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

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a cold Chicago. Springtime is over for the moment. I wore the full winter gear. Boy I love perusing CTT on the train. I can always pick out things from the photos. Buckeye and Jim A, hope you are both feeling better today - I am glad I do not have to travel by air for this job. What a great shot of Jim's children - good way to begin the day.

Laz, you need a mailbox too.

Have a safe trip, Chief. I guess you are not traveling to Chicago anymore.

John B, whenever I am feeling loquacious, I write my post in Microsoft Word, then cut-and-paste it into this window. That says me from being inadvertently timed out.

Are they still playing college football?  I lost interest after Notre Dame was walloped again.

[Pennvalley]

Chief

USAIRWAYS Rule #1...Never connect through Philly.  NEVER!

USAIRWAYS Rule#2...If you must connect through Philly...Drive,  You'll still get home faster.  Even if you're coming from San Diego. 

Heh, My wife's boss left Philly on way to California, was to change planes at Pittsburgh. Landed at Pittsburgh and found out his flight out had been cancelled. Couldn't get an early enough flight to save the weekend, so he flew back to Philly.

[MartyE]

Chief

USAIRWAYS Rule #1...Never connect through Philly.  NEVER!

USAIRWAYS Rule#2...If you must connect through Philly...Drive,  You'll still get home faster.  Even if you're coming from San Diego. 

[ChiefEagles]

Laz,

I have a Williams AA set. I was too cheap to buy the B unit! They are the same size as the old Lionels. Close to scale, but probably not exactly scale. See below:

  

 

Marty,

Your brother has a great post war collection! I love that 736! 

Jim

 

Don't worry, they look like their Mom.

John Baker, "Wishtersir sauce, is it similar to our Worcestershire Sauce? A wondrous concoction often imitated, never equalled, every British kitchen has a bottle. Try it on plain Kettle Chips. MMMM!!"

You mean French Fries?

Morning all.  Off to the Nawth.  They are trying to throw rain and then snow at me but I will make it and the REBS will prevail.   Since it is raining all up there in PA.  Those grits I will be dropping from the plane should really swell.   Well, better head for the airport.  Will be checking in from the hotel.  Big seats all the way [unless they screw up in Philly, which they have done before and I had to fly out later on a small plane]. Want to hurry and get back so I can do more in the walk-in.  Want those trains to circle.  Can be done without switches for a while.

Have a good one and God bless.

[anjdevil2]

Hey everyone!

I also took down the tree yesterday(Saturday was remove the outside stuff) and in essence, the tree took me down!!!  I was getting the Angel down and the tree retaliated and took ME down!!  Luckily, nothing was hurt or broken (as I had removed the trains from the board)..oh, yeah, I'm ok.

 Supposidly today's high is right now (65) and will get down to 50's later (thank god, this weather just ain't right).

A full 5 day work week this week, should be more fun than I can handle.  Cheers!

[Buckeye Riveter]

I'm back from Florida.   Have been sick most of the time.  Will catch up later.

And

GO BUCKS!!

[Jumijo]

Laz,

I have a Williams AA set. I was too cheap to buy the B unit! They are the same size as the old Lionels. Close to scale, but probably not exactly scale. See below:

  

 

Marty,

Your brother has a great post war collection! I love that 736! 

Jim

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold, windy 30 degrees outside. Going up to only 37 today, with a chance of snow showers. Yuk. Ground is like a swamp from all the rain.

Today, I have to run a few errands and do a few things around the house. May have some time for train running this afternoon. Getting ready for the new benchwork assembly.

Chief....You have a safe trip. I think you will see snow.

Buckeye...Where are you ?? Did you see the Game in Florida ??

Well, the Dining Car is here. " Points west " of here are not having breakfast. That leaves a lot of goodies for me.

Y'all have a great Monday.

Chuck

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

It is cloudy and cold in SE Indiana with temps in the 30s today.  Driving in was kind of windy this morning.  Desperate Housewives was good as usual last night.  Tmcc man, glad to see your team win.  I think I would join Blueberry Hill in the dining car for breakfast, but I already ate and I am one state away :-)  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[laz 57]

Hi GIZ,

   42 and rainy here today to get to 45?

DOUGDAGRUMP,  I will consider the dog and fire hydrant, I do have one.

QUESTION, did any of YUZ GIZ get a WILLIAMS F3 ABA set?  Any good?  Does it look scale?

Have a good one.

laz57

[Jumijo]

Good morning, everyone.

Yesterday was Christmas decoration removal day. Even though it went fairly quickly, I was still exhausted when it was done. Took a long nap in the middle of the day. Still get very tired easily. Slept a lot this weekend. 

We ran trains a lot too. Had a great time running a post war 2056, 2025, and 2018 on the outer loop and a modern Lionel FT on the inner loop.

Still tired today, but last day of antibiotics. Time for some breakfast.

Jim 

 

[John Bakeer]

Wishtersir sauce, is it similar to our Worcestershire Sauce? A wondrous concoction often imitated, never equalled, every British kitchen has a bottle. Try it on plain Kettle Chips. MMMM!!

I wrote a load of stuff yesterday, damned site lost it for me AGAIN before I could post and I've forgotten what I was rabbiting on about. Getting old, TOGdom is imminent. inevitable, indubitably! Serves me right for messing with Smiley.

