Don, the parts guy is worth a shot. However, I doubt that he has parts for modern engines. Will check anyway.
Yes, today is D Day. I will never forget it. I was eight years old at the time. All those men gave their all for my generation and the future of us all.
God bless them.
Ray
SPMan
Where is everyone?
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Out house hunting in Roseyville, NC
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good morning Banks!
Went to bed early and just got up. The rain is jut starting and it looks like it will be a sizable one. So dark out there the shed light is still on. (BTW I am liking that LED light on the shed a lot) 72 degrees heading to 86 later, rain for most if not all of the day.
So with this rain, guess it will be a slow day on the old North Bluff today.
Yesterday was grand-daughter's graduation from pre-school. Kindergarten now.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill..........
It is a sunny 70 degrees. Going up to 84 today with rain tonite.
Today is an easy day. Ball game and Nascar race this afternoon. Not much else going on here.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
rtraincollector Out house hunting in Roseyville, NC
You will be out of a house if you think you are buying one in Roseyville.
Sunny and warm but not hot. In-laws coming for a afternoon meal of burgers on the grill. Think I have to cook.
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
"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
Oh Banks and Don this is the house I'm looking at it's just 3 blocks from the chief and across the street from shopping which will help Donna as she doesn't drive and never has because of her eye sight. So if something happened to me it would be perfect for her and I could go run trains with the chief every day.
I could walk to chiefs from there.
You know it is kinda funny you have a Rebel living in North Carolina and a Yankee living in South Carolina so I guess I need to move to North carolina to feel more at home but stay here in the south where I like it and beside wife is from North Carolina. It's to cold for here up North.
Morning all hope its been a good weekend for you. Doing a lot around here. Getting ready and there lots to take care of here befor we do move.
Talk to you all later.
Aloha. Boy howdy, is it humid out! It's been cool all weekend so the temp change is sudden and complete with thunderstorms which means Torbin (Thunder Dog) is huddling under my chair. Happy belated birthday to the Chief! I am still writing table seating cards for the upcoming nuptials (next Sat). My wife said it is because i have the best handwriting. I think it's because I'm dumb enough to agree to do it. At least I got to watch a million episodes of Batman and my favorite British steam engine dvd.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Evening,
WOW!!! That is a nice looking RT!! That is really fantastic really a nice looking house, and sounds like it is really convient. I see it as a WIN-WIN situation, you get a nice looking place and Chief will now have 2 votes in the next election instead of only one.
Went to the train club today, and sptent some time with Ray, had a real nice chat. I ended up buying a G-Scale Stock Car. Got an idea at the Saturday train show. Going to put an electronic Transceiver board and some batteries in the car, converting the engine to battery operated as oppossed to track power. The cool thing is by putting that stuff in a "trailing car" all I need to do is connect the car to any of my G-Scale engines. And they will run fun on my Dog-Bone in the back yard.
Well going to close but wishing RT and the Chief the best of luck in their new relationship.
Take care!
Don
Good evening all,
Survived the weekend. Best my drivers did in Texas was 16th. Not a good night. Saw all 3 kids today. Got to watch both of the World Cup matches today. Interesting those games were on FOX and the NASCAR was on Fox Sports 1, just an observation. USA's first match is Monday night against the Matildas. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Mornin' boys. Partly cloudy and 64 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Good sleeping weather. Grandson and I just arrived home from a successful plundering of the local Dunkin' Donuts. He wasn't there 3 minutes and was flirting with the some secretary type...
We've set up a Carpet Central around the loveseat in the living room, using Fastrack. Started off with the MTH J, now the Bicentennial GG1. Oldest Princess was really crying when she left him on Friday. Was she crying about leaving him, or leaving him with Fifepops...?
Morning,
67 going to 85 this afternoon with more rain late in the day.
Well we got 2" yesterday and so the drive is washed out in all the usual places so Later today I will put the grader on the overpriced JD bucket loader and fix it up. Why can't it rain just nice and steady here? Downpours or nothing seem to be the only way. In the afternoon we got like 3/4" in ten minutes.
Basement is dry as a bone, so that is good.
Fife, wait till she has the second child. Everything changes. She won't be able to drop them off fast enough.
RT, why is it I keep thinking about the 1974 movie Macon County Line when you post of your move?
RT, looks like a nice house. Hope it works out for you and the misses.
Enjoyed the train meet yesterday with Don. We talked a lot about BCR's to replace batteries in trains. Also saw Don's friend Bob just back from York and some of my other friends including Larry.
Went to birthday party yesterday afternoon for friend celebrating his 95th. I think I ate too much.
G'day all !
Hot-n-sticky is the word for the day. Finished what little, and I do mean little, yard work so now I'm sitting in the shade and still sweating like the dickens.
Yesterday was veg-out day and I do mean veg-out. Off & on I slept at least half the day. Back to back days at the museum are currently pretty hard on this old geezer, hopefully the ICD can help with some of that. It seems as though we are having difficulty getting crews for the weekends so that puts some extra burden on others to fill-in.
Fife, Those early years with the grandfifepups will be some of the fondest of all memories. Unfortunately I missed most of our daughter's early years so the time that the munchkin spent with us, every friday plus some weekends was the best part of my last 10years. Even though his "train gene" has gone into remission.
Gotta run !
Later all.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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USA! USA! USA! US Women's National Team playing that all-American sport, won their first match in the World Cup 3-1 over Australia tonight. Megan Rapinoe got 2 of the goals as the US broke away from a 1-1 tie in the first half to get the first win in the round of 3. Long day with lots of medical and financial stuff. Have to watch diet better and doctor gave me some more drugs to bring blood pressure and chlorestoral (sp?)down. Got my feet checked out as well. Just a long day for being off work. I hope everyone has a good day.
