Mornin' boys. Wet and 57 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Hope to have a 3-day "weekend", starting today. One of my best friends, and former car partner, coming for an overnight stay tonight.
Good evening all,
Watched lots of soccer today. Parts of 2 matches on Telemundo and a match recorded from Saturday so it was a good day. Rained most of the day. Warm now but temps will drop. Did some work in train room as well. Good to see so many threads on the forum being active. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Yes Roy,very hard. Could of just reached through the rusted out floorboard on the old 1978 Chevy LUV I had.
A very happy Birthday to your wife!!!
51 degrees with drizzle, that is the best it will be the next ten days here. 23 Tuesday night. November is here!
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Afternoon all!
Falls temps returning this week, finally- ahhhh!
PlateR - cool! Watching the trains with catenary with be fun! If I had a '55 with the V8 I would still be driving it!
TX A&M got beat bad by Auburn but nothing new about that. Looks like Coach Sumlin will get dumped. Too bad as I think he is a very good coach battling circumstances out of his control.
SJ - woe in Buckeye Land...have fun at the show!
Kev - hmmm - have to tap the transfer case motor. Got to be hard while you are driving!
Mike C -
We had a great dinner with friends at a nice restaurant for the Ms.' B'day, followed by cake, cards, coffee, and wine at one of the friends home. The Ms. Is pleased!
Regards, Roy
Rained yesterday, more expected today. At least no flooding.
Saturday was a football day for me. The 2 big Michigan teams won BUT my Buckeyes took a beating at Iowa. 55/24.
Two train shows today, I am just going to the closest one about 30 minutes away.
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
Today is one of those few days where life is good. Recently bought a Santa Fe "scout" type with just 4 fixed wheels out of one those cheap Lionel Junction sets. Went to a TCA meet and was able to get two four wheel trucks and plastic rivets to attach to the frame. Now I have a new fully functional Santa Fe "Cheap Classics" box to go with the three that were made ages ago. Been a long time coming for those to appear again. Also did some Christmas shopping for the grandkids and went to Mass tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Plate Rail.
Nice work!
I had three 914s. great fun to drive cars. Wrecked one and always told everyone wife and I had a front and rear Porsche. Most of the elect stuff on the 914s was the same as the Karmann Ghia so if you knew that you could get it cheap.
My auto work for the day, With 161,130 on the original rusty Ranger, I replaced the transfer case motor with a new one from Amazon $ 78.57. Just because I figured it would crap out when I need it. Last time I shifted the transfer case I had to tap on the motor shell with a hammer to get it to shift.
Belated greetings all,
In review....
Rob: Don't know how they swing it, but those BJ auctions are about as believable as any other reality TV. People paying 50% more than what a car is worth has to have something to do with getting their 15 minutes of TV fame.
Roy: It's a '55 with the V8. I might still be out there driving had it been a Blue Flame 6
Kev: Dig that 914! My buddy owned numerous examples and I always questioned his sanity when it came to the electronic fuel injection. One time when it left us stranded on the side of the road (again), he pulled a Basil Faulty on it's German carcas and beat the poor Porsche with a tree branch.
Been a busy week in the shop and hauling dead iron. I spent today in train room therapy by continuing to add catenary to the layout. I'm using the old Penn Central G motors to gauge trolley wire height and centering.
Bruce
Morning all!
Slept in today. Felt good!
Banks - sounds like a nice excursion. First one as a retired guy!
It is the Ms.' Birthday weekend so the agenda is all hers. I will make some waffles and then we will go to some antique shops. Dinner scheduled tonight with friends.
Hello there. ....
Royal blue. ...welcome.
Spent the last 3 days chucking prints and files along with gathering everything I'd drug in. Probably going to have to go to the office a couple hours a week for a few weeks to deal with material invoices and create ours to send.
Got tickets for the Christmas show matinee next Friday at sight and sound theater in Lancaster. The campgrounds there are either closed or full. Ended up getting a site where we usually stay in York. Gonna make a weekend of it and see the TCA museum and a Christmas museum son told me about.
Having trouble staying awake.
Prayers for those in need.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good morning,
Partly sunny, 70's today.
Anj - as they say, a win is a win! In this case a big one!
Banks -
RoyalB - nice about the sets!
MikeC - nice day! Also glad to hear things at work continue to be so much better after your move!
Did some chores around the house yesterday. Doing some minor wall repairs and touch up.
Yesterday I picked up a Lionel G Gauge Pennsylvania Flyer set from Ollie's for about $45.00 with the discount from my Ollie's discount card. They're priced at $49.99. I have a few of the Lionel G sets, but not this one and figured it was too good a deal to pass up!
Going to work out the plan for hitting Strasburg tomorrow - Trains and Troops weekend at the Museum there!
