Took my lionel 224 in to the train meet today and it turned out that the only problem was dirty wheels and pick ups. Fastrack I ran on at home was probably dirty too. We ran it on some clean track today and it was fine.
LV, congratulations on the Eagle. When I was a kid, Eagle scouts were really rare but today I have seen quite a few. Both of my sons made it to Life but lost interest after that. You can be justly proud of your acheivement. BTW, Happy birthday
Good evening all,
Ray
SPMan
Konbanwa,
We went to Sunday school and church this morning. We’ve spent the rest of the day relaxing. I watched some UFC fights from last night I recorded and then finished the WSJ’s weekend crossword puzzle. I’ll read some more CTT the rest of the evening and maybe play some games with the kids.
V8 – I’m glad you like the caboose. I’m sorry it wasn’t in Mint condition and I appreciate your understanding. I’m sure the computer upgrades will make things a little smoother for you.
LV – Congratulations on the Eagle Scout accomplishment! That is great.
Charlie – Good for your dad.
I hope everyone has a great Sunday.
Sayonara,
Joe
good cold morning every one
Chief, wait till I get my Blunderbuss, I found them in kit form, supposed to be fulley operational. we'll show them pesky critters ........... LOL
Redfire, No, they are newer (2000 ish?) O-42 switches. and not too far of from the garbage can. I wanted to use Gargraves and Ross and my LHS talked me into tubular.....
John, I really smoked up the house last night! clean up into the first floor. thank goodness she was at Bingo! and i was in bed before she got home, wonder if she noticed.?
LV happy birthday, congrats on eagle scout. I never made it even close. our scout group was a mess, i actually think it made the kids worse that went to it, completely dysfunctional.
Charlie, NICE tractor, looks kinda like my 2N but orange and ALOT nicer,.
I took my Alice Chalmers model WD out for a spin in the snow yesterday . its an old row cropper with independent hand brakes. the wife was not impressed with me doing doughnuts with it in the drive way. She asked when I intend on growing up? I said NEVER!!!
About the S2 it came unboxed / used in an action lot, so maybe its just time to replace the traction tire. May have been my fault, I had 20 cars on it, trying to see how slow it would go upgrade.
I think I am going to selll MY ZW's and get the MTH z-4000's
anyway, gota do some stuff at the house cause I goofed off all day yesterday
ryan
Good morning. It's 57° with 100% humidity and fog. It'll be cloudy with a high of 75°.I have a train running as I type this. Three geeps on the head end of a general freight and a SW1500 and F unit slug pushing. I have the 1500 running in reverse behind the slug. It seems to be happiest there.The only layout related plans for today are general clearing of clutter. My plastic scale ruler is crumbling on me so I downloaded a printable scale ruler PDF file from Miniature Planet and printed a new one on heavy card stock and sealed it with a good coat of Valspar Clear Flat. It should work well until I can get another clear plastic one.
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cold 14 degrees. Going up to 37 today with warmer weather coming next week. Rain, too. That figures.
Today is an easy day. I plan on spending a few hours in the train room, after a few chores. Still working on the switch project. It is a slow process. I have lots of time.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Good morning, 8 degrees at beautiful Bayville, NJ.
Slept in today and woke up with a stuffed spinning head. Took Mack and Chester out for their morning walk and just got back. Those 2 did not like the cold and I do not think we went 1/2 mile today. Mack is asleep by the wood stove and Chester went into the garage.
Today is take down the Christmas tree. Yes we enjoy the tree and it still has the smell and it is just starting to droop. It took my wife 2 days to decorate it. Enough ornaments for 3 trees and she always picks ou a BIG tree.
I have not heard from AF53 after his text last night that he set a running trolley up in the dining room.
Prayers for all in need.
Enjoy the day!
John
Good morning.
Going up to grandmother's today. When home, I plan on doing some homework and maybe what I was doing a lot of yesterday. Adding decals to locos and cars.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Morning. 24 for the low. Frozen fog???? Weather person said we had soe kind of diamonds. Come from fog freezing and dropping what looks like snow flurries. Everything was melted last night. This AM, trees look like we had freezing rain which we did not have. Covered with ice.
Warming to the high 40's. High 60's Tuesday and Wednesday.
Lazy this AM. The cold is trying to return but fighting it off. Seems I am winning.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good morning,
28 degrees and they say freezing rain within the hour. But the radar looks like we will have just rain. Maybe DougM will get the frozen stuff.
