Good morning from chilly N Texess!
Rob - we got the plows and salt out and took care of it!
Sunny and will be sunny all day! Blood red wolf moon tonight!
Four cold fronts coming this week! Temps will be cool!
NASCAR is just a month away! Chuck, Daytona!!
Regards, Roy
Morning All!
Like Kev and Buckeye said, I don't think we got more than 4". We do have snow squall warnings though and it's -6 (with wind chill) and dropping!!
Roy - I hope you were able to shovel your snowflakes okay! I'm sure if there was more than 10, the National Guard would have been called in and there would be a state of emergency!!
8N - Interesting you got a call from NS Trains. I know from my retail experience those "courtesy calls" usually were meant as a did we or didn't we send this out? If the customer said "yeah everything's great", then we marked it as shipped. Otherwise, we would send it out. Not to say that's the case with them, but interesting none the less.
Kev - I will at least give Lionel props for stocking most of their replacement parts, unlike their major competitor. You're pretty much up the creek with them if you need something down the road.
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
Buckeye Riveter As predicted it is snowing, but I really will be surprised if we get over 6 inches.
As predicted, we had a N Texess snowmaggeden - I was able to count the flakes on both hands
Woke up to discover that snowmggeden did not arrive last night. Just a dusting of snow on the ground and none of the predicted ice. Temp. of 19 degrees with a wicked wind out of the north, though. Wind chill is probably in single digits. Dog and I only walked about a mile this morning, due to the wind.
Got an e-mail form Nicholas Smith Trains the other day asking how their service on my recent order was. I relpied that it was difficult to tell, as the order has not yet been delivered. No reply form them on that comment yet.
All for now.
Rob...During my trips out west, including a visit with Don Baker, I have been able to see great railroad action.
As predicted it is snowing, but I really will be surprised if we get over 6 inches.
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Good morning all, looking forward to another day of sunshine and a visit from my youngest son. Ran trains a little bit yesterday while in the garage. Went out to breakfast before that with my train buddies as we do on Fridays. Have a good weekend y'all,
Ray
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robmcc Kev - You likely just missed the warranty cut-off. Lionel's warranty covers one year from purchase up to 3 years from manufacture date for NOS product. Nice Mario's is helping you out. I've had good dealings with them. Rob
Kev - You likely just missed the warranty cut-off. Lionel's warranty covers one year from purchase up to 3 years from manufacture date for NOS product. Nice Mario's is helping you out. I've had good dealings with them.
Thanks Rob,I never knew that. Good to know. No wonder there is already parts for it you can't order for it from Lionel.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
All I know Roy is it is 3 years old or at least last catalog was 2016, but new in the box and when I tried to go on line it would not let me regester it as new, just out of warranty???
Buongiorno! (Rob!)
Morning folks from Arctic N Texess - 20-30 mph sustained, 40-45 mph gusts, flurries, and a balmy 35 degrees!
Went out to dinner with neighbor friends last night - as usual had a good time!
The Plano Train Show is this weekend but think I am gonna pass. The gang took the 8 x 24' Lionel modular layout.
Kev - hope you get the loco fixed OK. Are you sure Lionel is not warrantying their new stuff?
Banks - yes, the old Gold Hall prior to the new arena (Toyota, Utz, whatever...Orange Hall) was the manufacturers hall.
The big snow event went as planned,, about 4" is all, but the 35 MPH wind is making her drift up a mess. Will do chili tonight.
Mario said he would swap out that engine after a few e-mails explaining that Lionel won't warranty their own product. So good for him! And lucky he had one left.
Fife, I was thinking the same thing but you can't get a screwdriver on the shell screws on one end without removing the truck and I did not want to open a brand new train and maybe screw up any chance of Warranty if they did change their mind.
Morning. 48 and warming. Rain tonight.
Wood pellets???????
Have a good one.
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robmcc - No shop-bots. If there was, I'd have it push the cart around with Wifey, while I sit in the lounge.
KRM - One drop of Labelle 106 should cure the squeak.
Hello there,
waiting for the hammer to drop. According to the NWS site we are in the 11" area. When I went to bed last night it was 15".
Didn't do the big tractor yesterday so that's todays project.
