CLOSED////////The Coffee Pot is still on and over 3 years. Here we gather as friends with trains.

[csxt30]

Mornin' Everyone !!  Thanks for the fresh coffee Mitch !!  Sure hit the spot !!

I see Jim & I (Sturgeon-Phish)were working ourselves to a frazzle all night !!

Well, I hope James feels better today ! I left some Oreos there !!  OOps, I suppose the guts of those won't last long !!

Gosh, forgot what else everyone said now !!

Well, off to La La Land for me now !!

Hope Everyone has a nice day !!

Thanks, John

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a foggy, 54 degrees. Going up to a sunny 84, today.

Today is a busy day. I have some chores to do around the house. I have to check out the house A/C system. Seems to be a slight problem with the temperature. I hope it isn't serious. I may have to call in a service man. There's a local guy that will give free estimates. Does good work. No time for trains today.

Well, Dining Car is here. It's a Cheerios day. Time for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

Hi  GIZ,

  57 and another great day.  To get to 84.

  Going to BARRYs TRAIN SHOP this after to check things out, needed a train fix.

  Lost on the last hole last nite hit into the trees, DUH!

  Beer and wings were great.

  laz57

[mitchelr]

Morning to All.

Put a fresh pot on for all of the guys working third trick. Gotta keep them awake.

Been away since Monday. Spent Tuesday on the water with a friend. We were crabbing and caught about 5 dozen, then steamed them for lunch...yummy. Worked Wednesday and then Thursday watched my nephew again as my folks are still out of town. A ten month old will wear you out when you are not used to chasing them around. Had dinner with sister and BIL and then came home. Didn't get in until after 9:00. Going back to work today to rest up....

Fife & 88 - been thinking about the hitting the Arbutus show. Supposed to be at my Mom's that day for a family dinner. Will have to see if the times align.

Take care,

Mitch

[John Bakeer]

Jim, In and out of dentist in five minutes, everything OK, not even a clean and polish-twenty seven quid 55 of your dollars.  

Can't afford to be ill, this bloody government is destroying the National Health Service set up by the same party in 1948. We'll soon be like you, when only the wealthy can be ill!  

12deg C here in a very wet, cloudy, Stockport. Black as your Grandfathers and raining mew'ers and woofers.

   

Well the die is cast, I am going to Scotland to live near my brother and his family,

don't know when as I am looking for sheltered housing.  

Got a Honda, nothing goes wrong, so reliable it's almost boring.

  

[wrmcclellan]

Evening or morning all, depending on your perspective?

Don - you trying to say something

Life has been too busy here - gotta find a way out of this place....

Hope all are well. No time to read up.

Have a great day tomorrow all!

[dbaker48]

 

Laz - check out the bow hunter email I sent!

 

JIM, NICE form both front and back!!!!

laz57

[Sturgeon-Phish]

 Good thing is I have an excuse to not have Thanksgiving here. I'll probably hear it from the family I'm just not a holiday kind of guy. I think everyone forgot the real meaning of the holidays.   

PhilaKnight

I know what you mean about Thanksgiving.  IT has been a tradition for ALL of my brides family to come to our house for dinner.  Last year there were a high of 36 at one point with others filtering in and out.  What I become most thankful for is when they leave.  Very seldom does anyone help with the clean up or repair of things that inevidibly get broke.

 

CSK John - You workin' tonight?  I am 6 and 1/2 hours to go.

May God bless

Jim

[ChiefEagles]

PhilaKnight, we have been doing about the same thing.  I have been cleaning out the spare room where the Carpet Central use to run.  Took the straight sections of tublar and screwed it down to the shelves I bulit under the backroom layout.  Then moved some of the rolling stock from the room [some were in boxes never opened and some stored] and placed it on the track.  You know you have too many TT Piggybacks when the layout is full and your spares take up a lot of your shelving.  Those buggers are hard to get under there as the front trucks want to turn sideways and the middle one goes crazy.  Couple them together and I can get two "sets" on one track.  Anyone with old spare tublar, let me know.  I will need more. 

Good night.

[PhilaKnight]

Hello everybody,

Hard day today. Cleaning out the basement. Trying to get rid of some stuff. Finished they back of it and now I'm gonna try to do the front tommorow. It's mainly trying to striaghtin up the trains and the little guys old toys and stuff for the new girl.

Anyway went for a ultrsound on Tuesday. It's still gonna be a girl. I think we finally picked a name. It sounds like we are going with Jolena Rose. My wife says its after me cause if it was a boy it was going to be Joseph. So I still get to call somebody Joey after myself. She is due on Nov 20th and I can't wait. Good thing is I have an excuse to not have Thanksgiving here. I'll probably hear it from the family I'm just not a holiday kind of guy. I think everyone forgot the real meaning of the holidays. Everything is to commercial.

So everybody have a good weekend.

