Coffee Pot #12 December 2011 5+ years and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat.

[KRM]

rtraincollector

KRM:

  

RT, I will be glad to help if you wait till I feel better, pay my air fair and rental car cost. 

 

Its done now I had a limo waiting for you at the airport and my private plane was on stand-by to go get you. But it all done now

And if you believe that one I have 50 acres for sale on pluto

 

Geese all I did was go to the Dr office and Waldoworld for the meds and I saw the liom pulling out of the drive when I got home. Darn

[anjdevil2]

rtraincollector

 

KRM:

 

 

rtraincollector:

Okay wheres my help I told you all I had no help and I had to drag this in I figured at least one would come and help no all I got was have fun with the entrainment center RT bet your wife gets the entraining of you bringing it in

 

 

RT, I will be glad to help if you wait till I feel better, pay my air fair and rental car cost. 

 

 

 

Its done now I had a limo waiting for you at the airport and my private plane was on stand-by to go get you. But it all done now

And if you believe that one I have 50 acres for sale on pluto

Hey at least it wasn't 50 acres on Uranus.....sorry...had to go there,,,,

'evening sports fans...

Emptied the tool box and money will be on the way Tuesday.  No problem, I can wait.  I still have an emergency fund to pay the bills with.  Kev, that was my working toolbox, My home bound Craftsman 3 tier box will suffice until I can afford to get another "professional" box.  I was looking at one at Harbour Freight, but just came up $200 and 1 job short of buying it.  Put all my tools into 3 $5 totes from Walmart.  Sorting and storing them is another issue.

The storage unit is about done as well, just have my toolbox locker, bottom tool box, a TV and microwave.  Moving into my sisters attic will save me $50/month and make me feel better about putting all that stuff up there as I will be giving her $50/month (my rent at storage was $104/month).

Yeah I'm not worried, just concerned.  The holidays are more difficult to get a job, but I've been pushing harder these last 2 weeks.  Something will break.  Probably after Jan 3. 

Neon needed a thermostat...and that's odd, cuz I replaced it last January.  I don't get it.  Just need to replace the radiator now.  I think I found a used one on line, and CHEAP!

Princess is studying for her driving permit.  I'm thinking she'll go take the $10 TEST next week,  and looking for another job.  We should job hunt together...lol

OK boys I'm back to the job search.  I'll catch up later.

Thanks for the prayers and boosts up for my next job.  It does help!

Rich

[Demay]

Ohayō (O-hi-o for Chuck),

It's 0913 Thursday morning; it's a little chilly outside but the sun is shining.  I made another "to do" list for today but this one has only a couple of items on it.  I'm watching the last quarter of the AF-Toledo bowl game in which neither team is playing defense.  I'm going to finish my coffee and maybe see if I can catch the Tardis.

Rich - You have a great attitude so I can't see you without a job much longer.  I'll keep praying.

8N - It's great to see your mom is improving.

RT - Thanks for the information about the Williams by Williams items.  If we can’t get the Trainsounds thing worked out we’ll be fine running our very conventional locomotives. 

Sayonara,

Joe

[rtraincollector]

Well Kev I called them back once I had it all done.

Hey all not a lot going on tonight getting ready to call it a night.

Got a second set of pots and pans last night ( the company sent a second ) set so gave back to UPS guy. ( Didn't want to take chance of getting charged again latter when I couldn't handle it as its was tied to my debit card my luck it would hit when I had about .15 less in the account than it came to and bank would charge me $35 for that. )

Do like the set we got so happy with that lol.

Got some K-Line K-0690 O gauge protection lockon's in ( the price was right so figured I would try them) they were new in sealed packages there actually for O-27 type track but state for all Tubular rail well with some minor adjustment to my Gar-Graves track I see they will work fine with it.

Well thats it for me tonight you all have a good evening. Talk to you all later

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good evening. It's 54° and cloudy. Low tonight will be 41° with some clouds.

Got more flawed vehicle castings today along with another junkyard row, this one with vehicles from the thirties and forties. I even got a couple of convertibles this time!

