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[fifedog]

Mornin' peeps!  (Get it?)  Cold,grey,with a dusting of snow on the ground here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  We have lots to do in the fifedog household today...having a SWEET (I wish) SIXTEEN for the oldest girl.  Have been taking her out all week for her learner's permit (I shall use that to my advantage later), and she handles the wheel like she's been driving for years (probably has...)

rtraincollector - "...Nothing's over 'til WE say it's over!  Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!!!..."

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold 20 degrees. Clear skies, but we may have a few snow flurries. Going up to 34 today.

Today, we are driving over to Zanesville, for supper with the Wife's Niece. It will be nice to get out for a few hours. Tomorrow, we are suppose to drive up to the Cleveland area, for Easter, with the Daughter and her Family. I am having a few doubts about that, due to the weather. This cold spell is going to be around for awhile.

Ran trains for a few hours yesterday. Made some adjustments. Need more time to work on layout. Maybe next week will be good.

Dining car is here and I hear " All Aboard ". Breakfast.

Y'all have a great Saturday.

Chuck

[rtraincollector]

rtraincollector - "...Nothing's over 'til WE say it's over!  Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!!!..."

Animal house strikes again

on another note it was kinda funny he also was in the movie 1941 although I really didn't care for the movie .

were up to about 4" of snow down here in Virginia land

[Anonymous]

Good Morning all.  Just stopping in to wish everyone a joyous and Happy Easter. 

 

dan 

[dwiemer]

Doug, now that is one nice train....trying to convince my wife.  I did win a CNJ plymouth switcher with caboose last night.  Not much else going on, heading to FIL's house  talk later.
Dennis

[spankybird]

Good Morning All from NE Ohio

where it is a cold 21 deg with snow in the area.

Chuck - better check with your daughter on the amount of snow she has. That side of down has been hit much harder the my side. (Like 6 to 8" worth).

Here is a pic of Keith new toy, and I might add, his pride and joy!

we will post more tomorrow on Sunday photo fun!

tom

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone !! 

Great picture Tom, of Keith's new engine !! Can't wait to see more pictures tomorrow !!

We only got a little light dusting of snow here, so hope Chuck gets through OK if he goes !

Hope everyone has a nice Easter also !!

Thanks, John

[mitchelr]

Keith - All I can say is WOW,  I love the photos that Spankybird posted of your new tinplate toy.  I am sure you love it.

 

Not much happening here. Had to make an emergency run to work yesterday for a teacher who lost her wallet and was frantic that it had been stolen(she found it in the floor under her desk). Never did get to run trains.

 

The Mrs. and I are leaving today for a visit to Mom & Dad's to drop off the pooch and then to BIL and SIL's house to take the two pre-teen nieces to a bluegrass concert.  The Mrs. and I are anxious to go, although the girls are less than excited.  We will spend the night in Nothern VA, go to church with them and then head to Mom & Dad's for Easter Dinner tomorrow.

 

Happy Easter to all.

 

Mitch 

[Dr. John]

Good morning from sunny, cold and windy central Alabama!

I'm heading up to the church for our annual Easter Egg hunt for children. Lots of games, food, rides, etc. A lot of fun. I'll meet & greet, then help with clean-up. Wish we could get one of the little gasoline trains to run, but the Methodists get that one each year!  We do a hay-ride pulled by a big John Deere tractor instead.

This afternoon, we'll head over to Montgomery so wife and two daughters can shop, then pick up a Honey Baked ham for tomorrow's dinner. Son gets in late this evening from Birmingham - always nice to have everyone home, even if for a day. 

Up early tomorrow morning church services, then spend rest of the day at home (no evening services on Easter). Have a great weekend, everyone!

[zwbob]

Good Morning all and Happy Easter. By the looks of it outside I should say Merry Christmas. Woke up to a foot  of snow. Had to use the snow blower.Went out to breakfast and the roads were terrible. Should have used the 4 wheel drive truck but its nice and clean in the garage.

Chuck- check with the daughter before you decide to come up here. Fuuny thing my neighbor was suposed to go down to Cambridge to his daughters. Maybe you guys should switch kids.

Have a good day.

Bob

[ChiefEagles]

No Yanks, its not over!!!  I've said that all along.  Got you with GRITS this time, sweet ice tea the next time.

BTW: you can take your COLD air back.  Wind too.  Just for that, I made sure you got SNOW.

Off to Miss Edna's for a visit.  been a long time since I was there on a Saturday.

Dr. John, you earn your money this time of year and Christmas.  Good job.

One reason I was on the laptop so late, I ran trains for several hours and MTH did very well last night.  Must have been the moon night before last.

Later.

