Got it Roy, just thought I would ask.
I Ordered it last night. Delivered from Mario's trains. It was $66.00 off list.
http://www.lionel.com/…/bnsf-lionchieftm-plus-gp20-diesel-2…
Been wanting to try out the LionChief Plus stuff.
Won't tell her,,, Till it shows!
Well the snow has ended and we got just about 5" over all. It was lite and drifting so I needed to plow with the Ranger several times to keep the lane open. Several places always drift shut. Today it is just above freezing so it should crust over and I can remove the plow. Sure is nicer plowing in a heated cab than on an open tractor.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good afternoon from an overcast and snowey 35*F Southern Ohio,
I'm home from Masses and the family is on their way. It is snowing like crazy but too warm to stick. I picked up 15 pounds of salt to start the tanning process on the deer hide. This should be interesting. It starts with scraping off all the fat and flesh, the salt to dry the hide.
Kev - Maybe it will be delivered when she is not home.
Roy - Thanks for the tip, now to decide to pay photobucket $$$ or switch
Got to go
May Go, may God bless
Jim
Evening all.
Well about a month ago or so I went over to the dark side ( for me anyway) and bought not one but two MTH train-sets with Pennsylvania 6-8-6 turbines in them, one freight and one passenger. Well after buying 2 BCR's for them and replacing the connector for the BCR in one, and finally being able to get to one of my zw's I was able to test them. at first the one had no sound, but I figured it out, theres a tiny volume control on bottom of tender. Sound wasn't really a concern to me, as much as they worked. I got them cheap enough thou that I wouldn't mind putting the money out for TMCC through Electric Rail Road if I had to. So end results so far I'm happy but only running them on a 9' section of track on one of the shelves.
Otherwise today was a slow but peaceful day. Not much else to report. Hope all had a good day
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88 - Condolancws for your loss.
Kev - I've still got a '57 Chevy I bought when I was 18. That also generated the purchase of a bunch of tools as well. Your Ranger with a snow plow is indeed a luxery - seems the coldest place I remember being is on the seat of an 8N while plowing snow with a grader blade.
Woke up to about 12" of snow on the deck and about 8" of snow in the yard. Got another 3 or 4 inches on top of that on Saturday. Spent a big chunk of yesterday and today digging the cars and driveway out. Still need to dig out the alley to be able to get the wife's minivan to the street.
The MKT NW2 with LionChief+ showed up this week. Looks good on the initial take it out of the box inspection. Have not had a chance to run it yet.
We spent last Tuesday with the medical industry. My wife had a doctor appointment with a specialest, who sent her to two labs and ordered a CT scan. Good news, the doctor has scheduled her for an out patient proceedure in the near future to treat her symptom, but is still trying to figure out what caused it.
About all for now.
Hello there,
depending on which guesser between 1 and 12 inches was predicted. We ended up with 2 inches of fluffy snow. Plowed the Lutheran parking lot before going to 7AM Mass. Son can deal with the rest later. It was supposed to Snohio another couple of inches but it didn't happen.
Spent the rest of the day on shopping, dinner at Texas Roadhouse, a visit with Mom, watching the 254E circle the tree and a nap. Slowly but surely improving and experiencing what I was told to expect.
Spent a couple hours yesterday helping son and cousin grind cow feed. I ran the lever to fill the bags. Took longer than expected because the mixer broke and had to afro engineer a repair.
Fife.....found out this AM the Altoona Train Show is March 10. March 9 Mrs and I have Tickets to see the Oak Ridge Boys and a room reservation in Lancaster PA so I'll be missing it. We'll miss each other again . You going to make York?
Now helping(watching) Mrs put together an 18 quart roaster of veggie soup. No recipe other than some beef(slow cooked all day), at least 9 different veggies, cook overnight and season to taste. Best get ready for bed.Prayers for those in need.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good evening all,
Field house was closed due to weather so no Mini practice. Shoveled walks again. Got Christmas tree put up and helped wife take down her Christmas village. Watched Man U. beat Tottenham 1-0. Started working on a Lionel puzzle I got for Christmas. Commute will be interesting tomorrow if roads freeze over. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Morning all
Snowed about 2" and the weather guys called it significant? Already scaring folks for next weekend with "large numbers". I guess they get paid to create a crisis so that you'll watch.
Anyways I hope everyone has a great week. Got to repair a ZW over the weekend. New terminals and cord. These things are built like tanks.
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32 and cloudy. We did not get any of the bad stuff. Lucky. Disconnecting this computer. Replacing this old computer. Have a good one.
