low and behold i put everything in the lords hands and he took care of it. i started searching for a job and applied to several different one's and one of the biggest (to be exact 3rd largest) trucking companies in the u.s. called and offered me a truck driving job with them all trainin payed for, and nothing comes out of my pocket. the company is schnieder. i start this weekend in dallas, tx. i went and took all required test, and permit test to get the job and passed them all. like the good book says he might come when you want him to but he's always on time by his schedule. my training last for 4 weeks( 2 in class weeks and 2 on the road weeks) then i get my own truck to drive for them and deliver. i'm as excited as a kid in a candy strore. also i would love to come by any of you guys house's if you will allow me to. to check out and possibly run some trains. if it is ok email or pm me and we can go from there. i will be in dallas for 2 weeks and in class all day from 7am to 6pm, but once i'm done with class i will be free to visit layouts. anyways back to the lecture at hand i have a job now and thanks you guys for keeping me in your prayers and giving me words of encouragement.
CSXect wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: fifedog wrote: CHIEF - since you're getting that fancy front door, will you get them tires off the roof? If he removed the tires from the roof, then he would need to put them back on the cars in the front lawn. In refference to the monitor being on blocks, mine is sitting on top another unused monitorHave you ever noticed that on the Ohio side of the river signs say falling rocks but on the Kentucky side the signs say fallen rocks???
Buckeye Riveter wrote: fifedog wrote: CHIEF - since you're getting that fancy front door, will you get them tires off the roof? If he removed the tires from the roof, then he would need to put them back on the cars in the front lawn.
fifedog wrote: CHIEF - since you're getting that fancy front door, will you get them tires off the roof?
CHIEF - since you're getting that fancy front door, will you get them tires off the roof?
If he removed the tires from the roof, then he would need to put them back on the cars in the front lawn.
In refference to the monitor being on blocks, mine is sitting on top another unused monitor
Have you ever noticed that on the Ohio side of the river signs say falling rocks but on the Kentucky side the signs say fallen rocks???
On the Ohizo side of the river, they have rocks in their heads.
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88 - I really like that second plan with the roundhouse. Those passing sidings are great. If you have railside accessories (coal loader, ice platform, barrel loader, etc), why not take out those 2 small loops and make them true sidings. That's the one thing my current layout lacks, is the ability to drop and pick up loads (but the additions will have them including a brewery and a rotary coal dumper). You're using MTH track, so you kinda have to use the software for planning. With K-Line tubular, I didn't have to be exact (certain wiggability).
dwiemer wrote: Have a funny story: A pulmononlogist had borrowed one of my books awhile back and lost it. Then, he had his office manager order another one for me. She called and told me to come by to get it. Anyway, the office had moved, but I was not told. In the old office is a weight control office. I go in to find where the pulmonologists office is, but before I can ask, the nurse says "Oh, you must be here for a Lap Band" Which is a safer method than the "Stomach Staple Proceedure". Now, I will admit that I could lose a few pounds, but I certainly don't need a Lap Band! And yes, I did get to the office to get the book.Dennis
Have a funny story: A pulmononlogist had borrowed one of my books awhile back and lost it. Then, he had his office manager order another one for me. She called and told me to come by to get it. Anyway, the office had moved, but I was not told. In the old office is a weight control office. I go in to find where the pulmonologists office is, but before I can ask, the nurse says "Oh, you must be here for a Lap Band" Which is a safer method than the "Stomach Staple Proceedure". Now, I will admit that I could lose a few pounds, but I certainly don't need a Lap Band! And yes, I did get to the office to get the book.
Dennis
Dennis, you misunderstood her. She said LAP DANCE.
Now that we have had our laugh for the day. Morning and welcome to sun and warm weather. Waiting for Lowe's to deliver storm door. I usually install but not this one. Fancy thing wife picked out and may have to do some "build out" as has big brass handle and so does front door. Let them worry with it. Also has securtiy latches down the frame. We haver always worried about door poping open when Burg [lab] hits it when folks come up or a dog is walked by. Phone just rang, "We are Lowe's installer. Our vehicle just broke down and has to be towed. We can't do the install today." "Sorry but I'm here today and we have an appointment." "We are a one man shop." "Not my problem." [Being hard to get along with. ] "I'll call store and see what I can do." "Think you'd better." Well, appointment had been set for a week. I have other things on my schedule and then I leave Thursday AM. Sorry for being so firm.
Well, grape vines to prune.
Later
Good morning from a grey and cool Chicago where lots of snow is piled about and I'm happy to have a really small car that fits in what's left of a parking space in the Metra lot.
