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

[MartyE]

Hey guys have a great day... all I can say.  So lost in the amount of posting.

[Anonymous]

Good Morning Everyone,

 Today...No snow in the mile high city.  We should reach a high near 50 today....woohoo.  Yesterday I took my Lionmaster Canadian Pacific set back to the LHS.  The locomotive had a slightly loud buzzing sound when the engines weren't running.  Lionel and the LHS all agreed the issue was with the locomotive.  I picked up the full-size Santa Fe set and very pleased with it. 

While I spend time at the LHS, the soon to be wife goes to several antique shops in the area.  She found a set of 4 coffee mugs for $3 each and they are valued near $12-15 each.  So she's happy with her find and I'm happy with my train upgrade. 

Today I think we're going to take advantage of the nice weather and go to the flea market.  She's hoping her good luck will continue.  For me...I'm just glad that she has something to keep her busy while I play with my train. 

John, Thanks for posting the pics and the info regarding your flatcar load.  I look forward to seeing the photos of the gondola load you're working on next.

Mitch, Thoughts and Prayers to your friend.

Have a beautiful Sunday everyone.

Jerry

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

  cool here today and windy only gonna get to 37?

MITCH prayers are out to your teacher DAVE, hope all goes well.

Yesterday ran wire for light to the pick up on K-line BERSHIRE.  Works great on all the time, now to get drop in board from TAS for the chuff.  Did anyone here ever get those drop in boards?  Are they hard to put in?

Have agood one.

laz57

[Anonymous]

Morning all!

  Another unsuccessful try at posting pics this morning.  As usual, the images window just freezes while opening.  Sometimes it opens properly and posting is no problem.  Sometimes not.

  Mitch, my prayers go out to your buddy Dave. 

  Sideshow Fifedog, solar eclipses at your place must be a real hoot!

Back to more Foto Phun for me!

Bruce Webster

 

[csxt30]

Good Morning Everyone !!  No snow here last night !!  Good !!

Mitch : we'll be praying for your friend, also .

Been up for a while making pieces for a godola load now !! Can't wait to see what it will look like in a gon !! Thanks Chuck, glad you liked it too !!  Buckeye gets all the credit for me thinking of it !!   Come to think of it, my town of Eagleville wouldn't look as good as it does if he hadn't told me to put a track through it !!   Buckeye is our Think Tank Thinker !!

Well, now to catch the dining car & hope that waitress that doesn't like me is off today !!

Hope everyone has a nice day !!

Thanks, John

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold 24 degrees. Got a little snow yesterday. Going up to 35 today, with a cloudy sky. Maybe snow flurries later.

Today, is an easy day. Have a couple of chores to do, and then take it slow. Company liked the trains, and stayed for pizza. Yesterday, was a busy day. Maybe I'll run trains , later this afternoon.  No races to watch today. Wife is waiting on baseball season to start. I'm waiting on summer and hot, sunny weather.

Mitch....Our prayers for your friend, Dave.

John ( csxt30 )...You did a great job on that flatcar. Looks real.

Well, everyone must be sleeping late today. Full Dining Car is here and it's time for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Sunday.

Chuck

[tmcc man]

Morning from Gettysburg. Currently 30 with highs to be about 40.  Yesterday I had great intentions to run some trains. So I turned on the heat in the train room.  I also had to climb into the attic up a folding stairway to take some pcs of a hinge on atoy box for my Dad.  He's building a toybox for Brian, my nephew, just like the one he built for my son and nephew 20+ years ago and he needed to see the safety hinge he put on it to be sure he got the same type of hinge.  Well I crawled up in the attic twice to take pics and read hime some cerial numbers off the hinge.  While I was up there, the Mrs asked me to get dwon any boxes of "baby items" so is spent another hour draggin boxes around and down the steps for her.  WHen I got done, it was lunch time, so I had lunch.  After lunch I sat in the chair the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.  So much for train time....

