Morning all. Sunny and WARM. Nothing special today.
Demay, DC is the heart of you Yanks. If Lee had not stumbled at the little battle at Gettysburg, we would have owned DC.
Later
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Good morning. It's 52° and cloudy. The high will be 73° and it will be partly cloudy.Nothing special planned for today. I'll probably be doing some clean up work on the layout.
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cold 32 degrees. Going up to 42 today with a chance of rain. I hope not.
Today is a busy day. I have a few errands to run and the usual chores around the house. I will be busy for a few hours. Then, I can have lunch and relax. Maybe a nap.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Tuesday.
Chuck
Good Mornin' Y'all From Sunny Cape Ann Taxachusetts,
High 30s this AM, temps expected to ratchet back up 5 degrees above normal, 50s tomorrow, maybe 60 by Saturday.
LAZ.........you didn't read my post. I said my wife and in-laws were with me. I SAVED you by not stopping by, though the thought of some Ole Mils after riding with them for 6+ hours in the confines of the car sure sounds tempting !
Brutus......for your friends/couple that are facing a C battle. They will need support from all sides. And I hope Char's eye procedure this week is most successful. The first oneon the other one turned out A-OK, right? Now she can keep a tighter, more watchful eye on your shenanigans.
Who are these two guyz, Buckeye and the Chief? I must have missed seeing them post the last couple of years. They seem like a long-married couple taking pot shots at one another!
Blownout........good to see you back.
Roy.........it has been good to see all of the recent rains you have been getting. Hope that will continue for you, albeit more moderately, as we move into the next few months. I don't know how you can face daily that threat to the integrity of your house foundation, quite the worry.
Jeffrey..........are you keeping your head above water? Down your way, how does one ever get the chance to mow lawns? Pontoons on the John Deere? I've had remnants from an old injury to my foot surface now and then, but only small bits and pieces, nothing like yours.
JoeyD........ya got two trains running on twp separate layouts now? The empire grows. Wifey's domain in jeapardy!!!
LAZ counting on his fingers, toes, and empties lying around the layout........
Later, gang!!!!
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Mornin' boys. Gonna be a while before I post again (hopefully, not too long), as I have a health matter to tend to (nothing serious).
RockIsland - Would have made the 90 min drive to meet up with you...some other time. Be sure to check out the action at Rockville Bridge, and I highly recommend a meal at Duke's (west shore in Wormleysberg).
Hi GUYZ,
23 here and cold. Getting ready for ALLENTOWN TRAIN SHOW this weekend.
JACK, should have gave me a call I am just North of Harrisburg.
Stay frosty,
laz57
Konnichiwa,
I ran out of time to post last night. I had a nice day off and helped the wife out with chores and homeschooling. After the work and chores were done, I played games with the kids and then the older son and I set up the younger son's Little Lionel Lines train. I bought it for him two Christmases ago (his first) when I found it on sale at Ross for $19. He didn't have much interest in it before since he was too young. Now he loves it. We set up the set underneath his crib and he has fun working the infrared remote. It is a very neat set for the price and he can be as rough with it as he wants.
I am just finishing work for the day and will check in again tonight.
Brutus - I’ll pray for Char and your friends.
Buckeye - Once again, that was a remarkable event.
Chief - I believe DC is below the Mason-Dixon Line which would mean the hockey game was no more than some Rebel infighting. We Yankees have no desire to claim DC – you can keep it.
Blownout Cylinder - I've only been posting here a short while so it's nice to meet you.
Sayonara,
Joe
Hurricanes beat Capitals 5-0. Send them Yankees back to DC with a spanking. The Commissioners of the RBC Center were visiting us tonight. Talking about giving me a season suite since this was my first Hurricanes game and they routed the Capitals. Called me their good luck charm.
Buckeye Riveter ChiefEagles: Buckeye, glad you could remember the train wreck. Means your Alzheimer's is not as bad as diagnosed. Now who exactly are you again?
ChiefEagles: Buckeye, glad you could remember the train wreck. Means your Alzheimer's is not as bad as diagnosed.
Now who exactly are you again?
Don't we have fun picking on each other.
