Late evening all!
Very busy last 2 days so no time to post. Getting ready for Phoenix/Mesa trip Monday morning. Tough to get a rental car due to the bowl game there Mon night? So no discounts.
Glad to see all are doing well.
RAn some trains late last night. Ran the MTH 4-4-0 NYC American. Sweet runner. Smoke is not too good. Got to disassemble it and see what gives. Smoke just kind of drifts out of the stack vs good blast like my other MTH steamers.
Have a great day Sat all!
Regards, Roy
HI GIZ,
Just got done running trains tonite for 3 hours NO PILE UPS. Great nite did not fell like wiring any more lights for layout, didn't want to melt all the snow up in ALASKA ah KEVIN?
Had a blast though and really like what is going on with the layout.
JELECTRIC, nice carpet running did CHIEF give you any tips?
FIFEDOG, kept my forearms in tune tonite 12 ozs. at a time.
All have a good nite.
laz57
jefelectric wrote: c50truck wrote: Evening all, Folks, It’s time. Time to turn the corner and crank up the heat in the dormant greenhouses. This always means I have less time for my other interest, but the greenhouses do give me the seasonal play money to add to my trains. It’s snowing and the wind is howling here in the inland northwest, But that’s to be expected. Rod L. Rod, What do you grow? The Chief and I have hobby greenhouses, don't know about the Chief but I just give away what I grow to friends and family.
c50truck wrote: Evening all, Folks, It’s time. Time to turn the corner and crank up the heat in the dormant greenhouses. This always means I have less time for my other interest, but the greenhouses do give me the seasonal play money to add to my trains. It’s snowing and the wind is howling here in the inland northwest, But that’s to be expected. Rod L.
Evening all, Folks, It’s time. Time to turn the corner and crank up the heat in the dormant greenhouses. This always means I have less time for my other interest, but the greenhouses do give me the seasonal play money to add to my trains. It’s snowing and the wind is howling here in the inland northwest, But that’s to be expected.
Rod L.
Rod, What do you grow? The Chief and I have hobby greenhouses, don't know about the Chief but I just give away what I grow to friends and family.
John,
I grow everything from Ageratum to Zinnias. It's a seasonal commercial operation. I do give away a lot of plants, especially different tomatoes. The wife claims I give away the farm. Yet, I still have the farm.
John, thanks so much for the referral regarding those Lackawanna cars at Cooltrains, they are beautiful and the gentleman at CT was very nice to talk with. Just wanted to say Thanks.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Good evening guys,
Was baby sitting most of the day. Was running trains on the floor, just like the Chief used to do.
Here is a picture of the granddaughter's layout.
We filled the 3rd floor playroom with so much smoke I had to open the windows.
No time for trains at home today & probably not tomorrow either.
It was warm and rainy all day today. To taper off tomorrow.
Have a good evening and enjoy your trains,
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Been a long day, did not get much sleep last night and have had to do a few cases. Friday seems to be the day when most emergencies occur. Could be a emergent finding of a chronic condition. Anyway, Mother in Law and the rest of the gang are heading our way to celebrate Christmas with us. Doesn't look like I will be getting any train time in. I guess the tree layout would qualify, but the kids will be running it. Oh Well.
Hope y'all have a great weekend and I hope to be able to check in for the Sunday Photo fun.
Ever notice that short work weeks don't feel any shorter even though they really are. However, the past four days seemed to go on forever. Thought about going to the OTTS gathering tonight but the weather is crummy and I'm just too tired. Would have enjoyed it though, haven't made it to a meeting in a long time.
Requested and received approval for vacation days on Thursday and Friday of both York meet weeks. May not go either time but decided to be prepared just in case.
Received an e-mail from Atlas regarding the "The World's Greatest Hobby Shows!" "Atlas, a proud sponsor of the World's Greatest Hobby on Tour, will have a booth featuring our newest merchandise, and will be offering raffles for free products, at all five shows. One of the five scheduled shows is Monroeville, PA that is a few hours from here. Trying to decide if its woth the drive since parking can be difficult and it is I believe $9.00 a person to get in.