Guys, I need you to say some prayers for Dave, a good friend and teacher at my school.  He started about three weeks ago with a  stomach flu, vomiting.  Went to Dr. several times, Dr said to give it a few days.  A few days turned into 2 weeks, still vomiting several times every day. A week ago, Dr. did endoscopy with biopsy and diagnosed peptic ulcers.  Sends him home with some meds.  Well meds did not work, changed meds those new meds made him dizzy and of course he is getting weaker by the day.  Thursday, his wife had had enough so she takes him to hospital. They admitted him and drew blood work ( seems as though the Dr that did endoscopy didn't do that). His blood work comes back showing kidney failure with a creatinine level of 28 ( normal is 1, kidney failure is 10).  They admitted him and started dialysis Friday night.  Monday they are going to do a kidney biopsy to see if they can find out what caused kidneys to fail.  Dialysis seems to be helping some.  I am going to visit him to day.

Have a gerat day.

Mitch 

 

Mitch, that is horrible. I will keep him in my prayers.

Woke up early to take the dog out. I am feeling horrible right now. I feel like I have strep throat. Not again I hope!

I hope everyone has a good day.

[mitchelr]

Morning from Gettysburg. Currently 30 with highs to be about 40.  Yesterday I had great intentions to run some trains. So I turned on the heat in the train room.  I also had to climb into the attic up a folding stairway to take some pcs of a hinge on atoy box for my Dad.  He's building a toybox for Brian, my nephew, just like the one he built for my son and nephew 20+ years ago and he needed to see the safety hinge he put on it to be sure he got the same type of hinge.  Well I crawled up in the attic twice to take pics and read him some serial numbers off the hinge.  While I was up there, the Mrs asked me to get dwon any boxes of "baby items" so is spent another hour draggin boxes around and down the steps for her.  WHen I got done, it was lunch time, so I had lunch.  After lunch I sat in the chair the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.  So much for train time....

Guys, I need you to say some prayers for Dave, a good friend and teacher at my school.  He started about three weeks ago with a  stomach flu, vomiting.  Went to Dr. several times, Dr said to give it a few days.  A few days turned into 2 weeks, still vomiting several times every day. A week ago, Dr. did endoscopy with biopsy and diagnosed peptic ulcers.  Sends him home with some meds.  Well meds did not work, changed meds those new meds made him dizzy and of course he is getting weaker by the day.  Thursday, his wife had had enough so she takes him to hospital. They admitted him and drew blood work ( seems as though the Dr that did endoscopy didn't do that). His blood work comes back showing kidney failure with a creatinine level of 28 ( normal is 1, kidney failure is 10).  They admitted him and started dialysis Friday night.  Monday they are going to do a kidney biopsy to see if they can find out what caused kidneys to fail.  Dialysis seems to be helping some.  I am going to visit him to day.

Have a great day.

Mitch 

 

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys. Mornin' Lisa.  Reference to the lunar eclipse, nobody came to my little "party" to celebrate, and I had gone thru the trouble of putting on my grass skirt, ceremonial face paint, and bones in my hair...talk about all dressed up with no place to go.  Didn't even bother lighting up the barbecue pit.    Wound up taking Mrs. Fifedog to BED, BATH & BEYOND...

BAKEER - I'd sell that residence and get off the island, because according to former V.P. Gore, you're all gonna be under water in about 10,000 years or so.

Remember, the CHIEF will be back tonight, so ya'll be sure and tidy up the site before ya'll leave.

[John Bakeer]

Point taken Jim, We haven't the space to up sticks and abandon an area the size of NOLA, neither would we leave it to the rats (4&2 legged).

Going to a local Mill Store with the Dear Lady as we are in for a wet day, my plans to go into the upper Pennines for lunch are washed out. Mild though, +11.

   

[underworld]

LISA, I love purple, all the AMISH women wear purple and black.

laz57

Is that why Prince likes Purple so much???

underworld

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

  Ran trains for 2hrs. tonite NO PROBLEMS.  Put down sprayed black sand paper for macadam for train station and lumber mill.  All looks fine.

  TURDY TREE is the way to go JIM FORTNER, says it on the ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES.

laz57

[rtraincollector]

Jim no the stains were on the boards when I bought them (got them for $5.00 each they were sitting out side with a tarp on them I treated them with bleach water then dried them and then painted other side with KILTZ and will do same to this side to be sure once there all up.

[laz 57]

The rumor is just that .....A RUMOR!!!  None of us suthners have defected to the Nawth as previously reported.    Couldn't bring the vette even if I came that way.  It actually belongs to my husband and it never goes out in potentially bad weather and never very far from home.......