Tonight I'll probably run the little set someone in my office building here gave me last week - she was cleaning out her in-laws garage and found a 1964 set in the original box! Nothing fancy, just the 1062 as an 0-4-0 with cars. Still, a free and nice Lionel set!
TGIF!!!!!!!! Last one.
Prayers for those in need
Quiet day at work, but enough going on to make it interesting. Good day to walk as well. Got yard mowed, which frees up options for the weekend. Last time I will be able to mow it at night as the time changes this weekend. I hope everyone has a good day.
Royal - Back!
Anj -
Kev - saw that on the news also, gotta check several units!
Banks, Well, the forced retirement sucks, but congrats anyways!
Nice day out here in Jersey, took a half hour for lunch to enjoy the outside today and tomorrow, as Saturday it takes another dip downwards.
Gettin' time to go look at the Christmas layout for the firehouse, I have 3 weeks to get that up and running.
TOY RUN in Philly on Sunday, I missed it LAST year but this year I'm going as long as there is no rain. Will wind up at the Sugar House casino for food and a band and cash bar - which I will not partake in - I have two wheel to take me home in 1 piece...
Gotta go back to work
Sorry Roy - - They should have stayed in the National League....GO YANKEES!!
My NJ Devils are looking REALLY good!!
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
It's been a while since I posted here, but there was a lot of family upheaval. Over the course of a couple weeks, lost two uncles, leaving my dad the only one left in his line of brothers. This is the first week without worry and stress about sick family members, so it's time to heal.
That means taking my parents to places like Strasburg with my wife and daughter to get their minds off things, as well as going with my dad to train shops and running our Flyer, Lionel and Ives!
I'm glad to be back here. Keep the coffee refills coming, and I'll have some of those hotcakes and sausage!
Kevin thanks for the info. There sending me 2 new ones with instructions what to do with the old ones.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Good afternoon,
Found out today my train room fire extinguisher is no good and has been recalled so I sent in the info to Kidde and they are replacing it.
40 million bad ones out there all the way back to 1973,,,WTH?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/more-than-40m-fire-extinguishers-that-may-not-work-recalled/ar-AAumhr8?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Best check yours as well.
Thanks Ray! We hope you are around for a long time!
I grew up just 3 miles west of the Astrodome. Dad took me to Colt 45 games when the team first started in 1962. I could see the top of the Astrodome being built as a kid working as a street crossing guard in elementary school (remember the long bamboo poles with a STOP flag on them that you would stick across the street). Dad took me to the Astros games as soon as they started playing in the dome. In our early teens we would ride bikes to the Dome, buy cheap outfield tickets, to see afternoon games. As a long suffering Texas baseball fan, never thought the Stro's would finally make it to and win a Series. Cool! Sweet!
I though Yu Darvish was a stupid move/investment by the Texas Rangers so I was happy they traded him off to the Dodgers. For his $100M+ package he never delivered the goods. Would have never thought he would be a critical factor in facilitating an Astros series win!
Roy, congratulations on the Astros World Series win tonight. They did it all in the first two innings and did not score after that but they didn't need to. The Dodgers couldn't buy a hit in later innings. I won't be around for the next Dodger World Series if they continue at the present rate. Last time was 1988.
Ray
SPMan
ASTROS !!!!!!
Hello there, back again.
Roy. ...you've given me an idea. How about adding modern smoke to a 259E???? I'm in no hurry. I'll get one at York in April.
Phish....why not copy that bio to your profile section? ??
Best try to sleep.
Busy day today. Weather good enough for a walk outside. Rained most of the day but getting warmer as evening goes on. Hoping to get grass mowed tomorrow night. After the time change, it will be weekend only work as we will run out of daylight. Banks, congrats on retirement. Not too many more years for mine.... Down to counting the months. I hope everyone has a good day.
Evenin' boys. It was a nice thought. Went to yard to do a little EPA work, and wound up giving GP30 501 a bath. It was like washing the yatchett x 4. Then the food truck shows up, and guess who loaded all of the perishables into the freezer. I was supposed to pick up a breakfast sandwich for Wifey, but instead came home to her cooking diner.
There's always December...
Banks, good luck with the pre-retirement.
Chief, thanks for dropping by.
Evening all!
Had a low key day with trips to Batteries+ (alarm system remote sensors batteries), Harbor Freight (needed a caliper that would measure a 4+ inch diameter, and groceries.
Phish - great bio you posted. Always fun when we dig into the past!
Banks - bummer, you could have picked up an MTH unit at York cheap!
Hello there,
sausage sandwiches and cole slaw for supper.
I was told the other day that Nov 3rd will be my last day. I'll be unemployed. 1st in over 20 years. I was building my garage and work was slow so I laid myself off for about 6 weeks. I'm planning to collect unemployment as long as possible then start tapping the SS fund.
I'm thinking of buying a fan driven smoke unit for a smoke stack on my layout. Any recommendations? ?
Best move on.
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