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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:54 PM
hey guys it's quiet too quiet.....
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Posted by danrunner on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:05 PM
    MTL,  Demon 09,

Nice Pics.  Love to see actual layouts as mine is in mothballs.  Demon,   you say yours is a bit too Toy-ish,  but I like it.  Layouts are supposed to be fun, and each one is a learning experience for the next one.  I'm  all toy trains all the time,  so your layout is cool to me.  Worry about a prototypical layout when you have the cash and a lot more room.  You're running trains and having fun.

MTL,  get with the program...I wanna see a massive layout done by Christmas/Hannukah.  (just joking)

BOTH are WAY better than mine--two 4x8 homosote platforms without trains or scenery.  BUT that may change VERY soon.  I'll keep you posted.  PS My Steelers are in a funk and I'm bummed to the max.  Demon 09-the Bears guy- you must be smiling like a butcher's dog.  Those Bears look good.

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Posted by Demon09 on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:39 PM

"Layouts are supposed to be fun, and each one is a learning experience for the next one.  I'm  all toy trains all the time,  so your layout is cool to me.  Worry about a prototypical layout when you have the cash and a lot more room.  You're running trains and having fun."

 

My feelings exactly.  Its what I have the time and money for, so it is what it is-- fun!

Very excited about the Bears.  The disappointing thing though is that I still have never been to a game, and now the ticket prices are skyrocketing.  My brother's girlfriend works for a ticket broker though, so perhaps she will have extras along the way Big Smile [:D]... Aside from that though, there is a kind of energy in Chicago that hasn't really been collectively felt since the '85 team, as far as the Bears are concerned at least.  Let's hope we don't get let down again like we did with that playoff game last year.

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Posted by RR Redneck on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:57 PM

Football really aint my thing, lets keep it to trains.

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Posted by Demon09 on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:08 PM

Sorry to hear you aren't interested, but to be completely honest, we all use the forum.  If you aren't interested in something, you can introduce your own topics and just skip over the football ones. 

We talk trains most of the time, but we talk about other things in life sometimes too.  Since the forum was slow lately, Dan brought up football to start converation. This part of the forum was meant to be like the "Coffee Pot" topic that the older users started-- you can go read some of their topics.  Almost none of those are about trains either; This was started for people who like trains to talk to one another, not necessarily always about trains either.

And just to clear up any misunderstandings, I am really not saying this to be mean or to attack anyone, so please don't take it that way.  This is just the way I have always understood this forum, and plan to use it that way too. 

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Posted by danrunner on Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:14 AM
 RRRedneck,
Check the first entry to this thread.  It's for shooting the breeze about many topics.  I'd be bored to death here if I never got to know a little about everyone.  The fact that you're not a football guy but seem to like guns tells me something about you I wouldn't have known.  Relax, enjoy, and engage in some polite discussion.  You'll be well-served by learning how to talk to others with different interests.  Sometimes I bite my tongue because i disagree with someone about something...esp politics, but I find satisfaction in carrying on conversations with people 12-70+ years old.

PS  Take a look at the number of hits this thread gets...we're doing something right.

PPS  Demon,  I picked-up on your ballast quieting your tubular comment.  It makes sense.  Is your ballast packed-down and glued or just sprinkled on?


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Posted by RR Redneck on Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:07 AM

I glue my ballast.

Well I live in a small town in south Texas. I march in my high school's band. I am an avid hunter. In fact I went hunting Monday. I have been a train nut since I could say the word, but I could probably tell you more about firearms than I could trains any day.

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:09 AM
 danrunner wrote:
    MTL,

MTL,  get with the program...I wanna see a massive layout done by Christmas/Hannukah.  (just joking)


Dan




well there's a funny story about that dan.. hehehe? I am working on a town area for my layout first of it's kind for me.    I have pics but they still need to be developed.
and is good to hear from you Dan. How goes the moving?
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Posted by Demon09 on Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:08 PM
Dan,

Right now it is just sprinkled on.  Later on I plan on changing my track plans when I get the time and money, so this way I can just scrape it up into a bucket and have it to reuse.
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Posted by RR Redneck on Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:16 PM
Sounds like a good plan to me.

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Posted by danrunner on Friday, October 13, 2006 3:39 PM
    MTL, Still haven't moved yet.  We're looking at houses and have people interested in ours...but it is a long process.  Ohio is horrible about medical licenses.  They take  two to three time longer than other normal states to process.  My wife had her Indiana license in four weeks.  Ohio is going on three months and we've had it up to here with it.  She passed her national medical board exam in San Diego and is now a board-certified doctor--that means she's considered an expert in her field.  Now just tell that to the numbskulls on the Ohio Medical Board that require more forms for prcaticing medicine than the feds require  for operating a nuclear reactor and more  referrals in triplicate than something out of a bad movie skit.

