Coffee Pot #1 January 2012 5+ years and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and sweet ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat. GRITS for the Yankees.

[sir james I]

28 degrees and about 2" of sno-.

Waiting to see who shows for the chat tonight..S.J.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

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

[tmcc man]

Evening all,

I've been battling a cold so I've been sleeping a lot this weekend. I stayed home Friday and Saturday but I went out and did a little bit of railfanning on the CSX Trenton Sub but only saw 2 trains in 3 hours. I did happen to catch an unexpected NS manifest, 14G, which had a nice SD70M-2 leader. From there I came home for a little bit but got a call from a friend to go hang out and drive around in his new truck. Driving around (in his new to him) Duramax makes me want one even more!

 

[dwiemer]

Good evening everyone.  Had a great day with both church services and the time with our family.  My neck and back were killing me all night, and still this morning.  They asked me to be on camera duty as the other guy was sick.  After the first few moments, my back went numb, so I didn't have pain....but knew I was going to suffer later.  After lunch, came home to do some work on the layout.  Got some more buildings painted and weathered.  Then, back to church.  

Hey Chief, ya think you were able to turn Buckeye and switch his loyalties to the South?  I can only imagine buckeye in the car on the way home....whistling Dixie!!!

Bob, my heartfelt congratulations to you sir!  I pray that you get settled into your new job and home real soon.  Having followed you in our friendship here, it warms the heart to see someone be blessed in such a way.

Well, I start call in the morning and am kicking off the week with a couple of big cases.  Should be a good week as we have plenty to do, which I prefer.  Seems when you are not busy that idle minds cause mischief.

About time for bed.  Pray that Y'all have a great night.

Dennis

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Demay

I had a nice three-mile run this morning.

A three mile run. Sounds like fun. Wish I could do that. I'm lucky IF I can walk 200 feet.

[rtraincollector]

Well its been a good day made pizza from scratch crust and all. Made bagles from scratch. So I had some fun baking today.

Didn't get anything train wise going but thats just the way it is here I have them on a shelf but thats about it maybe some day I will get them running Oh I do have a small loop on a table in here forgot about that when you asked last night sj.

[Demay]

Ohayō (O-hi-o for Chuck),

I had a nice three-mile run this morning.  It was pretty cold but it felt great.  It is sunny now and today’s high is in the 40s.  I ran out of time to post last night so I’m taking a moment to post from work now.  Yesterday morning I was able to chat with the Tardis crew for a few minutes.  The family and I had a great Sunday which mostly consisted of lazing around.  I did find time to clean the track on the UTB RR and also lube and oil the locomotives and the rolling stock which were due.  I jury rigged the tinplate cars to the 8 y/o son’s steam loco and tender again as well.  I shot some video using a Flip video camera which I will hopefully post tonight.  I need to edit the videos a little but I have never done that before.  I need to get back to work now.

Kev – Thanks for the snow photo.

Bob – Congratulations on the new job. 

Buckeye – Great job on the raid, and thanks for sharing the photos. 

Sayonara,

Joe

[jeffrey-wimberly]

submmbob

Jeffrey - Nice work on the F9 units! As Laz would say you da man! FYI: Mobile homes and another surprise will be heading east soon.

Let me know when and I'll be looking for them.

Thank y'all for the compliments on the F9's.That was a challenging but worthwhile project.

[wrmcclellan]

Buckeye,

It is good to see you regaining lucidity after your encounter. I was pretty worried after that rambling post yesterday. It is unfortunate you still have some recurrance of a few of the hallucinations of your alleged "conquests" in Roseyville but the evidence clearly shows the Chief is still posting strong. Be assured you will continue to get better. Note you did not have to actually ingest the GRITs. Just like with smoking, secondary exposure to GRITs is just as bad as actually ingesting them for the uninitiated/unwashed. So just being around the Chief - well you get the picture.

Jeff - a good challenging project is always fun - particularly when it all works out at the end!

SubmmBob - Congrats on the new job!

LAZ - the gang here already had our first York planning session.

 

[laz 57]

WOW GUYZ 1000+ posts for the month!!!!!  Is that a record or what?

laz57

[laz 57]

JEFF,  YOU DA MAN!!!!  Nice job on the F9s.

BOB, love da new office.  Better then the old one.

laz57

[Buckeye Riveter]

Bob....We pretty much made a mess of things in Roseyville.

 

[submmbob]

Hello All

A beautiful day up here on the mountain. So good we are using the high frequency receiver: 691 Gigahertz (for Chief's benefit, that means a lot...).

Well I just got the call from my future boss. I got the job. Looking to making the changeover in early March. Now to find a place to live in Safford, pack up, move, oh, and reassemble a '62 Corvair van that is sitting on jackstands with only the rear crossmember installed in the back. This will be the third time in 10 years where I've had to become the mad mechanic. I guess I must like it. 

