Buckeye Riveter wrote: Buckeyeland is getting pounded with hail, rain and thunder. Sixty MPH winds just to the north. Is it still snowing in N. Illinois?
Buckeyeland is getting pounded with hail, rain and thunder. Sixty MPH winds just to the north. Is it still snowing in N. Illinois?
Buckeye - this is what you get for messing around with Dr. John - a southerner.
Doug - watch out - a lotta 15 year old female drama out tonight here in N. Texas. Hope it doesn't spread north of the Red River.
Regards, Roy
Good morning all,
This is certainly strange today. I logged on and nobody has posted for several hours. It really stormed in Indiana last night with several buildings being damaged by high winds/possible tornados. I watched "Lost" and it was another good episode. There are some hints this may be the last season or the next to last. I also went to the YMCA for weights. I helped the wife with the dishes as well because Lucas was working. Saturday is prom night and there will be big doings around the house. I have no idea where the dining car is today. It is somewhere between "Points East" and "Points West". I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cool 39 degrees. Going up to only 43 today with a chance of rain, later. This nasty weather is hanging on.
Today, I am going to take it easy. Been busy for a couple of days and need some quality time. Sure wish the warm summer weather would get here. I have a lot of work to do outside. I think I will spend some time running trains, later and relax.
Gas prices came down a few cents, but not good at $2.59 a gallon. This will put a hold on traveling this summer. At least, for us.
Well, Dining Car is waiting to board. Time for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Chuck
Morning. Off to Kerr Lake ot cut a tree at lake house and install GPS in buddy's boat. Big rain and some storming. Now sunny. Suppose to be 77 degrees today. Later.
BTW: Duke Univ. needs to be on its knees puckering as the "Duke Boys" case was dropped as they were innocent [like most thought all along].
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Been a while, but I have returned from a successful excursion to New Jersey for Easter (Yankee land to our Southern bretheren).
Flew in on Good Friday high of 42, got to services @ 3pm had a nice NY style pizza dinner then off to bed. Did a little shopping at Z&Z hobbies in Hamilton then off to see the NJ Devils Alumni game. I was behind the team bench, was a glass thickness from Ken Danyko, Bruce Driver, Micheal Petit, Randy Valishek, Tommy Albelin, who between them all had 6 Stanley Cup rings!!! My other half was making eyes on Rob Skrlac and wrote him a note (she tried to make me jealous, but, if she can hook up with a NJ Devil....who can complain???). Then a Trenton Titans game. We met up with some friends at Mom & Dads house after the game(s). Early Church on Sunday a great Easter feast by Mom & Dad, then home @ midnight. What a trip!!! Also saw some NY Yankee games live on TV and 2 NJ Devils games. It was great to be home!!
Hope all had a great Easter!!! GO DEVILS!!!
Rich
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Mornin' allIts beginning to look like another wasted day here... still installing software... this is now going on 3 days without a working computer... pathetic...Wasn't able to make it to the LHS again yesterday, hopefully today... but I did get to pull an axle off my Bimmer last night, that was fun! So the CV Boot has been installed and the new tires mounted (much smoother, quieter, ride - and much improved handling)... Just in time for nice weather this coming weekend!Well I'm heading back to software installation land! Brent
Good morning from New England.
We ran our 2037 last night. The new smoke unit is producing very good smoke at 10-11 volts. It pulled a set of post war 2400 series passenger cars.
Have a great day, all!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Hi everyone! Hope this finds everyone having a good day so far.
A little cool this a.m., warming into the 70's today. More storms are forecast for this weekend. With all of the stuff surrounding us yesterday, we only got about a tenth of an inch of rain. Thankfully the hail missed us. Folks in the next town had a good bit of hail damage.
May get some yard work in this evening if no rain. Off tomorrow, so will go cut my father's yard for him. Then tackle some "honey-do's". Not much time for trains or layout building right now. Just buying a few things along.
Later!
Got this e-mail this morning and thought I'd pass it on since the high cost of gasoline had been mentioned - didn't paste the pictures but you'll get the idea anyway.....
All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are....You will be really shocked by the last one!!!! (At least, I was...)Compared with Gasoline......Think a gallon of gas is expensive?This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallonLipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ..........$9.52 per gallonGatorade 20 oz $1.59 .... $10.17 per gallonOcean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 . $33.60 per gallonVick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallonPepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallonWhiteout 7 oz $1.39 ....... . $25.42 per gallonScope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallonAnd this is the REAL KICKER...Evian water 9 oz $1.49......... .$21.19 per gallon!$21.19 for a gallon of WATER!!!!!!!!!and the buyers don't even know the source. Evian spelled backwards is Naive.
Ever wonder why printers are so cheap? Well, they have you hooked for the ink.Someone calculated the cost of the ink at................you won't believe it...................but it is true.........................
$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run onwater, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquilor God forbid, Printer Ink!!!!!Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person,your muffler will fall off!!
Enjoy the day!!!
