Well I just proved that getting older doesn't make you any smarter. Just sat through the first District 3 HS football playoff game in the rain with 35 degree temperatures. The good part is we won, Elizabethtown 35 - Shippensburg 7, so we play again next friday. Don't know who yet.
Chief, Sounds like you are not having fun on your trip North, don't like cold and dreary?
Don, Did you run that Big Boy yet. Lets hear all about it.
Laz, Sounds like you are enjoying your Big Boy.
Roy, Looks like you are just home long enough to pack a change of cloths and off again.
Doug, What time do you have to get up for a 6:00 AM flight, 3:00 AM?
I just have to find a little time to play with trains over the weekend.
Just remembered, got a trap shoot on Sunday, don't like to miss these as the son and grandsons shoot also.
Take care,
IE just ate my post again....
Don B - hope things work out on the clubhouse deal!
Sir James, thanks for the Banilla icecream! Chewy licked the bowl last night, ymmy!
Laz, sounds like you need to post those pics for sure! Maybe CTT should commission an article with pics and interviews with you guys on all the different versions of this that are out there and how they compare??? I know the real one I looked at last Sunday was very cool - BIG is right!
Doug, go have some fun with the wife and kiddos! 6AM - EEK!
Kurt and Brent - I'm so far behind on house work it's unbelieveable. Brent makes it look easy.
Sorry, can't rememeber all I wanted to say, but glad Mrs. Blueberry is home and hope she's doing better. Chief, watch out! Hope you are feeling better too!
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RT - Bet Chief will use that pic on his Christmas cards this year?!
Roy - how is the robot class coming, didn't you just start a new one?
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Wes - I am trying to figure out how to get at least one loop of wider track, mayb O54???
CSXect - how is the diet coming, man? I need to get started on my new one, but put it off until after my birthday....
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Wes Whitmore wrote: Spagetti warehouse used to be good, but seemed to have really gone down hill in food quality. It doesn't hold a candle to Buca de Beppo, if you ask me. It's been at least a year since I have been there though. Maybe things have changed. The trolly car used to be worth the trip. So these big boys that everyone has is the big Lionel one with TMCC2, right? I still hope to get the MTH 0-31 capable trail from the beginning of the year. I'll never be able to run an 0-72 on my layout! Laz, do you have an MTH and a big Lionel now?Wes
Spagetti warehouse used to be good, but seemed to have really gone down hill in food quality. It doesn't hold a candle to Buca de Beppo, if you ask me. It's been at least a year since I have been there though. Maybe things have changed. The trolly car used to be worth the trip.
So these big boys that everyone has is the big Lionel one with TMCC2, right? I still hope to get the MTH 0-31 capable trail from the beginning of the year. I'll never be able to run an 0-72 on my layout! Laz, do you have an MTH and a big Lionel now?
Wes
Nope WES, both are LIONEL. The new one is the BIG BOY with TMCC2 and the other one is the LIONMASTER BIG BOY from a few years ago. It will run on 0-31 and the new one on 0-72. Both really look cool. I like the MTH one but since I have these two going to save up for the Lionel FEF thats to come out later this month. Hope to get that one in March or April? Thats when my wife will probably allow me to get it?
laz57
HI GIZ,
As I told DON, just got done running trains had the Big BOY running against the LIonmaster Big BOY big contrast in size but both ran great and looked cool next to each other. Might get some pics for Sunday Foto Fun. Goood thing was NO PILE UPS.
Had fun!
dbaker48 wrote: I got it !! My Big Boy arrived today. (4012) Yep it truly is awesome!!!You won't believe this, Stuffed inside the shipping box was a MTH catalog !! How ironic, didn't realize they had become THAT friendly !! (Chief - I now have about 4 of those catalogs, do YOU need one? They have the same stuff in all four of them. )Everyone is out for the evening, Bunco, etc., so I'm going home have a glass of wine, and play with the trains. (Have to work the weekend, ugh)
I got it !! My Big Boy arrived today. (4012) Yep it truly is awesome!!!
