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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:23 AM

 lionroar88 wrote:
Hey Chuck,
I missed breakfast this morning... got any Eggs, Smoked Ham, Home Fries, pancakes, and biscuits?  I'm starving and don't feel like walking 500 feet to the cafeteria... hope my coworker remembers to bring the muffins today! Dinner [dinner]

BIG POT OF GRITS WAITING JUST FOR YOU!!!!!

Morning all.  Got things to do and pack for Baton Rouge.  Just think, tomorrow evening al that crawfish and shrimp. Laugh [(-D]  SEND RAIN [maybe tomorrow they say].  Super water restrictions in effect.  Can't wash cars and use sprinklers nor pressure wash.  Now all business car washes and pressure washers are OK.  Raleigh says, "We don't want to hurt businesses". If water is short, cut them out too.  Chat later.  Have a good day.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:22 AM
Brent I've always been told if there is a lower acually sticker that belongs to the item they have to sell it to you for that price.  I've had a few stores including walmart try to say well theres been a price change and the new price is this or that I have to sell it at that price and I just tell them federal law states you have to sell it at the lower priced marked . They normally back down at that point as they know there wrong and I know the law about it.

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Posted by Jumijo on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:16 AM
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

Indians won last night. Only need one more game to win the ALCS.

Chuck

It ends tomorrow night. Guaranteed. I can't see the Red Sox winning this. All the Boston papers are filled with stories of Boston players showing no mental fortitude in the club house after each loss.  And their best centerfielder sits on the bench watching instead of playing. So tomorrow night in Cleveland, Red Sox Nation turns into Red Sox Elimi-Nation.  Dead [xx(]

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Posted by sir james I on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:52 AM

MORNING ALL,

Overcast 61,maybe 71 by days end but sct.  storms in forecast for tonite and Thur.   I hope the Chief didn't eat that stuff just before bedtime. Afternoons ok but not bedtime.

Brutus- sorry I missed the ice cream and chips, you know my weakness. I checked the "pot"around 9:30 and coffee was old so I went to bed.

Brent-I think it was you, Mich has a price law that if you are charged more than the sticker price, the store has to refund the difference plus pay you a penalty of up to $5.00. Even if the item was less than $5.00. They also have a law that all items are sticker priced. But that one is not enforced unless the state gets lots of complaints.   Maybe some more train running today. Later, Sir James

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Posted by Jumijo on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:38 AM

Brent, that 2020 tender is fixed and runs on our layout behind our 2025. See!

 

 

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:30 AM

Also,

if you just want the .jpg file sent to you, just tell which ones (You can email me if you want to).  Shutterfly has the hi-res pictures which they use when you buy a print from them, but I don't think you can download it from their site.  Just a little compressed one.  Just let me know.  I have a few more to put up on another SD storage card.  They are more of the train itself.

Same thing with the videos.  They are heavily compressed by google.  The originals are very clear.

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:18 AM

WHERE's JOHN, as in JELECTRIC?

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:16 AM

I'm surprised those pictures turned out as well as they did.  I guess it proves that you can get good shots from a point and shoot camera, especially if it has image stabilization.  That is the single best feature to get if you are getting a camera.  Let me know how big you were able to blow up the pictures before pixelization.  Its only a 6.0 Mb camera.

It's amazing how if the wife goes on a diet, we go on a diet.  If my wife was a vegatarian, that would pretty much make me a vegatarian at home...thank goodness we are not!

As for the room, I guess I just wanted to have a theme change and be able to close off the trains from the rest of the house.  Our basement is all burgundy, and pretty dark.  I planned on making the train room light with a lighter paint color on the walls.  I haven't decided yet.  There are definately reasons to leave that room nice and big though...

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:10 AM

 lionroar88 wrote:
Hey Chuck,
I missed breakfast this morning... got any Eggs, Smoked Ham, Home Fries, pancakes, and biscuits?  I'm starving and don't feel like walking 500 feet to the cafeteria... hope my coworker remembers to bring the muffins today! Dinner [dinner]

Wow,  Brent............You sound hungry.  We are having Cherrios and Cupcakes.  The walk will do you good.