Lisa
Lisa-n-NC wrote:And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person, your muffler will fall off!! Enjoy the day!!!Lisa
And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person,
your muffler will fall off!!
Lisa,
Last night I dreamt I was a muffler and woke up exhausted this morning.
Mike C.,
That was a great episode. I am worried also because they said "beginning of the end" during the preview for next week. I really hope this isn't the last season.
Morning all,
Woke up this morning with a nasty cold. Could feel it coming on yesterday. Haven't had a cold for a couple of years so I guess I can't complain, but I will anyway as York is coming up in 5 Days. Hope I can get rid of it quick.
Lisa, I liked that price comparison. It is sure a good one.
Take care,
Get well soon, John. You don't want to be sick for York!
Mornin' boys. Mornin' Lisa. Hey, BTW, what's the damage for a gallon of PROTOSMOKE?
Roy - your dilema isn't confined to N. Texas. I'm dealing with a tornado of my own...
But, let's talk rail. Yesterday, I was given a nice RailKing Chessie covered hopper, compliments of my buddy Tom. Then in timely fashion Fed-Ex delivered me two Dept 56 buildings that I have been coveting, from DinkyTownRealtor (Ft Worth). Now waiting to occupy my yet-to-be-built town of Cumberland are #5969-2 CITY HALL (thank you Mrs. fifedog) and #58309 Kensington Palace (thank you Mom). But wait, fifedog, there is no palace in Cumberland...ahhhh, but this beautiful structure is VERY close in dimension to the WESTERN MARYLAND station there.
SWAMMY predicts a journey to HOME DEPOT in fifedog's near future....
Morning all!
Nice day here. 70's and sunny.
John - get well quick! Next week is just around the corner!
I see Buckeye can't post due to the snow inflicted because of his poor attitude towards southerners and GRITS
Lisa - good comparisons. I am glad I got to read it here and still have my muffler attached!
Got the drama queen off to school successfully this morning. Son came down with strep throat so he is home today.
Have a great day all!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Lisa-n-NC wrote: Got this e-mail this morning and thought I'd pass it on since the high cost of gasoline had been mentioned ............................................And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person,your muffler will fall off!! Enjoy the day!!!Lisa
Got this e-mail this morning and thought I'd pass it on since the high cost of gasoline had been mentioned ..................
..........................And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person,your muffler will fall off!!
Shush-up Lisa- we're trying to have an INTELLIGENT conversation!
Some people get into the sauce and Lisa gets into the grits.
Wow, Dr John that was close. Keep those tornados in the South. You are welcome to all of them.
Fifedog, when you were a wee lad, did they call you Fifepuppy?
For the mathamatically challenged, I would suggest you stay away from the posting about 42" circular track. I thought God made flex track so you could fix your mistakes.
Amtrak Genesis Dummy has been ordered. When I get it, I'll post a video of the consist running through the Hell's Gate Bridge.
See ya down the tracks,
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
This is my first "sip" from 'The Coffee Pot' and like the blind carpenter who picked up his hammer and saw, I am celebrating an epiphany of sorts by admitting that I "Love reading the dialogues'.
Keep the brew warm!
Lisa-n-NC wrote:<> Ever wonder why printers are so cheap? Well, they have you hooked for the ink.Someone calculated the cost of the ink at................you won't believe it...................but it is true.........................$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run onwater, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquilor God forbid, Printer Ink!!!!!Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...<><>Enjoy the day!!! <>Lisa
<>Enjoy the day!!! <>Lisa
<>Lisa - The information you posted is not far from the truth. I couldn't pass this up since I am in the business.
<><>Average New Cartridge Cost $22 (conservative number) Typical ink volume per cartridge 12 milliters
<><><>Cost per mil $1.83
<>1 milliter = approx .000264 gallons
Cost per gallon $6931
And this is conservative! Some new printers have less than 5 mil of ink. State of Minnesota has a class action suite against some ptr mfgrs for "Economy" cartridges. 25% off the price , and 50% less volume.
Sorry guys I probably shouldn't have posted that, but glad to see information getting out how costly they are.
John - Sorry to hear about the cold, sounds like you may need some good old JD and rest!
Trying to get all the work stuff done before leaving for York. Taxes done, orders placed, instructions made, should be all set. Definetly not looking forward to the all day flight. Don't know how Marty and the Chief do it all the time. Confirmed all reservations, all systems go! Quit reviewing my shopping list, impulse buying is SOOOO much more fun.
Hope the weather holds, we are having some pretty good winds, and the beaches are getting blasted with high surf. (10-15 feet). Unfortunately, this weather will probably be arriving in the East about the time I do.
Back to work, have a great day all.
Don
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Shush-up Lisa- we're trying to have an INTELLIGENT conversation!
fifedog wrote:SWAMMY Prediction...
SWAMMY Prediction...
