Good Evening All!
Nice cool breeze blowing tonight. Yanks playing, Rangers and Devils playing, nice night around here! Right now the Rangers just made it 2-0 with minutes to play and the Yanks are playing with Fife's O's in Baltimore. It's funny how there are more Yankee fans in Camden Yards then O's fans. That would tick me off. But they just need to get better and they will come out.
RT - You're just too good to your wife, I hope she appreciates your gifts!
DougM - and many more!
HudsonJohn - Make room! More stock is headed your way.
Later,
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
9:20 PM,, No takers on the tardis,??? see ya all tomorrow. have a good night
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
69 now 76 this afternoon. I got my tomato plants in the ground. Now all I have to do is make some toast and wait. No train news today, I didn't hear from Charlie or my other train buddy. I ate my Banilla but there is enough for the thingy crew...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Sunny and high 70's today.
Happy birthday, Mr. Murphy.
Work is starting to get nuts. We've gotten tons of stuff done lately, but new stuff comes arrives to keep us busy. The most recent came with 'agressive' timing. Unfortunately, the timing of the front end activities is not under my control - I can see I'll be shorted for time to get my stuff done. Trying to 'encourage' those at the front end to keep their @$$(S in gear so I have a reasonable amount of time to do my stuff and not be preceived as being the grumpy old tooling guy. Does not help that I'm tired and I tend to speak my mind.......
Anyhow - busy is good and the EF promises to remain elevated throughout the summer. Just hang on and enjoy the ride!
I'm thinking about running my trains - too busy to actually get up to the train room and run them.
All for now.
Hey!
Quick run by...
Probe: Yup my thoughts exactly. I didn't get to the bridge, but soon. And when I do get to that point I will DEF give you a jingle.
Doug M!!!!!
- for those in need
Yanks - O's in B-more - GO YANKEES!!!
LET'S GO DEVILS !!!!!!!
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
My Wifes GG-1 just arrived she likes it says its so long didn't realize it would be so big. (wife actually likes my trains and even has asked me for some here and there which I'm happy to give her.) She took possession of the marks and a few other trains even a coke set she liked. There here in the house somewhere but I don't know where she has them stashed away lol. Told her this one is going to stay down here thou lol. Well time to take the A-B-B-A down again so I can test run this one. will be nice seeing her run. talk to you all later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening. Little bit of action this afternoon, but not bad. I am on call for the next week, so hoping they don't kill me. Went to buy two more chairs for a dining room set that I bought for the bride for mother's day. For a table and eight chairs, it comes to $4200.00. Glad we already have some nice furniture, or it may have been substantially more. Our dining room is square and the table was oval, so wife has been on me to find a round one.
Doug, yeah, it was a lot of photos, but when you use "burst" to take four photos per second, it adds up quickly. The instructors wanted all the clear photos for the coriography purpose as well as publicity. There are some that are a series where a dancer is spinning through a jump, etc. I believe the D90 is rated for 150,000 to 200,000 photos.
Jack, one thing most respectable "expert" photographers will suggest is to always keep the manual with you. Now days, it is easy to download the manual in a file on a iPad, or other such device, so you can always have it and do a quick search as questions arise. I have had this camera for several years and there is still things I go back to the manual frome time to time.
Chief, the box is coming along. My wife has mentioned that she would like to have that outbuilding built to move the layout to for when the kids get older. We shall see. Could be ideal for an expansion.
Have a great night,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Happy Birthday Doug. (Also Buckeye.)
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Afternoon all. Light rains this afternoon. Had early start with dentist. Then immediately jumped on the Box. Exhaust fans mounted in toward each end. One had to go in the wall and the other did get into the ceiling where there had been a closet. Ran electrical wires for them. 95% of the ceiling is up. Cut out in ceiling for electrical wires and etc. Only have about an hour left to finish that. Really rolling along if I could keep my "help" all day. Would have finished ceiling but last exhaust fan was missing damper. Got to got to Lowes. Someone had opened box and then re-taped. They are bad about putting stuff like that back on the shelf.
Happy Birthday Dougie Poo.
Kevin, Wifey looks too pretty for your ugly mug.
Shake and Bake is sending me some good layout drawings. Great ideas.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Stourbridge Lion It's Monday ( ) CTTFans, can you say Monday? My that was a dirty hand signal OK, who took the table and chairs out of the Coffee Shop car?
It's Monday ( ) CTTFans, can you say Monday? My that was a dirty hand signal
OK, who took the table and chairs out of the Coffee Shop car?
blame chief all those meetings he has to go to they probably need some chairs and tables.
Doug Well not a lot going on here today. Normal day at work
Doug
Well not a lot going on here today. Normal day at work
Think good thoughts, do good deeds!
Good Afternoon.
Picked up all the paperwork and finished off the reports this afternoon..sent them all off and now have meeting tomorrow afternoon to deal with...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Hudson#685 God Bless Carroll Shelby. I had the pleasure of owning a 1967 Shelby GT350. Fantastic Machine. John John, Dido on that I too had the pleasure of owning a 1969 Shelby GT350. They were Fantastic Machines.