  

[laz 57]

 

Laz - looks like bow hunting develops healthy bodies!

 

WOO JIM if I could only get my wife to start bow hunting, I'd never come out of the house.

laz57

[Brutus]

Johnny, looks like we posted at the same time!  Remember what the Rabbit said - Tricks are for Kids!

[Brutus]

Sir James, I thought Chewy did that?  Did you lick out all the creme filling too?  Oh well, the crumbs are probably nice and MOIST!    PS - glad you are feeling better man and hope you continue to improve.  Run trains, it's good for you!

Laz - looks like bow hunting develops healthy bodies!

Hey, you need to get that COORS train that Chief was talking about and an ELVIRA figure for your layout!  Hmmm - I'm sure Jumijo could come up with a good line to go here involving a train and Elvira! 

[csxt30]

Brutus : Trick means the same as shift, don't know why the RR uses that term but I guess they always have !!

Let's see now, James ate all the frosting off the cupcakes already !! Well, that was nice of him to at least leave the cupcakes !! Next thing you know, Chewy will have all the cupcakes all gone !!

Well, getting ready for work now. Yuk !!

Thanks, John

[laz 57]

 

Laz - check out the bow hunter email I sent!

 

JIM, NICE form both front and back!!!!

laz57

[sir james I]

Almost bedtime, thought i'd say goodnite, I got my CTT today also sure could use that $29.95 offer.

John- the cupcakes are fresh, hope you like them without frosting as it was too much temptation. I just had to do it.

Lots of people mending,seems like quite a bit for just a small group, but the church folks seem to have new events on a weekly basis, so I guess we are running normal.I hope everyone is doing better.              Nitey nite, Sir James

[ChiefEagles]

I heard that the Marine Ospreys are being sent to Iraq.  We have a military air flight zone over Roseyville.  One flew over yesterday.  Awsome.  BTW:  Yanks, did you notice that all Marine aircraft are painted REBEL gray? 

 

Acual color is Battleship Gray

See Chief !!  Battleship gray !! 

Thanks RT !!   

They copied us REBS.

Buckeye escaping from Alabama!!!!!!

We'll keep him the next time.

BTW: the no measurable rain measured 1/2 an inch.  Shows those forecasters can't get it right any time.

[Brutus]

John Baker - TOOTH-HURTY!  Dr. Nixon?  Watch out if his nurse is named G. Gordon Liddy!  You might come home with a BUG! 

Mel, just gotta say I like your layout a lot and can't wait to watch the progress.

John S - you wrote "Well, tomorrow night I go on 3rd. trick."  What's "trick" mean?  If Chief is getting your popcorn on the way to work, then you can stop by here and get some desert on the way back!  Sir James left you some cupcakes.

Well, stopped at the Chevy dealer this morning to check my check engine light (again).  They ran a diagnostic and said it's the fuel cap, again.  The mechanic said it should be replaced (my kind of mechanic!) and had them do a ticket on it.  They had to get the replacement in, so I got to work an hour late and took off an hour early so I could make it in time.  Only took 5 minutes to replace and was free!  Hopefully this does the job.  No big deal really, just annoying.

Got home a little early, so put blue tape on the basement vinyl window inserts and then painted 2 of the metal frames.  Wife picked out a slightly brighter shade of brown to go over the primer.  Still have 2 left to paint, but putting the blue tape on took a while.  I'll get it done tomorrow I guess.

Jim (SP) cool project!  I just got my CTT today, still need to check it out.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

 Sturgeon-Phish [Jim], saw page 31 in new CTT.  Great idea.  Think I will do one. 

Thanks Chief, here is a picture of mine and the pic I sent to CTT.  They may of need a cleaner background, but in the mag pic they are still calling the #8 transformer an 8B; there is a difference.

[CSXect]

We had a production meeting about mistakes being made by both old and new employees, after the meeting the Boss, she talked to each of us individualy and when she caught up to me on my lunch time she said she had very little to say to me

She said mistake wise I am doing great for a newbie but I need to increase my speed on one particular task(others who are faster at it are making the same mistakes over and over)

Did some major rethinking about painting my house it is cheap but time consuming, will look for siding the same color as the paint I used (November blue and white) it kinda looks like a plasticville house color wise. Thought about Nature stone or beauty stone for basement floor but indoor carpet would probably be a better choice.

The 2oth issue of CTT is great by the way

Cheif here in the south end of Columbus we have a lot of critters running the streets, possums, racoons that live in the storm sewers, rabbits from out of the few fields left in the area and the occausinal deer that has got lost. Oh yea the annoying neigbours birds he has a dozen bird feeders on the front porch and keeps pidgeons and a Bob white which is in a cage and is kinda cool to listen to.

 

[csxt30]

I heart that the Marine Ospreys are being sent to Iraq.  We have a military air flight zone over Roseyville.  One flew over yesterday.  Awsome.  BTW:  Yanks, did you notice that all Marine aircraft are painted REBEL gray? 

