still have 2 in the kidneys.
Okay, just got back from Walgreen's. They have the complete set of A Christmas Story houses and figurines. Picked up a Santa lighthouse for fifemom. Also spotted a "Snookie" Christmas ornament...a sure sign of the apocolypse. (BTW, it was about right for G-scale )
Yesterday was nice. Some sun, some clouds. Raining now and looks like that will be the day.
Just the wife and I at home yesterday and the weather was mild for this time of year. So we cleaned up around the yard and split and stacked about a full cord of wood. Only need to do about ½ cord more to fill the wood shed on next year’s side.
Buckeye, sorry to hear about the stone. Never had one and don’t want one. My brother has had them…….bad news.
fifedog, That is one cool paint scheme on that engine.
8ntruck, Nice layout, wish I had your skills.
SJ, I am with you what is with those people? Oh well I guess we raised them.
Did my Black Friday shopping on the Internet. Gift cards…everyone likes them and I did not waste any gas
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Konbanwa,
It has been a while since I last posted. We have been extremely busy during that time. For most of it we have been unpacking boxes and putting all of our items into their proper places. You have to be more creative on where you place things when such a downsizing has occurred. We had almost 600 hundred boxes and I believe we have about four left to unpack. We had a great Thanksgiving and we also had a great time taking the trains to Tokyo last weekend. I just skimmed through all the posts from my time away, but I do not have time to recap every day. I should be back on regularly now.
Douddagrump - Is you ceiling layout suspended from the ceiling? Or is it more of a shelf style? I wanted to have shelf layouts in my sons' rooms, but due to the closets and windows those will not work. Now I have to figure out a way to suspend the track from the ceiling which I believe will be much more difficult, or expensive.
SJ - I sent you a PM.
Good night,
Good morning everyone. Got some Pumpkin Spice Coffee from Gevallia all set to be administered to this slow on the go guy. We have no real plans today, so I figure it will be shopping with SWMBO. Sir James, they are nuts! I once gathered my wife and son years ago to join the madness....mainly to just see the chaos. After my ankles were black and blue from all the women driving their shopping carts into me, that was enough, if I want to watch madness, I will turn on the television.
Buckeye, pray that that stone is gone soon. I have never had one...and don't want one either! I have been told that is as close to childbirth as we can come.
RT, did you win that Southern Mikkado we had spoken of? If so, I need to send you the paperwork as we discussed. Just let me know.
Fife, that is a handsome scheme.
Hope each of you has a wonderful day.God Bless,Dennis
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 37 this a.m., in the midst of a beautiful weather pattern in the Mid-Atlantic region . This too will pass soon, like Buckeye's stone...we hope...
Banks - Yep, custom painted from the late 80's to the mid-90's. Mostly HO engines. It was a way to finance my train purchases. But then it got too much of a chore, and I wanted out. Nowadays, I might fire up the Badger twice a year.
Btw, anyone not like this paint scheme...?
Image by hawkinsrails.
Buckeye I give you my prayers and hope its over soon I don't wish that on my worst enime I been there done that.
8ntruck I looked at your layout and said to my self glad train is going direction it is your down loop looks a little more steep.
morning all relaxing and getting ready to do some things around the house. Need to go make some breakfast first thou.
Hope all having a good weekend
oh in reponse to black friday did it once about 12 years ago when in Tallahassee wife and I said not worth it and we didn't get in line till about 1 hour befor opening and we got what we wanted they had 19" TV's for like $39 that was the main thing and we got one we were not after big big ticket items to be honest back then didn't have the cash flow. but still it was crazy.
later all
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.
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
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is early. 40 degrees. Going up to 58 today with some sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and some paperwork. Got my new copy of CTT mag, and plan on reading it later. Exercises are going better. Legs are getting stronger.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Satuurday.
Chuck
A couple of nice days here - sunny and almost 70 yesterday, and sunny and high 50's today.
Had a quiet Thanksgiving with just my wife and I yesterday. Grilled turkey tenderloins and served them with all of the usual Thanksgiving goodies. Went downtown and watched the lighting of the lights and fireworks.
A bit of yardwork today, then worked on the P.E. layout.
Here is a picture of the track cutting jig I made.
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I've got the layout together enough for some test running.
Dennis if those crazy people waiting all night in line like they do here:
Figure their time spent even at min. wage what did they save?
Good evening everyone. Well, had a great afternoon, took son hunting for the first time. We didn't see any deer, but we enjoyed our time in the woods. He did quite well on the patience front. Afterwards, we went back to our friend's house for turkey sandwiches. One of the guys who met us at the hunting ground is an engineer for CSX. Will have to catch up at a later date to talk trains.
With regard to the black Friday sales, we only went to the outdoor hunting store to get my son some gear, avoided all other stores. So what is it with these people wasting their Thanksgiving standing on a line for a store to open? These folks are nuts. One store had a line at 10am for a midnight opening.
Hope to take it easy tomorrow. Have a great night.
Dennis
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 60s. Cleaned the gutters out of the barn, mulched the leaves for the last time, hung some AJ posters from dad's place in the attic, and moved some more boxes of "stuff" from attic to barn. It was a good day. I had bacon and bicuits on the dining car for breakfast 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
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Hello all,
Checking the bay and Pot before I head to bed.
Think I caught the Crud from Mrs. Last evening I felt like he** aches all over. This AM sore throat and painful sinus. Family Doc called in a prescription for Amoxicilin. Hope tomorrow is better. Didn't get much done outside today. Didn't feel up to it even though the weather was beautiful. Tomorrow's another day. May try to haul manure.
Laz, good luck on Monday. I'll take my rifle for a walk if I feel up to it. Probably sit in the old chicken coop if it's raining.
Fife never new you were a custom painter!!
Back to the Bay then off to bed.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Beautiful sunny Friday here at exit 77 at the GSP. Tommorow will be a repeat of today. NICE!
Anyone for some more Turkey?? Sunday my son will be frying a turkey. I bought him a 30 quart pot some time ago and he'll give it a go! Can't wait. Tomorrow after work I'll be heading over to HudsonJohn's for a combo birthday party for his two kids. Maybe this year he'll surprise me and get some Becks !
DougM - What happened? Someone tip over a candle??
SJ - I have to agree with you about the Lions. I usually pull for them on Turkey day but more so yesterday. The first half was good but I was really disappointed with their weak showing in the second half.
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
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