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[CSXect]

Something funny going on with OGR and MTJ

 

I get a page can not be found error when trying to access OGR forums it says to try the home page which is actually MTJ home page

[underworld]

Snowed quite a bit today...off and on.....but it was always going horizontal!!! So no noticeable accumulation. Plenty windy yesterday and today. Off work all day tomorrow....I wonder what bizarre weather we'll have???

underworld 

[CSXect]

Something funny going on with OGR and MTJ

 

I get a page can not be found error when trying to access OGR forums it says to try the home page which is actually MTJ home page

What ever was wrong now seems to be fixed my computer had a brain fart.

[Anonymous]

The rumor is just that .....A RUMOR!!!  None of us suthners have defected to the Nawth as previously reported.    Couldn't bring the vette even if I came that way.  It actually belongs to my husband and it never goes out in potentially bad weather and never very far from home.......

RE:  Wire stretcher - found some 20/4 wire at a local hardware store, rewired the switch remote - and it worked the FIRST time.  After got it all back together, ran some trains for a while.  Ready to start on some scenery...been thinking and planning on it today instead of doing housework....oops.....don't tell my husband!

LAZ - hehee - found my own wirestretcher - will try it on some boards next.  Did you decide on what color duck tape to use on that pen light?  Maybe a zip tie will work - I have some clear, black and purple....

Anyone get to see the lunar eclipse?

Lisa

[Brutus]

• John (csxt30), I like your load very much - looks like 1/8th inch cross pieces 3/8th's long pieces?  1/2 inch?  The paint really made it stand out nicely!
• Laz - Tirdy Tree, sounds like yuz giz don talk right!  Folks in STL also say zink instead of sink and zizzors instead of scissors.  Otherwise, we're mostly normal.
• Underworld, thanks for that advice on tea.  I used to love all those Celestial teas.  I've been hearing about green tea lately in the news, too.
• jefelectric, thanks!  I loved that pic of Chief taking "pot" shots from his swimming hole!
• RT - have you had water in your wall?  If so, then I hope you fix that problem before you do more work inside?!
• John Baker - part of the problem down in NOLA (short for New Orleans where I work) is that a lot of the people moved away, got new jobs etc.  My friend Jeff was in ANDREW and of course they all had to stay and fix their stuff up afterwards.  With NOLA, everyone was diplaced, since it was all under water, and I have heard that a lot of folks have not gone back.  Considering how poor many of them were, they probably won't be able to do so when it is all rebuilt.  As for me, I think that if they take our $$$, then the gov't should do what we did in the St. Louis area.  There were a lot of areas around Valley Park etc that would flood every few years and the people would get their money from the gov't and then fix up their house and the cycle would repeat.  Finally, folks wised up, bought out all those people and passed a law that no housing could be built there anymore.  PS - I thnk I read that a big percentage of the current population (post-Katrina) is illegal.
• Lisa - Don't tell my wife, but I'm on the computer while I slave over the laundry!

 

[csxt30]

Thanks John, (jefelectric) & Jim !! I made those out of I believe 7/32" square brass tubing. I just measured them & they will slide right inside the quarter inch tube. The cross pieces are 1/8th." I painted it with Polly Scale, "Special Oxide Red" !  My next ones are going into the gondolas !!  I see them all the time on the real RRs like that. May make some using conduit also !! 

Thanks again everyone !!   

[laz 57]

The rumor is just that .....A RUMOR!!!  None of us suthners have defected to the Nawth as previously reported.    Couldn't bring the vette even if I came that way.  It actually belongs to my husband and it never goes out in potentially bad weather and never very far from home.......

RE:  Wire stretcher - found some 20/4 wire at a local hardware store, rewired the switch remote - and it worked the FIRST time.  After got it all back together, ran some trains for a while.  Ready to start on some scenery...been thinking and planning on it today instead of doing housework....oops.....don't tell my husband!

LAZ - hehee - found my own wirestretcher - will try it on some boards next.  Did you decide on what color duck tape to use on that pen light?  Maybe a zip tie will work - I have some clear, black and purple....

Anyone get to see the lunar eclipse?

Lisa

 

LISA, I love purple, all the AMISH women wear purple and black.

laz57

[rtraincollector]

Jim no the stains were on the boards when I bought them (got them for $5.00 each they were sitting out side with a tarp on them I treated them with bleach water then dried them and then painted other side with KILTZ and will do same to this side to be sure once there all up.

