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

[sir james I]

HOT:  played with trains,beat Tiger woods on PS2...........HOT .no rain.

[kpolak]

 

I seemed to have misplaced some trains, does anyone know what i did with my 2025 engine and tender?

Hhhmmmmm...

Seems Jim; Jaabat has presented a never before seen 2025 and tender on Sunday photo fun.

Coincidence???

Happy Birthday Thor!

Kurt

[CSXect]

 

 

been alot to read threw and trying to keep up.

 I seemed to have misplaced some trains, does anyone know what i did with my 2025 engine and tender?

 

Beware Zeke that is a symtom of the train bug,  I once found a box of green PRR passenger set that I bought and forgot about

[phillyreading]

Sounds like Georgia is a good place to watch trains.

Any way Amtrac comes down to Jacksonville FL then works its way west to Orlando, goes a few miles further west then goes south to Okeechobee FL and east to West Palm Beach FL then goes south to Miami FL, not sure of the exact route but that is pretty close to it.  Amtrac was working on a deal about five years ago to use FEC(Florida East Coast) tracks from Jacksonville to Miami but didn't get the needed money from the government to make that happen, FEC wanted to lease the right of way to Amtrac.  FEC has not seen a regular passenger train in almost 43 years on their tracks, sometimes a passenger car behind the freight train but never a full passenger train since the strike of 1964 by passenger employees of FEC, due to low ridership and expenses FEC did away with passenger service in 1964 and has been mainly freight ever since.

Lee F.

[magicman710]

Hey Grayson, is that platform the same as Folkston or is it better??

Thanks!
Rich

Rich, the Jesup platform is inferior to the Folkston platform.  The Folkston platform has viewings of up to 75+ trains a day , since to the north is the subdivision that goes to Waycross, the other track is called the Nahunta Sub, it come form Jacksonville, and it goes through Jesup and then Savannah. Jesup has a Juntion of trains from Folkston (Nahunta Sub), Waycross, and Savannah and theres a Amtrak Station there as well. Jesup has been known to have up to 40 trains a day.

 

Grayson

[anjdevil2]

Hey Grayson, is that platform the same as Folkston or is it better??

I've been threatening to get there sometime, just work gets in the way.  Is it better during the week or weekend?

I've been trying to catch the FEC near US 1 here, but my timing must be off (and I can't seem to get a schedule from anyone...)

Thanks!
Rich

[magicman710]

Evening all,

It got up to 95 today with 60% humidity, pork chops for supper. Going to Jesup, Georgia (a hour drive from Savannah) to go to the railfan platform there. Should be some good views. Hope everybody has a good night and good Tuesday. Thor,

 

See ya'll later, 

 

Grayson

[dwiemer]

Thor, I know it is tomorrow, but the way this thread goes, we may be several pages on and I won't remember to say it again.  Anyway, hope you have a good one.  We are not quite to your number, but celebrate it about the same.  A little subdude, but still nice to be recognized.  My bride usually lets me order whatever I want and she gets it and holds it till my day.  Think this next year will be a #773

Have a meeting with county commissioner and then a meeting with a rep. at outback.  At least it will be a good meal.  I usually don't go out with Mfg.Reps, but don't want to be rude either.  This is all eating into my train time.

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Dennis

[Anonymous]

thor!

 

Hey guys and gals> thanks for all your thoughts and everything I am so much better today. I rested up yesterday and today i am feeling great. They are scheduling my tumor removal for a cpl weeks  its a in and out type of deal from what i understood?.

 

been alot to read threw and trying to keep up.

 I seemed to have misplaced some trains, does anyone know what i did with my 2025 engine and tender?

well its been 105-112 here last few days and that is way too hot. Will somone please send me some rain?

the guys showed up today to get the saab soo its leaving today or tomorrow, will kinda miss it.

 

well i will be around and well glad to be back, missed you all

[csxt30]

Hi everyone !!  A little on the warm side here today, 90 some !!  Nice & cool down here in my trainroom !!  (basement !!) 

Thor : a very  to you tomorrow !!  You will then be the same age as me !!   

Well, not much going on here cause I can't reveal my latest Top Secret project that I'm working on !! If I did that, it would no longer be Top Secret !! So Jim A, wild horses won't get it out of me !!

Congratulations Jim A on your tremendous amount of quality & FUN posts !!

Hope everyone has a nice evening !!

Thanks, John

[anjdevil2]

Happy B-day Thor

Age is only a number....no matter how big it is!!!

[laz 57]

THOR, and many more.

laz57

[Brutus]

Jim,
I thought you were going to complement me on my home improvement abilities!  LOL!

Actually the panel is all duplex breakers so I doubt I can go higher.

Sounds like you could make a subpanel, but you'd have to move some of the current cables over....

[Jumijo]

Back from jury duty. Didn't get picked as all cases were settled out before a jury could take the case.

