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

[laz 57]

AK Kevin and Pigseye Tim - Youze guys left the door open again - only got to about 33 today and back below 29 so far.

LAZ - Have you tried it in conventional? Sounds like the cruize is messing up or something is binding (loosen your shorts ).

Thanks ROY, I will check that and also thanks ROGER I will put some grease on the gears.

I'll let YUZ GIZ know whats up.  If it doesn't stop I will do what BUCKEYE suggested,nine iron.

laz57

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,
   Getting to be winter finally around here to get to 32 later big front coming through.

RTRAINCOLLECTOR,  If you get a chance take a pick of the pallets.  To see if I can use them or not?  Thanks for the offer.

   All else is well 2 more days of The marking period.  Then 90 to go.

laz57

[ChiefEagles]

Glad all is fine chief .

hey sent you an email the other day did you get?

RT

I replied per the CTT forum.  Check for a message in your inbox.  If not email me again and we will try to get you an answer back.

Sent you another with my email address in it. For got my email button on bottom doesn't work

The email address you sent, doesn't work.  Comes back unknown.  Sorry.  Answer to one question:  March 22 thru 25, Bass Pro Shops in Harrisburg PA.  PA gang and are will be going to some restaurant to meet for a meal.  Only "hitch", may have to train West Marine managers that weekend in Baltimore. 

Morning all.  Cloudy and warm.  Suppose to turn cooler by afternoon.  Hope to do additional wiring on layout and then go to Miss Edna's and pickup some straight track to make the loops go to the back of the walk-in.  Wish switches were here.  Chat later.

BTW: Asked our friend Bob to lock the "Stop the Chief" thread.  Thought it was pretty good with Frank53's picture.  Just use Coffee Pot or Sunday Photo to post changes.  

[laz 57]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a frigid Chicago where winter is back and I'm working late tonight - still no lights in the Metra station parking lot - it's been a week. It's so dark you can't make out the parking slot number. Have to call Metra and the city again this morning. Boy, I like chatting with conductors on my commute. They're UP (or former C&NW) employees who bid on the passenger jobs. Have lots of great stories. No ice storm like to the west and south of us, just a few inches of snow.

Instead of watching TV last eve, I moved some track around to prevent side-swipes I've had when the parallel tracks are both occupied with moving trains. I also swapped out a piece of track with a raised middle rail (looks like it had been squeezed with a pliers) that was occasionally derailing a car or scoring a roller. I think I'm running too close to the 'edge' of my foam boards in the back of the layout. Fortunately, the GG1 is so heavy it finds all these track problems. Since I don't tack down my track, I have issues just like the real railroad with it shifting.

The youngest is fine, Jim. Thanks for asking. Just a 24 hr. bug.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

More like January here now, overcast flurries and 32.  Need to fire up the heater in the garage today. 

Bought a couple of roofs off the bay for a 752 Seaboard Coaler I have repaired and needed roofs.  Going to work in the garage and study today.  Take care all

Jim  

[Anonymous]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

Hmmm... I may be able to make it!  H'burg isn't that far from me, about 2 - 2.5 hours.

That's the weekend after my b-day too, so I may have some extra spendin cash for trains!

[dbaker48]

BTW: Asked our friend Bob to lock the "Stop the Chief" thread.  Thought it was pretty good with Frank53's picture.  Just use Coffee Pot or Sunday Photo to post changes.  

I goofed!  Sorry about that, I posted after that fantastic sign picture.  I tried to go back and delete my post but it was too late.

 Survived the weekend, was not a very good show this post people probably watching the game or just staying home. 

Decided to take yesterday off work, need at least 1 day off every two weeks.  So was sorting some stuff and found 3 sound upgrades marked for "O gauge Steam", don't remember what I had in myind when they were purchased

Got to resolve some issues with the El Camino upgrade going on,  we got some door and rocker panels to add some flair.  Company A sells them, recommended Company B to install, Company B did some work, and uses Company C for painting.  Company C says they don't fit.  Company B doesn't have resolution with company A.       I am totally confused !!