 

Acual color is Battleship Gray

See Chief !!  Battleship gray !! 

Thanks RT !!   

[rtraincollector]

I heart that the Marine Ospreys are being sent to Iraq.  We have a military air flight zone over Roseyville.  One flew over yesterday.  Awsome.  BTW:  Yanks, did you notice that all Marine aircraft are painted REBEL gray? 

 

Acual color is Battleship Gray

[csxt30]

I heart that the Marine Ospreys are being sent to Iraq.  We have a military air flight zone over Roseyville.  One flew over yesterday.  Awsome.  BTW:  Yanks, did you notice that all Marine aircraft are painted REBEL gray? 

Well, actually to the typical, uneducated, untrained, cars on cement block owners, Southern eye, that may appear to look similar !!  That is really a Military Gray color unrelated to the Southern gray !!

Thank you !! ( oh, & Chief, try to have the popcorn done by 9 !! )

John

[ChiefEagles]

I heard that the Marine Ospreys are being sent to Iraq.  We have a military air flight zone over Roseyville.  One flew over yesterday.  Awsome.  BTW:  Yanks, did you notice that all Marine aircraft are painted REBEL gray? 

[kpolak]

Kurt-You know your wife will have a few bad days ahead but then it gets better, I wish her well..My wife had two surgery's in a year and I knew she was getting better when she started  complaining about how I had taken care of her. I did my best and she still was not happy. I hope your patient is more patient.

                                              Sir James

This is way easier than the c-section with the second child.  She tried natural childbirth thru 28-hours of labor, and the child just wouldn't come out...Opted for c-section.

All those hormones were murder!  She's already up and working on the computer this time.  I'm about ready to go down to her office and strangle someone...She worked until 12:00 midnight the night before surgery, came home to send e-mail to her co-workers, about being OK, and had 80 e-mails...80, from 11:00pm until 11:00am the next day, and everyone knew she was having surgery.  Boneheads!

Kurt

[ChiefEagles]

Spitting rain.  Rich, send it up this way!!!!  Not to Texass who has been hogging it all.  Sturgeon-Phish [Jim], saw page 31 in new CTT.  Great idea.  Think I will do one.  AH, got to see some Elk hunting this morning.  Now for lunch and then train time. 

PS: forgot.  Saw the Coores train by MTH run at Miss Edna's Saturday.  Not my cup of tea.  For those who like that type of thing, it will be a great addition.  Smokes, has steam sounds, plays music as it supposedly unloads, doors open on the refrig. cars, cold air vapor [smoke] blows from the cars, doors close and away she goes.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Almost afternoon All

Brent, When I paint the T1-11 I use a heavy nap >1/2” roller and come back with a brush also, the heavy nap all but gets the groove.  Love to have a sprayer, before next painting project may get one.

Kurt-The out patient surgery discharge is weird.  The insurance folks determine the stay, not the Docs.  Wife works as an R.N. and has some discharge stories that would curl your toes.

Dr. John- Prayers for your mom, hope she is doing better

 JohnCXS- My sleep is really jacked-up today too.  Two 12 hour nights, off last night and awake till late then over slept this morning, only to start regular night shift tonight.  On nights tonight regular shift, earlier was OT.  So I’ll be up too.  Depending on the work load I check in on the pot also. 

Don-How are you going to stay out of trouble with the bride gone for a month?  I guess you could get in trouble the first half and spend the second half covering it up.

Well going to move some dirt and cut grass,

May God bless

Jim 

[RRCharlie]

laz 57 Another way to put it-Friday Eve that is-

in the tradition of thank God it's Friday, try O so happy it's Thursday-Irish fertilizer Day for short.

Mel Hazen

Jacksonville, FL

[anjdevil2]

Jim...I hear ya...just pokin' fun.  I know how diehard you Red Sox fans are...

EGAD!!! WHAT"S THAT BLINDING LIGHT?  AM I DEAD?  NO !!!! IT"S THE SUN!! ooops gone again!!

Over on the 'bay, picked up a 4 piece 2001 Conrail Safety Award train.  Got it for about $137 shipped.  Is that worth it ya think?  I may not take it out of the boxes.  I'm sure it's a K-Line.  Looks nice anyhow...

Hockey PreSeason has started, can't wait for the regular season.  Probably get tickets to Halloween Horror Nights for next month today.  A little family trip, wife will stay at the hotel that night.

Hey Don...at least we have to get certified, just like them docs do!

Stayin' dry (for the most part)

Rich 

[laz 57]

Morning all,

A bit nippy this morning, looks like an early fall.

Don, Us retired guys are so busy because it takes us twice as long to do anything as it used to.

Well off to breakfast.

Take care,

JOHN,

   Anything new at BARRYs?  Might get down there tomorrow?  I need a train fix.  I haven't been to a train shop in a month.

laz57