Well, got up this morning at 9 am and checked out some of the goings on online. No sooner than posted a reply than a power surge came through and tripped my surge protectors. There was still enough oomph left on it to make the circuit breaker in my computers power supply trip. I had to reset that before I could turn the computer back on. No sooner got it back up and running than I got a call from my father saying that the new couch was being delivered sometime today. He was at work and wouldn't be able to help. Wasn't that convenient? So I call my mother and tell her to call me when they say they're on the way. Thirty minutes later she calls back and says they're coming. So I get down there. The old couch and a couple of sofas that should have been hauled out are still there! Between Christmas and all the rain they couldn't be moved out. Well, I couldn't move them and my mother sure as heck couldn't so the delivery guys got pressed into service as furniture movers. I had them put the old sofa in my fathers study and the old couch was put in the den right in front of the old sofa that was supposed to be hauled out. Several small tables got shifted around and the couch table went in the front bedroom. After all that the guys were breaking a sweat and they hadn't gotten the new couch off the truck yet. Did I mention it's a sectional? So there were actually two couches on the truck. First some three inch thick cement blocks had to be set down so the couch would be at the right height. Everyone who will be using it is disabled so it has to be a bit higher than what would be usual. Finally they could bring the behemoth in and set it up. It looked great! The rest of the room looked like a tornado had hit it but the couch looked great. Those guys sure earned their pay this morning. After that I took my mother into town so she could run some errands, make a bank deposit and go to Lowe's to buy more weeds (plants) for her menagerie in the great room. She went there on the pretense of getting a new fake Christmas tree for NEXT year as her old one was broken. I haven't looked at it yet but it's probably nothing JB Weld can't fix. Well at $114 (half price) the tree cost too much so she stocked up on more weeds. We went to Smith Jewelers so she could pay a bill there. From there it was to Los Mayos to get a bite to eat then back home. That accounted for much of the afternoon. By that time she was almost too stiff to move so she's now testing the softness of the couch. My father, nephew and one of the nephews friends were left to sort the room out. I came home with my few items my mother paid for. A half pint of light yellow mis-tinted paint and two 24" fluorescent lights for my bedroom. The old ones have steadily been dimming over the past month. I'm hurting pretty bad right now so I have to get some rest too.

[dwiemer]

Good evening guys.  RT, I think that I, like you are too far from any help on projects.  So, if we need something done, roll up the sleeves and have at it!  Regarding the link for Jon's layout, all I get is a photo, no play button, etc.  the layout at the bottom does have a play button, but if I tap on Jon's photo, or near it, the picture just gets bigger.  I will see if I can check it on another system, perhaps my web brouser doesn't like the link.

Kev, I am sorry if you got what we have been battling.  Crud lasts about a week and then just leaves you with an upper respiratory congestion that hangs on.  Hope it leaves this house soon, we are tired of it!

Rich, been thinking about you.  Wish I had some info for prospects for you.  I am surprised to hear that you didn't have any chimney fires.  We always seemed to get a few from folks not having chimney cleaned and then trying to burn wrapping paper.

Well, the cold is heading this way.  Was down into the fifties for most of the day.  I had to solder the feed wire to the headlight on my car.  It had started to melt the wire and plastic holder that the light fits into, and then is pressed into the headlight housing.  Hopefully, the better connection solved the heat issue.

Picked up a new blue ray player as the price was right.  This one also can play Netflix, but I need to figure a way of either running an Ethernet line, or some wifi adaptor.  Either way, we can now watch some of the blue ray discs that friends have given as gifts to our kids.

Good luck hunting Chief.  Hope you get a good one.  

8n, will continue prayers for your Mom.

God bless,

Dennis

[sir james I]

Good evening

25 degrees, it was sunny today but stayed cold in the 20s.

We stayed in today but are getting restless now. Time to get out for a few hours. Maybe tomorrow. I just watched the Toledo Rockets win their football game. Air Force could have tied with the extra point kick but fumbled trying to win with a 2 pointer pass. Twas a good game. I am hungry, gained weight eating Christmas cookies and candy. now I am paying the price. Banilla is ready to go, I will have to pass....S.J.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I've gone through and cataloged all the castings I received in the second shipment and the list is as follows:

1950 Nash Ambassador
1947 Buick Roadmaster convertible
1950 Buick Super
1937 Studebaker pickup
1951 Front, cab and cargo box of Reo truck
1950 Buick Sedan
1952 Ford Convertible
1950 wrecked Nash
1952 Ford Sedan
1949 Mercury Woody
1952 Ford Wagon
1950 Buick Super Wagon
30's and 40's junkyard scene

