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.
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
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
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.
Morning. 48 and warming. Rain tonight.
Wood pellets???????
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
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.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
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.
Regards, Roy
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???
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.
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
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.
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
SPMan
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.
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
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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.
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
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.
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!!
Mild and cloudy. Turning fair and COLD. Yanks, you can keep your cold air.
Have a great week ahead.
BURRRRRR.
Woke up to 3 degrees here Chief!. Lane was plugged in all the normal places. Cleared it out and should be good now because the wind has died. Got a call from Katie and I got to pick up the kids so they can spend tonight and tomorrow. No school tomorrow for MLK day. Not much else. Will be running trains and watching movies in the basement with the kids.
Kev, wish it was that easy with mine. Three girls into something all the time. Col, not so bad.
Chief, Funny you said that, Wife and I were talking about it this morning. The 8 YO Lexi told her mom she did not want to come over, then she heard I was making beef stew she changed her mind. Wife got upset that she wanted to pass. I told her just be happy. Grandparents only get a small window before the kids grow and have other things they would rather do. Enjoy them when you can. On my son's side we hardly ever see them and now they are 18, 13, & 8. The good times are already past on that side. Their small for such a short time.
Roy with that much snow the entire state of NC would close.
We got about 4 inches of blowing snow yesterday and today we started at 2 degrees that has now soarded to 9, We do have full sun though. Cold again tomorrow.
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
Wow! We've actually seen the sun for short periods for three days in a row now!
Rob - you may be right. The item I ordered from NS trains showed up yesterday. Didn't think to check the ship date on the package against the e-mail I got from them, though. No importante now.
One of Kev's threads has sparked a side conversation about the future of LionChief and Legacy. Interesting discussion. I remember that one of the sales points for Legacy was that it would not make TMCC equipment obsolete. I wonder if the same claim will be made for future developments of LionChief?
The current LionChief is not compatable with TMCC or Legacy. I wonder if that might be a feature added to LionChief in the future?
The cold hard truth is that the electronic components used in the Legacy system will go obsolete, just like the components for TMCC did.
Nothing better to do when it is cold. Run trains!!! Only took a minute for the five year old to get the hang of it. He has a much harder time with the transformer control.
Sorry about the guy doing the video. He has to learn to stand still,,,
The good news is it has run perfect all day???? Seems it has fixed it's self??
The new catalog has some engines called Lionchief 2, they can be operated on TMCC.
from room 303 at UPMC Bedford. I started having some issues last week and by noon yesterday couldn't go at all. Doc met me at the ER and had a hard time getting. things moving so this morning he took me to the OR for a good look and wash out of my bladder. Got lots of stuff out and said I'm healing nicely. Getting out tomorrow as long as things go well. Since we're 40 minutes from home and the nasty stuff hit just as we arrived at the ER the Doc had them put me in a room with a recliner for Mrs.
The roads are good now so she went home this PM since she had no medication with her.
Kev.....good video
8N........if you don't mind where are you located now
Per son we ended up with 9" of snohio with 1/4" of ice on top. It was 32 at home this AM, 10 now with a stiff breeze . He got our young racing friend to help finish getting the big tractor ready to plow snow after I bailed on him yesterday
Started this post this morning but been dozing a good bit. Think I slept maybe an hour last night.
LaterPrayers for those in need.
Good evening all,
Rained a lot Saturday and we got some snow overnight. Did grocery shopping and went to Mass Saturday afternoon. Cousin was having a grandchild baptized after Mass so I stayed for that as well. Shoveled snow twice today. Not terribly bad. Went for first Mini practice run. Did 5.3 miles in 1 hour 31 minutes for a 17 minute 10 second per mile average which is barely fast enough. Going to have to find another place to do the practice as starting at 5 PM Sunday will not cut it. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good evening from a cold 9°F and clear Southern Ohio,
We have the heat lamp and the water heater going for the chickens. It has been a busy weekend. We made a 3 pound batch of venison jerky. Really tasty. I got the foam to put on the train table. Maybe I’ll be able to work on it some this week. The decision on the chipper has been postponed at least for a while but burning brush piles both Friday and Saturday. It rained all day Saturday so the fire felt good. We woke up to a 3” snowfall so that meant cleaning the drive. 2 ½ hours of scraping. Need to get to bed, 0445 comes was too soon.
May God bless you and your family
Jim
Banks - prayers!
Banks...thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery and what ever you do follow the doctors instructions.
Banks - hope all goes well for you. Currently, we are in Sedalia, Mo.
Banks prayers for you man. Hope it's better this time.
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