Moved. It was hard to say good-bye to Roger's Corners. Many train memories.
See you at York.
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
Afternoon FellasMissing York this Friday just doesn't seem natural, but has to be done. We decided not to pull the trigger on building a home with the first builder, met with a realtor who took us to builder #2... had potential till we started digging into the details and found they may not even build the house we wanted... found builder #3 on Sunday and went to visit without TheVPQ as she was on her way to Greensboro for another site visit. Anyhoo... this builder's homes are very impressive and within our range, so meeting tomorrow to review the details. Keeping fingers crossed because this puts us into an awesome school district, more upscale area, and cuts TheVPQ's commute down to 30 - 40 minutes!The house is Pittsburgh continues to get online views, but no showing requests... keeping fingers crossed! Heading up next Wednesday to put the finishing touches on a couple items... hope they make the difference.Kev - Nice wood shed! I may need to build one of those at the next house. Banks - that Tahoe project sounds like a number of my projects! Fife - Need to get out your way for a visit!Roy & other Yorkies - safe travels!
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Sun, but 35 and frost early this morning.
Safe travels to the Yorkies. At the photo shot, say hi to the fellers for me.
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
Morning. Busy day today. Hope all enjoy York.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Mornin' boys. Cloudy and 46 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Had to stop by the yard, on my only day off, to fix the audio system on the train. Lucky we had a spare wire burried in the store room.
SPMan celebrating 82. Youngest Princess celebrating 18. Took her and her boyfriend, along with the newlyweds, to Patrick's for Wings & Yings, then we all carved pumpkins in our dining room (her idea). She adores Halloween. Even had a pumpkin icecream cake.
V8Vega - Follow you heart... Doesn't seem you have any love for CA anyways.
Anjdevil - Can't wait to see the finished product.
Chief - You can walk across the deer here. WV reintroduced elk recently.
Will miss you guys headed to YORK. Have always wanted to meet Northwoods Flyer.
Hi all
Been busy at work and haven't stopped in a while. Looking forward to the York show and getting away from here for a few days! Hope everyone is ahaving a great week so far. I haven't read through the thread so hopefully everyone is doing ok.
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Hello there,
Ray.........HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Today was one of the days when the weather was all over the place. Grass needs cut but it's just to soggy. Thankfully the weather has cooled enough it's not growing much .
Found an adapter and finished the brake project yesterday. Today I did a quick check of everything else. Found the air filter box plum full of grass. Mice must've been looking for higher ground.
Got the camper out of the carport, it has a green tint to it from all the rain. Going to wash it tomorrow and take care of some odds and ends that need attention. The game plan is to pick Mrs up after work Wednesday and head for York.
Roy.......I'll look you up 1st thing when I get there Thursday. Have you heard from John F or Buckeye???
Best try to sleep.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good evening all,
Semi-busy day at work. Will get colder Tuesday. Did errands for wife tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Happy Birthday, Ray!!
Chief - Get there earlier....lol!! There was a doe and 2 fawns in my backyard on Friday. We have deer living behind the house and they are all over. We also have raccoon, opossum, squirrels, birds, vultures are a regular, and fox. Where we live is not rural by any stretch, but we do still have farms and woods close by.Saturday was a small inventory taking day in the train attic.....I found that I have maybe 100 boxcars in and out of boxes, scale and O-27, tank cars about 25-30 the bulk of which are Sunoco tankers, about 100 assorted flat cars, gondolas and hoppers, about 50 engines ( I did run a 8606 NYC that hadn't been run in 15 years, lubed it up and smokes like a champ, runs great, an MTH NYC 0-6-0 smokes and runs and the 2055 RT sold me). Found another 9000 series car, so now I have 6. About 70 caboose, again postwar, MPC and modern, boxed and unboxed. And then I found another box of assorted rolling stock.......at that point I called it a night. I'm positive there is more, I still have 3 more sets (1 is an MTH with LocoSound) which need to over to the front of the attic with the other 4 sets (2 Polar Express, Fire Rescue from 2002, NJT set with add on car, Western Maryland GP38 set, MTH and a Winter Wonderland set). I left my Temple Observation car at Mom's house, totally forgot it, I'll stop by on Wednesday. There is no accessory shortage, I have houses, farms and barns, log loader, bascule bridge, sawmill and a huge assortment of Dept. 56.I probably have more than enough to do a 50 X 50 layout.....
Crazy afternoon already, systems failures and all that. But 10 scans so far....
Back later!
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
Santa Ana winds are howling today and all night last evening. Pool is full of leaves and wind damaged an umbrella I forgot to lower. Strong gust at times. No shingles lost so far. I celebrated my 82nd birthday this weekend. Kids took me out to dinner two days in a row. One gift I got was a plaque showing every type of Atlantic Coast Line EMD locomotive in the silver and purple livery. (My favorite)
Have a good week,
Ray
SPMan
NICE BUCK, Chief!!!