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

IIABSDISIEI with temps in the 30s.  We went to Jingle Rails at the Eiteljorg in Indy yesterday.  It is G scale, but still impressive.  All done by Paul Busse and his group.  Built with LEGOs today and did over 2 miles on outside YMCA route.   I had cereal, bacon and toast on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East".   Long story short we saw War Horse today.  Wife did not like war scenes and wanted to leave, but I told they would not last much longer and they did not.  Interesting viewpoint to WWI.  Not much else going on.  TBIL.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[submmbob]

Hello all. Hope everyone had a good Christmas. Mine was good. I got to hear a good speaker at a meeting and then had dinner w/ friends. We went out to a local Indian restaurant that is open on Christmas. Then went back and played with miniature RC helicopters and terrorized the cat and my friends wife. Didn't get a chance to run trains, but the helicopters were fun.

Right after I ordered the new pilot truck for the 2026, I broke the tab on the truck/light holder. A quick email to Brasseur's hoping I could add it to the order, but they are very efficient and already had it shipped. Oh well, something to include for the next order.

JimT - the smoke unit on the 2025 works fine, but I was hoping to get a little more output w/ the liquid smoke unit. The driving mechanism is quite different from the 2026, so I was hoping to give it a little boost. We shall see.

Fife - so sorry to hear about your friend. Thoughts and prayers go out to friends and family.

RT - Good work on the entertainment center and sorry to hear about your cat

8N - good news about your mom!

Chuck - your post about running trains made my day. Thank you.

Jeffrey - love the new collection of castings. That's quite the collection.

As regards to the job change, it is still in the works. Things will be held up until after the holidays. It is working w/ the base camp staff. It means a bit of a pay cut and also moving to the local community of Safford, but will be more of a regular schedule. 4/10s and home at night. I hear what some of you are saying about my current job, but the schedule and the hours are a killer. This is my 10th season working here. The new job is much more hands on w/ the equipment and utilities which I am looking forward too. This is a change I have been considering for some time. Well see how things progress and I'll keep you posted.

Bob

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[ChiefEagles]

Good night all.  Reclinerized after getting in from hunting.  Going again tomorrow.

KEV, I send Yankees all the "good" things I can.

Sleep tight.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Getting ready to go east to the woods to hunt.  Colder and sunny.  Have a great day.

[dwiemer]

Morning all, quick post before heading in.  Having more phone outages so we are thinking of going ahead with dropping the land line.  Kids are working on getting better, but we seem to bounce back and forth with who is feeling worse for the moment.

Bob, good luck with the new job.  If it is what you want and it will pay the bills, great.  Hope everything works out for you.  There is a lot to be said for having a quality of life, it isn't all about money.

Chief, hope you get some meat on the ground and have a safe time.  

PIE had better get going.  God bless,

Dennis

[RockIsland52]

sir james I

Good evening

25 degrees, it was sunny today but stayed cold in the 20s.

.........I am hungry, gained weight eating Christmas cookies and candy. now I am paying the price. Banilla is ready to go, I will have to pass....S.J.

SJ........I think you are in good shape with this one.  While you gained "weight" the rest of us gained "tonnage."  And I look like I am about 5 months pregnant. 

Jack

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cloudy 28 degrees. Going up to 40 today with cloudy skies.

Today is an easy day. I have a few chores and some reading to do, Then, I will relax and watch some TV. That's about it.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

[RockIsland52]

anjdevil2

rtraincollector: 

KRM: 

rtraincollector:

Okay wheres my help I told you all I had no help and I had to drag this in I figured at least one would come and help no all I got was have fun with the entrainment center RT bet your wife gets the entraining of you bringing it in  

RT, I will be glad to help if you wait till I feel better, pay my air fair and rental car cost.   

Its done now I had a limo waiting for you at the airport and my private plane was on stand-by to go get you. But it all done now

And if you believe that one I have 50 acres for sale on pluto  

..........Princess is studying for her driving permit.  I'm thinking she'll go take the $10 TEST next week,  and looking for another job.  We should job hunt together...lol

Rich

Rich.........after some driving instruction sessions with the Princess, you will be certified as a crash test dummy!!!!  In addition, you will be highly qualified to participate in a control group for the study of crash helmets, antacids and sedatives, and a career in collision repair. 

