Morning!
Been doing benchwork for the Christmas layout...didn't have time to post photos...maybe today. Rectangular section done, radius corner next up. 1/2" x 3" plywood 16"o.c. with 1/2" x 2" @ 16" o.c. laid flat for stability...very light somewhat stable...will cover with (2) 1" layers of foam.
Kurt
Evenin' Dudes, Dudettes and The Cheshire Cat (a.k.a. Chief)
Haven't been around very much, drop in and quick check every now n' then.
Busy as heck, kinda like trying to stuff 10# of stuff into a 5# bag.
Finally starting to get the hang of MS Vista, .
Got the Christmas layout from last year, was still up in the living room, stripped down to the sub-roadbed and rebuilding with new track configurations and upper level size. Got a couple of days left to finish it up prior to Thanksgiving, livingroom is kinda looking like a junk room with all the stuff scattered around, but it's gettin' there. Biggest pain is doing the painting, since I'm in the livingroom I'm not about to use my regular spray can method. I value my life !
My grandson's Christmas stuff came, Thomas set and James, test run and works great. Now I have to hide them and avoid the temptation til Christmas. Also the HW set that I got my wife came but haven't tested it yet, but it does look pretty sweet.
Chief, Any truth to the rumor that Morris is retiring and that was an audition ?
Better stop before I get in trouble.
P.S. Almost forgot for #48, J.J., gotta root for the local boy.
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Buckeye Riveter wrote: wrmcclellan wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Eighty degrees is obscene. Buckeye - only from your 45 38 degree perspective Roy, did you get NYC wired and running?
wrmcclellan wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Eighty degrees is obscene. Buckeye - only from your 45 38 degree perspective
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Eighty degrees is obscene.
Eighty degrees is obscene.
Buckeye - only from your 45 38 degree perspective
Roy, did you get NYC wired and running?
Yep. Looking good and running great. For you New Yawkers, the grand opening is tomorrow morning at 8 am at Grand Central Terminal MTA Museum Annex (one door down from the Rite Aid drugstore - where you come from the "S" subway train). The layout will run daily (except Christmas and New Years Day) until mid-January.
Regards, Roy
HI GIZ,
Ran trains tonite for an hour NO PILE UPS. Ran my K-line PA f3s ABBA with smoke blasting filling up the whole basement. All ran good.
later,
laz57
Fresh hot chocolate chip cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grab a few as I go to S
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God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Chocolate chip cookies, hot and a little soft with a glass of cold milk is my favorite!
Never got to the layout today, but hopefully this week... If anyone is trying to figure out what track to use for a new layout or wants tips and tricks for working with a certain type/brand of track, it looks like this Peter Riddle Trackwork book is good. John S sold me on trying some gargraves flex track and I'll be replacing the fastrack loop that came with the HWX this week some times. I'm going to just put it on the plywood for now, while I test it out. The Riddle book has a whole section on this track alone. I'll try and add a couple Ross switches and some sidings etc in the near future, but Christmas, chairs and a recent raid on a LHS have emptied my train allowance for a couple months. Every time I say that, I find something I've just got to have, though....
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good Evening, Y'all!
Had a good morning at Church and then lunch with the family. After a good nap, I got some wiring done on the layout. Just ran a loop of 14/3 wire, will use one for switch power, one for accessories, and then common. I even had a little help from my 5 year old.
Roy/Doug, Hoboken is neat, lots of history. If you find yourself over there again, gotta stop at Arthur's for steak....it is VERY GOOD! As you have mentioned, the architecture and neat old buildings are great to look at. I got to see it all the time and as is typical, never got pictures. Now I miss it and don't have photos to go back on.
Chief, watch out for foxes, they are very much prone to rabies. Some indians had them at the festival this weekend. They were selling the skins, which are beautiful. You may want to look into that.
