Coffee Pot #3 March 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.

[wrmcclellan]

Evening all!

Banks - so sorry about your dog Lucy. Wish her passing had been more peaceful.

Kev - proppin' up the economy - your government and the toy train manufacturers thank you! (and da Chief!)

Blownout - I like TV Tommy Ivo and his various mutliengine dragsters! At the annual custom car show here the last few years they have been bringing classic 50's 60's dragsters (engine in front) out and firing them up and doing burnouts. My son and I think this is very cool.

Fife - lemon meringue??? Chocolate meringue for me!

LAZ - we will make it happen!

Jeffrey - the layout is looking good after the cleanup!

DougdaG - man are you are busy!

Warm and very nice here today!

Have a great evening all!

 

 

[8ntruck]

Sunny and high 70's again today.

Banks - Sorry about the loss of your furry friend.

Kev - If you won that 'coffee grinder' auction at that price, you did great!

Thanks for the advice on the Halloween items.  I'm leaning towards the 4-6-0 All Hallow's Eve set.  Of course we'll have to get the both sets of  the Halloween people too....

Blownout Cylinder - that picture looks like one of the early Green Monsters.  It is Allison V12 powered.  One of Tommy Ivo's dragsters is in the Don Garlets museum.  I think it is the twin engine one, though I really don't remember.  Worrysome, as I was there about a year ago.

All for now.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Time for me to call it a night. I dug up more photos of a couple of my old layouts, helped assemble and install a homemade wood and wire gate, moved three large bags of potting soil and did a little work on the layout. See y'all tomorrow.

[submmbob]

Hello all

Back down @ 2200'. They show up early to start the furnace/AC retrofit. Saw 78 F on the readout on the truck coming home today. Summer is coming...

DougDG - supposed to be a good storm this morning. Fortunately I'll be here w/ a new heater.

Ray - thanks for the info on the cars. They are definitely neat, but yes a repaint is in order.

DougM - still waiting for the right words on your request. Will come up w/ it soon

Banks - sorry to hear about your dog, but it sounds for the best. We had an aging dog when I was young go a similar way.

The ZW works great, BTW, just needs a new cord. Will be making about post about it's interesting modification.

Forgot to mention to you guys this morning: In just over two weeks I will be going to visit a friend in the Bay area, and helping him and others work on the USS Iowa (BB-61) in preparation for her future move to LA to become a museum. She is the last battleship to go into museum status. Been dormant for over 20 years. As my friend Luke said, "this will probably be the last time anyone has an opportunity to do this." So I'll be digging out my boondockers and white hat and going up there soon.

Bob

 

 

 

[rtraincollector]

Banks sorry to hear of your lost.

Well been missing for a couple of days but really haven't had much to say so I've read but haven't posted. Hope all are still doing well and continue on the prayers for those who need them.

[Hudson#685]

Good Morning,

Had to bail out of the Tardis early and when I returned everyone was gone. My wife had some great news. My nephew Brian received word that his wife Liza and infant daughter are on the last leg of obtaining their visas to emigrate to the US. Also they are working with a realator to buy the building that the ice cream shop is in.

Blownout: I remember seeing Art Afrons.

Laz, see you on the 20th.

Banks, Sorry for your loss.

Everyone, have a great day

John

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a rainy 50 degrees. Going up to 78 today with more rain.

Today is an easy day. I have the usual chores to do and a bunch of paperwork to finish. Then, I will relax and do some reading. And, of course, a nap later.

Dining car rolled in with Cheerios for breakfast. Then, it is "all aboard" for Points West.

Banks.... Sorry for the loss of your dog.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  40 here and going to 75 again today.

BANKs for your beloved dog.  I burried mine just outside our house in the rose garden.  Talk to her everyday.

KEV, WOW what a deal I paid double and thought I gotta good deal.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[Anonymous]

Mornin' Fellas

Banks - Sorry for your loss.

I was able to get the tiles cut and set last night, so grout and install the threshold tonight. Also spackled a few divots in the kitchen wall so I should be able to sand and do all the touchup paint tonight also. Will be nice to have the kitchen reorganized and back together. Thinking about building a small bookshelf for our cookbooks and loose recipes. Currently the sit on the counter next to the toaster and they all over all the time. Getting them onto a bookshelf will help oranize them and then countertop. Maybe try and tackle that project tonight as well.

After installing the hardwood floor I have a bunch of pieces left over (scraps that can't be used for anything) so I was thinking of saving it and burning them in the insert next Winter... I wouldn't burn an entire load of this, but thinking a piece or two at a time wouldn't hurt...

[sir james I]

59 and sunny, 70s and rain later today.

I have a few errands this morning then the goof off part of my day begins...Nice chat with some of the guys last night...S.J.

[KRM]

 

Morming Guys,

 

Another beautiful day here in North Central Illinois. 64 and sunny heading into the 70s

Going to grind out some old stumps today not much else going on.

8n and Laz. I never thought I would end up with that Burro crane for that money. I bid on it 5 days ago just so I could see what it would bring and ended up being the only bidder???

