jaabat wrote: Well, it's the All Star break. The Red Sox spent the weekend getting swept in Detroit.
Well, it's the All Star break. The Red Sox spent the weekend getting swept in Detroit.
Go Tigers!
I see you're at 4k. Bye Jim.
Kurt
Ah Ah aaaaaaa. You're at 4k. Ebbe Ebbe Ebbe, that's all folks.
Morning All
Got to run trains with the grandkids yesterday. Had lots of fun. Smoked one of the solenoids on the train crossing bell, should be easy enough to fix once I get the part. Sawmill started dropping planks too soon and not running to the end of the track. Turned out string had too much slack. The only thing I can figure is I've used it more than the previous owner and as such, the string stretched. A quick adjustment and back in business.
Chuck-Hope wife does OK
Jim & Laz-Congrats on the Huge number of posts!
May God bless
Jim
Good morning all,
I echo what Chuck said about the weather. It was warm and muggy when I got out of the truck this morning. I hope all goes well today with the stitches removal. I was runnning late today and so I did not post before the dining car left for "Points East". I sure hope he does not have "self-serve" much longer. I hope everyone (especially Zeke and Jenny) has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 64 degrees. Going up to a hot 94, today. Another day of hot, dry weather. Sun during the day and rain at night is good.
Today, I am taking the wife back to the Doctor, to have her stitches out and remove the big bandage. Hopefully she will get the OK to return to normal living. She seems to be improving every day.
No time for trains again. This will be a busy day. I have to set aside a day, this week, and do some train dusting.
Congratulations.... Jim... 4000 posts. Keep them coming.
Dining car has arrived and is ready. Still on self-serve. Time for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Monday.
Chuck
Good morning from New England! It rained here last night (again). I could get used to it. Sunny days and rain at night.
Off to jury duty soon. Not looking forward to that. Hopefully I'll be home early and be able to putz around with my trains. I'm also painting a Tony Stewart race car model for a colleague at work. Maybe I'll get something done on that today as well.
Well, it's the All Star break. The Red Sox spent the weekend getting swept in Detroit. This year's game is in Frisco. One of the nicer ballparks made recently.
Only 5 more days until vacation. North Conway, here we come!
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
WOW !! Just got back from the Freezer.
GLAD TO HEAR ZEKE IS DOING BETTER !! WHAT A WEEK
And the Chief's runnin for mayor ????
Don
dwiemer wrote: Glad you had a good vacation Roy. We did get the rain you drove through. It started later in the evening and rained all night. God Bless,Dennis
Glad you had a good vacation Roy. We did get the rain you drove through. It started later in the evening and rained all night.
God Bless,
Dennis
We got some of that rain this afternoon in Savannah, plenty of thunder and lightning, with my yard being flooded.
Good night everybody and have a good Monday,
Grayson
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
dwiemer wrote: We did get the rain you drove through. It started later in the evening and rained all night. Made a nice night for me and the MRS. Kids slept like rocks and eventually we did too. God Bless,Dennis
We did get the rain you drove through. It started later in the evening and rained all night. Made a nice night for me and the MRS. Kids slept like rocks and eventually we did too.
BRAG!!!!
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Late night for me today!I must say I had a very tiring weekend. Friday night I spent installing more lights and replacing switches and outlets. Saturday, Susan and I spent painting the Master Bedroom (was very nice to spend time with her and actually get something done on the house), also replaced switches and outlets in the Master Bedroom and upstairs hallway. Stopped at Lowes to pickup two more lights and more switches and outlets. Installed the new light in the first floor hallway and in the stairway to the basement. Today a friend stopped by to help install the new foyer light. We had to build a 4ft by 10 ft platform to get to the light fixture. He did 80% of the work because he got on the platform first and he is an Electrical Engineer, he 'fixed' the miss wired box and now everything looks and opperates correctly! The platform is in the process of being dismantled and moved to the basement for pending train layout construction. While we were working on the foyer light, Susan stripped a wallpaper border from the hall bathroom. Once that was done she realized she wanted to repaint the whole room, change the light fixture, change the faucet (this is why I am up late - she found one on EBay that she likes - and I got out bid!), and change the towel bar and toilet paper holder. So we stopped at Lowes and picked up the new light fixture and a wall sconce for the powder room (two more electrical projects when I thought I was finally done with them).