God Bless Carroll Shelby. I had the pleasure of owning a 1967 Shelby GT350. Fantastic Machine.
John
John, Dido on that I too had the pleasure of owning a 1969 Shelby GT350. They were Fantastic Machines.
Well Got 4 loads of gravel spread and only about 23 more to go. Also loaded up the trailer with a 1,000 gal septic tank, a ditch witch, and bobcat backhoe to haul up North on Wednesday. I will be gone till Sunday. So you guys will get some well deserved peace and quiet. Sounds like everyone had a great mother’s day. Mother’s day went well. We spent Saturday at the daughter’s new place. I am so glad they got a house and got out of that infested apartment. Won’t say with what it was infested but there were more than bugs. One time I was there watching the granddaughter and at the same time the people on the third floor were being robed. WTH?
Well Got 4 loads of gravel spread and only about 23 more to go.
Also loaded up the trailer with a 1,000 gal septic tank, a ditch witch, and bobcat backhoe to haul up North on Wednesday. I will be gone till Sunday. So you guys will get some well deserved peace and quiet.
Sounds like everyone had a great mother’s day.
Mother’s day went well. We spent Saturday at the daughter’s new place. I am so glad they got a house and got out of that infested apartment. Won’t say with what it was infested but there were more than bugs. One time I was there watching the granddaughter and at the same time the people on the third floor were being robed. WTH?
Sunday I let the wifey sleep in, put a card out with a $50.00 in it with instructions to buy stuff from the garden shop then ran to the shed to build the new grill. Success on all fronts. Then we went to see the MIL and I made her some contraband Devil’s-food cupcakes to eat at the home and we gave the rest to the daughter the day before.
And another surprise, My son who Sandra raised since he was 3 called and wished her a happy mother’s day and even told her he loved her. That is something he has not done in 3 years.
So all in all it went well.
The wifey loved her Bobble head horse car. So after her bath and a few beers, a glass of wine, she asked if she could run the train it was on. ?????????? Now what do I do??
Well enough was enough,so it was,off to bed.
Good morning all,
Been absent on the coffee pot for a few days due to nothing of interest to report. Stomach problems a little better but still being cautious.
Mothers Day was a big success. Lots of flowers and steak dinner with deserts. I cooked the steaks on the new gas bar-b-que. Third time was a charm. The meat turned out perfect this time We had two moms, my wife and DIL. #2 son returned from Laguna Seco car race near Monterey in time to join us. #1 son and his family came over and gave mom some DVD's of old Jack Benny and Johnny Carson shows. Funny to watch all those Lucky Strike commercials on the Jack Benny show. In those days cigarettes were actually touted as being good for you. Not so funny was to remember that my Dad died at age 53 and he was a loyal Lucky Strike smoker too. We were so innocent then. Even now the addiction is so strong it's hard to quit for a lot of folks.
Santa Fe Steam engine #3751 is running today leaving L.A. enroute to Grand Canyon for festivites over there. #2 son was going to try and photograph it on the way to work.
Happy birthday to Doug Murphy
Have a good week,
SPMan
Good afternoon guys,
A BIG Doug Murphy & also to Chuck since I missed his last week.
A rather dreary rainy day here.
Granddaughter made us sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast. She sure can cook, also made dinner for us last evening on Mother's day for Nana.
Trying to stay dry today, got parts to fix the fountain, but don't think it will happen today. The pump died a few days ago. They only last a few years it seems.
Have a good week.
Lunch time:
Thanks for the Birthday Wishes. Ray, 64???? try 59.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Doug Murphy
Jeffrey, Hopefully it is just a bent or out of balance blade or even a grass build up. Spindles can be costly.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need.
Enjoy the Day.
RockIsland52 Jeff........what? No weekly lawnmower breakdown? What went wrong? Hope your foot is doing better. buddy.
Jeff........what? No weekly lawnmower breakdown? What went wrong? Hope your foot is doing better. buddy.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Top of the mornin' ya'll and especially to DougM who is celebrating birthday #XX which will remain an unknown number unless (A) he reveals it or (B) someone pays me to violate his confidence in me.
Sounds like everyone had a very enjoyable Mothers' Day and that there were no civilian casualties due to either errors in (gift) judgement or any other unforeseen snafus. Son-in-law takes the honors for coming up with a stellar restaurant for buffet brunch yesterday. STRIPERS (one "p" guys) right on the Merrimac River in Salisbury MA. at the river's intersection with the Atlantic Ocean. The food quality, selection, and service were well over the top, as were the views. Sunshine and high 70s made for a wonderful family celebration. Needless to say, I had eaten too much before the third course (desserts). Staggered out of there and took the wife on the scenic route on the way home.......Route 1 South, a Route familiar to everyone who lives on the Right Coast.
Chuck.......my apologies for what the Boston Red Sox did to your Cleveland Indians over the past three days. It was a fluke, and I am sure it won't continue. Fife's and Brent's Orioles continue their amazing start to the 2012 season in the AL East, underdogs for sure.