Good Evening All......
It was a warm. rainy day today. 62 degrees. It seems kind of quiet tonite on the Coffee Pot. Hi Don.
Where's Buckeye ???
Don
John B, The website is being upgraded but you should find details at.
http://www.fastnet.co.uk/lionelclubuk/
The club has around 100 members and a quarterly magazine "Shortline" They have a yearly show at Ilkley which I went to last year. My first time with a display layout (well a oval of track). They also attend other train shows through out the year.
Regards
Nick
AK KEVIN,
Since YUZ GIZ are in total darkness up there this time of year, I figured if I got enough light on the layout it might brightnen up your days. YUZ GIZ aren't going to send any off that cold stuff down here anytime soon? We like being in the 60s in January. Stay warm buddy?
Nick, Any help in finding said club would be appreciated.
John Baker
Good Morning All,
Had a some time available this morning to catch up on forum reading. I either need to find more time or brush up on speed skills. There are a lot of new threads to read and the coffee pot krew does not waste any time building up the pages either! Not much new in the far north. Taking the Christmas layout down this week. I guess this means the holidays are now offically over. Handball tournaments are coming up in a few months so I think I will be spending more time playing ball than trains. I am not sure if I will be able to get to Anchorage to play in up coming events but I want to be ready in case the time is available. Plus I don't want any of the younger guys putting a hurt on me in the courts (especially my 19 y.o. son who has yet to beat dad in singles, old age and trickery)!
Weather is turning a bit cooler here I think our high today is going to be around -25°F depending on where you are at. Might drop down to around -35° to -40° tonight so I guess we are going to have a couple of days of colder weather. The weather is warmer in the hills and colder in the low spots in the Northland. Glad I live in the hills it is nice to have an inversion factor going for us. Sometimes can be as much as 20 degree difference, and there is a lot of difference between -20 and -40 thats for sure.
LAZ: If you keep putting more lights on we may be able to see you at night from all the way up here.
Gotta head out to work Have a good day everyone I'll check back in a few days.
Best Regards from the Freezer– Kevin T.
Mornin' boys. Just downed a steak-egg&cheese sandwich from Zorba's. 'Tweren't bad, you know that? Gonna dust off some of the rooftops on the layout today,plant a couple pines here and there, and shine them rails up. Oh, and get started on the laundry sitting on the other side of the room. I'm a multitasker,yep.
88 - I know I've loaded you up already with sights to see, but it also occured to me you live right down the road from the Western Maryland Historical Society at Union Bridge. They have a nice layout in their former station building, and a lot of their members are also model railroaders with some outstanding pikes in alll scales. It will be hard for that area not to grow on you. Be sure to look both ways at Detour.
laz57 - haven't told Mrs. fifedog what we are up to. In the meantime, you may want to build up them forearms. Maybe try some chin-ups from the tree-stand.
Finally a day off. Warm and wet here. Going to Columbus this afternoon as wife is returning from driving her mom to Florida, and classes start again this evening, so I'll be in Columbus all weekend. Going to try to get a few things done before I need to go.
Jim
Ditto forcast of CHUCKs here in PA. Suppose to get to 66 tomorrow but start out damp. Don't know if I will hunt with flintlock tomorrow with this warmth, deer won't be moving and either will I? Wait and see tomorrow?
Hooked up more lites on the layout last nite(7). Didn't want to work to hard had to run trains a little too. Big train running tonite.
TGIF.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a warm, rainy 55 degrees. Going up to 62 today. With light rain.
Today is a train day. After morning chores, I will be working on the layout, this afternoon. I have a long list of things that have to be done before bridge installation. I'm really looking forward to seeing trains running across the bridges. All four of them.
Well, the Dining Car is waiting for me. Breakfast.