RRRedneck, I'm a skeet/trap shooting kind of guy, but I rent the shotguns.  I'd love a beretta over/under w/ a ported barrel,  but all I have is  Remington 870 pump w/ an additional slug barrel  and a SW .357 stainless revolver.  I only shoot .38 special cartridges out of it, but will buy some of the bigger bullets when I go to a range. I just picked up a cowboy special,  a Marlin 30-30 repeating rifle for a little fun when I get a chance,  but my life is too crazy right now. 

If we can ever settle down and stay in one place for a while,  I can start playing with the toys I already have.

Demon, I hope all is well in Chi-town,  I'll be invisible from the site for a couple of days, I think, but will be checking back to say howdy ASAP. Keep up the good work.  WE ALWAYS NEED MORE GOOD TEACHERS.

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:39 AM
come to Maine if you get tired of the midwest and west. though up here you have to watch out for taxes... heavy taxes.
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Posted by RR Redneck on Monday, October 16, 2006 7:15 AM
The Marlins are good, but you should get you a Winchester. If you can get your hands on one, you got yourself a real treasure. I have an Remington 870 in 16 guage pump action. I am a surgeon with that thing.

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:03 PM
not even a trained surgeon can do the kind of surgery eric does.
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Posted by RR Redneck on Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:07 PM

What happens in the operating room stays in the operating room. Evil [}:)]

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Friday, October 20, 2006 2:55 PM
WARNING!!!!!!

         MAD RAILROAD DISEASE

Highly Contagious To Males Of ALL Ages!!

 

The Symptoms: The afficted becomes confiused and agitated when not near any type of railroad. Will wander around dazed and disoriented, mumbling odd words like: run-bys, coal tipple, and crossovers. Often accused of not listening to wife. At the sight of a railroad, common behavior includes hyperness, sweating, and occasional hooting and hollering. THIS IS NORMAL DO NOT BE ALARMED!!

            This Maddness is NOT fatal.

(exept to people who think trains are gay, stupid, only for small children, and to people who make fun of you at school/work of having this disease)

 

Cure (or something that keeps the infected person at ease)

Hospitalization is NOT NESSARY!! The affected must be surrounded by items of railroad interest. Should be encouraged to spend time sharing ideams other sufferers and Railroad fans. Train chasing and photography shoots will help. Incase of emergency contact your nearest train club or have to affected spend a weekend at local train yard.

 

This has been a public anouncement.

share this with other affected people!!

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Posted by RR Redneck on Friday, October 20, 2006 11:35 PM

This is a very serious disease that should be spread throughout the population. Operation: Rerailer is under way!Evil [}:)]Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by danrunner on Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:57 PM

MTL, Redneck,

 

Your replies really abot railroad disease cheered me up today.  My college football team got crushed and I needed a smile.  My train sickness is one of the few things that keeps me sane.  You guys keep up the good work and keep me smiling.

 

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Posted by RR Redneck on Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:02 PM

Good to know that my stupidity actually does some good around here. 

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:33 PM
hey!! THAT WAS MY LINE!!
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Posted by RR Redneck on Sunday, October 22, 2006 12:57 AM
So sue me.

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Posted by Demon09 on Sunday, October 22, 2006 4:25 PM
Hey Dan,

Who was your college team? I missed most of the games on Saturday because I went out of town to visit friends at Northern Illinois University....

The only games I was able to catch were the Texas Nebraska game, and portions of the ND game.

Can't wait for the Bears bye week to pass so I can get excited about an NFL game like I usually am....
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Posted by RR Redneck on Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:08 PM
GO LONGHORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOK'EM HORNS!!!!! While I am at it, HOW 'BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!!

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Posted by Demon09 on Sunday, October 22, 2006 9:44 PM
My brother is a longhorns fan.... that was one hell of a game on Saturday.....

I missed the Cowboys game though...
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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Monday, October 23, 2006 7:07 AM
I'll sue you later today
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Posted by RR Redneck on Monday, October 23, 2006 7:15 AM
I got UP's lawyers! What then?

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Monday, October 23, 2006 2:00 PM
Railroad Adminastration lawyers!! beat that!
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Posted by danrunner on Monday, October 23, 2006 3:26 PM
    Demon,

I'm a PITT alum, so I live and die with my Panthers.  I did a master's at Duquesne, but they're division II or III football and I don't follow them.  As a Pittsburgh native, I'm a Steelers fan as well, so this last weekend only got worse as it went on.  On balance, though, I guess I can't complain.  For a small major city, Pittsburgh has its share of titles--except baseball, which we've given up on long ago.  Though they have quite a few world series titles, but none since 1980.

Hello to all.

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Posted by RR Redneck on Monday, October 23, 2006 4:32 PM

 ModelTrainLover wrote:
Railroad Adminastration lawyers!! beat that!

Yo mama's lawyers LOL.

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:56 PM
BIG BOYS!!!! 4-8-8-4 HA I win!~!
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