Good morning. It's 62° with 100% humidity and a fair chance of rain. The high will be 82°.Nothing on the schedule today except working on the layout and running trains. I was running the GP40's (Pathmark, L&A) in consist with the H24-66 and U30E645 this morning. Everything went well for a few laps around the layout then I saw the Pathmark loco break away from the L&A GP40 and take up a new career as a runaway! The locos are speed matched so it only pulled away a few inches in ten feet. The other three locos had the weight of the train slowing them down slightly. Of course an investigation into the incident quickly ensued. It was found that the front coupler on the L&A GP40 was a McHenry shelf coupler. The jaw on it had apparently cracked and broken off. This was corrected with the installation of a Kadee 119 shelf coupler. Running after that was uneventful. No more runaways.Got a short video this morning. Just click on the photo.
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
Temp is 58 with sun
A trip to Lowe's and Kmart is scheduled for soon after I finish this. It's going to be a nice week weather wise so I'm ready to get outside. .S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Finally hitting the 70's today but with wind and rain involved. I'll take it any way.
My ups package is supposed to arrive on Wednesday! I fill like a kid the day before Christmas. I finished two more platform pieces late last night. Ran out of screws so hopefully tonight I can get the other two wrapped up - at least the frame work that is.
All for now from the thumb of Mi
Aloha. Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy, it is so very nice outside and I'm heading out to pick up the middle boy from the end of his first year of college. I'm more happy about his finishing the year than the weather but just barely. Nice if too brief ride on the TARDIS with Sir J and Brutus. Saw Charlie out there in the ether too. More art...
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Lunch time,
80 Degrees and abundant sun on the North Bluff.
I finished up the repair on the trans cooler lines on the Nissan UD and took it for a test run down the street.
I found out that it needs two headlights replaced so I will do that this afternoon.
Have a good day.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Nice Pic. Came out good.
lion88roarI hope the wait was worth it.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Jeffrey, I am on a some what restricted diet myself. I guess the trick is learning what bothers you and avoiding it but that is hard to do sometimes. You never know what they put in food at restaurants. I have more problems there than at home. Citrus fruit is pretty hard on me too. I can't take the acid. However, tomatoes don't seem to bother me as much. Less citric acid I guess.
Ray
SPMan
Good Afternoon:
Put off building the wishing well until today. Finished it this afternoon. I think that I overbuilt it. Time to leave for school.
Brent: Nice picture. Thanks for posting.
Kev: A friend of mine has a UD Rollback from the same vintage. It is a stick shift and he loves it. He bought it new, a leftover from the wrecker dealers lot.
Enjoy the day!
John
MichRR714 Nice Pic. Came out good. lion88roarI hope the wait was worth it.
I love this photo......looks like a street gang lineup at the local PD parking lot.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
good cold crappy dreary after noon from Central Pennsyltucky
Brutus, I once was dragging logs with my 8N tractor, (the log was way too big, front end off the ground going DOWN the mountain, but I figured as long as were still pullin) the log went one way and the chain another, and hooked on a tree, and stood that tractor RIGHT up on its rear end. I did the backwards butt shuffle like never before, as I was afraid it was come all the way over on top of me. but it just stood there, wheels a spinning, gas and oil flying every where. so I ran up beside it turned it off, and gave her a push and on our way we went
Kev, I would guess you should clear 2 to 5 K on a quick sale. but i havn't seen the truck
arrrhhh soon to be ex wifey is on the phone causing a ruckus, gotta run
Ryan
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RockIsland52 MichRR714 Nice Pic. Came out good. lion88roarI hope the wait was worth it. I love this photo......looks like a street gang lineup at the local PD parking lot. Jack
Temp is 72
Back from Lowes and put some Halts plus 2 on the grass. I wrote it that way because I can't spell fertilizer. Also did some walking and waiting at Kmart. I walked the store and she was still looking at summer shorts. That's why guys hate shopping with women. Banilla or Black cherry tonight, haven't decided yet...S.J.
RT Don't forget a new pot at midnight.
Good evening.
Feeling tired. Worked alone tonight, so I had my work cut out for me.
See all of you on the new thread tomorrow. Night.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
I swear that Laz, fifedog and Roy where the same clothes to York every year. Then again Roy may have gotten some new shoestrings.
I'm really hoping I can make the fall show.
Chuck....Am I in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, Uniontown, Charllotesville, Cincinnati or Lexington??
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 evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 70s. Did not get home until after 5:30 from conference. Edged sidewalks, moved 4 very small cedars, watered all new and transplanted trees, and picked some violets for the "Saucy Wench". Long day. Long day tomorrow, but at least tomorrow night I get to scrimmage with "my" soccer kids. New groupings for girls gives me hope that my final prayer will be answered this year if "my" soccer girls can win a sectional title. With the boys wining last year and AJ back in the Winner's Circle, the only item left on the bucket list is seeing the girls win. Then I can go home. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Wow already the end of April. Just now seeing blooms we would have seen two to three weeks earlier last year. Tired out from work and working on the platform. Sure feels like I'm over building this thing. If it doesn't hold up 200 lbs something is wrong!
Hope everybody has a great night and see ya on the next pot. Cheif I'll eat the grits once in awhile but ya gotta quit with the red beans and rice.
Well seems the only bad thing to happen today was a McHenry coupler on the front of an Atlas/Bachmann GP40 broke. That was easily fixed with the installation of a Kadee 119. I received a packet of Kadee 142 couplers today. The project I needed them for was handled in a different way so I have them on hand in case a need for them arises in the future. A railfan caught a crew member, hat in hand posing on a GP40. I have no idea what the L&A's dress code is but it must include T-shirts.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
jeffrey-wimberly RockIsland52 MichRR714 Nice Pic. Came out good. lion88roarI hope the wait was worth it. I love this photo......looks like a street gang lineup at the local PD parking lot. Jack Didn't I see some those guys on a wanted poster somewhere?
No, that was the other poster with the Chief on it.
Hello all
Greetings from the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro, NM.
Drove over yesterday after futzing around w/ the the rx group @ the telescope. Talk about a long day.
Spent the first day at the VLA site today working on dismantling our 'new' telescope. Here's the view from the office:
Long day up in the lifts pulling cables out. Possibly too windy for much lift work tomorrow but we'll see. Got to keep this quick the the morning here comes early.
Jeffrey - I thought you had a 'U-boat' on the property
You guys are gonna dig how they move the array around. They've combined radio telescopes and railroads for me Too bad the one we're taking apart for shipment isn't on rails.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
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