Hello all
Yet another quiet night on the mountain.
Worked on the #60 trolley 'project'. This thing is going to be a tribute to Jeff Running Bear when it's done, as so far it has postwar Lionel, prewar Flyer, and Marx parts in it.
It's basically going to be a tinplate Railway Postal Service trolley. And yes, one of these in the full size version does actually exist. (thanks to DougM for pointing me to the link:).
I may do a seperate thread on it at some point as it has been a fairly interesting and entertaining project. Althought I imagine the purists and rivet-counters will hate it:) But considering it's all made of parts that came from various junk bins it's more of a recyling project.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Mornin' boys. Drizzle and 57 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Meeting with the retirement doodles today. I was crazy busy on "the bridge" last night, so bring it on... Special dinner with Wifey tonight.
Good evening all,
Long drive home this evening. Work was ok. Wife finally made it home. Car fix was minor. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hi,
Today I finished the front porch railings. 76 pickets, 7 upright post, and 10 horizontal rails X2. All one coat of sealer and one coat of topcoat tint. What a PITA.
Tomorrow I will finish off the deck floor and decide what to do with the rotten steps. And the cost of the paint went up, $42.74 a gallon on sale from $49.99 a gallon regular price. Glad I printed out a $10,00 coupon before I went to get it.. Sherwin-Williams deck paint.
Moving along.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good morning all,
Went to the TTOS meet yesterday and was glad to see D. Baker and Kay. It was reallly good to see Don back on his feet again after these many months. I did pick up a picture book with artist renditions of the Titanic story. Nice buy for $5. Talked to my friend Larry and his wife too. They are going on a long driving trip around the country soon. He has retired from the Jazz band and is using his new found freedom. He will still play a few gigs with other bands though but not too much.
Taking wife to our primary doctor today for check up. She has a shake now in her right hand. Don't know if they can do anything about that.
Nothing new about my terminally ill sister in Virginia. I assume no news, is good news but not really.
Been eating out lately at a place called the Silver Spoon. I think they should call it the greasy spoon. They cook everything on a flat grill but don't drain the meat on a paper towel or something. It is delivered to your table with grease on top. Food isn't bad but I have to train the cooks.
We are chipping in to help my grandson pay for his first year in college this fall. He got a scholorship for the tuition but we and his parents have to pay the room and board. He is in the top 5% of his class in high school but there are a larger than normal number of students applying for colleges this fall. He did get offers from three good University of California campuses but schools like USC and UCLA must be picking from the top 1%. It is really competitive this year.
Wife has two more doctor appointments this week also. Hope we learn something from them.
Watched the Masters golf this week. Looks like they have a new Tiger Woods now with a 21 year old kid blowing them all away with a four stroke win and tying the course record of low score. Congratulations to Jordan Speith.
Ray
SPMan
Greetings All!
Still doing well out here! Kay and I both recovering and quite happy!
Still in the painting! I doubt any of these items will ever be painted again during my span anyway. Got all the patio furniture done, then Saturday did the waterfall, (weathered it), a Mill Stone fountain, some various decorative bricks, and a small pagoda. Today do an old hand pump and stand. That will leave the pool heater and filter, then to the front yard.
Had to intrupt the schedule for some train room activity. Keep in mind that the room is a "screended in patio" area. The walls are a vinyl product filled with 4" of foam material. When it was put up I put a ledger board around the top, to secure shelving to. Then added some vertical 1x4's to mount the shelf brackets to. One side of the shelving I noticed a gap between the vertical board and wall. So that wont do, and I had visons of a disaster. So beefing up the framing a bit, putting a T bracket up, securing it to the ledger board, and the vertical 1x4. Using wall board screws and liquid nails. I think it will work. So we will see.
Did go to a train meet yesterday, saw SPRay, he is looking real good, and he picked up a really nice looking book. I took Kay with me she really seemed to enjoy it. I picked up a couple of Diesel truck (tractors) to couple with some of the piggy back trailers and place on the layout. (They were the correct size and only $5 each.) Felt sorry for the seller. Later I overheard him saying his spouse had passed within the past month. He was saying he had been with her many, many years. (Apparently a "common law" marriage.) Anyway, she left ALL her assests to a niece that she rarely saw, and he got nothing. As they had a reverse mortgage on the house, if he wants to stay there he must purchase the house, including paying back the money from the reverse mortgage. He said he has 45 days to decide, and if he is not buying it. He must tear down his layout and find a place to live. Tough! So he was selling stuff like crazy, including the auction. (He seemed a little bit unsavery, but Im sure there is another side, or more to the story. Still felt bad for him though.)
My buddy Bob, is on his way to York, he left last Thursday. He and his wife are going to be gone for about 6 weeks. He told me they were going to stop at EVERY train museum and store the entire time. Told him to bring me a brochure from all the places. He plans on shipping his purchases to me from York. Should really be interesting, especially since it is his first trip there.
