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

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a sunny and warm Chicago where I rode the water taxi all the way to the end of the river - in lieu of getting to work right away. What a delightful way to begin a day. I am jealous though  - an acquaintance works at a small firm recently acquired by Google -he's now a googlilliniaire

Jim F, that beautiful CNJ boxcab has third rail shoes instead of pantagraphs - see 'em by the trucks in the picture. 

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Cool & overcast here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Lots to do today.

Sir James - Congrats on the CENTURY mark!

Bakeer - Maybe NICK can send you some left over lumber to build that ark.

jaabat - Be carefull---->CRACK KILLS!

mitchelr - I'll let you do the grilling at the GOLDEN SPIKE BEER-FEST ceremony.  How many pounds of shrimp should I order?

laz57 - Partner, you're supposed to visit the 19th hole after the 18th hole, not after the 2nd.

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  TGIF.

  Went GOLFIN yesterday with brother.  Beat him by one stroke dispite a 9 on the third hole,STINKY ROTTEN HOLE.  Otherwise played well.  Didn't have to use the foot wedge.

JELECTRIC, nice engine, did you get it at BARRYs or COOLTRAINS?

BUCKEYE, send the beer here I'll take care of it for you.

MITCH, pace yourself at the outing today.

All have a good one.

laz57

[laz 57]

Went to gun shop yesterday and ordered a MARLIN lever action 38-357 for shooting next Wed. should be in on Friday.

Is that the cowboy model?  Either one looks sharp, cook rifle!  I guess you'll be loaded for BEAR, Laz!

Nope not the cowboy model, I wish, Love the octagon barrel.  Got it cause I have a Colt .357 Python and figured I could hunt with both and shoot with 38s too.

laz57

[sir james I]

A good morning to all. This is 101 pages for me. THANKS for letting me tag along.

[Jumijo]

Good Morning Everyone !! Got up about an hour ago & noticed Jim said he doesn't have his underwear on !! Must be low on them !! I hope he doesn't get me in too much trouble today !!    I have today off, using my Safety day before I loose it July 1st. Then we get another one!!  One every 6 months if no one gets hurt! Well, now I'm off to have some Tony the Tigers !! 

    

Hope everyone has a nice day !! 

Thanks, John

 

Hey John, it's Commando Friday! Are you with me? It feels grrrrrrrreat!

 

[Anonymous]

That boxcab is extremely cool.

Off to the coast to pick up my son from camp. A good day to everyone. Did get a little train action in this AM. Turns out my Plymouth Switcher runs just fine in tandem with my BEEP. My postwar cars continue to experience coupler failure caused by apparently anything - a change in air pressure, a passing sigh, whatever. Sheesh.

 

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone !! Got up about an hour ago & noticed Jim said he doesn't have his underwear on !! Must be low on them !! I hope he doesn't get me in too much trouble today !!    I have today off, using my Safety day before I loose it July 1st. Then we get another one!!  One every 6 months if no one gets hurt! Well, now I'm off to have some Tony the Tigers !! 

    

Hope everyone has a nice day !! 

Thanks, John 

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a sunny 60 degrees. Going up to 84 today with mostly sunshine.

Today is a chores around the house day. I have to run a few errands, later, and get ready for the trip North, tomorrow. Gas prices have come down to $2.79 a gallon. Still too high. I got a lot done yesterday. I'm glad the bridge painting is done. Now, to put it back on the layout. I think I will try some tubular track on it, to see how it looks. I'll have to take some pictures.

Well, Dining Car is here and ready for breakfast. Later.

Y'all have a great Friday. John ( csxt30 )....Enjoy !!

Chuck

[Jumijo]

Good morning from New England!

New carpet installed yesterday looks great. Chuck's blueberry bridge looks great. I'm not wearing underpants and I feel great!

My sunburn from a few weeks back is finally beginning to peel. 

Buckeye, what is wrong with you?! You don't give a case of beer to a kid who just got arrested for DUI! How wrong of you to even suggest such a thing! Clearly a nickle bag of hemp or maybe a couple grams of coke are called for under these circustances, but not more alchohol.

