Good evening all,
Sunny today. Cold for the walk, but I wore enough layers. Very quiet at work, and made good time getting home for once. Wife made it home ok. Watched Jane the Virgin and Blue Bloods tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Morning All!
Finally made it to the Febraury pot. I was still full from last months buffet!!
We had a pre Super Bowl chili cook off at work yesterday. It sounds like I was in the lead when I left. (I my fire extinguisher near by for those who watch This Is Us!)
A question for you shavers: Do any of you get your blades from places like Harry's or the Dollar Shave Club? I've been weighing the pros and cons lately on wondering if it's worth it. As much as I like my blades from those fine folks in Boston (even if they're Patriots fans!!), it's certainly getting very pricey.
Royal Blue - sorry for your loss
RT - happy belated birthday!
Banks - I have the same problem in my weight room. It's a workout just getting to the equipment sometimes!!
Roy - It doesn't take long to pile up!
Spank - I hear ya. I had such a crappy week at work too. I went to Walmart yesterday to pick up some stuff for a meeting. I was so rattled, that I couldn't remember my card PIN. Poor cashier had to talk me down from having a meltdown.....
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 21 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Might visit some local antique shops and sub shop later on.
Drywall guys were here by 0830 yesterday, and done by 1130. I asked them for their leftover mud in their trays, and showed them how I used their throw-aways as scenery material along my river beds and abutments. The owner has an 8 year old son who loves trains. Wifey was pleased with their work, and we were both relieved that there wasn't any mold behind the old wall. (Probably from our efforts to correct the matter and clean up the room that first 24 hours.)
Banks - I wouldn't mind checking out the Altoona Show. Depends on train schedule and tax return (or lack thereof....).
A cloudy 21 degrees this morning.
As usual for February snow is expected by afternoon through most of tomorrow. Income taxes are done, I have a guy thats fair on price and he does in 30 minutes what would take me several hours.
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
Cold start this AM. Finally has gotten to 35 degrees. Sunny so that will help.
May get back in the Train Box as yesterday I got deverted to Town stuff.
Stay warm.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Afternoon all!
Overcast and 50.
Back from the shredder. Weighed a couple of boxes. I had over 600 lbs worth. Came up with a system so we can mange this annually vs every few years.
DJ - ouch? The good news is the revenue eh?
Rob - electric shave here...no help.
SJ - each day is a little more daylight...hoo rah!
Banks - how was the concert?
Regards, Roy
Watched Arsenal absolutely smash Everton 5-1 today. Weather is cloudy and cold. Went to Mass, then Aldi's and then to Chili's for supper. A good day. MR and Trains came today as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good evening,
It was cold again today, but it was also sunny which makes my wife happy. I spent the better part of the morning building IKEA furniture for my wife's office space in the house. In the afternoon the wife and I went shopping for more stuff; I am afraid to look at the bank account these days. Actually, I plan to work our 2018 budget this evening. It is something I enjoy doing. I best get started.
Good night,
Joe
new carpet in the stairs is done, Sandra loves it. Brian only took less than an hour and a half to do them then we went to lunch, had a few cold ones then we went to the daughters and looked at her stairs so he can do them. Hers will be easy compared to mine because there is no landing.
Guess the weather is going to dump on us starting tonight.
I have been swapping out motive power on the layout the last week and this evening and for the first time since I got them the black bonnet set from Ryan went back into the boxes tonight and I pulled out the Lionel New Haven ABA set I have.
So I pulled the trigger on the new Lionel BNSF Tier 4 LC set 6-84732 from Charls Ro just to find out it will not deliver till around 10-10-18. But it came with a nice discount so I hope I am still around to get it when it ships.
Time to chill and crash soon. Been a long day and got a lot of good done.
Before
After
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Hello There,
last nights concert was great. (not sure why this &*!@#&^* thing is underlining) The band was Surf City All Stars. They were really good. They had Dean from Jan & Dean and David Marks, one of the original Beach Boys. The rest of the band all played with the Beach Boys at some point. The vocals from the originals were a bit weak but pretty good considering their age. Over the past few years I've seen The Oak Ridge Boys, Lee Greenwood, Barry Manilo and Kenny Rogers. They all sound good but their Vocals ain't what they used to be.
Rob........no help on the shaver. I use electric, with el cheapo from the Dollar store when I wait to long in between.
My treadmill turned into a catchall 4 years ago when I developed plantar fascis. Got used daily before that. Need to get back to it and get some fat off.
Today's project was a trip to Cassandra Pa for a ton of coal. Got it in the house already. Only took an hour and a half. 30 years ago I'd have been done in a half hour with time to spare. Sucks to get old.
Game plan for tommorow is 7AM mass, bloodwork then take down the Christmas tree. Hate to see it go but it's time.
Off to bed soon
Prayers for those in need
t
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Morning all!
It looks like we had a light dusting of snow over night. Hopefully that's it for today. Still trying to figure out my Super Bowl plans, not that I really even care this year. I just don't want to be anywhere my wife, daughter and their Patriots nation!!
Spank - Ironically, I happen to be an end user of the program. Considering they have been advertising a start date of February 1st for 3-4 months, you would think someone would have given you guys a heads up. Ugh.... Don't think we are all idiots up here, though!! I imagine the network traffic will level off after people activate their new cards over the next few days.
I have a 1983 Z28. I was my first car. I updated the body parts to make it look like a late 80's IROC. It was stolen years ago, recovered and I'm presently in the process of swapping out the carbed 350 with a rebuilt LT1 with the LT4 "hot" cam and other goodies.
Banks - I'm glad you had a good time. Yeah, a lot of the greats don't have the vocal range they used to. Still better than me!!