PhilaKnight, congratulations! I have a good friend retired having spent years on SWAT/SERT. They used to laugh at him as he had Marine sniper training and would always grab the 870 Wingmaster....his logic, don't have to aim, just point. He also used a tactic to fire at the ground just in front of the perp and take out the legs...if possible. From SWAT, he quickly climbed the ranks and retired as CAPT.
May everyone be blessed this week,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
ChiefEagles wrote:RT, that looks like a Yankee guy I use to know.
With a SOUTHERN SMILE
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Brutus wrote:Hey, Sir James, RT, Laz, and all others, we have some chocolate chip cookies - fresh and hot!
I got DA HOT CHOCOLATE.
Hey Guys.....Are y'all having fun yet ??
Quiet day. Watched the last race. Good Bye Tony.
Ran trains this afternoon. Had some fun.
RT.....Nice dog picture...
RT VERY funny. Thanks, I needed that!!
Welp, boys n girlz, it's Sunday night and already been a long weekend.
Been busy at the LHS, shopped for Turkey Day, cleaned the house and started planning the Christmas layout. Thank goodness its only a 3 day work week. May take a day and go to Daytona's Turkey Rod Run on Sunday....need to do a little walking and shopping for the new "project" car. Fifey, you should stop on down next year, I think you'd enjoy it. Wednesday thru Sunday, T-Day included (I don't go that day, I have to cook)
c Ya 2 morrow
Rich
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
RT,
I don't care who you are , THATs FUNNY. As LARRY DA CABLE GUY would say.
mitchelr wrote: fifedog wrote: Well, the coffee has gone cold, apparently. And the day had such promise. Perhaps tomorrow it will taste better.mitchelr - Please rinse the cups out really good before you make a new pot in the morning.Sir James - Since you tend to be our night owl, could you kindly shake the front mat and turn the lights off before you turn in? Fifey - I will scrub it out the POT and cups really well tomorrow AM. I had not read or posted in a few days and things seemed to fall apart. I hope everyone takes Bob Keller's advice and chills out. It is nice to have some friends that can meet and talk trains. Met a few of the guys in person and you could not want to meet a nicer bunch. I'm with Chief - Ignore-Ignore-Ignore Mitch
fifedog wrote: Well, the coffee has gone cold, apparently. And the day had such promise. Perhaps tomorrow it will taste better.mitchelr - Please rinse the cups out really good before you make a new pot in the morning.Sir James - Since you tend to be our night owl, could you kindly shake the front mat and turn the lights off before you turn in?
Well, the coffee has gone cold, apparently. And the day had such promise. Perhaps tomorrow it will taste better.
mitchelr - Please rinse the cups out really good before you make a new pot in the morning.
Sir James - Since you tend to be our night owl, could you kindly shake the front mat and turn the lights off before you turn in?
Fifey - I will scrub it out the POT and cups really well tomorrow AM. I had not read or posted in a few days and things seemed to fall apart. I hope everyone takes Bob Keller's advice and chills out. It is nice to have some friends that can meet and talk trains. Met a few of the guys in person and you could not want to meet a nicer bunch. I'm with Chief - Ignore-Ignore-Ignore
Mitch
MITCH and CHIEF, I'm with YUZ GIZ, IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE. Thanks this is to good, and I too have met alot of YUZ GIZ and it is a fun time.
Okay figure we could use some humor in here so here goes sent to me from a freind I thought it was funny
Hello Hello
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
EVENING FOLKS
They use to but those big keys on the back of VW bugs, some had a Rolls Royce grill. very neat.
Brutus- I've had my ice cream and pie but we still have some for you. you will have to share with Chewy though. That P&D store is the forth move, I worked in all four. The first one was about the size of a pizza take out store. each move was to a larger bldg. It would take a while to order lionel parts if it was a remake from the 50s as some parts use the original number and some would have a new number so i would spend a lot of time finding part numbers for what I needed to get.If you ordered wrong it would come back no stock. too many like that they just returned the whole thing unfilled. One of those "I remember when" Sir James
fifedog wrote:Well, the coffee has gone cold, apparently. And the day had such promise. Perhaps tomorrow it will taste better.mitchelr - Please rinse the cups out really good before you make a new pot in the morning.Sir James - Since you tend to be our night owl, could you kindly shake the front mat and turn the lights off before you turn in?