RE:  Wire stretcher - found some 20/4 wire at a local hardware store, rewired the switch remote - and it worked the FIRST time.  After got it all back together, ran some trains for a while.  Ready to start on some scenery...been thinking and planning on it today instead of doing housework....oops.....don't tell my husband!

LAZ - hehee - found my own wirestretcher - will try it on some boards next.  Did you decide on what color duck tape to use on that pen light?  Maybe a zip tie will work - I have some clear, black and purple....

Anyone get to see the lunar eclipse?

Lisa

 

LISA, I love purple, all the AMISH women wear purple and black.

laz57

[csxt30]

Thanks John, (jefelectric) & Jim !! I made those out of I believe 7/32" square brass tubing. I just measured them & they will slide right inside the quarter inch tube. The cross pieces are 1/8th." I painted it with Polly Scale, "Special Oxide Red" !  My next ones are going into the gondolas !!  I see them all the time on the real RRs like that. May make some using conduit also !! 

Thanks again everyone !!   

[Brutus]

• John (csxt30), I like your load very much - looks like 1/8th inch cross pieces 3/8th's long pieces?  1/2 inch?  The paint really made it stand out nicely!
• Laz - Tirdy Tree, sounds like yuz giz don talk right!  Folks in STL also say zink instead of sink and zizzors instead of scissors.  Otherwise, we're mostly normal.
• Underworld, thanks for that advice on tea.  I used to love all those Celestial teas.  I've been hearing about green tea lately in the news, too.
• jefelectric, thanks!  I loved that pic of Chief taking "pot" shots from his swimming hole!
• RT - have you had water in your wall?  If so, then I hope you fix that problem before you do more work inside?!
• John Baker - part of the problem down in NOLA (short for New Orleans where I work) is that a lot of the people moved away, got new jobs etc.  My friend Jeff was in ANDREW and of course they all had to stay and fix their stuff up afterwards.  With NOLA, everyone was diplaced, since it was all under water, and I have heard that a lot of folks have not gone back.  Considering how poor many of them were, they probably won't be able to do so when it is all rebuilt.  As for me, I think that if they take our $$$, then the gov't should do what we did in the St. Louis area.  There were a lot of areas around Valley Park etc that would flood every few years and the people would get their money from the gov't and then fix up their house and the cycle would repeat.  Finally, folks wised up, bought out all those people and passed a law that no housing could be built there anymore.  PS - I thnk I read that a big percentage of the current population (post-Katrina) is illegal.
• Lisa - Don't tell my wife, but I'm on the computer while I slave over the laundry!

 

[Anonymous]

The rumor is just that .....A RUMOR!!!  None of us suthners have defected to the Nawth as previously reported.    Couldn't bring the vette even if I came that way.  It actually belongs to my husband and it never goes out in potentially bad weather and never very far from home.......

RE:  Wire stretcher - found some 20/4 wire at a local hardware store, rewired the switch remote - and it worked the FIRST time.  After got it all back together, ran some trains for a while.  Ready to start on some scenery...been thinking and planning on it today instead of doing housework....oops.....don't tell my husband!

LAZ - hehee - found my own wirestretcher - will try it on some boards next.  Did you decide on what color duck tape to use on that pen light?  Maybe a zip tie will work - I have some clear, black and purple....

Anyone get to see the lunar eclipse?

Lisa

[CSXect]

Something funny going on with OGR and MTJ

 

I get a page can not be found error when trying to access OGR forums it says to try the home page which is actually MTJ home page

What ever was wrong now seems to be fixed my computer had a brain fart.

[underworld]

Snowed quite a bit today...off and on.....but it was always going horizontal!!! So no noticeable accumulation. Plenty windy yesterday and today. Off work all day tomorrow....I wonder what bizarre weather we'll have???

underworld 

[CSXect]

Something funny going on with OGR and MTJ

 

I get a page can not be found error when trying to access OGR forums it says to try the home page which is actually MTJ home page

[rtraincollector]

Well the wife thinks it must going to snow here in Dixie tonight as I started work on my room after a year and a half of saying I was (well the problem was everytime I was going to she came up with another prodject need to be done first) well heres some pics after I put in new windows about a year ago I ended up tearing out some paneling to do so so I'm going in with 3/8" plywood I got cheap as it had some water stains and mold on it so I hit it with bleach water right away (about a year ago also) and I'm hitting back side with KILTZ and will do front after its all up. anyway heres some pics

 

 

I'm still going to have to get some 3/4" ply wood to redo the floor. as its weak in a few places and a couple of smal holes have developed in a couple.

