"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Cool picture RT!
2 of my best friends Dave and John came over with families for Chili, hot dogs, chips and some cold ones! Had a great time and even took them down to run the Hogwarts Express, which ran geat as usual, this time with smoke! MTH "Coffee" smoke - pretty good. Also ran the Spooky Smoke boxcar and it started smoking pretty good after a while - think I need to run it a while more and keep adding some more smoke fluid. Some of the light effects were very cool on the werewolf figure. Hey - No Pile ups! John's daughter Ceclia (miracle baby) just loved the choo choo and was trying to catch the little smoke rings. I think Dave got bored pretty fast, but John offered to come over and help work on the layout sometimes!
Sir James, John S and everybody else, we have left over birthday cake with vanilla icecream! Sorry, the beverages are all gone
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Well to my fellow vets heres to you a full broadside from the U.S.S. Wisconsin BB-64
Evening all long day today started at 7am with a meeting trhen I worked till 5:30 (had an hour lunch in middle thou) no I don't get no overtime as they'll make me leave early a few days so I don't go over 40 hours.
Oh well nothin big for down here.
Later all
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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thank you to all the vets out there.
Was I seeing things or is there an orient express locomotives in the MTH catalog would like to see an entire train of the orient express. Still waiting for MTH to give S a try.
What happened to Putt trains and Ameritrains why they nolonger???
Coffees really old so I'll freshen it up.Bought three things today,at the show I got a plasticville school for$7.00 glued but complete,it will replace the one I repaired and placed back far enough to look good.At the store I p/u my HWX and a suprise. Check out the new k-line operating hoppers they are well made and come with a coal and gravel load.$34.95 retail.Less at most dealers. I must say I do not understand the fuss about the HWX,brought it home ran it on the layout and I think its a gem for a starter set. The short delay on startup is a lot of fuss over nothing and ten minutes of run time and the smoke filled the room. I would guess a lot of those who knocked the set probably don't even have one.
And to all the VETS,,,,THANK YOU Sir James
HI GIZ,
Went to MOMs today and took her out to eat dinner. Her 84th BDAY is on Wed. All great had a lot o laughs, she was giving it to us for getting pheasants for her BDAY again this year. Last year we both got them right before her BDAY, its like dejavu all over again?
MITCH hope you saved some money for YORK in April?
STUR FISH, great day on Saturday just being outside enjoying all the different colors of folliage, pheasants were a big plus.
All have a good one.
laz57
Evening to all. Been busy the last few days. Lots of late evenings. Spent more than a hour catching up on posts earlier today. Went to church, worked on some things for work, went to outlets with Mrs. and bought a few things. Big sales with Veteran's Day.
Thank you to all the vets who have served our country.
LAZ - nice photos and Congrats to you and your Bro on the pheasants.
DonB - glad your Big Boy is now working as expected
Chief - better be careful with that food allergy business. Keep your Benadryl handy. May want to talk to your Doc about an Epi-Pen if it continues.
Brent - Sorry to hear about Susan's Uncle and your drive. It is a PIA when the hardware fails.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Good Afternoon Y'all!
Happy Veteran's Day to all the vets, THANK YOU! Gotta go soon, but wanted to make a quick stop by the pot. Noticed on Yahoo's opening page a headline about why two holidays for the Vets? If it was up to me, they'd have more.
For the praying crowd, please lift up the movie set this week. Tomorrow we start early (6am) with the train scene. That will be two days of shooting. Then, the end of the week will be the big moment with the big message. Then, in two weeks we shoot the big fire scene. Lots can go wrong as when you mix amatures with real trains and fire.
On the train front, had the P.E. going full steam around the tree and plenty of smoke. Thank goodness for the Megasteam Baking Bread as Lionel's smoke got to be a bit much.
Hope everyone is blessed this week.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Big thanks to all our Vets!
Kurt
Morning folks - Salute to the veterans and thank you very much for your service. God bless the families of those who fell.
Wife is out shopping for food. Need to make a couple phone calls and clean house. Priorities though - check on my online buddies. Sir James - I think the HWX is a great set. A few clunkers will be fixed, nobody is perfekt.
