Coffee Pot #2 Februry 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.

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

CHUCK &  BUCKEYE TGIF!!!

Gotta run some trains tonite,

Stay frosty,

laz57

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a cold and frosty 24 degrees. Going up to 58 today with sunshine.

Today is a busy day. Wife is headed to a towm , north of here, to look at a house. I will be doing chores and a project. Legs feel pretty good, have to keep them exercised.

Buckeye & LAZ.....  TGIF

Dining car has rolled in and it looks like Cheerios for breakfast. Maybe with some toast.

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

[Banks]

Hello all,

TGIF

Clear and low 30's this AM. Busy week, weather has been like March or April here. (we'll probably pay later) The trees are budding.

Fife, thank you

Chief Good news.

SPRay,   for your friend

Sub Bob good luck with your new position.

SS Fund calls, Hope to get back over the weekend. Maybe not. i just remembered we'll have the Grandkids for the weekend.

 

Prayers for those in need

[traindaddy1]

Chief:   

Sunday:     Jints in a close one.    (We'll see! )

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

It was 19˚F when I went out for my three-mile run this morning.  It felt great and I had a terrific run.  The faster paced music (135-160 BPM) makes it easier to run faster without thinking about it.  I had a busy Friday at the office but I was still able to get home at a decent time.  The wife made homemade stromboli for dinner which was delicious.  I ran the trains with the kids and then read some books with them.  I also built and knocked over some dominos with the youngest.  I have plenty of chores and schoolwork to finish tomorrow so I am going to bed early tonight.

Chief - I'm glad you are doing well and that you received a great report from the hospital.

Bob - No worries, you're helping me out.  Shoot me the info when you have time.

Tardis crew - Look for my beacon tonight.

Sayonara,

Joe

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Got up early and could not go back to sleep.  Then started watching predator hunting on TV.  Got sleepy and slept for a few hours.  Wifey has cooked brakfast.

Thanks for all the good wishes.  Wifey and I are wondering.  I had told Dennis earlier, "Wonder if this Dr. is just trying to get ins. money?"  Now we wonder more.  Was this an unnecessary procedure?  Oh well.

Now to eat, shower and hang out.  Dr. said light duty today due to "wound".

Again, thanks for the prayers and good wishes.  That is why it turned out good.

Later.

PS: read this article.  Guess who the private citizen is?  A guy with 67 acre lease and a 2 acre pond.  He's been involved in this since the controversy started.     

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/03/1826872/feral-felines-spared-future-policy.html

Environmental Services Comm. passed the agreement several months ago.  County Officials lying.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 65 and raining. Chance for rain is 70% this morning decreasing to 60% this afternoon.

I'll be getting the second half of the grocery shopping done today then I'll settle in and go through this collection of old rolling stock that was sent to me. Primarily I'll be seeing which pieces I want to keep. Some of them are too old for my general era. I have no use for stock cars and wood side reefers including two Dairymen's League refrigerator cars that are missing only the brake wheels.

The ones I want to keep will be going to the shop to be fitted with Kadee couplers and if needed serviceable trucks. These trucks will be taken from the cars I don't want.

Yesterday my father and I were trying to get the OnStar system on my mother's car working. No dice. It seems OnStar isn't available here.

[sir james I]

32 this morning, no bad weather in sight for now anyway.

Had a chat with Brutus & RT last night, the others missed the flight.

S.J.

[dwiemer]

Good morning everyone.  Going to be heading in soon.  It should be a light day, but then again, it can change at any moment.  The insurance adjuster was not able to make it to inspect the house the other day, but when I called him yesterday evening, he said the roofer sent photos and he will be here Monday with a check.  At least that is taken care of.

Joe, it is to go up to the low 70's here.  I don't think I would be outside at 19 degrees, even if it were to be running....at least not by choice.'

Got to watch "Trains and Locomotives" on RFD this morning via DVR.  This episode was on the Susquehanna Steam trains.  The locomotive was one that was built in China back in the early 90's.  With any luck, we will get the chance to take a steam train ride when we are in China, but I think they are on the verge of being phased out there too.  The province where our kids are is one of the main rail hubs for the entire country.

Chief, not sure of the motives on why you were sent, but it certainly is a good thing to have your heart checked and now you can have some element of peace about how yout ticker is doing.  Just keep doing what you are doing....but you may need help with fending off the yankee horde.

Bob, good luck with things, hope you are able to secure a good place to live and work on your projects.  Don't forget to designate at least a little area for a layout.

Better get going.

Dennis

[KRM]

Dense fog again today, Surprised the wife opted to go to work. I hated driving on the interstate in dense fog for fear of something like what happened in Florida a few days ago. You never know what can happen when you have people that are driving too slow and then the ones that drive too fast. A crap shoot at best.

Not much going on today.

