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

[ChiefEagles]

Tried to post about 3 PM EDT abd the CTT was dragging so bad, I gave up.   Thought maybe it was the hotel wireless but all other forums [trains and fishing] did fine.  Went to store and met Coonass buddy of mine.  Now Coonass is not a bad word.  Does not have to do with race but nationality.  The French LA folks from the bayou.  During WWII, the US Army used the French guys from LA to translate French/English in France.  Their French was not a true French and the French named them Coonass.  It derives from a French word meaning prostitute [who usually spoke very poor French].  About to die.  So much seafood and gumbo.  Love this food.  Hot and spicy.  BTW:  went into grocery store to get softdrinks [pop to the Yankeees] and popcorn.  Noticed all the items on the isle signs.  One had GRITS on the sign.   Lots of switching yards and train tracks down here.  Lots of refineries too.  Flew from Houston right over New Orleans.  Interesting.  Rest time for me.  Been up a long time.  Later 

[Wes Whitmore]

layout...add to it a little if you must, but don't drastically alter the original looping.

I have been trying to rework it a little to accomadate all of the things that I want.  More buildings and objects, more turnouts to park on, and at least one loop of the biggest diameter that I can get in there.  Of course that would be O72, and that is a little tough to get in there.  More multiple trains running at the same time.  Room for the operating firehouse!  But I will try to keep the loops.

Wes 

[Anonymous]

Mitch,
Check your email.

[1688torpedo]

Hello All!   

The Chief's been quiet lately!  He must be showing, Waffle-Tail, Buck-Tooth, & Cross-eyes(The Builderberg Beavers) How to smoke cigars with pink insulation & JTs Mega-Steam fluid in order to make their cigars last longer. I wonder who will get the Bunny Ears this year at York? Maybe Bob K or Carl Swanson?? Those guys have all of the fun! Mitch will probably hide behind Laz as he's had his turn. It's time for another Member to share in the limelight. Take Care & have a nice evening.

[Brutus]

Wes - cool videos!  Loved that view down from the bridge, wonder how many cameras are down there?!

88 - You should tell your wife that you just wanted a little storage for train magazines and thought that you could slide some in between the drywall and studs!  Instant magazine rack!

Don, I'll bet Roy had that fixed in no time!

Nick - cool buy, glad it runs on local power for you!  I just got a dvd on ebay from a lady in England - Oh Mr. Porter! and Convict 99 (set).  Oh Mr. Porter was pretty darn funny considering how old it was.  Especially when he's talking on 2 phones at the same time and then trying to get the Express to stop at Buggleskkelly Station!  My favorite part though is when he tries to shunt the trucks out of the way with Gladstone (1864) and pushes them off a cliff, then backs the passenger car onto the mainline just in time for the Express to disintegrate it!  Some good verbal Abbott and Costello type stuff too.  Too bad this is an R2 disk, so I can't lend it to my friends to watch.  I'll have to watch out for an R1 copy in the future!  John Baker put me onto this one and I really liked it a lot.  Need to track down the other one he told me about - I think it was the St. Trinians Railroad Robbery or something?

John Baker - where are you, anyway?  ERNI acting up and converting your spelling to MS-Frenchie?

Congratulations, Mel!  Can't wait to read it!

Doug, we had rain 2 days and then this afternoon it poured down for about 15 minutes while the sun was shining! 

Mitch, good luck on the York shopping, let us know what you find!  Glad to hear your mom is doing better too.

Sir James, I think I paid top dollar MSRP for my BFOC plus shipping too!  Oh well, live and learn!

Fifedog, have a great time at York!

[fifedog]

Evenin' boys.  Evenin' English.  Pre-York preparations all made.  Looking forward to seeing YUZ GUYS tomorrow.  All requests duly noted.  Looks like sloppy weather tomorrow.  Was going to bring my hip-waders, but then Jim A said he wasn't coming...

88 - Terrible fortune in that bathroom.  Take it you won't want running water on the new layout.  Enjoyed your slide show of Roadside America.  Chief even showed up there.

Wes - A)Thanks for sharing your D&S pics with us.  B) Please don't reconfigure your layout...add to it a little if you must, but don't drastically alter the original looping.