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Mornin' FellasThanks for the kind words for my aunt. Unfortunately I just can't go. The kids have school tomorrow and I don't want to take the out. Mom and Dad can't stay here because we're 2+ hours from where the funeral will be and with all the snow between them and here and between here and Eastern PA it is just not doable. We've talked through all the options and none work out... sucks.The house in Pittsburgh has a full basement, not a crawl space. There are some who finish them, but mine is not. The ceiling would be very low due to utilities being run under the floor joists and not through them. Had thought of redoing the wiring and plumbing so the runs that go perpendicular to the joists would all run to either the front or back wall or to the beam in the center of the house... but that would be a major expense and just not worth it.
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Day started out very cold, no sun and will stay that way. Snow melted just enough yesterday that no more drifting so I took off the plow.
8N, yep, no place colder than the seat of a tractor pushing snow.
Fessed up and told wifey there is a package coming and showed her the video of the LionChief Plus GP20.
My cousin lost her 41 year old son to a fall one week ago today. He lived in Florida, His brother lives in CA and sister in Tenn. Took this long to arrange things and get him back to IL. My cousin lives about 2.5 hours south of us and they just got a heck of a snow. Not sure if we will be able to make it down there for the service, day after tomorrow? I have never even seen her children. All of us cousins lost touch after Grand-pa died in 1968. Sad how things like that can happen to a family. As kids we were very close because of grandmother and grandfather. Then everyone just blew in the wind and lived their lives.
Kev I know what you mean about cousins. On my mothers side there are 4 of us left from the family we grew up with. My dads side, they all disappeared. I know of some deaths, others I have no idea if their dead or alive.
it's 32 degrees without snow but the weekend could bring winter if the guessers are right.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Guten Abend! (Rob!)
Some sun finally. 50. 35 tonight. Warm up this week to almost 70 and back to 20's for next weekend. Why is it always the weekend? Argh!Busy day today on the Ronald McDonald Trains at Northpark Mall tear down. Less than 10 larger buildings to pack. The ticket office, the along the wall modular layouts in the front and side are completely disassembled along with all the slat walls (train shelves). The first semi/53 ft trailer shows up at 6 am tomorrow. We are ready to roll it out and load. The last modular along the walls is partially disassembled and once the trailer is loaded we will disassemble the free standing portion of the layout that is in the station (NYC area, New England area, Mt Rushmore area, and Wash DC area). Next truck shows up Wed dark thirty and the last truck Fri dark thirty.
Same as you guys re the cousins. We are all over the country so meetings are rare. But when we do get together is is old home week, like we last saw each other yesterday. And a lot of adult beverages are consummed.
Regards, Roy
Semi busy day at work. Weather was sunny for walk. Roads were dry for drive in and back home. Worked on puzzle tonight. Never doing anything over 300 pieces again. Too d--- frustrating. Just not fun. I know what you mean about cousins. After the grandparents were gone, hardly ever see any again. Two on my mom's side I see only because they are in town. Keep more in touch with wife's side than my own. Go figure. I hope everyone has a good day.
Setting up new computer. Need Brent's help. Later
Just below freezing and cloudy today. Got out for breakfast and got some errends done. One of the errends was a visit to Menards. Of course I walked through the train asile on the way out of the store. Picked up a UP Grand Canyon route boxcar. Just enough room in the 20% off bag for it to fit
Took the dog on a walk down the KATY Trail. Most of the way, we were the first to walk it since the big snowfall last Saturday. Wore me out. I think that the dog thought it was great fun. The snow canceled the robot team's Saturday and Monday build time. Starting out the build season two days behind - going to be a challange to catch up.
The layout in the article on page 59 in the Feb. 2019 CTT issue looks interesting. I'm trying to work out how the curved track crosses the two straight tracks down the middle of the layout under the mountain - page 60, dotted lines between the oil derik and house on the hillside. Both of the crossings shown are not at the any of the standard cross over angles that are available. Can't be a over/under situation, as the picture on page 58 clearly shows all four tracks enter the tunnels at the same level.
Some weather patterns moving in this week. Nothing that anyone can pin point. Looking forward to getting a little inventory done this week.
Bought a dog camera and realized my dogs are lazy. LOL! Then I watched the doggy diary and realized after my workouts so am I. Time to do something even for an hour or so.
Stay safe today. I really wish there was a way to upload pictures directly here.
ChiefEagles Setting up new computer. Need Brent's help. Later
Mornin' boys. Cloudy and 21 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. We received 6" of snohizo this weekend. The ladies built a snowman out back, and FifeMax has yet to "contribute" to it.
Spent all day at the RR business office yesterday. Lots of projects in the works.
Banks - I want to attend the Blair County show. YORK is not on my calendar this year. The next time you come to Cumberland, should be available for a visit.
The weather guessers are ate it again.....we "could" get 3 feet or more this weekend...........depending on which way 3 different weather systems interact.
