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Jim Fortner wrote: John S - Charlene did some BIG shopping and we have tons of great treats in the house, so help yourself to anything you want. Did you leave out a bag of cheezits? Charlene swears she didn't do it, but Chewy really got into a fix! I think she ate the whole bag?!
John S - Charlene did some BIG shopping and we have tons of great treats in the house, so help yourself to anything you want. Did you leave out a bag of cheezits? Charlene swears she didn't do it, but Chewy really got into a fix! I think she ate the whole bag?!
Oh, yeah, that was me !! They were really good !! Now where do you kleep Chewey's treats at ? I think I may have gotten them mixed up one night & ate hers instead !! She didn't seem to mind, anyway !! Well, glad you're all restocked now !! I think The Chief had too much Pizza to make popcorn tonight !!
Dennis : we're hoping your Dad is OK . I don't know what an MI is though.
John : ( Jefefelctric ), very nice circus display !! A conductor from Buffalo was telling me the other night about a carnival that sets up each year at the state fair, get this, it comes by train !! Has about 7 passenger cars & the other cars carry all the rides !! I tried to find a web-site but couldn't. It's supposed to be called the James A. Straights Amusements or something like that he said. Plus the fairgrounds have a track going right into it !!
Well, off for the weekend now !!
Thanks, John
Got ya covered John,
James E. Strates Carnival
Here's a video..I'm sure John saw this, but modesty kept him from posting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ld3Sk90vcc
Kurt
jefelectric: I love the circus photos from the museum...you're not helping me give up on the RB&B&B cars. Maybe for Christmas.
Looks like the kids really enjoyed it.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a clear, sunny 64 degrees. Going up to 84 today with sunshine all day. Looks like nice weather for a few days.
Today, I have a few things to do around the house. I am going to be working on a cabinet, in the basement , that needs mounting to the wall. Trying to work a plan to mount in without drilling the concrete blocks. No big rush. Maybe I will run trains, later, when it's hot outside.
Dining Car is here early today. Time for breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
Chuck
Good morning from my bucolic New England town, where the lawn is an emerald shade of green and the wind is blowing lazily through the maples.
I got a Williams flyer in the mail yesterday. Big sales! This might be a great time to pick up a 773.
Red Sox gagged on it again last night. Put a fork in 'em, they're done.
Buckeye, Future is an acryllic floor wax. Modelers in the know have been using it for years as a gloss coat. A big bottle only costs $2 - 3 dollars and will last a very long time. It's as thin as water and airbrushes well. It can be overcoated with paints or commercial clear glosses and flats. It makes marker light jewels sparkle.
Keith, my Torpedo buddy, thanks for the tip on that man who sells good stuff cheap! Cheap is my second favorite price, right after free! I'm looking forward to my 1688. I need to find some tinplate prewar cars to run behind it. A freight consist would look great behind it! I'd like to make a cataloged set. No rush.
The dining car has arrived. A pretty young waitress (who isn't fat mind you) has just served me a corn muffin and a cup of tea.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Good Morning All from NE Ohio
where the temp is 75 deg with Blue Clear Skies! after a week of very heavy rain, flooding and tornado's in some areas. This time, Kieth and I are all safe.
Today the OTTS boys are meeting to visit the Holden Express layout at 11:00am
http://www.holdenarb.org/Event/holden_express.htm
Then tonight I am going to the Browns game. This will be a very full day!
Jefeletric: John what a great addition those would make on my circus layout! Thanks for sharing.
Laz - very sorry to here of your loose. That is way they are called mans best friend.
I am a person with a very active inner child. This is why my wife loves me so. Willoughby, Ohio - the home of the CP & E RR. OTTS Founder www.spankybird.shutterfly.com
Morning all. Up early for me. Drinking coffee. Got to hit he shower and head for Wilmington. Swing by Miss Edna's and drop off some veggies. Little out of the way but that is OK. Then swing by Tractor Supply for a part. Some folks got tons of rain yesterday PM. Poor Roseyville only got .2 total. The right side of layout sure looks good with soundboard. Now it will look better with track back down on it. Will not be home to answer phone so cell will ring all the way to Wilmington. Probably not as it is a weekend. Poor Murphey [Peek] walking around looking for his Mom. She gets up early on Sat. and goes out with the boys and talks to them as she surveys her gardens. No trains today. Glad to hear Keith is OK [OH, Tom too ] Have a good one.
Yes, Jim F, where are the missing ones? Really miss John Baker's crusty humor.
kpolak wrote: Got ya covered John,James E. Strates CarnivalHere's a video..I'm sure John saw this, but modesty kept him from posting.www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ld3Sk90vcc Kurt
Good Morning Everyone !! Looks like that conductor told me wrong on the spelling of that canival train !! Just watched that video Kurt, nice !! That would go good with a circus train !!
Well, tons of stuff to do here today also.
Hope everyone has a nice day !!