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

  Ran trains for 2hrs. tonite NO PROBLEMS.  Put down sprayed black sand paper for macadam for train station and lumber mill.  All looks fine.

  TURDY TREE is the way to go JIM FORTNER, says it on the ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES.

laz57

[underworld]

LISA, I love purple, all the AMISH women wear purple and black.

laz57

Is that why Prince likes Purple so much???

underworld

[John Bakeer]

Point taken Jim, We haven't the space to up sticks and abandon an area the size of NOLA, neither would we leave it to the rats (4&2 legged).

Going to a local Mill Store with the Dear Lady as we are in for a wet day, my plans to go into the upper Pennines for lunch are washed out. Mild though, +11.

   

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys. Mornin' Lisa.  Reference to the lunar eclipse, nobody came to my little "party" to celebrate, and I had gone thru the trouble of putting on my grass skirt, ceremonial face paint, and bones in my hair...talk about all dressed up with no place to go.  Didn't even bother lighting up the barbecue pit.    Wound up taking Mrs. Fifedog to BED, BATH & BEYOND...

BAKEER - I'd sell that residence and get off the island, because according to former V.P. Gore, you're all gonna be under water in about 10,000 years or so.

Remember, the CHIEF will be back tonight, so ya'll be sure and tidy up the site before ya'll leave.

[mitchelr]

Morning from Gettysburg. Currently 30 with highs to be about 40.  Yesterday I had great intentions to run some trains. So I turned on the heat in the train room.  I also had to climb into the attic up a folding stairway to take some pcs of a hinge on atoy box for my Dad.  He's building a toybox for Brian, my nephew, just like the one he built for my son and nephew 20+ years ago and he needed to see the safety hinge he put on it to be sure he got the same type of hinge.  Well I crawled up in the attic twice to take pics and read him some serial numbers off the hinge.  While I was up there, the Mrs asked me to get dwon any boxes of "baby items" so is spent another hour draggin boxes around and down the steps for her.  WHen I got done, it was lunch time, so I had lunch.  After lunch I sat in the chair the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.  So much for train time....

Guys, I need you to say some prayers for Dave, a good friend and teacher at my school.  He started about three weeks ago with a  stomach flu, vomiting.  Went to Dr. several times, Dr said to give it a few days.  A few days turned into 2 weeks, still vomiting several times every day. A week ago, Dr. did endoscopy with biopsy and diagnosed peptic ulcers.  Sends him home with some meds.  Well meds did not work, changed meds those new meds made him dizzy and of course he is getting weaker by the day.  Thursday, his wife had had enough so she takes him to hospital. They admitted him and drew blood work ( seems as though the Dr that did endoscopy didn't do that). His blood work comes back showing kidney failure with a creatinine level of 28 ( normal is 1, kidney failure is 10).  They admitted him and started dialysis Friday night.  Monday they are going to do a kidney biopsy to see if they can find out what caused kidneys to fail.  Dialysis seems to be helping some.  I am going to visit him to day.

Have a great day.

Mitch 

 

[tmcc man]

Morning from Gettysburg. Currently 30 with highs to be about 40.  Yesterday I had great intentions to run some trains. So I turned on the heat in the train room.  I also had to climb into the attic up a folding stairway to take some pcs of a hinge on atoy box for my Dad.  He's building a toybox for Brian, my nephew, just like the one he built for my son and nephew 20+ years ago and he needed to see the safety hinge he put on it to be sure he got the same type of hinge.  Well I crawled up in the attic twice to take pics and read hime some cerial numbers off the hinge.  While I was up there, the Mrs asked me to get dwon any boxes of "baby items" so is spent another hour draggin boxes around and down the steps for her.  WHen I got done, it was lunch time, so I had lunch.  After lunch I sat in the chair the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.  So much for train time....

Guys, I need you to say some prayers for Dave, a good friend and teacher at my school.  He started about three weeks ago with a  stomach flu, vomiting.  Went to Dr. several times, Dr said to give it a few days.  A few days turned into 2 weeks, still vomiting several times every day. A week ago, Dr. did endoscopy with biopsy and diagnosed peptic ulcers.  Sends him home with some meds.  Well meds did not work, changed meds those new meds made him dizzy and of course he is getting weaker by the day.  Thursday, his wife had had enough so she takes him to hospital. They admitted him and drew blood work ( seems as though the Dr that did endoscopy didn't do that). His blood work comes back showing kidney failure with a creatinine level of 28 ( normal is 1, kidney failure is 10).  They admitted him and started dialysis Friday night.  Monday they are going to do a kidney biopsy to see if they can find out what caused kidneys to fail.  Dialysis seems to be helping some.  I am going to visit him to day.