Submmbob, you will like the ZW, glad it is working out. Just be sure you route the new cord the right way away from the roller pick-up assembly. How is the smoke unit thingy going?

RT, You and nothing to say??? That is an oxymoron.

John Great news on visas for the nephew’s wife and baby.

SJ, I missed the Tardis last night due to sleeping in the recliner.

Brent, Git-R-Done

Tks,

Kev

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 68° and cloudy with patchy fog. The high will be 82° and it'll be partly cloudy with a 20% chance of rain.

Today I need to mow my parents yard before the rain moves in, otherwise it's going to get out of control. I'm going to take a flash drive with me and plug it into the old computer there and download any old layout photos I find. They're scattered all over the main drive. I figure a two gig flash drive should be big enough.

[Stourbridge Lion]

Good Morning CTTFans!

It's another bright and sunny day; currently 36F but will be heading up towards to 70's by the afternoon.  Went to Village Inn last night for dinner and had our Free Pie.  Enjoy the day everyone!

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Sunny & 67 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Of course, the doomsayers are rising like stinkybugs with their assurances of polar icecaps melting...can't we just enjoy the nice stretch of weather people...?    Folks in Europe have been experiencing record freezing all winter while us Yanks have been living large.  Still thinking something out in space would be the end of everything...what say you submmbob?  Should I hold off on Christmas shopping til the 22nd...?

Stay foamy.

[KRM]

"Going to grind out some old stumps today not much else going on"

MAM am I out of Shape!!!!!!!!

 

Running the stump grinder looks easy but it is more like wrestling with hogs.

Kev.

 

 

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[Hudson#685]

Lunch Time,

It has been a busy morning. One silly thing after another. What ever happened to common sense? Must not be politically correct to think on your own or take responsibility.

Kev, stump grinding is not as easy as it looks.

Rt, good news about your friend.

Have a Great Day,

[submmbob]

Hello all

A/C guys got here about 7AM after getting to bed just before 2AM. Gonna be a long day

Kev - I'm going down to the local electronics shop this afternoon and am going to pick up a couple of connectors for the smoke unit. Nice find on the Burro!!

Well, the crane had come and gone. New A/C and heater unit is sitting on the roof. They will be working on this for most of today and then some tomorrow.

Bob

[cnw1995]

Aloha. Sunny today. Hope to get to some errands soon. Banks, my condolences on the loss of your companion. Smbob, no hurry. Kev, that part of the Dakotas looks like your part of Illinois...  Got the OK from the county to clear out a deceased profs belongings - so far I've boxed 55 cases of books for donating...

[SPMan]

Good morning all,

Got the word from V8 Dennis and Dougda in Sandy Eggo that the monsoons are on the way for the weekend.  We do need the rain but we are not used to it.

Banks, sorry to hear about your four legged pal.  It's tough to lose one that way but her suffering is over now.

Went to dinner party last night for early Saint Patrick's Day dinner.  Had corn beef and cabbage and lots of goodies.

I'm afraid our social group is beginning to look like General Hospital.  Just about all of them including me have some health issues.  Oh well, at least we're still breathing.  I've reached that age where something seems to be always happening with friends you know.

Need to get out in the garage today and play trains before the rains get here.

later,

Ray

 

[dougdagrump]

Kev, Look on the bright side, you didn't have to dig it out with a shovel.

Aternoon All.

Got the last of the yard clean-up done this morning, more to do but the four garbage cans I use for "yard waste" to be recycled are full. Oh well, next week I can start over again.

Banks, Tuff to lose a best friend , even if they are four footed.

Good detective work on the turnout Kev.

Later All !

[rtraincollector]

Well not a lot going on today did win a Lionel 1998 Centennial GP-20 Locomotive 6-18858. Did real well on this one now how to hide it from wife lol. Oh well thats not going to happen seeing she's home all day. This is new in box only thing was previous owner wrote on the side of the box " 98 GP-20 Diesel locomotive"

Seems the deals are out there as I guess a lot are saving there $$ for york looks like Kev has done good in the past coule of weeks or so also. I was just playing around never expected to get it.

Wasn't really feeling up to par today had some light headness/dizzyness so went to the doctor and he sent me home with some meds and told me to take it easy.

off tomorrow so will relax.

Waiting for the tardis tonight will talk to you all later have a good one.

[Anonymous]

Kev,

          I can't and won't give up on this one.  I am in too far and too attached to give up.  Runs and shifts well as it stands right now.  Brakes are questionable though.  Haven't had a chance to replace everything yet that needs replaced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruZu-NEjLo&feature=g-upl&context=G2a2ddd1AUAAAAAAAAAA

Dennis,

                   Manual trans is the only way to go IMHO, but I couldn't pass the 91 by.

Called about the supposed 90GL yesterday.  Turns out it is a 90LX (power options and the 3.0 Vulcan V6) , but it is an automatic, and needs inspected since it has been sitting.   Seller claims it is fine, but I am staying far away after my other questions got sketchy answers.