[Buckeye Riveter]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

Hmmm... I may be able to make it!  H'burg isn't that far from me, about 2 - 2.5 hours.

You'll be sorry!!!!

[wrmcclellan]

Another cold one here. High about 35. Cloudy. Maybe. some flurries.

On an early one to NYC in the morning. "See" youze guize when I get back.

HEY LAZ - don't 9 iron that 080 - send it to me

Have a great day all!

[Jumijo]

A frantic morning here at work. A hot water pipe burst one office over from me. The occupant, a fellow toy train buff, wasn't in yet. Water everywhere. We formed a bucket brigade until a plumber could be found.

I forgot to mention, but this weekend, I shot some short videos of our layout on my daughter's disposable video camera. But no one here would want to see any thing like that, right? I didn't think so.

Jim 

[Anonymous]

This is also a good day to not put your tongue on the pump handle, -8 as I'm typing this

Jon 

To quote from a famous movie we all know and love ( A Christmas Story )  "Go ahead, Jon!  I dare ya!  I double dog dare ya!

Good Morning from the Great White North.  I have to admit, I was hoping we wouldn't see any snow at all this winter.  My dreams were dashed yesterday but all in all it wasn't the storm they predicted.  A far cry from the 6-7" of snow we were supposed to get.

One of the more expensive locos in my roster is a Lionel #18071 SP GS4 Daylight from 1998.  From the beginning it's been a dissapointing engine due to the number of inaccuracies it has.  Well, I finally discovered why it's such a poor representation of a GS4.  In reality this engine is a modified N&W J!  It's main body is a postwar 746 with added side skirting and nose modifications to make it look like a GS4.  Even the tender is from a 746 and looks nothing like the original GS4's other than they replaced the coal load with a deck to represent a fuel oil carrier.  Ad to this the fact that the paint job from the engine to tender doesn't line up ( a full 1/4" off ) and you really get the impression that this was a real factory hack job.

If I wasn't concerned about messing up a loco in excellent condition it would be easier to return this Hienz 57 to it's J configuration then to modify it into an accurate representation of a GS4.  For now it'll remain as is, one of the ultimate in Lionel factory interpretations.  Oddly, I somehow feel better about owning such a wierd engine.

Bruce Webster

[ChiefEagles]

Don, no problem.  Don't apologize.  I bet Roy will come up with something.

[rtraincollector]

Glad all is fine chief .

hey sent you an email the other day did you get?

RT

I replied per the CTT forum.  Check for a message in your inbox.  If not email me again and we will try to get you an answer back.

Sent you another with my email address in it. For got my email button on bottom doesn't work

The email address you sent, doesn't work.  Comes back unknown.  Sorry.  Answer to one question:  March 22 thru 25, Bass Pro Shops in Harrisburg PA.  PA gang and are will be going to some restaurant to meet for a meal.  Only "hitch", may have to train West Marine managers that weekend in Baltimore. 

Morning all.  Cloudy and warm.  Suppose to turn cooler by afternoon.  Hope to do additional wiring on layout and then go to Miss Edna's and pickup some straight track to make the loops go to the back of the walk-in.  Wish switches were here.  Chat later.

BTW: Asked our friend Bob to lock the "Stop the Chief" thread.  Thought it was pretty good with Frank53's picture.  Just use Coffee Pot or Sunday Photo to post changes.  

 

Its supose to be fix in the forum now. its supose to be [e-mail]

[Anonymous]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

Hmmm... I may be able to make it!  H'burg isn't that far from me, about 2 - 2.5 hours.

You'll be sorry!!!!

Uh Oh... is there a story missing here?

[Anonymous]

Glad all is fine chief .

hey sent you an email the other day did you get?

RT

I replied per the CTT forum.  Check for a message in your inbox.  If not email me again and we will try to get you an answer back.

Sent you another with my email address in it. For got my email button on bottom doesn't work

The email address you sent, doesn't work.  Comes back unknown.  Sorry.  Answer to one question:  March 22 thru 25, Bass Pro Shops in Harrisburg PA.  PA gang and are will be going to some restaurant to meet for a meal.  Only "hitch", may have to train West Marine managers that weekend in Baltimore. 