Mornin' boys. Sunny, 66, and what can be described as the prettiest morning this summer, here in the Mid-Atlantic region. A little light-headed this morning after the post-1000 celebration last night. Make mine black.
kpolak - Thanks for defining "nose-squirt" so elegantly. I have found over the years that chocolate milk flows thru the nasal passages quite smoothly. Pepsi on the other hand--->YOWZA!!!
jefelectric - Thanks for sharing the circus display photots. I particularly liked how you encorporated my favorite electric, 4400, in one of the shots.
Thoughts with dwiemer,Grayson,Laz,88 and everyone else who is in the need...
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Nudge nudge wink wink. None of those OGR (insert favorite derogatory name here) read our coffee pot. Secrets safe! So there.
Hey, Mayor McChief, answer your phone! The Roseyville town manager has been calling me looking for you all morning. Evidently, Eeephus McReb's pigs have wandered into the hollow and are now eating all of Mergatroid Dumpwater's polk salad! If you don't straighten this out soon, ol Eephus' hogs are gonna end up marinating in some pulled pork joint aforne sundown! Mergatroid has her shootin iron afixed on said swines!
Hello to all! It's been a while since the last post, have spent the last week and a half in the lovely midwestern portion of the nation...Went to a family reunion in Northern Missouri then traveled south to southern Missouri and stayed a couple of days. I absolutely love it back there but the humidity about did us in! We probably couldn't have picked a hotter time in the year but it was worth it. We are talking about retiring back there after 5 years or so.
Didn't find a lot of train stuff in the stores back there. I did find an Friscoe engine that was brand new in the box for $70.00 but didn't buy it....did I miss a bargain? I don't know much about them. It looked nice but hated to try to haul it back in a truck full of kids and all of the other stuff we had to drag back.
We are currently trying to redo my son's layout. We were going to go the desert route however since seeing all of the hayfields and greenery in Missouri, he has decided he wants to go with the grass scene so he can use his new John Deere tractors on the layout. I'm just glad we hadn't painted it up yet! Anybody have any ideas on making hay fields and corn fields???
I'm sending good thoughts and prayers to all who need them...there is way too much to try to catch up on the board.
Misty K11 : Try the link below as they have Pumpkin patches, sunflowers & I thought they have some wheat fields or tall grass. Oh, they have vegetables too !!
http://www.scenicexpress.com/
HI GIZ,
A BIG THANK YOU for your condolences for me and my puppy. Still stings but I will always have those memories.
Nice here today humidity broke and nice cool breeze this morning at 64 at 700, to get to 85. They say big weather change at the end of next week?
JELECTRIC, nice circus layout.
OTTS BOYZ have fun.
All stay cool, going to have big tomatoe samwitch for lunch, from garden.
laz57
Good Morning from an overcast So. Cal.
Thoughts and prayers for Graysons brother, and Dennis' dad !! Speaking of which I went to that chat room last night, and Grayson was there and Choochin 3 (from MD), had a very nice conversation. It was quite enjoyable. Grayson seems like a good kid, and we just got to get the edges smoothed out a little. We've all been there.
Had an interesting day yesterday, one of the guys from the club came out to check on my progress. That went very well. Then he said he brought some G scale stuff that I might be interested in. Now this becomes a real dilemna! I really dont want a G scale operation going on, but planned on the elevated capability for the 2 trains I had so they were not just in boxes. (Actually 4 now 5). So the space allocated was intentionally small. Now with the two tracks, and I had two small but adequate transformers. So couldn't walk away from a 7 car Bachman, Blue Line train, which has a steam engine (for $40). So now have 2 on one track. No TMCC or DCS just conventional, but can keep them seperate. So needed a stronger transformer or more current. Well, you guess it he brought over a MRC 7000 transformer.
Then he said I have some structures I don't want, now these are made by Polo, and include a Silverton Station, Engine Shed, and 2 Station platforms. The Engine shed is new in the box, the station and platforms are assembled and in good shape. So now I have those as well. Last night I was looking on the net what these dumb things sell for. I couldnt believe it!!!! Over $600, I paid less than 15% of that. Now what am I going to do with them? This is what Im talking about:
2 of these
This has gotta stop!!!!
Todays build activity is going to be somewhat hampered, Need to go to Bon Voyage, party for neice, shes going to Paris for 6 months studying art. My analytical attitude doesn't understand that, but I never understood art anyway.
So have a great day all, Prayers and thoughts for those who need them!!!!
OH YEAH, Talk about the perfect job, one of the guys at our club just got a job, as Engineer for the Walt Disney train at Disneyland. He use to work at Knott's Berry Farm as the fireman on the train there. Talk about happy, he is walking on air.
Don
Don, send them to me. My 3 wee little children keep asking me for a G-scale outdoor layout.
Oohhhh Don.
The office of Mayor McChief is looking a tad lonely in the side yard rite now and Frank53's Amish carpenter is out on a binge somewhere.
So if you have no need I could put a few of those items to good use.