I had a neat commute in this morning. Got to see a new UP Hi-rail truck mounting one of those jet engine snow blowers that they use here to blow out the switches. It drove up over the switch and there suddenly was a huge cloud of snow and then it moved on. Then we traveled 'neck-and-neck' with a fellow scoot running late - nothing finer than zipping down the four track main line at 60 mph looking out from the 2nd level about five feet from the other train. I gained an appreciation for the UP's track work watching the truck suspensions move up and down a tad.
All this talk about old computers brings back memories of my first Mac - still around here somewhere... it still works fine.
Jim A., glad Julia is on the mend. We don't recognize April 18th as a kid day here at the university. Well, this is my 'long' day with class tonight. Off to a day of meetings.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
fifedog wrote: Mornin' boys. Mornin English. Can't recall ever drinking a beer with UNICORN on the label. Guess you have to be a big watcher of BRAVO television for that stuff. BUD is just fine by me, but not my preferred bev---MOLSEN CANADIAN is. Four of those and I'm wearing lampshades.88 - My friend, you are what I refer to as at a saturation point with your train purchases. You now know what kind of area your layout will occupy, so get yourself an O gauge template, a pencil, and a stack of paper and start designing. Then when you go to YORK, you'll have a mental list of items to be on the lookout for (structures, switches, figures, telephone poles, etc.).
Mornin' boys. Mornin English. Can't recall ever drinking a beer with UNICORN on the label. Guess you have to be a big watcher of BRAVO television for that stuff. BUD is just fine by me, but not my preferred bev---MOLSEN CANADIAN is. Four of those and I'm wearing lampshades.
88 - My friend, you are what I refer to as at a saturation point with your train purchases. You now know what kind of area your layout will occupy, so get yourself an O gauge template, a pencil, and a stack of paper and start designing. Then when you go to YORK, you'll have a mental list of items to be on the lookout for (structures, switches, figures, telephone poles, etc.).
Since I'll be at the house tomorrow I am going to take some more accurate measurements so I can better judge where and how things will line up... Right now there is a large opening providing access to the room (see version 1). As you approach the room, the right wall sticks out from the foundation by about 8 inches, I'm not sure how wide the wall to the right is...I am going to have to wall up part of the opening and add a new door, that much is evident. I'm also hoping to add a 'window' between the basement and the train room so I can run trains and people can enjoy them without the noise and smoke - some people don't like the noise or the smoke , but they do enjoy watching the trains , so I'll compromise and give them a window into my world!
Morning guys (and Lisa), It was a beautiful day yesterday and hopefully will be again today. I did not get any train work done....again, but did read some other rail magazines. In one, mostly dedicated to 2rail O, they had several folks write in on a story with photos of a 3 rail layout in a prior issue. These guys were sooooo mad and threatened to cancel subscriptions. I guess that would be like saying to OGR, "if you post one more Lionel product, I am taking my ball and leaving". Anyway, glad that doesn't happen here.
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is 32 degrees and trying to be sunny. Going up to 43 today with a few clouds and maybe a rain shower later.
Today, I have a few errands to run . I need to stop at the Hardware store to look for a couple of small items. Later, I want to do some more cleaning in the train room. I need to finish putting away tools. Maybe, run trains, while I do that. Nice to relax and watch trains.
Well, Dining Car is here and waiting. Time for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Tuesday. Spring is 20 days away.
Chuck
Good morning all,
It is sunny and warmer in SE Indiana with temps in the low 40s today. I played soccer again last night. I am not nearly as sore today as I was last week. I did not do much else. Work has been busy. I did get some good news. Scott Speed was confirmed as a F-1 driver again this year so I can wave the American flag at the USGP this year. John Bakeer and Nick, do you guys follow F-1 over there or are you "footy" fans only? Glad to hear everyone is on the mend. Just a regular breakfast in the "dining car". Sending it to "Points East". I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
HI GIZ,
GREASY on the roads this morning. Got some rain last nite and turned to ice, wrecks all over the place. I spun out once.
All have a good one.
laz57
jaabat wrote: Good morning from New England.A late day here yesterday. Julia is looking so much better. I'm hoping she will be well enough to attend the father/daughter dance on Friday night. I've also enrolled her in the annual Bring your daughter to work day set for April 18. That should prove mighty interesting for her!!!No trains last night. Wifey was home and was feeling "fat". So you know how that goes. A lot of reassuring and hand holding. Then I had to sit through Oscar recaps on all those stupid entertainment shows.I'm going to try a little Williams smoke fluid in a Lionel tonight to see if it makes a difference - unless someone knows better not to.Jim
Good morning from New England.