 

[sir james I]

EARLY EVENING FOLKS,

75 degrees but storms are forecast for overnite.Hope they go somewhere else.

9:30/4:30 helping at the train store, sold one starter set and of course the usual misc. He received a shipping list from Lionel today sorry to long to put here,lot of Kline on the list. he had two pages of hogwarts preordered with four more spaces. I ordered one.$229.95. Brutus BFC 2 left $329.95. Back is tired, not used to work anymore but I'll be there tomorrow. His day man will be back from York for Saturday.  Later,  Sir James

[mitchelr]

Evening Folks,

 

I'm back home after spending the afternoon leisurely strolling the Orange Hall.  Did not run into any Coffee Pot members.  But, I did run into two other guys that I know.

Did not make many purchases, in fact only 1 purchase, a RMT B&O RDC car. I think I am also going to go back to the guy tomorrow and buy the sound kit for my RMT Beep.  IT was only $25.  Sounded great.

 

Take care,

Mitch 

 

 

[cnw1995]

Great news, Mel - may you heal up quickly too.

[RRCharlie]

I received an advance copy of the December 2007 issue of Trains magazine this afternoon. I am now in that elite company of other "Coffee Pot-ers" who have been published. I wrote a letter to the editor a while back. They asked for a picture. The picture and letter are at the bottom right corner of page 6 and continued on page 7 of the magazine. Not Toy Trains related but you are the guys I have begun to connect with. Will be interested in your comments when you see the letter.

Mel Hazen; Jax, FL

[Nick12DMC]

Evening All, 20:00hrs here in Peterborough. Thanks for the ice cold Bud Jim I've a 6 pack of Coors Light in the fridge (brewed under licence in the UK, but its not too bad). Help yourself to a silver bullet guys.

My ebay bargain Lionel 700e animated lamp showed up today. More decor for the gamesroom. Charlie loves it, Wife thinks I have lost the plot. For those on this side of the pond it works fine on 50Hz with a normal 120V stepdown transformer. Finding a 110/120V light bulb with a ES fitting is easy as they are sold for inspection and site work lights. 

Oh that reminds me, if anyone who is going to York gets the chance to view the TMCC 2 demo and ask questions. Could you ask if its 50Hz compatible? Its not a problem for me as I have the 60Hz inverter set up. But it would be nice if Lionel have thought of the international market as MTH did with DCS which is 50Hz compatible.  

Gamesroom and Garage is really coming along. Gamesroom now completly dry walled. We are making progress in the shower/toilet with tiles going on the wall. Main fuse box now connected up. Talk about wires everywhere! We labled everything which really made life easy. I am going to do the same for the layout wiring.

Great pics

Have a good evening

Nick

[Wes Whitmore]

I would say that your train was longer that day (or at least closer to the corner)...Nice picture though!

Wes

[dbaker48]

Just got an update from York, problems with the Lionel layout, affecting Demos.  Our own Roy has been called in to resolve!!

[dbaker48]

Made it to work, highlight of day will be getting calls from guys at York, talking about fantastic deals and temptations.  Glad to hear that the Big Boy will be finally shipping.  Should make the Chief happy!

Have a great day ALL !!!! 

[Jumijo]

Back from a nice walk. No rain, just clouds. Looking forward to the weekend, and hearing about all the great times at York.

[cnw1995]

Good morning from a sunny and warm Crystal Lake - storms came through overnight, we might get another later - odd for this time of year - hope this rain goes south to our parched friends.

Lots of things going on with everyone on the forum. The riot act was read to the daughter last eve as she is now flunking math. Going to contact the teacher about help.

May everyone have a safe and productive trip to York. Picked up some boxes at the UPS store for shipping out some trolleys later today.

Jim A, wish I had your restoration skill. I'd like to repaint 248 and coaches someday. It sure is inspiring.

Sure would be something to go to Colorado someday. Wonderful shots!

[jonadel]

Wes and all--

Three or four years ago we spent a week in Colorado and rode on three entirely different rail trips. I just went through the photo albums trying to pick out one or two of the best pics, very difficult. Kinda got me fired up to go again!

