Morning All!
Up bright(?) and early since my internal clock didn't know the clocks went back. Looks to be a mix of weather today.
Enjoyed the Michigan - PSU football game yesterday! Sorry Brent/Joe!
Those tin buildings you guys are talking about look neat. I like the ranch house even though it looks more like a feed mill. It looks like you could almost run a train through the drive shed(?) at the back, like some of the Menards buildings.
Roy - Great video for that Make-A-Wish boy. Well done TW Trainworx and BNSF!
Don - Nice story about the Vets. I sometimes wonder if the youngin's don't really get it, but then you see a story like that.
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
Northwoods Flyer - I didn't use primer, and I wasn't even thinking there might be some barrier on the tin. I use Krylon brand spray paint, and employ multiple light coverings. As to running/parking a train through the shed portion, I'm not sure. Perhaps ore ginnies would look right. I'm going to load up my floor areas with materials you would find at a forge mill.
Perhaps if someone starts a Sunday Photo Fun (remember them?) I will try to throw a pic of the finished product.
fifedog Northwoods Flyer - I didn't use primer, and I wasn't even thinking there might be some barrier on the tin. I use Krylon brand spray paint, and employ multiple light coverings. As to running/parking a train through the shed portion, I'm not sure. Perhaps ore ginnies would look right. I'm going to load up my floor areas with materials you would find at a forge mill. Perhaps if someone starts a Sunday Photo Fun (remember them?) I will try to throw a pic of the finished product.
Gee you know, you always could
Morning all.
My buildings like fife is talking about will be in Tueday supposedly.
No other train news and just waiting on the closing of the house now ( a couple of inspections also. ) Then we will be owners of a second house. Of coarse this one will get dolled up some and then put on the market for sale.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Only hunted yesterday afternoon. Spike and does.
Dennis, glad you are better.
Have a great week ahead. Busy one for me.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Cloudy and chilly here in the middle of flyover country today.
Spent yesterday running out Polar Express layout and a second layout with three loops of track at the local train show. We were the only two layouts at the show - the HO and N scale layout folks canceled.
As usual, the kids enjoyed making Moe and Joe unload the lumber. The parents and kids enjoyed my demonstrations of the Satelite launching car, the Minueman boxcar and the 6433 missile launching car.
I did buy the M 10000 streamliner set and a couple of other pieces of rolling stock.
Tweaked my back yesterday too, what with all of the standing and bending over the tables and carrying things out to the car during set up and tear down. Moving carefully today.
All for now.
Morning/afternoon all! Welcome back to standard time!
Been busy as it is the wife's bday weekend. We went to the new A Star is Born yesterday. Good show. Bit choppy so it was good I have seen the previous versions. Then we went out for Italian with neighbors and ended up at their house checking progress on their kitchen rebuild. Everything brand new.
NASCAR this afternoon. Texas Motor speedway, fast open high banked track, so could be a boring race if it follows suit to past races there.
Regards, Roy
Afternoon,
8ntruck, Sounds like you had a good time at the train meet. Hopefully the sourness will pass fast.
Roy, Congrats on the birthday weekend, I agree with you, California, Texas, Michigan & Chicago can be boring. Maybe.... Truex and Lagano can make it exciting.
Back to the race.
Don
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Okay, I know this lame but it's the best I can do at this moment...
What are we supposed to see at that link?
Northwoods Flyer
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"The Toy For the Boy"
Right Roy!!
"NASCAR this afternoon. Texas Motor speedway, fast open high banked track, so could be a boring race if it follows suit to past races there." And it was but at least I was happy with the outcome Roy!! My guy Kevin!!! Boy the stands were empty?? Texas Motor speedway is about 4 miles from my friend's place in Denton.
Well I got some of the leaves up and burnt before the rain this afternoon. The biggest load of the year so far about 15 loads, A huge burn pile and you can't tell I did anything already. A darn bird was pecking on the house so I took him out with a birdshot 22LR shell through the 999 pistol. He won't be a bother anymore. Once those things start you can't stop them short of shooting them. I don't know what it is about the cedar they like so much, but they sure do?? They leave the pine alone??