Well the second faucet ends in 22 minutes... wish me luck... I'm going back in!
Glad you had a good vacation Roy. We did get the rain you drove through. It started later in the evening and rained all night. Made a nice night for me and the MRS. Kids slept like rocks and eventually we did too. We had some rain showers several times this last week in the late afternoon. Reminded me of my days in South Florida, rain each afternoon for a short while and then gone.
Had a good night church tonight. Kids from middle and high school went on retreat and returned today. They presented tonight and did a good job. I was again running the light board as the guy who was scheduled was dealing with a kidney stone.....I would take the lights over a stone any day.
I read that the NJ governor signed one of the "feel good about yourself green laws" into law. They are making folks cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2020....FOOLS. At least one good part is that it shifts more emphasis on shipping and commuter by RAILS! So, it looks like more railroading in NJ.
Anyway, spouted off enough. Hope everyone has a great week ahead. I am planning on getting the lawn done and some wiring done on the layout this week. I have a meeting with the commissioner for the county regarding Fire/Ems merger, etc. I have a bit of informed experience in this and hopefully we can get things rolling for better coverage.
TCA#09-63805
jaabat wrote: No porblem, Chukc. Only trying to help!Jury duty tomorrow. I'm bringing CTT and OGR to read. Last time I had to serve 3 days as jury foreman on an assult with a deadly weapon case. Speaking of assault with a dealy weapon, I think I'm going to a salt and pepper up a roast beef sandwich and pour myself a glass of milk to go with it. Maybe go see what's on the History Channel.Hey, you guys are great! I might actually miss a few of you!
No porblem, Chukc. Only trying to help!
Jury duty tomorrow. I'm bringing CTT and OGR to read. Last time I had to serve 3 days as jury foreman on an assult with a deadly weapon case. Speaking of assault with a dealy weapon, I think I'm going to a salt and pepper up a roast beef sandwich and pour myself a glass of milk to go with it. Maybe go see what's on the History Channel.
Hey, you guys are great! I might actually miss a few of you!
TOO MUCH WINE!!!!!! Hope Mary drove home.
Back from MIL's where we had chicken pastery, butter beans and roast. Too full. Need to play badminton. Good night.
BTW: his jury duty was really him in court as defendant.
Good evening all,
It was hot in SE Indiana today with temps in the 90s. Fortunately I spent most of the day inside watching the races. Raikkonen won the f-1 race and Dixon made it three in a row at Watkins Glen. Manning was 9th for AJ with Danica 11th and Sarah 16th. I did a little tree trimming this evening. There were bran muffins on the dining car this morning. I am glad to hear Zeke is better. I hope everyone has a good day.
One more, Jim. ( thank goodness )
jaabat wrote: Ask and you shall recieve, Chuck! Nice, huh? Hey, speaking of brains, Dairy is spelled with the A before the I. Otherwise, you have this; Dear diary, today I met the man I'm going to marry... Only a few scant posts to go before I'm history here. Do ya hear me? History!!!Jim
Ask and you shall recieve, Chuck!
Nice, huh? Hey, speaking of brains, Dairy is spelled with the A before the I. Otherwise, you have this; Dear diary, today I met the man I'm going to marry...
Only a few scant posts to go before I'm history here. Do ya hear me? History!!!
Thanks again, Jim. I'll change the signs.
Chcuk
Wait Jim !! We didn't get our new Batmobiles we have preordered yet !! Stay till they come so I can find out if yours has big scratches on it or is all dinged up & mine is perfect !! They're coming in December !!
Thanks, John
I'm gonna miss you, Jim.
But, you are right. I did spell the word Dairy wrong. Gheeeeeez.
It's a good thing they are temporary signs. Now, I can make them in
Blue.
jaabat wrote: Hi! It's the New England Wisecracker! Back from the Christening party where I had a lot to eat and a moderate amount to drink. Lot to look at there as well!I loaded some photo software on my computer this morning and was able to successfully download a few photos, so now I will be posting images (of all kinds) more often. Like now. Here's a pic of my colon : Nice, huh? Jim
Hi! It's the New England Wisecracker! Back from the Christening party where I had a lot to eat and a moderate amount to drink. Lot to look at there as well!