Finished off filling the wood shed. Picked 3 nice 8' stumps of ash from Jim's place to finish it off. That will cover this year and next. The dead ash gives off the least heat but will be the first wood burnt next year so it will work out good. By the time it gets real cold I should be into the Oak. Time for a nap!!!
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Morning. Beautiful day out. Meetings in Raleigh today.
Morning before I got to the stand.
Have a good one.
Nothing to report. Grandkids teams both lost Saturday evening. I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning folks!
Well we have broken the record for annual rainfall and over 2 months left this year. 40" so far and another 3-5 " predicted through Tues night...
60 right now and high in the 40's for Mon and Tues...
8n - I did the same thing with my drug plan - Walgreens - nationwide - has worked well so far. Glad they got that straightened out!
Banks - good luck with the caliper/brake repairs!
Kev - "keeping him at a low pace" - I like that!
I feel so popular! I am gettingcalls from senators, congressmen, Russians, and even one this week from a person in China (I think?)
Talladega today!
Regards, Roy
Acutally saw a little sunshine this morning. Clouded over around lunchtime for the rest of the day. Supposed to be rainy and in the 30's tomorrow.
Got the health insurance fixed Friday. Looks like it was a hiccup between the adminstration company and insurance company. Today's project was with the drug store. We are using a national chain so we can get refills when we travel. Went to get a refill today. The initial response was that the perscription was denied. Some discussion resulted in an agreement for a small emergency supply. Getting more people involved resulted in in a deeper investigation into the drug store's perscription system resulted in discovering that the last time the persctiption was filled was when we were up north. Once that got figured out, all was solved. Only took a little over an hour.
Got a little more work done on the museum layout. Started laying the cork roadbed and got some of the streets painted.
All for now.
Hello there, rain and most of the morning.
Traveled bout an hour to granddaughter's soccer game. She scored one of her team's 7 goals. The other team had 5. Frost predicted tonight .Mrs and I spent a couple of hours bringing in the house plants, repotted a few as needed.
The Tahoe caliper replacement didn't go as smooth as hopped. Cross threaded a brake line on right side. Took some piddeling to get that right. Twisted it off on the other side. Not to bad till I discovered the new brake line didn't match the thread on the antilock module. Hoping to get an adapter tomorrow.
Never did get to hunt early muzzle loader today. Maybe Monday
Best get to sleep.
Good evening,
Well as soon as Katie showed up with Dan,,,,,,I put his a$$ to work, We split all the long oak stumps I had and filled the wood shed last row just shy of full. We humped the logs we could into the splitter than used the grapple to get the rest of the tooo heavy to lift broke in half then split. Was at the wood from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Paced myself but got a he!! of-a-lot done. We need about 1/2 a face to finish it off. Going to look around in the woods for a down Hickory. Man I am tired. Sure goes better with two at it.
Grandson Jordan is doing well, hardest thing is kepping him at a low pace. We watched old VHS tapes from the flood of 1996, I think Dan got a wake up to what bad stuff can be, He was shocked at how fast the water came up and how much it destroyed. I told him next time I will play the tapes from the 1990 tornado so he can know what a bad day is. LOL Had a bonfire with the splinter wood and stuff full of bugs, Watched the bugs run for their lives and did hot chocolate milk. All in all a Great day on the North Bluff!
Good morning folks!.
Been raining since yesterday. Received 2" so far this morning. May get over 4" before the weekend is out according to the weather wonks. 62 right now.
Still going through preps for York trip. Lots to do before gettin on the plane to BWI Tues around noon. Looking forward to it as usual.
Cloudy and 42, 50s for todays high and into next week.
The trees here are just showing signs of fall. We have no trees but the neighbors always share their leaves with us. No burning here, the city picks them up at the curb on garbage day. They have to be in brown paper bags. Same with garden waste.
D3R club meet tonight, I'm ready.
Evening all!
Rained most of the day. 60's. Serious rain for tomorrow! Annnnd, 40's predicted for Mon and Tues ????????????????
8n - your track roadbed, extra ties, ballast sounds great!
Ready to relax for the weekend.
Quiet 3 days. Weather cooler. Posting here becoming more difficult. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hello there, Prayers for those dealing with the aftermath from the storm.
50 with a stiff breeze this AM. 24 degrees cooler than yesterday. At least the mud puddles are drying up.
Surveyor came back today and set some pins.