Kev - That BNSF set is nice! Yes, pre order price is quite reasonable. I need to pull the trigger on a few things. Oh, and with your WBB wiring question, could you not just wire the switch to the fixed voltage? Then you wouldn't have to re-wire the locomotive. Am I missing something?
Mornin' boys. Calling for some potentially hazardous frozen precip in the Potomac Highlands. Did my running around yesterday. Even took an hour to visit an antique store on Baltimore St. I like to sort through old postcards and vintage photo, and I was able to scoop up an old postcard of a B&O hopper at an area coal mine, and a nice image of a canal boat near the long gone Bolt & Forge.
Won't be watching the "big" game. Gonna spend that time in the train room. Maybe get the high line finished, so I can have 4 trains running simultaneously.
Good morning,
No snow overnight like they were howling about the last few days. Maybe DougM got some by the lake but we got nothing out here in the sticks.
Fife, 4 trains running simultaneously.
I won’t be watching the game either. I have not watched any games yet why start now. I think I will re-wire that Williams by Bachman to series and see what I think. I remember I did that to two K-line Bangs a few years ago and it worked well.
Rob, I have three Williams by Bachman engines and they all fly with little power so I thought if I re-wire them it will solve my switch activation issue and also allow me to get a better crawl speed out of them as well. It would take a lot of wiring to fire the switches to fixed power as well seeing they are about 27’ apart on the layout.
Better start breakfast.
32 degrees and snowing till late evening. Then the temp will drop through all of next week. This is the one game I will watch, I don't care who wins.
Rob, the series wiring was easy and did the trick for the switch. Slow speed is now a crawl and there is still plenty of high speed. A much better chance of the grandkid not flying the engine off the upper loop. Think I will do the NW2 I got from Bob next.
Here it is running .
Sunny. Maybe hit 60 today. 50's predicted til mid week and maybe some rain Tues. we could use it.
Rob - nice Camero!
RT has posted on other forum that CSX and Amtrac has hit head on in SC.
Cold and rainy here. Sunday School and brunch at a new restaurant.
Staying in this afternoon.
Stay warm and dry.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/04/amtrak-csx-trains-collide-in-south-carolina-injuries-reported.html
head on two employee's killed 150 injured. Mainly minor but some had broken bones.
Morning all not good news to wake up to. Less than 40 miles away from us.
Not much planned for here today low 50's and raining here today. I ordered some parts to fix a prewar 810 crane and a 814 boxcar from Jeff at the train tender,, but want to ge the temps up a little here aalso so I can repaint the frames and the boom to the crane car. there bodies are not perfect but good enough I want to stay away from painting.
Hope all have a good day, talk to you all later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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rtraincollector http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/04/amtrak-csx-trains-collide-in-south-carolina-injuries-reported.html head on two employee's killed 150 injured. Mainly minor but some had broken bones. Morning all not good news to wake up to. Less than 40 miles away from us.
The TV report did not say but the freight train was parked so it could of been way worse. More misleading reporting on TV. Good thing they had it in the story line you can read. Still a real mess again.
Starting to snow here now.
Heres my two projects I'm working on now.
Now if you can see it. I'm wondering how many times the wiggled the coupler piece in lower left side to break it? It's suppose to be like the piece above it, LOL.
Neat RT. Can you get parts for them??
I don't have much pre-war but have been thinking about it.
KRM Neat RT. Can you get parts for them?? I don't have much pre-war but have been thinking about it.
Jeff to the recue.
rtraincollector KRM Neat RT. Can you get parts for them?? I don't have much pre-war but have been thinking about it. Jeff to the recue.
Good to know RT,,,Thanks!
Did 11 miles in 3:09:44 today. 17:15 minutes per mile for a 3.50 MPH average. Not great, but getting close to 13 miles. Still able to move after the walk. Did very little after that. Kevin, stair pictures look good. I hope everyone has a good day.
Kevin is prewar is very limited but MTH remakes has help some also that he can get.
Hello there,
the predicted coating to an inch turned out to be 5" of heavy wet snow.
Between dealing with that and Mrs having the crud we didn't get to the tree today. There's always tomorrow.
Friday was Candlemas Day, the presentation day. Christmas is finally over.
Seriously Mrs and I really enjoy the tree so we usually let it up till Groundhog day as long as it isn't to dry and dropping needles. It's made Valentines day on a few occasions. But then there's one that was literally bare by New Year's .
Time to crash.
We had a nice Sunday. It rained all day but I only departed the house to buy some groceries and some project materials from Home Depot. I need to build some nice storage for my comic books. I have them in the standard white comic books boxes but I want them in something nicer. I stole a few ideas from the internet. As soon as I finalize a track plan I can buy some layout benchwork materials as well. It is a shame about the train accident; Amtrak is having a rough time right now.
Fife - Right there with you.
Kev - I always enjoy photos/videos of your layout. Thanks for posting it.
Good night,Joe
Cold morning at -1 on the north bluff.
They say we are going to get punched with 4”-6” of the white stuff this afternoon so we may get to use the plow yet.
Thanks Mike, the wife really likes the carpet on the stairs to the basement.
Thanks Joe we get a lot of fun out of the layout here.
SJ, DougM, Kev - youz guyz left the freezer door open again. It is 25 right now. Weather guessers blew it. We now have 40's for highs through Wed. 10* lower than predicted yesterday....well, kills the bugs...
Looks like CSX had a switch set wrong, broken signaling, coupled with manual train management that sent the Amtrak into the siding (at 59 mph) and parked freight per this morning's reports. Btw - these were preliminary NTSB findings.
Sunny and warm good morning. Mayor's stuff today and tonight.
Sure got quite on some of the forums after the game last night. Some braggers are not talking.
Have a great week ahead.
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