The 2025 is now happily smoking along. The front truck hangs up every once and a while. Has the same problem as the 2026 where the pin came loose. Today I ordered another front truck, the headlight bracket for the 2026 (which I broke right after I had ordered the front truck for it), and a box of O-27 track clips from Brasseurs.

Jeffrey - Nice work on the F9 units! As Laz would say you da man! FYI: Mobile homes and another surprise will be heading east soon.

Buckeye - great job on the raid! Hopefully the Rolesville RR yard got the switching back in order....

So, my old office:

And, my new office:

Bob

 

[sir james I]

32 degrees, with wet snow.

We got the module layout up and running in a class room. It's really noisy in a closed space. Lots of tables and it looked like there was a  decent attendance...S.J.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Earlier today I took a couple of locos back to my bedroom to place them back in the display rack. After I'd put them back in their places I spotted a Stewart F9 A-B set and realized I had forgotten their address. I looked on the bottom of both locos but it wasn't there. I usually write the address on the bottom. So I took them to the layout to put them on the program track. In short order I had the address on the display. I wrote it on the bottom of the A unit and realized that I'd forgotten what kind of decoders I put in them. I did remember that these locos are a pain to open so I the Zephyr do the investigating. A quick check came back with 101. That was easy enough. 101 is Bachmann. I do remember all the work I put into these to get them operational again. When I got them they both had motor problems and the B unit had a problem in one truck as well. Both have Kato type chassis. The A unit was easy to remotor as I had a good motor that was virtually a drop-in replacement. I put the motor in, tested for shorts then wired in a Bachmann decoder and checked to make sure the address was set at three. That will become clear later. The B unit required more work. So much so that I almost shelved it. However what's life without some adventure and adversity. The motor was useless junk. The front truck had a broken gear in the top of the tower. One side of the shaft was snapped completely off and the gear below it was missing some teeth. It wasn't hard to determine that the broken shaft had fallen down onto the other gear and jammed it and stripped those teeth off. That truck was junk and I didn't have a any spare Kato trucks. I also didn't have a motor to match the old one. It was time to get creative. With a little work and a lot of imagination I fit an Athearn motor into the chassis. As for the trucks, in for a penny - in for a pound. I cut out part of the frame to allow for the installation of a pair of Proto 2000 AAR trucks. Now I've had people tell me this is impossible. Well, it was impossible, until I did it. I'm not saying it was easy. It would have been far easier to slap in an Athearn chassis. But where's the fun in that? It took a lot of work, a lot off adjusting, a lot of cussing, but I finally got the trucks in and mounted so they turned freely and sat at the proper height. I put in Athearn worms and found a pair of shafts that fit. I don't remember what they came out of but they worked. So that was another Frankenstein I could chalk up. I wired everything up, checked for shorts then installed a Bachmann decoder and made sure it was set to three. I got two horn-hook couplers from the junk box and put one on the rear of the A unit and the other on the front of the B unit, coupled them together and wrapped the couplers with aluminum wire so they were permanently coupled. I then soldered wires to the pickups of the A units rear truck and ran the back to the B unit where I soldered them to the pickups of the front truck. The units were now hard-wired together. From there it was to the program track to set a new address. Now you know why I made sure both decoders were set to address three earlier. With the new address set I sent them off on a test run. The test run was successful so I put the shells on them then put them in the display rack and promptly forgot about them. The Stewart F9 shells are so much like the Athearn F7 shells that that's what I thought they were when I looked at them.

[laz 57]

Buckeye Riveter

Photos of the Box for Laz.  I had never noticed the sign above the door in previous photos of the Box.

Thanks BUCKEYE for those beautiful photos.  Now as I see it the front steps looks like it could be taken apart and reused for a good firepit to fry up some Pa. Scrapple, and sit around drinking some Ol Mills.  BUCKEYE tell us more of this so called BOX with wooden floors.  Does it have pipes for plumbing?  Running water?  Heat?  Or can you bring heat inside?  Flush toilets or just a hole?

laz57

 

[Buckeye Riveter]

Ray....I ate no grits and drank no sweet tea.  The plan was for the Roseyville Police to cuff me and then force feed me grits.  Needless to say, Roseyville is a very tough and rough town reflecting the personality of the mayor. Watching the Dukes of Hazard, Mission Impossible and Combat during my formative years as a youngster really paid dividends and probably saved my life.  

[SPMan]

Good morning all,

Buckeye, is that a real sign on the front of the box or is it photo shop or something?  Glad you had a good time at the Chief's palace.  Sounds like you escaped the dragnet and handcuffs they had planned for you.  Where are the pictures of you?  I saw the nice pictures of Mr. and Mrs Chief.  Fess up now, how many bowls of grits did you have to eat to get a pass out of confederate lines?