Turned cold but up to 70 by Thursday. No wonder Wifey is sick too.
Sleep tight.
Today's was the Wifey's birthday. Unlike Buckeye, she only has one a year.......and her age remains at 29. I took her out jewelry shopping since she lost one of her favorite earrings. She got all excited and off we went. After hitting about a dozen stores we had to give up because she couldn't find anything she liked nearly as much, so we quit the search and had an early dinner at Joe's American Bar and Grill. We must have walked 5 miles shopping. Did I mention I HATE SHOPPING?
Dennis........adventures in travel!!!!!!!! My in-laws flew out for a visit and then we drove down to Carlisle PA just South of Harrisburg (454 miles) for my son's parents' weekend at school, not far from LAZ. Most of the way down my wife and her folks had great fun taking potshots at my driving. The smiles abruptly stopped just North of Harrisburg as it quickly became dark as night in the middle of the afternoon, the skies opened up, and the winds ramped way up. Visibility was about 30 feet. If we pulled over and stopped, we risked getting hammered from the rear. So we crept along at about 25mph with the flashers on, following a semi in front of us. When we got to the hotel in Carlisle we dumped our stuff off in our rooms and went to the bar for a frosty. We noticed everyone was glued to the TV. Apparently we had just driven through 3 tornadoes that had passed West to East right over Route 81 and us!!!!
I am pooped, off to bed!!!
sir james I Pot's really slow tonight. 30 degrees now, I had a quiet day to myself. I figure Wednesday will be a good day for errands. Can you believe it, we are shipping oil and gasoline overseas while the prices keep going up here. We are being, well you know...S.J.
Pot's really slow tonight.
30 degrees now, I had a quiet day to myself. I figure Wednesday will be a good day for errands. Can you believe it, we are shipping oil and gasoline overseas while the prices keep going up here. We are being, well you know...S.J.
Anybody know how I can convert my vehicle to a wood fired steamer? These gas prices are ridiculous!
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Hi Guys,
Long day just got back in the house I am beat and will catch up tomorrow. Good trip to WI, but a long day
Have a good night,
kev
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Greetings from Saint Louis MO, where it was chilly but sunny today. We picked up the van this morning, before my wife took the boys and another kid they picked up on the way to the mall for a few hours of semi-supervised fun.
I put in a few hours trying to fix my daughter's computer. It turns out she had 9 viruses and a trojan program on her netbook. I got the viruses and trojan cleared after the 2nd run from the online F-Secure program, but after a reboot the trojan was back. Obviously it's down in the root of the drive. They have another tool for that type of problem, but I already had enough time on it. Some website of "fan fiction" goes to another site, so that website has been hacked. I explained how these things work a bit to her and she needs to avoid those websites from now on. I hope to get it cleared off tomorrow, as I'm just tired of messing with it now.
I think my son has a sinus infection - probably take him to the doc tomorrow.
Thursday is my wife's 2nd eye surgery, so I'll be off with her all day.
Please pray for my friend's Larry and Vickie Andreassen. Vickie has cancer and it's looking really bad right now.
TARDIS is ready and we have some M&Ms, Chips, Cookies, and Banilla
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Well, I'm calling it a night. I'll have an easy day tomorrow. I thought I was going to have to take my mother to a doctors appointment in Alexandria. I got the call this evening from my father that he has tomorrow off so he'll be taking her there and back. That's a great relief for me. Driving that little Pontiac G6 of hers makes what's left of my ankle hurt, and it hurts enough already. I can see what looks like another piece of shattered bone starting to emerge from the wound on the side. I'll have to watch it closely and be ready to pick it out with the tweezers when it's pushed out. This has happened before. The last chunk was about the size of a dime. See y'all tomorrow.
I made a trip into town today to the local library to get some reading material. 'HO Railroad from start to finish' by Jim Kelly and 'How To Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery' by Dave Frary. It also gave me a chance to evaluate the operation of the vans automatic choke. It seems to be working perfectly. Later I got the two Bachmann GP30's off the display rack so they could have some time on the layout. The one in the photo below is #30 and has a somewhat strange decoder setup. The stock bachmann decoder has a bad motor control circuit but I left it in because it had the headlight LED's on it. So the original decoder controls the lights. The motor control is handled by an old Lenz decoder that's piggy-backed on the Bachmann decoder. The setup works quite well. The other loco has the original unmodified decoder They'll likely be going to a new home soon.