Was wet today but in the 50s so I just kept working in the yard and driveway on leaves till it started to get dark.
Won't be long here and the leaves will be over at this rate.
Put my 1975 Triumph Trident up for sale on a British Trident bike only site, we will see how that goes. If it sells that money will go to a new gator. If not that will be fine to.
That building looks good in that link Fife!
Roy, happy birthday to wifey!!!
Later.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Northwoods Flyer What are we supposed to see at that link? Northwoods Flyer
This:
On a Windows based browser (I use Firefox) do a "right click" with your mouse then select "Copy Image Location" and paste that into the "Source" line of the forum's "Insert/edit image" function.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Thanks Becky. In this photo of my Ashland/Michael's tin factory, it is bracketed by an AF train above, and a Lionel General in front.
Thanks Becky. Great work fife, it looks great.
Northwoods
Good evening all,
Good day. All the kids made it to the Mass this morning and then we all went to Denny's for 40th anniversary dinner. Spent the rest of the day enjoying the family. Ran trains for the grandkids and played some games. Kids and I worked on the yard a little as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
Another rainy day here, one more Mom thing to deal with then more inside stuff.
Saturday and Sunday were both decent days here but the yard is still to squishy. Saturday after a late start Mrs and I undid Halloween and put out a little stuff for Thanksgiving.
Fife.....you missed a good show Sunday. Lots of new vendors. I got 5 Mantua cars in original boxes for $4 each. Saw an AF whistle billboard in rough shape for $5. Put it down and when I went back it was gone.
Phish I thought of you when I saw an ALL Aboard whistle panel. Only piece the guy had. It was marked $45 and loked complete. Over all I spent the biggest end of 2 hours looking and chatting with people I only see every 6 months. Spent the short afternoon doing some long overdue bush trimming.
Best move on
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Hey, quick flyby.....
Philly Toy Run was great, the weather was beutiful for November and the Corp made out as the Grunts were switching out boxes as fast as us "biker" types could fill 'em up. This is always a great ride. Circled past the Art Museum (think Rocky) past Penns Landing and off to the Casino.
Ran by Michaels last night to check out the LeMax offerings and those tinplate structures youse giz have been talking about. Fife, you did a marvelous job on the factory, really looks great!!
Michaels is running a 50% off, like Northwoods said, just nothing I really need right now.
I think I'm going to pass on the Christmas layout for the firehouse, takes to much time and effort and I can't get it down fast enough per the powers that be. It sucks because the kids will suffer and miss it. I was planning on a Polar Express and Blue Comet layout this year. I'll get the train table upstairs to my house and start building my attic layout.
Raining now and 55, a big time contrast to yesterdays beautiful weather.
Running behind on work, the GM tools were locked out, now playing catchup.....oy.
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
Busy day. Home now. Rainy and warm.
Leaves, leaves, and more leaves!! Yesterday I got about 15 sweeper loads before the rain so that helped but by the time I was done you could not tell I did a single sweeper load! So everything was wet today so I did a skim load to see if it would light and it did so about 15 more loads on top of that and now it is starting to rain. Glad I got in what I did. Starting tomorrow the bottom is going to fall out of the weather. Winter is here on The North Bluff!!
Got my last CTT mag and I did like the Menards insert. Otherwise, SOS, I am done with them till they make this site work and safe!!!
Evening all!
Wow, hit 78 today, but cooler tomorrow. Maybe some rain Wed.
Shoulda' added (re Tx Mtr Speedway) that as big and as wide as the track is, it's basically a single lane track. Glad Harvick won. And yes the race was pretty boring and yes the stands were empty for the size of that place.
Fife - that building looks great! Nice job!
anj - after several of your planned runs were rained on/out this year, glad you finally got a nice one in!