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning all,
It is warm and rainy in SE Indiana with temps near 60 already. I do love "el Nino"! I went to the YMCA for the first time in a little while last night. All the weight I took off before Christmas is back on. It takes forever to get it off and not much time to put it back on. I have to get ready for soccer earlier. I did kick the ball around a bit last night. My dad and I are going to the WGH show at Indy Saturday. Is anybody else on the forum going to be there? Hmmm, this is two days in a row I beat Blueberry Hill to the early morning posting. Of course, I have already been to the dining car for breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good morning, everyone.
Tomorrow there is a train show nearby. I hope to go, but don't know if I'm up to it. Did get some much needed sleep last night.
We ran a lot of trains last night. It was post war city! We ran a 2018, a 2037, a 2055, and a 2056. All pulled the same freight consist.
The 2055 does an odd thing every time I run it. After only a few minutes, it just slows down to almost a full stop. I've got a whole extra motor, complete with smoker and e-unit that I could put under the shell if I have to. But I'd like to figure out what's causing the problem. Too bad, because she's a great smoker!
Sorry I missed your call last night, Chief. I cannot hear the phone ring when running trains on that FasTrack. Modern trains are loud enough, but post war trains are really loud!
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Morning All,
Similar here, mild and damp in Peterborough. Mum & Dad just left for home in Devon after staying with us for New Year's. Working on the FIL and MIL on-suite today. They have gone to get the floor tiles.
Charlie's Xmas present of extra Lionel Fastrack should arrive tommorow. Its only taken about a Month! and that was Airmail......It was posted on the 8th Dec in the States should have taken 5-10 days. Oh well he will enjoy it over the weekend.
Later all
P.S. John B, Do you know that there is a Lionel Collectors Club UK?
0930 GMT in a mild damp Stockport. Had a very windy weekend I think it was the remains of the storms that battered you guys some days ago, we tend to get your Eastern Seaboard weather blown across the Atlantic by the Jet Stream. Fortunately the sting has been taken out by the time it gets here.
Jim H'
I had about $12,000.00 worth of N gauge in my old family home which I just added to the overall contents insurance as no single item was that expensive to replace the addition to the policy was quite modest. The primary risk is fire and theft. As I understand your homes are largely timber construction, the fire risk has to be great bearing in mind how shoddy some of your domestic wiring can be.
One of these days I'll manage to post a photo. I really appreciate your pictures of layouts I can only dream about having.
Chief ,
Thanks for the lowdown on your power supplies, all rather confusing, do you have 240V 2 phase to your home and then tap one phase to earth through your domestic equipment? We have 415V 3 phase in the street. a single 230V phase is tapped into each of 3 groups of homes to balance the load, all homes are independently earthed to ground. The incoming supply is 80A in older properties and 120A to newer.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND YOU ALL!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
ChiefEagles wrote: jefelectric wrote: Good evening,Chief, I tried to call you just about the time of your last post, no answer, guess you were on line. How did you make out with seting the TIU?Nope, wife!!!!! Beeps in her ear and she is talking to her sisters, will not stop and they talk a dozen times a day and live 10 miles away. No excuse!!!!! Had to "jerk a knot" to get her off the phone to call Jim A and Dennis W. Thye sit and talk about what they are watching on TV [same show].Tired and goooood night.
jefelectric wrote: Good evening,Chief, I tried to call you just about the time of your last post, no answer, guess you were on line. How did you make out with seting the TIU?
Good evening,
Chief, I tried to call you just about the time of your last post, no answer, guess you were on line. How did you make out with seting the TIU?
Nope, wife!!!!! Beeps in her ear and she is talking to her sisters, will not stop and they talk a dozen times a day and live 10 miles away. No excuse!!!!! Had to "jerk a knot" to get her off the phone to call Jim A and Dennis W. Thye sit and talk about what they are watching on TV [same show].
Tired and goooood night.
Sounds like my wife and DA CACKLE CLUB?
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