Rearranged stuff enough to get the Tahoe in the garage to replace the front brake calipers and hoses. Right side was hanging enough to get hot on a short trip. Getting it ready for the trip to York. Prayers for those in need.
fifedog Mornin' boys. Breezy and cool along the Patterson Creek cut-off. All that devastation on the FL panhandle, but the news wants to focus on celebrities at the WH... Before the storm landed, some boat owners were interviewed stating they were going to stay with their vessels. Never. NEVER, stay on a boat during a CAT 3 hurricane. I wonder what became of them. for those in need, and on the mend.
Mornin' boys. Breezy and cool along the Patterson Creek cut-off. All that devastation on the FL panhandle, but the news wants to focus on celebrities at the WH... Before the storm landed, some boat owners were interviewed stating they were going to stay with their vessels. Never. NEVER, stay on a boat during a CAT 3 hurricane. I wonder what became of them.
for those in need, and on the mend.
I was wondering the same thing. He was bragging he was ( at one time ) in the coast guard that he isn't no dummy. Well now I beleive he may be right as now it is was a dummy. But who knows, if they survived, which I hope they did, that she puts her foot so far up his behind that he can taste it.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning,
Your right Roy. We went from summer to winter in a day.
Freeze last night and first fire in the fireplace of the year! 41 right now and that will be as good as it gets today. Rain is on the way. Glad I did about 8 loads of leaves yesterday afternoon. No report on GS Jordan so I figure he is doing fine.
Getting real interested in getting a new Mossburg #50454 Persauder Pump Shotgun .410. I think the wife could handle it well and would be a great starter gun for the kids to learn on. Won't kick their shoulder off.
Fife, for the life of me I can't figure WHY there was even celebrities at the WH with everything else going on??? That storm did some bad stuff in a hurry. WOW!!! Those people will need a lot of help for a long time.
Good Friday Morning!!
Dennis is a Yankee and brother firefighter from North Jersey (I don't hold that against him...lol). He had some trees down and one hit the roof, but he and the fam are A-OK. He checked in on Facebook.
Rain and wind came through here last night, now partly sunny and very windy.
Fife - even I'm not that stupid to be on a boat in even a Cat 1......and this is why we have to go out and look for these people........ NJ Task Force 1 is down there now after being deployed to NC for a while. An elite squad.
Looks like my observation car is in, USPS/FedEx delivered it to the front door. Now to get the BC LionChief Engine next week. LHS is closed for York, which I will not be able to go due to work, etc. April might happen, however.
Garage shopping tomorrow. Gee, can't wait....lol.
Sunny and chilly. Some yard cleanup. Then head east. Back tomorrow night. Will see if the big buck shows and the bear too.
Dennis is a great guy. Yes, he went to York several years ago. We rode together. Great family. We visited a few ago down at his home. Sure kids are growing. Boy is in his teens.
We had only 2.9 inches of rain. Farms, less.
Nice sunny, clear day today. Temperature was not much to bag about, though.
Good visit with the doctor today. She is happy with my blood sugar levels and has cut my blood pressure medicine dose in half.
We've discovered somebody made an 'oops' in the transition between company health coverage and COBRA coverage when I retired. After $2,000 plus in preimium payments, the insurance company is still saying that my coverage ended the last of August, when the company informed them I had retired. The feedback I am getting is that it should be an easy fix. Hopefully a quick one as well - we've got appointments next week that we'd rather not re-schedule. This too shall pass......
Got some work done on the Thomas layout at the museum today. There was another exhibit donated to the museum that required the Thomas layout to get some 18" shorter. I was originally going to use Fastrack, but with the new space constraints, I am going to use O gage tubular track. I've got a 6 amp 16 volt transformer on order to handle the four 022 switches on the layout - the entry level CW type power supply is not up to the task. I'll have to be sure to include proper surge supressors and circuit breakers in the wiring.
We will get the track location finalized tomorrow, then start in with the limited scenery we have planned. Hopefully, we will get it completed for the kid's program scheduled for a week from Saturday.
Any comments pro or con about cork roadbed, ballast, and extra ties for a tubular layout?
About all for now.
Evening gang!
71 right now, but the day started at 55! Nice! Unfortunately the weather turns to rainy for the next 5 or more days - but temps stay cool and below normal.
Kev - thats gettin pretty cold already! Glad the GS is doing OK! Prayers for his recovery.
Chief, thanks for the report on Dennis. Great guy. He made it to York a few years back.
Ray - nice about the recognition they gave your brother!
Banks - ready for York!?
Anj - good news about the new meds!
Good morning all,
Chief, I was wondering how much rain you got out of the storm. Just read your post. I have a sister in the lower part of Fl. but don't think they had any damage.
My brother who passed away recently got a good write up on the Sports page of the Virginian Pilot about his fishing exploits. He had many awards and recognition for his knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay fishery. I will miss him terribly.
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