You won't believe this, Stuffed inside the shipping box was a MTH catalog !! How ironic, didn't realize they had become THAT friendly !!
(Chief - I now have about 4 of those catalogs, do YOU need one? They have the same stuff in all four of them. )
Everyone is out for the evening, Bunco, etc., so I'm going home have a glass of wine, and play with the trains. (Have to work the weekend, ugh)
BIG CONGA DON, Remember to run it slow at first so to clear all your obstacles near the track. She will swing out, the boiler, a good two inches. Have fun I just did for 2 hrs.
Don
#^*@ hotel internet service just dropped me and came back up after typing a long post in reply to Roy's post about Big Boy.
Roy, your buddy's Big Boy must be different from all the ones delivered to Miss Edna's. I was the first to get one from her and run it. Emailed the gang and then called one of the guys. The whistle sounds like it is "breaking up" at medium low speeds. Sounds great sitting still, just moving and a high speeds. At medium low, not good at all. They tested all of them with the same results. We figure it is because of the absence of TMCCII. I hope this is true. Big engine and tender. Great runner. No jerking with speed control on. Chuffs are great. Suddenly close the throttle and it "coasts" instead of chufffing. Sounds real. BTW Roy, it is cold here in Yankeeland [CT] too.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Hey chief did you see this .
An 80-car freight train hauling coal derailed on Friday in Washington with at least five cars falling into the Anacostia River, officials said.
No injuries were reported, but the accident involving the CSX Corp. train on the outskirts of the capital was likely to slow or halt traffic on the busy freight route that runs over the river.
"I'm counting five rail cars in the water, all of them were full of coal," fire department spokesman Alan Etter said.
Other cars, some of them piled atop each other, dangled over the river from the low bridge.
A CSX spokesman said the train was carrying coal on tracks it owns but had no further comment.
U.S. railroad and transportation safety officials have launched investigations.
Amtrak service was not affected by the derailment.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Roy, I knew you would want me to correct your post.
wrmcclellan wrote: Chicago was cold cool (mid 20's one night) and then return to 80's here .
Chicago was cold cool (mid 20's one night) and then return to 80's here .
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
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Hello all!
Back from Chicago and now I pack for NYC trip It should be fun though. Have a 7 am flight Sunday .
Chicago was cold (mid 20's one night) and then return to 80's here .
We had a social get-together last night of some of our old club members and one brought his new Big Boy and ran it on a roller base. SWEET! Talk about details and features, even without the TMCC II. 14 levels of chuff and great whistle! The tender even has a removable coal pile and you can see the screw feeder for the automatic stoker! The fine detail of the valve gear linkages and oilers is outstanding. Nice work Lionel!
Well off to relax so I can pack again!
Regards, Roy
41 and rain snow here today. Went to IA teachers conference compared lots o tools fared well, FIFE. Ate ate Pitza HUT, had great Ceasers salad and a few slices. Then went to BPS, CHIEF they have to STURGEONS in the big aquirium there in Harrisburg, they are about 40+ inches pretty neat. Came home took dog for walk and saw 7 deer tonight. Great day.
DON BAKER, choose my BIG BOY #4012 because its the one that is outside on display at STEAMTOWN, up in Scranton, Pa. Was there 2 years ago and really liked the looks of it.
Pheasant hunting tomorrow.
Hurray! I can play now for a day before returning home on Sunday morn - some idiot booked a 6 am flight -oops that was me. Oh well. Hey, now where can I find this Mouse everyone talks about here?Anj, mid-70s is paradise in Nov. Going to sit in the sun by the pool before the youngsters come back from somewhere. I hear there's a bar there. I hope to maintain the ambience by wearing black socks with my swim trunks.
