Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. It seemed more like Fathers day so getting a year older kinda just eased it's way in. Being with our little family made it a nice day. I even got home made Banilla from our DIL. We got about an hour of rain this afternoon and a 10 minute downpour about 8 o clock. Not near enough but something, finally..S.J.
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Well I put the brake caliper lube stuff in the gear boxes of both FP7's and they've been running just over two hours. The older unit still runs flawlessly and quiet. The newer unit, the one I've been having problems with is running much better but the gears still hum a little. The motor is running much cooler. Hey, I think I've found my new lube for loco gears. This stuff is expensive, like $12 a bottle but with the little bit required for a loco that eight ounce bottle will literally last for years.
Happy Birthday Ancient Old man. We are not going to do all the candles or the internet will melt. Many more SJ.
Fathers' Day meal last night started with a surprises.
1. I had to bar-be-que the chickens.
2. My two "kids" and their better halves came. Just thought it was Pam's folks coming.
Off this afternoon early to SIL's and her hubby cooked a pork loin. Great meal.
Meetings tomorrow.
Later.
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Good evening all,
It was cloudy but no rain in SE Indiana and continued hot. It was a nice weekend. Milwaukee race was rain delayed so I only got to watch part of it. Just as well as SFHR and AJ had bad days. At least Penske and Ganassi did not win. Went to Batesville yesterday to see a wood carving place, a bookstore, a kids' toy store, and a hobby shop. Wife got a carving, and I got some books and ordered an Alaska reefer car that was new this year. Also got some teaching aids for daughter to help her with home-schooling. "Snow White and the Huntsman" was good. Took it easy today and caught up on some financial details. Went to a graduation party yesterday for one of "my" soccer girls. It was outside and hot even in the shade. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Went to KFC today with my parents. Three all-u-can-eat buffets, three senior discounts, take home snacks for the dogs.The noisy FP7 isn't so noisy now. After I returned from KFC I made sure to get the bottle of disc brake caliper lube out of my van. It's plastic safe as it's made for use on rubber seals and plastic rings. I used it on the plastic parts of the vans wiper transmission rods last year and they're doing great. So I popped the truck side frames off and put a little on three of the gears in each of the trucks then put the side frames back on. They pop on and off similar to the ones on Bachmann locos. I've had the loco running for about twenty minutes now and while it still hums a bit it's a lot quieter and it isn't running as hot as it was. The shell still gets warm but not hot like it was.
Happy pappy's day to you all.
Hey S.J. Happy Birthday.
Not a lot going on here. just relaxing. Off tomorrow but still have to go into work for an appointment.
Hope all have been having a good day. Went in and laid on the bed and started watching TV well about hr later woke up to different show lol didn't take me 5 minutes I think lol. Oh well
Not much on the train front here.
Wife is killing me with the names she calls the wild cats/kittens around here. she has butter bean ( an orange color one) Pickles a tabby, Mc kenzie there mother, then theres a couple of other new kittens she is calling milo ( from the movie ottis and milo ( cat and dog) and then theres turtle she will stick her head out from under a like dog house I built until it see us then ducks back under like a turtle sticking its head in and out of its shell.
Talk to you all later.
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Good Evening, or late afternoon I guess.
Everything is all quiet here. We played a bunch of CD's and stuff here..and had a bit of an interesting time watching some youtube vids of some train runby's..
Oh...and it rained and poured for a good portion of the day as well...
Gonna see what is up on the layout tonight....
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Happy Birthday SJ !
DougDG be carfull with that stuff. Hope all you Dads had a great day. I did Grandfather’s Day for me.
DougDG be carfull with that stuff.
Hope all you Dads had a great day. I did
Grandfather’s Day for me.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Happy birthday Sir James
Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there !
A big to SJ to be followed by many more !
All of this extra work on the kitchen plus kinda blowing the diet on friday gave me a bit of a scare very early saturday morning, BP & HR not what they should have been. Thought I would have to wake the better half for a visit to the ER, but things somewhat came back to normal, ended up making the day just a veg-out/snoozing day.
Had a good run at the museum on friday, SWMBO gave me a day off to play. Need to start taking some photos of run days.
No plans for today, may do some more work on the cabinet doors til the energy runs out.
for all our friends & family in need.
Later all.
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Happy Birthday S.J.
SPMan
...and Happy Father's day to all you Dad's
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Happy Father's Day everyone!
Cool today, I don't think it will hit 75. Nice time yesterday at HudsonJohn's house as we opend up some boxes. Nice stuff! Not much doing today as the kids are coming over for dinned. My son it smokiing some ribs as I type.
SJ - and many more!
JoeD - I didn't hear that about Beckett. Boy Jack's probably very depressed as they have alot of problems.
Blownout - Rest easy today, you deserve it.
Later
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
SJ!!!
From one old guy to another.......
Happy Birthday, S.J.
Happy Fathers Day
I get a double header, today is also my birthday. I am not happy about being old though. I wasn't ready for this yet. It's 76 degrees and cloudy. We will spend the afternoon at # 1 sons house with our family and DIL's family it will be a very nice day.