Here's my one pic of Durango/Silverton, this was with a good point & click, I would love to the trip again now with my Nikon D70s. I have several wonderful shots from the Cumbres/Toltec also, we actually enjoyed that trip even more.

Here 'ya go.

Jon

[Anonymous]

almost forgot

Brutus and Sturgeon - I am wearing latex gloves and then my heavy leather work glove outers from the military.  Keeps me safe and lets me get a better grip on the wood for removal - no splinters yet!

Oh and Brutus - the construction adheasive isn't on the floor joists it is between the OSB subfloor and the plywood underlayment... (well I don't know if it is on the floor joists yet, will know that tonight), but I have found a sharp chisel is good for removing the adheasive from the wall studs!

[Anonymous]

Mornin Fellas

Last night when I got home I started back to work on the toilet room... the underlayment is now completely off the floor!  And I did NOT need to use the affore mentioned M-80! Although that did sound like a load of fun!

As I suspected the dehumidifier really sucked that water out!  The underlayment was very brittle and came up pretty easy.  The subfloor, as I suspected was wet too and very heavily mold ridden! When I was removing the underlayment I put the prybar right through the subfloor! So that will also need to be removed.  Since the subfloor seemed to be very heavily mold ridden, I decided to start the dehumidifier and let it go for the night.  Around 10pm curiosity got the better of me and I went back into the toilet room and started pulling up the subfloor... removed enough to get to the two floor joist and found NO water or mold! So I don't have to worry about that... just have to get home tonight, rip up the sub floor, replace the toilet drain, reroute the water supply, and then reinstall the subfloor and put down new hardibacker underlayment...

I did have another mishap last night... remember how I said the room was small, well small rooms can present quite a problem for large people like me, and when I was pulling up the underlayment I slipped and put by backside through the wall! So now I have a hole to patch as well... LOL!

I was able to get the Roadside America trip gallery posted to the website... for those interested:

http://www.distorteduniverse.com/trains/roadside_america/gallery.asp

[Wes Whitmore]

I added some more shots of the Durango trip.

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AcMXDhq0bNmL0A

 

Videos

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2534894839983516051&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5698213461135698357&hl=en

 

 

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Good Morning from sunny Southern Ohio

Looks like a pretty day forming. 

Chief-Safe travel

Brent-I agree with Jim F about the cleaning up after toilet work.  Cuts and the like will get nasty infections.  I would wear nitryl gloves if you can find them.  They are like latex but less prone to tear.

Got all the forms done, square level backfilled and braced yesterday.  Going to set grade pins today.  Hiring out the finishing.  Set to pour next week, then start the framing.

One of the supervisors at work retiring so the remaining 5 supervisors will need to pick up extra shifts till a replacement can be qualified.  I really don't want the extra hours, but the $$$ will pay for projects, trains, and the like.  Oh well, sleep is over rated. 

Any of you guys going to York, if you see an American Flyer 5300T miners set of tipple cars, please get the vendor's name and I'll contact him.  Looking for operators and I don't care about boxes.

Start night shift tonight, a few little inside chores then outside work.  Check in later. 

May God bless

Jim 

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

It is very rainy in SE Indiana with temps in the 70s.  We had a rare treat last night as the wife had take-out from Chili's, which was good.  I did the outdoor "road" course at the YMCA and set a new personal best for a half hour.  I also ran the 10E passenger set for a while and fiddled with my recently acquired MTH tinplate accessories.  May have to get a separate power supply just for them.  They look neat, but they really drain the juice.  It was a good evening.  I had a littel extra on the dining car this morning.  Chief, I hope you have a safe trip.  To all in York, enjoy the time there and I hope you can acquire (or sell) all that you hoped.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a mild 60 degrees. Rain coming. Going up to 78 today.

Today is a busy day. I have some errands to run and then some paperwork to take care of, later. No time for trains.

You guys have a good time at York.

Chief....Have a safe trip.

Today is the big #5 ballgame. The Indians could win the Pennant.

Well, Dining Car is here and it's time for breakfast. Later.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  1 more day for me  then off to YORK.  Can't WAIT?

GOLF tonite against BROTHER, hope to play good?  Then beer  and wings and TRIBE on the TV @the bar.