[rtraincollector]

john give jeff at train tender a call 585-229-2050 he does nothin but lionel parts and some marx so you can get a lot of help from him he might be a little back loaded at the moment as he just got done moving everything and just reopened 1 march but hes very knowageble on trains and may be able to help you.

tr,

When is the best time to call?  Is he full time or are trains a sideline?

Website with hours and phone numbers www.ttender.com sorry mainly closed fridays and works evenings as hes a teacher

[csxt30]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments on my flatcar load !!

John : (jefelectric) I emailed Jeff once in the evening & he emailed me back in a few minutes !! I think he is there in the evenings .

Thanks, John

  

[underworld]

csxt30 Very cool flat car load!

Jim Fortner Drink lots of hot tea......green tea, white tea, black tea any of those are good.

 

underworld

[jefelectric]

john give jeff at train tender a call 585-229-2050 he does nothin but lionel parts and some marx so you can get a lot of help from him he might be a little back loaded at the moment as he just got done moving everything and just reopened 1 march but hes very knowageble on trains and may be able to help you.

tr,

When is the best time to call?  Is he full time or are trains a sideline?

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!    CSXJohn-  You did a nice job with that Flatcar. Looks super!  Mike C- Hope Lucas does well on his Driving Exam & is a very safe driver as well. Hope the Chief is fine. He could have been kidnapped by Aliens in a Red Pickup Truck with a Gunrack in the Rear Window. They might have lured him with Grits,BBQ Pork,Potato Salad,& Sweet Iced Tea. Don B- OTTS does not mind if you & chris have your own train club. Maybe there's an 700 lb Bear (Cousin of laz's 800lb bruin) around who would enjoy such a thing & can become your club mascot also. Take Care all. 

[jefelectric]

Got the load painted zinc oxide, may need another coat & tie downs !!  

 

Thanks, John

Looks good John.  Did you start with square brass tubing?  I have some gondolas that I would like to construct loads for, but not sure what I want to use.

Some one on another thread or forum once suggested thin black tape like the striping tape they sell in hobby shop to represent metal strapping.  Never tried it but it should work.

[Anonymous]

Good Evening all!

  It's been hovering around freezing all day today.  Yesterday's snow and ice storm resulted in  power outages in the Toronto area and a few thousand are still without electricity tonight.  Plowing the slushy mess off my laneway was a major nightmare even though there was only about 3" of frozen precip.

John, really really nice looking flatcar load!  Just got a Lionel 40 footer and it seems mine is missing the real gold brick load it should have come with....or you'd think so considering what they cost

  Took my first attempts at weathering with chalks these last few days.  I practiced up on a mid '80's Lionel GN ore car which now looks really well worn.  Seems the trick to weathering is to use as little material as possible, go very slowly and work on small areas at a time.  It's so easy to overdo the piece you're working on with the end result being one big mess.  Luckily with chalks you can simple wash them off and start over.  Wood kits wouldn't be so forgiving

  Then I tackled my Altas switch tower after being satisfied that I kinda, sorta, maybe knew what I was doing.   Added some railroad crew, lights and other details while I was at it.

I'll try getting some pics tonight for tomorrows Foto Phun.

Good night and have a great tomorrow.

Bruce Webster

 

[dwiemer]

Thanks RT !!  Also I heard that The Chief & Dennis & Lisa all defected to the Nawth !! Just hope Lisa brings the Vette !! Another special covert mission day, today !!  

Thanks, John

John, I only go above the Mason Dixon line if I have to, not for desire.  I am heading up to work on the train layout.  Had to do a fair bit of reading to make sure of things as I am preparing to run the wires for the level that will have TMCC, but be wired for DCS in case I ever get an itch to change things up, I won't have to rewire it.  It is a pleasant 70something out right now.  Not much going on.  Pretty outside as compared to the other day.

Take care,

dennis

[csxt30]

looking great csx30

HMMM haven't heard from the cheif today wonder if the VA. rednecks got a hold of him never know around here.

Thanks RT !!  Also I heard that The Chief & Dennis & Lisa all defected to the Nawth !! Just hope Lisa brings the Vette !! Another special covert mission day, today !!  

Thanks, John