A late day here yesterday. Julia is looking so much better. I'm hoping she will be well enough to attend the father/daughter dance on Friday night. I've also enrolled her in the annual Bring your daughter to work day set for April 18. That should prove mighty interesting for her!!!
No trains last night. Wifey was home and was feeling "fat". So you know how that goes. A lot of reassuring and hand holding. Then I had to sit through Oscar recaps on all those stupid entertainment shows.
I'm going to try a little Williams smoke fluid in a Lionel tonight to see if it makes a difference - unless someone knows better not to.
Jim
Oh well... Grrr... I could have been moving that day!
J/K Jim!Well not much has happened in 18 hours so this will be a quick post...John, I haven't forgotten when York is! That would be tatamount to saying a 736 is an MPC Era locomotive!
rtraincollector wrote:lionroar88 thought the wife said no more trains till christmas or is she doing my directions for curing the train aholic.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Fifedog,
Fredericks Unicorn bitter is 5.2% ABV, so 4 pints is enough when a stove has to be driven responsibly, any way the Britsh pint is bigger than the US one.
Why does Budweiser pass through the body quicker than Robinsons? The Bud doesn't have to stop to change colour.
Laz, Thanks for the bear movie, reminds me of some of my drinking weekends in the Dales 40yrs ago. Thank goodness we have bumped off all our dangerous wild life.
The spell check button has vanished along with others, is it IE7 up to no good again?
Has any one noticed that Smiley Central has no trains in its transportation section? What sad world we live in!
Sorry to hear of the various ills among you guys. Apart from a touch of Arthritis and the drink problem (I can't afford it!), I'm as fit as a butchers dog.
John Baker
Count me in on the TRS-80 crowd. I earned the money for my first computer (a TRS-80 model 1 with 4K or RAM) with a paper route. I upgraded it to a whopping 16K! Floppy drives? That was a luxury. The computer used to cause lines across the family TV when I fired it up.
Chris
Jim Fortner wrote:you remember XTree? That was before windows, worked great.
When I switched over to pc Win. 3.1.1?? was out. If I ever buy another computer I will give Macintosh a try. Most people I know started out with a trs-80, comadore 64 or an amiga system. Computer and game systems technology has advanced so far and fast it makes your head spin. I got into computers for the "play value" and to program my own games(well translate them from books on basic anyways.) Now I mostly check e-mail and talk trains.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Jim Fortner wrote: CSXect wrote:I had fun playing with the pc's today and have learned a bit about how to realy get rid of a file on a pc delete and then write over it. I guess I have always knew that but never done it myself before. Wensday I get to load Operating system and check out monitors keyboards and mice I have built industrial computers before and set up Windows NT 3.51 or something like that it has been a few years. Talk about a bone yard their basement is full of old pc and giant monitors I forgot how much space an old monitor takes up , I switched to lcd flat panels on my two working(hooked up and using) pcs at home. I have 5 pc's an Ti994a and an Apple IIc. I have been computing since middle school and still have a lot to learn.Hey - my first computer was a Ti99-4/a. Neat little computer and the first version of BASIC I ever learned. I then had an Apple IIe with the dual drive. Sold it and bought a Bentley Turbo XT (?) that ran at 10 Mhz! WOW! It had a 40 Megabyte HDD!!!! That was a few PC's ago.
CSXect wrote:I had fun playing with the pc's today and have learned a bit about how to realy get rid of a file on a pc delete and then write over it. I guess I have always knew that but never done it myself before. Wensday I get to load Operating system and check out monitors keyboards and mice I have built industrial computers before and set up Windows NT 3.51 or something like that it has been a few years. Talk about a bone yard their basement is full of old pc and giant monitors I forgot how much space an old monitor takes up , I switched to lcd flat panels on my two working(hooked up and using) pcs at home. I have 5 pc's an Ti994a and an Apple IIc. I have been computing since middle school and still have a lot to learn.
Hey - my first computer was a Ti99-4/a. Neat little computer and the first version of BASIC I ever learned. I then had an Apple IIe with the dual drive. Sold it and bought a Bentley Turbo XT (?) that ran at 10 Mhz! WOW! It had a 40 Megabyte HDD!!!! That was a few PC's ago.
Did you save files on casset tape or did you have thr floppy drive? I got mine for $50 at a zetler hardwarestore...that store is long gone but still have the Ti99/4a and the box it came in. I have a voice synthisizer for it but it takes cartridges to make it work. Got to love hunt the wampus game. I learned basic on the TI99/4a and the apples at home and school. Once I got a 486 pc I took up C programing then got too busy with the rest of life to get very deep into it. I have 3 pentiums an AMD and a 486 all work except one which has a bad harddrive. Aklso had an xt but trashed it and its cga monitor. Just too show how much of a nerd I was I have a few books of circuit cellar I made a 50 baud modem for the fun of it using these books.