Jack

[RockIsland52]

Good Mornin' Y'all From Frigid Taxachusetts,

Day three of babysitting 24/7 with the 8 year old granddaughter.  Lots of trains (my influence)  and shopping (Grammy Pammy influence).  How is it when women try to talk rationalize about saving money it always entails spending even more money?

Had a problem with my Christmas present from the daughter and SIL.  It is the 2011 Lionel Christmas boxcar.  One side of one of the trucks just self-dissambled, and I could not get the (2) misiscule springs popped back into place during reassembly.  Off the my train store where it was purchased.  They were out of replacements, but the repair guy had the right tool to reassemble and reinsert the springs; and we were out of there in short order......but not before taking the granddaughter, my new Minister(ess) of Train Propaganda, on a tour of the shop.  She received proper instruction on the Polar Express Baldwin 2-8-4 Berk engine with the pretty drivers and the PE passenger cars.

Jack

[Stourbridge Lion]

Good Morning CTT Fans!

Well it's back to the office for me today and currently its 36F and the Sun is making its way up here in the Mile High area.  Finished up my Georgetown Loop Trip Report this weekend <Click Here> ending with a great video (Part III of III) of Steam Engine #12 running from Georgetown to Silver Plume while keeping the "record" button going all the way from beginning to end.  Might help some with modeling ideas seeing this section of the old C&S in the Rocky Mountains twist and loop it's way up a valley.

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

Today was a pretty easy day for us.  I took care of my easy chores and then one important chore for the wife: hooking up the new all-in-one wireless printer.  That was pretty easy as well, except when the 17-month-old decided he wanted to help.  After that I helped the 8 y/o son build a Millennium Falcon model. My oldest brother bought it for him and fortunately it is only a snap-together model so he was able to do most of it himself.  It is a very neat and pretty decently detailed model.  He has been flying it around all day.  I made some chicken fajitas for dinner and I just now finished some schoolwork.  Tomorrow, we are off to IKEA.

SJ - The AF-Toledo game had a great finish.  If the holder would have pitched the ball AF would have made that two-point conversion.  Either way, you have to hand it to the coach for trying to win it versus heading for overtime.  It's bowl game so you should pull out all the stops to win in regulation time.

Stourbridge - Thank for the link to your Georgetown Loop thread.  I had a chance to read through it and enjoyed the photos and video very much.

Sayonara,

Joe

[wrmcclellan]

Monring all!

Busy day yesterday. We are rebuilding my old 8x12 layout that was in storage into a 8x20 by adding two more 4x8 sections so we have something to run at the local train show in January. Got the 2 table tops and legs built. Ready for track planning. There will be some sort of yard tracks to allow us to assemble and remove trains while keeping the two tracks operational. Worked until 8 pm so too tired to post last night.

Warmer weather here, but predicted to cool off by Monday.

Making a little trip for New Years so posting may be erratic.

8N - for your mom

Jack - ahhh - now training the younger ones to influence the money holders - sharp!

Jeffrey - hang in there. Like the photo of the engine shed.

SubmmBob - good luck with the job decision.

Chuck - trains = good health

Stourbridge - cool. We have ridden the loop several times. We used to go and stay at the YMCA of the Rockies for a week each summer when the kids were little. Now we go to Tennessee for the water sports now that they are older (much older).

Have a great day all!

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  20 here and a cold start.  Took MINNIE on her walk and then did an easy 2miler then weights.  Today going out for deer with Flintlock.

SIR JAMES, told you to take a walk after feasting on Sunday.  Ya gotta start doing that everyday.

CHIEF, watched a show on MOONSHINERS last nite on Discovery.  Gee they sounded just like you.  Relation?

Stay frosty,

laz57

[sir james I]

32 w/snow/rain for the day.

A quick good morning. Granny is waiting to get out of the house.

S.J.

[laz 57]

DARREN,(STOURBRIDGE LION)

  Thanks for the pics and vid very cool.  What size tracks are they running on?  We are running on 42 inch wide track otherwise know as *** gauge up at the Pioneer Tunnel.  Here is our link

http://www.pioneertunnel.com/trainride.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4DV6ZKkUA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

laz57

[Anonymous]

Bob,

            I've never had good luck with the liquid conversions.  They smoke good for a while, then their output reduces until they burn out completely.  I've never seen anything puff as nicely as an early 2026 though. 

