Good Morning, 47 and Raining Down the Jersey Shore.
Started the morning off right. After going for a quick walk with the dog, (the cat was the smart one, she stayed in) I ran the trains for a bit. I gave my PW Black 221 a good run after a clean and lube job. Today my wife and I are going to lunch and then it is off to King of Prussia, Pa to hear a sell job on a "Vacation Adventure". Remember this is not time share.(Yea, Right!) And to claim our free cruise! (This should be interesting) This came out of filing out the entry for a Gift Certificate for Grybowski's at a Greenburg Show. This is our Friday Day Out Trip.
Brutus, RJ, BOC: Be careful with the storm.
RJ: I know what you are going thru with your co-worker. Been there. I worked 40 years for an Electric and Gas Co. Make the best of it.
Brent: Good Luck with your projects.
Brutus: Jim, glad your home escaped damage. Going to miss you at York.
BOC: Barry, Careful with the ice. I hope you do not loose your power.
Chief: Glad that TWC solved your problems.
RJ: York is the "Eastern Division - TCA York Meet". It is held in April and October at the York Fairgrounds, York, Pa. It is one of the best train shows if not the largest. You can get more info @ www.easterntca.org and tcamembers.org . People come from all over the country to attend.
Prayers for all in need.
Have a Great Day!
John
Good morning all,
It is cloudy and cool in SE Indiana. Work has tapered off slightly. Got a lot of minor projects done yesterday. Watched Glee last night. Was totally disgusted with plot last night. Most of the time iit is pretty good, but last night was awful. Took a training session on youth sports and concussions last night. It was pretty good. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
blownout cylinder uuuuummmm.....well....there goes our day.... 2 big poplar trees that sat in neighbour's back yard are now down across our backyard....and looks to have landed on opposite neighbour's garage... Kinda messy back here...gotta go...CYLTR!!!
uuuuummmm.....well....there goes our day....
2 big poplar trees that sat in neighbour's back yard are now down across our backyard....and looks to have landed on opposite neighbour's garage... Kinda messy back here...gotta go...CYLTR!!!
Not a good way to start the day.
Hope all goes well on the clean up. Kev may have a few chainsaws you can borrow. Well once he fixes them anyway!
Temp is 37 again.
Spring bulbs are up and grass is green from all the rain but the warm air just ain't get-n here. The Chief needs to make a long speech, maybe that would help. We will have our Friday out meal about 1pm and then I'll be done for the day. Except maybe some Banilla in the eve. The working folk don't think so but Fridays seem to come pretty fast around here...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good morning
It was 32 when i came into work. Guess our high might reach a whole 40. Rain drizzle mixing to rain snow and then snow tonight. Plants don't know if they should bloom or move south.
Still have flooding going on and power outages. Hope to see most of it cleared up by Sunday. next week looks like more rain coming!
I think i asked a few before but what is this York thing i see talk of?
Jeffrey-Wimberly are those pics you include in your postings your personal layout? If so they look great - would like to see on of most of the layout in one shot.
Kev thanks for the info ... I'll be in touch as I progress through the layout.
That's a short note for now. Wish I had more train time and less work time but need to fund the hobby some how.
From the thumb of Michigan (does anybody live close to it??) have a great day!
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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Buckeye Riveter TGIF Spring has sprung with the flowers a blooming. Just returned from a trip to Clarksburg, WV. WV is full of railroad history. One can find old tunnels and bridges hidden in the mountains. There are mountain towns whose only existence was due to the railroads. US 50, the road I travel, parallels the famous tracks of the B&O National Limited, long ago abandoned, but the tunnels and bridges remain for the North Bend trail.
TGIF
Spring has sprung with the flowers a blooming.
Just returned from a trip to Clarksburg, WV. WV is full of railroad history. One can find old tunnels and bridges hidden in the mountains. There are mountain towns whose only existence was due to the railroads. US 50, the road I travel, parallels the famous tracks of the B&O National Limited, long ago abandoned, but the tunnels and bridges remain for the North Bend trail.
Gloom and more gloom on The North Bluff. Spring has not sprung here. May hit 53 degrees today
Buckeye I took that Rt 50 ride years ago like 1970 when we went to DC. Amassing and beautiful road to take.
Rich, I was driving my uncle's brand new 1969 Roadrunner 383.
Ryan, I know those safety cabinets cost a ton of money but so do gun cabinets and I need one of those.
Well got to work on some chainsaws.
Have a good day
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Hi GUYZ,
Rainy here and 50. Next week for YORK weather looks kinda good lower 70s Thur-Fri. with chance of rain. Gotta dust, wash kitchen floor, and vacuum house today.
JACK, I use red and tacky grease. That stuff sticks to everything.