Received this email from a freind wheather its true or not I don't care its the point that I like
Classroom DesksOn April 10, 2007, Frank Nestor writes:Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies schoolteacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom. The kids came into first period, they walked in, there were no desks. They obviously looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?" And she said, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them." They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades.""No," she said."Maybe it's our behavior."And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior." And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the classroom. Second period, same thing, third period. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily." She said, "Now I'm going to tell you."Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they had finished placing those desks, those kids for the first time I think perhaps in their lives understood how they earned those desks. Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it." My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have are freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are because of ordinary people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more than life itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the Robinson High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to enjoy this great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better love enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid values and principles that made us a great nation. "We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave"Remember our Troops...
AMEN
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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John (jefelectric) Take Vitamin C, Echinacea, use ZiCam and lots of fluids (your choice). If you were close by, I'd give you some colloidal silver - would knock it out in a day or 2. Since you're not - Dennis could send you a big bowl of grits from the festival!! That would cure you for sure!
FIFEDOG - about $218/gal
Jim A - Working on that car has you all messed up - hope you sleep better tonight!
Brent - You would never be precluded, or excluded, from our conversations - just that crazy guy over in Ohizo!
DON - Please, since you are coming EAST - please leave that nasty weather on the west coast or drop it off in a certain section (ie. RogersCorners) of Ohizo!!
RT - Thanks for sharing - a wonderful story!!
Lisa-n-NC wrote: John (jefelectric) Take Vitamin C, Echinacea, use ZiCam and lots of fluids (your choice). If you were close by, I'd give you some colloidal silver - would knock it out in a day or 2. Since you're not - Dennis could send you a big bowl of grits from the festival!! That would cure you for sure! FIFEDOG - about $218/galJim A - Working on that car has you all messed up - hope you sleep better tonight!Brent - You would never be precluded, or excluded, from our conversations - just that crazy guy over in Ohizo!DON - Please, since you are coming EAST - please leave that nasty weather on the west coast or drop it off in a certain section (ie. RogersCorners) of Ohizo!!RT - Thanks for sharing - a wonderful story!!Lisa
It must be pick on Buckeye Day......Oh, well, we have big shoulders and lots of trains to run. Lisa, when are you going to visit Roger's Corners? The Chief has been here twice. He proclaimed it the Garden Spot of America after I fed him those Chocolate Buckeyes.
Hello all from the Mile High City,
We're bracing for a forecasted 12" of Spring snow. I'm hoping this is the last of the white stuff for a few months. While we do need the moisture...I would sure rather it fall in the form of rain...but I suppose beggars can't be choosers.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
Jerry
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
As I had committed, here's a list of items that were received this week from the Lionel 2007 catalogue. These are in addition to items already on hand from the 2006, vol. 2 cat. and carried into the 2007 cat.
Penns. Flyer 30018; Penn. Exp. Packs 30037 & 30004; NYC Flyer 30016; NYC exp packs 30038 & 30008; Thomas 30956; Thomas exp packs 30012 & 30035; North Pole central Passenger Exp. Pack 30039; Polar Express; Halloween Form. Tank car 29619; UP Fast Freight 30024; SF El Capitan 30001; C&O Super Freight 30025; LL Speeder 28419; NH boxcar 15020; Rock boxcar 25026; Reading boxcar 25025; NP Ore Care 26401; D&H Tanker 26197; CP Rail Gond. 26332; WP Reefer 26199; LL Flat w/ Bulkheads 26331;US Steel Work Caboose 36552; Domino Sugar TOFC 26335; White Bros. Flat w/ Milk Cont. 39452; Area 51 Tanker 36104; Dow Tanker 17959; Amaizo tanker 17960; Domino Sugar Tanker 17962; ADM Reefer 27349; 2 pack 21940; National Reefer 27350; 2 pack 21941; NYRX Reefer 27355; 2 pack 21937; Dubuque Reefer 27358; 2 pack 21939; MOW Welding Car 36831; Yard Tower 14227; Sand Tower 14255; Irene's Diner 24176; K-Line Const. Worker 21392; K-Line Const. Scene 21447
These are what we received, others may have gotten different items.
Evening all. going train broke. Just bargined for two Atlas NS powers and one dummy. Been to lake and sawed down trees and then sawed them up. Tired.
Lisa, don't worry about Jim A. He sniffs glue, paint, tunner cleaner and LBG smoke. Rogers Corner is nothing great except the food across the street [they have sweet ice tea]. Buckeye Chocolates are GREAT.
Dinner is ready. Wife coming home tomorrow. Carter [Grandson] went to his house today. Think wife is off of baby duty as Alison's sister-in-law is coming to stay for a while [they are about the same age].
Later
ChiefEagles wrote: Buckeye Chocolates are GREAT.
Buckeye Chocolates are GREAT.
That is because they are made with Good 'ol Georgia Peanut Butter!
I did a bit more planting this afternoon for She Who Must be Obeyed, a bit tired. It was a beautiful day here.
Hope Y'all have a good night
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
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