Chief, interesting article on the stray cats. Most people shoot them around here and I always kind of worry if someday George will end up in someone’s sites even though he has a collar and tags you never know.

For those of you who work TGIF

Prayers for those in need.

Have a good one.

Kev.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

So far I've converted two of the cars to body mounted Kadee's. One is an AHM GN boxcar an dthe other is a Roco covered hopper. The hopper had a pair of oversize trucks secured to it with large ugly screws. They had Fleischmann couplers and huge flanges that could cut the thickest pizza. I refitted it with AHM trucks. A big improvement.

A major thunderstorm is moving in so I'll be getting off of here pretty quick.

[cheapclassics]

Good afternoon all,

IIABSDISEI with temps in the 50s.  Quiet day at work here as hardly anyone came in.  Finally got our IT issues taken care of.  That is a relief.  It has been great weather here in Indy this week, and traffic has not been bad for me going home either.  Will be nice to be back to a normal schedule again.  Chief, glad to hear they did not find anything wrong.  Dennis W., wife brought home a copy of your latest film from the library.  Hope to watch it this weekend.   Brutus, we all have weeks like that.  Glad I could drive last night.  I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast.  TBIL and I can drive again.  I hope everybody has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Hudson#685]

Lunch Time:

Chief: Great news about your heart.

Brutus: Char can not catch a break. Hang in there.

SP Ray: Prayers for your friend.

Laz: Yes, train running tonight.

AF53, Ray, stop by tonight if you did not get the package yet.

Tardis Crew: I will try to be on tonight. We have to empty the freezers at the Ice Cream Shop for defrosting. I may be late.

Enjoy the day,

John

[SPMan]

Good morning all,

Dennis, thank you for the input re post op heart patient information.  As I recall, I had those breathing treatments myself even for non heart surgery but I also have some form of COPD.  They  had me pushing air through some kind of hand held device as well to keep up my lung function I guess.  I heard it was  to help prevent pneumonia.  Anyway, my friend is doing that too.  He is in heart surgery today as we speak.  He told me yesterday that it would be a lengthy operation perhaps several hours so all we can do now is offer prayers and hope for the best.

Ray

[cnw1995]

Aloha and TGIF!  A little grey and cooler.  I'm going to get a little eye zapping by lasers in an hour to prep for later in the year cataract surgery. Might not be seeing too clearly this weekend. Wish me luck! Hope I can see the game. Ran trains last night. Shored up much of the 'sky' - which is Blue banquet tabe wrapping, and ran them all. Tinkered with the AF repro coal loader. The bucket isn't dropping back into the coal pile again. Prayers for Char, Ray's buddy, and the rest of us. Glad you are OK, Chief!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Got two more cars done. An AHM Niagara covered hopper and a Tyco Red Box NH boxcar.

Thunderstorm blew through so I went to town to get the second half of the grocery shopping done. Got the groceries put away and now I'm working on another car. An AHM/Roco dry ice reefer.

[rtraincollector]

Hey all not a lot going on today. Took the wife to the zoo today and dang it they wouldn't keep as I feared. Oh well I guess I would be lost without her thou. Relaxing now as we walked  and we walked and we walked man my legs will need a soaking tonight.

Oh while I'm talking about it I got a pic just for Fifedog

Didn't forget you Fife

Well checking things so I have every thing as I'm planning to goto York come April.

Hope to see a lot of you all there.

Well will talk to you all later

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I have five more cars done. The AHM/Roco dry ice reefer and four of the seven AHM/Roco KO&G boxcars. I was working on them two at a time. Time to take a break!

[RockIsland52]

Buckeye Riveter

The Chief goes to the hospital right after he chases me all over the NC countryside.  For some reason I see a big heap of blame heading my way. (Glad you are okay Cheif. )

I think the Chief has a dual angle.....blame you to get sympathy from us (won't happen).  And get sympathy, pampering, and spoiling from Pam (also won't happen).

Jack

[RockIsland52]

traindaddy1

Sunday:     Jints in a close one.    (We'll see! )

Jack

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I got the last three KO&G boxcars and a thrall Weyerhaeuser boxcar done. That's thirteen cars in all. That leaves ten with wheels and couplers.

Here's a list for the curious so I don't get buried in PM's.

One AHM/Tempo MKT stock car. Fleischmann type trucks/couplers.

One CARX 50810 plug door boxcar. Fleischmann type trucks/couplers. Brake wheel missing.

One ART 700 Walthers Berghoff Beer reefer. Broken horn hook coupler. Missing One roof hatch. One broken stirrup.

One EKSX Kahn's brine tank refrigerator car. Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel. One broken stirrup.

Two Life-Like URTX 4750 Dubuque reefer cars. Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel on both cars. One car has a broken sroken stirrup.