Kurt, Talk like a Pirate day was Sept. 19th. This actually came up in one of today's presentations. Arrr.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
ChiefEagles wrote:Store packed. People stareing in amazement. Marine is slow as boats are already winterized. Rest of store is busy. Cold and gray. Looks like snow to me. Sloppy Joe, cold pasta salad and potato chips is what they fed us. Yankee food. Later
Don't like Sloppy joe sauce as it gives be heartburn, ONION burgers are better same aorder as sloppy joes only with chopped onions and cream of mushroom soup
All this talk of food and I am on a diet
To bring trains back to the conversation if ever in Columbus you need to eat at spagettie wharehouse just west of down town on a wendsday as they have a $4.95 plate of spagettie with endless bread sticks and endless salad and includes the drinks, here is where to trains come in there is a hugh booth with several small tables in it, the booth/room is the body of an old street car and just above the windows are old advertisements like what would have been on the streetcar.
Hey Brent, phone ahead and tell the Bar keep there's a big tip if he "slips 'em a Mickey". Usually, you can't drive unconcious...that is unless you live in Florida.....
Dennis...good job man! I do know that Kirk is a stand up guy and him doing intros to fellow firepeople is just icing baby...really cool!
Cool today up to 70ish..still at work.....I think I'm going half day on Monday to make up for this......
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
A late GOOD MORNING to ALL,
Wow I took a short run to the store for more ice cream and everybody shows up here today. HELLO to everyone, I should have taken notes, I remember what was said but not by whom.
Chief, I find this hard to say but; stick with grits and stay away from seafood,my wife has the same allergic reaction. We ate fish, etc. for years and then one day she looked like she had the measles. same thing with some medical dyes.
As for the drinking and driving more than a little, I would not go with him either. One funeral is one too many no need for more. I'm sorry I should have wrote names before I started this. Just got a call my HWX arrived did not expect one until later but will probably p/u sunday after the TTOS show. It's friday enjoy........Sir James
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Buckeye Riveter wrote: Brent, is the Lion going to roar this weekend? BTW, I wouldn't get in a car with a four drinker either, especially in Birmingham, AL.
Congratulations to PhilaKnight!! I suppose this means we have another Eagles, Phillies, and Flyers fan to put up with in the near future.
We celebrated Baby Buckeye's Birthday last night. She and I ran the trains before the celebrations. Of course she likes to run the Mikado pulling the C&O passenger cars.
Chuck, do you want me to run over to your house and be your cook for a few days? I will bring my special recipe for hot dogs and beans.
Chief, have a good time in the land of big money and big taxes.
Brent, is the Lion going to roar this weekend? BTW, I wouldn't get in a car with a four drinker either, especially in Birmingham, AL.
Wes, you know I am keeping an eye out for your boxcar.
Good Morning -
Whoa - Lots Goin On !!!!
Of Course the best news is from PhilaKnight, That is just so great!!!! Glad everyone is doing well. You need to pick up the Its a Girl! Car.
Laz/Frank - I was curious as to why you picked the one you did. I got the 4012 also, I liked the radiator out front. According to UPS mine arrives today!!!
Doug - Don't forget to have a great time while you are there.
Brent - Good luck for the weekend! Goin be tough, Just keep her first in your priorities. Prayers for you and your family.
Chief - Hope you feel better real quick. Try some instant grits, or maybe just chew on some styrofoam, its all the same.
RT - Glad to hear your report, just be careful !
Chuck - Macaroni and Cheese - That's the answer.
Had an exciting meeting at our Club last night. We too have been in great jeopardy of loosing our site. But, had some great news. We occupy an old single story building at the former Army base, Ft. McArthur. The poperty was deeded to LA City in the 80's. An Art Colony wants to renovate the whole place. However, that plan is falling apart because it is in violate of the deed. The museum curator on site had a lot of momentum to having a select number of buildings declared Historical Landmaks. Which our occupancy is consistent with the future use of the building. Lots more detail, won't bore you with. HOWEVER, we do need to develop a KIDS Club. Which will be great. But takes a lot of involvement from the entire club. Yours truly is chairman for the effort, so some interpredation, but would like to see it happen. Just can't do it alone.
Got to get to work, just incase UPS comes early today!!!
Have a great day all.
PhilaKnight wrote:Well she's here. Vienna Rose was born at 4:50pm. 6lbs 14oz and 20 inches long. She very healthy and looks like her big brother. Mom is fine.
