Coffee Pot #4 APRIL 2013 TEN 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.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Happy Birthday Mrs. Murphy!

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Good morning. It's 58° with 87% humidity. There's a slight chance of rain. The high will be 80°.


Layout cleanup is going well. I can actually see the layout through the clutter. I should be able to get more of it put away or disposed of today depending on what it is. Some of it is tools that need to be sorted into their particular places. I may get started on the repainting of some of the FP7's today.

[Zero Export]

JEFELECTRIC, the PA RR museum, thats the one across from the Strasburg RR, correct? 

Between the TCA and the PA museum, you don't get out of Strasburg, much do  ya? 

I love Strasburg, I wouldn't leave either

Anyway, I finally SLEPT last night!!!!!!!

gonna run in to market, I think Pancakes and sausage are in order for this AM 

I got steaks for the grill for later.  hope the weather warms up a tad more,  as the frosty tops will be a tad more enjoyable  while tending the grill

I have a small section of hallway to paint, although I wont get to engou seeing done, i promised I

her I would do it.....

Ryan

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a cold and sunny 33 degrees. Going up to 70 degrees with sunshine.

Today is an easy day. After a few chores, I plan on reading and enjoying the weather. Baseball game this afternoon.  Indians have won the last two games with the White Sox. Hope they win today.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Sunday.

Chuck

[KEVINK22]

Good Morning All,

 Been a great weekend so far. Yesterday we had opening season for T-Ball, which consists of a parade escort from the Wissahickon Police & Fire Dept. from the Ambler Train Station, all the way up to Pickering Field where all T-ball, Little League, Softball, and AA Ball is played from now until the first weekend of June. My boy did great. Three at bats with two of them being line drives right past the pitchers mound. He played first, and third base. What a difference a year makes. Then after the game went to friends house. A good time had by all.

Today low key. Mass, chores, and who knows. Four days till York. Can't wait. Have a good day everyone.

[KRM]

Bright sun but cool on the North Bluff. They say mid 70s by afternoon so it better get with it from here. That will be great I have plenty to do in the yard. The grass is turning green and all kinds of stuff is popping up in the woods. 

A good true ALL AMERICAN race last night with a lot of left hand turns. Bush deserved the win. That Girl managed to survive drove from 42nd to 28th and finished in front of JR. in 29th. So they had to interview her after the race. I don't recall any other 28th place driver getting an interview, EVER!!! Maybe they will start interviewing Back Row Joe Nemechek next. 

I think those overrated INDY cars will be looking for some action next month if spring ever gets here. Darn shame that only eight out of 27 drivers are Americans. No wonder I only watch one of their races a year and fall asleep when I do..   25 or 30 years ago it was a different story. 

Prayers for all in need and have a great Sunday. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

KEVINK22

Been a great weekend so far. Yesterday we had opening season for T-Ball, which consists of a parade escort from the Wissahickon Police & Fire Dept. from the Ambler Train Station, all the way up to Pickering Field where all T-ball, Little League, Softball, and AA Ball is played from now until the first weekend of June.

I was skimming over your post when I did a double take on Pickering Field. We have a community here called Pickering with an elementary and high school bearing the same name and naturally the sports field there is called Pickering Field. The football and basketball teams are called the Pickering Red Devils. Last time I checked they're class 2A.

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  Here its 58 and getting up to 62.  Went TROUT FISHIN yesterday with BRO and caught and released 5 brownies.  The front that went through on Friday has the fish not hitting as they should. 

YORK WEEK weather,

BANKs, for BUDDY.  I know you'll meet up with him again.

Stay frosty my friends,

laz57

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning.

 Will get that application for the scholarship filled out along with getting homework done.

[charliebrown]

tried to do pics didn't work .....

[sir james I]

Temp is 38

Laz those York 70s look good to me. We had  a good time at last nights club meeting but my lower back is sore from standing so I expect a lot of pain at the end of each York day. But I'm a-goin. The guys here are hyped and ready for next week. We plan to stop at Horseshoe Curve on Tuesday so if some of you that have been there recently want to advise it will be welcome. I was there years ago just after they tore up the fourth track and in those days you just parked, climbed the stairs and watched trains. Yes I know that has changed. I still don't know what that small stone structure up on the curve was used for.  Have a great Sunday...S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning all.  Back from Sunday School. 

Yesterday was early to rise [3:50 AM] and late to bed [11:30 PM].  Went to the farm turkey hunting.  REB turkeys. Out smarted us.  Yank turkeys are easy to kill.   They watched us put out decoys and then go hide way before light.  When it came to fly down from their roost, they flew straight away and into my other woods.  We tried various places calling all day.  Nothing.  Then we went to the roosting area early, waited until dark and not turkeys.  They did not come back to the roosting area they used that night before.  