ChiefEagles Buckeye, glad you could remember the train wreck. Means your Alzheimer's is not as bad as diagnosed.
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
Frank -- it's an unfortunate situation with your postmaster and UPS but it happens all the time. A buddy of mine (UPS driver his whole life) tried twice to get to a farm home in the winter when the weather was bad and he just couldn't make it. He called the recipient and explained the situation and the recipient told him just to drop it off at the post office and he would ride his snowmobile in and pick it up. The postmaster just about threw my buddy out the post office door when he entered with the package and asked for some help, that postmaster was a dirt bag PLUS it was a small town. My buddy just turned around and walked out, the recipients son met him at an intersection and they got the package, medical supplies!!!
When we were first married (soon to be 40 years) we lived in a small community where we had to go to the post office to get our mail. My wife stopped in one day and didn't have the key to the box and asked in a nice way if he could help out, he did but he let her have his wrath. I then went down and had a "discussion" with him as I had worked part time at the post office when I was in college, needless to say he learned to have a whole lot more respect for my wife and other females. That was 1972 and disrespect ran rampant in the post office, still makes my blood pressure go up. I gave up my rating in 1973 and have often wondered how it might have all worked out in the long run. I do know now that postmasters are simply overwhelmed with fewer workers and more work but that's not a reason for poor customer service. Good luck to you!
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Morning. No snow. All gone except ina few shaded spots and that is going fast. Already in mid 40's.
Got up at 3:30 AM and went out to get this photo as snohio was already melting fast.
Wanted to prove to the Yanks that you had won one. UPS has screwed up a delivery. The main reason is the Post Master [African-American female who can't be fired] in Rolesville. UPS on cheap ground delivery now hands off package to the USPS for delivery. She refused the package. Then UPS is suppose to hold and investigate [call you] for 5 days. The clerk for UPS shipped it back. That clerk is now in "hot do do". The Post Master will get "talked to" [only] by Greensboro headquarters as they have voice mail waiting for them tomorrow when they return.
Wanted to prove to the Yanks that you had won one.
UPS has screwed up a delivery. The main reason is the Post Master [African-American female who can't be fired] in Rolesville. UPS on cheap ground delivery now hands off package to the USPS for delivery. She refused the package. Then UPS is suppose to hold and investigate [call you] for 5 days. The clerk for UPS shipped it back. That clerk is now in "hot do do". The Post Master will get "talked to" [only] by Greensboro headquarters as they have voice mail waiting for them tomorrow when they return.
"Lazing" around. Got hockey game tonight. Canes VS Capitals. VIP parking, box seats and free food.
Buckeye, glad you could remember the train wreck. Means your Alzheimer's is not as bad as diagnosed.
All have a great week.
cheapclassics Good evening all, IIABSDISEI with temps in the 40s. We had a good family gathering. Daughter loved the Coca-Cola train. Fifedog, get used to it. It will be all Danica all the time. Would not be surprised if she gets punted into the cheap seats if the focus the entire season is on her. The difference between Indycar and NASCAR as far as the media attention is concerned is that the other Indycar drivers never attracted that much attention before she showed up. JJ, Tony, Jeff, Little E and the Busch boys are all used to being the center of attention after winning their races and championships. "Princess Sparkle Pony" has done nothing of the sort, and I believe there could be some serious resentment. I had cinnamon roles on the dining car for breakfast. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day. Keep on training, Mike C. from Indiana
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 40s. We had a good family gathering. Daughter loved the Coca-Cola train. Fifedog, get used to it. It will be all Danica all the time. Would not be surprised if she gets punted into the cheap seats if the focus the entire season is on her. The difference between Indycar and NASCAR as far as the media attention is concerned is that the other Indycar drivers never attracted that much attention before she showed up. JJ, Tony, Jeff, Little E and the Busch boys are all used to being the center of attention after winning their races and championships. "Princess Sparkle Pony" has done nothing of the sort, and I believe there could be some serious resentment. I had cinnamon roles on the dining car for breakfast. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Danica has not earned the respect afforded to JJ, Tony Etc. It is only because she is female. I for one seriously resent her over shadowing the true heroes of NASCAR. I like the name "Princess Sparkle Pony". It fits.