RE cousins. I've got a bunch, back in the day I was really tight with one uncles 3 boys. The middle was my age. Now the youngest is dead and I rarely see the other 2 even though they are only a couple of miles away. One of them I go out of my way to avoid, we've had some issues. There are a couple of others that I keep in touch with.
Best get on with the day.
Prayers for those in need
Thanks Brent. Little things that my guy can fix. Didn't reload emails over a week old. Had a few important ones saved. Got to get Wifey's email setup. Not his fault. She can't remember her password for Spectrum account. Hasn't used it in years.
38 and cloudy. Not suppose to rain.
Have a good one.
Morning all.
8nTruck I'm wondering if there drawings are off and there actually 2 90 degree cross over.
Not much going on here. Just another day, More boxes to go thru. ( were doing like one maybe two a day, no rush, these are the ones we need to decide how much goes to yardsale and how much gets stuck in some cabinet as just can't do without but no room to display lol. )
Hope to start building a frame for my small layout here in the house ( 56" x 9' . This is actually a temporary until I can close off the garage and make a doorway into it from the house. ( it was a add on at some point but they closed off the window from the house instead of making it a door. into the garage. ) So that's on the list down the road.
Hope all have a good day
Good afternoon from sunny 25°F Southern Ohio,
The deer hide is in the garage scraped and salted. We’ll keep the salt on until the hide dries. At this point we’re waiting.
My OCDness came forward last night as I inventoried what and where stuff is stashed in the truck garage loft. After getting the area floored with OSB and before it got too full I wanted to get a handle on what is/goes up there.
Thinking about getting a chipper/shredder. Our yard produces more limbs and branches than I can keep up burning. Any of you guys have experience with chipper/shredders?
Lunch break over,
May God bless
Sturgeon-Phish Thinking about getting a chipper/shredder. Our yard produces more limbs and branches than I can keep up burning. Any of you guys have experience with chipper/shredders? Jim
Our neighbor has this Jim,
https://www.drpower.com/power-equipment/chippers/chipper-shredders/prompt-for-11-5-cs3-new.axd
Any curves in the branches and they won't fit. and it goes through hammer knives fast and they are big $$$ to replace.
If you have a burn pile your,,,,Better off burning. JMHO
fifedog Mornin' boys. Cloudy and 21 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. We received 6" of snohizo this weekend. The ladies built a snowman out back, and FifeMax has yet to "contribute" to it. Spent all day at the RR business office yesterday. Lots of projects in the works. Banks - I want to attend the Blair County show. YORK is not on my calendar this year. The next time you come to Cumberland, should be available for a visit.
Evenin' folks!
Another gray cold day. We get a quick warm up by Fri (maybe 70) and then the deep freeze hits Sat, 30/20.
York is iffy for me this April. Got a wedding to pay for.
Chief's got a new PC - watch out!
A long grind it out day at work. Weather was dicey on the way in and the way home. Walked indoors at noon. Did get to scrimmage with high school kids for a bit tonight. Wife and I finished the Lionel puzzle I got for Christmas. I hope everyone has a good day.
88 - The Parisian Room (as Tom calls it) is available to you if you want to overnite in Fifedom.
Freezing drizzle on the way in to the plant. Nothing big but it always amazes me how fast people drive when they are reporting issues on the radio.
The weather forecasters still uncertain of the "big winter storm" track. Looking more form the concensus it will track further north so less snow more rain/freezing rain.
Been enjoying watching the pups sleep all day on the dog camera. What a life they have. Toss 'em a treat every now and then.
Mornin' FellasFife - Thanks for the invite. I will check with TheVPQ, that actually may work since it is a Sunday and we should have our house on the market by then. Christina is playing U9 travel soccer again this Spring, so I will probably have to take her to her game and then come up after, but we have time for planning.Sturg - I have found renting a chipper/shredder to be more economical. They take up a load of room in the garage or shed and for the frequency of use it didn't make sense. My Dad got one of those electric chainsaws on a pole, and if I had one of those I would lop the dead stuff off and burn in a pile... some don't have that option depending on where they live though. If you are set on buying one, visit a number of landscaping companies and ask for recommendations.Busy getting small projects knocked out. Decided to work my way down through the house. Starting with MBR and Master Bath paint touch-up, then down to the Sunroom to fix some settling cracks, then to the basement... which is going to be the biggie. The trainroom especially because I need to get a storage unit to move stuff into. Hope to be ready to do that the weekend of Feb 9 as I have a truck rental scheduled... of course weather permitting.
Morning, Gray is all I can say about today, Shopping with wife later for it is SS payday.
My new GP20 BNSF LionChief + shows out for delivery today!!!
Rob,
Just found out that the Tire 4 set that was to ship 10-18 then 11-18, then 1-10-19 is now showing 5-16-19 on Lionel's site. Feb 2nd will be a year ago I first ordered it.
Jim, just get one of these!!!
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