So now I'm off the rest of the day! Spent the last hour cleaning up the house. Hope to run some trains and continue cleaning and detailing my 2343s. I also want to photograph the K-Line Pacific I repainted and turned into a Boston & Maine loco.

Happy birthday, Thor, Mike, whatever name you use here...

Got another post war 6464-475 B&M boxcar today.

Jim

[cnw1995]

Happy Birthday, Thor! 

Yes, Roy, I'll be in Chicago at the end of this month - can you email me about your possible plans?

[Anonymous]

Brent, the odds are that you are barely using half of your current potential.  I would put a small breaker box out in the garage and set it up as a service panel with a double 30 or 50 breaker in the main box.  Look in the main box for your manufacturer and see if you can replace current single 15 or 20 amp breakers with duplex breakers (twin half-width breakers) to make more space.  This is what I did.  I used about 50 feet of 8-3 with grnd cable to connect my main panel to my subpanel.  Just label the breaker in the main panel and write in the subpanel - "shut off in main panel".  The Home Depot wiring book shows how to do this.  Then, you can put your 220's in your subpanel.

Here is a great site for finding out about this stuff:

http://www.terrylove.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9

Jim,
I thought you were going to complement me on my home improvement abilities!  LOL!

Actually the panel is all duplex breakers so I doubt I can go higher.

[Anonymous]

Thor,

         Happy Birthday!  I didn't see it before I typed the last post.

[Brutus]

Brent, the odds are that you are barely using half of your current potential.  I would put a small breaker box out in the garage and set it up as a service panel with a double 30 or 50 breaker in the main box.  Look in the main box for your manufacturer and see if you can replace current single 15 or 20 amp breakers with duplex breakers (twin half-width breakers) to make more space.  This is what I did.  I used about 50 feet of 8-3 with grnd cable to connect my main panel to my subpanel.  Just label the breaker in the main panel and write in the subpanel - "shut off in main panel".  The Home Depot wiring book shows how to do this.  Then, you can put your 220's in your subpanel.

Here is a great site for finding out about this stuff:

http://www.terrylove.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9

[Anonymous]

Chief,

            I remember Jim telling us that, you were able to work in a Halle Berry coment.  Good luck running for mayor, I'd vote for you if I lived in Rolesville.  I think you are going to win.

I haven't done too much lately.  Went to a local salvage yard last Thursday.  Guy told me on the phone that he had a 97 Probe GT with a sunroof.  When I got there, I found out that it was a 97 SE with a sunroof, Only problem is that the sunroofs are completely different between the SE and GT.  I pulled the sunvisors for only $5, and they cleaned up to like NOS.  Makes me regret the worn set I previously bought on ebay for $52!  I got caught in the heavy rain Thursday, but I kept digging through that car.  Won a 397 coal loader last night.  Hope everyone has a good day.

[Anonymous]

Brent, you are making me look REALLY bad, man!  Took me months to wire my basement and sounds like you redid your entire house in a week?!  Well, after a marathon day yesterday, my basement wiring is all done except connections to the load center and install lights and fan in bathroom.

Jim,
I didn't rewire the house, just replaced some switches and outlets.  Still have the following rooms to do:

Family Room
Office
3 spare rooms
Kitchen
Garage

These 7 rooms represent over half the switches and outlets in the house.  There are 10 outlets in the kitchen alone!

I am considering upgradeing the electrical service from 200 Amps to 400 Amps.  I will need at least 100 Amps for the extra garage when it is built and they only go from 200 to 400, and the main house could certainly use an upgrade since the circuits are rather few for the number of rooms, and other equipment on them.  I have to run a 20 Amp circuit to the garage for the Air Compressor and that will leave only 1 free breaker slot in the panel... don't like that.

The house work will really slow down starting tomorrow as school starts back up for me for 6 weeks.  Haven't decided if I want to do one more class this year or put the last 4 off till next year...

[Brutus]

Welcome home, Zeke - hang in there dude.  If you are reading a bible, I'd suggest the book of Job right now.  Seems you have had a ton of stuff going on in the past few months that we've known you.  You will see that God gave Job back double what he "lost".  Make an honest woman of Jenny.

Happy BDAY Thor!

Hi guys, took the day off and watching Independence Day with my son.  Daughter still wanted to go to the sitters, since there are a couple of other girls and today is library day.  Jaabat - congrats on the 4K - looking forwared to 401K!  Laz - he's got a home computer now, but if you really buckle down I'm sure you can beat him!  Brent, you are making me look REALLY bad, man!  Took me months to wire my basement and sounds like you redid your entire house in a week?!  Well, after a marathon day yesterday, my basement wiring is all done except connections to the load center and install lights and fan in bathroom.

No sooner got my drac car and Trainz emails that they just shipped my preordered Halloween Aquarium car   Gonna go down and measure some space in the basement later.

[FJ and G]

happy birthday, Thor!

