CLOSED////////The Coffee Pot is still on and over 3 years. Here we gather as friends with trains.

[rtraincollector]

Well guess its time to get ready for the little witches and goblems to start coming around talk to you all later

[rtraincollector]

yes but they don't celabrate it

 

[sir james I]

thanksgiving is a good test question...........My would be"does Canada have a 4th of July?

[jonadel]

Picked up Thomas this AM, now I need the next two weeks to fly by so I can run it with my Granddaughter! I think this will be a carpet runner so she can really enjoy it plus she's so dang close to the floor it will be lots more fun :)

[cnw1995]

Yep, it's 'trainset' - very good.

[rtraincollector]

my answer would be well they changed most holidays to mondays a few years ago so I guess there doing thanksgiven next so I'm not sure anymore but know this country they would change it to friday just to be different.

[Jumijo]

Jumijo;

If I were to ask that question on one of my tests. the question would be:

"What is the probability that Thanksgiving will be on Thursday this year?"

Mel Hazen; Jax, FL

And little old trouble maker me would reply "It depends on the country celebrating it".

It was Monday, Oct. 8 in Canada.

[J. Daddy]

Hey does 'Trainset' work?

[RRCharlie]

Jumijo;

If I were to ask that question on one of my tests. the question would be:

"What is the probability that Thanksgiving will be on Thursday this year?"

Mel Hazen; Jax, FL

[cnw1995]

Crossword answer is 'Trainset' - well, whaddya know.

T'giving is Thursday, Nov. 22nd...

[Jumijo]

 

It is a beautiful day, Chief. Just back from my walk and it's warm and sunny here. A great day for a lunchtime stroll and another tonight with the kids. Still no idea what to wear for trick or treating tonight. Maybe I'll put on my Red Sox uniform and go as a World Champion.

Gas prices are climbing quickly here. I payed 10 cents more per gallon this week than I did last week. $3.25 by Turkey day!

No trains tonight. Last night after dinner we all watched the Casper movie from several years ago. A pretty funny movie. The kids loved it.

Is Thanksgiving on a Thursday this year?

[ChiefEagles]

Almost afternoon.  One meeting down and oof to lunch and another afternoon meeting.  Free lunch is fine though.  Beautiful day.  Need to be fishing.  Later

[Anonymous]

Today's Chicago Tribune crossword puzzle... 51 across: Lionel product. 8 letters ends with a T.

Any other letters figured out?

[cnw1995]

Today's Chicago Tribune crossword puzzle... 51 across: Lionel product. 8 letters ends with a T.

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a sunny and warming Chicago where it is a great day to trick-or-treat. So I'm taking an early train to take the youngest out. Hope to conviince him to hit all the area homes for blocks. We have KitKats, Reeses cups, M&Ms and Skittles for me and bags of cheap Wal-Mart unbranded candy for everyone else.

Joetrains and John Baker, thanks for your definitions. I found a great website - a beginner's guide to UK freight operations for modellers. See http://www.igg.org.uk/rail/  I will be asking you more questions if that is OK.

Yikes, three new pages in less than 24 hours. What a talkative bunch. Good to see Dennis and Roy.  Brutus, deer are considered pests in Illinois, so no feeding, just shooting. We're worried about that wasting disease continuing to head south from WI. Addams and Wilson are great cartoonists. You have excellent taste, sir. I have a treasured book of New Yorker cartoons with some personal scribblings by Wilson and a few others. Chief, a Lifetime license is a great gift!

Sir James, I feel your pain. I succumbed to temptation last evening and purchased 5 McD's cheeseburgers for .59 cents each to eat on my late-night train ride. Ugh.

Brent, sent you an email about the track.

Mitch, glad to see your modeling (soldering) skills at work in other areas.

[Jumijo]

Shiver me timbers!!  Get to see the N.E Joker in Feb?   Make sure that fly into WPB FL or I may miss you!  I don't live that far from the airport.

