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

[Jumijo]

Good morning, everyone. Ran trains last night. Our 2055 was pulling a loooooong freight! I saw a wonderfully restored 2055 in the new CTT photo album, but it had a 2065 boiler front. Anyone else notice that?

The boys were in rare form last night. By 7:00 I had had enough and sent them to bed. That'l learn 'em....yeah, right!

Six, two, and even. Over and out.

Jim 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a sunny 65 degrees. Going up to 90, today, with sunshine all day. It's gonna be a hot day.

Today, I am taking it easy. Cut grass last night after supper. Finally got it all finished. Need to do a little trimming today, but not in the afternoon. I may spend some time in the train room, later, taking some new pictures Need to put some time into scenery.

Wife is doing well. One more follow-up doctor's appointment. Looks like everything is healing good.

Dining Car is here and ready for breakfast. Later.

Y'all have a great Tuesday.

Chuck

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps and humidity in the 80s, pushing 90.  I came home, ate supper, and fell asleep in the chair.  Did wake up long enough to do some tree trimming, and listen to how Lucas will be "just friends" to the latest girl.  He is "on the prowl" again.  Ahhh, the teenage years.  Thank God I will never have to go thru those again!!!!

Bran muffins are on the dining car for "Points East".  Congrats to the chief for his mayoralty.  Nice to hear Doug and Roy got to meet.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Anonymous]

mornin' fellas... not much going on here today.  have to get my MS Project File completed for school and posted, then pretty much open the rest of the day.

Was reading the thread about Chuck's new billboard... looks awesome, so does Buckeye's... speaking of Buckeye, haven't seen any updated photos on his extension...

Working on transferring Fife's layout plan to RR-Track... that should be fun!

[sir james I]

Good morning to all. The weather here is much like most of you, 90s till fri.no rain of course. I might get out early and run the trimmer around the edges but the hay, I mean grass has not grown at all. When does the next mag. come out? It's still early I'll see what the day brings.

                                                   SirJames

[dbaker48]

 Colin

 

Chuck & John - Congradulations on your Super Dupper Secret Project !!!  You guys pulled it off flawlessly, no casultys !  Complete Success !! 

 Doug - Glad the eye is better, good luck on the second one.  Hope it is not as severe.  (What have you been looking at anyway?   Must be glare from all the snow) 

 Roy -  Sounds like the family had a good time in the Windy City.  Those L trains used to really scare me.  When I was a kid had some cousins living right under the tracks, hated visiting them.  Lots of bad memories from there.  You need a chance to rest,  right off to Baltimore???

I too forgot all the other things I was to comment on.  Oh well, anyway it lot more enjoyable reading all the posts than writing.

Think I will get the day off today, have LOTS of things to do, mostly train room.  So I will enjoy the day, hope everyone else has a good one also.

 

 

 

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  65 and not that humid today.  laz CAMP at 517 this morning, still dark but nice did a 6 miler, slow, just enjoyed the run. 

  Went and hauled homesote for friend then cut it for him.  Got the whole top of layout done.  Now have to wait till next week to get into school to rip underside of layout, supports.  Going to build underside with 1 x 3s every 16 inches oc.  Then use 2 x 4s for legs, he only wants it to be 24 inches off floor, so he can see it from his chair while watching tv.

  To get HOT rest of the week, stay cool.

laz57

[ChiefEagles]

Good morning all  [now all can sit down to hear the finish of Hail To The Chief]  

 Colin

SAME FROM ME  

I too forgot all the other things I was to comment on.  Oh well, anyway it lot more enjoyable reading all the posts than writing.

Think I will get the day off today, have LOTS of things to do, mostly train room.  So I will enjoy the day, hope everyone else has a good one also.

Knew all that shaking out in CA would soon cause brain damage.  See, he can not remember if he has a day off or not.  

Well, some folks are under flash flood advisory while we only got 1/10 of an inch of rain.  Not only are we going to stop paying the Preacher, going to fire him.   Coffee and then soundboard work.  Got Dr's apt this PM.  Have a great day.