Sun is up so better get started. I sure am glad the the tornadoes didnt get to any of you! And Kev, I can remember when I lived in Rockford, no matter what you planned for the day you HAD to be preparred to change your plans due to the weather. It changed so quickly. It also seems surprising that after 50 years with all the additional data, and improved technologies that forecasting hasn't improved much. Just goes to show, Mother Nature can't be reckoned with, or out guessed.
Take care ALL! Thoughts and prayers.
Don
Good morning from a windy and wet North Bluff.
Well Only the two north sections of porch railings are left and 1/4 of the deck floor. All of the deck pickets are done. I did not do anything with the steps till I make a replacement plan for them. The cedar rotted out? I thought cedar did not rot??? Ran out of deck stain but just as well as I was tired and it looked like rain was coming. Go figure the weatherguesser were wrong. It was not forecast-ed to rain till late last night. So today I got another gallon for the deck. Man!!! $42.74 a gallon. Maybe latter if it drys out I will try to finish the front porch railings.
Doug, Happy Birthday to wife and the middle boy. Spend that money!!!
Aloha. It's a grey and rainy morning but supposed to get better later - we'll see. This weekend was very busy with a wedding shower for my daughter so I was setting up at the hostess' house, and tearing down, and picking up food and ice, and packing gifts. You get the idea. Glad last week's tornado didn't come closer than 20 miles - enough to set the sirens off and to glimpse the top of the storm. Buckeye, my condolences on your loss...Today is the bride's birthday; tomorrow the middle boy turns 21 and next week is our anniversary so it is busy and expensive. '39 World's Fair:
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning. Got to get garden going. Behind on that. A Town thingy has screwed up lots of time. Should not have come up to begin with. Rain coming tomorrow.
Have a great week ahead.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Mornin' boys. Clear and 43 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Sorry some of yuz guyz had a topsy-turvy weekend. Mine was pretty darn nice. Still have a few slices of left in anyone likes. Great friends and good food. Miss Kelly was the hostess with the mostest.
Stay foamy.
Dennis I usually let mine run down to about 25% but I have forgot and it ran down and shut off the laptop.
I haven't noticed any difference either way. It was idle about 3 weeks and the battery was fine when I returned.
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
Dennis I don't use mine that often but before I put it up make sure it has a full charge because it's not unusual to come back to it say about a month or so later and it be completely or just about completely run down. I've never heard not to give a fully charge but then I don't have a chromebook and ( my powertools say to run batteries down as far as you can before recharging.) so don't really know what to tell you
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Sorry to have been away the past 3 days, but perhaps I can explain. We moved younger daughter out of the house on Saturday. Took all day as the professional "moving crew" that we hired showed up and refused to do it. That bunch will hear from me Monday. Fortunately some others stepped up and helped out. She told her husband today and it could have gone worse. I am emotionally and physically drained. I will catch up on the other posts later. On top of everything else, wife's minivan will only start if it is jumped. She is taking it to sister's mechanic tomorrow and I hope she does not get ripped off too much (out of town). I hope everyone has a good day.
Dougdagrump I believe it's the freezer as never had this problem with my chest freezer which I still have and just moved everything over to. It has dried out my ground beef to where all I can use it for is making sloppy joes or spaggetti sauce or chilli won't hold together for hamburgers or meatloaf cooks up fine but thats about it. need to use the roast I have in there also as they look freezer burn also but they do cook up good.
Morning all. Err Afternoon all.
Nothing planned for today normal things
Hope all have a good Sunday I'm just going to poking around on the computer for a while then may go watch some TV may even try to run some trains but need to clears some items off of the train table
Talk to you all later
Wiped out this week - extremley tired. Was planning on sleeping in Saturday morning. Didn't work out, as I got a call from my brother in law at 7:15am asking how to get a hold of my wife (who is in Michigan). Seems that my mother in law was having a re-lapse of a skin infection on her legs and needed to go to the hospital. My wife is still learning how to use her new cell phone and had not mastered answering calls yet, so I gave him the land line number. Needless to say, there was no sleeping in after that call.
Anyhow, my wife and her mother spent yesterday immersed in the health care system. Her mom is now admitted and receiving extra heavy duty industrial strength antibiotics.
I got the new batteries wired up for the lawn mower well enough that I'll be able to mow. Still need to clean the packaging of the additional height up on them. Finished that off about dinner time. Opted to cook dinner rather than mow the lawn. Probably not a good choice, as I woke up to thunder showers this morning.
While I was running errands yesterday, I stopped by the local hobby shop. Sad news there. The owner's lease is up in July, and he is not going to re-new it. His sales tanked in 2008 and have never really recovered. Does not help that the RC car club and RC airplane club are not as active as they once were, either.
About all for now.
Yes the page numbers are goofy here too.