Two Tyco Dairymen's League reefer cars. Horn hook couplers. Both cars missing brake wheels.

One Bachmann Swift Premium reefer. Horn hook couplers. One coupler broken.

One Lionel HO? (Athearn) stock car (D&RGW 78573). Horn hook couplers. Missing brake wheel.

Five other cars, just bodies.

One AHM/Tempo MKT stock car. One broken stirrup.  No trucks/couplers.

One AHM/Rivarossi Oscar Mayer reefer. Three broken stirrups.  No trucks/couplers.

One Roco? SRLX 4226 Swift reefer. Missing brake wheel.  No trucks/couplers.

One Life-Like Soo Line 29647 stock car. Missing brake wheel. Loose door guide.  No trucks/couplers.

One AHM NKP 50491 stock car.  No trucks/couplers.

[KRM]

cnw1995

Aloha and TGIF!  A little grey and cooler.  I'm going to get a little eye zapping by lasers in an hour to prep for later in the year cataract surgery. Might not be seeing too clearly this weekend. Wish me luck! Hope I can see the game. Ran trains last night. Shored up much of the 'sky' - which is Blue banquet tabe wrapping, and ran them all. Tinkered with the AF repro coal loader. The bucket isn't dropping back into the coal pile again. Prayers for Char, Ray's buddy, and the rest of us. Glad you are OK, Chief!

 Hey DougM,

I hope all has gown well with you eye work today.

  I see the Canadian Pacific did not make any friends today in the city.  Made me think of you running trains. 

Looked like a nice Pile Up

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Freight-Train-Derails-at-Cicero-and-Grand-138644019.html

Have a good night guys,

 Kev.

Kev.

[dwiemer]

Good evening everyone.  It is a good evening.  Today would have been Mom's birthday, so a little  pause to think about her, but we are always missing her. 

Dennis, it is a disfunctional system.  So many items have been added to the rules out there, one could hardly decifer the ones that would otherwise make sense.

Ray, depending on what they are doing, the surgery could take anywhere from a few hours to more than 9 hours.  If they are only doing a few bypasses, it should be about 3 to 4 hours.  If they are replacing valves, it may be a bit longer.

I have several projects I want to do on the layout, but really do have to finish the taxes to turn into the accountants.  Also have to get the area around the house cleared as they are supposed to start replacing the roof next week.  It is amazing how many houses all in this area have damaged roofs.  They have a print out that shows the area affected, the roofer told me that people on the other side of town are trying to get insurance companies to pay for a new roof, but the images that they have show no hail occurred over there.

Well, wife wants me inside to watch Lord of the Rings, so I had better get going.  I pray that each of you has a blessed weekend.

Dennis

[Train Master]

Jeff: Be careful man. Some guys might think you are trying to show them up with how fast you work.

Kev: Great photos. I am afraid I do not have any O stuff. I am another HO guy hiding in the corner.

[wrmcclellan]

Evening all!

Raning here. Storms in the area. Its all good!

Ray - for your friend.

Chief - glad the tests came out ok.

DJ - welcome back!

Doug - hope the laser prep surgery went OK today.

DougdaG - how did the museum trip go?

Long day today - tired - so calling it for the eveing.

Have a great day tomorrow all!

[Buckeye Riveter]

RockIsland52

Buckeye Riveter:

The Chief goes to the hospital right after he chases me all over the NC countryside.  For some reason I see a big heap of blame heading my way. (Glad you are okay Cheif. )

 

I think the Chief has a dual angle.....blame you to get sympathy from us (won't happen).  And get sympathy, pampering, and spoiling from Pam (also won't happen).

Jack

Jack....There is one little angle you many not know about in terms of the Chief getting sympathy; women in uniform with badges.    

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Time for me to call it a night. It's been very busy day what with all the work I did on the rolling stock and I'm very tired. Not to mention bringing the groceries in. Trying to balance a load like that while coming up the steps is hard and I almost have to drop to my knees to get in the door. Well, nobody said life was easy. See y'all tomorrow.

[8ntruck]

Rain and 40's today. 

I started working for a new company yesterday.  The Brizilian holding company of one of our competetiors bought us and combined our (ex)competitor and us into a new company headquartered in Michigan.  They have been working on this for the last few months, and finally closed the deal yesterday.  The waiting is over, and actions now begin to combine the two companies into one.

This is a good move, as we are now owned by a company who actually maked money by building things instead of a group of banks who make money by doing deals. 

All for now.

[sir james I]

36 degrees now

No train stuff today except a little CTT..S.J.

[Stourbridge Lion]

Good Evening CTTFans!

Well, it's been SNOWING! here for about 30+ hours now and will continue through the night.  Would say I have about 12-18" on level snow and might reach 24" by Saturday.  Some cities are reporting nearly 3ft!!!