Good morning from frigid New England!
Last night we ran trains briefly, then watched Jim Barrett in the Backshop videos until the kids conked out. Those videos are addictive! I also worked on some tunnel portals.
Yesterday I also played telephone tag with Doug M. We'll hook up eventually!
Well, I'm getting hungry. Time for breakfast. Have a great day, all.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
HI GIZ,
Only 4 here not too bad. To get to 17,WOO HOO!
Going to put down more Lizard litter tonite about an hours worth.
Stay warm.
laz57
Good morning from Buckeyeland with a clear crystal blule sky (the moon is shinning bright) and a temperature of 0 degrees. Boys, it is cold outside!!!!!
Ran some trains last night in a cold train room. Boy did the smoke hang!
Yesterday, I purchased my first Atlas product, and Industrial Rail Lumber Car. Photos on Sunday.
Lakes in this area are frozen over and the ice fishermen are out. I like my fishing from a boat. Of course I have been known to fish from a boat in a blinding snow storm.
See ya down the tracks,
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 morning all,
It is cloudy and cold (what else is new) in SE Indiana with temps in the teens today. Chief is sending 6-8 inches of grits tonight and tomorrow to try and slow us Hoosiers down. May have to take a personal day if it gets too thick. School is scheduled for a half day only so I may have Lucas on the business end of a snow shovel as well. I went to the YMCA and CVS last night. I did some more building with my bricks and had to run Lucas to and from work. It was a busy evening. Watched some of the Colts' celebration. I sort of cleaned the dining car out of bran muffins. I hope "Points East" has a good chef so they can fix some more goodies. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Good morning from Buckeyeland with a clear crystal blule sky (the moon is shinning bright) and a temperature of 0 degrees. Boys, it is cold outside!!!!! Ran some trains last night in a cold train room. Boy did the smoke hang! Yesterday, I purchased my first Atlas product, and Industrial Rail Lumber Car. Photos on Sunday.Lakes in this area are frozen over and the ice fishermen are out. I like my fishing from a boat. Of course I have been known to fish from a boat in a blinding snow storm.See ya down the tracks,
BUCKEYE how big of a hole you got to make to get that boat in the ice?
I thought I was going to freeze in place while walking from the car to the building this morning! Yesterday it was 85 degrees in here and 5 degrees outside! I don't know why they have to have such a wide variance in temperatures! In the summer it feels like they pipe the outside air in!Any how... no movement on the home front...My wife and I got a kick out of everyone's ideas... John, my wife told me 'DO NOT get any ideas. We will NOT have trains in the kitchen.' I turned to her and said, 'Why? You're never in there to do anything other than wash dishes.' I actually do most of the cooking since I get home 1.5 hours before she does. Depending on where we move that may change, but I doubt it. And no the island can't be used for trains... I need the space when I'm making Chicken Courbon Bleu, Rolladen, Country Fried Steak, Veal or Pork Piccata, Chicken Marsala or anything else requiring a mallet to flatten the meat. Which reminds me, one of the items my wife put on our wedding registry was a meat tenderizer... this thing weights at least 5 lbs! She was using it to flatten cube steaks a few months ago and was really pounding away... I asked why she was hitting the meat so hard, 'I'm taking all my frustrations out on the meat. You want to be next?' I told her to have fun...
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a really cold -10 degrees. Going up to only 16 today. Maybe a few snow flurries later today. The sun is shining.
Today, I will go to the local store to pick up a few things we need. Then, I plan on working on the layout for a few hours. I am taking my time and watching the details. The bridge installation is looking good, so far. And watching the Weather Channel ( my favorite channel ).
The Dining Car just arrived from " points west " Seems we are all out of bran muffins this morning. Hmmmm....... I like Blueberry muffins. So, it is time for breakfast. Be back later.
Y'all have a great Tuesday.
Chuck
I just got an e-mail from Dr. Tinker. My 2056 is all fixed and ready to come home. I'll pick it up tomorrow and drop off a problematic 2055 that slows way down after a short run time. Although Iam starting to feel confident about working on these trains, I have no diagnostic skills. I watched Jim Barrett replace a post war pill-type smoke element with a fluid heater, and thought - I could do that!
Here in Paradise, it's a balmy 32. Have had a few space heater related fires on the local front.