GOOD MORNING
Yesterdays sun lasted until about noon. Haven't seen it since and rain expected.
I will be going to the little TTOS show around 11 and then to the store to pick up my HWX. I cannot believe the fuss over a set that is considered a starter set.And if the truth were known I'd bet money that the biggest share of complaints are from people who don't even have one. They can hide behind their keyboard and say what ever they want. The entire story is from a book, these people should get a life. And stay away from 3 rail track. We can make it look realistic but if you have 3 rail track IT'S a TOY. Sorry I've been reading that other forum. Sir James
Morning all,
Salute to all Vets! Thank you for your service.
Keith- Thanks for thinking of me at the Greensburg show, I would have been very tempted for the right pieces, and would pay for them. Love that Flyer stuff!!!
Dennis-Cell phones are one of my pet peeves. I think people talk more now and communicate less.
Laz- Sounds like a great day, very refreshing I bet.
Fife- Cockbird male pheasant, smokin’- getting a great shot, or ???? but Laz would not do that
Chuck- I will pray for your bride's recovery
My bride is giving flu shots at early Mass, I will hook up with her at next Mass, on schedule to help with services.
All take care, going to be another busy day. Driving to Columbus again.
May God bless
Jim
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold and frosty 30 degrees. Going up to 56 today, with a chance of rain later.
Today is another busy day. Wife had a restless night. Had to take more pain pills. But, she is slowly healing. Can get up and walk around for a few minutes. I will be busy. Have to figure out what to cook for dinner. No time for trains.
Chief...Have a safe trip home.
Dining car is self service and breakfast is Cheerios.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. ...and good mornin' Grayson. Sunny & 41 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Have to wait until fifey's-wifey wakes up to find out what my day will have in store.
jefelectric - I certainly would not top off cheese-grits with pecan pie and ice cream.
jimtrumpie - Please stop eating your trains.
Bakeer - We can't get our offspring to remember what 9/11 was, let alone 12/7....and our educators scream for more and more money to turn out chowder-heads.
laz57 - "smoking a cockbird'... Okay, I'm a little out of the loop on that phrase.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
My daughter is marching in a Veteran's Day parade this morning with her Brownie troop. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, they will lead everyone in the pledge of allegiance in honor of the vets.
It's going to be chilly out there.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
It happened again! The thing just froze. Methinks this could be the precursor of a cold winter. And me planning to move to the land of the wild Haggis BBBRRRRR!!!!
I've just gone back to Thunderbird for my e-mail as OE6 was screwing up, now it looks like I'll be lighting up Firefox again. What is it with Microsoft? They want us to buy Vista when they can't even get XP working properly!
It's Rememberance day here/your Veterans day. A bright, clear morning for the Poppies. Sad to say that an ever increasing number of younger people have lost sight of the debt they owe to those who fell in securing their future!
John Baker
Hi Chief,
Don't talk to me about the Soooo!!! stupid Olympics!! They are so over budget (increasing at £2/$4 million a week) that the national debt will run up to another 60yrs repayments. The new Eurostar service starts Tuesday to St Pancras. They've spent so much on those silly games there's nothing left for the rest of the country, so all major infrastructure projects are on hold until 2024. By which time I will be long gone.
Hi GIZ,
Big news for me and the BRO. We both got pheasants today, no kidding. My brother started the day off smoking a cockbird just as we started off. We watched it fly off I said see you later. But about 45 minutes later we caught two of them at a hedgerow, my took off flying and hit him, BROs ran and he got him. Great nite for DA LAZ boys. Had fire ate burgers and hot sausages, washed down by a few beers. Ah don't get any better. Also saw 4 nice buck spotting deer.
latter,
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 50s. I had tremendous luck at the local TCA meet. A person was selling stuff out of his father's collection for his mom. I bought several Tinplate Tradition accessories at very good prices. He was basically interested in just getting rid of "stuff". He did not have prices listed and so not many people were buying, but I asked the prices and was quite pleased. I also stopped at Train Express to get a few items, and then my wife and I went to Indy Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Roman sculptures and other items on loan from the Louvre. Having studied Latin for four years in high school, it was nice to see some things I had read about. We were tired when we got home, but it was a good day. Watched "Moonlight" and "Numb3rs" Friday night. It was the usual fare on the dining car this morning. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Laz, Great comparison photos of the Big Boys.