Morning all.  Cloudy and warm.  Suppose to turn cooler by afternoon.  Hope to do additional wiring on layout and then go to Miss Edna's and pickup some straight track to make the loops go to the back of the walk-in.  Wish switches were here.  Chat later.

BTW: Asked our friend Bob to lock the "Stop the Chief" thread.  Thought it was pretty good with Frank53's picture.  Just use Coffee Pot or Sunday Photo to post changes.  

 

Its supose to be fix in the forum now. its supose to be [e-mail]

It worked for me!

But I have some of that special 'make it work' dust, so that could explain it... and I don't share the 'make it work' dust, so don't bother asking!  Oh and it only works on computers, not trains!

[Anonymous]

Don't ask me why, but this just popped into my head.

I was off yesterday and watched Superman Returns... not a bad flick... they changed some stuff I don't agree with, but that isn't why I am posting this...

In the movie Lex Luther and his cronies attempt to recreate a miniature version of Superman's Crystal cave. They take a chip off one of the crystals and toss it into water on an O-Gauge RR! What I wouldn't do to have the layout in my basement! Of course the layout gets destroyed as the crystals grow!

Any one ever seen a layout plan for that layout?

[jefelectric]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

I'm not a fussy eater Laz.  Doc Holliday's is good for steak, there are a bunch of the chain restaurants around PBS so just pick one and it will be OK with me. 

 

[Locomotive681]

  A very snowy upstate NY today

   Not much train activity latily glad the here the Cheif is ok. Like my new avitar I cant wait for them to come out so i can get one or 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and on and on.

Mike

[fifedog]

Evenin' boys.  Back on daywork.  Tough cold day here in the Mid-Atlantic.  Had to burry one of our boys fromt he city today up in the gardens.  We gave him a proper send-off though.

Made an excellent purchase on a 6 car set of Lionel aluminum C&O passenger cars (6-19145 thru 150) from a dear friend, and they look just like the train the South Branch Valley runs, behind my B&O 6604.

88 - careful on the Chessie  F units.  That road didn't paint any in the yellow-blue-vermillion.  They had WESTERN MARYLAND  F's well into the Chessie era.  Most of the F's were traded in on second generation units (GP40-2's). 

[Anonymous]

Hello - just noting that winter has finally arrived in NC. The temperature is dropping like the proverbial rock. Ugh!

[ChiefEagles]

Nurse just called, cholesterol levels are great, blood sugar level is very good, PSA outstandingly low, liver functions OK but: got spur on vertabra in neck and sinuses stopped up.  Hope to get by for a while before I have to have another neck operation [left side this time] and taking stro9ng antibotics for sinuses.  

Now:  trains run all the way to the back of walk-in.

High speed NS coal and piggyback train passes slower NS pulling Canadian grain train.  Can pull LOOONG trains and they disapear and sounds goes too.  Got them up to about 80 scale mph and no problem with 072 curves.

Look to the right of the grain elevator, you can see NS caboose and back piggyback of the outside loop coal and piggyback train being pulled by SD80, Dash 8, SD80 lashup.

 

 

Town Board tonight and then off to Greenville NC tomorrow mid morning for Overton's training.  Back Thursday night.  Only a short drive [70 miles one way and will go by Mom's].

[dwiemer]

 

I was going to bid on a GG-1 restore project yesterday but was informed that I have been cut off from EBay, LHS, and other hobby stores till after the new house has been built.  I did an inventory over the weekend and I have a bit more than I thought!    So I guess I can't complain... plus we are looking at a wide variety in house size, so I can't go overboard on purchases and not have the layout/display area for everything, so I reluctantly agreed... but I did not agree to stop reading and posting to the boards!

Ah yes, another one of us enters the relm of "TRAIN RESTRICTION" I am not only on train restriction, but have gone to the next level of Double Secret Probation.  She who must be obeyed has allowed me a few extras, but otherwise, I have to get the layout done and trains running.  We absolutely have too many boxes...I have even taken over my son's closet stacked floor to ceiling with rolling stock.