Should be another busy day in the AutoWorld. Trying to save a few bucks for the end of the month show here in Jax. We have an Railroadiana show and sale, 24th of Feb. Went last year & found some good stuff.
Have a good day y,all! Stay warm & SAFE!
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
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
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It's here in Manchester and I've only had to pay 29qiud (57bucks) duty to get it delivered tomorrow to my home. The price of my first Lionel train set will be approx double Grzyboskis, but who cares. And there are base boards, electrics etc. to get, will be a busy spring for this Yorkshire Pudding.
I feel that at long last I am really at home on this forum. stand by for some brain picking guys.
John Baker
Good Morning Everyone !! Got a couple more inches of snow last night, went to turn car around in the frive for the wifey & got it stuck !! Just got it shoveled out, whew, haven't done that in a while !! That's work !! So, needless to say, I called in & took another weeks vacation !! Let the fun continue !!
Mike C. maybe we'll get to see your prewar trains too !!
Now, I hope the dining car is still there !!
Hope everyone has a nice day !!
Thanks, John
laz 57 wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Good morning from Buckeyeland with a clear crystal blule sky (the moon is shinning bright) and a temperature of 0 degrees. Boys, it is cold outside!!!!! Ran some trains last night in a cold train room. Boy did the smoke hang! Yesterday, I purchased my first Atlas product, and Industrial Rail Lumber Car. Photos on Sunday.Lakes in this area are frozen over and the ice fishermen are out. I like my fishing from a boat. Of course I have been known to fish from a boat in a blinding snow storm.See ya down the tracks, BUCKEYE how big of a hole you got to make to get that boat in the ice?laz57
Buckeye Riveter wrote: laz 57 wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Good morning from Buckeyeland with a clear crystal blule sky (the moon is shinning bright) and a temperature of 0 degrees. Boys, it is cold outside!!!!! Ran some trains last night in a cold train room. Boy did the smoke hang! Yesterday, I purchased my first Atlas product, and Industrial Rail Lumber Car. Photos on Sunday.Lakes in this area are frozen over and the ice fishermen are out. I like my fishing from a boat. Of course I have been known to fish from a boat in a blinding snow storm.See ya down the tracks, BUCKEYE how big of a hole you got to make to get that boat in the ice?laz57 With the boat's 115 HP Merc, we usually are looking for a hole in the ice of about 3,000 acres.
LOL.
ChiefEagles wrote: Did fire at the trains after I was getting rifle and amo out of closet.
Why is the Chief shooting at his trains? Is it too cold to go outside and shoot the varmit de jour?
Buckeye Riveter wrote: ChiefEagles wrote: Did fire at the trains after I was getting rifle and amo out of closet. Why is the Chief shooting at his trains? Is it too cold to go outside and shoot the varmit de jour?
I think someone snuck a CSX engine in on his layout & that's probably why he was shooting at his trains !!
Whew! Warm here in Chicago this morning - just 11 below with the breeze. Everybody's back at work and school...I have my late night tonight with class - hope the car starts at 11 pm after 17 hours in the lot. Nobody from San Diego better post their local weather...Ran the trolleys last night - got three moving 'automatically' - without my having to jockey the throttle - that left only two to coordinate -- which I can barely do without allowing one to go too fast and derail on a curve - I realized I hadn't run through the many station stops on the Johnstown trolleys in a long time.
I also realized something. My layout is something like 29 by 11 ft and not too 'full' of stuff - I realized how much I like to run these very small units in a large space - where they are part of the 'scene' rather than the main focus of the scene. Must be left-over from my N scale days. What do you think of that? Do you rather highlight the trains or their place in their surroundings?
I'll try you again a bit later, Jim.Congratulations on your new set, Jim Baker!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
John Baker, Congratulations on receipt of your new train set, home you enjoy it. (Please don't start a Lionel and MTH controversy in GB.)
Takin the day off work today, going to remove wall paper from the "old" train room. Going to make that room into a exercise room. Not looking forward to the wall paper job. Decided I want to decorate the lower portion of the ledger board under the elevated tracks with train heralds. So am downloading a collection of the logos. I think it will look good.
Hope the cold weather abates soon, it is setting heat records here. Up to the high 70's to mid 80's. Suppose to have a chance of rain tomorrow.
Have a great day !
