Fog & frost, was 30 when we got up.
Roy tis true 10 minutes in the grocery if you go in alone. But.....she went along.
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
fifedogPMan - Idea What about that friend that keeps wanting to visit...?
He does'nt want to visit, he just wants us to go out to eat with him all the time. I need a lady who can sit with my wife while I run errands and stuff like that. I wouldn't get a man to do that.
Will try to make the TTOS meet tomorrow and wife has expressed an interest in going with me but we'll see if she feels that way tomorrow.
I never know.
Ray
SPMan
Demay Buckeye - What time do you plan to attend? We do not get home from church until 1230 so I would not be on the road until after 1300. Joe
Buckeye - What time do you plan to attend? We do not get home from church until 1230 so I would not be on the road until after 1300.
Joe
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,
The great state of Indiana is represented by this writer. A good day. The tree upstairs in the attic is up and functional. The leaves are all mulched. Wife and I went to a nice show featuring the Irish fiddle player and her band. Got the Christmas letter written. All I have to do is get Christmas cards done and shopping for grandkids. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello all
Good to hear from you Joe. AF moving you again? I do remember that from my youth:)
Chief - I occassionally still wear my field jacket, but more often it's the Carhartt if I'm looking for warmth. Went thru the last of my old uniforms on Veteran's day for some reason. Got rid of a lot of stuff that was either worn out, didn't fit, or just wasn't usable (whattya do w/ a dress white jumper?). Saved my dress blues and one set of Seabee greens. I'm actually wearing a working blues long sleeve shirt that I never added an insignia to. Since it still fits, it makes a good work shirt:)
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Morning all. Not a lot going on made breakfast and ate it. relaxing now will go-to church a little later for a bit. Let them know I'm still alive. Making sticky buns right now. Made a cherry pie for the wife last night. Have to keep Momma happy lol.
No other real plans for the day may goto the tree lighting in town today will see.
Talk to you all later.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning all! A bit frosty here in Chicagoland but all of the white stuff from a week ago is now gone for the time being.
“Make Your Own Pizza Night” was a hit on Friday – highly recommend it as a neat way to host a get-together and get folks talking. Meant to take the 2YO to one of the Lionel day events yesterday, but told him he’d need to take a bath in order to go. His response? “I wanna relax a bit, daddy!” I need to be more careful what I say around him…
Went to a local park though where they have a 18” train they run year-round but dress up for their “Polar Express” event each year. Got tickets for the last train @ 5:45 PM, but when we finally got in line found an hour-long wait. Apparently like the airlines they overbooked – kinda disappointing as another hour in a freezing temps wasn’t in the cards. The boy was not pleased.
Off to church in a little while – then hopefully some football while getting a parts order together for various coupler pieces.
IT consultant by day, 3rd generation Lionel guy (raising a 3YO 4th generation Lionel Lil' Man) by night in the suburbs of the greatest city in the world - Chicago. Home of the ever-changing Illinois Concretus Ry.
Very sunny and 31, heading to 45 on The North Bluff today. Last day of shotgun season.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Fog this morning. 40s for the day.
Watched a nail biter Michigan State football win last night.
Morning/afternoon all!
Sunny and mid-60's today. May hit 70 by end of the week
Mike C - nice to have things calm and under control even for a little while.
JT - that's unbelievable. Should have kept running until all that bought tickets got to go.
Got tree down from attic and set up, lights tested. Kids coming for dinner tonight so we will make this evening a tree decorating party!
Have a great afternoon all!
Regards, Roy
Afternoon all from cloudy Southern Ohio
I took the morning off to serve a the morning Masses then got to work about 1230. It is the youngest's birthday today so I'll leave work as soon as I can this evening. Hard to believe she is 12.
Hopefully I can get the remaining outside lights up Monday when I'm off. Everyone should be at school and I've not received any honey-do's, yet.
May God bless
Jim
Today was the Springfield, Ohio train show. Admission $5.00, free parking and lots of tables with some really good prices. For over a year, DeMay and I have tried to meet and today was the day.
KRM: definitely familiar with the Corn City of DeKalb, got both of my degrees there!
wrmcclellan: they were going to continue to run the train until everyone got a chance, but the temperature was about 32F and dropping. And Noah had gone sans-nap that afternoon so his tollerance was waning. Unfortunately (or fontunately) his interest in the train was not. He thankfully fell asleep about 5 minutes into the ride home. Just kinda sucked that they planned things poorly.
Buckeye Riveter Today was the Springfield, Ohio train show. Admission $5.00, free parking and lots of tables with some really good prices. For over a year, DeMay and I have tried to meet and today was the day.
Well Who is Who in this picture????
It sure don't pay to be a Bears Fan.
Removed the header yesterday from my 1975 Trident T-160 and will be heading to Rock Island this week to get it re-chromed. So no train news.
JTrains, where did you grow up??? Yeah, corn, beans and flat land out there.
Finally threw down the bench work for my layout.
Kevin Hint one is still in airforce the other is a old man
Sorry Buckeye couldn't controll my self.
Demay glad to finally have a face to the name.
Not a lot going on here went by my church this morning paid my respects. There trying to take care of a family of 5 who are haveing some bad luck 2 boys 7 and another 4 and the father has cancer. Hope we are able to make a big difference for them seems we are on the right track although we are a very small church of only about a dozen members.
Not much else to report no real train news for today did get a 1666 marx going that I think has been sitting about 30 years it was real tight but its doing a lot better now. even smoked for a bit but now guess its out of fluid and I don't have any. Thought I did but dang if I can find it.
