Good Evening All,
IIABSDiSEI with temps in the high 30s. My wife, Lucas and I all worked our tails off cleaning and cooking for tomorrow, but the food is mostly ready and the house looks fairly nice for once. We all went to 7:30 mass and enjoyed the service and the decorations. Unlike 2006, this has been a good year for myself and for my family and I have been happy to share it with all of you on the forum and especially those on the coffeepot. I want to wish you all a
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
CSXect wrote: Sturgeon-Phish wrote: CTXect- I remember Chris the nite owl. Remember the sunglasses?Yes and it was Fritz the nightowl, last I heard he was doing a gig as a radio station with jazz music.
Sturgeon-Phish wrote: CTXect- I remember Chris the nite owl. Remember the sunglasses?
CTXect- I remember Chris the nite owl. Remember the sunglasses?
Yes and it was Fritz the nightowl, last I heard he was doing a gig as a radio station with jazz music.
Yea, Fritz not Chris
kpolak wrote: Traditional Pierogies for Dinner tonight!
Traditional Pierogies for Dinner tonight!
Us too! My wife's family is Polish.
Back from dinner with the families. Had a great time. Always do...Waiting to make sure the kiddos are asleep before setting out the gifts. We tracked Santa via NORAD tonight. He was in South America when we looked.
Chief, plenty of things have been banned in Boston. I do them all anyway! Most of them, I do pretty well! Especially Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Trying to update my avatar since 2020
MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
Watching Holiday Affair with Chewy - we like it! God bless and all you guys get to bed so Santa will show up! My daughter gave us strict instructions not to stay up too late so that Santa would skip our house, just thought I better pass it on.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Evening all,
Finished setting up the Christmas layout. This year it's pretty much all PW "O". Right down to the tubular track. Frank would be proud.
Jim. Yes that's a Corvair...one of 3 I own....but no red ones. I recall you once owned a 442.
Keith. Great to be back again! Hope things have been good with you. Are you still fixing and restoring those old Torpedoes? My latest resto was on a 390E...my first Standard Gauge steamer. It sure is easy to work on those Bild-A-Loco motors. I'll get some decent pics and post them later.
Jim. (Phish) Thanks for the welcome back. I too have a time finding 30's and 40's O scale cars that are accurate in scale....especially when it comes to tires. And it seems most decent replicas are of high end, low production models, not the common examples one would have normally found on main street back then.
Well, 15 minutes 'til Christmas. Have a Safe and Merry one all!
Merry Christmas Everyone,
My wife and I along with four kids, two daughters in law, and one very well behaved grandson filled an entire pew at our evening Christmas Mass. Too much pride and happiness filled the gaps for anyone else to fit in.
WE WISH EACH OF YOU THIS MUCH HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
The Lester Family
Hello All & Merry Christmas to everyone!
Bruce- I had a 1688E Restored for our famous Don Baker in Cerritos, California & he is very happy with it & Brent Leister also sent a 1688 my way to be restored as well. I can hardly wait to see the Photo's of your Trains too. Are you going to get the new Standard Gauge Trolley & Trailer that Lionel will be coming out with? I think that will be a very good seller for them. We'll see. Take Care & Merry Christmas to you & your family.
Doug,
We are still with you over here, just got my starter set running, ordered some more track and am planning to do a lot more in the new year now that I've got power.
Happy wotsit to you all...
OOPS!!! Mustn't overdo it???
John Baker
sir james I wrote:CSX- How does that Target set look? there was grumbly on OGR about it.Of course that is normal there.
All I can comment on at this point is how it looks as I have not opened it yet. Will have a full report later this evening
Trucks on alco loco seem very large compared to the rest of the loco and they are high water as well, Graphics are sharp and pertey. Set comes with a two sided cardboard scenic divider with tunnel thru it. More later......................
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Don
Good morning from New England!
Up early after a late night playing Santa. The family is getting ready for church services. I'm staying home to watch over dinner. All had a great Christmas morning here. Wish the same to all my friends.
Hee Haw and Merry Christmas!
Good afternoon all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 40s. I got a "Hot Chocolate" car for the Polar Express, which is very nice. We are having the whole crew down here today from my side of the family (sixteen of us) so the place should be hopping. We had streusel for breakfast on the dining car this morning. I hope everyone has a good day.
Smokehouse bacon and biscuits for breakfast here in Arnold. Kids are playing, Chewy is sleeping off a little bite of bacon and a helicopter (she doesn't like my under-the-tree present!), and we're apparently watching a Brady Christmas tv movie from several years ago since Mike was still alive when the filmed it. I'll make some stroghanoff with egg noodles for dinner - old recipe from The Frugal Gourmet show. I'm tired - up too late watching that Holiday Affair movie, which was pretty good but no surprises, and then the first episode of Tin Man, which I liked a lot. Hope to run train later and maybe take a pic, too.
I just discovered that we can "on-demand" A Holiday Affair anytime we want on Comcast...wish I knew that yesterday! DOH!!!
Speaking of the Tin Man, my kids got a Wizard of Oz DVD last night.
We missed The History of Lionel on History International today at 10AM, but at 4PM this afternoon, The History of Toy Trains by Toy Trains Unlimited will be shown on the same channel. History International, 4PM.
Good memory, Bruce! I did in fact once own a 442, back when I was single, wild, and free. Now I'm just wild!