Only 4 days until the Roseyville Rascal makes his pilgrimage to the North. He loves it up here. so much so that every time we hook up, he grabs a bunch of real estate flyers and booklets. He's looking to move up!

Jim 

[mitchelr]

Morning to All

A fresh pot is in the burner. Today is the last day with teachers. We will have a big picnic with lots of good food.  I'll grill some burgers and we're having steamed shrimp. Yum.  I have two teachers retiring after 32 and 36 years respectively.  Both are top-notch.  We'll miss them greatly. Then I have about a week and a half of training before I get to start the new job in earnest. 

Take care.

Mitch 

[John Bakeer]

0930GMT in a very wet and windy Stockport, temperature down from 26C Monday to 14C today, I would love to donate a few drops to you guys in NC, TX. The middle of the country is suffering floods with disruption to rail and road. As the Armoury and I are 90 metres above sea level, the Robinsons is in no danger (Friday I can play out untill late and drink as much of the foaming brown stuff as I want! hic!).

Talk about daft; Just seen an item in our press about a town in Louisianna that has banned the wearing of tight trowsers that show the outline of the underwear, in this enlightened age the good bourgers will fine you $1,000.00 or lock you away for 6 months if you disobey. Is it me? Or is the world really going to end in 2012? It probably should end in 2011! Then we will be spared the utter stupididy of the olympics being held here, it's acting like when someone steals the plug from a bath full of beer and the joy-juice dos a dissappearing act. Money is vanishing into its gaping maw and depriving the country of cash to prop up our crumbling infrastructure.

Cheif, Any chance of us getting a few million tons of grits to repair our sea defences?

I'm so fed up, I can't be bothered to do any smileys. 

Damn! And now the spell checker has vanished. Thood and blunder!!!! 

[Dr.Fu-Manchu]

Chief!! The Doctor Is In!I found some sweet tea here in Alameda, Ca. Arizona iced tea is selling Sourthern style sweet tea. It's very good, but Mrs.Fu wants to know if you can PM me the recipe for sweet tea(it might be cheaper than buying it by the gallon) I have found that sweet tea is addictive !!! My father(god rest his soul) never told me about sweet tea. he was born in the south and did not say much about his life there, but he said my grandfather made moonshine! My best to you and yours!

Till My Next Missive, I Remain The Humble Yet Strangly Evil Doctor!!

[Nick12DMC]

 

  nick --sweet ride when i was younger i loved that car. Do you have a flux capacitor?

Zeke, Dam, I did not tick that option box. Hover conversion would be sweet though... Hope the pool is doing ok. Our portable job takes all night to fill.

John B, Will try and get the D sorted for Ilkley next year. Take you for a spin. Guess the Hellgate Bridge will have to stay at home though. I can't see it fitting in the boot (trunk)

Expecting large amounts of building materials to arrive today. Oh lorry has just arrived

Catch you all later

Nick

[magicman710]

Well he will certainly be in our prayers.

Grayson

[Anonymous]

hey guys, glad everyone had a great day. i am off to bed been up for 30 something hrs. im out of steam. was gonna go to bed earlier but something came up.

 

Charles the man whom i talked about breifly had a fall today and broke his hip. He was trying to go down to his train room in the basement, wife called me earlier today. Said i lit a fire under him and hes been down there twice this week. today he fell down some stairs. broke his left arm and his hip. Hes not breathing to well right now either. I just had to get some sleep though. he is going in for surgery first thing in the morning. Please keep him in your thoughts.

 

well good night.

[ChiefEagles]

Worked on MTH dummy and itws smoke unit.  Had some very small LEDs I bought a year ago.  Put them in the dummy for headlights.  Bright!!!!!!!!  Got smoke bracket fixed for Atlas dummy.  Out of right size bolts so will wait until tomorrow.  Switched out the Atlas SD40's [high noses] as been running them a lot.  Put in the Atlas GP60 and the MTH Conrail dummy.  Put the Conrail first and running the GP60 in reverse.  MTH Conrail wants to uncouple with a heavy train.  Can't trust it.  anyone got a fix for this [got some MTH cars that do the same [so have to put them at the back of the consist].  Bed time.

