RE:Coffee Pot #5 May 2012 6 years [April 1 is Anniv.] 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.

[Stourbridge Lion]

Good Morning CTTFans!

Well, it rained and rained some more last night and woke up to a misty morning as I headed off to work.  Right now it's 46F with fog but it will burn off soon and get into the low 70's by afternoon.  Looks like it might be mostly a nice weekend coming up but I have already been warned the "Task List" for this weekend is a bit long.

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

It seems like I’ve been away from the Pot forever.  I’ve been checking in every now and then and I’ve responded to some PMs, but I haven’t had much time to post in the Pot.  Work has been busy and I was swamped with a final exam for a class I just finished.  I now have a few days off and can catch up on the forum.  The WBB LV 44-ton switcher I won arrived.  It is a very fun engine and I am very pleased with the Tru Blast horn. 

Probe – Congrats on the certification. 

Also, congratulation to all of you with kids graduating soon or moving up to the next grade. 

I’ll pray for all those with pending doctor’s appointments or ailing.

Sayonara,

Joe

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning....

Getting sunshine and warmer temps today...posta get to 82F later on...

Had a chance to run some trains last night and had no derails, incidents or accidents...which is a good thing here...

Today is going to be get some more groceries loaded into the house and buy some more of that pink stuff later...need to rebuild a section of yard ...again...

Have a good day!!

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a sunny 74 degrees. Going up to 86 today with sunshine.

Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping. I have a few chores to do and then, all the groceries to put away. I will sneak in a nap, later.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  A wet, foggy 68 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Thought I spotted a wanted felon from VA last night.  Turned out not to be him, but my doodle was wanted anyway in our jurisdiction.  ...and when you look like an wanted felon from VA, best not to be toting cannibus...

Chief - Nice.  You've certainly come a long way since the carpet central.

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

   63 here and t storms moving in.

7 to go!!!!

CHIEF, DA WRECK TANGLE is coming along.  Looks nice.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[rtraincollector]

Dennis I see where your guy won congrats to your area I don't watch but sure he must be great. Sure your area is proud he came from there.

Morning all getting ready to head to work just a quick stop by talk to you all later

[submmbob]

Hello all

Back in the Ol' Pueblo. Warm down here. We are into summer I think.

Chief - nice work on the box!

JimT - congrats on the cet and the new Turbine!

Dennis - congrats to your son!

Laz - keep counting!

Kev - I'll be on the lookout

Need to make a couple calls then find a pillow. Had banilla tonight!

Bob

 

 

[Brutus]

PS - great work on the box, Chief!  Hey, if I promised you grits would you come to STL and tape/mud my basement?  I'll throw in some toasted ravioli!?

[Brutus]

Congrats to the grads!  How exciting!

Laz - that would be hilarious!  I wish I could do it!  I'm just going to document everything this guy says or does to me or around me and see where this goes.  I know for a fact that the boss talked to him today as he actually said something about it as I was leaving for the day.  He put his hand on my shoulder and asked me in a real smarmy voice if he had aggravated me too much today.  Well, not up until that moment.  What a whackdoodle.

TARDIS is ready and we have lemon icecream as well as banilla - let's hit it Mike!

 

[wrmcclellan]

Dennis - 9 to go!

Chief - the "box" is looking good!

The concert tonight was excellent. The son is done with end of year performances, events, etc. 5 days to GO!!!!!    and then Grad Ceremonies Sunday!

[wrmcclellan]

KRM

wrmcclellan:

Lunch break - nice day here. Breezy and headed to 92.

KRM:

Fine with me. You pay for the gas and lodging and you have a deal..

Hmmmmm....that might work....

 

 Roy you must of missed the part where I said the truck got less than 11 MPG

Doesn't scare me - My Tahoe gets 9-10 mpg pulling the boat....TX to TN and back...

[ChiefEagles]

Thanks guys.  Chuck, wall to wall layout.  Will have track around the wall, sections in the middle coming out from both ends.  Only an entrance and then isles to get to sections.

[traindaddy1]

Devils  5  Rangers  3

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Chief: The box is looking great. There's only one itty bitty thing wrong with it. No layout.

 

 

Time for me to call it a night. The Frankenstein F unit trio, the GP38/SD27J and the Trainmaster/U30EM645 teams all got run today. Tomorrow I'll give the GP7's a run and I may bring out the old Atlas GP40's. See y'all tomorrow.

[blownout cylinder]

Good looking box there Chief!!

Yeah...I'm off to go to  as well....g'night!!

[Blueberryhill RR]

Looks great, Chief.

Are you going to make the outside look like a train depot ?

Chuck

[sir james I]

It's 71 now. No trains today, no breaking news. I will wait for the thingy chat..S.J.

Chief, the box is looking good.

[KRM]

WOW Chief, The Box looks great.

 Where is RI Jack??

[ChiefEagles]

TIRED!!!!!!!!!  LONG DAY.

Well its done [to a point].  Flooring is down.  Not screwed down but down.  Tongue and groove so locked down and tight to the walls.  Molding up, calked and painted.

Here is the old Box.

The new Box

Boxed in exhaust fan.

Later.

[Anonymous]

Dennis,

                 I thought about contacting OSHA due to the numerous health and safety issues I faced on a daily basis, but I never contacted them.  Went through some scary situations over those six months.

