Buckeye Riveter wrote: ChiefEagles wrote: Roger Bielen wrote: spankybird wrote: Our last OTTS meeting was at Roger's house and he has a 2 rail scale 'O' gauge layout. What a great layout!Not this Roger. Y'all would have had a pretty expensive trip to GA for a meeting, not that you wouldn't be welcome. I'd have to whip up some so'thn cookin for y'all, especially grits.Love to see that. Yanks would be tared and feathered and riden out of town on a rail. These Sutherners are a interesting lot. First they invite you to supper then they threaten you if you show up.
ChiefEagles wrote: Roger Bielen wrote: spankybird wrote: Our last OTTS meeting was at Roger's house and he has a 2 rail scale 'O' gauge layout. What a great layout!Not this Roger. Y'all would have had a pretty expensive trip to GA for a meeting, not that you wouldn't be welcome. I'd have to whip up some so'thn cookin for y'all, especially grits.Love to see that. Yanks would be tared and feathered and riden out of town on a rail.
Roger Bielen wrote: spankybird wrote: Our last OTTS meeting was at Roger's house and he has a 2 rail scale 'O' gauge layout. What a great layout!Not this Roger. Y'all would have had a pretty expensive trip to GA for a meeting, not that you wouldn't be welcome. I'd have to whip up some so'thn cookin for y'all, especially grits.
spankybird wrote: Our last OTTS meeting was at Roger's house and he has a 2 rail scale 'O' gauge layout. What a great layout!
Our last OTTS meeting was at Roger's house and he has a 2 rail scale 'O' gauge layout. What a great layout!
Not this Roger. Y'all would have had a pretty expensive trip to GA for a meeting, not that you wouldn't be welcome. I'd have to whip up some so'thn cookin for y'all, especially grits.
Love to see that. Yanks would be tared and feathered and riden out of town on a rail.
These Sutherners are a interesting lot. First they invite you to supper then they threaten you if you show up.
Welcome to my web said the spider to the fly.
DA BEARS WIN,
Next week NEW ORLEANS at CHICAGO.
GO BEARS!!!!!!
JELECTRIC, AND KIETH, MILLERSBURG BEAR only on lone til super bowl is over.
Made a pot of deer stew with the last of my deer meat that I had frozen. Now got to beg for some from my friends. LISA do ya got any left or did ja give it all to the CHIEF.
Got to go watch the CHARGERS now. Sister lives in ESCONDIDO so I'll root for them. I helped build their house out there in '86.
laz57
Hope her hands aren't to cold for the prostate exam !!!!!!
Go CHARGERS !!!!!!!!!!
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John F, glad to see you back. Remembered you and the loss.
Tom P, don't do me any favors [snow ].
Buckeye, when it comes to "treating" Yanks, no holds bared.
Hot here but a little windy. Was going to take Crappie Jon to pond and fish. Ended up cleaning up under shelter and cleaning the table saw and putting it away along with power handtools. Cranked tractor and fogged Ranger boat motor [as I don't think I will get to the lake anytime soon]. Watered greenhouse. Going to pond and bank fish later. Wife not feeling good [again]. Got physical tomorrow. Nice to have a female doctor for that.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good afternoon,
Don, Too bad you have to work in the bad weather.
John Baker, Thanks for the translation.
Laz, The seahawks just went ahead. Maybe the bear isn't doing his part.
lionroar88, How is the bear at your house doing today?
I finished up the catenary as far as I can go until I get to LHS for more. Will have to do some improvising, since the double track on the shelf does not have room for poles along the outside. Have a couple of ideas to try.
Someone close that dang door !!!!
Here it is hi-noon and the flower beds are still frozen with ICE on them in the backyard.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Roger : thanks, but I'll just skip breakfeast !! What's for lunch & supper ? !! I know that would be great !!