Chuck

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:01 AM
Wes,
I didn't know WE (I was informed this morning that I will be using the treadmill after the bathroom is finished) were getting one till Susan had it purchased.  I asked it this meant my B&O E-7s were coming for Christmas... I got hit for that one... Confused [%-)]

Thanks for letting me print some pics!  They are truly amazing... You could make some My 2 cents [2c] selling them for publication.

Sounds awesome on the train room!  Why make two seperate rooms for trains and music?  They go great together...
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Posted by cheapclassics on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:59 AM

Good morning all,

It is foggy in SE Indiana this morning with temps in the 70s today.  Lucas got a C+ for the first nine weeks in Math, which was a pleasant surprise.  I hope he can maintain that for the semester.  I did weights and track at the YMCA, and I was tired.  I see where Helio survived another week on "Dancing with the Stars".   My daughter and grandson are ok, but they accidentally drove down a street yesterday close to where some idiot was firing shots into the air.  The police had most of the streets blocked off, but she stumbled onto the one side street that was not.  Sometimes the angels do guard you.  Dbaker48, I also heard about the other traffic accidents as well.  Seems like those sorts of events happen in waves.  Doug, it is nice to be able to be in the classroom and still post as well.  Chief, you are way too busy, and Brent, good luck with your projects.  I see where the dining car arrived with the usual fare.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:49 AM

Brent,

You can use anything of my pictures that you want, free of charge.  We rented that 3000ft house for the weekend.  Not to shabby...

Also, if I knew you were looking for a treadmill, I would have made you a killer deal on mine.  I purchased it a little more than a year ago and it only has about 30 miles on it...Its a very nice one.  My knees kinda gave out from running too much.

I started removing the devider wall that I currently have in the new train room.  This will open it up to the 11.5 x 21 that I get to try to devide to meet my train and music room needs.  I don't think I really need that whole space for trains.  I would have $25K in it by the time I finish!  I'm going to try to get the wall set after work today, and redo the ceiling, paint, ect.  That way I can get the trains moved and running, then work on the other room.  Wish me luck.
Wes

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:48 AM
Hey Chuck,
I missed breakfast this morning... got any Eggs, Smoked Ham, Home Fries, pancakes, and biscuits?  I'm starving and don't feel like walking 500 feet to the cafeteria... hope my coworker remembers to bring the muffins today! Dinner [dinner]
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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:43 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cloudy 55 degrees. Sun is trying to come out. Going up to 76 today. Maybe a little rain later.

Today is the day that I drive to Cambridge, to do the weekly shopping. We need groceries, and it's nice to eat, so I guess I have to. Gas prices are still high, and I heard that they will go up more. That is not good.

No time for trains today. Wish there was. Maybe tomorrow.

Indians won last night. Only need one more game to win the ALCS.

Dining Car rolled in and it's time for breakfast. Later.

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

Chuck

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:40 AM
 Jumijo wrote:

Good morning from New England. Another nice day out there today, so I'll be walking at lunch time.

Last night was a busy one. Worked late, then buffed out the wife's car's new paint. It shines like a mirror.

Got to look over Brent's train cars after that. It looks to me like the tender's hole was caused by the whistle mechanism striking the shell in a fall. I'm going to start photographing it tonight and hope to document the progress of the restoration as I go along. Just for curiosity, I took a cotton swab and some soapy water and tried cleaning one of the letters, an "A" in Pennsylvania. I accidently removed it. Just kidding. It cleaned up to a bright white from the yellowish tint it had. So the first step is to disassemble and clean. Then start filling the hole somehow.

Jim 



Looks like someone is going to have fun teasing me throughout this whole process!  LOL!  No biggie, I'm a trooper! Smile [:)] Not sure about the fall, but I know I never dropped the tender - I'm too careful with my trains to drop them, only had one derailment that resulted in a 36 fall for the 2020 and tender (tender was shipped to Jim earlier this year, still have not learned its fate) Confused [%-)]...