[dougdagrump]

Quandary - The kid next door was arrested for DUI, minor in possession and driving on the sidewalks.  Do I still give him a case of Coors for his graduation gift? 

Buckeye, You could always give him a case of the "Non-Alcoholic" beer.

[Brutus]

Went to gun shop yesterday and ordered a MARLIN lever action 38-357 for shooting next Wed. should be in on Friday.

Is that the cowboy model?  Either one looks sharp, cook rifle!  I guess you'll be loaded for BEAR, Laz!

[sir james I]

Evening John,   Sounds like some stuff is being shipped. My local shop is 8 miles from Lionel so he does a good job at being kept informed, but at the moment its Zip. maybe to early in the month as they tend to ship closer to the end. Did you get any of the rain that went through Pa.? We need some but nothing, now it's maybe next week. every one enjoy your eve.

[Brutus]

• Cool John, is that an electric?  Does it have catenary on top?  Good evening from Arnold, where it got pretty darn warm today and still no rain this week.  I think Chief needs to "close the door"!  He's spreading the drought from Roseyville to Arnold!    Got a line on some 022 switches and hope it works out! 
• Sorry to hear about Mrs. Graham.  I agree that Billy Graham has been a real blessing to a lot of folks all over the world. 
• Hope Dr. John's wife is doing well, guess we will hear tomorrow.
• Glad to hear that your daughter is a-okay, Mike C.  How is Lucas doing, still good?  Is he 1 year out from treatment now?
• Buckeye, if you really really want to punish him, buy him some Black Label, that stuff will take the enamel off your teeth!

[ChiefEagles]

Evening all.  Cloudy but still no rain.  The "Grahams" have dedicated their lives to telling everyone about the Lord.  She will be missed and Billy is not in good health. 

Guys, Buckey was not serious about gving the case of Coors. 

Hey, where is Lisa?  Got an email from her but haven't seen any posts.

Brent, John F is the Pro that can help you with that wiring or I am the Am that can.  Really easy but be careful where you stick your fingers.

Later.  

[jefelectric]

Afternoon all. TODAY IS FLAG DAY there's still time to put a flag out.Went to my favorite train store today but no list of new shipments posted. They have no news from the big 2 for this month as of now anyway. Guess I'll just have to play with my old trains. Not as hot today 81 now but the heat is coming back and no rain. We had one of those free gas deals this morning right near the GM tech center at morning rush hour, what a mess.(10 gals.). I'm going to roam a bit,everyone who has nice weather, enjoy.

Jim, Got an email from my LHS, my MTH, CNJ boxcab is in!  Don't know when I will get there to pick it up.  With my permission he is going to test run it for me.

[rtraincollector]

 

roy- i never made it to bed yet. My other half got this crazy idea and well i went along with it. she wants a pool, well i told her its just not in the cards. that was 2 weeks ago. last night she asks to go for a ride in the truck so i do its only 90 out with no ac, loving it, so she directs me down certain roads, and now i am on to her i know something is up but i say nothing. so she asks  to stop at a friends house so fine we do. this all was around 7:30 ish. we go we visit we are about ready to leave and she asks me to pack the truck down behind thier house, again ask no questions i just do it. been married once i know not to ask. so i pul around and there everyone is and thse huge boxes and a pool ladder so im told we are getting her friends old pool she bought last summer. cuz she  is getting a new below ground pool in a few days. i was like sweet. well little had i known how huge this dang thing was. once we got it home it took me a cpl hours to get it all readdy for the water. its roughtly 15ft across and 20 ft long things huge for a above ground  pool i thought. its 5 ft deep. so this was what i was working on all night. it took several hrs to set the thing up. i wasnt gonna do it today its 100 out vs 80 at night. so we got it set up and its been filling since around 10 last night. were about halfway. i am very tired and cant wait till she wakes up so i can go to sleep. (Yes she crashedout at about midnight) so thats what happen to me

Hope your not on city water or your going to have one heck of a water bill and if your on well you still may bump the electric bill a bit as the pump running all night and day.

not a bad deal though. My father figured out it was cheaper to have a tank truck bring the water in from a local quarrey when we got ours when i was a kid.