Thanks, John
Frank53 wrote: ChiefEagles wrote: Yes, finished the benchwork in the walk-in. Trains now run through the wall and back out the other side.Frankly, Frank - congrats!Frank
ChiefEagles wrote: Yes, finished the benchwork in the walk-in. Trains now run through the wall and back out the other side.
Yes, finished the benchwork in the walk-in. Trains now run through the wall and back out the other side.
Frankly, Frank - congrats!
Frank
I gotta see those trains run through the walls. Chief, when they hit the wall does it mess up the front of the engine or as we saw in the movie, Silver Streak, they just take out the wall.
Either way, Congratulations!
Nick12DMC wrote: Morning All, Lots of Grid Iron fans on here! Went past one of the US bases on the way to a Job yesterday. Someone had a Ohio State Buckeyes banner on the front of their house. Nick
Morning All, Lots of Grid Iron fans on here! Went past one of the US bases on the way to a Job yesterday. Someone had a Ohio State Buckeyes banner on the front of their house.
Nick
My cousin lives on one of those U.S. bases.
You notice Nick didn't see any Florida Gators banners.
Jim Fortner wrote: Well, got my hobo musical tower, hobo depot, hobo handcar and hobo campfire out of the basement for the layout while I was digging out my lubricating supplies. Also found my lumberjacks accessory. I need to get some buttons so I can let the kids activate these from the edge of the layout instead of reaching over the train to turn the barrel etc.$capbooking or crapbooking - women get together and make photo albums, decorating each page with lots of designer stuff. My wife has about a zillion little doodads including weird scissors, cutters, presses with punches and dies, acid free paper in different patterns and colors, etc. She loads up in some big rolling bags - think of someone showing up to set up a display at a big sales presentation. Then they all sit around and ooh and ah over the pics, journal in the albums, etc. She is making on album for each kid starting with out marriage and going through their births and up to date, as well as one for us. So, one day, the kids will move out and have their own album to keep. Actually, its kinda cool - but not anything I would ever do.We had freezing rain last night, but haven't watched the news so don't know about farther north, above I44. Today it was just wet pavement, but ice on the deck etc. It melted during the day, but once the sun went down, it started freezing again. Still drizzling and I guess it will continue through tomorrow and into Monday. Need to get to Costco Monday to pick up Turbotax Deluxe for $21. Still want to get out to the LHS as well. Never got to the car today, so will have to do it tomorrow. Nodding off, so good night ladies and gentlemen.
Well, got my hobo musical tower, hobo depot, hobo handcar and hobo campfire out of the basement for the layout while I was digging out my lubricating supplies. Also found my lumberjacks accessory. I need to get some buttons so I can let the kids activate these from the edge of the layout instead of reaching over the train to turn the barrel etc.
$capbooking or crapbooking - women get together and make photo albums, decorating each page with lots of designer stuff. My wife has about a zillion little doodads including weird scissors, cutters, presses with punches and dies, acid free paper in different patterns and colors, etc. She loads up in some big rolling bags - think of someone showing up to set up a display at a big sales presentation. Then they all sit around and ooh and ah over the pics, journal in the albums, etc. She is making on album for each kid starting with out marriage and going through their births and up to date, as well as one for us. So, one day, the kids will move out and have their own album to keep. Actually, its kinda cool - but not anything I would ever do.
We had freezing rain last night, but haven't watched the news so don't know about farther north, above I44. Today it was just wet pavement, but ice on the deck etc. It melted during the day, but once the sun went down, it started freezing again. Still drizzling and I guess it will continue through tomorrow and into Monday. Need to get to Costco Monday to pick up Turbotax Deluxe for $21. Still want to get out to the LHS as well.
Never got to the car today, so will have to do it tomorrow. Nodding off, so good night ladies and gentlemen.
HI GIZ,
Another rainy one on tap today. Gonna watch and see if sending DA MILLERSBURG 800 lb. BEAR to Chicago will make a difference? GO BEARS!!!