So last night Susan and I went to WalMart to pick up a dehumidifier to suck out the marrow of life from the water infested plywood underlayment that was nailed and liquid nailed to to the subflooring in the moldy toilet room, that is too small for my fat *** to work in, making demolition take and exorbidantly long time to complete (kind of like this sentence)... while checking out the price rings up as $149.97, I said, 'The price on this sticker says $138.00'... cashier says, 'I can give it to you for that price.'  She punches some numbers and it rings up $124.20... register locks up and she has to call a manager.  The manager comes over and looks it over and starts to rering the entire order, in the meantime some guy walks over and starts talking to the manager, he says, 'That's the price on the shipping label, not the actual price. You can't sell it to them for that, as there could have been a price adjustment.'  Gab, Gab, Gab... he looks at me and asks, 'Where there any other prices marked on the shelf?'  I said, 'No'.  'OK then you can sell it to them for $138.00.'  I said, 'Thanks. If you hadn't I would have left it here, gone home, and called your home office and raised a rucus, and maybe even called the BBB and State Attorny General and had you investigated for price fraud.  That is the only price marked on this item - and the only way all of the items back there are marked, and you are going to try and tell me that isn't the price?  Come on.'  He said, 'Sorry, but that is policy.' Banged Head [banghead] If the thing didn't weight 50 lbs I would have smacked him with it!  (At least it would have made me feel better)...

off to do some work... oh, that's right I forgot my new programming books at home... guess I'll have to find something else to do today... Smile [:)]

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:13 AM

HI GIZ,

  Double nickles here today to get to 72.  Nice and comfy.  2 days till I go to YORK.  Can't wait.  Ran trains again for about 30 minutes last nite, YORK WEEK ya know.

All B safe.

laz57 

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Posted by Jumijo on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:41 AM

Good morning from New England. Another nice day out there today, so I'll be walking at lunch time.

Last night was a busy one. Worked late, then buffed out the wife's car's new paint. It shines like a mirror.

Got to look over Brent's train cars after that. It looks to me like the tender's hole was caused by the whistle mechanism striking the shell in a fall. I'm going to start photographing it tonight and hope to document the progress of the restoration as I go along. Just for curiosity, I took a cotton swab and some soapy water and tried cleaning one of the letters, an "A" in Pennsylvania. I accidently removed it. Just kidding. It cleaned up to a bright white from the yellowish tint it had. So the first step is to disassemble and clean. Then start filling the hole somehow.

Jim 

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:16 AM
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Posted by CSXect on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:11 AM

Sorry to hear of the troubled times on the west coast, foggy here in Columbus no accidents yet.

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Posted by kpolak on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:55 AM

Morning!

Youngest is finally sleeping thru the night!  I'm not.  Brutus how 'bout a little sumpin' sumpin' to get me back to sleep...this is the third time tonight for me.  Old habits.

Wes:  Great photos!  Was that your little shack in the woods we saw?

Chief:  That's a lot of new homes...Did you sneek in the relocation order too?

Slow here the last few days...Rain, cold, humid...Hopefully today will bring better fall weather...and a trip to the zoo!

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Posted by dbaker48 on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:54 PM
 Wes Whitmore wrote:

Here are some pictures of the Durango & Silverton trip:

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AcMXDhq0bNmLyY

WES - Some REALLY great photos, looking forward to see them in CTT. 

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:04 PM
Night all.  Just got in from approving 831 new homes fro Roseyville.  Tired.  Went to get flu shot and then to the State Fair.  Ate polish sausage, hot dog and fries.  Then home to Town Board.  Long meeting.  Later

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Posted by jonadel on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:54 PM
Thanks Wes, brings back some great memories. I'll try and post my favorite pic tomorrow when I'm not so tired. Looks like you had fantastic weather.

Jon

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:45 PM

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 Hello Jim A-  A Battery-powered Fire in a 55 Gallon Drum? O.K. Then, that is what we'll send Fife. Hope the St.Bernard does not give himself a Hernia taking the drum to Fife.Wink [;)]Wink [;)]Clown [:o)]Clown [:o)]Tongue [:P] Take Care.