MITCH I'll see you there.

All B safe.

laz57

[laz 57]

WHEREs the two JOHN, anyone here from JELECTRIC or CSX30?

ROY see you on friday, have a safe trip.

laz57

I'm right here.  Was at TCA openhouse today, where Jerry announced that Lionel would ship your Big Boy (along with everyone elses) to the Dealer on Friday of this week!  Legacy controller will not be shipped till December.

Demo's at York, Two a day.

Very interesting day.

WOA JOHN BIG NEWS, HOPE BARRY HAS IT?

THANKS SEE YOU FRIDAY.

laz57

[mitchelr]

Morning to All,

A fresh pot is on.   Been busy with work and running to Mom & Dad's.  We will be there again this weekend for a 35th high school reunion.  As for myself, I really wouldn't have to go to the reunion because I see the people I am really close with a few times per year.  However, those friends would never let me live it down if I didn't go.  Peer pressure, even at age 54...

Can't wait to get to York today. I am working in the AM then heading over after lunch.  Let the crowd thin a little and then arrive around 1:00 and stay till about 6:00.  Then I'll be there all day on Friday.  Probably will not go on Saturday due to trip to  Mom & Dad's and the reunion.  

Mom had her staples removed yesterday.  Sounds much more like herself now that she is taking less pain meds.  PT has her up and moving doing some little exercises, walking twice a day, etc.  She is even starting to clear the dishes from the dinner table.  She has to do it one at a time due to lifting restrictions, but is really sounding better.

The school is really coming along nicely.  Dry wall is almost done in all areas.  Some areas are getting final paint color.  Windows are being caulked.  Still don't have all of the exterior doors yet.  That is a real concern as far as vandalism threat etc.  Hope to be closed in and locked up by Saturday.  Wiring is being pulled.  It is really taking shape. 

LAZ-88-Fife-John/jefelectric-Marty and other York attendees - don't buy it all before I get there...

 

Take care,

MItch 

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Off  to the airport.  Later

[Jumijo]

 

Good morning from New England. Cloudy here today with rain on the way. I'll do laps in the parking garage instead of walking through the neighborhoods.

Kurt, I polished my wifes car by hand. I get a better feel for what I'm doing that way. 

The FasTrack noise doesn't really bother me enough to actively try to reduce it. The insulation and the caulking were experiments to see if the noise was coming out from the open screw holes. 

Jim T. - I did get your email. Great 2020 loco set you have there!

Not much else to report. I went to bed early last night after running some of our Williams trains for a bit.

Time for breakfast. 

I hope all you York guys get some great deals and have a good time. 

[kpolak]

WHEREs the two JOHN, anyone here from JELECTRIC or CSX30?

ROY see you on friday, have a safe trip.

laz57

LAZ.............csxt30 John is currently working a double shift. He won't be awake until sometime tomorrow. I think. He's very busy on the RR.

I this the pre-Christmas rush???

Watching Working on the Railroad ep 3 on dvr - cool jig for building wood bridges!  I think I need to make me one of those!

Brutus:  I saw that episode yesterday 5:00am...Great Jig, and he handmakes all the parts for pennies.  That host just isn't into trains....He really gets excited about R/C.

Chief:  Good thing you're retired.  Are you still getting in your retirement requirement of 3-rounds of golf per week?

Jumijo:  I hope you used a machine to polish the Bride's car...  Have you tried spraying automotive undercoat under the fastrack to quiet it?

Kurt

[ChiefEagles]

Good night all.  Long day.  TV interview and newspaper calls.  Now I am really in the big times.  Nextel Blackberry on the left hip and Alltel camera cell on the right.  Town got me a Blackberry and the beep beep Nextel combo.  Now they can beep me but even better, I can beep them [including Police, watchout crazy neighbor].  Off to Baton Rouge early tomorrow AM.  Probably be on the laptop from now on.  Did run some trains tonight for 10 minutes.  My backdrop/divider is still under the shed.  No work on it.  Got all the things done and clothes done.  Wife has worked the USDA survey all week at the Fair.  Tomorrow is her last day.  Think Carter is coming for a stay while I'm away.  Now some sleep and an early rise.  God bless.