Got to run, getting ready for church now.

later,

Ray

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Buckeye Riveter

Photos of the Box for Laz.  I had never noticed the sign above the door in previous photos of the Box.

I love that!! Roseyville Town Hall. Your Tax Dollars At Work.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Photos of the Box for Laz.  I had never noticed the sign above the door in previous photos of the Box.

[wrmcclellan]

Good morning all!

Sunny and cold here. Just finished watching The Longert Day. Now watching the end of the Daytona race. The new Corvette bodies are interesting. Still trying to get over whatever it was I caught earlier this week. Taking it easy today,

Have a great day all!

[jonadel]

Looks like a great time for everyone, and that is the most important thing!  Life is way to short not to have some fun everyday, good job Buckeye & Chief

[Buckeye Riveter]

THE GREAT RAID and THE GREAT ESCAPE – The debriefing of Buckeye

To:  All of you that have waited for this day since the Great Pennsylvania Grits Caper.

From:  Buckeye

Re: The Great Raid – Objectives Met/Exceeded

On January 28, 2012 at approximately 2:15 pm EST,  the flag of the Great State of Ohio was prominently displayed within the town limits of Roseyville, NC.  Chocolate covered Buckeyes were used to replace grits in the Mayor’s mansion as displayed below by the First Lady of Roseyville.   As they say, timing is everything and the mission was carried out flawlessly with absolutely stunning results.  This most dangerous mission is dedicated to those poor souls who were forced to digest grits during that awful day in Pennsylvania.  

[rtraincollector]

KRM

ChiefEagles:

Yankee Rat escaped.

  BUCKEYE

Buckeye I am sure a heroes welcome awaits you back at Roger’s Corners for the successful raid. Good Job! 

 

Hi all,

Sunny, windy and 32 degrees. Not much going on today.

Daughter and granddaughter were over yesterday and the granddaughter and I ran trains. Good time for all.

 

Sorry RT I got tied up last night and never got back to the Tardis

Have a great day everybody !

Later,

Kev.

Don't feel bad Brutus didn't make it either and he had the keys but we had a full crew in there last night.

Man this is the most post in a month in a long time. well it is January and a lot are in because of the wheather so I guess thats why.

[KRM]

ChiefEagles

Yankee Rat escaped.

  BUCKEYE

Buckeye I am sure a heroes welcome awaits you back at Roger’s Corners for the successful raid. Good Job! 

Hi all,

Sunny, windy and 32 degrees. Not much going on today.

Daughter and granddaughter were over yesterday and the granddaughter and I ran trains. Good time for all.

 

Sorry RT I got tied up last night and never got back to the Tardis

Have a great day everybody !

Later,

Kev.

[ChiefEagles]

Yankee Rat escaped.

Sunny and cooler than yesterday but still high 50's.  Grest visit from the Buckeye.  Good to see him.  Actually escaped with contraband.  Got some items from Miss Edna's.

Getting ready to make a trip to the lake house.  Haven't been in a while as working on the box.  Taking spare frig up and spending the night.  Lucy and Finn will be happy.  They get to run and play.

Later. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 36° and sunny. The high will be 63°.

Nothing special planned for today. There's some clean-up work needing to be done on the layout so I'll probably be busy sorting things out and putting them away.

[laz 57]

WOO HOO!!!!  BUCKEYE DID IT!!!  GREAT RAID!!!! Saw it right off way to go.  Watch your topknot the rest of the way home.  Scallywags down there.

Hi GUYZ,

  Ran trains last nite after doing my churchin and took WIFE out for dinner.  Had Veal cor don blu.  Good eats.  Came home and took MINNIE for a walk then ran trains for 3 hrs.  All ran good NO PILE UPs!!!!  Ran MTH NS F7s, MTH Readin BM T1, and Lionel AC 600 Santa fe, on the 3 ovals and on my coal layout had the K-line 4-6-6 tank engine pulling a coal drag.  Graet fun I needed my fix and got it.

Today going to make beff stew in crock pot let simmer all day.  Eat tonite.  Take my gal MINNIE for a run in the woods about 3 miles she needs to run.

BANKS nice layout.  Boy you sure keep the Christmas spirit up a long time.  Good for you. 

RT, like your avatar.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Buckeye: Congrats on the raid and the great escape. I never doubted you could pull it off.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a cold and windy 34 degrees. Going up to 38 today with a chance of snow showers.

Today is an easy day. I plan on running trains for awhile and doing some dusting. Maybe a football game later on TV.

Buckeye... Great job on the Raid. I bet they are still looking for you.

Dining car is here with an omlet for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Sunday.

Chuck