Someone send Fife a St Bernard!  Fife's lost in the MTs... better change the martini out with beer, martinis are too refined for Fife... Shock [:O]  Include a map and compass too...

Keith and Jim, thanks for the update... yes the 1688 is in rough shape - don't even know if it runs as it was very rusty and dirty and I didn't have time to clean it and test run it... and the drawbar being damaged, felt I would be better waiting for it to be restored before runnig it.  I can't wait to see what they look like when they come back!  Thanks guys!

Don, sorry to hear about the mess out there... hopefully things will calm down some.

Susan treadmill arrived today... she's happy I got it setup.  I had to take a couple hours to relax and step back from the bathroom - I was close to tossing an M-80 in it and just dealing with the aftermath... who ever heard of putting underlayment in with construction adheasive AND nails... all you need is nails... so the toilet room is an even bigger mess than originally thought...

Susan's father's radiation seed procedure is tomorrow... so much for getting any work done at work... hope this takes care of the prostate cancer and he lives a long life...

Got a call when I got home from Susan's Uncle... we are planning a joint b-day party for Susan's Aunt and Susan next Sunday... sounds like I now have another deadline for the bathroom... I just hope I can get it done... maybe I could hire some of those tree guys Chief called...

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:33 PM
 Wes Whitmore wrote:

Here are some pictures of the Durango & Silverton trip:

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AcMXDhq0bNmLyY



Sincere thanks for sharing those Wes!  Truely awesome... would you mind if I had a few printed for my trainroom walls?  I'd be happy to pay you...
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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:18 PM

Here are some pictures of the Durango & Silverton trip:

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AcMXDhq0bNmLyY

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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:41 PM

Sorry, Don - you posted while I was typing.  Too bad about all those killed!

I ran the BFOC earlier - no pile ups on my circle of track!

RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.

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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:39 PM

Don B - that's what I thought too (traveling too much) - hey, I see you guys had a big pile up on another highway this time from a sandstorm!  Man, bad week in CA!  Aside from the 10 days in Baltimore, another 25 days of travel X 2 or more times a year was too much.  Sorry again guys - we'll get together some time.

Jim (SP) My sister is the training coordinator at work (a little nepotism doesn't hurt!), but she doesn't like the traveling either.

Emailing with a buddy and remembered this means that we can put up the halloween layout, so need to get moving on it.  Doug Wallace already has his done!!!! 

Please say some prayers for my co-worker, Tammy.  She had an anyeurism in her brain yesterday morning and they operated today.  Thanks guys!

Sir James, John, Chief and everybody else, come on over.  Nick, I have 3 Buds in my fridge and they are nice an fresh this close to The Source!  Plus, icecream, chips or cookies - pick your poison boys!

RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.

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Posted by dbaker48 on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:38 PM

Evening All -

ANOTHER event filled exciting day here in "tramaland"

- Start off with a small earthquake this morning, located near Thousand Oaks.  Noone hurt or damage, fortunatly.

- 50 mph winds in the High Desert area (less than 50 mile from the tunnel crash) creates sand storm resulting in 0 visibility.  4 killed over 18 cars and trucks in chain reaction accident.

- 2nd accident 20 miles further north, 2 more killed another 12 cars in another chain reaction accident.

- Public transportation safer?  NOT, a Ventura bus driver (muncipal bus line), takes the last passenger on the bus to a seculed area then rapes her.

I'm going to the Train Room, no more news or radio, seems like armageddon.

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT AND SAFE EVENING !!!

Don

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Posted by 1688torpedo on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM
 Hello Jim A-  A Battery-powered Fire in a 55 Gallon Drum? O.K. Then, that is what we'll send Fife. Hope the St.Bernard does not give himself a Hernia taking the drum to Fife.Wink [;)]Wink [;)]Clown [:o)]Clown [:o)]Tongue [:P] Take Care.
Keith Woodworth........Seat Belts save lives,Please drive safely.

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