Banks, heart felt sorrow for your loss of Buddy.  They are family members.

Late to Mrs. Murphy.

Going to get fitted for Tux for oldest Daughter's wedding.  She has really PO'd me off over this wedding.  Scheduled it for opening day of deer season.  Can't even hunt that AM.  She is having it at a wedding place out of town so have to stay at this place as rehearsal dinner there too.

Sunny and mid 70's.  Pollen is horrible here.  Down east at the farm, gone.  Leaves on the trees.  Lake house will be two weeks behind Roseyville.

Have a great week.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

charliebrown

tried to do pics didn't work .....

To post photos here they first have to be hosted on another site. Follow the instructions in the first post of this thread and you should be up and going.

[charliebrown]

jeffrey-wimberly

charliebrown

tried to do pics didn't work .....

To post photos here they first have to be hosted on another site. Follow the instructions in the first post of this thread and you should be up and going.

I can't seem to find any instructions on posting pics. I set up an account with Photobucket. I tried to post the pics per url and it tells me it is invalid. I tried other methods and they show but once I enter the post they are gone.

Got it figured out. Thanks for the help Jeffrey-Wimberly!

[charliebrown]

Here are some pics of the man-cave where the train layout will go. In the first pics you can see the empty area. In the next few pics you can see my guesstimated layout. I have learned the train does not like the 031 curves at the end away from the bar, I may need to take them out and run straights or go to a larger radius curve. On another note. I'd like to take out the 027 long straights and put in 0.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

York is just days away. I'm all set to go! Looking forward to seeing the gang!

Got the flowers done yesterday. Having our very long back yard fence (cedar 245 feet) re-stained. The guy pressure washed the inside Firday. He will wash the outside Mon. I have been hitting it with a wire brush to get the remains of the last stain off. By accident the previous stain was actually a stain/sealer and it dried to a dark glaze vs the color we wanted. The good news is after 4 years the pressure washer knocked 97% of it off. I am getting the last 3 %, but only on the inside where we see it. The part facing  the alley we do not care.

Banks - so sorry about Buddy. Our mutt is over 12 years now. She is doing ok so far but at this age things can turn fast. 

It will be another nice warm day here and we will probably grill out tonight.

[AF53]

Beautiful Day Outside!

If the weather is close to this at York it's going to shorts all the way!

Did a few hours outside today. More leaves, again, then cleaning the fish pond, leaves, algae etc.......Had a nice visit from HudsonJohn last night as we ran trains and he also delivered to me my latest box that was delivered to his house. How it got there I'll never know . It's an early 1920's steam locomotive and tender. One of the first produced by American Flyer to use electricity.

Chief - Congrats on the upcoming wedding.

Later all.

[Zero Export]

Good afternoon

ROY: Nothing is ever easy.  that's a lot of fence, too. Nice you were able to have most of it pressure washed off.   

RAY, it isn't that WARM here!!!!

RJ, nice space you have there. as you have found out, long trains and sharp curves don't get along well.  At least you tested your plan on the floor and don't have to tear up bench work.

gonna be doing some grilling tonight.

I just woke up from a nap. and I honestly think some times naping makes you feel worse than just plowing through and going to bed earlier

gotta run

Ryan

[KRM]

AF53

 Chief - Congrats on the upcoming wedding.

 

 

Sorry CHIEF,

Chief, The FUGFTFUG  Hey BTW Chief,,, you got any new pictures of the progress of the layout in the box???

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Nice day in SE Indiana.  Took it easy.  Got some stuff down from the barn loft to hopefully sell to a second hand dealer.  If I get some money, it will be worth it to get it out of the house.  Kev, at least Indy car drivers know how to turn left and right, but their best races are on the ovals.  Alonso won the F-1 race this weekend. I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[rtraincollector]

Okay where do I start lets see first belated to Kelly Mrs Murphy's law then to number one son also. boy its busy in that household.

Banks sorry to hear of the lost they do become one of the family.

Well been a good weekend not much going on hope you all have a good time in york its this week correct?

I have a soso week off friday but have to spend about all day there because of test. and doctors visits

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good evening.

Got some work done today on the scholarship. Not done yet, but will get it done soon.

Here's something about The Flying Tigers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-3CzC0FTs

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well I had dinner with my father today. Chili dogs with pepper-jack cheese and Vidalia onion. I got the layout cleaned up a bit more and three of the FP7's are now in gray and black paint. The units were primer gray, BN and UP. There's two to go, a PRR and a UP. The Rock Island unit is staying as it is.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Will be heading up soon. School tomorrow, and I'm more tired than usual, so I'll need the rest.

