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

[edw]

has anyone seen the new wave of external Hard drives they come in terra bytes now

The current capacity for hard drives is truly amazing. I can remember my very first hard drive was only 20 MEGA Bytes.

Unless you need to transfer a lot of data between remote PCs, you might want to consider going with a permanently installed drive to avoid the accidental damage that often plagues external drives.

Another point to consider is the data transfer rate for different connectors. While most external drive enclosures use a USB or FireWire connection, some newer motherboards have external SATA connections, which will give you even faster transfer rates.

[ChiefEagles]

Good night.  Had great parade and I waved real good from my convertible.   Pam fed a bunch and then she went to the mall with her buddy Beth.  While they were gone, I cleared the tracks in the back room and ran the MP E6's.  They have .3 miles so they were new.  Lubed them up good as they had never been lubed.  They smoke good too.  Never had smoke turned on.  Think they may have found a home [but where do you store those big things?].  Then ran the NS diesels and the Big Boy.  That was fun.

Grayson, I call them P-CANS too.  Not P-CONS.  Got a bunch to shell out. 

Was supose to rain but haven't seen any.  Gooooood night all.

[Brutus]

Sorry, thought you were already off - I'll be right over.  Chewy is really worn out from the two trips in 3 days, plus being at grandma and grandpa's always wears out our furry daughter.  Too much excitement going on!

Oh - BTW, stopped at a train store on the way home from KC - mostly N and HO and my son wanted to know if he can get his own trainset some day!?  I told him I'll build him his own table and help him get it set up however he wants it -

[sir james I]

Your welcome: bring Chewy along.

[Brutus]

[sir james I]

Hello All,

Brutus  got banilla,chocolate,& butter pecan.help yourself.

We got rain 50 deg. and dropping fast,now the wind is blowing, most of the overnite snow is gone. I'm afraid it's that time. And your right, I don't like it anymore.

I got away with doing nothing today. watched half of the lions game and the sorry last three minutes. Slept in between. no trains no decals that I planned for today. just lazy and watched it rain.        Good nite Chewy,,,,,,,,,,,,Sir James

[tmcc man]

I have heard of them too. I have a Western Digital external harddrive right now, it's good for 500GB, which is more than what I'll need it for.

[Brutus]

CSX - yeah, I saw those and they also have some with ethernet connectors you can plug into your router and make backup for the whole network, that would be super cool!

[Brutus]

Dunno why, but I just checked the front door on a whim and found a box that has been sitting in a puddle all weekend   Inside were my new MTH W&ARR cannon car, arrista figures, gargraves pins and protosmoke (Christmas flavor).  Box fell apart but everything else looks like it's okay - will watch for rust though!

[CSXect]

Was just at the gr forum and a lot of negative comments about the set but my only complaint is the volume which apperantly has no control. May be one of lionels turkey nominees. but it was less the the ogauge version and I intend to use it around the tree mostly.

Anyone have the O gauge Polar express what do you think of it?

As just an interesting tid bit included with the manual of the G gauge Polar express was a card to subscribe to OGR magizine

Tmcc and Jon Adel,

If I seem a bit grumpy it is due to almost 6 weeks without real food and I just seen 2 commercials for food that is very tempting Ralleys double cheeseburger with a slice of pepperjack cheese,slice of american cheese and chedder cheese sauce, and pizzahut double deep pizza

All kidding aside I was not offended nor did I mean to offend

off topic has anyone seen the new wave of external Hard drives they come in terra bytes now

[tmcc man]

CSXect--

Perhaps this should appear on the G gauge forum?

Thanks for the friendly reminder, but I also mentioned N scale and the Lionel O gauge Deisle passenger set

I think he meant that someone could help you with sound of the engine.

Good evening everyone,

Well, I walked into the laundry room earlier, and what do you know, there's water all over the floor. Turns out that the washer had an unexpected leak. My mom is shopping for a new washer tomorrow.

I'm thinking of putting a Christmas layout up in the basement. It'll have to be on the floor because I'm not willing to spend $300 on tables.

Have a good night everyone.

