rtraincollector Ole Timer: Hi Guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Howdy Welcome to the forum most of us are friendly but you need to watch out for the chief. Oh my bag thats right you use to come in here all the time good to see you again Hows things been going? Okay down here.
Ole Timer: Hi Guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
Howdy Welcome to the forum most of us are friendly but you need to watch out for the chief.
Oh my bag thats right you use to come in here all the time good to see you again
Hows things been going? Okay down here.
WELCOME BACK RT
Thought maybe you were in the Roseyville jail!
Good to hear from you Old Timer.
Pat
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Doug M. -- there is a very narrow, heavy band of snow over the Cedar Falls area finally moving eastward. Just talked to the kids and they have about 6" of new snow and maybe 1" or 2" this afternoon, fortunately there is NO wind and that makes all the difference. So far we have NONE and that's wonderful, last night on the 10:00 news it "appeared" that the end of the world was near with these clowns. We hope to enjoy our families here this weekend to celebrate a late Christmas, keeping our fingers crossed for the kids from MPLS -- that's a long drive with nothing in between. If no one makes it here this weekend we have enough food to make it to July 4
The sons asked me if we could not have a traditional Christmas meal and pleaded with me to do smoked ribs -- should be fun smoking ribs tomorrow with the starting temp of -2. I do have a nice sized custom steel building about 30' from the house (lawn equipment storage) where I can get the smoker out of the wind and raise the garage door. It's all worth it if they can make it here safely. For those of you who have my championship smoked bean recipe -- it's on the menu
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Good morning Chuck and all you Ohio folks as well as anyone getting fallout from the snohio. My goodness, you guys are having real weather! They predict some rain here for tomorrow but I will believe it when I see it. If I put the car cover on the old leaky Buick, it probably wouldn't rain at all. That's the way it usually works.
No report about the box yet today from the Chief. Get er done Chief!
later,
Ray
SPMan
KRM dougdagrump: Joe & Kev, A few years back CTT did a "How To" feature on an Under The Bed layout. Unfortunately I no longer have it, gave it to a family with a train crazed 6 y.o. Maybe someone else on the Pot can recall which issue it was, possibly scan and e-mail to you or order it from Back Issue dept. DougDG is this it??? http://ctt.trains.com/issue-search.aspx?keywords=under+bed&startdate=11%2f1%2f2003&enddate=11%2f1%2f2003 Tks, Kev.
dougdagrump: Joe & Kev, A few years back CTT did a "How To" feature on an Under The Bed layout. Unfortunately I no longer have it, gave it to a family with a train crazed 6 y.o. Maybe someone else on the Pot can recall which issue it was, possibly scan and e-mail to you or order it from Back Issue dept.
Joe & Kev, A few years back CTT did a "How To" feature on an Under The Bed layout. Unfortunately I no longer have it, gave it to a family with a train crazed 6 y.o. Maybe someone else on the Pot can recall which issue it was, possibly scan and e-mail to you or order it from Back Issue dept.
DougDG is this it???
http://ctt.trains.com/issue-search.aspx?keywords=under+bed&startdate=11%2f1%2f2003&enddate=11%2f1%2f2003
Tks,
Kev.
That be the one !
Anybody gonna be visiting in the Scottsdale area ? Found a good place to visit, http://pandprr.com/newpandprr/Home.html . This is almost in Bob's backyard.
The blurb we got in the newest issue of CTT got a bit of buzz at the club meeting last nite. You know the old saying, any publicity is good but when it's good publicity it's even better. Thanks CTT.
Hang tuff you guys getting the less than nice weather, I can't even get warm when the temps are in the 70's let alone in the single digits. Seems almost like yesterday the Better Half and I used to enjoy snowmobiling in 15 to 20 below, most be a by-product of age.
Gotta go rustle up some breakfast so I can take my pills. Will check in later.
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Ole Timer Hi Guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
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That would be 3/4"
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
cnw1995 Boy, Jack, that sounds like one of my old math problems. "If a car leaves White Plains at 5 pm..." Kev, I must've done something to Jon, who is sending this from points west...
Boy, Jack, that sounds like one of my old math problems. "If a car leaves White Plains at 5 pm..." Kev, I must've done something to Jon, who is sending this from points west...
Yep you must of.
Light snow now about 3?4" so far temp is 16
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Dodged another weather bullet late yesterday afternoon and last night.
I had to drive 50 miles up to NH @6PM. Snow was to commence around 6PM-7PM with accumulations where I was going estimated at 4-6". No snow going there and coming back. ?!?!
Meanwhile, wifey was driving back from White Plains NY, leaving there at 5PM........220 miles and 4 hours barring traffic snafus. Worry? Yes. At 2PM gave her the forecasts over the phone for White Plains, Danbury CT., Hartford (half way back), Worcester MA 60 miles from home, and here. Told her to drive slow and steady and it would be an easy drive (AWD, new tires). No snow for her all the way back. She gets home and says "Jack, what is wrong with you? What forecasts were you looking at?"