JimmyT and Ryan. I think my problem with the newer stuff is because I was out of the hobby so long. I quit running trains at 16 and did not get back in till three years ago. So I missed out on 42 years where profit took over quality slowly. Someone who never got out of the hobby may have never noticed. I mean when I was a kid everything worked and never broke. Toys for Kids. Now don’t look at one wrong or it will break. And for 14 and over. Not toys. I did have a 4 x 8’ layout in the early 80s for my son but we used most of the old stuff. I did get him a SantaFe GP7 6-8263 and that seemed like lightweight stuff then. Ryan I have 10 of those new O42 Lionel switches and they just plane suck but to replace them now with Ross would break my bank. So I deal with it. I can barley pull my new postwar inspired Blue Strip passenger cars through a switch without a derailment or light show of sparks.
John, like you I was driving stick before I could reach the peddles on the tractor. They started us out on the tractors with hand clutches. John Deere A & G. So driving s stick car was natural when it came time for that.
LV
SPRay, Glad it was a small issue with the 224
Ryan, one mans trash is another mans gold. I will be sending you a PM answer in a bit. Thanks!
Jeffery, a scale ruler??? Sounds neat.
Chief, take care of that cold before it turns into something bigger you don’t need.
RIJack is quiet these days???
Y’all have a great day.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Watching Face The Nation on CBS. Talking about gun control. Interesting. California has beautiful blondes with bikinis. Why is it their top Senator and House member are to two ugliest ladies in Congress?
Temps climbed to 31 and sunny.
Chief I had to ask myself that same question. Maybe nobody else wanted the job?
Good Sunday Afternoon!
Nice and sunny day, a chance to relax.
Felt like making Belgium waffles for brunch, mmmmmmmm! that and some orange juice, pulp of course and coffee. Maybe I'll imitate Chuck and nap later also!
As HudsonJohn mentioned earlier I started to invade the dinning room last night. We have a double window there and the sill must be about 4 inches wide. Just the perfect place for a six foot trolley. So far my invasion has received a 50-50 response.
LV - Happy Birthday! and congratulations on your accomplishment!
Later!
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Chief
ChiefEagles Watching Face The Nation on CBS. Talking about gun control. Interesting. California has beautiful blondes with bikinis. Why is it their top Senator and House member are to two ugliest ladies in Congress?
Chief, That is their only "endearing" quality, they represent what has unfortunately become of this once Golden State.
Friday turned into a good day after starting out in the dumper. After doing the normal housekeeping chores in preparation for opening I put my rolling stock on the tracks. That's when it started going downhill. First engine up, after servicing, was one of my Lionel C-420's which promptly threw a tire on both the front and rear trucks. Set that one aside for repair after we open and get it's sister C-420 up and running w/no problems. Pull out the Challenger to setup for the woodside reefer consist and you guessed it, it threw/broke THREE of it's four tires. Since only two of us were able to make it that required I take care of the issues that disabled two of the three locos I brought with me, had intended on using the C-420's to alternate with the Challenger. All's well that ends well.
Rained all day friday and a little bit of everything all day saturday, rain/fog/drizzle/wind/a peek of sun and some really low clouds that obscured the hills here in the neighborhood. Same for today only colder supposedly.
Looking forward to the WGH tour here the second weekend in Feb., the museum will have a booth to help promote itself. It's surprising how many longtime locals don't know of it's existence.
Time to get busy.
Later !
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Did not see the program. I assume Diane Feinstein was one of them, who was the other one? While Feinstein would not win any beauty contest, I wouldn't call her ugly. Don't know about the other one.
Chief, your stomach is stronger than mine. I had to change the channel. Must be all those Grits you eat.
Good morning! Good afternoon! It is 39 degrees, overcast and drizzly in my part NW MO. A good day to be inside.
LV - congratulations on achieving Eagle and again, Happy Birthday!
MichRR714 - It was great to read that your Dad was able to fulfil his dream of having a tractor. I hope it gives him much pleasure for many years to come!
Ryan - just so happens a few days ago my oldest daughter mentioned to me that her Mother was wanting to replace our present tv in the living room with a flat screen tv. I should mention that the current tv is doing just fine thank you! She has not yet mentioned a flat screen to me. Perhaps I shouldn't be to surprised if one day I find a box sitting in the living room with a flat screen waiting to be installed.