Made the journey to Brady's in Greensburg to get the Turbine.  Had to take the Mustang since the 97 Probe was  in for inspection. I-70 was white knuckle the whole way, and I managed to take up about three parking spaces.

I can't say enough good about John and his staff.  Great people is an understatement.  The Turbine looks to be very gently used with only contact marks on the rollers.  All the original packaging is still with it.

The battery is dead though, and I never even thought about it until I got home.  Not a big deal.  I'll pull the boiler and put some fresh grease in the gearbox since what is in there is likely 13 years old.

[dwiemer]

Good evening guys.  Was a good day.  Even with assassins at every turn, we got the work done.  Kids had a great day at school, then we all headed to violin practice.  They are doing well with it, but the summer can be a chore to keep them at it.

Regarding unions, they do have a place, but do not have the need they once filled.  Before such regulations and groups like OSHA, work conditions could be horrible.  Unions helped keep employers in line.  If it were not for unions, many cities would cut the fire service to dangerous levels, gambling lives for a budget.  On an opposing point, they highlighted a factory in Ohio the other night that was one of the most efficient in the auto industry.  A few miles away, is a factory that consistently worked in the red and was poorly managed.  When Government Motors made the deals with the union bailout, they forced the efficient factory closed and poured the money and production to the poorly run factory.  The reason, the factory that was closed had joined the wrong union that didn't get the bailout, and since the bailed out union had control of GM's organization, they made the call.

Well, tonight is the finale for American Idol.  We do not have network TV, but are pulling for the hometown favorite, Phillip Phillips.  I better go check things out as my bride wants to know how it turned out.

God bless

Dennis

[jeffrey-wimberly]

KRM

 

jeffrey-wimberly:

 

 

KRM:

you must of missed the part where I said the truck got less than 11 MPG

 

Hey, something that gets worse mpg than my van. I was feeling rather lonely. It gets about 11, maybe 13 with a good tailwind.

 

 

 

Jeffery, that is pulling the loaded trailer. Most times it is from 13 to 15 without the trailer.

 Still NOT GOOD.

Mine is still carrying a pretty respectable of fire fighters gear. That stuff is plenty heavy. Most of it's outdated and quite worn and not good for much besides training. I may hand it over to the fire dept in which case it'll end up in a pile of unused stuff as they don't really want it or I may relegate it to the burn pile and be done with it. The air charged extinguishers may still work. I'll have to check them out. If not they'll be turned in as defective and scrapped.

[KRM]

jeffrey-wimberly

KRM:

you must of missed the part where I said the truck got less than 11 MPG

 

Hey, something that gets worse mpg than my van. I was feeling rather lonely. It gets about 11, maybe 13 with a good tailwind.

Jeffery, that is pulling the loaded trailer. Most times it is from 13 to 15 without the trailer.

 Still NOT GOOD.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

KRM

you must of missed the part where I said the truck got less than 11 MPG

Hey, something that gets worse mpg than my van. I was feeling rather lonely. It gets about 11, maybe 13 with a good tailwind.

[KRM]

wrmcclellan

Lunch break - nice day here. Breezy and headed to 92.

KRM:

Fine with me. You pay for the gas and lodging and you have a deal..

Hmmmmm....that might work....

 

 Roy you must of missed the part where I said the truck got less than 11 MPG

Guys,

If a gravel pit’s usage is a measurement for the economy. From what I see we are in deep do do. How can two guys and a ¾ ton pick up truck with a 6-ton gooseneck trailer be the only ones in the yard? Been that way all week. 

Something is wrong here.

Well the night before last I shot a coon right between the eyes out front. He dropped like a ton of bricks so I put the gun away and when I looked for him, WTH he was gone. I looked all over and could not find him but I knew I had a good clean kill shot. Well I found him today kind of rotten in the wood shed.

 Have a good night all,

 

[blownout cylinder]

Good Evening

Well, we got lotsa sun..enough to get more tanned..more lobsterized by the looks of things... and because of that am spending the rest of the day indoors running trains...

Got the vampire visit done for the CBC and the other stuff...and have appointment to start treatments next Friday.... oh frabjious joy...

DJ:  Have fun on that class!!

[rtraincollector]

green97probe

Kev,

         101K on plugs?  You're braver than me. 

I was going to preorder a new MTH Turbine, but Brady's had a 30-1149-1 Turbine with PS1 from 1999 on ebay.  It is used, but looks great from the pictures.  Need to go get it.  Might upgrade to PS2 when $$ permits.

Probe when I took my truck in to the dealer they told me my truck was like 63,000 miles past due for major tune up ( there done every 100,000 now ) I should of asked them to see the plugs hey they had 163,000 miles on themI think thats great the wires also where original

[rtraincollector]

HMMM thought I replied to this once but don't see it.

Kev I could say the same about you yesterday. lol okay enough said lol

Afternoon all just taking it easy today.

been playing around with the trains some.

Not much else going on here talk to you all later

[Anonymous]

Kev,

         101K on plugs?  You're braver than me. 

I was going to preorder a new MTH Turbine, but Brady's had a 30-1149-1 Turbine with PS1 from 1999 on ebay.  It is used, but looks great from the pictures.  Need to go get it.  Might upgrade to PS2 when $$ permits.