A feeble attempt at sounding like Jack Benny, but than again probably 90% of the posters on here are to young to know who he was.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
dbaker48 wrote: Todays build activity is going to be somewhat hampered, Need to go to Bon Voyage, party for neice, shes going to Paris for 6 months studying art. My analytical attitude doesn't understand that, but I never understood art anyway.
Donnie: Art is easy to understand...If you think it's $10 it's $10.
Sounds like you and jaabat need to start another support group...People found selling thing ridiculously cheap... PFSTRC Catchy, huh.
John: Did you notice what was pulling that carnival train?
Morning all!
Kids are gone all weekend for church camp and the missus and I are all alone
Gonna go see the new Bourne movie this afternoon.
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
kpolak wrote: dbaker48 wrote: John: Did you notice what was pulling that carnival train?Kurt
dbaker48 wrote:
Yes I did !! Hope The Chief saw it too !!
Hi all, 18:00hrs here in Peterborough. Nice hot sunny day. .
I to miss John B. Hope he is OK. Bet he is out continuing with his pub survey now the weather is better. Nice not to be the only Limey on the board.
Here's our layout plan (first draft). Its basicly like the TM DVD layout at the moment.
Have a good one
Nick
Good afternoon all,
It is a beautiful day (evening?) for a race as we are invading the south this afternoon. The First Greensburg squad of the Second Decatur County Company of the Fourth Hoosier Racing Fans Division is on the march as we drive to Sparta, Kentucky for the IRL race. Manning can only improve as he starts dead last. Sarah is starting 14th next to Helio and Danica is 11th. AJ IV is 10th. It is on ESPN2 at 6:30 Eastern. Look for us as the cars exit turn 4. I reffed my first soccer game of the season this morning and as I was describing it afteward, Lucas said to me, "Dad, you are the only person I know that can make a U-10 game sound like a MLS playoff game." I think that was a compliment. It was just the usual fare at breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day (especially Darren, Sarah, Danica, and AJ IV).
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Howdy all from Wilmington. DO ME A FAVOR, ALL YOU YANKEES STAY HOME AND AWAY FROM NC'S BEACHES. 90% of the bumper to bumper traffic on I 40 for 130 miles was YANKEES. You D~^* Ohizoians, if you have such a great state, get your own beaches. Lines of minivans full of kids with luggage on top and 5 bikes on the rear bumper with Ohizoian plates was the main PROBLEM. They think they are in England as they stay in the left hand lane and cause traffic jams. They do not read good as there are lots of traffic signs saying, "Slower Traffic Keep Right". Even saw a MA tag and several Canadian plates. Rudest driver that I shook my finger at was from DC. Chris's younger sister is here. About 25 and real blonde. Has on bikini. A bowl weavel can eat more cotton than it is. Later
cheapclassics wrote: Good afternoon all,It is a beautiful day (evening?) for a race as we are invading the south this afternoon. The First Greensburg squad of the Second Decatur County Company of the Fourth Hoosier Racing Fans Division is on the march as we drive to Sparta, Kentucky for the IRL race. Manning can only improve as he starts dead last. Sarah is starting 14th next to Helio and Danica is 11th. AJ IV is 10th. It is on ESPN2 at 6:30 Eastern. Look for us as the cars exit turn 4. I reffed my first soccer game of the season this morning and as I was describing it afteward, Lucas said to me, "Dad, you are the only person I know that can make a U-10 game sound like a MLS playoff game." I think that was a compliment. It was just the usual fare at breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day (especially Darren, Sarah, Danica, and AJ IV).Keep on training,Mike C. from Indiana
Afternoon all,
Mike C., I don't know if there will even be a soccer season here for me this year. We are having a very hard time finding U18 coaches here. I hope we find more people to coach us, because I want my last season to be a good one.
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
Glad to hear Graysons' brother is doing better. Hope it continues.
Had to check that transformer out, I reffered to earlier. That silly thing has sound. Whistle and chug sounds for both Diesel and Steam. On the right side the slide switch at top selects Diesel or Steam, the two pots, one is for volume, the other regulates the rate of chug/diesel rpms. And the slide switch at the bottom center is whistle control. But you guys already knew that. Hooked it up to some speakers and it works, will be great for kids visiting to blow whistle.
lionroar88 wrote:OH! When we flew into Stinkinatti last night we flew over a Hobby Lobby... I asked the stewardess if they could drop me off so I could check out the Lionel Trains... she had this strange look on her face... Wife told her to ignore me, I have problems... FiL says 'Yeah he has a train brain!'. Didn't get to stop there though!
Brent, I got to visit my first Hobby Lobby while we were in Springfield, Missouri-my son was in heaven! Of course he found 2 train sets he wanted to bring home but we had no room left in my Yukon...I do have to say they had more train/modeling supplies than any other hobby store I have found. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that they have any out here in CA. I know we can order via the internet but it's just not always the same as buying in the stores to me...
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