[dwiemer]

Quandary - The kid next door was arrested for DUI, minor in possession and driving on the sidewalks.  Do I still give him a case of Coors for his graduation gift? 

NO WAY! Buckeye, if he was stupid enough to get a DUI on his own, I wouldn't help him with a problem.  Besides, if he does it after drinking the Coors, you could get charged for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

On a sad note, Billy Graham's wife Ruth died today at 5pm.  Regardless of your religeous affiliations, Mr. Graham has been good man who has helped many, many peole over the years and helped by a good wife.

Did some cleaning up in the train room tonight.  Threw out a bunch of outer shipping cartons for Lionel track, accessories and train sets.  Took up a good bit of space and as my bride would know all too well, I need the space!

Hope everyone has a good night.

Dennis

[cnw1995]

He doesn't deserve Coors - that usually calls for more serious charges - I think these are at the level of Pabst Blue Ribbon instead.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Quandary - The kid next door was arrested for DUI, minor in possession and driving on the sidewalks.  Do I still give him a case of Coors for his graduation gift? 

[Anonymous]

wow very busy pot today! lots of stuff to catch up on.

 

Don b-- them up are so sweet, i am on the search for some. i watch them almost everynight run down the tracks. watch them switch cars around al;ot down by the lumber yard too. I must find a set. real nice don

jaabat- congrats on the laptop. and i hope your gonna show some pics of the track when you finish right?

brent- good luck with the move. sounds like you got plenty of help so it should go as smooth as a move can. and watch out for the cast iron, it hurts. I was chased a few times with one by my mom when i was little!

chuck-cant wait to see pics of the bridge, good luck with that

dennis- nice haul. you gonna post some pics?

 bread pudding - wouldnt touch it with a 10ft pole nasty
ice pudding - honestly never heard of it
hot dogs - YES - never met one i didnt like
pickles Yep -
hamburgers - YES -once a week atleast
country fried steak Yes - smoothered in country gravy, yummy!
elephant ears  Yes -  Funnel Cake
corn on the cob - YES
tomatoes - YES
corn dogs - They are a staple here at my place

 

roy- i never made it to bed yet. My other half got this crazy idea and well i went along with it. she wants a pool, well i told her its just not in the cards. that was 2 weeks ago. last night she asks to go for a ride in the truck so i do its only 90 out with no ac, loving it, so she directs me down certain roads, and now i am on to her i know something is up but i say nothing. so she asks  to stop at a friends house so fine we do. this all was around 7:30 ish. we go we visit we are about ready to leave and she asks me to pack the truck down behind thier house, again ask no questions i just do it. been married once i know not to ask. so i pul around and there everyone is and thse huge boxes and a pool ladder so im told we are getting her friends old pool she bought last summer. cuz she  is getting a new below ground pool in a few days. i was like sweet. well little had i known how huge this dang thing was. once we got it home it took me a cpl hours to get it all readdy for the water. its roughtly 15ft across and 20 ft long things huge for a above ground  pool i thought. its 5 ft deep. so this was what i was working on all night. it took several hrs to set the thing up. i wasnt gonna do it today its 100 out vs 80 at night. so we got it set up and its been filling since around 10 last night. were about halfway. i am very tired and cant wait till she wakes up so i can go to sleep. (Yes she crashedout at about midnight) so thats what happen to me

[cnw1995]

Good afternoon from a sunny and hot Crystal Lake where it is a quiet day at "work" - thank goodness for air conditioning and basements - ran trolleys for a while  - I have my hill backdrops falling off the plastic backdrop wrapper and gently draping the track - I am going to try clips instead of tape. You know, I have tried just about everything on that list of good foods - sounds like the McHenry County Fair.

[sir james I]

Afternoon all. TODAY IS FLAG DAY there's still time to put a flag out.Went to my favorite train store today but no list of new shipments posted. They have no news from the big 2 for this month as of now anyway. Guess I'll just have to play with my old trains. Not as hot today 81 now but the heat is coming back and no rain. We had one of those free gas deals this morning right near the GM tech center at morning rush hour, what a mess.(10 gals.). I'm going to roam a bit,everyone who has nice weather, enjoy.