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Posted by KRM on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 10:13 AM

Thanks RT, I will let you know if that is what they are latter today.

 Doug, I don't know about you BUT I will sure be glad when this election is over with today. Sick of the adds on the tube. Ick! Whoever wins, the state will loose. Sad

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 10:19 AM

Morning all.  Showers earlier.  Got in my 2 miler.  Sun in and out.  Showers for days they say, ?????  Really warm.

Taxes and CPA at 1.

Notice Buckeye is quite when it is BASKETBALL.

Doug M., my season.  Baseball!!!!!!

Have a good one. 

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 12:20 PM

Good morning all,

Saw an interesting obituary in the L.A. Times this morning for Jenny Wallenda who was part of the famous Wallenda High Wire Troupe.  My best friend who died about three years ago worked with Jenny in 1957,58 and 59 as part of the seven person pyramid.  She was 87. She rode a chair on top of the pyramid.  They had a bad fall in Detroit in 1962 but Jenny was not working that night and her cousin took her place but survived the fall.  However, Jenny's husband was killed along with one other member of the group.  Her grandson is Nick Wallenda who is the guy who has been doing walks over the Grand Canyon and Niagra falls on TV a few months ago

I went to a different care giver meeting last night near where I live.  Met a lot of nice people.  Hard for me to make this meeting because of my schedule.  I usually go to another one twice a month but further from home.

Got a glimmer of hope a while back about an engine that MTH is repairing for me.  They said they now have the part and would complete it soon but that has been a while.  They have a long waiting period for repairs.

Sister in Virginia has taken a turn for the worse.  She is in a bad way with her cancer.  We are preparing ourselves for whatever comes.

later,

Ray

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 12:52 PM

Afternoon all!

Partly sunny and warm today. Nice!

Ray - Angel for your sister and your family.

Train repowering project is moving along well.

Looking forward to York. Brent - LAZ - JEF - Banks - SJ - Charlie - Hudson John - Banks - (sorry Fife Crying ) and all, RoC on Friday morning?

Have a great day all!

 

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Posted by Banks on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 5:29 PM

Hello there,

Quick check in after supper. We had tacos. 

Ray. ..Prayers for your sister. 

Roy. ..Mrs & I will be at ROC. ......the good Lord willn and the creek don't rise

Best move on.  Gotta make room for the new bed

 

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Posted by KRM on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 6:36 PM

You Nailled it RT now to figure out what year that Loco is. Smile

Had a good time with my uncle. He is very happy with the Rock Island set and left me some more to do. Works for me.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 8:30 PM

Good Evening

Decided this spring we are putting in a new deck back here...the other one is about pooched...curled boards, chipping paint, and a rotted out post in one corner...eeep.

Was kinda dull dull dull dull out here today...gonna get a whack of rain and....freezing rainSad...tomorrow. But it is going to be windy out here...apparently up to 50mph...from the east. Yuck...high? 37F...mmmmmWhistling

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Posted by cheapclassics on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 9:18 PM

Good evening all,

A draining day at work, but got taxes done tonight for both feds and state.  Fed refund, but owe the state.  Relaxed watching Izombie tonight.   Has a very "Veronica Mars" feel to it.  Probably won't last long, but will enjoy it while it is on.  Got some other good news as Simona will be running the Indy car race in New Orleans this weekend.   It would be nice if she could run the entire season.   I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 5:18 AM

Good Morning

Kind of raining out here...we did get a bit of freezing rain last night, so the roads be a little coated here. High of 39F later on.

Got a bit of a break from all kindsa runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff the next few days...thank goodness

So.....I get to have fun running trains today!!! YAY!!!!

Have a good one!!

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:52 AM

Happy Wednesday.....

Angel for you, Ray and all in need.

My Thursday today.....just tired of the grind.  I'll have a few days off later in the month as my Princess comes in.  A trip to NYC and Princeton are on tap.  We are both excited!!  She also had good news at work, things are progressing nicely for her there. 

Not much else...Have a great day, check back soonest!!

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Posted by cnw1995 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:18 AM

Aloha. Grey and misty but warming up. Baseball is my game too, Chief, though I don't have much hope for the White Sox. Another church meeting last night, but a good time to catch up with my fellow production volunteers. Safe journeys to all the Yorkies!

Did you see this video on the Lionel website - about the train wreck scene in the Fugitive movie? I wonder if this is near Rolesville?  http://tracks.lionel.com/a-hollywood-train-wreck-left-behind/

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:19 AM

Morning.  Rain showers.  I heard last night that CA was getting some rain.  Much needed but not enough.

Meeting today.

Later.

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:36 AM

wrmcclellan

Afternoon all!

Partly sunny and warm today. Nice!

Ray - Angel for your sister and your family.

Train repowering project is moving along well.

Looking forward to York. Brent - LAZ - JEF - Banks - SJ - Charlie - Hudson John - Banks - (sorry Fife Crying ) and all, RoC on Friday morning?

Have a great day all!

 

 

R

Hi  ROY,

  Wife and I will be at RoC diner on Friday morning.  Hope to see the gang all there.

Stay frosty my friends,

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Posted by KRM on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:28 AM

Good morning foggy and mild had some rain overnight with more on the way.

Speaking of Rain:
 I heard on the news that even after all of this time California has been in this bad drought and have been asked to limit water use, they have only voluntarily reduced usage by 3%.  That is not going to cut it. Hope they get more rain before something we all understand to well forces them to reduce usage. A water use tax..
Nice video Doug, thanks for the link. You could not get away leaving that stuff behind here.
Got the answers I needed for the two Marx projects I am working on for my uncle with help from others on the main CTT board. Now to get the parts and do the work. Smile

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:33 AM

Morning all!

LAZ - most excellent!