JIM F. Sounds like a lot of crap to me? But hey if thats what blows her skirt up then its ok. My wife is the same way with painting humming birds, dragonflies, frogs, turtles, oh well we like trains, I guess they need their own space.
Watched EAGLES (not FRANK CHIEF) lasr nite blow it, guess they got to wait til next year.
All have agood one.
GO BEARS!!!!!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning everyone,
Let me catch up with the first few pages. Laz and Jefelectric, I am deeply sorry for your losses. I scanned over the forum earlier in the week, and put you both in my prayers. Dennis, happy belated birthday, I'm glad you got what you wanted. Chief, I am happy to find that you have come such a long way with your benchwork. I will have to see it sometime when I go to Duke. Chuck, it is like that here too. The ground is soaked, the fog is thick, and it is a little chilly. Not the kind of weather that I like.
Good Morning all from NE Ohio
Where the temp is 35 deg and will be falling with rain turing to snow. I guess winter will be with us for a few days or so.
Cheif - temp in the 30's could mean snow for you too !
tom
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
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a rainy 50 degrees. Going all the way up to 51 today, and rain. It is getting nasty out there. Ground is like a swamp.
Today, I have a couple of things to do and then I will spend time in the train room. I am still waiting on my switches from CA. Next week, I have to get some lumber and start the bracing. Just about have it figured out.
I'm looking forward to the Sunday Photo Fun, today. I want to see the pictures of a few people's benchwork and scenery.
Well, the Dining Car is here and well stocked. Everyone " points west " of here must have slept in. Later.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Mornin' boys. Wet but mild here in the Mid-Atlantic today. Think I'll take it easy.
John Bakeer - thanks for the "snecklifter" definition. In your honor I will try to use the term in conversation once a day. Do those Jackdaws jersies come in 2x?
88 - watching post game coverage, there were a multitude of long faces rolling out of M&T stadium last night. There was one guy who was walking hurriedly through the crowd, as if to get home to see if something were at his door...was that you?
American football had quite a following on this side of the pond in the mid-80's, when I was at school we even used to play it at lunch time. It was never included in PE lessons though. We all wanted to play it rather than Rugby! In fact we used to drive the PE teacher mad by throwing the rugby ball in the American style! I guess we all wanted to play in the NFL till we saw the size of the "Fridge"
I surported the Patriots as our cousins in NC followed that team (NC did not have a NFL team).
Channel 4 used to show the games but lost them to SKY TV in the early 90's and that's when the mass intrest seamed to disappear.
Nice bright but cold morning here.
And;
SHARKS!!!
John Baker
+2 at 0630GMT here in a damp chilly Stockport.
Fifedog, Sorry your Ravens were beaten, round here we have Magpies, Sparrows, Jackdaws, Crows, Pigeons, Starlings, Robins, Jackdaws, Chaffinches, Mallards, Canada Geese, Swans, a Heron and in the tree outside my bedroom window a pair of Nightingales. Not much lunacy yesterday, just a couple of pub windows busted!
Ah! Snecklifter, when I was a kid in the 50s there was not much money about, every pub had a vault or tap room that was a male only domain where beer cost a penny a pint less and there was waiter service too. In said room were played games; Darts, Dominoes, Crib and All Fours. Round the corner from me lived a blind(?) man named Lou Vasine, he was an expert domino player who could earn his beer money at the table, but being a gambler he would always put any surplus from the dom's on a donkey. In order to get through the door to the pub he required the price of a half, all doors in my part of Yorkshire had a sneck which was a metal bar fixed at one end that engaged in a sloping latch or snag, this was disengaged from the outside by a lever with a pad and fulcrum passing through the door, thereby lifting the sneck.
I wonder if a spellcheck would have helped with the (s)crapbook (I use one).