Revised forecast overnight as heard on the 11PM news, homestead was supposed to get 4-5" but awakened to just 2"
I sure am glad that the meteorologists have all of this high tech equipment they didn't have 5 decades ago Gobs of money and an army of weatherpeople with nonstop "the sky is falling" media coverage to get less accurate forecasts and waste a lot of time with added angst for folks like us, looking at dire predictions that don't materialize, or so it seems to this common man.
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
cnw1995 Aloha . Oh boo, here comes the snow from I-O-Way. A brisk 8 degrees now and anything from 4-9 inches forecast. But I'm here in the city; sure to have a good home-commute story tonight. At least I bought a couple of train books with me...
Aloha . Oh boo, here comes the snow from I-O-Way. A brisk 8 degrees now and anything from 4-9 inches forecast. But I'm here in the city; sure to have a good home-commute story tonight. At least I bought a couple of train books with me...
Doug, Good luck man looks like it is aimed at you guys up north of us. 18 degrees here and calling for a little snow. What did you do to Chuck to make him aim the cannon at you???
The wife stayed home from work today because of the forecast in Will County.
As luck, or lack of it would have it my RW went up in a cloud of smoke last night but never quit working and I can’t find any reasons now that I took off the cover. Boy does it stink. Don’t think I can trust the old RW anymore so I need to start looking for something else. I have kind of been looking at the MTH I think it is a Z4000. Anybody got any comments on them? Seems like a lot of $$$$ for one.
I can’t get SJ to cut one of his many ZWs loose so I am on the hunt.
Thanks for the PM Joe I will be getting back to you. Twist ties will work fine.
Later guys,
Good Morning!
Banks: LODD is Line of Duty Death, meaning the firefighter/medic/police officer has died while on duty.
In the 30's now, t's SUPPOSED to sno-hio, 1-3" forcast. Sun is out and its a little breezy right now.
Everybody comes home Sunday and I'm getting the house cleaned up a bit prior. Tomorrow night is our department's installation dinner. It's the annual dinner/dance where all the line/executive officers installed (sworn) into office. I SHOULD finally get my 20 years of Service star...I've been trying since I left. 37 years of service for a 20 year star...go figure. I'm just happy to get it!
Got a lot done at the fire house yesterday, my "new" storage room for the Engineer is just about finished and we moved all the equipment into it. Later on today, I'll be tossing more stuff out.
Interview went well, I'll know next week. It's a take charge shop, so that's what I'm looking for.
Off for Oatmeal and Tang!
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
Good morning
Winter found us too. It was 4 degrees at 7:30am. We have bright sun and 10 now but sn-- is expected later. Doug M your at work so I guess that van started. Too bad huh. Chief RT may be missing but we can run one page for two days when your at your summer box mansion. I had a restless night, nose is stuffy, me thinks someone shared their cold germs with me..S.J.
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Good morning. It's 65 and cloudy. Expecting isolated light showers this morning. The high will be 74 and mostly cloudy. There's a 20% chance of rain this afternoon and evening then light drizzle and fog after midnight.I'm feeling a little better today but not by much. This morning I'm performing an inspection on a loco I found in the closet yesterday. It's an Athearn blue box F7 chassis with a Bachmann FT-A shell. It has bad pickup issues so it's looking like I'll be opening up the bottoms of the trucks and pulling out the wheel sets. My thinking is that there's corrosion where the bearings meet the frame. With my luck the corrosion will be between the bearings and axles. I hope not. I really don't want to have to take the wheel sets apart just to run a pipe cleaner with Krud Kutter through the bearings then have to put them all back together. I'll have to take one of them apart in any case as it feels as though there's a cracked gear in the rear truck. I have enough spare wheel sets around I should be able to just drop another one in. That's all I'm looking at doing today.The chassis in question:
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Konbanwa,
Well although it snow all morning and the better part of the afternoon we had no accumulation; the ground was too wet. My kids and I were hoping to have a snowball fight when I came home from work, but we had to settle on playing the Wii. I need to finish some schoolwork tonight and then spend some time wiring the blocks on the UTB RR this weekend. I may try to catch the Tardis tomorrow morning (Friday night for you guys).
Ohayō (O-hi-o) Chuck - Aim the snow cannon Far East again and crank it up to high please.
Banks - Thanks. Yes, the cars are lighted. I may try to run them this weekend by jury rigging (twist ties?) them to one of my modern locos. And I'm pretty jealous that you still have your Christmas tree up; that is great.
Sayonara,
Joe
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cold 5 degrees. Wind chill at 10 below zero. About 3 inches of snow. More due today. Going up to only 25 today.
Today is an easy day. I will do a few chores and take it easy. I have some old train DVDs to watch.
Buckeye & LAZ.....TGIF
Snow cannon went wild. Look out, Guys.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Hello all,
TGIF
It's a chilly 14 here with one inch of snow over night. Roads are good. We're scheduled for the southern edge of Laz's snow. 1 to 2 inches of snow, sleet & rain. Starting after dark tonight. Guess I'm going to have to break down and put the snowplow on the tractor this evening.
