jefelectric wrote: laz 57 wrote: HI GIZ, 35 and rainy here today, to get to 42? CHIEF, sounded like YUZ GIZ were rocking and rolling down there without the music? We too have had a few small tremmers here in PA. Where I went to school at MILLERSVILLE just outside of Lancaster they have a sizmic center on campus. Tell what sizmic activities are going on in the eastern half of country. As far as the deer, still got FLINTLOCK season, my favorite, day after Christmas for 3 weeeks. Maybe get one then, if not might have to come down and thin out some of your pets? Just kidding. I don't know that special whistle. Runnung trains this after. BEARS loose on Thursday, so they can't loose today. Go STILLERS! Beat NE.laz57Laz, I've got a deer story for you. In my sons family, the youngest boy (12) got a 6 point buck in junior season this year. The wife got a doe earlier this week and the 14 year old got a four point on Thursday. While dad was helping to gut the buck for the 14 year old his cell phone fell out of his pocket right into the gut cavity which was full of blood (get the picture). He decided the safe way out was a new cell phone, which cost him 299 (not your average cheapie) Turned out to be a pretty expensive deer. And to top it off, Dad was the only one to not get a deer.Don, Finally getting around to wiring, you have been talking about this for weeks. Getting just like us senior citizens. That engine house sounds impressive, don't forget the pics. This morning after early church and breakfast we delivered a bag of Christmas goodies from the church to one of the shut-ins. A lady we have known for 50+ years. She sure has a positive attitude, one of those that makes you feel better after you visit her. We have two more to deliver this afternoon. One to the mother of my wife's best friend and the other to my HS Chemistry teacher, yes he still remembers me. Don't know if that is good or bad.We were supposed to get some freezing rain this morning but the temps did not drop that low and it was just rain, which did not disappoint me at all.
laz 57 wrote: HI GIZ, 35 and rainy here today, to get to 42? CHIEF, sounded like YUZ GIZ were rocking and rolling down there without the music? We too have had a few small tremmers here in PA. Where I went to school at MILLERSVILLE just outside of Lancaster they have a sizmic center on campus. Tell what sizmic activities are going on in the eastern half of country. As far as the deer, still got FLINTLOCK season, my favorite, day after Christmas for 3 weeeks. Maybe get one then, if not might have to come down and thin out some of your pets? Just kidding. I don't know that special whistle. Runnung trains this after. BEARS loose on Thursday, so they can't loose today. Go STILLERS! Beat NE.laz57
HI GIZ,
35 and rainy here today, to get to 42?
CHIEF, sounded like YUZ GIZ were rocking and rolling down there without the music? We too have had a few small tremmers here in PA. Where I went to school at MILLERSVILLE just outside of Lancaster they have a sizmic center on campus. Tell what sizmic activities are going on in the eastern half of country. As far as the deer, still got FLINTLOCK season, my favorite, day after Christmas for 3 weeeks. Maybe get one then, if not might have to come down and thin out some of your pets? Just kidding. I don't know that special whistle.
Runnung trains this after.
BEARS loose on Thursday, so they can't loose today.
Go STILLERS! Beat NE.
laz57
Laz, I've got a deer story for you. In my sons family, the youngest boy (12) got a 6 point buck in junior season this year. The wife got a doe earlier this week and the 14 year old got a four point on Thursday. While dad was helping to gut the buck for the 14 year old his cell phone fell out of his pocket right into the gut cavity which was full of blood (get the picture). He decided the safe way out was a new cell phone, which cost him 299 (not your average cheapie) Turned out to be a pretty expensive deer. And to top it off, Dad was the only one to not get a deer.
Don, Finally getting around to wiring, you have been talking about this for weeks. Getting just like us senior citizens. That engine house sounds impressive, don't forget the pics.
This morning after early church and breakfast we delivered a bag of Christmas goodies from the church to one of the shut-ins. A lady we have known for 50+ years. She sure has a positive attitude, one of those that makes you feel better after you visit her. We have two more to deliver this afternoon. One to the mother of my wife's best friend and the other to my HS Chemistry teacher, yes he still remembers me. Don't know if that is good or bad.We were supposed to get some freezing rain this morning but the temps did not drop that low and it was just rain, which did not disappoint me at all.
