Hello all! It is foggy/rainy/cloudy and 60 today in North Florida (where Florida begins?)
I took a side trip to another LHS, yesterday and found some interesting buys, took bad that Christmas has taken such a toll on my back account! There were some CNJ stuff for 20% off this weekend only (all Lionel)! Call me crazy, but they also had some nice engine/tender combos with TMCC (for layaway) for less than $400. I may have to run back and see what interests me!
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
Morning all. Beautiful morning here in SW PA. Going to work out in about an hour and then a conference call at noon for the NHL AllStar Game. Will finish the PE upgrade as soon as the thether comes. I'm really excited about this. It is a pretty cool product so far as I have seen. I am actually going to let it run on the layou downstairs for a while to really give it the old college test.
Have a great day!
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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!
We ran post war trains last night. Our 2034 and our 2018 steamers. Each one pulled a string of post war freight cars. Also had the Williams Alcos pulling a passenger train on the inner loop. Had a good time.
Very tired today. Wifey woke me up in the middle of the night Tuesday night and I couldn't return to sleep for hours. Now I can't seem to catch up. Maybe I'll head home early today and rest. I hope I feel better for the Chief's visit on Monday. He owes me a dinner!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
HI GIZ,
29 and frosty again to get to 57. Going to take dog for run on the mountain today after school. Seems like spring? I wish?
MARTY whats going on out there in DA BURG? First JIM KOULER might be leaving the Steelers and now DA PENGUINS might be going to KC? What a shame. Straighten em out out there MARTY.
DOUG, sounds great that the wife is leaving you alone with the GANG. Sounds like lots o time to run the trains. Enjoy.
Have a good one.
laz57
Dennis -
Very nice looking engine! Nothing like a Hudson, it should look great with those Madison cars.
Congradulations! Interested to hear how your upgrade goes.
Sounds like you maybe doing an all nighter with the trains Doug......have fun!!!
Don
dbaker48 wrote:....Took the day off, and put about 20, 33 gal clear trash bags full of boxes in the attic. Doubled th bags, protect the boxes a little. Hopefully they should be well protected. Its official I got my TCA membership in the mail today, so one more little detail taken care. Do very many of you have your trains insured? Curious... (I'm not looking for anything but the insurance seems a little expensive $100 for $16k, ???....
Took the day off, and put about 20, 33 gal clear trash bags full of boxes in the attic. Doubled th bags, protect the boxes a little. Hopefully they should be well protected.
Its official I got my TCA membership in the mail today, so one more little detail taken care. Do very many of you have your trains insured? Curious... (I'm not looking for anything but the insurance seems a little expensive $100 for $16k, ???....
I recently totalled up my trains and they came to $1000's of dollars. I started to consider insurance but then remembered a rull of thumb someone told me. "You only need insurance if you must replace a loss and can not afford to replace it from your own funds." So no I do not have insurance. I would not have to replace my trains all at once and could slowly afford to replace them over time.
Jim H
I took some pictures of the train room last night and I thought you may be interested. Now I know how to post pics, I can get carried away!
jimhaleyscomet wrote: "You only need insurance if you must replace a loss and can not afford to replace it from your own funds." So no I do not have insurance. I would not have to replace my trains all at once and could slowly afford to replace them over time. Jim H
"You only need insurance if you must replace a loss and can not afford to replace it from your own funds." So no I do not have insurance. I would not have to replace my trains all at once and could slowly afford to replace them over time.
Boy, does that make good sense! I mean they are trains, not what you would consider life essential.
Jim S - Those pictures are great!! Very attractive display, are the shelves glass or RRTrax? Now there must be a layout attached to the control panel, you got more pictures to take!!
Fantastic Contol Panel/Box, really nice!
Both the train room and the Crusader train pics are very impressive. I did not know the Reading had such a train.
Thanks for the compliments on the box. Woodworking in my other hobby. The shelves are glass I salvaged and had cut down and the edges polished. Here are layout pics
I've always admired that Seaboard Coaling Tower - does it work well?
I've restrung it and it works great.
"Lucy, I'm home!!" Shot rifles yesterday and this AM. Left at 11AM to go to the Seaborad Railroad Depot Restaurant. Not in depot. Very good buffett. Then went to restored Hamlet Seaboard Airline RR Depot. Still is Amtrac in part of it. Got pictures [later when I get time]. Big HO layout in basement. Actually Hamlet in 1945 [when Seaboard was converting from steam to diesel].
BTW: hot out the 10 "X" at 100 yards with .17. Shot group size of 2 inch across circle at 200 yards. Shot out the 10 ring at 45 yards with .22 Mag.
Rifles to clean. Run some trains. Micro wave popcorn as ate too much for lunch. Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
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?
Jim S., Nice pictures of the tain room and layout. How are the shelves supported? Can't see any brackets. My other hobby, one of them, is woodworking also, that is a mighty fine control panel.
Don, Glad you got your TCA card. Can't remember how far ahead they mail out the notices about York, but someone on this or the other forum will start a thread when they get their's so you will know it is coming.
Evening guys, (and gals.....I know Lisa and others are on too), Had a late day with work on 3 hours sleep I had to work on the truck (bronco) as the back window went down, but would not go back up. After checking the fuses and the rear key activation, determined it to be the micro switch/lock lever. Was not able to spend the time to bend the lever adjustment, so had to bypass the microswitch to temporarily get the window up till I can spend the time.
It was good to talk with the Chief tonight. The world would be a better place if more folks like him were in it. I really need to make more phone calls and keep in contact with some of y'all. Life just seems to keep me too busy.
Have a great night.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Thanks all for the compliments. After telling about the layout and things I've done it is nice to share pictures. The shelves are 3 inch wide 1/4 plate glass. The brackets are 2 1/2 "L" brackets held up with drywall anchor screws. The leg against the wall points up, and is hidden by the stuff on the shelf. Took a dab of caulk on each bracket to keep the shelf in place. Here is a pic of the shelf showing the bracket, the bracket on the shelf and the wall anchors. While I'm posting more pisc here is a view of the mural. Thanks again
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.
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.
Sounds like my wife and DA CACKLE CLUB?
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
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!
John Baker
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
Nick
P.S. John B, Do you know that there is a Lionel Collectors Club UK?
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!
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 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
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.
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