I am on the lookout for a K-Line "Watchman's Shanty", and a Wabash engine to go with my MTH Madisons.  After these, I don't want to push it, or I may be having an early appointment with the big Guy upstairs.

Chief, be sure to get a head count so you can bring enough GRITS for everyone

Dennis

[dwiemer]

Chief, glad you are in such fine health.  The layout is really coming along and the long trains look great.  On a side note, if the antibiotics cause any digestive discomfort, eat some yogurt.  Strong antibiotics also get rid of the good bugs that help and the yogurt will help replenish.

Dennis

[rtraincollector]

 

I was going to bid on a GG-1 restore project yesterday but was informed that I have been cut off from EBay, LHS, and other hobby stores till after the new house has been built.  I did an inventory over the weekend and I have a bit more than I thought!    So I guess I can't complain... plus we are looking at a wide variety in house size, so I can't go overboard on purchases and not have the layout/display area for everything, so I reluctantly agreed... but I did not agree to stop reading and posting to the boards!

Ah yes, another one of us enters the relm of "TRAIN RESTRICTION" I am not only on train restriction, but have gone to the next level of Double Secret Probation.  She who must be obeyed has allowed me a few extras, but otherwise, I have to get the layout done and trains running.  We absolutely have too many boxes...I have even taken over my son's closet stacked floor to ceiling with rolling stock.

I am on the lookout for a K-Line "Watchman's Shanty", and a Wabash engine to go with my MTH Madisons.  After these, I don't want to push it, or I may be having an early appointment with the big Guy upstairs.

Chief, be sure to get a head count so you can bring enough GRITS for everyone

Dennis

 

Heres your wabash engines on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lionel-2367-Wabash-F-3-A-B-Unit-Diesel-Engines_W0QQitemZ140073319913QQihZ004QQcategoryZ4146QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140073319913

[Anonymous]

Evenin' boys.  Back on daywork.  Tough cold day here in the Mid-Atlantic.  Had to burry one of our boys fromt he city today up in the gardens.  We gave him a proper send-off though.

Made an excellent purchase on a 6 car set of Lionel aluminum C&O passenger cars (6-19145 thru 150) from a dear friend, and they look just like the train the South Branch Valley runs, behind my B&O 6604.

88 - careful on the Chessie  F units.  That road didn't paint any in the yellow-blue-vermillion.  They had WESTERN MARYLAND  F's well into the Chessie era.  Most of the F's were traded in on second generation units (GP40-2's). 

Fife,
I'm not interested in the Chessie F units for any other reason than I think they are beautiful.  If I ever find a GG-1 in need of restoration I am going to pick it up and repaint it in a Chesapeake and Ohio paint scheme, if I find two then the other is getting a B&O paint scheme...

[jefelectric]

I am on the lookout for a K-Line "Watchman's Shanty", and a Wabash engine to go with my MTH Madisons.  After these, I don't want to push it, or I may be having an early appointment with the big Guy upstairs.

Dennis

Dennis, If you are looking for new, check these out.

http://www.railking1gauge.com/detail.asp?item=30-2453-1

Jim has them for 260 and the B for 65

http://www.jimstrainshop.com/xcart/customer/search.php?substring=wABASH&in_category=

Is this what you are looking for?

[laz 57]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

I'm not a fussy eater Laz.  Doc Holliday's is good for steak, there are a bunch of the chain restaurants around PBS so just pick one and it will be OK with me. 

Lets see when the time nears but sounds ok to me.  Docs or any of them close to BPS.

laz57

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  Well I greased up the Lionel B&A 0-8-0 and reprogramed it also oiled it and checked under the hood for wires pinched and still the same thing runs slow good but when I speed up will hesitate and go and hesitate and go. All kinds of lurching.  Got to take it in for repairs.

laz57

[rtraincollector]

Sounds good CHIEF, I'll have to get together with GIZ to see where we want to eat.  Lots of good places near BPS.  How bout it GIZ?  JELECTRIC, MITCH, anyone else?

laz57

Will have to see whats what come then but plan to make a trip to Lancaster in that time frame so I may try to meet with you all If I can get up there that weekend depends whats going on around here.