Chief - yeah, watch that cold, I've had a couple instances where what a thought was a simple cold turned into something worse.
SPRay - glad to hear there was no serious issue with the 224 and that it is back in action.
Doug - sorry to hear about all the trouble with traction tires. I wish they were not needed and we could just operate without them.
Installed my new ZW-L yesterday and ran trains for a couple hours. Pretty impressive. Because of all of the new technology put into some of the newer offerings it seems there is so much more that can go wrong. So far though, all is good with the new transformer.
Going to work on the website for a while I think and say something about the new ZW-L. Have a good afternoon fellas! Bo
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ChiefEagles Morning. 24 for the low. Frozen fog???? Weather person said we had soe kind of diamonds. Come from fog freezing and dropping what looks like snow flurries. Everything was melted last night. This AM, trees look like we had freezing rain which we did not have. Covered with ice.
Chief, I have seen this before and we call it in the fall "Witches Frost". Photographers go out and take pictures and then sell them for big $$$$$. What time were you out taking your photos???
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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KRMJeffery, a scale ruler??? Sounds neat.
Aloha. Waiting on the freezing rain to roll in. But it should be 55 by Tues. Wow! Back from serving at church. Cold is better. Brutus, V-stock sounds like a great store. Too bad you didn't find what you are looking for. LV, let me add my congrats both for your milestone in Scouting and your birthday.Mike C, that NY&NH painting by Hopper is very nice. I'm waiting for NIghthawks to return to the Art Institute in Chicago. It's been visiting somewhere. Charlie, congrats on your dad's tractor. Highlight of my summer was the annual Steam 'Bee' and tractor show just west of here.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
LV: I also congratulate you on your scouting achievement and also !!!
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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Good Afternoon...
Lost time due to a power outage this morning...dang pole knocked down, down the road from us...yay
Got to get a few "survival" groceries before we get the snow/freezing rain/ice pellets/rain...who knows what...
A cloudy 31, feels cold.
Setup and layout went well today, no pileups. Pretty much the same offerings that we saw last week so nothing bought today. Sleet, freezing rain to rain expected here as well I will have banilla though..S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good afternoon all,
It is miserable outside in SE Indiana with temps in the 30s. Went to Mass and that was about it for the day. Will watch Once Upon a Time tonight. Quiet week at work ahead. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day. I did see where Ganassi won the 24 Hours at Daytona....again.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Buckeye told me this movie was classified until now but here is a movie 1st of chief pulling his boat out then buckeye putting his boat in the water http://www.dump.com/boatramp/
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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rtraincollector Buckeye told me this movie was classified until now but here is a movie 1st of chief pulling his boat out then buckeye putting his boat in the water http://www.dump.com/boatramp/
mmmmm...seems I've done summat a few times
Now THAT was cool!
Ray, none other than Nancy Pelosi. If you think those two ladies are attractive, we will get up a collection to buy you new eye glasses.
Happy Birthday LV.
Back from a visit to Harbor Freight. Picked up a big hot knife that was on Insider Club sale and a heat gun [multi 20 level].
Now for a Halmark movie and one of the regular networks [maybe ABC].
On the video, notice I do not tie up the ramp and block the waterway like Buckeye and his big brag.
Later.
Ahhhh........ nice to be home.
Didn't add any decals, but heavily weathered the cars I got for my birthday and finished adding decals to #790, an H16-44 Fairbanks Morse Small Trainmaster. Also added heavy weathering to it. Plan on posting a picture once I can.
Freezing rains most of the afternoon. So my neighbor Brian and I decided to do a little layout addition work. Great day on the North Bluff. Hope you guys had a good day as well. The addition is now on it's legs.
On the coyote front, the coyotes were introduced into VA some 15+ years ago by the do gooders at the VA state Extension office. Even the Sheep Specialist said "All animals need to learn to get along". A real city boy. Now we have to many so I sent some down to NC. Apparently they have enough of there own. Doug, first I have herd of them invading a house.
Chief - I am not sure we can hunt coyotes in VA, but then if they are attacking livestock?-------.
Chief - Try Amazon for Downtown Abbey. They sent me an email that they have #2 and#3 in stock.
Ryan - Our Boy Scout troop was dis-functional too. Had a bully in the troupe that hit me in the mid section that caused a appendicitis.
LV - happy birthday. also RT this week. And of course Buckeye, cant forget you!.
Pat
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