CONGRATS on the new arrival!!! Beautiful name, I'm especially partial to Rose (my daughters middle name as well) I'm glad to hear that both mother and daughter are doing well.
Jumijo wrote: kpolak wrote: Chief: You should know better than to eat seafood away from the east coast. Glad you're OK!Uhhh, Kurt. Connecticut is on the east coast.
kpolak wrote: Chief: You should know better than to eat seafood away from the east coast. Glad you're OK!
Chief: You should know better than to eat seafood away from the east coast. Glad you're OK!
Uhhh, Kurt. Connecticut is on the east coast.
Sorry I thought you were in Snohio... Another sneak attack! Yaaarrrr! Thee'll be commin' from dar East Buckeye!
So is everyone buying the HP set because of HP, or because its a British train? Sounds like the latter so far, maybe Lionel should notice!
Brent: Whew! Glad I didn't go to that school!
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is cold outside. 42 degrees. Going up to only 52 today. No rain yet.
Today is a busy day. Wife didn't sleep good last night. Had a lot of pain. She took a second pain pill and went to sleep, finally. Still sleeping now. I will be taking a nap later. No train time today.
Chief...Sounds like a Yankee chef...
Dining Car has been here and left. Self service.
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Morning all
RT- Sounds like good news
Chuck-Maybe Don can forward some cooking tips and reciepes
PhilaKnight – Super Congrats on the birth of Vienna Rose!!!!!
Off today, going to finish homework for class Saturday. Last class of the quarter!!!! It will be good to have a break from study. Give me time to work on the garage addition. The block is too green to start framing garage, so after study I'll clean up garden.
Our annual charity train show is going to be the weekend of Thanksgiving and I have to work. At this point no one is available to cover for me. Hate to miss it. Biggest thing is setting up our portable layout. Bummer!
Got to go, may God bless
Jim
Mornin' boys. Overcast and 39 here in the Mid-Atlantic region (BTW - where the seafood is local {with some Louisianna crabs now and then}). 5 lawn/leaf bags at curbside.
Philaknight - Nice job, Daddy.
rt - Sell what you must/keep what you love. Hope you're feeling better soon.
Sir James/Blueberry - Take care of them waitresses. Hey, can I at least get my POP-TART toasted...?
88 - I'm with ya...funerals can bring out the worst in families. Never ceases to amaze me the calls we get from the local funeral parlors. Safe trip;hurry back.
Laz - so how DID they compare...?
Thanks, and no problem on both counts, Dennis. Very generous of you. I know you are busier than usual lately. I'll just take my own advice - relax and be patient.
Best of luck with the movie.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
PhilaKnight, Congratulations! Certainly a bright spot to get past the dark clouds you've had to face lately. God Bless!
Jim, not ignoring you, have not gotten the other copies of the videos yet, when I do, I will send them. Also, will get the "Allstar" issue out to you. Will need the address to send.
Rich, had some firefighters on set yesterday at the movie filming. They are part of the "Firefighters for Christ" group. A great group of guys. Some from FDNY, some from NJ, and also from LAFD. Was on location when Kirk Cameron found me and introduced me to them. I didn't know them first hand, but we knew a lot of the same folks. They had come over to Hackensack when we had our deal. What was really neat was being able to talk about past experiences with Kirk and help him appreciate the role. We want to do the profession a justice with this movie.
Anyway, I do hope to check in for SPF and check on everyone once time permits.
God Bless,
dennis
PS: forgot to mention, got the Hogwarts Express last night. Not a HP fan, but wanted european style set. Anyway, interesting in that it has a flyer for ordering OGRR magazine. I have never seen OGR in a flyer like this, but I mentioned it to CTT awhile ago. Anyway, with these new sets that are sure to be popular, it is a good sales opportunity.
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Jumijo wrote: I was talking about the popularity of the Harry Potter train set with my wife yesterday. She asked how much it was. When I told her, all she said was, "I've always liked that train". Sounds like permission to me.
I was talking about the popularity of the Harry Potter train set with my wife yesterday. She asked how much it was. When I told her, all she said was, "I've always liked that train". Sounds like permission to me.
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