[A&Y Ry]

Our little Church is having its annual 1,000 egg [plastic] hunt this morning. Interestingly, the Minister said to please not bring chocolate candy Kisses,Snickers,etc, for placing in the plastic eggs because it always melts [except Toosie Rolls]. No sweet ice tea today and we need a barrel of coffee for today and Sunrise Service tomorrow.

Well, melting candy is not a problem today with still 35 degrees and 18 mph winds for 20s chill---the problem is keeping the kids,adults[Tootsie Rolls& Jelly Beans]warm. Only had a dusting of snow here around 4 a.m. but at our 4,000' altitude N.C. mountain cottage, the locals report 4-6" and still "spitting"---predicted for again tonight. Beech and Sugar Mountain Ski Resort owners are happy with 13 degree temp and fresh fall over man-made snow.

Happy Easter and good health to all!

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  Cold here at 34 only to get to 39?

SOUTHERNERS we got you with this snow eh?  Serves you right to give us GRITS and those paybacks are now upon you.

  All went well with big get together last nite, ate good, drank good and all kiked the trains running.  NO PILE UPS.

All have a good one.

laz57

[Anonymous]

Hi All from down Texas way...

We're driving down to Fredericksburg today from Salado (where my parents live).  Saw the Bertram depot.  It's raining and cold today.  Yea I know I should be used to it...but in Colorado we have no humidity..so 35 degrees in Texas is colder than 35 degrees in Colorado. 

Dug out my old train set yesterday...need to clean it up and see it it will still run when I get back home.  Hope everyone is doing well..

 

Jerry

P.S.  My Dad is driving.  I have a 115.2 bluetooth data connection between my laptop and my PDA phone catching up on my forum reading.  Gotta love technology.

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

It is sunny and cold in SE Indiana with temps in the 30s today (Kevin, you can close that door in Alaska any day now).  Watched "Close to Home" and "Numb3rs" last night.  They were both good.  I set up the Fastrack oval last night and ran the Alaska set with a couple of extra cars.  I have been busy putting stuff away this morning so the kids won't get into it on Sunday.  I may run the Alaska set some more.  I had waffles and bacon on the dining car this morning after it arrived from "Points East". 

Some sad news on Good Friday.  People who go to church with us and whose one son is on the soccer team lost their oldest son in car wreck.  Right now they do not know who was driving as all three persons were ejected from the car.  He was only 22.  Tmcc man, be careful when you drive.  I tell my own son the same thing.  I will catch up on the rest of the posts later.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Nick12DMC]

Hi All,

17:31 BST here in sunny Peterborough. 15 deg C here but feels warmer.  Looking forward to making a start on the gamesroom/garage when I get back from Holiday. Been so busy with work that I have not had time to get quotes for the block work.

If any of you are in the Dom. Rep. in the next two weeks I'm the guy on the Beach with a Doxa watch and a copy of CTT or the latest Clive Cussler novel and a tequila...

Nick 

 

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a frigid and windy Crystal Lake where I took the youngest out to the sod farm where the town has its egg hunt. No wind breaks - so it felt like 17. It was crazy. At least it is not snowing. When the whistle blew, parents were running around like lunatics picking up eggs, then touching their clueless 2 yr old's mittens with 'em like he was picking them up himself, and tossing the eggs in a basket. Hilarious. Our boy had a great time - getting them himself. Good day for running trains.

Nick, have a great holiday: people from our church travel regularly to the DR for missions work.

Dr John, we're going to get our honey-baked ham later today - mmmmm.

[wrmcclellan]

HA Ha nawtherners! Cold and minor snow flurries but we are holding it off here and kicking it back your way. Saw the Cleveland Seattle game was called for Snowhizo! Great video here on the news of baseball players in swirling snow and snow on their caps! Take that!

Chief - hold the east flank. Snowhizo cannot handle sweet tea as the snowhizo thinks it is hot weather when the tea comes out!

Ran some trains this morning at a friends place. Got the Empire State Express out so it could stretch its legs. Slow freights had to hold the sidings!

Looks to be one of the coldest Easter weekends on record here - global warming????

I guess with the networks losing major sports to cable and satellite, they are hurting for sports. Bicycle race on NBC right now - the commentators are calling it like a NASCAR race - LOL

Tom - thanks for posting Keith's new toy. I got one of those sets also. Really like it. Smooth runner although my e-unit is a little balky.

Mike C - sorry to hear about your friends loss. We shudder with our daughter driving. You do not realize how hard it is until you try to teach your kids. When I learned there were no permissive left turns at major intersections or right turn on red. All these idiots were not running red lights either. So bad here they are installing cameras at a lot of interesctions.

Have a great day all!

[csxt30]

HA Ha nawtherners! Cold and minor snow flurries but we are holding it off here and kicking it back your way. Saw the Cleveland Seattle game was called for Snowhizo! Great video here on the news of baseball players in swirling snow and snow on their caps! Take that!

