Coffee Pot #3 MARCH 2013 NINE 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 Yanks.

[Banks]

Hello all,

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breezy cold with occasional snohio flurries here today. Sure is cold for March

Going to fry fish later. Kinda hope it's a slow night. My sinus' are pounding Got some pills from the Doc but they don't seem to be doing much. Only one more to go for this year. I'll try t get back later.

Best get back to the SS Fund

Prayers for those in need

[fifedog]

cheapclassics - Continued .

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Sunny & 37 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Just imagine how much colder it would be without global warming  Speaking of, our state overlords just passed legislation forcing windfarms off the Atlantic beachheads, raising the electric rates now to pay for the privilege.  Now they are mulling (read arm-twisting) a 21 cent per gallon gas tax.  Beware the teflon leprechan...

Brutus - Hope y'all feelin' better today.

TGIF!

CWFY (Can't Wait For York)

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps in the 30s.  A long hard week is coming to an end.   Good news first.  Second and last drainage tube was removed from daughter yesterday.  She is home and doing better.  Thank you again for all the support.  Work is going well.  Indycar racing is starting this weekend.  Local high school team plays for Class AAA boys baketball championship Saturday night.  Congrats to Chief for 27 years.  Condolences to Bo on last of friend.  Continued prayers for Fife Princess.  Prayers for RI52 and all the issues he is facing. 

As far as that which I cannot talk about, we have taken some financial hits on that situation, but it could be much, much worse.  We are taking steps to compensate for what was lost, but there has been an emotional stress as well.  One way or the other, we will reach an endpoint to one phase by the first of May and then I will be able to discuss it here.  Until then, I continue to ask for your thoughts and prayers not so much for myself as I just trucking (or maybe training) along, but for my wife and the rest of the family.  The one point I can clarify is that no member of the family is having any medical issues.

TBIL and I can drive.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Zero Export]

Just popin in to say hi, I skimed the last few days of posts, hope to catch up tonight.  I have been busey and really sick.

It was all could do to get her at the airport yesterday.  I threw up so vionlently last night I pulled a musscle or some thing in my back.

Then I have to listen to her go on and on about the fact I did nothing while she was away.  I guess I am not entitled to some time off anymore.

Ryan

 

[sir james I]

Temp is a cloudy 27.

The robin I saw last week has not returned. I don't blame it. A nice chat with the guys last night but the train show season is winding down. Now we wait for the new catalogs. Granny says Hi and away we go...S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Global Warming,  BULL S--T!!!!  Was in the high 20's this AM.  Going to 50 today.  Normal high is mid 60's.  Windy too.  Was real windy last night.  Suppose to be cold and some rain off and on for days.

Thanks for the congrats.  Wifey and I went to new restaurant.  Had one of the best steaks I have ever eaten.  Taking the Mayors' Asssoc. there soon.

Getting things rounded up for a trip to the lake house.  Frankie coming up tomorrow early and we are doing maintenance on his boat.  I'm staying "days".  Maybe forget about our crazy Legislature.  Introduced a bill, you don't have to the a lawyer to be elected a judge.  Interesting.  Makeup your own law and use it as a judge.  Suits gelore.

Prayers for Fifey and Mike's daughters.

Good to see Jack back posting.  Think I have sent him enough "noresterners" for one year.

Have a good one. 

PS: snowed at the lake house yesterday.  Even down close to us.  The farms down east got some too.  All ended up as dustings.  Roseyville didn't see any. 

Buckeye, good luck with Dr's appointments.  Hope they are not REB Drs.

[cnw1995]

Aloha. 20 degrees and sunny!  Nice TARDIS ride last eve. Brutus, glad you are feeling better. I love my rail zepp. I swapped out the clockwork motor for one from a speeder. Slid right in. RT, I eventually swapped out the doorknobs for non-locking ones. Nice purchase off the Bay. Good thing you all reminded me that my bride's birthday is in a few weeks. Don't suppose she'd appreciate one of the Aristo/RMT speeders.... 

[RockIsland52]

Buckeye Riveter

Chief,

Please give Ms. Pam my condolences.  I know she puts up with too much after my Roseyville Raid last year.  

Happy anniversary Chief!!!!   Fife and Mike......continued prayers for your Princesses' recoveries.

Sorry for my absence; but with aging family members, duty calls.  I am glad to report that all is good.

Jack

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a sunny 26 degrees. Going up to a sunny 44.