Don
Don,
Do not worry, I am on a long learning curve with what I've got
Question 1. Are Lionel and MTH compatible?
John Bakeer wrote:Do not worry, I am on a long learning curve with what I've gotQuestion 1. Are Lionel and MTH compatible?
Yep, they sure are!
BTW I didn't think the surname Baker was English, my ancestors changed our name to Baker from Backer due to discrimantaion against the Germans in northern Wisconsin when they immigrated. (So the story goes)
Doug - Sorry about the post re: weather, I was posting at the same time
Gonna be a nice one here today - maybe 70!
Busy day and my Robotics team starts for the spring semester this afternoon.
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
Mornin' All.
Weather here =
John B. When you asked about Lionel/MTH compatibility I am assuming that you are referring to motive power. Lionel will function just fine with MTH power but on my MTH PS2 loco I don't have all of the functions when using a Lionel power source.
Sorry for the weather post but it has been so CRAZY here this year, a week and a half ago we were having hard freezes here and you all were have record highs.
I hear my coffee pot calling me, time for a refill.
If you have not seen our club layout here is a link to a CTT article and photos done in 2004. Click on the link and scroll down to "San Diego 3-Railers Layout".
www.trains.com/ctt/default.aspx?c=ss&id=16 .
It is a pretty good size pdf file.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
www.sd3r.org
Proud New Member Of The NRA
Below 0 during the night and a sunny 10 now. Buckeye, I've seen the rolling snowballs a few times here, really neat, like a cold white sagebrush rolling along.
Maybe Chief is sighting in his missle using tracer fire!
I dissambled the 752 coaler and took lots of pics to remind me on how to reassemble it. I'm going to beadblast the structure and repaint.
Housing is very affordable in southern Ohio, but as you say the commute is a killer. 100 K would get you a VERY nice home.
Well need to do more studying, later
Doug,I think the surroundings and the trains should be equally emphasized. I don't think one should dominate the other. But preferrence is a very subjective thing, and I'm in no way saying that anyone who thinks differently is wrong.
I hear you, Jim. I was just curious whether it mattered to anyone else. It was always a big deal in N scale.Don, I was just kidding. Am jealous of all things San Diegan - especially your trolleys.
Well, I braved the cold (and now it is snowing) to go out to the Staples at the other end of the Loop and pick up the 'call bell' I ordered - you know one of those hotel reception desk bells that you can bang on... They make perfect trolley bells -especially for my young helpmates -- so now my sound-challenged trolleys can ring out all sorts of bell signals. Ding Ding!!
So do you have 2 bells or one that both of you use, Doug? I like it!
Last night (afternoon) the kids and I watched an interesting show about urban railroads on History International. Great old color films of LA's, New York's, and San Francisco's old trolley, subways, and commuter rail service. It was an episode of "Voyages".
Doug : I also use a bell for communications to my wife upstairs !! I have an old bell from I think a boat & I just ring it 2 times for when I need a cup of coffee, & of course my wife will make it & get it right down to me !! For a snack or a sandwhich, I ring it 4 times !! Works out real good, though if I were to use it for a trolley, it may confuse her !! I can't imagine what she might bring me then !!
cnw1995 wrote:In case you're wondering, so far we have used one bell from the conductor to indicate a stop, acknowledged by the motorman with a single bell. Two bells from the conductor to indicate it is safe to go, again acknowledged by the motorman. Three bells for emergency stop. And Continuous bells through a crossing. Since we do not differentiate between inside and external bells - we'll be making plenty of noise. We'll have to think through a few more. I am open to any ideas. Maybe four bells to bring the motorman another beer.
Sounds like your bells are in a sling?
From the movie JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY.
csxt30 wrote:Doug : I also use a bell for communications to my wife upstairs !! I have an old bell from I think a boat & I just ring it 2 times for when I need a cup of coffee, & of course my wife will make it & get it right down to me !! For a snack or a sandwhich, I ring it 4 times !! Works out real good, though if I were to use it for a trolley, it may confuse her !! I can't imagine what she might bring me then !! Thanks, John
I'm sure that's just how it is, John!!! You ring the bell and your wife shows up with some goodies. Yeeeaaahhh! Have these daydreams often?
My name might not be familiar, but my face sure rings a bell. That's why I'm so ugly!!
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