Yesterday's club pictures are posted on the Sunday photo thread if you would like to see the video..S.J.
Happy Father's Day!
Good morning. It's 74° and partly. The high will be 92°. There's a 20% chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Cleanup on the layout continues. It's just picking up an item from here, another item there but it's progress. I can see the gravel surface of Labicht Drive again! Wonder how long that'll last. I'll be keeping an eye on my problem FP7 today. I soldered a wire back onto the motor yesterday. Whether it's coming loose was due to a bad solder joint or heat in the connection I don't know. If it comes loose again I'll know it's due to some insane heat buildup in the connection. I'd think that kind of heat would destroy the motor but I've seen stranger things. The next time I have the loco opened up I need to take measurements of the motor and see if I have another one I can shoe horn in there. I'm going to run the existing one until it fails.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cloudy 59 degrees. Going up to 80 today with a chanceof rain.
I sat outside for a while with a cup of coffee. It was peaceful and quiet. There is a Nascar race today from Michigan. Ballgame at 1pm. I may watch them from the train room. Need to run the trains and relax.
Where is Buckeye ???
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Good Morning
And a Happy Father's Day to you all!!
It is currently raining to beat the band out here..monsooning more like...going to a high of 85F feeling more like 95F out there ...in the rain and those ol' t'underin'boomers....
Going to be a quiet day today with Audrey and the little Spring...no visitors cropping up..so I get to run my choo choos for another day
Hello all
Funny how it seems Joe and I often post next to each other. Guess we are on different schedules than everyone else.
Got our first monsoon type storm of the year this evening.
Went down to the "big city" (Safford) this afternoon to get a couple of prescriptions filled. Didn't realize before I got ready to leave on Wed. that a couple needed doctor's authorizations. Fortunately the Walgreens in Safford has been able to help me out the few times this has come up. Took the camera and drove down 8th street along the tracks, but there was no action on the Arizona Eastern RR today. Sometimes they have equipment parked at the old station, but it was just the work car of odds and ends which is less than photogenic.
Looks like I may be taking the Southwest Chief from Flagstaff to La Junta, CO in a few weeks to go to Colorado Springs where the family is. Then we will be off to South Dakota for a few days to do some work on the Pine Ridge reservation. Have never taken the train thru Raton Pass before. When I did this trip before one Christmas I got off in Raton, NM and a bus took us to Colorado Springs.
Kev - the CT90 before the right handlebar switch got repaired (got your message btw)
It's an interesting bike and I've always had an eye on it when I visited my friend. She broke that switch a number of years back and it has basically sat w/ an occasional attempt at repair by someone. I once saw a bike at the Mt. Graham Market near basecamp just like it and really liked the way is sounded. Last summer she sold it to me for $75. If I can get it going again I should try riding it just to see what I think.
John - I guess the right switch for this year (1975) is less commonly found. The one for the earlier series is still available and is the same cosmetically, but the kill switch functions differently. When the instructions started off like this :
"FIRST OFF THERE IS NO WAY FOR THIS TO WORK AS THE STOCK TYPE KILL SWITCH DID."
The battle flags were raised! I love a challenge! So I took both apart, switched out the electrical contacts, and voila! "New" CT90K6 right hand kill switch!
In the next couple weeks, I'll stuff all the wires back in the headlight/speedo housing, see if I can get some spark out of it, add some gas, and then the kick starting/leg workout will begin!
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Happy Father’s Day!
It rained overnight and earlier this morning but the sun is out now. My Father’s Day started earlier than normal as the older boy woke up around 0400 not feeling well. The wife woke up and made French toast stuffed with cream cheese and berries, bacon, and sausage for breakfast. She also made a caramel sauce to pour on to the French toast. It was an amazing breakfast. The wife and two boys stayed home from church while the princess and I attended. I came home from church and the wife had already made my Father’s Day meal: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade rolls, and peach cobbler for dessert. I am sure to gain some weight today. The wife and older son are now at the urgent care clinic as he was feeling worse. He has some odd stomach pain and I’m hoping it’s not appendicitis.
AF Ray – I hope the Yankees can keep playing this way. I just read about the Sox placing Beckett on the DL.
SJ – Happy Birthday! I presume it was your birthday. It sound like you had a great day. I hope Charlie posts some photos or video of the trains.
Sayonara,
Joe
Good Evening...
I had a wonderful day of doing a lot of train stuff..no HD listie things, no groceries to buy...nothing but train room today... we will see about tomorrow when it gets here...
Going to head off to get some now...g'night!!!
It's 76 now.
We had a good club meet, ran some long trains. One of them had 102 ore cars. Another had 37 scale pacemaker box cars. With some help from a few sneaky friends my wife showed up with a birthday cake. Add food from the grill and potato salad that equates to being a good time.
S.J.