WOW JOHN, quite a story. At least YUZ got a good supply of venison. I still have the worst time of the year to try and get a deer. I like it though cause you just don't know if that darn gun will go off in the snow sleet or damp weather? But brings lots o good stories. Just like the one you told now. The 14 yr. old or DAD won't forget that one.
fifedog wrote: kpolak - If they're gonna attack me where I lay, I'm not exactly interested in shooting an eye out...Speaking of...DATELINE - Fifedog's house somewhere in the MD burbs.Things have taken a strange turn amidst the LAUNDRY WAR. I had another obscene pile of towels in the old Whirlpool dryer last evening, and just so happened to go downstairs when the basement was starting to fill up with smoke (hadn't quite got to the smoke detectors yet). The lint screen was black, the towels had a fine coat of soot on them, and there was some browning on the inside blower port. (mind you, the laundry area is in the Northeast corner of the basement/and the CONNELLSVILLE SUBDIVISION is nearby in the Southeast portion of the basement) WELL HELL'S BELLS! When was the last time you've heard of the battlefield giving way beneath the armies? So off to SEARS for a new dryer this morning.
kpolak - If they're gonna attack me where I lay, I'm not exactly interested in shooting an eye out...
Speaking of...
DATELINE - Fifedog's house somewhere in the MD burbs.
Things have taken a strange turn amidst the LAUNDRY WAR. I had another obscene pile of towels in the old Whirlpool dryer last evening, and just so happened to go downstairs when the basement was starting to fill up with smoke (hadn't quite got to the smoke detectors yet). The lint screen was black, the towels had a fine coat of soot on them, and there was some browning on the inside blower port. (mind you, the laundry area is in the Northeast corner of the basement/and the CONNELLSVILLE SUBDIVISION is nearby in the Southeast portion of the basement) WELL HELL'S BELLS! When was the last time you've heard of the battlefield giving way beneath the armies? So off to SEARS for a new dryer this morning.
Fife you should take the back off your dryer about every 3-6 months and clean all venting back there especially where the blower motor is they build up with lint and can catch fire they make brushes for it but they do about 75% job where taking all apart does better.
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Morning All -
Sounds like a good weekend for all, GREAT!
Started actual wiring yesterday, working the engine yard first. So I have independent control of the engines sitting there. Going, OK. Needed to get engine house I bought a year ago situated for proper track placement. Have two Kober kits that measure 29". Decided to bash them so that the 31" guys will fit. BB & Cab Fwd. That became a family project while watching a couple of movies last night. That was great fun.
Going to get that in position, finalize track location and wire the yard. So off to church, breakfast. Then back. Need to get train under Christmas tree as well. Busy day check in tonight. Hopefully with a pic of the Loooong engine house.
Don
Mornin' All from a soggy and cold SoCal, even a little frost on the pumpkin this morning. We got some much needed rain, a few little micro-bursts, but over all not to bad. Even the local mountains are waking-up to about 8" of snohizo on the ground.
The grandson spent friday nite with us, so he and grampa did a lot of train running and he spent a lot of time with fingers on the whistle buttons.
When we started them all the smoke units were off but at his request, not exactly those words, gramps had to turn them on. I think his favorite is the MTH AT&SF 4-6-0, lots 'n' lots of smoke.
Buckeye, He loves that "Little Toy Trains" link on YouTube. He sat in my lap and after watching that about 12 times in a row I was FINALLY able to turnoff the computer.
He is becoming a bigger train nut then his grampa.
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Another cold and yucky day. Meeting friends John and Leah for lunch at 1 and then back to their house for cake I guess for a birthday party. Was going to work on the basement, but probably won't now. Oh well, plenty of time for that I guess. Will run by Lowes as I got a $10 starter card from somewhere if you spend $25 or more on a project. Time to load up on lightbulbs!
Fifedog, that dryer event is pretty scary! Glad no damage to the house, easier to replace a dryer than a house or family! I run the laundry at our house (I wash and dry and they all hang the clothes up, or at least they are supposed to) and always clean that lint screen on every load.