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
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
TCA 09-64284
Good luck with the foxes, Chief. Son was eating some chicken and lost a tooth! Short version of the story, he was still hungry, but didn't want chicken, so we told him to go find something soft to eat. He came back in a little while with a sandwich - a KETCHUP sandwich!
Doug, I saw a lady driving a Mini-Cooper the other day and they had a large wind-up key mounted on top, I am not kidding. It was so cool!
Buckeye - only from your 45 degree perspective
Ol' Tony #20 just took it into the wall. Cowboys in the lead! 4 min to go!
Buckeye Riveter wrote:Roy, how can you have leaves when you live in the desert? Eighty degrees is obscene.
Roy, how can you have leaves when you live in the desert? Eighty degrees is obscene.
Texas switched places with NC this summer. They got too much rain and when I flew in the other month, they were mowing and everthing was GREEN. Now in NC, no mowing and everything was brown.
Just back from the pond feeding the deer. They were waiting for me when I came back out. Got feeding places at the pond and then at the bottom of the solid rock I drive up from the pond. They walked away but would not come back out for 15 minutes. I sat at the top of the hill with everything off and waited. Place was full of foxes running around like cats. Think it is time for the .17 and the squalling rabbit tape. Thin a few out.
Later.
Nick12dmc,
why is it called a mini cooper??? is there a full size cooper cool cars but I would not fit in one I grew up with Fords and 3 Buicks. I have an F-150 crewcab and a 2000 Trans am w/ramair would not trade them for anythig. I miss my Grand Torrino(Godzilla Green) big as a tank.
cnw1995 wrote: The daughter broke up with her boyfriend of two years last night - much drama - then locked her keys in my car - so I had to drive all over town to find her and the car. She is too eager to go back to him. That little car looks to be dead - or at least not able to drive safely with the brakes and struts failing. So that will be an unexpected Christmas expense... Anybody heard of a Yaris or Versa? These car names...
The daughter broke up with her boyfriend of two years last night - much drama - then locked her keys in my car - so I had to drive all over town to find her and the car. She is too eager to go back to him. That little car looks to be dead - or at least not able to drive safely with the brakes and struts failing. So that will be an unexpected Christmas expense... Anybody heard of a Yaris or Versa? These car names...
Doug, Toyota Yaris, being a Toyota it will probably be 100% reliable. You guys might laugh at the engine options though. 1.0 litre, 1.3 litre or a 1.8 litre SR sport model.
If she is looking for "street cred" how about a Mini(doing my bit for UK exports)?
Its been a long weekend, Worked 2Ohr's yesterday. Got home at 5 am this morning and crashed out till lunch time
Was going to stay up to watch NFL on Sky, but I think I'll hit the hay and get some shut eye
Have a good evening
Nick
PhilaKnight wrote: Well good news for the police dept. I got detailed to the SWAT unit. Wish me luck guys. Pop was with them since they began in Philly back in 1966.
Well good news for the police dept. I got detailed to the SWAT unit. Wish me luck guys. Pop was with them since they began in Philly back in 1966.
Good luck and be careful out there.
tmcc man wrote: Well, I'm off to do absolutely nothing, and that I am very good at.
Well, I'm off to do absolutely nothing, and that I am very good at.
Colin, if you need any help, just give me a call.
For the last couple of days, I have tried to post my thoughts about the Chief's new outfit, but I start laughing so hard that I can't type. That photo is definitely in the running for one of the top ten postings of the year.
Painted my bridge this afternoon. Krylon paint worked real well on the plastic. Dried very quickly, even at 45 degrees.
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