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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:10 PM

Evening all,

Been running the old prewar 201.  A decent semi scale switcher it doesn't look out of place hauling some PW work train cars.  It took some tinkering, including 1 or 2 swift smacks with a hammer to get it running well.  I doubt anyone had touched the workings in 30 years.  While I have some prewar cars I chose to replace the tender trucks and coupler with Atlas's so I could haul knuckle coupler cars with it.  I'll play some more with it and see if I can get the bell tender to work. 

This isn't the 201, it's a Lionel docksider passing by Chesterfield station.

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Posted by underworld on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:42 PM
 Blueberryhill RR wrote:
 Buckeye Riveter wrote:

The rest of the week I'm on the road.  Where's the snow?  Gotta have snow to make my trips more challenging.  Heading today to the Firelands.  Only true Buckeyes know about the Firelands and their connection to the Apitz crowd.

See ya down the tracks,

Make sure you stop at the Winery.

There are a few wineries in The Firelands.

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Posted by jefelectric on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:17 PM

Evening,

Well I actually did get something done this afternoon at the bench instead of sitting in front of the computer.

Weaver Army flat with add on wood floor.  Corgi tank, Santna Minitures tarp wrapped loads with blocking and chain.

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Posted by underworld on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:32 PM

jefelectric Nice work!!!

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:36 PM
 underworld wrote:

jefelectric Nice work!!!

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JOHN, does SANTANAS Min have those covered loads.  I bought lots o cars through him down your way in Lancaster.  Does he have a store or does he just work out of his house?

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Posted by tmcc man on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:09 PM

Good evening everyone,

It has been a very busy week here. I had 2 mid terms today, and have 2 more tomorrow and Friday. I have been studying my @$$ off for them, and I am also battling a cold/strep throat. I don't know which one it is, but I feel awful.

I took a look at the new Lionel Catalog, and boy, did I find some stuff I like in it. The CSX SD40-2 Intermodal set, the C&O Steamer Set, the Legacy, the NYC GP7's, the PRR E7's, the Lackawanna cars, and the MKT(UP) SD70ACe. There is more, but I can't remember all of it.

Jefelectric, very nice job. There should be a Rhino or a Sherman on the car though.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:28 PM

Dennis - just thought of you - Hubby was watching Gunsmoke and Festus had a whole bag of crawdads - he was going to fry his!  Around here, we use them for bait!

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:42 PM

Have you seen the 4-4-0 American steam engines that MTH just starting shipping?  Those are very nice.  I would love to have one.

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Posted by jefelectric on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:54 PM
 laz 57 wrote:
 underworld wrote:

jefelectric Nice work!!!

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JOHN, does SANTANAS Min have those covered loads.  I bought lots o cars through him down your way in Lancaster.  Does he have a store or does he just work out of his house?

laz57

Yes they had the loads and tons of other stuff, crates, barrels, tires, etc. 

Had a big display at York.  No store that I know of.  Mail order and shows.

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Posted by Brutus on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:35 PM

I shall eat no more Crawdads Forever!  Got my MTH AF Sawmill from Fedex today - great!  Was "like new" and just a little dusty.  A good deal and came complete.  Seller said no instructions, but they were in the box, on the reverse of the bottom cardboard. 

 

Also got my Wabash bunk car.  One wire to a truck pickup is separated from the solder - just needs a little fix.  Also, apparently the side lamps are missing - just a small square hole on each side.  I'll have to figure this one out - anybody know if someone makes replacements?  Click on pic and you can see the hole just to the right of the door.

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PS - Cool tank car, John! A friend of mine, Dan Smart, was in the Tennessee Guard until about 15 years ago, driving tanks.  One day, we looked out the back window of the office and there was a whole train of tank cars parked in the yard, down by the Amtrak station.  Pretty cool - they were Abrams tanks.

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Posted by dwiemer on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:07 PM
 Lisa-n-NC wrote:

Dennis - just thought of you - Hubby was watching Gunsmoke and Festus had a whole bag of crawdads - he was going to fry his!  Around here, we use them for bait!

 Lisa

Lisa, thanks.  I just came upon the whole crawfish thing from a guy I went to school with and eventually worked with for a few years.  He used to have Crawfish Boils which were a whole lot of fun.  Should you ever get the chance to go to one, take it in for the experience and I know you will have fun.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:08 PM

Jim for your bunk lights call Jeff at the www.traintender.com (585) 381-0705 I get most my parts from him real reasonable.