Your welcome to come over but I don't have room to put up anybody or even an animal!!  I have five indoor cats, if you want to come over you may have to fight one off to eat here or even keep your glass of water at my house, and that is NO joke!  One of our cats, Harley, eats almost anything; chicken, ice cream, cake, creem cheese, baloney, turkey, ham, tuna fish, shrimp, salmon, milk, and eggs; cooked or raw, besides his cat chow.  He begs for food when you eat and if you don't feed him he will nip at your arm!

Lee F.

Uh-oh! I'm allergic to cats, Philly. I'm going to have to cancel the trip to WPB and head on over to Kissimee to watch the Kissimee Astros during spring training instead!

[anjdevil2]

Spent last night repairing & redoing the Halloween display, tested the lights and sound systems....so all is a go! The wind and rain really screwd things up, but 3 hours of intense labor cured that!

My son and I went to Wally World and bought big bags of Smarties,Milky Way, Reeses and some assorted stuff.

We should have a bunch of the little people begging after 5 PM...

Today is my Friday unfortunate that I have to burn these days as I really have nowhere to go.  Train Spotting maybe?

Have a great Halloween!

PS...Good news on Peek Chief & get that shoulder looked at, will ya?

 

[phillyreading]

Shiver me timbers!!  Get to see the N.E Joker in Feb?   Make sure that fly into WPB FL or I may miss you!  I don't live that far from the airport.

Your welcome to come over but I don't have room to put up anybody or even an animal!!  I have five indoor cats, if you want to come over you may have to fight one off to eat here or even keep your glass of water at my house, and that is NO joke!  One of our cats, Harley, eats almost anything; chicken, ice cream, cake, creem cheese, baloney, turkey, ham, tuna fish, shrimp, salmon, milk, and eggs; cooked or raw, besides his cat chow.  He begs for food when you eat and if you don't feed him he will nip at your arm!

Lee F.

[Anonymous]

Brent beware of buying candy to leave out while you work on the house...We (a friend that was helping mud and tape, and myself) went thru 5# of Jolley Ranchers in 2-weeks.

Kurt

I had 3 cans of Pringles when I started tiling last Saturday, had them in the bathroom on a table... I went to have some last night and they were all gone!  I don't remember eating them all on Saturday, but I must have... in fact I don't remember eating lunch or dinner Saturday... hmmmm... Maybe that explains the constant heart burn!

[laz 57]

Hey, I think Laz got caught running around in the woods again?! 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_fe_st/odd_bigfoot_in_pa_1;_ylt=AiMBiq540EmMmX1t2cUIRfVd8ccF

 

Local news   :

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=bizarre&id=5730792

 

 

 

YUZ GIZ, caught me in my HALLOWEEN costume, DA thought I'd get away with it?

LOL,

laz57

[kpolak]

What's everyone giving out for Halloween candy tonight? We buy all my favorites so that I can eat the left overs. Reese's cups, KitKats, and MilkyWays.

Late September I did buy:

(2) 200 packs of the Skittles/Sour Skittles/Starburst...(Ate one bag)

(1) bag Kit Kats...(ate that)

(1) bag Reeses...(opened bag, and had a few of those)

I like the Ice Cream idea!

Brent beware of buying candy to leave out while you work on the house...We (a friend that was helping mud and tape, and myself) went thru 5# of Jolley Ranchers in 2-weeks.

Kurt

[Anonymous]

RT - not quite... this round only cost me $381 (friend is a mechanic, just takes a long time for him to get to work on it).  I could have saved a TON of money on the last repair bill, but as I said it takes him a long time to get around to working on the car and I couldn't wait on the repairs.  The driver side axle repair cost me $938 at the dealer and my mechanic did the passenger side for $381... how is that for dealer markup!  The last time I called him and left a message (car was still at the dealer) and it took him 2 hours to get back to me that he could do the work within a day or two... But when your car is at the dealer you can't wait 2 hours to give them the go/no-go on the repairs... now he either answers right away or he calls back within 15 minutes...

In all, I've put 4 grand into her over the last 4 months... $850 of that was the driveshaft that I didn't need and got shafted on!  That really burns me because it was done by my FiL's childhood friend and he was supposed to have been a great mechanic... if he weren't a family friend I would have taken him to court over this...