Have a gerat day.

Mitch 

 

Mitch, that is horrible. I will keep him in my prayers.

Woke up early to take the dog out. I am feeling horrible right now. I feel like I have strep throat. Not again I hope!

I hope everyone has a good day.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold 24 degrees. Got a little snow yesterday. Going up to 35 today, with a cloudy sky. Maybe snow flurries later.

Today, is an easy day. Have a couple of chores to do, and then take it slow. Company liked the trains, and stayed for pizza. Yesterday, was a busy day. Maybe I'll run trains , later this afternoon.  No races to watch today. Wife is waiting on baseball season to start. I'm waiting on summer and hot, sunny weather.

Mitch....Our prayers for your friend, Dave.

John ( csxt30 )...You did a great job on that flatcar. Looks real.

Well, everyone must be sleeping late today. Full Dining Car is here and it's time for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Sunday.

Chuck

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone !!  No snow here last night !!  Good !!

Mitch : we'll be praying for your friend, also .

Been up for a while making pieces for a godola load now !! Can't wait to see what it will look like in a gon !! Thanks Chuck, glad you liked it too !!  Buckeye gets all the credit for me thinking of it !!   Come to think of it, my town of Eagleville wouldn't look as good as it does if he hadn't told me to put a track through it !!   Buckeye is our Think Tank Thinker !!

Well, now to catch the dining car & hope that waitress that doesn't like me is off today !!

Hope everyone has a nice day !!

Thanks, John

[Anonymous]

Morning all!

  Another unsuccessful try at posting pics this morning.  As usual, the images window just freezes while opening.  Sometimes it opens properly and posting is no problem.  Sometimes not.

  Mitch, my prayers go out to your buddy Dave. 

  Sideshow Fifedog, solar eclipses at your place must be a real hoot!

Back to more Foto Phun for me!

Bruce Webster

 

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

  cool here today and windy only gonna get to 37?

MITCH prayers are out to your teacher DAVE, hope all goes well.

Yesterday ran wire for light to the pick up on K-line BERSHIRE.  Works great on all the time, now to get drop in board from TAS for the chuff.  Did anyone here ever get those drop in boards?  Are they hard to put in?

Have agood one.

laz57

[Anonymous]

Good Morning Everyone,

 Today...No snow in the mile high city.  We should reach a high near 50 today....woohoo.  Yesterday I took my Lionmaster Canadian Pacific set back to the LHS.  The locomotive had a slightly loud buzzing sound when the engines weren't running.  Lionel and the LHS all agreed the issue was with the locomotive.  I picked up the full-size Santa Fe set and very pleased with it. 

While I spend time at the LHS, the soon to be wife goes to several antique shops in the area.  She found a set of 4 coffee mugs for $3 each and they are valued near $12-15 each.  So she's happy with her find and I'm happy with my train upgrade. 

Today I think we're going to take advantage of the nice weather and go to the flea market.  She's hoping her good luck will continue.  For me...I'm just glad that she has something to keep her busy while I play with my train. 

John, Thanks for posting the pics and the info regarding your flatcar load.  I look forward to seeing the photos of the gondola load you're working on next.

Mitch, Thoughts and Prayers to your friend.

Have a beautiful Sunday everyone.

Jerry

[MartyE]

Hey guys have a great day... all I can say.  So lost in the amount of posting.

[rtraincollector]

prayers for dave mitch. Just found outlast night a nieghbor here had a stroke tuesday and they have discovered 3 anerisums and a brain tumor on top of that and hes only 56. so please say prayers for him.

not to much going on today its my day to rest work 5 days to pay bill bust tail one day around house rest one day (normally anyway LOL)

[CSXect]

It is cold and spitting snow every now and then.

 

[dbaker48]

Good Morning --

Prayers and best wishes for Dave and others under the weather.

Wife left for Laughlin this morn, not back until Wednesday.  Son gone to work and the playhouse doing some set redesigns, then to normal job at Knotts all day.  Good Train Day ????  NO.... More wallpaper removal, then acoustic ceilings.  But everyday is one step closer to MY priorities.