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

  Ran trains today for about 2 hrs. all worked great NO PILE UPS.  Ran the Legacy BB, Lionmaster Cab forward, Lionel Rs11 NP. and Reading dockside switcher, No problems.

BEARs LOOSE, they stink, not the samee team as they were last year.  Oh well still have DA STILLERS.

All have a good one.

laz57

[CSXect]

CSXect--

Perhaps this should appear on the G gauge forum?

Thanks for the friendly reminder, but I also mentioned N scale and the Lionel O gauge Deisle passenger set

[Buckeye Riveter]

Buckeye- OH

IO

[Brutus]

Just lost my long post, so here is the short version :(

Got back from KC - had nice pre-Christmas Christmas with wife's family.  Was supposed to go to train store with FiL and son.  BiL and nephew decided to tag along and somehow the train store got deleted from plans.  OTOH - we went to the WWI museum which was terrific and while we were there, a visiting expert showed up and gave a special tour about WWI tank warfare that ended with us getting a peek at a new buy - a WWI French tank (MT17?) type used by Patton!  This one was "killed" by a piece of field artillery and the engine was blown up.  I took pics on my phone and if I can download them, I'll post them one day.

Reg - welcome back!  I had an O27 layout that was a loop with two reversing loops inside and 2 spurs on a 30 by 80 layout in the living room - lots of toy action for me and the kids!

Gregm - Looks like a great baby!  Congrats!

Sir James, any icecream left over?

[jonadel]

CSXect--

Perhaps this should appear on the G gauge forum?

[dougdagrump]

Reggie, Don't know what kinda space you will be allocated ( ) in the living room but check out fife's layout in the current issue of CTT. Relatively small footprint but very imaginative use of the space, not only that but it looks pretty cool to.

[CSXect]

I have a dentist appointment in the morning and then see eye doctor the next day.

Just got done testing out the G Polar express all parts there and working volume not so great on sounds but I like it, hope the Blue/silver Lionel lines desiel pass set will be marked down after Christmas.

Reggie, You can do a lot with N scale on a coffe table setup(a little larger than the avarage table) build the layout then box it in and make a glass top to keep dust out of layout.

 

[magicman710]

How are you doing, Reggie?

Evening everyone. Been taking it easy today. Helped my daddy pick up P-CAN limbs today. We had a heck of alot pecans this year. We have over 1000 trees, with around 200-300 of them cablable of making pecans.

 

How has everyones day been this wonderful Sunday?

[thatboy37]

 

Reggie - Nice to have you back, sir.  Perhaps a glass covered coffee table with an N-scale layout for the living room.  Then get back to building that O gauge empire in the TRAIN room.  Cincy is a big railroad town, so you shouldn't have to look hard for inspiration.

 

well im actually going to build me a n scale laout on a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the livingroom maybe the 1/4 inch thick size that way it isn't so heavy. the basement that has the room for a nice size layout will the storage room for all the stuff that we want use in the house. thats th room i want but my wife insisted that i build the one in the livingroom that way she and the baby can be a little more involved. so i jump and said yes to that. as i want have to walk up and down the stairs to the trainroom. i will only have to go downstairs to make a few cuts, or go to the train store. well i went to the tri county mall in cincy on saturday the 1st of december and they had a very nice train layout in ho up and running. i talked to the guy and he said that they will still be set up and running for the next 2 or 3 days for any of you guys interested. i will make a trip up to the museum to check out the layout buckeye told me about. hope all is well with everyone and take care.

[GregM]

Spent a few hours today re-arranging the trains in one of the spare bedrooms.  Needed to get it better organized as all those boxes were taking up way too much room.  That's what happens after close to 35 years of accumulating O gauge trains. 

Watching a TM Video "Toy Train Christmas Memories" now.  Trying to get a little more in the Christmas spirit.  Hard to believe Christmas is just over three weeks away. 

Rain just let up a little, it has been raining real hard the last few minutes.  Been raining almost all day, so it was a good day to straighten up the "store" room.