Sounds like your on the right track thou Mike glad for you. That diet can get away from you very easily
Saturday, I wandered around the last day of the Scott Jophlin International Ragtime Festival that was in town last week. A bunch of good piano players, as usual. The last event is four of the performers who have been active in this festival for a long time kind of free lancing (slapsticking?) and goofing around. One of the pieces two of played was a ragtime arrangement of 'Rubber Ducky". Interesting.
Stopped by the LHS and put a several items on order. It will be interesting to see when/if they show up.
Watched the F1 race on Sunday and got the first coat of paint on one of the spare bedrooms. Yellow does not cover very well. I'll need to put another coat on.
There is a small invitation in the new Hot Rod magazine to send pictures of items other than cars that you have hot rodded. Think I'll send pictures of my 4 motor A-B-A Alco.
All for now.
Had a good day today, The fuel gauge on my El Camino, has gone cafooey. Had the car to a Carburator Shop when I was getting it through the SMOG tests. Asked them about it and as I thought need to replace the sending unit. AND, they couldn't find one, said the best they could do was back order it, and best guess was "maybe" sometime in July! I had been thinking about it and went on-line and found it. So will have it in 3 or 4 days. Already have my regular mechanic lined up to replace it.
THEN, I decided to clean my G-Scale tracks, and got some Scotch Brite, and put it on my palm sander. Boy did that do great. And FAST ! Cleaned it all within 1 & 1/2 hours. My only concern is there any negative aspects of using Scot Brite on track? Think I will use it on my O-Scale.
Sitting here falling asleep, so better sign off.
Take Care and Stay Healthy!
Mornin' boys. 69 and drying out in the Mid-Atlantic region. Really need to get one of those thunder shirts for FifeMax. Wifey and grandson still in bed. Rough night. The boy's habits and ours aren't in sync. He is going to ENT doc today for an ear infection.
KRM - I've heard that about #2.
dougnotta - Pretty sure that's why Wifey is draggin' her feet on the "relocation".
Morning. Nice rain before light this AM. Had busy day yesterday. Resulting in things added to County budget for R'ville. Then mowed everyone's yards late yesterday.
RT, no shopping across the street. Mainly offices. Two restaurants and that is it.
Got afternoon meeting and R'ville HS graduation. A informal meeting with Co. Commissioner and School Board Chair tonight.
Enjoy.
OH!!! Got first real ripe tomato from garden yesterday.
Mornin' All.
Killing some time before getting gussied-up for our monthly CHF group meeting. Today's topic will be assets/liabilities of an ICD.
Don, If you are setting up for battery ops why worry about cleaning track ? For mine I used a LGB cleaning block attached to a pole sander, beats the heck out of all that bending over or crawling around on gravel/rocks.
I know now chief but there is a Food-Lion about a block down the street on the same side so she can walk there if needed right behind the Hardee's and Dollar General and across the street from the Auto Zone and CVS. Sorry I didn't stop in was on a very tight schedule.
Morning all hows it going today. On the run again will try to catch up later.
Good Morning,
RT, I was thinking, once your on the way to Roseyville you should take advantage of the benefits of the Chief's notariety. Some of the benefits I could see....
Also, with your VA connections you should consider a flag pole, with some huge speakers in the front windows for Reville every morning at dawn. You will be the envy of the Forum.
Doug (DDG), All in all I think it would be about a $300 investment. The G-Scale in my train room is already wired, but hasn't been operated in a long time, due to dirty track. So that's why I cleaned that one. Also, will probably do the same to the dogbone, just to make sure all the equip works on the track configuration. Hope all the test and procedures work well, just don't over do it!!!
Later all
Good morning all,
Yesterday temperature was over 100. It was 105 in the garage. Got a call from Just Trains yesterday that my MTH AS616 original Norfolk Southern road switcher was in stock so I placed the order. I have been waiting for MTH to do this road for several years. I got the VO1000 switcher with the same road name a few years back. I saw the AS614 engines in North Carolina when I was a kid near Chocowinity, N.C. I think the railroad called it Marsden because Choco was too long to type for telegraph operators. Chief probably remembers these engines near Raleigh but they changed the color from red to gray later on. The model is like the early version in red which I like best. My grandparents called it the red rabbit when they saw it. The line ran between Norfolk, Va. and Raleigh/Charlotte, N.C. Those were the days.
Don, that Scotch Bright works good on my O gauge track and leaves nothing behind.
Good day at work. Got to scrimmage with "my" soccer girls. Watch Izombie. Very good season finale. I hope everyone has a good day.
Mornin' boys. Gorgeous here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Yesterday was engine maintainance day. New traction tires on J, new battery in Decapod, new speaker in F unit. Unfortunately the Proto 1 F-unit has to go to LHS for what hopefully is a re-set. My MTH engines have cost me as much as my yatchet the past couple seasons. A big reason for my recent interest in post war steamers.
Treated grandson to Chuck E. GEez that's expensive pizza last night. He was all smiles, until it was time to leave...
72 going to mid 90s later on the North Bluff. again later.
Prayers for John's mom's surgery today.
Just got a downpour,,,, so much for anymore grass cutting for a while.
Morning, Dudes!!
Like Fife says, Sunny and nice today here in Central New Jersey.
Installed new LED tail and front parking lights over the weekend and installed new sparking plugs. road runner is ready for a road trip, albeit a short one, just need my plates!! (Week 5 now...)
Not much on the train front, house hunting now in gear, an ideal one was set for an offer and then found out it had just went under contract.....bummed!! Something else will be found soon enough......
for those in need, especially HudsonJohn's Mom's-surgery today.
See ya soon!!
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
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