Have a great day all!

Yeah, they had to cancel the Cleveland Indians game today, guess the out of state people, (sawtherners), just can't take that cold !! We love it !!  Plus we don't even use gloves to put our tubular track together !!  

Thanks, John

[wrmcclellan]

 Plus we don't even use gloves to put our tubular track together !!  

LOL - your ER doc vouches for that!

[Roger Bielen]

I stopped at the store this afternoon to check on what days I'm needed this week and Lewis told me the first shipment from the 2007 Lionel catalogue is scheduled for delivery on Monday.  The majority will probably be track and that sort of stuff but Christmas and starter sets are also expected.  I watch the store Thurs., Fri., & Sat. this week I'll check out what's new and let y'all know if anything exciting showed up.

[jefelectric]

Good evening all,

Roger, Does the boss go to York?  If so I guess you will be working most of the week after next as well.

Just finished running trains with the 4 & 6 year old granddaughters, or rather they just finished running trains.  After running the MTH 4-6-0 got to tame the 4 year old wanted to run the buddy (which is converted to TMCC).  That was a little nerve racking for Pop-pop as it goes like a bat out of you know where.  She didn't derail it but really had it moving, glad I won't have to give her driving lessons in another 12 years.

Sounds like everyone is looking forward to an enjoyable Easter.  We got a preview of the ham this evening as Jean prebaked it today along with some of the deserts to take to Son's place tomorrow for the family Easter dinner.

I spent most of the day today transplanting seedlings in the greenhouse and putting the geraniums in 4" pots, which is the second transplant for them.

Got my L&NE A-B-A FA-1 (Williams) from Marty the other day.  Looks great, guess I will test run it in conventional, but the intent is to pick up TMCC for it at York.  Also got a power conversion kit to power the B unit.  Plan is to put the electronics in the dummy A and run it in the forward position as I do my similar Reading A-A set.  That way I will have room for a crew in the cab and a high intensitity headlight.

Have a great Easter.

[ChiefEagles]

Evening all.  Sit in livingroom on laptop with wireless.  Can watch TV and type on forum.  REBS, I can now monitor Yanks all the time.    Waiting for that to make his "move".  Pam thinks we will get the call tonight and she will hit the road to Wilmington.

Went to Miss Edna's.  Seemed good to see the guys.  Paid for two more 072 switches.  Wanted both in right hand ones.  She had only one in stock but lots of lefts.  She is ordering me another and I will pick it up later.  Nice we can trust each other.  Going to add another crossover from one mainline to the other.  

Later [Remember Yanks, the eyes of the South are on you.]

 

[laz 57]

CHIEF, YOU"LL still fall asleep with the TV on and the laptop on.  Somethings never change.

Ran trains tonite for 2hrs all good.  No pile ups.

All have a good nite and Happy Easter.

laz57

[dwiemer]

Chief, we get a little cool temps down here, they get a foot of snow and they think THEY GOT US?  I don't think so.  Sounds more like Kevin got them!  Anyway, hope everyone has a blessed Easter.  Our two hunted eggs today and we had a nice dinner at FIL's.  Will be running cameras for Easter services. 
Dennis

[csxt30]

Later [Remember Yanks, the eyes of the South are on you.]

But, we are way UP here, looking down on you guys !! Somehow that may not sound right !!

Well, at least pass the popcorn, Chief !!

Thanks, John

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!   Tom- Thanks for posting the photo of my new train. I like the Trainsounds as it sounds neat & is not erratic. However, The Gear on the Armature Shaft is causing some havoc while running & I'll take the engine back to the Trading Post for a repair or exchange when I have a chance to as it is still under Warranty. Jim will make it good for me as he has a direct account with Lionel. Brent- I sent an e-mail to you about a 1688. Let me know here if it came through for you as the forum software can be tricky here. In short, I'll look for a 1688 for you. let me know if you want it in Gunmetal or Black. Talked to Jim A on the phone today & I have a 1688E here that I'll have restored for him also. Chief- The Eyes of the 800lb Bear from the North are on you also!  Take Care all

[Anonymous]

Keith,
No email... sent you another...

Either would be fine with me... the gun metal has a certain charm to it, but the black would look nice with the FiL's 262E.

Brent

[1688torpedo]

 Hello Brent- Since you're here on the Coffee Pot now I'll let you know that 1688s usually are in the neighborhood of $75.00-$125.00 for a Engine/Tender combo & would you like it restored or original? & keep in mind that Don Baker & Jim A are having 1688Es restored also & It'll take some time. Will keep an eye out for you though. Take Care.

[Anonymous]

Keith,
The price is fine, and restored would be preferred... I'm not in the market right now, it will be 2 - 3 months before I could get it (really want to be in the new house)... you should have my email so keep me posted.

Brent