Night everyone.

[sir james I]

Temp is 43, we had some afternoon sun but no warming.

Today was the last of the former TTOS shows for the season but I had a headache so didn't go. Besides I will have enough going on next week. I had a nice nap, watched the Tigers win and the masters golf tournament. Not all of either but I saw enough and the ends. Granny's watching her Red Wings and right now they need a win. Banilla for all tonight...S.J.

Our club meet video is posted on SPF

 

[submmbob]

Hello all

A relatively quiet day collecting photons. Wind is picking up. Supposed to be pretty windy the next couple days.

Spent the last day or two working on our tipping radiometer which measures the opacity of the sky @ 225 GHz. Something didn't come back after we had to turn it off last Friday. It's old, has very little documentation, and what there is, is in German. I'm the local 'expert' on it since I've probably had the most experience w/ it. Since this is a somewhat complex RF (radio frequency) issue I will enlist the help of one of our engineers.

DougM - Happy Birthday to your wife! Hope you came up w/ some better gift ideas....

Chief - "it's hard to fly w/ the Eagles when your hunting for turkeys" or something like that...

Banks - sorry to hear about the loss of your friend

RJ - cool place for the layout! Love the dachshund!

Ever wonder what your Lionel docksider looks like in pieces?

Not to worry Kev, she's back together. Going to solder the wires back together when I'm a little less tired.

Neat loco though. Actually has bearing journals and boxes much like the real thing. The springs under the center ones are way fun. See the two little black things above the circuit board? Nice heavy cast frame with some good detail for a relatively simple locomotive.The smoke unit has a real piston w/ a connecting rod and a rubber piston ring! Nifty!

SPRay - in the Air Force my dad used to call the planes which were always being worked on 'hanger queens'. What the railroad equivalent?

Time to find dinner and a pillow.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Today was what I'd call a productive day. I got part of the layout cleaned up and three FP7's are now wearing gray and black paint. I also had a small pile of different types of couplers. I got them all sorted out.

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

[8ntruck]

Sunny and in the high 60's/low 70's the last couple of days.

I helped with the kid's Thomas the Train day at the KATY museum yesterday.  About 22 kids showed up.  The Lionel Thomas didn't miss a beat.  I think I'll have to clean the track before the next program in a couple of months.

We went to a production of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' Friday night put on by the local community theater.  This is one of my favorite musicals.  Wasn't the best production of this play that we have seen, but we still enjoyed it.

Scored an early 70's baby Hudson on e-bay last week for cheap.  We'll see what kind of deal it really is when it gets here later this week.

I guess spring is really here.  I had to mow the lawn today.  4th year on my battery powered mower.  Plugged it in, started right up.

Condolences for the recent losses of furry friends.  Prayers for healing.

 

All for now.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning.

Feeling OK this morning. Little tired, but horribly tired. Hope to get more work done on the scholarship tonight.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a sunny 53 degrees. Going up to a sunny 70.

Today is a busy day. I have some chores to do and then some paperwork to finish up. I want to read an old "Toy Trains" mag from the 50's and then have lunch and a nap

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Monday.

Chuck

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

Today’s weather was sunny and the high was about 65.  It was a bit windy though, especially during my 5-mile run this morning.  The workday was uneventful and I left early so my older son and I could go visit a 9 y/o boy from our church that is in the hospital.  He has a high fever and the doctors are not sure why.  He is in a Japanese hospital and I must say socialized medicine is not something to look forward to.  His parents have been rotating shifts staying with him and they are getting worn out; he’s been there since Friday night.  Hopefully they’ll figure something out soon.   I also had a quick meeting with the other baseball coaches to draw up some rule changes for our baseball league.  I was happy to see the other coaches want the kids to experience a more competitive league.  I made some homemade breakfast sausage patties tonight that we can fry up in the morning.  Now it’s time to read and get ready for bed.

KevinK22 – Great job by your son! 

Charlie/SJ – The video from your club meeting was great.  How large is Loco Dan’s layout?  Is it something he’s been working on a while?

RJ – That’s a nice amount of space you have for your layout.  I’m looking forward to seeing the construction photos.

Bob – The term “Hangar Queen” is still used today.  It’s amazing how some multimillion dollar aircraft can still be lemons.

Happy Birthday to Doug M’s son!  I hope you didn’t buy him a bunch of Quickie-Mart stuff. 

Sayonara,

Joe