 

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:13 PM
Yes!! Just won (williams) ABA Shark nose B&O for $153.5 + $12.00 shipping williams book shows $349.95 ($269.45 members)for double A and $149.95 (members $99.95) for b unit.Big Smile [:D] That will go great with my 8 B&O passenger cars from Lionel 9500 series.

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Posted by kblester on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:30 PM

This is even an advertising slogan?

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Posted by underworld on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:53 PM

kblester That ad is great!!! I think I'd use it as a billboard or painted on the side of a barn.

 

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Posted by cnw1995 on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:37 PM

Nice job, John - great flat load. I love the detail onthe load tie-downs.

Wes, I saw those 4-4-0s too - they look grand - though I like Spankybird's (Tom's) the best

That crawdad looks like a little lobster. I don't think I've ever seen let alone et one.

Just finished up rewiring my mountain at the back of the layout - Mt Seaman  - and cleaning it up a tad so the cats don't try to sleep on it and crush the tunnel again. I hooked up the beacon to the DC outputs on the HO transformer I'm using. Then rewired more lights on Eagles Ridge Electric Park - some of the MTH standard gauge street lights and an HO beacon - they look better glowing amid the roller coaster and merry go round facsimiles. Tomorrow going to wire the semaphore and other signal lights but this time at the front of the layout. I think I may have broken the semaphore or burned out its movement - but the light works. Me and electricity -- bad combination. Good night all!!

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:43 PM

Evening all.  Busy day.  Cut the plywood panel and cut the holes to mount the flush binding posts for the tracks.  Also got the MTH "buss bars" mounted.  Then went to Lowes for conduit.  Drilled 1" hole on each side of stoop out front [two layers of brick on each side, have hammer drill].  Put conduit through.  Now can pull any wires needed from one side to the other.  Pulled low voltage wire through.  Put down three up lights for house.  Put in new transformer and transferred walkway lights to it too.  Did not use their clip like splices.  I striped ends and used crimps.  Also spliced in a jumper for one light that was sitting back from house.  Soldered that splice and wrapped it.  Got through, it was after dark.  Came in and fixed soup.  Sat down with micrpwave popcorn.  Half way through a movie, fast asleep. 

New printer came today [and I did not get express shipping, glad I didn't as it came that way].  Will try to install tomorrow.  Thanks Don B.

Dennis, I've got about all of the Back Shop Videos.  Pretty good.  A couple of things Jim B is a "little off" on.  I could teach him a thing or two on those. 

Hope to do the separating of tracks and sidings tomorrow morning.  Then pull accessories wires.

Good night.

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Posted by John Bakeer on Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:02 AM

0900 here in a frosty Stockport. Like I said, 2 inches of snow fell over the weekend, 2 lorries jack-knifed and most of the trans-pennine roads were closed. Just been on the news, the overnight frost has frozen the points, so most of our trains can't run. I think the UK has lost the plot.

Grzyboski have confirmed dispatch today, so I shall be acting like a brain-drain when the stuff arrives and the (weird) electrics start to confuse me. I shall be taking Nicks shopping list to Maplins along with the plastic!

Took some pic's in my local last night, oh dear!

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Posted by kpolak on Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:53 AM

Smoke 'em if you got 'em boys!

I am the proud father of a bouncing baby girl!  7 lbs.-14 oz.

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Posted by Jumijo on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:11 AM

CONGRATULATIONS, KURT!!!!!!!!

The fun has just begun for you, man! Now go out and buy her a Williams girl's train!

John, great work on that military flat car! You have a real talent. I always enjoy seeing photos of your layout and trains.

Ran trains for a good long time last night. The Williams 2343s pulled a long passenger train on the outer loop, and the Williams 2023 pulled a post war passenger train on the inner loop. We also ran our post war 2056, 2018 and 2034 for a good long time last night. A bit of leg stretching I'd say. 

Gonna be colder than a witch's t*t in a brass bra here tomorrow!  Single digits with a wind chill factor in the negatives! What happened to all that warm weather we enjoyed before the Chief came up here? Brrrrrrrrrrr . . . .

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Posted by thor on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:18 AM

Major congrats Kurt!

all ones children are dearly loved but daughters are special.