I exchanged texts with John (JEFElectric) and he will also be at RoC Friday morning.

Cloudy here and might storm a bit late afternoon. 80's! Yeah

Have a great day all!

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Posted by fifedog on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 1:56 PM

Evenin' boys.  Damp and 44 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Went to the range one last time. 100, and 100. Cowboy

Crying "Sorry fife" is right.  I'll be trying not to think of YORK this time around.  Too much other stuff biding for my time and funds at the moment.  You all have a good time without me.  I'll be allright. 

 

 

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Posted by MichRR714 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 7:14 PM

Roy,

SJ and his Michigan contigent including myself eat breakfast at the Clock every morning.  :)  Hope to see you there.

 

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Posted by sir james I on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 7:23 PM

Breakfast there each morning Wed. thru Sat. If we can't table up stop and say Hi.

S.J.

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Posted by KRM on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:01 PM

York kids, enjoy your trip and get home safe. Wink

I will be working on my uncles Marx stuff. Fun as well, and don't cost much. Smile

All parts are ordered and on the way to The North Bluff. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by cheapclassics on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:00 PM

Good evening all,

Bad day at work.  Some intestinal disorder  did a nasty on me.  Could not even go on my walk.  Doing better now.  No TV.  Wife cut hair, which was needed.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:21 PM

Mike take it easy glad to hear your doing better tonight. 

Kevin I believe York is still like 9 days away it's next week I believe. 

Evening all not much happening today. Just hanging around it got up to like 86 today and there calling like 90 tomorrow but also rain. 

You all have a good night and a better tomorrow.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, April 9, 2015 6:23 AM

Good Morning

Heavy rain warning in effect...up to 3" expected around here...higher in thunderstorms. High around 45-50F expected today...

Got a bunch of photos I took into the computer...this time around the CP/CN crossing in Woodstock...took them a few days ago...when we actually had some sun out.

Having an indoor kind of day today...too much rain fallin' out here

Kev: Neat video!

RT: I'm hoping to make it to York this year....hoping being the key word, lol!!!

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Posted by lion88roar on Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:17 AM

York is April 22 - 25

Not much going on these days other than work, work, work, and more work. Trying to get some system updates tested and rolled out to the user group, not that it will do much good, I swear we hire people who are seriously lacking in criticial thinking.

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Posted by KRM on Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:40 AM

Good morning. Okay April 22-25. Guess everyone is just getting giddy about it. Confused

First off Prayers for your mom John, WOW rough stuff.  Angel Angel

 

Same here with the April showers that were thunder boomers at 4:30AM. Calling for 78 later today with severe chance. Wife is driving a loaner and her car is in the shop for repairs. SO if it hails it will be on the dealer's car. Stick out tongue

 

George's girlfriend was outside again last night moaning and making noise. He hid in the house. That time of year, she don't know he is fixed.

Ordered everything for the Marx projects yesterday so now to wait.

Otherwise no plans today. Maybe clean the track.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:04 AM

Aloha. "It was a dark and stormy night..." And day I guess. And supposed to get super-warm too. Yay! But I have to drive a lot today, including bringing a whole bunch of old basement stuff to a local antiques store -who was intrigued by what I think is old junk when I described it to them at a chance meeting. Maybe someone will enjoy it better than it just taking up space. Proud of youngest (who struggles with all sorts of learning issues) - got to go to a honors breakfast with him at the middle school very early this am. Love Marx tinplate especially!

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:29 AM

Morning all!

Cloudy here. To be in high 70's though the weekend. Rain predicted today, Sat, and Sun. May affect the NASCAR event Sat night in Ft Worth. Had T-boomers early this morning but it only spit some rain. Nothing to help the drought.

Charlie - excellent! See you there Fri unless something unexpected happens.

Dennis - for all the benefits PCs provide, as usual it seems to come at great cost.

Have a great day all!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, April 9, 2015 1:59 PM

Good Afternoon

Raining, raining, keep on raining rain...still, a lot better than that white stuff from the sky!!!

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Thursday, April 9, 2015 3:52 PM

Happy Thursday!!! (This is my Friday!!)

Gray day today, raw and in the 40's.

Thunder and rain tomorrow id 60's tomorrow.  Good day to fire up my roadrunner!  With open headers, no less!!!  Hopefully, since its daytime, it won't bother too many people!!

Princess flies in on the 22nd!  Can't wait!!  She's here until the 27th, we'll have a great time!

Angel for those in need.....

Hey, just a thought...maybe we can get a lot of to committ for either October 2015 or April 2016 York....maake an event of it, which would be awesome.

Later, Dudes!

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Posted by jonadel on Thursday, April 9, 2015 6:36 PM

anjdevil2

Happy Thursday!!! (This is my Friday!!)

Gray day today, raw and in the 40's.

Thunder and rain tomorrow id 60's tomorrow.  Good day to fire up my roadrunner!  With open headers, no less!!!  Hopefully, since its daytime, it won't bother too many people!!

Princess flies in on the 22nd!  Can't wait!!  She's here until the 27th, we'll have a great time!

Angel for those in need.....

Hey, just a thought...maybe we can get a lot of to committ for either October 2015 or April 2016 York....maake an event of it, which would be awesome.

Later, Dudes!

 

Rich - - that's a great idea about making it an event, would be BIG FUN :)

 

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Posted by cheapclassics on Thursday, April 9, 2015 6:46 PM

Good evening all,

A better day.  No intestinal issues.  Got my referee schedule for spring soccer.  Busy at work, but not overwhelming.  Good supper tonight.  Went for a walk at lunch.  Leg hurts some of the time then feels tolerable then hurts again.  Will have to live with it for now until after the Mini.  Then I can get it fixed.  Started draining the oil out of the small Toro tonight.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

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