wrmcclellan DJSpanky Sure, would love to see it. What's a peck?
DJSpanky
Sure, would love to see it. What's a peck?
A peck of tomatoes, for example, is supposed to weigh 14 pounds, as is a peck of shelled corn.
Hot again today, Had too much yesterday of the sun and heat. Almost got sick from it. Wife and I both got sunburn on the tops of our feet from having sandals on and being in the water some. Just taking it easy today.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
wrmcclellan
I made it public I think it will work
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
dougdagrump Marty, They look pretty sweet but what really caught my eye was the L&N Geep just below those Santa Fe's. Unfortunately none of the importers offer very much in the L&N Line, the fondness for that line comes from my grandfather having been a conductor for them. I have his watch on display here at home.
Marty, They look pretty sweet but what really caught my eye was the L&N Geep just below those Santa Fe's. Unfortunately none of the importers offer very much in the L&N Line, the fondness for that line comes from my grandfather having been a conductor for them. I have his watch on display here at home.
DougDG, That looks like a Lionel 6-84109 GP7
http://www.lionel.com/products/louisville-nashville-lionchief-plus-gp7-6-84109
KRM dougdagrump Marty, They look pretty sweet but what really caught my eye was the L&N Geep just below those Santa Fe's. Unfortunately none of the importers offer very much in the L&N Line, the fondness for that line comes from my grandfather having been a conductor for them. I have his watch on display here at home. DougDG, That looks like a Lionel 6-84109 GP7 http://www.lionel.com/products/louisville-nashville-lionchief-plus-gp7-6-84109
Kev,
Currently I have two MTH L&N offerings.
A GP-7:
A Heavy Pacific:
The Pacific for passenger service and the Geep for freight.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Very nice Doug. I grew up by the EJ&E line through Plainfield IL. It is now CN. Finding anything EJ&E is like finding hen's teeth. I have a few Lionel Boxcars and that is about it. Lionel did do a orange engine but it was Legacy that I don't use and way too much $$$ for me. I can't do $1,400 for two engines if I don't have Legacy.
But they are nice and I remember them well passing the house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUx5kOvUj-o
Good evening all,
Hot day today. Stayed inside. Went to dermatologist. All is good. Got longterm maintenance insurance for Encore. May not need it, but it beats paying $1,000 every time something goes wrong. Lost 8-2 tonight. Kids played hard, just not as good as other team. Got a haircut from wife today as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Evening from sunny 83°F Southern Ohio,
This is the last week of night shift until December. We finally got the steam system back, and it is currently building up pressure and blowing down a bunch of condensate from being down. Hopefully by midnight or 0200 we can start restoring steam to our buildings.
It got up to 98°F earlier. I was able to work in the train room this weekend. We’ve got the general idea for the track plan and we’re tweaking for the spacing for the accessories. Slowly going through the boxes of accessories to determine which accessories will go on the layout and where. The glass shelves are all up and they look great. There is about 78’ of glass shelves. The glass shop did a good job cutting and polishing the ends I needed to have trimmed to fit.
Banks - Good job on the racing!
Spank - I bet you found muscles you forgot you had! Start slow; think reps not max weight for now.
Buckeye - I was thinking of you taking down your layout as I was unwrapping boxed up stuff from where I took apart the layout the newspaper was December of 2010. Are you going to salvage the bench work?
8N - Congrats on retirement. Enjoy yourself!
Good night and may God bless
Jim
1st day of retirement:
UP about 9am, go to doctor's office to pick up lab orders, go to lab & get blood drawn, home to pick up my wife then go to breakfast. Home from breakfast, start a load of laundry, pick up the mail & leaf through the new CTT and Car Craft mags. that arrived in the mail. Off to meet some retired co-workers for lunch, after lunch pick up my wife and take care of some bank business and set up October kid's program date at the KATY Museum. Home from museum, decide we are hungry, nothing appealing in the refrigerator, so pick up chinese take out. Take 1.5 mile walk with dog in heat index just under 100F. Leaf through CTT and Car Craft again, then start taking apart eliptical machine so we can move it to another room.
I'm guessing that this will probably be pretty typical.
All for now.
Hello there,
tired, should be sleeping but wide awake.
Son made 31 round bales today with his new, to him, baler. I followed with the skid loader to catch them as they came out, saves him from running to a place they won't roll away. Got 18 loaded on the trailer ready to take to buyer.
8N..........it's taken me almost a year to get used to not working.
Somebody let me know, is my video working??
Got the National Headquarters News and my York badges in today's mail. Who's gonna be there??
Best try to sleep.
Prayers for those in need
5:30 am and at work. Hot and humid here in Western PA. 2 trucks in the bay to get done. 1 by December, 1 by March.
Pulled the trigger on the SF F units. So now I'll have 2 ABBA in SF livery.
Roy...definitely as long as no emergencies come up. After the F3s probably won't be opening the wallet as much but will still have a good time!
Trying to update my avatar since 2020
MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
Morning folks!
To hit 90 today and hoooomid!
Getting boat ready to pull from the water today and mechanic scheduled Wed to winterize. We had our last wine cruise of the season last night.
Banks - yes I was able to view the video! Old Guys Rule!
I will be at York, but I have booth duty this fall. Just two of us will be there. Mike Reagan and me. Shop is really busy.
8n - nailed it!
Phish - ahhh steam!
Regards, Roy
Good morning,
Still hot, calling for rain tonight and a cool down. Been having issues with my guts, thanks to tons of sinus drainage into my lower tract. Sneezing and wheezing to.
Marty, I also have two sets of the SF ABBAs but mine are of the 218 O27 vintage.