[tmcc man]

Good morning everyone,

Thank's Don and Chief! Today, I'm a year older. I don't feel any different, though. I'll be alone for most of the day, but I have family coming over for dinner tonight. I'm still waiting for my Ferrari hat and shirt to come. It's been almost 3 weeks since I ordered it. I hope it comes today.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a sunny and hot Chicago where I am glad Roy and his family got home safely - too bad he had to turn right around and travel again for work.

Another year older, Colin? I almost overlooked the big day... 

Love the billboards, guys. Great job, John!

Don, the L is just as loud and scary as ever - especially when underneath it.

Finally figured out what was wrong with my main line... and boy, do I feel foolish. After carefully examining the tracks again last evening for any 'unjoined' pieces or some other reason for a short, I finally noticed the transformer for some reason was unplugged from the power strip. Bingo. The trolley on the main line sounded like the starship Enterprise powering up and we were in business again... Just goes to show you ... something.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

 Happy Birthday Colin!

Off to Baltimore tomorrow evening - ugh - the Chicago delay cost me a day at home before leaving again.

I have a leaking lawn sprinkler valve I need to find and fix. Grass grows over the valve boxes and makes them hard to find.

Hail to the Chief? or is it GRITS to the Chief!

Mickey - good to see you drop in!

Hope all yuz giz have a great day!

[Anonymous]

Colin!

[njalb1]

jaabat   Jim !

  Look here: Batman

 

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/room/rom/romboy/romboysup/index.cfm?bnrid=3501566&cm_ven=Email&cm_cat=Super%20Hero&cm_pla=DTC%20&cm_ite=Shop%20super%20hero%20room&flash=on

 

 

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone !!   Looks like another hot one today !

Colin !!  I hope your hat comes today too !! Then the real Ferrari may show up !!

Hope The Chief's surgery goes well again .

Hope everyone has a nice day !!

Thanks, John

[Jumijo]

jaabat   Jim !

  Look here: Batman

 

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/room/rom/romboy/romboysup/index.cfm?bnrid=3501566&cm_ven=Email&cm_cat=Super%20Hero&cm_pla=DTC%20&cm_ite=Shop%20super%20hero%20room&flash=on

 

Yeah, I have the king sized versions on my bed as we speak.

All joking aside, my wife had a black car, and as a joke, I pasted a big orange bat logo like on the tv show Batmobile to her passenger car door. She drove all over the place before she knew it! She told me people were giving her the thumbs up sign, honking, laughing... 

[Anonymous]

jaabat   Jim !

  Look here: Batman

 

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/room/rom/romboy/romboysup/index.cfm?bnrid=3501566&cm_ven=Email&cm_cat=Super%20Hero&cm_pla=DTC%20&cm_ite=Shop%20super%20hero%20room&flash=on

 

Yeah, I have the king sized versions on my bed as we speak.

All joking aside, my wife had a black car, and as a joke, I pasted a big orange bat logo like on the tv show Batmobile to her passenger car door. She drove all over the place before she knew it! She told me people were giving her the thumbs up sign, honking, laughing... 

LOL!  That is great!

When I met Susan we were talking about naming our cars (she names all her cars), well she tells me she named her Silver BMW 'The Silver Bullet'.  I burst out laughing... and she asks why... I asked her if she understood the symbolism behind a woman and the silver bullet?  She didn't... so I told her the name of the original unnatural pleasure device for a woman... so she had named my white Chevy Malibu MAXX 'The Fly' (because she said it looked like a fly), so when I traded it in on my BMW it was affectionately named 'The Venus Fly Trap' or 'Venus' for short... and since my car has developed a vibration it is now 'Venus 93n1$'... gotta love a woman with a sense of humor!

[ChiefEagles]

Well, no soundboard today.  Got a call right after posting.  Met TV17 news lady and been doing an interview in the heat and humidity all morning.  Interviewing about us being the fastest growing town in Wake Co which is 6th in the Nation.  New proposed development will increase our population by 2,000+ people and we now have 2,000+ expected population growth due to houses approved and being built.  Just got in.  Now off to the Dr's office.  HELP!!!!!  No rest for the wearied.  Later 

[Jumijo]

Hey Chief, what was the newswoman's name? Kim or Shirley? Was she a hottie?

http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/about/bios.html 

"This just in from Roseyville..."