Jack,

            You just need to combine influences so that the shopping is for trains.

Rich,

            Good luck to you and your daughter on the job hunt.  I am going through the same thing.  I have my fingers crossed for one job that I would love to do even though it isn't in my field.

 

I hope everyone had a good Christmas.  After I ran the Decapod for a bit, I spent the rest of Christmas morning in the garage removing the Mustang's stock tails and harnesses and replacing them with Raxiom's 2010 style tails and Raxiom's plug-in sequential harnesses that I got from American Muscle.

I am now having an issue with the Decapod after only three hours of total runtime.  The markers on the boiler have gone out and will not light.  Not real happy about that right now.

[jonadel]

Some of you have asked about a video we made a few years ago and is still viewable.  I'm not sure why the video featured in the Dec. issue of CTT is not linking up, try this one

 

Happy New Year!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7113039967492295449

[SPMan]

Laz, I saw that moonshiner show too.  I think they said those guys were in Virginia but N.C. and Virginia accents are usually somewhat different from my experience.  However that guy named "Tickle" on the show sounds more like he is half drunk all the time.  I think he drinks too much of his own product.

V8 Dennis, Welcome home!  Glad you had a good trip.  I did not sleep any better than you did even on an economy sleeper one time.  The train motion keeps me awake at least in an upper berth.  I think I would have been able to sleep better sitting up in a coach seat.  The funny thing though is that when I was an engineer and deadheading (not working) on trailing diesel units I could sleep like a log.  I guess you just have to be really tired.

Nice weather continues here.  Might try getting together with train buddies today.

later,

Ray

[submmbob]

Another day collecting photons. The weather is good, but the sky transparency could be better for observing.

Stourbridge and Laz - thanks for the video links! Cool locomotives! Love the tender (or would that be Love me Tender...) on the #12.

JimT - I'll try the liquid unit just for fun. I guess I can always go back to the original unit at some point. Yes, the 2026 is nice the way it blows smoke rings.

Thanks for the encouraging words on the potential job change. We'll see how this all develops.

Well 4 people came to look at the MGB, and seemed like a lot of interest but no takers yet. Several needed to talk to the other half. What's up w/ that? Well, I will just have to wait and see. Like me, most of these guys already have too many projects.

Bob

 

 

[RockIsland52]

V8Vega

97 Probe would that be sequential turn signals like on early Mecury Cougars I think they were called. Very neat where the turn signals blink on three tailights from the center out, 1-2-3  1-2-3

V8.........welcome home!!!!  Re your not liking the cold.....it got down to 14 here last night with sustained 20-25 mph winds.  Re the sequential turn signals, the T-Birds had them too!!!!

Dennis.......re the crud, hope you and yours are making a comeback.  A buddy of mine came down with bronchitis a couple of weeks back and despite the meds and an inhaler he is still weezing a tad during the overnights, and it is taking a while to clear up just as you say.

Chuck.......did the train board cleaning commence, or don't you consider that one of the few chores you have to do ? 

JimmyT........wasn't sure you got that rear wiring harness installed correctly.  You had better get your final cruises in before the snow begins to fly in earnest.  Sorry to hear your new engine acquisition is giving you fits.  Stick with the old iron!!!!!  

SubmmBob........have you been driving your MGBGT?  Maybe it is not in the cards to sell it quite yet.

We are expecting a houseful New Years Eve and the honey do list is calling.  Later, gang.

Jack, gang.

[dwiemer]

Bob, I will tell ya what's up with checking it out with the better half...an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of flesh which is what SWMBO would remove from our hides if we were to make such a purchase!    Jon, I will have to check out the video later, right now, I'm working off the iPad.  

Well the phone saga is hopefully coming to a close.  The lines were dead again last night.  We are doing away with the land line and will be going to all cell.  It works out that we will be paying about the same, but have two phones with two numbers.  

Laz, one of the nurses was showing us photos of their family feeding deer right off the back porch.  One of our PAs was out with his son yesterday and the bucks were chasing the does.  He shot a nice ten pointer.

Dennis