[thor]

Hello everyone. I'll be the big 60 tomorrow - July 10th - that's what my wife bought me the Docksider for! I'm still over the moon about it, I've hauled loads up steep inclines with it, shunted with much better precision than my other locos and am generally pleased as Punch with the little blighter. Not so pleased about the big six oh though...as I said to my wife "I was never consulted about this aging business and had I known beforehand what was involved, I think I might have declined the opportunity!"

On the other hand I wouldnt have the three wonderful children who got me started with Lionel two Christmases ago and I wouldnt have four lovely grandchildren to play with nor my favorite niece Asherah who is the little girl I'm bringing up on her parents behalf (I'm retired) so they can both work and leave me a train mate to lay tracks on the floor with!

This IS a wonderful forum and I do enjoy the folks here, hopefully I'll get to meet a couple some day. Just putting in a quick plug for tomorrow as unfortunately all my few trusty long term mates live far, far away so tomorrow will be a rather subdued 'celebration' not the round objects to the wall beer blast I would rather have enjoyed if the opportunity arose.

Never mind, a nice cup of cocoa and early bed, I'm officially OLD now! Bummer.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

Humid, cloudy and warm here. Mid 90's for highs and high 70's for lows predicted the next 7 days --- and with rain forecast every day . The good news is the water restrictions are slowly being lifted.

Jim A - Congrats on the 4K milestone!

LAZ - Congrats on being 500 behind Jim A!

Chief - Congrats on just being the Chief

Doug - YOu still gonna be in town when we come up for the LCCA convention in 3 weeks?

Have a great day all!

[Anonymous]

Man it is another hot one today. I just hope all the corn I planted doesn't stop growing. Well I'm no longer between jobs I was wishing for more time this summer to spend time with the girls.

One good thing about getting another job is that I can do something stupid like buy a nice PRR E-8. Now I have to fins one. Someone like me really should not go train watching I find that I want every train i see on the real tracks. That darn Altoona Railfest anyways.

 

I take a person at face value unless he gives me reason not to! 

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a hot and humid Chicago where I am back from a few days off hosting my mom. It has been a week-long run of clear skies and high temps. We went on our annual visit on Saturday to Donley's Wild West Town - a throw-back to classic family-run amusements - complete with pony rides, riding the mini-train, panning for pyrite, shooting arrows, slingshots and airguns, and drinking sasparilla in the saloon. They had a neat kid-powered speeder ride where one spun a crank and raced over the rails. When I was growing up, our family used to camp in Lake Conway in NH - right next to North Conway - hope Jim A gets to ride the Conway Scenic Railroad.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning all.  Hot and humid and NO rain.   I guess you could say, "What's new."

Now we are going to have prayers that is turns HOT and HUMID in North Conway after 5 days and stays that way for a week.  [see, no A/C where Jim is staying ].  Lets see, last year the "kids turned brown as berries", if I quote him right.   Must be some strange New England berry.    Lets see.  We have blackberries, blueberries [called huckaberries in the south where they grow wild] and cranberries.  No brown berries.  Maybe those things that rabbits leave behind can be brown berries.

Off to Raleigh for lunch with oldest daughter and then County Commissioner meeting most of the afternoon.

Hope all have a great week.  God bless all.

[sir james I]

Morning all.    NO RAIN here,76 at 530am going to 95.  Mich has had rain and storms but all have missed us. I have seen rain in the west, north south, but not here. 4000 post wow thats a lot. Ran some MTH yesterday to check batteries still have two engines to go. I'm using BCR's as the batt.'s fail. But i have seen engine boards fry when they were but in. I've been told it has to do with the charging board,if the BCR works the first time it suppose to be ok. If not tough luck. Everyone stay cool.      Mi. Jim.

[anjdevil2]

Back to work after 5 days off!!  I'm going to start part time at my LHS, got shown the ropes Saturday, then proceeded to waste my future earnings!!!  I'm getting a Polar Express with the NEW!!! tender (sans track & X-former), and ALL the extra cars!  THEN  I pre Ordered the Hogwarts set (delivery to be determined....)  Friday spent the day with my 15 y/o daughter (saw Ratatollie) and had lunch & shopped, Saturday night went to Dave & Busters then Go Carting & mini golf with the 28 y/o son.  Sunday...nothing, did run trains a couple of hours Sunday Night.

Man, I need a vacation from being off!!

LAZ & JAABAT CONGA on the MILESTONES..(hey Jim..how 'bout them YANKEES!! )

Got up this AM temps already in the 80's Humidity in th 90's...... YIKES!!

 Later

Rich 

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  Gonna be a hot one again today to get to 99.  Started laz CAMP at 520 this morning walked dog 1 mile and then did an easy 6 miler nice at 68.  Ate breakfast now hit weights for about 30 minutes then got to put grout down on tiled flooor.  Probably run trains this afternoon cause of the heat.

  JAABAT BIG CONGA CONGA, on the milestone.

I'm only 500 behind.

All have a good one.

laz57