ZERO, we'll be at Round the Clock diner the east side of I 83.
CHUCK & BUCKEYE, TGIF!!!!
BUCKEYE yes spring is here, are you going to tip toe through the tulips?
Stay frosty my friends,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cloudy 60 degrees. Going up to 67 today with no more rain.
Today is a busy day. I have a bunch of chores to do and some paperwork to finish up. Then, I can relax. Lunch and a nap, for sure.
Buckeye & LAZ.... TGIF
Dining car arrived with Cheeerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
RedfireS197 Lehigh Valley 2089 Good evening. Nothing to report. Watching Happy Gilmore and listening to Queen's Headlong. Feeling good. Night everyone. Jake, You will not make this putt! Best Adam Sandler movie ever. I've watched a few times this week myself. Big Daddy is great too.
Lehigh Valley 2089 Good evening. Nothing to report. Watching Happy Gilmore and listening to Queen's Headlong. Feeling good. Night everyone.
Good evening.
Nothing to report. Watching Happy Gilmore and listening to Queen's Headlong. Feeling good. Night everyone.
Jake,
You will not make this putt! Best Adam Sandler movie ever. I've watched a few times this week myself. Big Daddy is great too.
Click is good, and so is Grown Ups.
Good morning.
Feeling ok this morning. Supposed to have on and off rain today. We're about 2" behind, so we are in need of it.
Just learned of an Air Show that's to take place tomorrow. Will do some research about it.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Good morning. It's 43°F with 100% humidity. It will be sunny with a high of 75°F.Still have some more clutter to clean up on the layout. Surprising how fast it builds up. I have a train running this morning. Three geeps and a slug pulling twenty-seven cars. I'll switch them out later and give the FP7's a run.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
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
TCA 09-64284
Good Morning from kinda slipperyoutthereville...
We ended up with a coating of ice over ever't'in here but little bits of power outages scattered here and there...east of us ... a lot more...
Having something of a slow day here....so just kicking back a little...
Good night all. Was a pretty day. Breezing and pollen. Wifey and I ran an errand right after dark. Looked like driving in smoke. Has not rained yet. Suppose to have by now. May get storms by morning. Will wash all this pollen away.
Shut down A/C during the day. Pulled quick disconnect. Used coil cleaner [deluted with water and sprayed from tank sprayer] and waited a few. Hosed it clean. What a dirty coil. Now it will work better.
TWC [Time Warner Cable] has fixed my no sound on 516 Sportsman Channel. Swapped the whole house DVR box back to living room. All OK. They called and said they found something that engineering had to fix. Who cares what, it works.
Sleep tight.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Jim
Hiya guys - big storms here last night, but no damage at my house. 23K without power at noon, today. We were lucky. Found out I have training next week here in STL and then go to Nashville for 2 weeks, so that will be interesting.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Looks like fair weather for the next seven days with maybe a small shower thrown in here and there. Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
RockIsland52 BRENT.....why is Christina without her layout? What kind of Dad are you? So what if the family room is leaking like a sieve. Get on it!!!
BRENT.....why is Christina without her layout? What kind of Dad are you? So what if the family room is leaking like a sieve. Get on it!!!
Jack - I think you misinterpreted what I meant by 'fix the skylight'. The skylights are fine. The issues with the sunroom are all drywall/spackle related. After I broke my arm I was laid up for a couple months and not permitted on ladders, so when I finally was well enough to get back to work I had to rush things so I would incur additional fees for the building permit. On one wall I used pieces of drywall instead of full sheets and then rotozipping the windows... lesson learned. All I am doing is filling in the low spots, and feathering out the high spots. Once I am done and have everything repainted I will hopefully be satisfied. It has been driving me nuts for 2 years that it wasn't done perfectly the first time.As for the layout... I need time, which has been eaten up hosting family, doing car repairs, doing home repairs, etc, etc. Hoping to get something together soon. Just have to decide if this is going under her bed or in the basement... leaning toward under her bed right now.
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It's a whole 34* here.
Well missed posting this morning. Had another early start at work. Had to work on a radio and antenna on a customers 40' residential tower. Froze my butt off. I had to bust ice off the antenna bolts just to remove it! After that it was more interference hunting. Freezing rain and working a test stick don't go well together. Not to mention being in the ghetto of Flint Mi. The guy that likes to work with me makes my day go very long. He likes to give orders,never drives,only worries about where to eat,and sleeps half the time I'm driving. The really bad part of it is our boss considers us equals but put him in charge. Enough crying about work.
Hope everybody is survivng this nasty weather. We have allot of flooding around here.
Have a good night all
From the thumb of Michigan
Evening all!
Long day today and working on a difficult project requiring a lot of research and some self teaching. I like this kind of project but I have so many other things to keep up with it is tough to keep the focus.