Sir James, very sorry to hear about your aunt, hope they can get her fixed up again? My friend Jeff's wife just started chemo. Seems like just a lot of illness going around now! Earthquakes too!? Prayers for all!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good Morning Chief, Good Morning All, Temp is 28,expecting s##w,sleet and freezing rain,it has not arrived yet.If it has to be I would prefer it gets and goes before dark as its easier to watch over everything but I don't think it's going to happen that way. Details tomorrow.
No plans for today so looks like trains may run. Have a safe sunday, Sir James
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WES and Fife,
I may forget the HO/On30 and N loop and have what few accessories I have on the innermost 0-31 loop, I have a k-line operating yard tower , a k-line fueling station, a barrel loader(k-line) and a manule op lionel barrel loader. I would like to get the lionel mounty rescue and the k-line man fishing of of bridge pier. It will be a work in progress with the main idea of getting some trains up and running and no serious attempt at scenery that way both my "toy like" and more scale looking trains will be equally at home.
joetrains wrote: krapug1 My shop vac did the samething once. Turned out the paper filter was damaged.
I knew you wouldn't like it! I wanted to try this to see how I liked it. I wanted to get more trains running independantly and at the same time. The dog bones without room for a passing siding were limiting. I did come up with a plan, but then I needed 2 more swithes and even more track. I'll play with this one for a while and see what happens. Jack seems to like it better. He had more moving things to point at...
Wes
Wes Whitmore wrote: CSXect,I tried the separate loops idea this week and I really like it. Much more action than the dogbones that I have been messing with over the past year. I can now run 0-54 minimum trains on an outer loop (mostly 0-72 curves, but a few O-54). I also have a modified figure 8 inside that. I originally was going to elevate it above the outer loop, but I like it on the same level now that I set it up. I have an 0-31 set up on a second level. It has a nice S curve in it, and most of my city scenicking area. I even saved room for a streetscenes dogbone. I mocked up something usable in about an 2 hours. I'm already running 3 trains on it! All in a 6x11.5 bench. My son is going to love it when he wakes up!Wes
CSXect,
I tried the separate loops idea this week and I really like it. Much more action than the dogbones that I have been messing with over the past year. I can now run 0-54 minimum trains on an outer loop (mostly 0-72 curves, but a few O-54). I also have a modified figure 8 inside that. I originally was going to elevate it above the outer loop, but I like it on the same level now that I set it up. I have an 0-31 set up on a second level. It has a nice S curve in it, and most of my city scenicking area. I even saved room for a streetscenes dogbone. I mocked up something usable in about an 2 hours. I'm already running 3 trains on it! All in a 6x11.5 bench. My son is going to love it when he wakes up!
WES!!! You took out your dogbones NOOOOOOooooooooo...
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. Overcast and 41 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Looks like the sky is going to dump something, not sure what yet. Brent's Mrs is really going to appreciate her new ski pants today at M&T. Where's all the talk of the forums slowing down now...? Looks like things are FULL-TILT-BOOGIE here to me.
Chief - You ARE a very nice man. I don't care what Buckeye says...
jefelectric - All is quiet on the Eastern Front. However, when I was reading your post I got another wonderful awful idea. Perhaps next time I should fill those hip-huggers, designer form-fitters, and frilly-sling-shots with --->GRITS!!!
Good Morning....
It's a cloudy 34 degrees. Going up to 46 today with maybe a little rain. The snow has almost all melted.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and then, back to the train room for some scenery work. Have to fix a few things and finish the lub on an engine. Not much else going on.
Dining Car has arrived and it's time for breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Morning!
FiFe: I'll bet your Sig has been replaced...by a Red Ryder. CCW?
Everything cleaned and oiled! Reduced track voltage by 10%! Bring on the kiddies!
Hopefully somthing for photo fun today!
Christmas Tree up, hasn't opened up yet... Decorating, Church, more decorating, Church 10 year anniversary dinner, sleep. Busy weekend.
Kurt
Warm here in the N.C. mountains AT 7:15 this Sunday morning--44F.
No one hereabouts had a clue that an earthquake had occurred in Western N.C. We know that they do happen occasionally because when you go away and come back, stuff has moved about on the shelves.
