Hello: I've been attempting to sign on to the forum for several days without any success. (Must be my ancient computer and/or skills.)
Today, thanks to the Customer Service Department, I am once again "live".
Here's wishing all of you and yours, A Very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.
wrmcclellan Hey Kev! Bob has been doing some free lance part time stuff as I understand it.
Hey Kev!
Bob has been doing some free lance part time stuff as I understand it.
Tks Roy!
Good for Bob!!!!!
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good evening all,
Got month and year end done without much hassle. Pain two tried to be a nuisance, but I just ignored her. Good weather for a walk today. Watched "Ernest Saves Christmas"....again. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Another gloomy day. Current temp is 31 degrees.
My favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation.
CTT going to drop an annual issue, sad to see it going down hill, at one time it was a great magazine.
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
54 and SUNNY. 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
Evening folks,
Nice day today. Warm 60 and sunny.
Took a bunch of books from the office cleanup to a place here called Half-Priced Books. They buy used books and recycle books they cannot easily sell. Anyway I got $25 for a handful of books, a complete surprise. A lady in front of me got an offer for $0.75. I have a lot of technical and older Motor and Chiltin's car repair books. Apparently these types of books are popular resells.
Had a nice tour of a possible wedding venue for the daughter. It is a company that buys large unique homes that are on large properties and they turn them into wedding venues. They own 16 with 11 in Texas. This home had a 2 lane bowling alley and racket all court in the basement. The garage under the house was larger than my current home. Built like a French country mansion. 38,000 sq ft. The original owners built the place and only lived there 3 months.
DJ -
Dennis - safe travels to Oregon and Merry Christmas if we do not hear from you after the holiday.
Chief - yep, they are buttering up hiz honor!
Regards, Roy
Good evening all, I have been AWOL quite a bit lately so I am trying to check in. I am behind on all the news so can't comment on that right now. I am as ready for Christmas as I'm going to be for a single person living alone. My #2 son came over to day and did some heavy house work to help me clean the house for Christmas. The kids are bringing Christmas dinner with them so I won't have to do any work. I actually got some trains running this week for a change. Resurected a couple of MTH proto 2 steamers and got them going again. N&W J and NYC Hudson. Did some track cleaning and need to do more. A friend loaned me a track cleaning car with big rollers that you soak with denatured alcohol. I hope to gradually put all my engines back in service over time. I need to replace a lot of traction tires which rotted out from no use. Maybe the shop in Burbank has some. My DIL has come down with some kind of skin problem on her legs and has been going to dermatoligist. It is some kind of bacteria and the first meds they tried didn't work so now they are taking the shotgun approach with a new one that kills everything. If that doesn't work she will have to go to the hospital. She has been having a lot of pain lately with it. Hope she can rally for Christmas. She thinks she got this problem from wearing some kind of stockings that gave her a reaction. It's always something. Not much time left for the big day but hope you all are enjoying the season. I enjoy the Christmas music on the radio which a couple of stations play all day between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Good night for now.
Ray
SPMan
Busier day than expected. Watched Man U totally wipe the field with Cardiff today 5-1. Picked up stuff in yard. Going to do layout prep tomorrow. I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning folks!Happy Dec 23rd!43 right now with a high of 57. Sunny!Prepping for the sister and BIL arrival tomorrow.All systems GO!DJ - My Hallmark GGI disintegrated for some reason - guess they wanted to simulate zinc pest to be more realistic!
8ntruck - Got your PM - Trains.com website has issues and I cannot reply to your PM (runtime error - whatever that is).
I have had trouble posting Shutterfly images also. When on SF, use the share button and then copy the URL that comes up in the window. Then paste that into the insert photo field.
Frankly I have given up on several of these features. With so many versions of Operating Systems (OS), browsers, and web page software out there I think no one can keep all software operating properly with it all. I continually have trouble with Apples Safari (a joke) and Win10 (better, but not as good as Win7). And every time Apple updates IOS, new issues appear...
We drove to the capitol city this morning to attend the Christmas Sunday service with my nephew and his family The service was a lesson in carols type of pagent with the kids of the church assembling for a living cresh. Our grand nephew (4 years old) was a cow. We told him that his erformance was mooooving.
The minivan gave us a Christmas present - it turned on the check engine light along the way. Stopping at an Auto Zone along the way revealed that the error code probably indicates a thermostat that is stuck open, preventing the engine from coming up to temperature. Makes sense. The light came on not long after we turned off of the two lane and onto the freeway. Something to worry about after Christmas.
Roy - when I select a picture, then hit the share picture, I am not seeing the URL address. All I've been able to do is copy a link to SF, which does copy into the forum. However, I'd rather display the picture directly in the forum, rather than have the other users link to someplace else in the web.
I know I'm missing something that is stupid simple. My tech savy sons are coming to visit soon. Hopefully, one of them can get me sorted out.
All for now.
Good evening all, my DIL stayed home from church today with her skin problem on her legs. My son said she is out of pain but her legs are very red. Don't know what to make of it. Hope she can come on Christmas day. I just stayed home all day today. It has been pretty cool lately and they say maybe a little rain on Christmas day. I am still fighting my crohns disease problem but hope it will calm down by tomorrow. I have been pretty lucky so far and have managed it with medication but it is being stubborn today. Hope you are all well and doing the Christmas thing. Talk later, have a good night.
8n,
After you copy the URL are you using the insert photo (step5) as described in Bob Keller's "How to Post Photos" thread at the top of the main threads page?