Ryan - no need to explain. We know where your heart is at. It is really tough being a sole proprietor. There is no one to cover for you when you are sick or just need to have a low key day and the bills still have to be paid. I have been there.
LAZ - I will be at the ROC Friday am. I posted on your breakfast post.
Beautiful cool day here today. 70s this weekend and should be great for the NASCAR races Fri and Sat night.
Regards, Roy
Ohayō,
The weather is especially pleasant today and it looks like we should have an enjoyable weekend as well. I had a fun 3-mile run this morning and I am now taking a quick break from work to post. Amazingly, I do not have much on my agenda today so I may be able to cut out of work early.
Doug M. – I think you might need to come up with a different birthday present list if you want to celebrate the next one with her.
SP Ray – The Olive Garden does not know how to make authentic Italian food. What amazes me is how much our daughter loves it even though my wife and I make authentic Italian food so she knows what it is supposed to taste like. I even make homemade pasta sometimes. I’ll be praying for your friends.
Brent – Thanks for the information. It sounds like you have nice plans for this Christmas. I used some white bunting material to simulate snow. It comes in big sheets and it does not come apart (unless you pull on it) so it will not mess with the trains. The FasTrack lays down on top it nicely. Did you mean the new O-31 FasTrack? I have not bought any yet but I need to soon so I can add an inner loop to our under-the-bed RR.
Sayonara,
Joe
Temp is 37.
No rain today but more is expected. A box arrived at our house today but it wasn't a toy train. A large kinda flat one, has a new hood for a 75 Trans Am. (I think that's what it is). Custom built motor that goes a lot faster than I need to go. My son in law built the motor and my son bought the car from him. But they didn't have a hood. I had leftovers tonight, you don't want to know. I will wait for some Banilla.
I waited to long is not an excuse for missing York. You can get everything you need at the area set up for that purpose....S.J.
RT, truth be told, I really dont think I can get out of work. Yeah, I own the place, but I am the only one there right now and it would mean closing for the day.
If we were more of a retail establishment, It wouldn't bother me, but people spend countless hours loading crap in there truck to sell to me, and when they get there and were not open, they get mad, sometimes not to ever return.
this fall for sure........... (I said that two years ago) ( Over 5 yorks ago)
I still might try Laz's breakfast dont know yet
Ryan
Zero Export Evening kids well, I never sent in my TCA stuff, so no York for me this year. (I live 45 min away, I really need to get my act together) KEV, before you repaint hat cabinet, look up what there worth $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ nothing new happening. Even though I am not attending York, I was thinking about maybe crashing Laz's breakfast Not sure if I can get outa work though. anyway...... im tired chat later
Evening kids
well, I never sent in my TCA stuff, so no York for me this year. (I live 45 min away, I really need to get my act together)
KEV, before you repaint hat cabinet, look up what there worth $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
nothing new happening.
Even though I am not attending York, I was thinking about maybe crashing Laz's breakfast Not sure if I can get outa work though.
anyway...... im tired
chat later
They take membership and have tickets(badges) right there so that's not an excuse I tried that one one year and was told it isn't an excuse and you living that close yeah tell me another. I tried to get Thursday and Friday off from work as I have weekend off and I have a free place to stay ( my brothers about 45 minutes the other direction he's in Lititz
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good Evening:
Checked out my son's truck. I ran good. Oh well. Going out to dinner tonight.
SPMan, Ray, I agree with you about Olive Garden. I do not care for it at all. Others in my family love it. For a Reastaurant Chain give me Famous Dave's BBQ. Prayers for the 2 Ladies. Glad the one was able to go to dinner.
SJ: I am packing the ice cream!
Fife: I did not uncover my boat yet. The week after York.
AF53, Ray, 2 Boxes came today. Both for ME!!!
Have a Great Evening!
Evenin' boys. Evenin' English. Partly sunny & 77 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Was downright the past few days. Haven't "splashed" the yatchet yet. Got a few more things I wanna do to the hull before launch. Next year will have to sand off all the paint on the keel, as looking pretty pock-marked. To make me feel better, my 3 Princesses gave me a 260 page Hawaiian uke songbook. That should keep my busy for a couple nights. Wifey also gave me some spending moola for YORK.
CWFY.
KEV.........those Chicago drivers probably saw that it was you and headed for the ditch.
CHUCK and LAZ........I'm pulling for the Indians today against the Yankers. MikeC is too. Tonight my Red Sox, who are in first place ahead of the Yankers, will dispatch Fife's Orioles in short order.
Jeffrey......I really like your idea of a kill switch on the new rider. Ya gotta be out in front of the knuckleheads.
Off to make some chili and a salad for dinner!!!
Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
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