Geologists have long known of the "Grandfather Fault" which runs through the Elk River Valley a few hundred feet down below my house. We had to shut down an 800' deep community well near the fault because EPA said it was subject to pollution in the future---not actually polluted, but "subject to it". Government protecting us from ourselves !
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Hey Chief, I can still type.
Thanks to the Chief, the Ashlar & Spen Valley RR could soon be running.
Cool and damp in a cloudy Stockport 3deg C. No gritters so far.
John Baker
Well rifle season for the PA hunters is over. They the deer win again, DA! Got out at MOMs today walked or did little drives for me and the BRO and wifes uncle and BRO in Law. and we saw 4 doe. No shooting. DA. Nice day to be in woods. Walk about 5 miles? Snow on ground was nice saw lots o tracks, old ones.
BUCKEYE, Yepper got all da fire power you need for SEC o D FENCE! What you need? Pistols, rifles? I got em. Lots o bullets too.
Tired going to bed. SEC. o D. out.
I am kinda bumed today, the lady nextdoor lost her house and had to get out today so now there is an empty house next to moms house.....times are getting tough.
Was at my house and laid out some tracks to see what I can actualy get away with made a lot of compermises opting to go with nested loops of track no switches but I have wide curves and a long strait stretch, and this leaves me room for my weight bench a couch and some display shelves on the wall. The outermost loop is 80" G gauge track will have to add a striaght section at each end of loop to clear the next loop which will be 0-72 then a S gauge 42" loop and then an 0-31 loop, an HO/0n30 loop and if i decide to keep my n-scale set maybe a loop of N. Scenery will be limited and each loop will have its own tier so I can stillhave a mountian scenery.
Good evening all,
Had a safe trip to Toledo and a visit with my aunt (92yrs) her assist. living complex gives a christmas dinner to family every year and it was nice. bad news my mothers other sister(90yrs) cancer has returned. Lots of cancer in the family my mother died from it in 1957.Yet her two sisters are still alive. go figure? So no trains today I did see some real live ones during our travel. RR tracks run every which way in Toledo maybe that's what influnced me many years ago.
Brutus I had pecan pie & a small peice of choclate custard cake so better just fix me an ice cream cone. Say good nite to Chewy for me,,,,,Sir James
Good evening,
Typical Winter day here, cloudy and cool. Not sure what tomorrow will bring, precip may be either rain or snow or a mixture of both with some sleet thrown in for good measure. Worked on the dollhouse this morning, now ready for roof shingles. Went to a Christmas party at FIL's PC facility. Very nice turnout of friends and family. Three youngest granddaughters really hit the cookies hard. Actually ran some trains for about an hour. As Laz would say, no pileups! Oh I got my MTH galloping goose TCA 2007 convention engine yesterday. Need to unpack and run it & take a picture.
Sounds like the war of the undies is still going on in the Fifedog household.
Oh, and I already singed the credit card at the jewelry store.
Good evening everyone. Long day, did rounds this morning and then had to work on the yard. Trimmed the hedges, removed old bedding material, cut a couple of trees up, burned them and the hedge clippings and old pine straw. Then I had to use the sweeper with the tractor to pick up and bale new long leaf pine straw to put back in beds. Looks good, but took all day. I am wooped! Took some ultram and going to bed. Y'all have a good night.
Dennis
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Hey PhilaKnight, how are things at home? Sounds like a nice layout.
Wife had to go pick up basketball uniforms. Went to Michaels and Walmart, but spent too much time shopping. Then out to dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse (had a gift card for $40). Full of steak, really good ribeye cooked medium, with steamed veg.
Picked up some "snow" blanket stuff for the layout. They had some cool Lemax Christmas biuldings on display, but mostly all gone. I really liked the nativity, but they were all out of them. Oh well, hope to run trains in a little bit, but doing laundry... We'll see. This whole day has just sort of flown away from me
Sir James, we have some chocolate icecream we bought for company that was left over last night, so come on over!
Chief Sounds like a happy kid to me!
Hello everyone,
Haven't been on in awhile, They have been training us all week long, but the good news is they gave us the weekends off.
I got the tree up already and built a small 4x6 layout under it. Nothing fancy just a loop and a tunnel with the tree in the middle with some houses around it.
Well hope everyone has a good holiday.
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