Busy today adding more lights and people to the layouts. Just need to get the trains I want on the layouts set up. Standard gauge layout is especially crowded. Weather was ok. Lucas will be home tomorrow. Not much else going on. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hello there,
been working on this post in Memo for a couple of days. I got up to pee and now wide awake. Almost ready. All gifts bought, and wrapped. Still a bit of decorating and cleanup to do. Mrs made tater salad,macaroni salad, pickled eggs and deviled eggs, for Christmas Eve. Later we'll add, ham, kielbasa and Ox roast. The whole clan due here at 5.
The yard is still to soggy for a truck load of coal so I bought another ton for the farm house. Only had enough for a week if it gets cold. Even the Tahoe and trailer left ruts.
Next day I boughti barrel of diesel fuel and added it to the tank at the town house. It was below 1/4 tank and I'll let the oil furnace take care of the heat there til I feel up to it.
Saturday evening we had all 4 grandkids while their folks were out. Went pretty good. The older ones usually pair up with the younger ones so there's usually no troubles.
Roy and 8N.....using Shutter fly the only way I can get inserting a photo to work is to open the photo then right click and select Copy Image. Then go back and paste that into the insert photo url line. I use Firefox on Phone and PC.
Best try to sleep, MERRY CHRISTMAS .
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
49 and sunny.
Merry Christmas to all. Have a happy and safe one.
FINALLY, I am able to log into the forum using the same info as I have used for 14 years! I made three unanswered calls to subscriptions and wrote an email to renew. No response.
Thank you to Roger Carp of CTT for his help. He saw a photo I posted on the forum and wanted to know the story behind it. One thing led to another and he asked me to write my story about the Marx Train set.
The January 2018 issue has another personal connection, too. The story on page 36 concerning the American Model Toys O Gauge stockcars were made in Auburn, Indiana my hometown. One of the attorneys in Auburn has a beautiful collection of AMT trains. A friend of mine has a store south of Auburn and she sometimes has AMT train cars for sale at her antique store.
Roy...Windows 10;
MERRY CHRISTMAS to one and all!!!
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
Not much to do today except try to get a haircut. Will go to church tomorrow instead of the Christmas vigil tonight. They will have a brass quartet playing at the mass tomorrow to enhance the service. I like that.
Don, I didn't know they were doing trains this year at the Nixon Library. Sounds problematic with the shut down.
Merry Christmas to all,
Happy Christmas Eve, to one and all.
After 20 Christmas train excursions (6 in the past 72 hours), FifeClaus is exhausted. I can't sit down without wanting to cat-nap. We had a small landslide Friday night, which added a touch of excitement. The county helped us clean up the track with their Kamatsu. I wanted to mark the event with commemorative t-shirts (tap into the thrill-seeker crowd).
Trains were on a lot of the chidren's want-list, as were LOL dolls, Nintendo Switch, Barbie, Slime, puppies, ponies, Legos. Most memorable request this year came from a young boy who wanted a "suit made of bacon". His parents' stunned reaction confirmed this was way out of left-field.
Speaking of parents, for the most part, they showed a lot of self-control (except Saturday afternoon when there most of been something in the air). Too many try to live through the screens of their i-phones, instead of just watching and experiencing the exchange between child and Santa. Oh well...
Merry Christmas!!
I have wrapped up a Christmas Eve work stint. 8.5 hours, fortunately, at home.
First and foremost, Greetings and Salutations of the season to you, my fellow train-iacs. May Santa (Babbo Natale!) grant you every wish and peace and health rain upon all of us.
We will have 18 attending tomorrows festivities. more will arrive on Wednesday, however, this will be another day of work.
I am exceited to try to get the table up next Saturday in the train attic and I'll have to drive the roadrunner to Delaware on Sunday for temporary storage unless I find something last minute. A friend will house the roadrunner until spring in his enclossed trailer.
The bike is another matter and it is smaller and I might find something sooner. The garage is empty for now, save for the roadrunner, the bike and my rolling tool cart.
Tis appropriate, The Polar Express is on the TV....lol.
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 a Christmas Miracle!!!
I was finally able to log in. I've been trying for weeks!
Merry Christmas and may God bless!
Jim
I'm posting before I lose connection!
Sunny weather today. House is swept. Packages are wrapped for wife. Trains are in place and ready to run. Went to Mass tonight. Not crowded. CTT came today. I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I hope everyone has a good day.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!
Many thanks to all of you in this community for many years of fun conversation!
MERRY Christmas.
Back from Midnight Mass.
Enjoying some meat cheese and crackers to go with my wine before going back to bed.
Had a great time with the kids and grandkids at our annual Christmas Eve get together. Then a nap. We'll see them all again tomorrow evening at daughters house.
Nite all.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to
all.
Off to Grandchildren's house.
Have a great and safe one.
Morning all, Merry Christmas to all, Hope it's a good Christmas for all.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL
Merry Christmas All!!
Going to the daughter's at 2:00 So we will be driving home in the dark but that's okay!
Have a good one.
Merry Christmas.
Was just my wife and I today, so it was a very quiet Christmas today. Dinner was a small rib roast.
It's been snowing on and off most of the day. The inch or so we've gotten has given us a white Christmas. Dog and I walked about 3 miles today. We walk on the Fred Meijer Hartland Trail. It is a rails to trails project of the old B&O right of way in southern Michigan. The woods sure were pretty with the snow falling.
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