[John Bakeer]

A German called Gotlieb Daimler had the (somewhat doubtful) honour of building and running the first car driven by infernal confusion.

[dougdagrump]

Wanted to try this pic post?

I think it worked the copy and paste method.

laz57

Laz, For your town square you need the fire hydrant and the pooch.  

[laz 57]

LISA,

   The CHIEF probably intercepted it, knows all the right people in NC.

  Get you hubby involved in the train room he'll love it.  My wife enjoys it till I put too much smoke on and chase her away.

  Have a good one.

laz57

[Anonymous]

Hey - I sent you some - didn't you get it?  The CHIEF was excited about having sweet tea, grits and Deer jerky.  Anyway - it was really good - the BBQ flavor was great! 

I have my own version of a Hobo Hotel.  I'll post the pic sometime.  Been working in my garage this weekend rearranging and throwing out junk to make room to expand my layout.  My husband is finally convinced I'm serious about this and figures he may as well help now that deer season is over here now.

Good luck in the woods this week.

Lisa

[laz 57]

Laz57 - how 'bout some pics of the Hobos.

 

Lisa-n-NC

LISA,

They will be coming up this week still have some more wiring to do.  I would like to get a pic of whole layout with all the lights on.

How was you deer jerky?  Bet real tasty, I'm still trying, this week is the final week for us will get to go next weekend.  I used to make my jerky with wishterser sauce and JACK DANIELS, with a little bit o brown sugar,  good stuff.

RTRAINCOLLECTOR, nice buy, hope you enjoy.

laz57

 

[Anonymous]

Laz57 - how 'bout some pics of the Hobos.

 

Lisa-n-NC

[tmcc man]

WE WON!!!!!

The Eagles won. Not by much, but still a win. A good game indeed.

My dad and I just watched a very large plane fly into the naval base, and boy was it a sharp angle when approaching. It flew directly over our house before circling to land. It was also traveling at a higher rate of speed than I normally see.

Well, good night everyone. Off to finish watching Cold Case.

[c50truck]

Evening all.Cold and windy here in the Inland Northwest. Working on the layout, trying to get the #97 coal loader to settle down. It can move the coal, just seems to lay it out everywhere. Anyone have advice on this item? The young nephews seem to like the mess anyway.

Rod L.

 

[Roger Bielen]

Been a wet and gloomy day today.  Currently under a tornado watch, just on the fringes.  The weathe is moving this way from down Dennis's (dwiemer) way, they've been under tornado warnings most of the afternoon.  No mention of any touchdowns on the news, and not too many in the Giants - Eagles game either.

Spent time, on and off, today prepping a Mikado for renumbering, got the old numbers & name stripped off and repainted the areas.  I have to find a semi-gloss black a little glossier, the Krylon semi-flat is a little too flat.  Guess I'll try Rustoleums American accents tomorrow.  The job wasn't as bad as I anticipated.

[rtraincollector]

LAz looks good heres the car I just won

 

 

[laz 57]

Wanted to try this pic post?

I think it worked the copy and paste method.

laz57

[Brutus]

Doug - we saw it in the theater a couple times and I had a toy of it with attacheable "wings" that were inflated and so also made it float!  It's long gone - wish I still had it!  Laz - I've got that lumberjacks animated accessory - very cool!

[laz 57]

Ran a few wires for my Hobo ville.  got them working.  Now to set some time this week and hook up gantry crane,787 log loader and the conveyor log loader along with the giz sawing the log animated feature.

All have a good nite.

laz57

[rtraincollector]

Got my self another nice one from eBay today I got a 6414 Evans loader with OB and it appears to be in great shape (everything) Will tell more when I get it on wed or Thursday but it appears to be ex condition had it listed under other scales I just happened to come across it by accident . I like those accidents lol

 

Not much else happening around here stating to get 2nd bedroom cleared up so I can start working on it to get it ready for my train layout. It will be about 7' X 13'.

So not real big but big enough I guess as that's all the room I have.

 

Later

[cnw1995]

Jim F, Diecast Direct has a great model of that flying car. Mr Potts was a genius. I remember seeing that movie as a lad in a drive-in. That dates me a bit.

[dougdagrump]

Evenin' All.

Nice and warm here today, but if you went outside you'd better a couple of cinder blocks in your pockets. The wind was really howling today, I was a bit concerned about a few of these big eucalyptus trees on the back of the property. At least the wind was from the ESE so if they went down or dropped any limbs chances are they would have gone away from the house. The red flag warning is still up til late tomorrow afternoon, 80*+ tomorrow.

Have a safe trip Chief, don't use to much of that maple syrup. Wouldn't want to see corrupted by a Yankee Conspiracy. 

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Wet out.  Grandkids just left.  We ran trains and looked at a few CTT mags, then they made cookiebars with their Grandma.  They're fun.  Going to get the place cleaned up and chill out for a bit.

Leave youall with another pic

Jim

 

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

It was one of those cold, wet, rainy, miserable days in SE Indiana that makes you wish you were any place else other than the Hoosier state.  Having said that, it was a quiet day here.  We went to 11 AM church, stopped in at my dad's, ate lunch, and I went to the YMCA.  I took a little nap and had supper.  Excitement plus?!  Blueberry Hill, enjoyed your comments about the early auto industry.  Desperate Housewives is on tonight.  Yippee!  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana