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Coffee Pot #9 SEPTEMBER 2012 SIX 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

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:11 AM

Chief realized that when turned computor off said heck with it lol just keeping you on your toes thou.

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:02 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a cold and sunny 46 degrees. Going up to 76 today with sunshine.

Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and then I will work on a train repair. I have to replace the truck sides on the older Trainmaster. They arrived the other day from Williams. It fell off the train table onto the carpeted basement floor and broke both sides of the rear truck. No other damage.

Indians seem to be doing better. Lost last night but put up a good fight. I like Alomar as manager.

Nascar race today.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Yall have a great Sunday.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:20 AM

Good morning. Great weather we have here if you're a duck! Temp: 72°. Humidity 100%. Rainfall 0.07" since 12am. Mostly cloudy. Wind gusts 15 mph ESE.


No outdoor activity planned today. I'm not into water sports. It looks like the wet weather is moving out.

Today I'll likely make some small changes on the wall plates for the grain elevator or I may leave it like it is.



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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:09 AM

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:11 AM

I just lost a whole post with pics.

Super AngryDeadThumbs DownCrying

This stinks!

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Posted by sir james I on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:33 AM

Let's see. Ah it's 52 and sunny

Brutus was the only Tardis traveler with a ticket last night so we trash talked the guys that were not there..Big Smile NO not really. I'm not sure about today's plans yet, offered Applebee's to granny this morn but got no reply. We shall wait and see. Gosh the end of September already..Crying..S.J.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:48 AM

laz 57

I just lost a whole post with pics.

Super AngryDeadThumbs DownCrying

This stinks!

If I had $5 for every time I've advised people to put their posts together in Notepad, Wordpad or some other word processor type program I'd be set for life. I put my post together in Notepad including the lines for photos then save that to a flash drive. Then I can copy it and paste it into the reply box. If it gets lost no problem, I just paste it again and click post. Once it's posted I can delete the file from the flash drive.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:58 AM

sir james I

Let's see. Ah it's 52 and sunny

Brutus was the only Tardis traveler with a ticket last night so we trash talked the guys that were not there..

I don't doubt that Whistling

Big Smile NO not really.

I'm not sure about today's plans yet, offered Applebee's to granny this morn but got no reply. We shall wait and see.

Gosh the end of September already..Crying..S.J.

That means Snow is that much closer for you

Morning all not a lot going on today.at work doing the normal things

Hope all having a good Sunday. ( Come on 3:30 P.M. ) lol Ready for a break I think the only thing I'm going to do tonight/tomorrow is do some moulding and put up some shelves. I'm thinking of putting the southern set with some of the cars on one shelf and putting the boxes on a shelf right under it. As the engines and the cars have original boxes and most are in pretty good shape.

Actually came up with a good idea for all that track I got as its all straight track it will make good track for my shelves I have about 60 pieces.  If I remember correctly O-31 straight track is 10" long or is it 11" either way about 9 pieces per board will be fine. So I will be able to do about 6 shelves with it and save my gar-graves for when I'm building my layout.

well will catch you all later

 

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 10:58 AM

Hey guys...

Spent the morning with Mom & Dad, coffee, cleaning out the InBox and applying for jobs.

It's a beautiful day here, I'm taking the Harley out to the the Festa.  USMC Silent Drill Team at 3!!

Hopefully we'll hear more good news from the Spankster....better news all the way around, so far!

Angel for those in need...I'm off to get changed and head out to the park!!

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, September 30, 2012 11:22 AM

Morning.  Back from Early Church and Sunday School.  Then to gro and back.  Off to a visitation of a friend's Mom.  Sun came out.  No rain!!!

rtraincollector

Chief realized that when turned computor off said heck with it lol just keeping you on your toes thou.

In RT's defence, he knew it would be after midnight when I posted so he was right in saying tonight. WinkWhistling

Later

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Posted by SPMan on Sunday, September 30, 2012 12:04 PM

Just checking in,

Not much to report today but getting ready for church at 11:30AM.  Temp will be 102 today and 105 tomorrow.

Hope and prayers for Tyler to keep getting good reports.

Got an E mail yesterday that a conductor I knew on the railroad passed away.  He used to play pro football with San Diego at one time.  He wasn't very old.  He looked out for me when I was wet behind the ears.  He was a huge man but he told me that he was one of the smaller guys on the team.  Sorry to hear of his passing.