Banks It works now. Yes at least a year to adjust to retirement. Now after 9 years I can sleep till 8:00am without a problem. 8N, you will adjust.
28 Years ago, today was the F5 Plainfield tornado. 8-28-1990, 3:34pm, 29 dead 500+ injured over 1,000 homes lost. What a mess that was for about a year.
Hot and humid. Finished all outside chores. Wet with sweat. Cool and shower. Errands to run.
Have a good one.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Phish...I am able to save all of the wood framework from my layout. It was all screwed together and easy to take apart. The L girders will be used again. I may modify the legs so the layout is higher. I will also eliminate some bracing and use gussets to stiffen. It makes it easier to access the layout. All my future wiring will be installed on the front of the layout, too.
In the September issue of CTT, page 66, there is an article about constructing bridge abutments. Actualy the author contructed an abutment and two wing walls for each end of the bridge. He made it more difficult by constructing them as one piece, too.
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
A long long long dry spell came to an end tonight. "My" soccer boys finally won a game 4-2. First win since 2013, which now that I think about it was the last year AJ's team won a race. Hmmm. Any way, the boys played their hearts out and were richly rewarded. Work was busy and the weather was hot. I hope everyone has a good day.
More of the same today. Same weather, 24 hours later. Looks like some relief tomorrow.
Thought I'd share this purchase from last week. Always wanted it and finally got one.
Morning gang!
Another warm hoomid day and 90...
Got the boat outta the water yesterday and prepped for the mechanic today to winterize it. It was nice and flat on the water last night so ms and I took a 2 hour waverunner ride. Nice!
Marty - those Lionel berks are really nice runners and fun to watch!
MikeC - congrats on the boys win!
Dennis - good luck on finding a new dog. We miss our pup, but traveling a bit, it is so expensive in Dallas area to board a dog, so we enjoy our daughters dog occasionally when we need a "fix".
Mornin' FellasWell finally some movement on the Pittsburgh house project! Hope to have it started next week, and finished the week after, maybe the week after that at the latest... depends on if I have to go up to do work. As soon as that is done, the house goes on the market!Banks - nice run! The bike still has some get-up-and-go!Not sure I'll be able to make York in October... got a lot going on and may need to use the vacation day for something a little more productive.
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Brent - congrats on getting the Pitt house issue off dead center!!!
Almost all gone....
Before
Howdy. Been down east for lunch. Hunting thingy. Then back to Charter School that had some car pool problems yesterday. Hard headed parents that didn't follow rules. They got calls from Principal last night. All went well today.
Now to cool off at office at Town Hall.
Hope all OK.
Hello everyone, just checking in. I have been doing physical therapy for the last two weeks for arthritis in my knees. Will see the orthopaedic doctor tomorrow. I have made some progress but it is slow. Been eating out with friends a lot lately. Went to Chile's, a local bar and restaurant. Had something called Marguerita chicken. It was pretty good with three nice slices of chicken breast in some kind of sauce atop some tortilla chips finely cut and black beans. They must have slipped a chile pepper in there because it was hot! The dish was good though and I cleaned my plate. Tried running some trains a couple of days this week but still too hot in the garage. See you later,
Ray
SPMan
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 68 along the Patterson Creek cut-off; later. Wifey and I had a fun evening with our engineer and his Mrs at their home. He has a huge man-cave bar, that is filled to the brim with Beano trains (all scales) and railroadiana. After a couple , he uncovered his marimba, and we jammed with him on the bones, and me on the uke. It was a good time.
Another typ warm/hot August day!
Boat is stored for the season. All cleaned up, covered, and in the garage. Will pull the wacerunners Mon afternoon. Sigh - big part of summer comes to a close...
Fife, Chief - glad you guys had fun at your respective friends events! Chicken gizzards, fried, yum!
Ray - great to hear from you!
Sun and 70s today then slowly rising into the 80s day by day, no rain. The lawn looks like straw. Roy I feel sad that summer is over so soon. I hate those six week winter months.
Our D3R club has hit a double. Two members have had articles published recently. Norm C. in OGR and Bob Shaw's Moonglow RR in CTT. The Moonglow pics were taken by our club member and CTT forum member Charlie.
Surgery on my right hand tomorrow means I'll be doing things left handed for awhile...
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
Hello there, crashed last night before posting.
Thanks for the comments on the race. Mrs tongue in cheek asked how I'd do if I still weighed 120 pounds as I did back then.
Spent the last couple of days farming. Two more fields and hay will be done. Oats was destoyed by too much rain but a bunch of weeds sprouted. Gonna cut and bale them to get rid of them before they go to seed.
Mrs and I enjoyed a night out last evening to celebrate her 62nd Bday
best get on with the day.
wrmcclellan Brent - congrats on getting the Pitt house issue off dead center!!!
Rain came. Was supposed to cool off but still is sticky and hot. Maybe later. I see Eric from Eric's Trains will be doing some reviews for CTT. That's a win. Eric is good at that stuff. Have a good day gents.
Lion where in general in Pittsburgh are you located. I'm not sure any area is safe from theft when tools are in the mix.
Busy day. HOAX call to HS this afternoon made an interesting afternoon.
Happy birthday Mr.s Banks.
Fair day today. Cool so I did the clean up on that down dead 10" Diameter Ash tree, cut and split some more wood from the pile, cut the grass in front and around the shed, stained the mail box support and now it is beer time.
Happy birthday to your wife Banks, when were you 120#?? I was 126# when I went to work for Cat @ 20 years old,,, now 194 # @ 66 years old.
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