Frustrated !!!! I know your going to think I am nuts, but here we are having unpleasant weather, and what am I doing ? Working !!! There are so few unpleasnat days here, that I look forward to when they come. It is ideal to work in the train room then. I Usually feel guilty when the weather is great outside and I go in to "mess" with the trains. So get the bad weather and I go off to work. frustrated
I think Marty is coming to LA this weekend, he will probably be glad to go back home where it is warmer. I don't think it got up to 50 today!
Speaking of weather, I got this neat remote thermometer for Christmas, it also measures humidity. For youse guys in the east with dehumidifiers what percent do you find is bad for trains? (I'm serious)
Keith - I thought I did mention I got the email regarding that auction. I did get the email, and the pictures of that set was awesome!! Complete with boxes, xfmr, track AND cars. Got to check what it sold for!!
Sure sounds like a great job on the unit of mine you have!! I will be excited to see it!!! But, no problem don't be concerned about rushing or hurrying, that is not an issue. Take your time, it is not a problem. If you can post a picture or two, I'm sure it will be interesting to others, before and after!
Jim - With the pinewood derby cars, when Chris and I was doing it, they YMCA, also had a Dad's division, where we could modify a car anyway we wanted. I made a pretty much stock racer, then bought a cheap police car that had a led red light, and small siren that ran on a little battery. (Car cost less than $1) So I took the light and siren out, and hollowed out the pinewood derby car and mounted in thru the bottom, and painted it like a police car. The kids loved it! Especially because it was slower than their cars and would seem to be chasing them. Hint: Use the graphite liberally, it makes a big difference!
Got to go get things ready for another day at the computer show.... YUK
Stay warm and have a good day...
KEVIN..... HOW LONG YOU GOING TO KEEP THAT DOOR OPEN ????
(YOU'VE ALREADY GOT DOUG TRYING TO HEAT UP THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM WITH ROLLING CAMP FIRES, (The inSane Dieagons don't know what to do when the temperature goes beyond a 74 degree high or 71 degree low anyway))
Don
John Bakeer - colts scored 5 goals to ravens 2. Bloody sad. No hooliganism in crab town. Someone please pass a tissue.
...and we all just gotta know, what is a sneck lifter mate?
Evening all. Went to columbus today. Went to the HobbyTown there and did not spend a dime. All full retail and very low stock. I had thought about a few things, but as unimpressed as I was, I just left. Then we went to Pier One and the bride filled the trunk. I am saving up for the train show in two weeks.
Chief, my buddy in Columbus just got a 17 rifle. He got a great deal on it and it is a squirrel's worst nightmare. I may have to get one.
Well, have to hit the sheets so I can get plenty of rest for the morning service as I will be on the main camera and that means I can't have a rest. They always record that one, regardless of which shot is being aired, this way they have a running record, also it will display on the Imags, so everyone will know if I mess up.
Have a great night,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
1688torpedo wrote: Hello All! Don B- I got your 1688E to run & it will run nice for you now. After my restoration guy feels better,(He's been under the weather lately) I'll call him & give him your engine to put on the Wheels & do the re-paint & clean the trim. First,He'll take off the trim & handrails, then strips the paint off the engine & tender & uses a Bead Machine to clean off the castings & smooth it out. After that, He will re-paint both engine & tender with Three Coats of Paint & he hand rubs each coat of paint to smooth out everything & gives the paint a sheen that looks like a million. I think you'll be very happy with your 1688E after it comes back to you & it will be worth the wait. How did you like the 1688E Set on the New England Toy Train Exchange Auction site? I e-mailed that to you so that you could see what Freight Cars your Engine goes with. Jim F.- Hope you guys are okay in spite of that Ice Storm in your area? Laz- How is the 800lb Bear of Millersburg? He has not been on the Forum lately! Chief- You need your own private jet instead of relying on the Airlines. Cabalas might save some money that way anyhow seeing that you fly all over the country. Take Care all.
KEITH, BEAR has moved to CHICAGO and will be coming out of hibernation tomorrow at 1 PM.
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