[CSXect]

News flash Lionel G Polar express at Target marked down to $119.99 and get a $20 gift card when you make purchase.

Lionel lines Blue/silver Desiel set marked down to $169.99

[fifedog]

Well, back from the train show.  Picked up some scenery materials, and a Pennsy Flyer starter set for my co-worker.  Spotted Brent walking kinda funny....

...and figured it was a good time for an avatar.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

Buckeye - congrats on the Buckeye's success this year. Hopefully your taxes will go down with all that free spending up there.

Buckeye and Doug (CNW) - I think the magic elixer is called "if I do not straighten up a bit my Christmas haul could be seriously impacted" elixer.

Don - I responded to your e-mail and then saw the answers you got on your post are good ones, so I did not add anything. Regardless - give me a call if you have any further questions.

Doug (nottagrump) - more cash for trains - it's all good.

Back from regular church. Sun is out in force and it is heating up here. Might hit 80? Cold/cool front tonight to bring things down a bit - but still above normal.

Got to go get more Christmas lights for outside. He-who-is-14 has more ideas and I am not passing up the opportunity to let him continue to do something constructive!

[Anonymous]

 Well, it snowed here 1 1/2 or so. I could have probably sleep in but the city plow truck came thru at about 5:30 am ( they could have used a broom!! )  I might revert back to child- hood days and start throwing snow balls at them even it I have to make my own with my slushy maker.

Happy holidays to all!

Jim D.

a.k.a. SOCKO

 

 

[cnw1995]

G'morning from a cold, sleety and dark Crystal Lake where I just got  home from church and I'm going back out to push slush off the driveway - nice day spent on the layout - worked up 2 yard tracks and one wrap around off a single switch. Not sure I like it though. May take out another loop and build one off the third main line - gradually dawned on me that I have no 'activating' tracks to detach couplers - so best I think I could do was push cars with an old 41 without coupling. Have to think this through some more. Rats.

I need some of Roy's magic elixer to get 14 yr olds to work... More drama last evening - after struggling through the sleet to deliver daughter to sleep-over - as I was locking up the house an hour later, she suddenly loomed out of the murk at the back door - almost gave me a heart attack. Some rowdy ex-boyfriend friends had come over to the sleep-over house - she felt uncomfortable so called a friend to take her home - and didn't want to wake our barky dog. Said she didn't want to bother me to pick her up. All this driving the bride crazy. Sigh. More talking-to today.

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  Well went hunting deer upstate to MOMs, saw 8 deer running at 90 mph.  BROTHER saw 7 going fast too.  Couldn't put horns on any.  Cold day yesterday at 28 and windy.  Sat part of day then BRO and me did some pushing for one another thats when we saw the deer.  Came back home last nite because of anticipation of storm, woke up and just a dusting, some big storm,DUH.  Oh well run trains this after then watch BEARs on TV.

Hope all is well?

laz57

[sir james I]

Morning All,

We did get some s%#w last nite but little rain, 34 and musshy should be gone before the day is over. Lowest reg gas $2.94.sat. Today will be  goof off day, but I may do some NYC decaling. Everyone stay safe.,,,,,,,,Sir James

[tmcc man]

Good evening everyone,

It'a cold, dark, and SNOWY today. I woke up to find a dusting of snow on everything. It made for a great photo op, so I un boxed all my G scale locomotives and took them out back on the patio. When I download them, I'll put them on Shutterfly and post them here.

Last night was relaxing. I had nothing to do so I watched TV, went on the internet and ate. So it was really good. I was also able to go to sleep for the first time in a few days.

Have a good day everyone.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Morning all

Cool and wet in Southern Ohio

Reggie-Great news.  My youngest daugher lives in Cincy, great town.  Wife graduated from Good Sam and daughter from Xavier.  The  old Cincinnati Terminal is now a muesum with a great train display.

Buckeye- OH

Don-Loved the taser story

Sounds like several of use have finished outside decorating.  I posted a couple of pics in Sunday photo fun, not to start a competition, better to spend time on trains

Breakfast done, dog bathed and ready for church.  Check back later this evening 

May God bless

Jim