The pics this week are great, and keep me motivated to get all this preliminary stuff done.  Sure like the flat cars.  

Well the steamer is a cookin' so gotta go and get busy.  

Hope everyone has a great day! 

(BTW, some may remeber a couple weeks ago I posted about being "banned" on another forum?  All is resolved, they had done a sweep to reduce spam, and as a result since my email address ended in a "dot com" the program thought I was spam.  So they wanted to verify that I was indeed a "trainhead" (their term not mine, been called worse), the ban was lifted.   LOL)

[Brutus]

Feeling a lot better, but my head is still draining some.  Praying for Dave and RT's friend and all the rest of us, too.  We have been watching some of our older DVD's and last night got up to the 4th Lethal Weapon movie.  I'd pretty much forgotten that one.  Death by train - twice!  Bad guys push a car in front of an oncoming train.  Later they try it with our hero and he just waits until the last second and then floors it straight ahead, leaving the bad guys, who were trying to push his car with their SUV, to get hit by the train!  And then by a 2nd train!  I guess they never watched the PSA on the train show!

[jefelectric]

Thanks John, (jefelectric) & Jim !! I made those out of I believe 7/32" square brass tubing. I just measured them & they will slide right inside the quarter inch tube. The cross pieces are 1/8th." I painted it with Polly Scale, "Special Oxide Red" !  My next ones are going into the gondolas !!  I see them all the time on the real RRs like that. May make some using conduit also !! 

Thanks again everyone !!   

John, Be sure to post pics of your gondola loads, maybe I can steal, er  borrow your idea.  BTW do they tie down the gondola loads?  Or do they just depend on the sides holding them in place?

Good afternoon everyone,

First some snow flurries and then the Sun was out when I came to the basement.   Mild temps in the high 30s.

Has everyone seen the email goiing around with the picture of Laz's new computer?  Very nice, the knowledge just flows from it.

Mitch & Bill, Will put your friends in my prayers.

Bill & John, Thanks for the train tender info.

About to head out to the greenhouse, time to start the pepper & eggplant seed.

Take care,

 

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Afternoon all,

Been trying to keep up with the pot, not posting much.  Been busy as a one armed paper hanger.  Final papers and exams due in two weeks.  Finished working on my truck and I'm off till this coming Thursday night. I've not been training much this week and going into withdrawal.  Plan on playing so today after a little studying.  

Cool and Sunny here, the Ohio is high but not sure how far above flood stage.  Nice to be high and dry.

Prayers for all

Jim 

[John Bakeer]

Just after Xmas my Vet got a kidney reading that said I was dying. Turned out some gook in the Lab read 1 as 7, I don't know what the thing was they were measuring it was 777 but should have been 111, had a second test- 65 normal 50ish. So Robinsons can stay in business. Nevertheless Mitch my deepest best wishes for your friend, I hope it's just a fright like I had and he recovers.

  

 

[csxt30]

John : (jefelectric) hope that address works !! Got another load done today, except for painting the load. They really don't tie these loads down to the car. They're steel banded inside the gon to big pieces of wood that they set on in the car. The cross pieces of wood are up against the sides of the car & they stay real well. It's the loads on open flat cars that sometimes get loose & we tighten up the chains on those in the yard sometimes. Here is a picture of my latest car & load before I paint the load !!

I'll paint it & post another picture later !!

Thanks, John

[CSXect]

Just after Xmas my Vet got a kidney reading that said I was dying. Turned out some gook in the Lab read 1 as 7,

  

 

 

You may want to be careful using slang as over here they may have a vastly different meaning Gook sounds too much like a racial slur against Asians

Also a tip for talking to women from America refrain from the infamous phrase "knock you up" as over there it means can I call you but here in America you would be asking to make a baby 

Sorry about the post being so graphic but If I can save someone from embarassment but they may already know this.

[dwiemer]

Afternoon everyone.  Had a good service this morning for early church.  I hope to do a little wire work on the layout before night church.  It seems the wiring is going a little slow as I have to make sure of things before I proceed.  I think this is the slowest part of building.

Found out this morning that a good friends office was destroyed in the tornados.  He is a orthopedic surgeon.  All the equipment can be replaced, but the patient charts is the big thing.  Fortunately, only a few people lost their lives.

Take care,

Dennis