Don, Glad to hear you got your problems resolved.
I hope everyone read the article about Chancellor Merkel's visit to the Bush ranch. The menu was in the morning paper.
"and a homey dinner of arugula salad, beef tenderloin, sauteed mushrooms, asparagus and cheese grits, topped off with pecan pie and ice cream".
The Chief must do his menu planing.
Hello All!
Like Jim Trumpie mentioned above, we met each other at the Greenburg Show in Pittsburgh & we had a nice time as well. Jim's Parents attended the show as well & they are very nice folks too. Glad to have met them & Jim. Hope to do so again next year in the summer or winter show? or maybe Jim & his folks can come to a Cleveland area show sometime? I hope so. Jim's Mom mentioned to me that Jim really enjoys his trains & has done so since he was much younger. She said: "Jim eats,Breathes, & Lives Trains." I said that it was a good thing as she & her husband know what Jim is doing & other parents probably wish that their kids had a hobby to enjoy as well as Jim does. There was lots of Postwar Flyer in "S" Gauge & quite a bit was mint in the box. Some complete sets, Locomotives, Diesel Engines, & Lights & Signals too. Sturgeon-Phish would have had fun at this show. I bet he would have bought some of the Flyer we saw there. Some of the Flyer was expensive. However, keep in mind that the expensive items were mint in the box & with the original papers also! Jim is a great person too & He'll have to come up this way so that he can meet some of the other OTTS Members & see the museum in Mentor also. Had a nice time with you Jim & we'll have to do it again. Take Care all.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Had to take oldest child (5) to a birthday party. He and two other boys were all, the rest were girls and moms. One father was there, but he spent the first 45 minutes on his cell phone, didn't bother to try to talk to him. We did all the necessary things, then when the cake was over, we headed home to put the buildings out for the Christmas layout.
Got some emails from some old friends from the military and got to catch up with them. Good to hold onto friends.....lot of that here too. I am tired, so heading to bed and hope to get a good night's sleep to be wide awake for Church in the morning.
God Bless,Dennis
Evening all
Laz-What do you think of those Sturgeons, big ugly prehistoric fish
Chuck- Glad bride is doing better.
CSX keep at the diet! Laz is right about the excercise. Just keep at it.
Doug- Glad you're having a good time in mickey world.
Just had the last day of class for the quarter. A two page brief and I'm done till January. I do have a formation weekend in Columbus next week but that won't be too bad at all. Hope to start framing Monday. We'll see, a few things going on already.
The Buckeyes lost a heart breaker. I am glad I got out of town before the game wasw over. There may be some upset fans.
All take care and may God bless
jimtrumpie wrote:I went to the show at the Monroeville Expo Mart today. Met Keith (1688torpedo). He is the first member I have met in person, and he is a great person. We need more people in the hobby like Keith. We walked around to most of the tables. There were alot of people selling postwar Lionel and Flyer. I bought some parts and got a great deal on a boxed 128 Newsstand.
He is a great person. I know him well too.
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
ChiefEagles wrote: BUCKEYES FALL [if NCSU can't win, then the Buckeyes need too {I say that so maybe someone mail me some cholocate/peanutputter Buckeyes }]Back from the crowded store. Food time and TV time. Later
BUCKEYES FALL [if NCSU can't win, then the Buckeyes need too {I say that so maybe someone mail me some cholocate/peanutputter Buckeyes }]
Back from the crowded store. Food time and TV time. Later
I will not send food through the mail but could e-mail recipe if you want to try to make some for your self
sir james I wrote: The buckeyes better settle down and get the job done.7PM- that didn't go well. Hope they do better next week.
The buckeyes better settle down and get the job done.
7PM- that didn't go well. Hope they do better next week.
Well no victory lap for the Buckeye express
as a friend from the evil red X corp would have said "the suckeyes lost"
Still a proud Buckeye fan but dissapointed. Anyone notice the sportmanship ads we shall see if they do any good.....hope no one riots we have a bad rep for that sort of thing from fans
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