Today is a busy day. I have a few chores to do and then a big project to work on. May take 2 days. Lunch and a nap, later;

Buckeye & LAZ.... TGIF

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

[jeffrey-wimberly]

submmbob

Jeffrey - I did have to look up when they changed the engine displacement And I agree w/ you on the headlights. The switch from sealed beam units was not an improvement. Was just thinking I should find you a Corvair Spyder to put in Erza's garage

That would look much better than the giant light bulb that's in there.

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Good morning. It's 59° with 100% humidity. The high will be 75° and we might get wet today.


Hopefully I'll be able to work on the layout today with no interruptions. I have no additional plans except to stay dry.

[laz 57]

HI GUYZ,

  28 here and a cold one again.  Got PT done now for walk to river and back.  My WIFE has a half day today so she will be home for lunch then we will go out for dinner tonite and have crab cakes.  Gotta call up BOXCAR BILL today and finish the Shay.  He sent me the 4 wire harness I needed for the hook up.  Got to solder 5 wires then get everything back into the body.

CHUCK & BUCKEYE, TGIF!!!!!!

Stay frosty my friends,

laz57

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning. Much the same for today as far as plans go, but have some work tonight ('bout time! Need some money here!).

[Buckeye Riveter]

TGIF ! ! ! 

Busy day today with two doctors appointments  this morning, a meeting at noon and a conference call at 2pm.

I hope the weather doesn't get too bad so I can attend the train show in Dalton, Ohio on Sunday.  I attended last fall and was impressed.  Near the show is the home of Smuckers.  Their store is full of good things including jellies and jams for Knott's Berry Farm.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Really Early Morning...for moi at least

Yeah...it is one of those mornings wherein one doth not sleepeth very well...so I be up and mucking about with a project railcar..converting an old caboose of indeterminate origin into a transfer caboose thingee...

currently snowing...still...and only 15F out here right now...sigh

Heading off to work soon for the morning meeting and then off to check my FLHS to see what goodies they have....

Have a good'un!!

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

I believe spring is officially here as I no longer see any signs of cold weather.  Today’s high is around 75.  After I finished some schoolwork this morning, I started building the youngest a little outdoor playhouse.  It is nothing too fancy; I am building it out of the final pieces of leftover fence wood.  I would have been finished by now, but I ran out of screws.  I don’t have much planned for the rest of the day.

V8 – I have had some success when calling the cable company too.  Saving $5 is better than paying an extra $5; even it is only for a few months.

Chief – Happy Anniversary to you and your wife. 

Bo – I’m sorry for the loss of your friend.  From what I read about him, he seemed to be doing many right things with the corrections system.

Doug – When I was a kid, Little League started in May and ran through the summer.  High school baseball started in late February or early March.

Hudson John – I have to be in Rhode Island in September and October this year.  Depending on the dates for York in October, maybe I could swing down there before I return to Japan.

Sayonara,

Joe

[submmbob]

Hello all

Back here in the Ol' Pueblo. Not much done today. Just catching up on sleep. Did pick up my first issue of ogr and the UP gondola today. More on the way.

Bo - sorry to hear about your friend

Brutus - hope ya feel better soon

Jeffrey - I did have to look up when they changed the engine displacement And I agree w/ you on the headlights. The switch from sealed beam units was not an improvement. Was just thinking I should find you a Corvair Spyder to put in Erza's garage

Chief - congrats!

Kev - Happy to see the 1615 at work! If the docksider were in SF markings I'd be tempted

Going to start putting back together my friend's Daewoo tomorrow. Hopefully we'll at least get the head back on, new timing belt installed, and then the right engine mount back in before my therapist beat's the crap out of me. That way my friend can pull the oil pan and clean out the 'daewoo goo' and change the gasket. Right now there is a jack under the oil pan keeping the engine from hitting the ground. Then we'll proceed to putting the rest back on.

My friend finished painting the bike frame this past week and it looks good. Hopefully I'll get to assemble it this weekend. Can't wait to have all the bike parts out of my 'cubicle' and have this bike w/ my baskets mounted on it so I can use it for running errands and stuff.

[Brutus]

Hey guys - been really sick - missed a day and a half-of work, fever, cold, the whole deal.  Char got it first and we are both just now getting over it.  The only one spared (so far) was our son!  Got my rail zeppelin in the mail - cool toy  John was on last night and brought along tons of icecream and hot fudge sauce, so we better get working on this load because he is taking more with him when he goes to York and SJ is gonna bring some on the Tardis  Nice chat with the guys tonight.  TTFN!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Weather guesser says it'll be 55 tonight with a 20% chance of rain. Bit warmer than last night. I got a little more work done on the layout. Not as much as I would have liked. Today it was my own physical limitations that got in the way. My knee is still hurting and I couldn't keep my weight on it for long. After it was hurting bad enough that I just said the heck with it and stayed off my feet the rest of the day.

