January Coffee Pot 2016. Dedicated to Chuck. 11 years old. Wonderful grits and sweet ice tea for the southern gents. Coffee and oatmeal for the Yanks.

[wrmcclellan]

Happy New Year all!

Lazy day here. Slept til 11:30 this morning. That was refreshing.

Missus and I went to Star Wars this afternoon. Only about 30 folks in the theater so that was nice. Good show and return to some of the theme/story "roots" of the orginal 3.

Phish - the custom accessory was a conversion I did of a Lionel fox and hunter to a beaver and hunter to celebrate the victory of beavers over the chief in his pond drama. It is so valuable the chief has it locked up in a vault at Rosyville city hall.

anj - did your daughter make it to FW?

LAZ

Watching some football.

[anjdevil2]

Fife....we already had that talk, she's on her own, transportation wise....experience is a hard teacher.

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Cloudy & 41 on this New Years day in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Stayed in bed 'til 1300, which I never do.  Pulled the 2026 (Father's Day engine) out of the case, oiled it up then cut it loose in front of acquisitions from rt and submmbob.

My new saying for 2016 - Life's short; run 'em fast!

Laz -birthday wishes are in order.

anjdevil - They insist on learnin' the hard way.  Time to cut the financial cord.

Hoping everyone has a very healthy New Year.

 

[anjdevil2]

Happy New Year, Guys......

Miss ya, Blueberry....

Happy Birthday LAZ!!!

Spent New Years at the GF's(actually the ex-GF's) small party, watched Terminator Genisys and paused at midnight for a champagne toast.  Was home by 4 AM (fell asleep on couch at 2).  First time I'd been out on NYE since I left Florida.

Well, the old year ended with a literal BANG as the Princess' Relaint had finally been repaired for the 2nd time in 2 months, $2400 later.....and against my advice, she and her BF decided to take a trip to Fort Worth (from JAX, FL - Roy, are you listening? LOL) to visit her BF's Mom, step Dad and sisters.  Made just inside Tejas and the bottom end of the Reliant scattered like a Funny Car explosion....3 hours from their destination.  She was upset and broken hearted....she loved that car.  Well, as it turns out, luckily, they broke at a truck stop and were "interogated" by some woman, who as it turns out, is a reporter for Time Magazine....maybe it shows up next week.  That lifted her spirits a little.  So, they are on their own, as far as the car goes.   She's already upset at herself, and there is no reason to pile on.  Experience is the best teacher in this case.  No, I'm not flying to Dallas to fix it, either...sorry Roy...see ya at York...lol!

Other than that, I'm up and alive and God has blessed me with a great family and bunch of friends....May your New Year bring all of us success and happiness!!

Cen'tanni!

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  HAPPY NEW YEAR to all YUZ GUYZ!!!!  A special TGIF to CHUCK!!!  BUCKEYE & CHUCK we had the knack of wishing TGIFs every week since forever.  Boy I do miss that, and CHUCK.

Thank you all for the Birthday wishes!  Another year older and maybe wiser?  I can't believe I have been here since 2004!  WOW!!!  Seems like yesterday we started OTTS.

PTC Thanks for the special birthday e mail, much appreciated.

 

Stay frosty my friends,

laz57

[KRM]

HAPPY NEW YEAR Gang!!!

Neighbor to the south had some very big munitions going off last night but he needs a new watch. He lit everything off at 11:40PM and was done by 11:50?????

RIP Chuck.

LAZ

 

Hack, hack, hack,,cough, cough.

[blownout cylinder]

Laz!!! 

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning.

AND A HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

We actually got some sun this morning. But supposed to get more snowshowers later on.

Another busy day for us here...BIL and family coming down for New Years feasting...maybe trainroom time later

I already miss Chuck....

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Good Morning and Happy New Year from overcast, dry and cool (mid 30's) Southern Ohio,

Going to miss Chuck too, never hear "Blueberry" without thinking of him.

I fininshed up the passenger side of the fuel injectors on the truck last night after Mass, then my bride and two of the kids sat with us to watch a movie, but I was in bed by 11pm and up at 5am for work. I'm starting my 7 day/night streach so not much progress is expected till I'm off again.

Youngest daughter was in an antique shop and picked up a Lionel 58-19 lamp post. It needs re-wired but the cast is not broke.

Buckeye- I remember those posts! Wasn't there an accesory for the layout with a hunter you and Chief had going a few years ago?

Have a safe day and may God bless this New Year

Jim

[PTC]

Happy New Year all, and to Laz, a very Happy Birthday to a really good guy in our hobby.

[tinplatacis]

Nice XD. I survived the new year somehow, it was a good year.

[Buckeye Riveter]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

Imediately or not sooner after I joined the forum in 2004, the Chief started his relentless interrogation of me.  He believed I was a fraud because he could not find Roger's Corners on a map of Ohio.  He continued the interrogation for many weeks until he demanded that Chuck  check up on me.  By that time he suspected I was an excaped prisoner from a NC chain gang.  So Chuck shows up on my doorstep to check me out. 

As you can see Chuck deemed me completely legit and reported back to the Chief, but the Chief by now thought that Chuck and I were in schemming against him.  Actually we were.  After several months, guess who shows up on my porch, the CHIEF to check me out himself.

Needless to say the Chief had never seen a layout like mine that was not on a carpet and didn't wind up.  I taught him how to build benchwork and to wire everything. Most of the time spend was on the differences in three rail vs two rail track.  He was really intrigued on how we just plugged our transformers into a wall socket.  He exclaimed, "What will they think of next!"  Now that the Chief knows about electricity, he goes back to Roseyville gets himself elected Mayor and tells Duke Power he wants some of that electricity for the town. 

And now you know the rest of the story as I kinda remember it. 

 

BTW,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAZ!

[submmbob]

Hello all

Well it was 0100UT Jan 01, 2016 when I came on shift:)

New years is not that big a deal for me. Have to change the calender sometime, but I hope everyone does have a good 2016

Did I mention here that the trolley/bus group I volunteer w/ got our new building recently? That will make a big difference for us. More (and better) work area and onsite indoor storage. Of course, the fun of moving everything...

'ok everybody, grab both ends of that PCC car...':)

Bob

[rtraincollector]

HAPPY NEW YEARS 

[Banks]

Happy New Year 

Miss Chuck and Jeff. lots of big bangs here. Don't know what they are but they make M80 sound like a cap gun.

 

 

[sir james I]

HAPPY NEW YEAR...............HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAZ

yes Chuck will be missed

[ChiefEagles]

Good night and HAPPY NEW YEARS.  BTW: I now eat oatmeal for breakfast.  Has brown sugar flavoring.

Chuck was a long time member of the Pot.  One of the early ones when it got started.  Use to be Elliot [Big Boy], Buckeye and myself when it started.  Then Chuck joined us.  Will never be forgotten.

God bless all of you.