Have a good day all,

Ray

 

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Posted by KRM on Sunday, September 30, 2012 12:45 PM

WOW I am back from Silver Cliff WI. Gone four days and have 8 pages to read on the pot.

4 days of hanging with friends and putting a new roof on Mark's cabin. Got done on Friday so took in some of the things up there to see.

 Leaves were in full color. Super nice.

 Took Brian's truck up this time and everything went fine till 5:10 AM this morning when we left. We did not get a 1/5 mile from the lane when we hit and killed a deer. Sad Truck is messed up good but still ran. a 2007 F250 ford.

Will check in later.

A real Plymouth Switcher still in use at the log transfer yard in Crivitz WI. Now has Cat power.

And a Speeder.
  

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:14 PM

Hi GUYZ,

  Well here is try number 2.  JEFFERY I am computer illiterate so you are speaking Chinese to me.  Anyway got back late Friday nite from the Salmon Capital of the east coast Pulaski NY.  All I can say is WWWWWWOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!!  This was the bestest trip we ever had.  At every bridge on the 13 miles of fishable river there were anywhere from 500-1000 Salmon swimming around.  Now you would think it was easy to have fish on but these fish do not bite.  When they enter the river from the lake they will for a brief time but then become line shy and you reallly gotta work for them.  We fished the fast water and did really well we caught a bunch o fish and had on 154 other ones that either we lost during the fight or broke the line.  We had achy arms and backs by the end of the day but thats a good thing.  Here are some pics I hope and a video I shot of the fish at Pulaski NY.

watch?v=z28Szsnt1OA&list=HL1349031269&feature=mhlolz

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All fish were released except the last fish that I placed on the limb of the tree that was a 24 lber. that I took home for the WIFE and neighbor ladies.  The fish we caught were between 8 and 30 lbs.  We had others that were about the mid to upper 30s that just go bananas when they are hooked and will strip off anywhere from 75 to 125 yrds of line then you loose em either in the current or someone will get tangled up with you then theyre off.  I caught a buch with a 9 weight fly rod that was a lot o fun but most were caught with the spinning rod.  I still am the SALMON KING for the second year now being I caught the most fish.  I hope we get another year like this one.  I have been going up to Pulaski Ny now for 25 years and this is the best I ever saw it.  I hope it continues.

Stay frosty,

laz57

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:17 PM

Hi GUYZ,

Here's another try on the pics to get em bigger?

  Well here is try number 2.  JEFFERY I am computer illiterate so you are speaking Chinese to me.  Anyway got back late Friday nite from the Salmon Capital of the east coast Pulaski NY.  All I can say is WWWWWWOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!!  This was the bestest trip we ever had.  At every bridge on the 13 miles of fishable river there were anywhere from 500-1000 Salmon swimming around.  Now you would think it was easy to have fish on but these fish do not bite.  When they enter the river from the lake they will for a brief time but then become line shy and you reallly gotta work for them.  We fished the fast water and did really well we caught a bunch o fish and had on 154 other ones that either we lost during the fight or broke the line.  We had achy arms and backs by the end of the day but thats a good thing.  Here are some pics I hope and a video I shot of the fish at Pulaski NY.

watch?v=z28Szsnt1OA&list=HL1349031269&feature=mhlolz

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All fish were released except the last fish that I placed on the limb of the tree that was a 24 lber. that I took home for the WIFE and neighbor ladies.  The fish we caught were between 8 and 30 lbs.  We had others that were about the mid to upper 30s that just go bananas when they are hooked and will strip off anywhere from 75 to 125 yrds of line then you loose em either in the current or someone will get tangled up with you then theyre off.  I caught a buch with a 9 weight fly rod that was a lot o fun but most were caught with the spinning rod.  I still am the SALMON KING for the second year now being I caught the most fish.  I hope we get another year like this one.  I have been going up to Pulaski Ny now for 25 years and this is the best I ever saw it.  I hope it continues.

Stay frosty,

laz57

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:21 PM

Another try?

 

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:23 PM

Now for the rest o pics.

 
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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:25 PM

I tried using the URL for posting pics and that didn't work so all I did was copy and paste.  Go figure?  Sorry for all the posts.