Well, time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[KRM]

Buckeye Riveter

Chief,

Please give Ms. Pam my condolences.  I know she puts up with too much after my Roseyville Raid last year.  

 Buckeye The next raid you plan, give me a call I would like to ride along.

[wrmcclellan]

laz 57

BO sad news prayers for you and your friends family.

MIKE C and FIFE, prayers for your PRINCESSES.

HUDSONJOHN, RTC Diner is going to be the topic in a few weeks but just make sure you tell AFRAY and HUDSONJOHNSSON.

CHIEF, BIG CONGAS for the Anniversery!!!!

Stay frosty my friends,

laz57

Ditto to all of the above.

Mike C - hang in there 

RT wow 

Another long one today. Hours are taking a toll. Ugh.

Calling it a night.

Have a great evening all!

[rtraincollector]

Doug they do make interior door handles that are non locking at a very resonable price.

Chief poor pam for putting up with you for 27 years but congrats to the both of you.

The one I pitty is my wife donna it will be 29 the end of june for us. in fact it will be 29 on the 29th hmmm that has to be special some how.

Me and my fat fingers glad the ebay bidder befor me didn't bid that high lol I was biding on a 637 engine and tender along with a log dump that needs parts and a black depressed flat car and a caboose looks to be illuminated but I bet will need some tlc any how went to bid $156.00 and ended up winning because my fat fingers put in $1565.00 some how on the 6 I also hit the 5 again well I won it for like $201.48 but it also has like 24 pieces of Super O track ( no connector or uncoupler so will need that in the future if I decided to use it) also a LW transformer I think it is lol. Anyway I did okay engine looks good condition rust on tender draw bars on engine and tender  But rest look good. Will know more when I get it next week sometime.

Boy am I going to get killed lol.

John she likes to do it. normally she tells me what to get and then have me help tape and she tells me out so I can paint. I guess I'm just lucky I hate painting lol now outside of house is my job as its on a ladder lol.

 

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Here's a video for those of you who enjoyed the Dauntless clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7NADTfBwJ4

Night everyone!

 

[Sturgeon-Phish]

A Divine Mercy Chaplet for your friend railhead

May God bless

Jim

[cnw1995]

Happy anniversary to you and Pat, Chief! 

Now that's a talk that got results, Brent!
Kev, I agree about the reverse door-knobs, we never locked them. It just kept the kids from locking us out. 

Got the idea from SmmBob to build up a water scene on the layout, especially since Ivor's line ends or rather connects to the main line at a beachfront town. It'll be fun to start planning that.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

railhead53

LV 2089 - very much enjoyed the video of the USN "Dauntless" Dive Bomber.  My only question after watching the video was, what would you do with a WWII Navy dive bomber?   Trains look safer.  Glad you're feeling better.

Well you can't take an AC4400CW up to 30,000 feet, dive, and pull out while taking about 7 Gs, right? And I am feeling much better, thank you.

 

Felling really good right now. Strangely happy right now.

 

[Buckeye Riveter]

Chief,

Please give Ms. Pam my condolences.  I know she puts up with too much after my Roseyville Raid last year.  

[sir james I]

Temp is 32, a very depressing weather day.

No special news today, I just goofed off around the house and kept my appointment with the couch. Granny baked some apples and the house smells good tonight. She just handed me a bowl of banilla and warm apples. Very tasty....S.J.

[KRM]

Just matching up EOBs with medical bills today. Looks like there are still three more bills on the way and then they will all be here. Guess I just got to knock them off one at a time. Man that sucks. They make it as hard as they can for the regular guy to understand.

No train news today. Just messing with some Lionel switch problems.

DougM. / Brent, Thinking back a few days, I think it is against code to turn the locks around in a bedroom door.  If there is a fire the kids can't get out. But I sure understand why you want to lock them up some times.

 I saw action on the Tardis last night but no one beamed me up. I must of been too early. Maybe tonight.

The wife starts spring break tomorrow so I will be under house arrest for a week +.

Have a good evening.

Update: V8Dennis, I just got paid for the last item from that old Briggs engine and I got right at $500.00 and change after fees and postage!!!   Who would of thought?? Now I can pay more medical bills.

 Like Steve Miller said in one of his songs,,, but in reverse,,, Your trash aint nothing but Cash!

 

[blownout cylinder]

Chief:   Happy 27th Anniversary!!!