[Anonymous]

So after I posted the pic of my trainroom Fife got me to thinking about not covering up that nice wainscotting and leaving the 'nook' accessible for use as a display case... so I asked him to put together a sample 'island' layout so I could see what he was talking about.

He brought it with him on Sunday and I have been busy loading it into RR-Track and making some modifications.  His plan called for tubular track, and I have my heart set on Atlas, so I had to modify the track plan a little.

Here is the 'rough' results... let me know what ya think:

[Jumijo]

Brent, you definitely want to keep the nookie accessable! 

[Anonymous]

Brent, you definitely want to keep the nookie accessable! 

Now I have to clean the soda out of the keyboard... LOL!!!

[trainmasterz]

Hey all,

Welcome back Jim A. 

Hey Chief looks like that trade worked last week, at least you got a little rain outa it.  Congrats on the big win.  So now whats that make you?

The second funniest part is picturing Brent spraying the keyboard with soda/pop. lol

 

[jefelectric]

HI GIZ,

  65 and not that humid today.  laz CAMP at 517 this morning, still dark but nice did a 6 miler, slow, just enjoyed the run. 

  Went and hauled homesote for friend then cut it for him.  Got the whole top of layout done.  Now have to wait till next week to get into school to rip underside of layout, supports.  Going to build underside with 1 x 3s every 16 inches oc.  Then use 2 x 4s for legs, he only wants it to be 24 inches off floor, so he can see it from his chair while watching tv.

  To get HOT rest of the week, stay cool.

laz57

Laz, Glad I don't have to wire that layout.

Colin,    

Take care,

[wrmcclellan]

Brent, you definitely want to keep the nookie accessable! 

Now I have to clean the soda out of the keyboard... LOL!!!

My nasal passages are pretty clean now! LOL

[ChiefEagles]

Hey Chief, what was the newswoman's name? Kim or Shirley? Was she a hottie?

http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/about/bios.html 

"This just in from Roseyville..."

Kerry Hall.  She just moved from the Iowa market.  Did she ever move up when she came from the middle of nowhere farm land to the Triangle.  [that was for Jon Engelhardt ]

Dr. cut a hole in the right arm.  Hope that gets it all out.  Jim, the Dr. is a blonde.  

[dwiemer]

Well, had my echo/stress test this morning.  Still tired from it.  Chief, glad things went well.  Chuck, glad the wife is progressing.

Learned a little tid bit this past week.  I had commented on how clean the Jersey Shore waters were.  The beaches were cleaner than I have seen in a long time (for Jersey that is).  They had lots of problems of garbage that was dumped out at sea washing up on the beach.  I was told that they solved that problem by shipping all the garbage to OHIO!  Sorry guys, that is what they told me.

Anyway, I am hoping to get through this week without too much late night work.  I am on call and still trying to recover from a week at the beach.

Take care,

dennis

[sir james I]

Shipping garbage is not new. Mich. gets garbage from Canada,Truck after truck every day along with illegals and drugs through Windsor.

[Jumijo]

 

Dr. cut a hole in the right arm.  Hope that gets it all out.  Jim, the Dr. is a blonde.  

Oh yeah? Is he cute? 

[jonadel]

Kerry Hall.  She just moved from the Iowa market.  Did she ever move up when she came from the middle of nowhere farm land to the Triangle.  [that was for Jon Engelhardt

 

I've never heard of Kerry Hall but I don't know why anyone would want to move from the Heartland Of America to the"Bermuda Triangle" aka Grits Capitol of the Universe aka Rolesville, NC. She must have heard of the Chief's fame  Obviously, a momentary lapse in good judgement on her part.

Jon

[dbaker48]

With all the talk about Drs., aging, and birthdays.  Thought this was appropriate  ....  Sure applys............

George Carlin's View on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all sl ipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50

And your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90's, you start going backwards; "I was JUST 92!"

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!