[rtraincollector]

Brent I'm starting to think you could of bought another one used for about what you have init in the last 3-4 months

[Anonymous]

Jumijo - Susan bought 8 bags of candy and we are only supposed to get 25 - 30 kids! I requested a bag of mixed stuff from Willy Wonka (laffy taffy, runts, gobstoppers, etc) and I got that - only for me! Then we got bags of Milky Ways, KitKats, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Snickers, and some other stuff.  So I'll be fat as a Heffer in a few weeks!

Buckeye - Yes I spent every Saturday in Happy Valley, that was back in 1992 - 1996.  My Junior Year was when PSU walked through the Big Te(leve)n and won the Rose Bowl over Oregon and the Pollsters decided Tom Osborne deserved a MNC and gave it to Nebraska...

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Took my car to have the Passenger Front Axle checked yesterday (still vibrating), mechanic replaced the axle, no vibrations so far!  So the car now has 2 new front axles, passenger front lower control arm, sway bar linkage, and driveshaft... driveshaft still bothers me... wonder if there is anything I could do to get my money back from that unnecessary repair.  Needs new brakes, shocks, and struts but not right away, maybe in January.  Very fun to drive again!

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps near 70 today.  As they would say at the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing", "It's a neeeewwwww track record!"  OK, so it was just a personal best and really not all that impressive, but I did reach one of my steps on the way to my personal goal for the winter.  I did a 5 MPH pace for 30 minutes on the track last night.  I still have a long way to go to get to 6 MPH, but at least I made it this far already.  After that workout, came home, had supper, got cleaned up and went to the Halloween concert the high school band was performing.  It was a pretty good show, and we got home in time to see that Helio made it another week.  The trick or treaters will be by this evening so the YMCA work will be after that.  Read some more on the TCA Quarterly.  Really nice article on the Flyer display layout.  I slept much better last night than the night before.  Bran muffins on the dining car this morning.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[sir james I]

GOOD MORNING FOLKS,

Stomach is fine this morning, but then there will be a next time.

Kurt- with the state gov. we have nothing is lifetime. They say lifetime today next year well we should not have done that. Made me buy a permanent trailer license for $75.00 when I use to buy a 6 month license for $6.50.At my age how many more years must I live to break even. And thats providing I'm well enough to use the boat. AND if you buy or sell you must also buy a new license.

What do I give the little monsters?  usually a scope of chocolate ice cream. What kid would not want ice cream in their goody bag?

I'll be back,Run some trains,,,,,,,,,,,,Sir James

[Buckeye Riveter]

Good morning from Buckeyeland where it is 38 degrees. 

Columbus, Ohio is the home of White Castle.  Their headquarters is in a white porcelain building just west of downtown.  We are also the home of Wendy's, Bob Evans and Max & Erma's.  Most of you in the east have seen one or more of these establishments. 

Brent, so you did not spend time at HAPPY VALLEY? 

Really feel for Reggie as he tears apart that great layout of his. 

 

[Jumijo]

 

What's everyone giving out for Halloween candy tonight? We buy all my favorites so that I can eat the left overs. Reese's cups, KitKats, and MilkyWays.

We ran trains last night for a good long time. A Santa FE FT AB pulling coaches on the outer and Thomas pulling A&C on the inner. 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a dark, cold 31 degrees. Going up to 70 today, with sunshine.

Today is a busy day. Have to take wife to doctor, this morning, for her blood work. Out patient surgery next week. Should be easier for her, than the last one. No time for trains today. I need a train day.

Dining car is here early. Breakfast.

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

Chuck

[mitchelr]

Morning all. Nippy here this Am.  Broke down and put on the furnace to take off the chill.

Tried to get on the Forum yesterday AM but it was down.  No train work last night but I did make a repair on my Subaru's clock.  Dealer wanted big $$$ for a new one.  Found a fix on-line. Few dabs of solder on a bad joint on the circuit board and voila, it works like a charm.

Have a great day.

Mitch