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Posted by jonadel on Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:00 PM

Great pics Laz, THANK YOU!  What a great day [Thumbs Up

Jon

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:02 PM

laz 57
EFFERY I am computer illiterate so you are speaking Chinese to me.

Well fortunately you don't have to take foreign language courses. The simplist way I've found is to use Microsoft's Notepad program which comes standard with Windows. I simply bring up Notepad then type my post in it just as I would in the forums posting window, saving it as I go along so if something like a power failure happens I can retrieve it from the hard drive or flash drive, whichever I saved it to and pick up where I last saved. Once the post written I can copy and paste it into the forums posting window and click post. Voila! It's done! I taught my father how to do it over the phone and he's all thumbs just turning a computer on.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:52 PM

Evening all. Great pics Laz. DJ looks like tyler is enjoying himself anyway. Thats a good thing. Prayers for his recovery still going out.

Relaxing tonight hope all had a good weekend.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:55 PM

Been feeling pretty rough today. In fact I've felt like crap since I got up this morning. Took a nap around noon and woke up feeling even worse. I did manage to get part of a makeshift structure for the elevator put together. It's just a few printed wall plates stuck to a box but it at least gives me something to work with.



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Posted by cheapclassics on Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:57 PM

Good evening all,

It is mild in SE Indiana today, which was a good day to put away stuff.  Jeffery and others who are relatively new, "IIABSDISEI" is an acronym for "It is another beautiful sunny day in South East Indiana" which is where Greensburg is located.  Once we had a long streak of such days and I decided to shorten the phrasing to save typing, sort of like TBIL is short for "The Beacon is Lit" which is a Tardis reference.  Any way we did get a lot accomplished at home today after a leisurely lunch at Burger King.  Actually we have a very nice Burger King and not many people eat inside so it is rather relaxing.  We brought the paper and some books and could get refills when we wanted.  Wound up spending almost an hour and half just detoxing a bit. TBIL and I can drive after "Once Upon a Time".  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by MichRR714 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:07 PM

Great Fishing Laz! Thumbs Up

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:11 PM

Aloha. Just getting in under the wire after a beautiful day with my young nieces at the Illinois Railroad Museum. Great news about Tyler's initial response to chemo. Prayers for him, hudson's mom and Mike C.  Awesome photos, Laz. You are the fish-whisperer. Here's a few shots of the day: view out the front of a Roarin' Elgin interurban car.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:13 PM

Big wheels on a Santa Fe 4-8-4 

On a whistlestop tour: 

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:13 PM

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Posted by AF53 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:41 PM

Good Evening Everyone! Beautiful day here at the Jersey shore!

Spent some time over at daughter #2's helping with the landscape then went over to HudsonJohn's to help him clean up inside the house! Wink Then relaxed a bit watching the Yanks pull one out late. For dinner we had my son and his girl over. She bought over a nice Peach wine, it was great!

Fifedog - Looks like it will come down to the wire with your Orioles. The fans must be enjoying this race.

SJ - The Tigers have a nice lead as DougM's team is really falling, bad time to go on a loosing streak.

JoeD - One more game for us. This Tue night against those Sox from beantown. I was hoping we would have clinched it by then but.........

DougM - Those pics are great. Keep them coming.

Laz - What a day! It looks as though alot showed up for opening day. My son would love that. I better not show him the video he might want to move out there.

DJ - Looks like "one day at a time" describes your life right now. Can't imagine what your going through but my prayers go out to you.

Talk to you later.

Ray

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:50 PM

Ray, my Sox are toast. It was a nice run, but a lousy fade-away. Ah well. On to football. Smile  And trains. Big Smile

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Posted by sir james I on Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:57 PM

The tigers don't have it locked up yet. I will wait before saying Yea.

Laz nice catch they look a lot better when they are not stuffed with grits before the pitcher iz took.  Granny was tired after church and turned down Applebees so we had spagett at home then some oatmeal tonight. I saved some banilla for the thingy crew...S.J.


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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:32 PM

Good evening. Still wet here as it's rained off and on throughout the day. It's currently 59° here and looking at a high of 78° tomorrow. Possible thunderstorms in spots tonight. No mention of rain for tomorrow.


Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.



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