Good luck the the diabetes mellitus. My dad was diagnosed about 25 years ago and he's doing pretty well so far, but has some complications. I keep getting checkups to make sure that if it shows up, I'll know very early on.
laz 57 wrote: BILL my computer says your e mail address does not exist? Send me an email at laz57
BILL my computer says your e mail address does not exist? Send me an email at
Sent you an email to the address you gave included pics and dementions also I believe these are heavy weights
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Evening all,
Got back from my meeting and venture to Chattanooga. I ended up getting a Atlas P&LE box car and a Southern 52.6 foot gondola. Also picked up the last copy of Finescale Railroading, it is the final edition. While CTT is my main mag, I also like to check out others and this one has had some great detailing issues. Dave Vergun would really like it as it has some homemade projects along his line.
Chief, got your message. I am interested and will try to call. We are a bit swamped right now trying to get unpacked and back to our routine. For anyone who left a message pertaining to me, sorry, just too many pages to catch up on.
I hope everyone has a great week. I need to catch up with the Sunday Photo Fun and head to bed.
God Bless,Dennis
jefelectric wrote: csxt30 wrote: John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe. John, I got a few at Walmart (all they had at the time) and the rest at a LHS. They are Athern, 1/50 scale, Model B John Deeres. I think that is close to the right era for my 50s setting. The tie downs, my wife found at AC Moore craft store. It is Elite Better Beads elastic line. They use it to make bracelets. It has enough stretch to hold the tractors in place. I laced it though the stake pockets in one continuous piece. If you look close in the closeup you can see it going between pockets under the deck. Not very noticable. At the ends I crimped the barrel from a small wire terminal on to keep it from pulling through the stake pocket. I guess a knot would also work.CSXect, That sounds like a fun job. I like to fool around with computer in addition to trains. Have built quite a few over the years & also did the IT at my company until the technology passed me by. When we went to new server running MS server 2003, I gave up.Well the snow that fell yesterday and last night is mostly gone, we still have what was on the ground which is mostly ice mixed with snow.On a sad note, our associate pastor's home caught fire last evening and the whole kitchen was destroyed. She lives in Strasburg (of RR fame) with her husband who is the pastor of the Methodist Church there. They have moved in with friends across the street until repairs can be made to the parsonage.About time to wrap up this book.
csxt30 wrote: John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe.
John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?
CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe.
John, I got a few at Walmart (all they had at the time) and the rest at a LHS. They are Athern, 1/50 scale, Model B John Deeres. I think that is close to the right era for my 50s setting. The tie downs, my wife found at AC Moore craft store. It is Elite Better Beads elastic line. They use it to make bracelets. It has enough stretch to hold the tractors in place. I laced it though the stake pockets in one continuous piece. If you look close in the closeup you can see it going between pockets under the deck. Not very noticable. At the ends I crimped the barrel from a small wire terminal on to keep it from pulling through the stake pocket. I guess a knot would also work.
CSXect, That sounds like a fun job. I like to fool around with computer in addition to trains. Have built quite a few over the years & also did the IT at my company until the technology passed me by. When we went to new server running MS server 2003, I gave up.
Well the snow that fell yesterday and last night is mostly gone, we still have what was on the ground which is mostly ice mixed with snow.
On a sad note, our associate pastor's home caught fire last evening and the whole kitchen was destroyed. She lives in Strasburg (of RR fame) with her husband who is the pastor of the Methodist Church there. They have moved in with friends across the street until repairs can be made to the parsonage.
About time to wrap up this book.
So far it is fun, my last job for 5 years was at XEROX working on network capable office copiers which had PC's built in to them and I installed memory network cards and fax boards also did repiars on these big 30k and 40k dollar systems they cost as much as my Transam w/ramair. I had to quit because of my health which slowed me down a bit. The big deal about a digital copier is that it has a harddrive that temp. holds an image so that all your copys are the same where as an old copier each time you make a copy it is progessively degraded from the original.On a digital copier you only have to scan the original once.
You are the third Methodist person I have talked to on this forum there are two pastors. I am not Methodist but my parents volenteer at the Methodist Free store here in Columbus. The free store has put a few thrift stores out of business but it helps a lot of people. I have 3 Churches that I visit when I am feeling up to it. Two are Church of Christ and one is a Baptist(I go there to listen to Bluegrass and eat a free meal)
I hope they can repair the house real soon.
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