Mrs & I may take down the Christmas tree this weekend. Maybe not. We're still enjoying it and the needles are tight.
Demay, nice set of cars. Are they lighted?
Rich/Dennis what is LODD????
Best get busy
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Doug M. -- batten down the hatches, Ol' Man Winter showed up here and he is PO'd. He's got a frown on his face and is headed your way, hide the women and children
Hi GUYZ,
15 here and cold.
CHUCK say it ain't SNOW!!! Point dat cannon south. We are to get 3-7 inches here tomorrow. First big sno hi o since October.
CHUCK and BUCKEYE TGIF!!!!!!
Stay frosty bouyz,
laz57
Good morning everyone. Getting ready for a full day. Plenty of work to do. Got some more work done on the buildings for the layout. Tomorrow is our annual train show, so I am looking forward to that. The next nearest train show is three hours away.
Today is supposed to be near seventy with possible rain. I need to stop and get some fruit trees to plant and also to prune the peach trees.
Chief, I am going to be heading down to Sanibel Island in Florida for a meeting the end of February. We need to try to coordinate meetings and Bass Pro shows.
Gotta get running. Pray that you all have a blessed weekend ahead.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Website ate my post, but it might have been a glitch on my wireless connection. Had a nice lunch with an old friend today at a little place in the city - Blues City Deli. Great handmade salami and etc, so good. I had to drink a lot of water, because it was so salty compared to what I usually eat nowadays
TARDIS had a little blip on takeoff - had to move some electronics and that of course resulted in loose connection on the stereo and tv that had to be redone. All is well now, so let's get going!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
I was looking through some stuff in the closet and came across a couple of items. One is a shell from an old Mantua F unit. I put it on a Varney frame so it can at least sit on a siding. The other is a Bachmann FT shell on an Athearn chassis with a Proto 1000 motor. DCC of course, a DZ125 decoder still set on address 3. It has some pickup issues and feels like it has a cracked gear in the rear truck. Nothing I can't fix. Once I get it working properly I can put an F7B body on it or maybe an F3B body (don't have any more A's) and start building another multi-unit consist. Well time for me to call it a night. I'm still not feeling well and am very tired. See y'all tomorrow.
My my down to 1. The van is not going to be happy. Searching the skies for the Tardis,,,
A little chilly out tonight. Not going below freezing. Near 60 tomorrow and then climbing.
sir james I Good Evening 14 degrees and going down to 6 overnight. We got about an inch of white stuff on the walks, more coming tomorrow night. It was a stay in day so no major news events here. S.J.
Good Evening
14 degrees and going down to 6 overnight. We got about an inch of white stuff on the walks, more coming tomorrow night. It was a stay in day so no major news events here. S.J.
Electrical cable buried. In plastic conduit under ground so Wifey can't dig it up. All ready to wire into box in garage. Hopefully by lunch tomorrow, power will be to the box. Then skirting.
Dougsnotagrum has a wonderful club layout. Been there.
Looks like I am going to be in Charlotte Bass Pro Shops last weekend in Feb. Ft. Lauderdale first weekend in March at Bass Pro Shops.
Later
PS: sure is quite around here with RT's computer down.
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14 degrees and going down to 6 overnight. We got about an inch of white stuff on the walks, more coming tomorrow night. It was a stay in day so no major news events here. I shall wait with the Banilla...S.J.
Dennis: It was an LODD of a FF/Medic in Hopelawn. I haven't seen anything else at this time. Updates as I get them.
58 year old volunteer died on scene. Apparent heart attack after getting the truck to the scene, he collapsed. Owner of the hope was DOA in his home.
This, on top of an 8 alarm fire in Union City, left 40 homeless. Started 9 PM last night and is ongoing.
6 PM here on the East Coast....getting ready to go to fire drill. It's been a busy and deadly week here for the fire service. 2 firefighters hurt at a gas leak/explosion just north of NYC.
OK off to dinner and drill.... for our intentions and those of us ailing.
Will check back later.
Ohayo (O-hi-o for Chuck),
I am about to leave for work but I figured I'd grab a quick cup of coffee. It is snowing nicely now, but since it rained first the ground is too wet for it to accumulate. Fortunately it wasn't cold enough for it to freeze either. I would love for the snow to accumulate so the kids and I can play in it; we love the snow.
Kev - I'll look for your PM.
Dougdagrump - I believe Kev found the issue. I saw an under-the-bed layout in the other magazine a year ago I believe. It was nicely done as well.
I hope you all have a good evening,
Good afternoonY'all! Very pretty out, but temps were in low sixties. Did some shopping and now I am making dinner for the gang. I am a bit tired, didn't sleep well last night.
Rich, I heard a FF in Woodbridge died in the line of duty. Sad. I think one of the occupants of the house died too. This a dangerous career.
Did some work on some buildings for the layout. I need to finish up and get them in place.
Pray that everyone has a blessed night.
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