Roy I did see that about yellow hall. I'm wondering what the plan is. A hall dedicated to HO? On my one trip there in the 80s I never made it to Gold Hall, mainly because I was told it was manufacturers so I wasn't interested.
Best get on with the day. Watch out for the storm.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Morning All! (God Morgen Roy!)
18 and snowing. Still not sure what the total dumping will be. Best guess is 4-6 inches.
Probably end up being a lazy day today. I got groceries yesterday "just in case."
Kev - Sorry to hear. I personally have not had any issues with them. I was happy to hear you decided to get a LC+, so I hope this won't sour your opinion. There was a post with the "other guys" that Lionel decided to take a long MLK weekend so they were closed. So, don't waste your time on Monday either. Maybe Marty or someone else will be able to weigh in.
Fife - When you were getting groceries did you have one of their googly eyed robot helpers following you around? Saw them on the news the other night. Yikes!
Buckeye- Nice trip. I enjoyed watching the Copper Basin videos on Drew's Trackside Adventure. Certainly worth checking out someday.
Marty/Rich - Yeah I tried to watch that catalog video, but it was tough. The kid skipped through all of the good stuff. I can wait until Wednesday.
Good evening all,
Another long day at work. Good thing there is a 3 day weekend. Picked up IRS forms at library today. Preliminary calculations are for a substantial fed refund. Went to a special church program tonight. Stayed awake for most of it. Weather could be "interesting" Saturday. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
We ended up with my wife's parents house a little north and east of Grand Rapids, Mi., so our plan is to summer there. We've got some property a little north and west of Bowling Green, Ky., so once we get something built, we plan to winter there.
Weather reports here are calling forrain tonight, turning to snow tomorrow. Somewhere between 2" and 6" is expected. The school district has canceled all school activities tomorrow. This means we loose another Saturday build day for the robotics team. We were hoping to recover from last week's cancelation tomorrow. We will end up farther behind now.
On the other hand, this will be a real life lession for the kids about unexpected problems and due dates that don't change.
Afternoon all.
8nTruck, where you planning to move to?
Afternoon all. Not much going on here today. Did get wife to do two boxes today Hopefully two more tomorrow. I only have one left here in my room Then maybe I can look at maybe starting a layout in here. First I'm just going to lay track and decide how I want it. It's hopefully only going to be a temp layout but a layout neverless that I can run some trains.
Not much else going on here. Hope all had a good day.
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Put the plow on the Ranger and filled the gas tank but the guessers here are all over the map. I thinks it will most go north of us and maybe 3" to 5" at most then the sub-O temps for Sunday and Monday when we have the kids for MLK day.
The new LionChief Plus engine only needed about an hour of run time for Lionel's quality issues to rear their ugly head. Got a squeeling sound coming from the smoke unit. Any of you have that noisey smoke unit issue? I thought it was part of the sound system at first but then I shut that off. And to add salt in the wound,,,Lionel has no problem leaving you on wait for hours trying to see about service help. They never did answer. The people who sell it just tell you to contact Lionel. So sad-too bad! Sucker!
It is good to be un-plugged 8N.
Time for a or two.
Well I had a long post ready and my palm accidentally brushed the touch pad and "boom" the entire thing was gone.
Finished the loading of the 3rd semi trailer today (6 to 10:30 am) so glad that is done.
Banks - did you see the note in the York flyer about interest in reopening the Yellow Hall for HO dealers and layouts? I know the Gold Hall is under the grandstands - wonder where the Yellow is located? You could contact them and express your interest in buying HO stuff in the Yellow Hall!
8n - congrats on cuttin' the cord!
Waiting on the deep freeze here later tonight - maybe some "snowhizo" flurries.
TGIF! It's the calm before the snohizo. Wifey and I ran to Lowe's for wood pellets and "her" shovel, and Martin's for some groceries and "her" chocolate cupcakes (snow shoveling fuel, I s'pose). Been working from the "home" office this AM (some things just don't need my driving to office to achieve).
First day without rain, so far, this week. Hope it's over. I have things to do outside. We got about 5 inches of rain out of this last one yesterday.