Pat
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ChiefEagles Rainy afternoon and chilly. Temps dropping from 50 this AM to the mid 30's tonight. Snohio on the way. ???? 50 tomorrow. Pat might be in for some accumilation. Being lazy and staying in. Buckeye, your birthday present is in the mail. Doug W, the cake for Buckeye is "right on". Later.
Rainy afternoon and chilly. Temps dropping from 50 this AM to the mid 30's tonight. Snohio on the way. ???? 50 tomorrow. Pat might be in for some accumilation.
Being lazy and staying in.
Buckeye, your birthday present is in the mail. Doug W, the cake for Buckeye is "right on".
Later.
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My Snow deflector kept the snow off of us here in central Virgina. However, due to settings error, the deflector sent it to far south. Sorry Chief.
Buckeye - another birthday? O'h that's right. This is the real one. Happy
28 this morning with bright sun.
Snow in NC, bet the entire state is closed today. Me I'm gonna goof off, granny is BBsitting this week...S.J.
Morning People!!
We are getting some sun and a high near 25F today...
Been awhile since I was last here...had some changes occur since then.
Have a good day guys!!
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Aloha and Happy Presidents Day where I am one of the few at work. Had a quiet weekend, complete with church volunteer celebration at a local bowling alley. 'appy Belated Birthday Buckeye! . Looking forward to the next one in a few months. What an adventure on the National Limited! That's a special memory for that young man, DougDa, created by you guys who cared more for the boy than someone 'touching' their trains.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning all. As of 07:00 this morning, I am officially on call. It means I will be heading in a little later. I still have some tax things I need to get done, then get to some honey dos that SWMBO has in store. Buckeye, I enjoyed reading your recollections on the train wreck. It is amazing that something like that can happen, one end of the train in total disarray, the other end as if nothing happened. I recall as a kid a freight train wreck down our block and the loud noise of cars being crushed. It was a mess, and the Fire Department had not evacuated anyone, even with the tankers of fuel on their sides. Now days, they clear the area for anything remotely like it.
Jack, yeah, it was quite a trip. I am thankful for the reflectors marking the lanes on the road. It was the only way we could tell where the road was. If there had been any shelter nearby, we would have taken it. Did come across a few trees that were down and blocking part of the road. At least they were already down before we got to them.
Little cooler here, but supposed to head into the sixties by Wednesday. No snow, and we are thankful for it!
God bless,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
30 and cold wind here today.
CHUCK, great shot with DA CANNON.
BUCKEYE, hope da BIRTHDAY was a hit, and you got something with flanged wheels?
DOUGDAGRUMP, Great story. That young man will be back to visit YUZ GUYZ again.
Stya frosty,
Mornin' boys. Partly sunny & 34 in the "Metro" Mid-Atlantic region. Had to clarify, as snow totally missed us above the Potomac. Blueberry, nice shooting partner . Heading for a streak of mild weather this week. Crocuses are in full bloom, and tulips are emerging. Wifey had me pull out all of the Easter decorations.
Blueberryill/Buckeye great aming you got the chief and missed me. Perfect shot.
Morning all
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It is a clear and sunny 34 degrees. Going up to 52 today with NO SNOW. The snow cannon is right on target.
Today is a busy day. I have a bunch of chores to do and a project to work on. I hope to get a nap, later.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Good morning. It's 42° and partly. This afternoon it'll be 62° and partly cloudy.Nothing going on today, not on my schedule anyway.
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 40s. Watched "Desperate Housewives" and "Once Upon a Time". Both were good. Wife was up all night not feeling well. Hopefully I do not get what she had as she was miserable. I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East". It was a good flight on the Tardis. No loop de loops, but I did toss in a couple of barrel rolls. TBIL for tonight as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
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