Still no 264 Forklift, and it is only coming from NJ.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Evening...

Sheeesh, got all kinds of weird stuff in the mail today...bills from people i never heard of going to people who used to own my home...like...oh 15 years ago??...I phoned up a couple of the companies involved only to find out they moved??...and one...asked me to check the date on the date stamp...none found?...so they told me that there seemed to be a problem with the post office...a bunch of bills and such, in a couple of bags, got processed by mistake...when they should have gone into a dead file....

Kev:  You could have done what I did once...took a Warne 20 Ton winch and tied it to  a tree behind my old Jeep 4X4 and did the same to a stump from the front of the Jeep...and tore the frame in 2...

RT: Take care....

[Buckeye Riveter]

Banks.....I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your dog. 

fifedog.....Today at some seminar on stromwater someone asked the question on how the FEMA maps were going to be affected by climate change.  I would have liked to smaked the guy.  The difference between a 100 year storm event and a 500 year storm event is usually a few inches and almost never over a foot.  Once you have your house under ten feet of water; do you think that eleven feet is going to be worse?

I'm on a roll......They also are proposing that we take all storm water and somehow make it so there is no evidence of humans in the watershed.  I thought of volunteering Roseyville for a trial run.  So pucker up Chief and tear down all your buildings so the water can naturally soak into the ground.  Rip that street out, too.  You will like living in that teepee.

[cnw1995]

Got to the low 80s today. Not bad for the Ides. Also got suckered uh encouraged to put out the super-heavy deck furniture and lastly, cut back the trees over the deck. After a branch landed on my head, I'm quitting for the afternoon. Put down grub killer and fertilizer on the almost dead lawn or rather dirt speckled with a tuft of grass... Oh well, back to the basement.

[KRM]

Buckeye.......... I need pop bottle glasses to read this Ouch..Is it me??? I am with you on the. volunteering Roseyville for a trial run.  So pucker up Chief and tear down all your buildings so the water can naturally soak into the ground.  Rip that street out, too.  You will like living in that teepee

 Kev.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I transferred a whole pile of old layout photos from my old computer (one at my parents place) to my flash drive. I have being uploaded to my computer. Probably take about two hours. My little flash drive is a slow one and my secondary hard disk is plugged into a USB 1.1 port, so it's slow too. Went to Wal-Mart this morning this morning to do a little shopping. Picked up some sandwich meat, cheese, some med supplies, some masking tape and a $1.50 bag of twelve foam paint brushes. Got that put away then helped my father rebuild the gate we built yesterday. He wasn't happy with it. Got the grass mowed this afternoon, ran over two snakes in the process. I had to get it cut before the next rains hit or rent a bush hog. This climate down here is something else! I was mowing a wet, soggy yard with wet grass and had dust blowing in my face! Hunted down the photos afterward then my father and I had chili dogs as a late lunch.

[sir james I]

70 now

Big news today is the storms and tornado's that went through the state this afternoon. No deaths reported. Granny came home from BBsitting and made chili for supper, very good of course. I will be waiting for the chat guys...S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

Back from the lake house in time for a political bar-be-que [pork is the real bar-be-que] with plenty of good old sweet ice tea. 

Buckeye Riveter

Banks.....I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your dog. 

fifedog.....Today at some seminar on stromwater someone asked the question on how the FEMA maps were going to be affected by climate change.  I would have liked to smaked the guy.  The difference between a 100 year storm event and a 500 year storm event is usually a few inches and almost never over a foot.  Once you have your house under ten feet of water; do you think that eleven feet is going to be worse?

I'm on a roll......They also are proposing that we take all storm water and somehow make it so there is no evidence of humans in the watershed.  I thought of volunteering Roseyville for a trial run.  So pucker up Chief and tear down all your buildings so the water can naturally soak into the ground.  Rip that street out, too.  You will like living in that teepee.

Ohio just getting into the storm water program.  Gracious, we had ours completed and then we updated it several years ago.  I pushed through a "no building in the flood plain" years ago.   Poor Ohio,  Always behind everyone but Ioway.

Kev., thought you wore coke bottle glasses.

Jon, can't understand why all those Yankees are moving from up Nawth to Roseyville.  Oh!  I do know because they constantly tell me about snohio and poor weather.  Taxes and cost of living.  Then  they go on and on about how they love it here.

Later.

[Anonymous]

Got the tile grouted, touch up done on all walls (still have to do bookshelves around fireplace and ceiling), and got the threshold cut and test fitted (will install tomorrow after grout dries)... but I found that the manufacturer did NOT cut the two thresholds exactly the same... this kind of shotty manufacturing is what drives me nuts!!! I even had Lowes put a note to the manufacturer that I needed them to be EXACT as they were spanning a 14ft opening... oh well I can't take them back now that they are cut to length and one is already in place. I WILL keep this in mind when I go to buy the hardwood planks for the dinning and living rooms later this year... most likely NOT getting them from warehouse stores... grrrrr...