Has been cloudy here for more than a week. Temps have been ranging from the high 20's to about 40, so the foot of snow we got last weekend has melted down to 4 to 6 inches now. Weather guessers say rain starts today, then turns to snow sometime this evening. 2 to 6 inches of the stuff are expected with a high in the teens tomorrow.
I decided not to renew the consulting contract with the company I had last fall, so I'm all the way retired now. That is one more plug pulled out of the community in our preperations to move sometime next year.
Happy Friday.....
Marty - I TRIED to watch that video, um, yeah...omg so unwatchable.....
Looks like snow-ma-geddon here, same as everyone else - 0-12" of snow/rain/ice/fridgid temps on Monday....and if I get 1 word wrong I get told.....I shoulda been a weather guy....lol. Got 2 inches of snow here and south Jersey and most of it's gone because of the rain. Been spritzing most of the morning.
Princess will be off and running to King of Prussia for work next week. Training at a larger store will be better for her career in the long run. This is per her area manager. She's already an assistant Woman's Accessory manager.
Will attempt a hair cut again tonight, blew off drill for some "personal" matters and to prep the Princess for her trip. She leaves early Monday. My FD installation dinner is tomorrow at 6 and will attempt to get as much train layout time in as possible.
That's all from here, will chek 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
Morning. Mild 41 and fairing off from over night shower. Suppose to be warm and pretty today.
Wifey should be landing in NY about now. Suppose to get out of there before the storms starts tomorrow afternoon. Free flight left from being snowed in last year this time.
Buckeye, snow cannon aimed straight up for you. You are in for it.
Goofing off today.
Later.
Just returned from a week in Arizona where we had beautiful sunshine. Interesting to see the long container trains in southern Arizona, but the real gem was the Copper Basin Railway. To model this railroad all you would need is a big hole in the ground and some delapidated buildings.
Ohio Snow Cannon will be tested this Saturday. It has not been calibrated since Chuck's passing. Look out!
Snow guessers are still at it. Anywhere from 3-12. LOL Thats a pretty good guess.
Looks like some hobby shop leaked the Lionel catalog early. Someone posted it on youtube. Maybe Lionel needs a better distribution plan so the cats not out of the bag early. From what I saw BiPolars are big.
Stay safe over the weekend!
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1 to 3 inches Snohio tonight. 3 to 36 inches Saturday into Sunday. All depends on where the rain snow line falls.
Yesterday finally got 7 ton of coal delivered. Ended up dragging the truck out of the yard with the tractor. Ground was frozen but just smeary enough on top for him to spin.
While I was dealing with the coal guy son started to haul manure. On the 2nd load he turned a bit to sharp and caught the tire chain on the tongue bending it pretty bad. Without the chains a rub on the tongue is no problem. So we switched to plan B. Hauling it up the hill in the dump trailer to be spread later. 2 out of 3 loads he needed a pull to get out. On top of that a hydraulic line on the bobcat got out of place ripping a headlight off and making an overall mess.. Not a good day.
Today I got the Christmas lights off the gutter and in the house. One more thing needs to come down and the only thing remaining is the tree and the rest of the inside stuff.
Also spent a couple of hours rearranging equipment to get to the snow plow for the big tractor. It wasn't on last winter and maybe not the year before. Probably put it on tomorrow Dozing here. Later Prayers for those in need
Another busy day at work. My brain pulled a muscle thinking too hard today. Weather allowed me to make it to work. Had to walk inside. Did a few things at home tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hola! Que tal? (Rob )
Partly sunny and almost 60. Very nice out right now. Deep freeze still on for Sat.
Knocked off early again. Everything ready for the loadout into the 3rd semi trailer tomorrow morning. Start at 6 am and should complete by 9:30. Some additional items to load into the company 24' bobtail and we will be done before noon.
My new next door neighbor has a big project going in their backyard. Previous owners let the raised garden beds overgrow to the point of no return. Workers have been back there with a large bobcat and stump grinder for 2 days now. Removing the raised beds and associated stone retaining walls completely. What a rootbound mess! Glad they are doing something about it. They also drained the pool and I suspect it also needs major repair. The previous owner and the new owner let the pump run dry several times and also let the pool/spa heater rot out. Expensive.
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