Talk to you all later
Been fighting the creeping crud this weekend. Didn't get much done other than napping. Feeling better now, though.
I did watch the Michigan State/Iowa game yesterday. Good game. Was somewhat dissapointed with the number of reviews on the official's calls. To me, they just seem to be out of place in college ball - the official's call is just part of the game. Then again, with the amount of money involved in college ball nowadays......
All for now.
Good weather today. Finished up all the Christmas shopping for the grandkids. Good picture, Buckeye. Learning how to deal with the knee until it gets back to where it is supposed to be. I hope everyone has a good day.
Bob,
Saw this link while perusing the late news
and immediately thought of you.
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/599/img/photos/2015/12/07/0e/91/corphibian.jpg
Time to say goodnight all !
Still kinda draggin from Saturday, this old geezer
ain't ready for anymore 14hr days.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
Good Early morning.
I spent some time playing around with the 8 string bass and a few weird effect pedals tonight. Hence why I am up at silly o'clock
Foggy and cold right now going to a high of 45 later in...in the sunshine.... hopefully.
Oh...last week our little Spring passed away in his sleep. This left us down in the dump for awhile. But...next weekend we are getting a little black kitteh from the rescue agency across the town here. She will be 8 weeks old then.
Well wishes and good vibes from our house to those in need
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
tinplatacis Finally threw down the bench work for my layout.
Sounds like you are getting her done!!
Another long shift tonight.
Buckeye - good to see you and Joe!
Doug - I just saw something on the Corvanatics site about the Corphibian. Don't know much about it, other than it being built from a Rampside
Think I will chase down a couple rims and tires for the '63 next week off. I don't plan on using the rims on the rear axles now. The two rims on the front will eventually be spares for both this car and the van. The coupe was coverted to 5-lug rims w/ van rear axles at some point. To continue it's 'dune buggy' history, I'm thinking of putting white spokes on it, narrower on the front w/ more meat in the back. No use in worrying too much about the back tires right now, as once it gets back from the DMV inspection I plan on hauling out the drive train and seeing what condition the original 102HP engine is in.
We are going to open the trolley for the street fair next weekend so we can hopefully generate some more public interest.
The Gadsden Purchase area is reflected here (this will make somebody dig out a history book:)
Yep, all ready for track and scenicing. Just need to figure out what track arrangemeant I'm gonna use
Good morning from a very foggy North Bluff. 30 heading to 41 with clouds all day.Pulled the header off my 1975 Trident T160 motorcycle so I can get it re-chromed. Starting to get some rust, $400.00 for a re-chrome verses $1,100.00 for a replacement. No brainer there. The place I am going to get it done is in Rock Island 105 miles to the west of here down the old Rock Island main line that runs right through downtown Marseilles. To bad they don’t still run passenger trains on that line. It would be a cool ride. Don’t know if I want to take the drive west on I80 in the fog, maybe tomorrow.Good to hear from Blown Out Cylinder.8N take care.
Some titbits.
The Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Construction began October 1, 1851, in Chicago, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet. Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River.
And here is a picture of the 1975 Trident I purchased 40 years ago last month. New then it was $2,175.75
Aloha from a foggy Chicago. Let me add my welcome to JTrains. I'm up in Crystal Lake. Stur-Fish: my wife is a school nurse too and stopped class or even grade-wide lice checks because of some new guidelines. Your wife can image how 'fun' they were in a school of 1,000.Bob, thanks for the planet update - this week, they have been so clear. I had an idea of who was up there but not any order!Blownout, I thought I 'felt' your bass the other night. Congrats on the pending new addition to the family.Buckeye and Joe, what a handsome couple of guys ! Tinplate, good luck on scenicking. I love changing the track layout every few years.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Fog & frost with an early morning temp of 29 degrees.
December 07, 1941 let's remember that especially today. We are in a new kind of war.
A good day at work. Busier than expected, but got a lot done now instead of later in the month. Weather never did warm up like expected. Wife did a lot of gift card shopping. I went for my longest walk in a while. Knee is much better. Tendons are ouchie. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Evening from cloudy Southern Ohio,
I finished the front of the house outside lights today taking advantage of a day off.Later tonight I’ll be wishing I had taken a nap instead!
Buckeye-You don’t look a day older than when my bride and I came up and saw your layout a few years ago.
Tinplate-What your plan for the layout?
RT-The Marx steamers are so neat, and almost bullet proof or should I say kid proof
8nTruck-Have you tried drinking an ounce or two of apple cider vinegar in water?A bit ago I was reading on treating hot spots on dogs and learned about the benefits of apple cider vinegar.I drink it every day or so.
Doug- Can't imagine 1000 kids; our school has maybe 200 kids 7-12.
Mike C – What happened to your knee?
Bob-I’ll bite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase
Good Night and may God bless
tinplatacis Yep, all ready for track and scenicing. Just need to figure out what track arrangemeant I'm gonna use
Aaaahhh yes, the dreaded track planning step. I ended up using a point to point with a helix on mine...have fun !!
Good Evening
Welm...it stayed foggy all day today and never even got past 34F out here. Tomorrow the guessers have some sun for us....maybe.
Did some gotta buy stuff then went to my LHS to see what they had around there...ended up picking up a whack of Cornerstone Ethenol Plant and modular building kits...
Came home and seen our neighbour...ended up yapping for about 2 hours...outside...
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