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL
Hope all had a good one. Mine will be now that we calmed down from yesterdays intrusion. I didn't post here but will now show you what is left of my front porch after a handicap gentleman got his foot stuck under the brake and on the gas in reverse.
Thankgoodness that nobody got hurt the porch and all can get replaced. The guy almost hit a kid also but the kids grandfather grab him out of the way just in time.
Hope all have a good holiday were getting ready for Christmas dinner so will talk to you all later.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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RT sorry to hear about your porch, is everybody ok???
Target Diesel set review
Trucks on alco very large and body rides kinda high, as reported else where cars have no lights or pickup rollers the loco does have a nice bright headlight. Runs very smooth cars roll easy, paint job is very sharp Blue yellow and silver labeled lionel lines. Transformer is the powermax model like the throttel handel.Horn sounds decent but no bell. Cardboard scenery divider nice touch to add play value to starter set.
On a scale of 1 to 5 I give it due to the flustration of a missbehaving coupler on last car
I like it for what it is a"toy" toy train will have pics this weekend
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got some movies (Superbad, The Simpson's Movie, The Bourne Ultimatium), XBOX360 accessories (Quick charge kit, wireless headset, cooling fans) and XBOX360 games (Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Project Gotham Racing 4). I also got a lot of money.
I hope everyones Christmas was as good as mine.
Have a good evening everyone.
Sad news this Christmas brother diagnosed with Alzheimers he is only 51ish, distant relative completed basic training got in a fight with girlfriend and shot himself, 5 other realatives on way to funeral got in a car accident 4 of which seriously hurt ,driver minor injuries, two of emt techs responded were also related I guess that is Kentucky for ya.
Hope all is well for everyone.
Got a train set, 3 train DVD's and a tie clip/cufflinks set with train on them 2 gift cards and a nice shirt.
GOOD EVENING
CSXect-thanks for the review, sounds just like it was described,only without the complaining from those that will never own it.
Brutus-I received the new Harry Potter DVD,The one item I ask for.Expect to watch it tomorrow
Home from the kids and grand kids, love em all but aah the quiet. No train items as I just get what I want whenever. Merry Christmas.....Sir James
Jumijo wrote: Lee Baby!Tom Terrific and the Patriots just got done squishing the fish! The Giants are next!Merry Christmas!Jim
Lee Baby!
Tom Terrific and the Patriots just got done squishing the fish! The Giants are next!
Hey Jimbo,
I don't worry about the fish as they are way past washed up for this year!! May take a couple of years to get Miami back to winning more than one game a season!
Hope that Sandy Claws was nice to the kinder and gave them good presents.
By the way I am not Fritz from the Jazz radio station as I like music like electronic blues and early heavy metal!
Lee Fritz
Well the festivities are about over here. Even the kiddies are getting tired. I took a break to check into the forum and see how everyone is doing. Had 12 for dinner today. Six grandkids from 1 to 14.
RT, Sorry to hear about your problem, but as you said, at least no one got hurt & everything else can be replaced.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all!
CSX, sorry to hear of your troubles. Will keep y'all in prayer.
Great day spent with wife and kids. No one else and it was nice. Watched a few Christmas movies, checked out the Trains and Locomotives on Penn. Traction rails. was neat. Got some nice stuff, no trains though. best part was watching kids open their presents and also knowing that they understand the true meaning of Christmas. At 3&5, that is a lot as many adults don't know.
God Bless and Peace to all,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
CSX and RT, prayers for you and your families. We watched a bunch of Christmas movies, played family games, and had a pretty good dinner. Would have been great, but the stroghanoff was a little off. Accidently left the sour cream in the bag with the egg noodles and it was all in the freezer! I guess the freezing took all the "fluffy" out of the sour cream, but it tasted all right. :( Oh well, could be a lot worse! Just baked a bunch of cookies, so come on over if you're not already stuffed like me! No trains today, but I've got like another week off work, so hope for tomorrow, right?!
PS - Jim and Doug were making me feel a little inferior, so I bought Thomas on ebay, $80 without track or transformer though. Don't really want any more fasttrack or CW80's anyway!
PPS - Sir James, watch at the end very closely and you can see the engineer from the HWX and also a nice shot at the Hogwarts Castle Station and overhead shot of the train steaming away through (I guess) the Forbidden Forest.
Merry Christams and a Happy New Year to all at the Coffee Pot (or is it in the Coffee Pot?)!!
Madge and I both sang two sevices yesterday (at different churches, another story). I got home about 1:15 A.M. from St. Augustine. Madge had been home about 20 minutes. We watched the Christmas Mass from Rome with Pope Benedict XVI, talked, had a late glass of wine and watched a wonderful Christmas program from Belmont College in Tennesse. To bed at 3:00 A.M. (not bad for a couple of Senior citizens?!?). Up early, 8:30 A.M. Madge had another service to sing and I went to an Anglican parish Eucharist. Slept most of the afternoon. Had barbecued steaks, baked potatoes, and wine for Christmas dinner. We leave on the Silver Star for the Big Apple tomorrow nnght. I will post comments about Amtrak sevice on the Trains Magazine Passenger Forum when we get home on New Years Day. Will post again after the first of the year. Did get the disappearing Hobo car for my Polar Express last Saturday.
Mel Hazen; Jacksonville, FL
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
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