It didn't rain today. I wonder why? It always rains.
Met with my basement contractor today to start planning the rooms in the basement. The one room will be designed to look like the inside of an old railroad station. Google Waterloo Amtrak Station and look at the interior photos of what we are attempting. Instead of green, B&O blue hopefully will be used for the trim.
Have a good week.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
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TCA 09-64284
Got a lot of errands done today. Even mulched leaves again before the rain hits again. Area with leaves is actually pretty small so it does not take very long. I know there will be many more passes until they are all down. Also wrote up the post season report for the soccer team and sent a list of suggestions and ideas to all the pertinent people in the soccer community. I hope everyone has a good day. Vote early and often on Tuesday if you are having elections.
Was trying to make it bigger
Mornin' FellasSJ - We have put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this house to make it our own, but with TheVPQ's commute hitting the 1.25 - 1.5 hour mark each way we have to do something. Where we are moving it will reduce her commute to under 45 minutes! While that may not sound like much, it means more time in the evening with the kids. We will have some improvements to make over time, most important will be the trainroom, 2nd office in the basement, hard scaping the backyard (possible pool), and other odds and ends here and there. Just hope this is the last house!Fife - Nice job on that building! Your talents never cease to amaze me.Can't remember what else I was going to post... oh well.
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Mornin' boys. Thanks for the nice comments. I would like to see how our tinplate folks paint these buildings up. So many small industries can be depicted. This must be the year for decorating with tinplate. Yesterday I saw more samples at Cracker Barrel and Kohl's.
Aloha. Grey and rainy. Like Kev references, I am glad to have gotten lots of bags of leaves filled before this wet. There's plenty of leaves still on the trees though. Fife, I love that building - I just saw a series like them in that bare metal finish at World Market (where they were pricey) and Hobby Lobby (where they were not pricey). 8n, I love the M10000. Enjoy that streamliner! Buckeye, that basement plan sounds neat. I look forward to hearing more about your plans.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
We voted I even did a write in vote for Frank Eagles. Dog catcher was filled but there was room in the sanitation dept..:)
Brent we did the same as you fixed up a starter home real nice but as the kids entered the school district it was plain to me it didn't cut it. Turns out I was right.
Windy, some rain and lots of wind today.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Partly cloudy. Fast moving storms coming later today. Voted early so not doing today.
fifedog Mornin' boys. Thanks for the nice comments. I would like to see how our tinplate folks paint these buildings up. So many small industries can be depicted. This must be the year for decorating with tinplate. Yesterday I saw more samples at Cracker Barrel and Kohl's.
Fife went to the link Roy supplied and from when I ordered last week they have reduced the price again.
Went to vote then to Krogers and Aldi's, picked up milk and a spiral ham for Thanksgiving.
Never in the 12 years I have been voting here on the North Bluff have I had to wait to vote till today. Never seen it so crowded especially considering this is a mid-term. I just pray we can get some civility and compassion for each other back in government. Fat chance.
So, been working on the 2019 medical enrollment for wife, Think I am going to buck up and go with the BCBS National plan through Cat even though at $366.00 a month,, and that is $177 a month more than the BS UHC Cat network one. At least they cover something, un-like UHC. They cover way more and that includes 100% covered yearly check-ups and just $20.. to see the doctor without drawing off the deductible . UHC don't pay a dime till your out $800.00 min and many places are dumping and jumping out of that network. BCBS seems to be everywhere. With her breast cancer history she need better health INS than I do. So I will just have to find a way to make it work. They sure make it hard to get older.
The Bucks are moving!!! Sandra saw two 8 points yesterday together in the drive in front of the house pushing a doe and her fawn. Full rut is not far off.
Best get moving. Leaves are falling.
Last day for warm weather. A front hits tomorrow and the pundits claim we will be in the 50's for next 10+ days...10-20 degrees below normal...climate change!
Voted by mail a couple weeks ago. Made several copies!
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