I loaded some photo software on my computer this morning and was able to successfully download a few photos, so now I will be posting images (of all kinds) more often. Like now. Here's a pic of my colon : Nice, huh?
Nice picture, Jim. Now show us a picture of your brain !!!!!!!!!
Afternoon all! Back from a week on the Tennessee River and Lake Chickamauga. Lot's o' boating, fishing (Didn't catch anything significant), swimming, eating, and imbibbing various elixirs! About 40 folks (lot's o' kiddos) there this year with out of town and local visitors. Got enough rain to do the annual fireworks extravaganza - but we did cut back and we were able to get a couple of local firemen to bring their gear in case something happened.
Hopefully Dr. John and Dennis got some rain. The entire drive through Ala. and Miss. yesterday was in the rain (about 5 hours of driving in the rain). Ugh. Spent 10.5 hours driving yesterday so we are really tired and taking it easy today.
It has not stopped raining here. T-Storms and some heavy rain all morning today and maybe more this afternoon. Water restrictions are being lifted. My yard is a swamp.
Good to see ol' Zeke is pulling through so far - what a week for him.
Have a great evening all!
Regards, Roy
Buckeye Riveter wrote: A train stopped us at a crossing at the Soo. Interestingly, all engines in that part of the world have snow plows.
A train stopped us at a crossing at the Soo. Interestingly, all engines in that part of the world have snow plows.
Buckeye, I just read that a lot of roads put the snow plows on, not to plow snow, but for grade crossing protection. They tend to push the offenders off to the side rather than drag them on down the track as they do with the exposed frame.
Renovo, Thanks for pointing out that the engines are E8s not E7s, as usual I was confused. BTW there is a site with lots of pictures of Juniata Terminal Bennett Levin's Company. Also I think the Chief's SUV is on the right of way for the old track #2 that was removed some time back.
http://www.trainweb.org/railpix/juniata1.html
Zeke, You need to follow Lisa's & your Dr's advice.
Take care,
My heavens yes there is. An unknown and close to the action place is the train station downtown Johnstown. You can just walk through the front door go all the way to the back and up the steps. You are smack in the middle of the tracks.
There are several places near a very small town Cassandra, Pa. The most popular is a old iron bridge that once was part of old RT 53. It is call Cassandra Overlook and the main feature is a rail cut and the longest straight away on the line. Not far is the Jamestown Bridge.
The town of Cresson has a whole section of town that is for the railfan. This is another section of the track you can get up and close to the trians.
There are cool stone bridges located in Summerhill and Mineral Point.
I guess there are just way too many places to mention. All of the above places are West of the Horse Shoe Curve with Johnstown the longest distance. it is about 30 minutes from Johnstown to the Horse Shoe Curve unless your like me then it becomes a day trip.
Let me know if you want to take some photographs if I'm free I can take you.
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
I had another great day I just love the E 8. The crowd was light for the first run and the bad thing was the E 8 went through the curve between two freight trains on the way up. I later made stops at Galitzen, Cresson, Lilly and Cassandra.
I never could shake that disappointed feeling all day though. However thinking more about trains made me forget about it. My two-day total of Photographs is 387.
Well just to show you there are other interesting trains at the curve I leave you with this photograph.
PS: if anyone is in need of a guided tour of the area let me know.
Zeke, Glad you're out and on the road to recovery. We lifted you up in prayer. Also working on some prayer and packages for the guys in Kuwait who are in rehab to head back to the fight. A friend owns "Ranger Joes" and he will include these items for the troops.
Hope everyone has had a good day. Church was great, talked about how we raise our kids.... lots of good information. Have "Mary Poppins" on the tube for the kids and wife is out shopping for our up coming trip to Jersey. I am at my command post watching over the brood and waiting till time for evening church. I start call in the morning. Hope to get some train time in this week, but have a commission committee meeting to get to, etc.
Take care, Y'all,
ZEKESTER......WELCOME HOME, DUDE!!
'bout friggin time you got back...
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
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