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Posted by thor on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:21 AM
i'm 'new' to K-Line about all i knew about their stuff was it was going cheap but the k-line by lionel catalog is pretty amazing to me. prices are very fair, i have to get some and that remote ontrol is particularly brilliant.  sorry about the k.d.lang look, this laptop keyboard stinks.
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Posted by cheapclassics on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:26 AM

Good morning all,

It is snowy, cold and windy in SE Indiana with temps in the 20s today.  Congrats, Kurt, on the baby girl.  Yes, a Girl's train is definitely a must have for the little one.  Jefelectric, that is a nice car you built there.  Tmcc man, good luck on your finals and hope you feel better.  The lean-to doors finally are closed!  It took some doing and my wife had to push them shut while I closed them from the inside, but they are back closed the way they were supposed to be.  I am not sure what we will do with the situation now because they are badly warped, but we may leave them that way for a while and see if they will warp back into shape.  I went to the YMCA for a while as well.  Not much else got done.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by laz 57 on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:26 AM

BIGCONGRATS, KURT,on the baby girl.  Spoil her and get her a girls set by WILLLIAMS.

Hi GIZ,

  28 and to get real cold later to day down in single digits tonite.

O h yeah, Happy Friday Eve!!!!

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Posted by rtraincollector on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:30 AM
Congrats Kurt

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Posted by Jumijo on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:44 AM
 thor wrote:

Major congrats Kurt!

all ones children are dearly loved but daughters are special.

 

I couldn't agree with you more, Mike! Daughters are special.

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:56 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold 20 degrees, little snow flurries. Going up to 24 today. Maybe a few more flurries. Cold spell is here.

Today is a chore around the house day. I have  few things to catch up on and then I can work on the layout for a few hours. I need a few things yet to complete the installation. Maybe run to the Hardware store later.

Kurt....Congratulations.

I think I hear the Dining Car rolling in. Breakfast.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

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Posted by Roger Bielen on Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:22 AM

CONGRATS KURT & WIFE.

RE: Crawfish

We have a Cajun cafe here in Watkinsville and two of their lead entees are crawfish and alligator.  Years back when I was working in Baltimore the Po Boys chain would have crawfish certain times of the year.  On MD's lower eastern shore there are (or used to be) crawfish farms to keep the commercial supply satisfies.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:24 AM
 kpolak wrote:

Smoke 'em if you got 'em boys!

I am the proud father of a bouncing baby girl!  7 lbs.-14 oz.

Kurt



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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:37 AM

Yep gonna be a cold one for the next few days!

Supposed to have a 'fast moving snow storm' come through right about evening rush hour!  Glad I'll be home, snug as a bug in a rug, by the time it comes through... wife could have a fun drive home as she leaves at 5pm and has a 2 hour drive!  Looks like I may get the upgrade done to the Berk tonight! Approve [^]  As I exchanged the soldering iron last night...

Funny story for the boards:
Decided to downgrade my Comcast service from HD/DVR to plain HD no DVR.  Called the toll-free number and the lady told me I had to return the box and get a new one.  I thought that was strange but didn't argue.  So I got home, disconnected the box from the A/V center - only had 8 wires to disconnect including the power line... took 30 minutes to sort through the spiderweb behind the cabinet... when I move these cables are going to be routed better!  Anyway I get to Comcast and this guy is standing there for 25 minutes discussing this and that.  I finally get to the counter and the lady tells me I don't need a different box that all they have to do is stop charging for the DVR and I won't have access to those features!  Take the box home and hook it back up.  [Exchange soldering iron and RadioShack here].  Get home, hook up the box as it was before... no sound... no picture... no time display on box! Banged Head [banghead]  Pull cabinet back out, check connections, pull TV out, check connections... no picture, no sound, no time display! Banged Head [banghead]  Unplug unit, wait 30 seconds.  Plug back in, still nothing! Banged Head [banghead]  Call Comcast.  Lady tells me I did the right thing but they have to send a signal to clear the box, tells me to unplug the unit again.  Wait 30 seconds, plug it back it... She says, 'Great I can't send the clear signal to your box.  How do you have it set up?'  Now I have to explain to her why I have 300 (exaggeration) cables behind my cabinet for 8 components, 8 speakers, and the TV!  She tells me I have everything setup fine... DUH! It was working 1 hour ago! Sign - With Stupid [#wstupid]  Then she says, 'Oh I hit the wrong button!  Try it now.'  It works Whistling [:-^]  So something that should have taken 5 seconds (she cleared the DVR service from the bill first), took a total of 1 hour 25 minutes!  Sometimes I wonder...

Sidenote - The DirecTV guy was across the street installing DirecTV for the neighbor... There may be a conversation taking place in the next few days! Wink [;)]

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