To the New York and NJ boys........please notice how my Boston sports teams continue to help you keep the Philly sports consortium in their place. Saturday the aging and battered Celtics, with two starters facing off season surgery (Paul Pierce and Ray Allen), rallied several times from double digit defecits including the last one in the fourth quarter to overcome the 76ers by one!
Blownout........ continue on the outcome of the tests. Have not said this before, but in my humble opinion doctors should wait until they have a confirmed (with tests) diagnosis before they start postulating about what could be ailing me. I've been down that road, left me unsettled, for no benefit..........only to find out it was the benign "this' rather than worrisome "that."
KEV........ on your visit to the MIL in rehab. She will do great with all of the support you and the family provide. continue. Why on earth would you even think about dumping and spreading 4 loads of gravel after what you gave your wife for Mothers' day? Does Jimmy Hoffa ring a bell?
8N......re your bikes and bike riding that you and the wifey have commenced, you will heretofore known as "Lance A.Truck."
Rich.........re the Princess FLA trip surprise, take heart. This is not the most important item on the plate. Health, job, the Princess' education, and having your daughter with you trumps the other stuff. You are blessed, and you have overcome a myriad of obstacles the past two years.
LAZ........t-minus 15 days and counting. Hope you don't get up every morning and wet your pants in anticipation!! Hope you got your porta-potty back from Chuck because at your retirement bash we would prefer not to use your wife's gardens. We are modest to a fashion, ]
Dennis.......you're gonna need a new camera, wore yours out! Plus you need a server to store all of that stuff! You will be pleased to know I finally took out the instruction manual and began reading up on how to use my new (last November) digital camera. Better late than never. Must do the same with my android-based LG/Verizon cell phone now, eats batteries like nothing I have ever owned. At least, I THINK there is a phone somewhere in there.
I am going to have to apologize to all who need some positive thoughts and prayers as I have gotten so far behind on posts I don't know who and what I have missed. So for all those in need.
Later, gang!!!!!!!!
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Good morning. It's 66° and partly cloudy. The high will be 82°.I got news late yesterday that a distant relative of mine is rebuilding an old truck that until recently was holding up his backyard shed that was leaning against it. Today he's supposed to start on pulling the engine. He's going to try rebuilding it. As far as he knows it has a cracked crank shaft. I wish him luck. He has a big job ahead of him. It's a twelve cylinder Packard of the same type that was used in the WW2 PT boats. Where he intends to get parts, I don't know. Packard went the way of the dodo in '58.I have no idea what I'll be doing today. I'm fresh out of project locos until I find some more parts. I guess today I'll be watching some movies and watching the trains run. It's quite rewarding to watch something you created from junk box parts do what you intended it to do. Yesterday I got a surprise. I had just started on adding weight to a wide vision caboose. I hadn't taken more than a glance at it since I found it packed in amongst a box full of donated freight cars. It looked like a Bachmann wide vision caboose so that's what I regarded it as though I'd never seen one from them in Conrail. Well yesterday I turned it over and looked at the bottom for the first time and discovered that it's an Athearn model. Then I started noticing things like metal handrails and ladders instead of plastic. Right now it's at the end of a string of sixteen freight cars and still in Conrail paint as #22140.
Happy Birthday Doug
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Aloha and it's a beauty of a day in Chicago. Must be getting better since I could run for the train today! Thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm always going to be 39, Laz - it worked for Jack Benny! So glad Kev is still alive after Mothers Day My wife felt honored yesterday - the present I was waiting for arrived that day so I survived too. We bought plants and flowers for me to inadvertently kill later this season. Brutus, I hope you can rest more. Wow, 4K photos. Dennis, I don't think I've taken that many in my life.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Happy Birthday Mr. Murphy...
58 with bright sun. It's good to see that Kevin survived Mothers day. We are suppose to have nice weather all week, I guess I will plant some veggies today. Hopefully we are past the frost. TTFN..S.J.
Happy birthday Doug Murphy.
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 70s. Happy Birthday, Doug Murphy! Survived the weekend. Appreicated the ending to Desperate Housewives. Season end for Once Upon a Time was excellent. Learned Ringer was cancelled. Only shows I will be watcing will be Glee and Once Upon a Time next fall. I see where SFHR is still near the top of the speed chart. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a damp and cool 56 degrees. Rained all day yesterday and all night. Finally stopped. Going up to 74 today, with maybe some sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have a few chores to do and an errand to run. Then, lunch and a nap. Not much else new here.
Doug Murphy... Happy Birthday
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Chuck
DougM!!!!
Good Morning
Sunny and 44F right now...going to a high of 76F later on today
Going to go to the office later on today to get some paperwork to complete a couple of reports then it is off for a couple of days...
I actually completed Floor Wars London ON Division Part, I forget which number but we are now starting Deck Wars, yet another number...which will continue to Bork my mrr budget
Have a great day all!!
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