Sun and 60
Club meet last night was well attended and the train show today was about normal. Same guys same stuff. No sale.
Good Morning All !
Back seems to be doing much better. Hopefully all back to normal this week.
RT, Is it a freezer problem or packaging issue ? I bought one of those vacuum sealing gizmo's and it works great, no more freezer burn. Visit Costco and pick up some reaaly nice ribeye's, etc then break'em into packs of two and into the freezer.
Page numbering is crazy, clicked on the "0" and had to shut-off the computer to get out of the glitch. Even the Control/Alt/Delete function could'nt get rid of it.
Good Guys show at Del Mar this weekend, think I'll skip it though. Don't like the crowds much anymore.
Fife, A Mid-winter Meet in Sandy Eggo ? Sounds good ! Especially if it coincides with the Cal-Stewart meet and/or the annual boat show.
Emoticons still not working right !
Time to get moving, need to take care of a few things for a luncheon later.
Later !
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KRM I see the crazy page number thing is still working well. Makes it hard to find where you put a post. Junk in,,Junk out.
I see the crazy page number thing is still working well. Makes it hard to find where you put a post. Junk in,,Junk out.
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
Prayers for SPMAN, BUCKEYE, CHARLIE and HUDSONJOHN.
Stay frosty my friends,
laz57
Will probably have to get the mower out soon as the grass is really starting to grow with the London like weather we have been having and now the 2nd day of bright Sun. Will probably have do the mowing between Jean and I, till school is out, then granddaughter takes over. Got up earlier than usual, so posting before early church.
have a good day,
john
Roy don't remind me I have to buy a new one this year. can't really complain thou I've had this one about 10 years. will try to get it running in a few days first need to get some fresh gas and starter fluid. Might id I can get it running get a new one anyway and take this one up to the auction house and let it go any way.
Been a relaxing day moved everything from upright freezer back to medium chest freezer as the upright cools good but seems to freezer burn every thing no matter what I have it set on. So will take it to auction house its only like 1 1/2 years old.
Well talk to you all later
Afternoon all!
Stunning afternoon here. Enjoying an adult beverage on the patio.
Continued for those in need.
Got the lawnmower out and got it running. Assumed our HS lawn mower would not make it today due to typical Sat school activities and it is supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. Got most of the back yard mowed and he showed up - soooo I let him finish the job - sweet!
Have a great afternoon all!
Regards, Roy
kevin its funny it happens when we go from page 4 to 5 before that it's correct who knows lol and from what I can determine its just this post the coffee pot
Nice morning on The North Bluff. Warming to mid 60s.
I am working on staining the porch railings and the back deck this week. Got some of both done already. So at least I am doing something.. Un-like Don and the left coast guys I have to work around the weather. But that is okay with me. Got to get the porch railings done before wifey's flowers get too big or she will kill me.
Thinking of all of you going throught losses and strife.
A trip to Krogers is on the book as well today.
Hope everyone is doing fine. A while since I posted here. The Sun is finally out, the last we saw of it was last Sunday. It's been rainy or cloudy or both every day this week, but we didn't actually get much rain, just drizzle all day long, only about 1/2" for the week.
Looking forward to York on 22nd & 23rd. Seems like it's a week later than normal to me. Will be joining the gang at Round the Clock on Friday morning.
Thoughts and prayers with John and Ray.
Happy for Don's mobility, it's been a long recovery.
Later.
Mornin' boys. Breezy, blue skies and 49 today. Laundry this morning, then dinner with friends at the Nauti-Goose (a great Rails & Sails location). Yesterday was "opening day" at the boatyard. Scrubed the outside of the yatchet, top to bottom. In the next week or so, I'll do a quickie bottom job, throw a new waterline stripe on, then splash.
for those of us suffering losses right now, especially my buddy Hudson.
YORK is great, but I certainly would love a big get-together in Sandy-Eggo.
fifedog Mornin' boys. I forgot what I was gonna say....... LOL....Ditto
Mornin' boys. I forgot what I was gonna say.......
LOL....Ditto
Another quiet night on the mountain.
Lots of thoughts and prayers going out.
Was thinking about using the paypal money I made from the boat kits to maybe finally spring for one of those Williams 10 wheelers. Turns out they are now in the $250 -350 range. Just not going to spend that kind of money on one engine. I guess I'll just wait until they start to come up for sale used.
Rich - we started the Corvan last summer w/ no exhaust. No muffler, no exhaust pipe, just manifolds. Wasn't as loud as we thought w/ the manifolds dumping out the front of the engine. A few months later we helped another guy in the club start a car w/o the manifolds, just the 6 exhaust stacks pointed strait down. That sounded like some kind of WWI aircraft engine.
Got the #60 trolley ro tinker with. Need to check out the Marx e-unit I got for it and then start modifying the body I got to go w/ it.
Prayers for your father in law Charlie
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