Well my father called a while ago and said he had a watermelon to cut up. So I had to put in an appearance to eat my share. An eightieth of a watermelon later and I had had all I wanted. My sister asked how I would handle a hornet nest. I said 'AI'. AI? Artificial Intelligence? No, Avoid It. Pouring a bucket of scalding hot water down into it can help too. Wasp spray can work wonders on it.My problem FP7 quit running today for some reason. I opened it up and that a wire had come loose from the motor. I wonder if that was because of a poor solder joint or was it that hot. That chincy little motor gets so hot you can cook bacon and eggs on it. I soldered the wire back in place and the loco is running again. It still has that annoying hum which I'm sure is from the gears. The sight of red gears set off all kinds of alarm bells because of the cheap Mexican made Con-Cor drives back in the late 80's and early 90's that hummed, screamed and squealed, same time period this loco was released.
Good evening everyone. Just got home from a trip up to FIL's house. I enjoy the company, but not the drive. It is about two hours each way. By the time I get back, my neck is hurting.
On the way home, I passed a engine terminal for a local railroad. I may see if I can get the photos loaded here.
Hope each of you has a great father's day. God Bless,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Break from grandpa sitting or is it the other way around? Got time for a sip while Lexi is napping but feel like I should be. Brutal hot. Big day for Marseilles. Today is the 10th annual motorcycle Freedom Run to the Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall in Marseilles along the Illinois river. Big deal here, about 10 to 15,000 bikes in town. I would have gone but not with the grandchild. AF Ray, you got me on that one I was at least 3 to 5 mph over. Did you see the chipmunk on the right side of the road as I went over the last pipe just before I got to the shed? Chief, Got my, what was to be a NIB N&S Dash 8 40-C. But it is condition 8 at best. Glad I got it on the cheap. The two look good lashed up together. Blownout cyl, good to see you are riding the bike. 14 dump truck loads of gravel sounds about right for a touch up on a ¾ mile drive. Ours in the front needs a rebuild and could use more but I ran out of money and only Jim next door and I seem to put in any money, time or labor. The other 3 neighbors don’t even say thanks. Keep up the good fight. Submmbob, I want to see a picture of you on that CT90. Hey look for a message from me.
Break from grandpa sitting or is it the other way around? Got time for a sip while Lexi is napping but feel like I should be.
Brutal hot. Big day for Marseilles. Today is the 10th annual motorcycle Freedom Run to the Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall in Marseilles along the Illinois river. Big deal here, about 10 to 15,000 bikes in town. I would have gone but not with the grandchild.
AF Ray, you got me on that one I was at least 3 to 5 mph over. Did you see the chipmunk on the right side of the road as I went over the last pipe just before I got to the shed?
Chief, Got my, what was to be a NIB N&S Dash 8 40-C. But it is condition 8 at best. Glad I got it on the cheap. The two look good lashed up together.
Blownout cyl, good to see you are riding the bike. 14 dump truck loads of gravel sounds about right for a touch up on a ¾ mile drive. Ours in the front needs a rebuild and could use more but I ran out of money and only Jim next door and I seem to put in any money, time or labor. The other 3 neighbors don’t even say thanks. Keep up the good fight.
Submmbob, I want to see a picture of you on that CT90. Hey look for a message from me.
Chuck, Raccoons make great targets.
SPRay I saw that walk too , it was kind of neat. Not for me, I can’t stand to be on a 6’ ladder.
Another flower project. The house well head is under the old milk can.
Good morning all,
Did anyone see the high wire walker over Niagra Falls on ABC last night? They hyped the heck out of it with commercials for hours it seemed before the actual walk but did that without interuption. Nik Wallenda I believe is the great grandson of the legendary Karl Wallenda who was killed in a fall from the wire when he was blown off by wind. A friend of mine was a member of the Great Wallenda High Wire Troupe for about three years back in the late 50's when they were performing the 7 man pyramid. Lucky for him, he got out of it before they had a bad accident in Detroit around 1962 I think. What does this have to do with trains you ask? Well, this friend later became a Lionel repair man and reintroduced me to three rail O gauge trains and train collecting. All my O gauge railroading exploits stem from that meeting.
Tomorrow is father's day so have to figure out what I would like to do. Probably watch the golf tournement conclusion and eat out somewhere.
Neighbor across the street gave me a giant yellow squash from his garden today so I will have to get a couple of italian squash to go with it. Peaches and avacados are coming in at house next door. I used to grow tomatoes but didn't plant anything this year.
Happy fathers day to all the Dad's
Good afternoon all! Like HudsonJohn, I'm on my lunch break.
My new WIDE GAUGE loco arrived and I went to pick it up this morning on my way to work. Huge box.
HudsonJohn put it perfectly about getting old (which he is) me, on the other hand......... When they said "oldies" they played songs from the 1980's. I guess when the bride and groom were born in the 80's it's just a relative thing.
Kev - That's alot of driveway. I think I saw a posted speed limit sign there. How fast were you going?
JoeD & Chief - Yankees go to a different town....same results. Our next game on the schedule is this Wed, a day game.
Laz - You bored yet?
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