Okay, open Forum, off-topic, or whatever (grab a cup and sit)

[Anonymous]

TIM
Was out side doing work around GRR it is nice here today, i must go get more ballast stone, i need another 100 lbs.or more to finish filling in along tht tracks, the winter was hard on the ballast this year. i need to work on my fish pond , get the filters running, i have two i run ,to keep it clean. tim did i ever send you pictures of my GRR, E-MAIL ME THROUGH THE FORUM if i didn't. i can't post yet i'll learn some time BEN

[tangerine-jack]

Hey, you guys are scaring me!!!!!! I'm getting plans drawn up now for a 60K home addition. I'm shakey enough without the horror stories. Anybody have a job go right this week? Let's hear about that.


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[Anonymous]

TJ, the job goes great! It's the getting the final draw that's the problem! It seems they get what they wanted but then drag out final payment.

[tangerine-jack]

You need to come and work for me, I get your turn key estimate and pay up front. Then it's on you to finish in time before I can stop payment on the check. [(-D]

So far I've spent about a grand on architects, designers, bribes (oops, I mean building permits). I'm not having much fun picking out sinks and flooring with the wife to be, she is almost too easy to please (BTW, Tim, I met her at a coffee shop!) and I don't know one floral pattern from the next. I still have a couple of pages of checklist to go through before the construction can actually begin. Shoot man, the operation order for D-day was only 5 pages long!

Oh well, it's still a better investment than a Hummer (and slightly cheaper too!)


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[Anonymous]

TJ, I just got back from Lowes picking up tile and Paint with the wife for our bathroom. Trying to get a bunch of stuff done before graduation of our daughter 2nd down from the top 3rd up from the bottom.

And it stinks, home improvement is no fun when you do every day, even on your own home.

[tangerine-jack]

The way the designer is talking, the roof's gotta go (cut off and lifted) and 10ft added to the end of the house. Uh, ok, I said, can I still live in the house while this is going on? "Uh, umm, eerr," says the architect; "sure no problem" says the PM; "don't be silly you" said the designer, "no way " says my common sense. Yeah, no fun right now, but I'm keeping my focus on the finished product. I figure go through the pain now, spend a little extra and you don't have to worry about doing it again in the future. Cool part is that going up doesn't interfere with the garden or the RR.

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[Anonymous]

TURBO ONE
TIM did you get the pictures of my G R R , did they come through ok. BEN

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Boy when you find a craftsman who takes pride in his work these days, just hand him your checkbook and hope there's enough in there to keep him happy; that's the only way to get a real quality job these days. Thank heaven we have a friend down the road who is a finish carpenter who does take pride in his work, I cried when his wife had the woodwork in thier house painted! At least I can get work done nicely on a T&M basis(and throw in a couple of brewskis when its all over).

[TurboOne]

Yes been the pics arrived, haven't wrote back yet. Sorry.

Been popping in for a few minutes then finishing my work online. Also with the kids off this next two weeks, we are doing a lot here.

They look great, but will right more privately.

Take care

Tim

[underworld]

We got snow!!!!! Only about 1/2 inch. 40s and 50 the rest of the week.

underworld

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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

At least I can get work done nicely on a T&M basis(and throw in a couple of brewskis when its all over).

Your the kind of client I LIKE!

[aljay]

Put some track out last night after work, and some structures, went to work this morning and by 4:30 this afternoon ....................................it started to snow......[V][banghead][censored] and it's still snowing.....Will it ever stop.?

[TurboOne]

Good morning all, Happy Passion Thursday to all,

been raining again, but no floods. It is really weird weather, we rain for half the day, then the sun comes out and we dry out, then it rains at night again. Very weird for SoCal.

At church tonight they are having a potluck. They always have some awesome dishes. Mmmmmmmmmm

Hope everyone is having a great day. Gotta go make the coffee.

Tim

[Anonymous]

Slept 4 1/2 hours last night got up at 4:00 am drove 3 1/2 + to the job( Bad directions), worked 9 hours and drove 3 hours back to Columbus and waited on my daughter to get off work. WHEW what along day.

Oh, and drank 2+ pots of coffee today just to make it through it![zzz] off to bed.

Tomarrow- Build valve gear and cylinders[:p]

[TurboOne]

Good evening all,

Matt, bet you peeeeeeeeeeeeeed for a hour after that. Cool beans

Light rain this morning, but sunny after that. Easter weekend is suppossed to be beautiful and sunny.

Ran the cab forward for about 30 minutes today. Way cool. (Movin' on up)

Kids and I are going somewhere tomorrow, just not sure where.

Take care all, and I'll have 1 cup of Joe to go.

Tim

[underworld]

I think spring has arrived in NW Ohio. Supposed to be in the 50s starting on Easter!

underworld

Easter Easter Easter Easter Easter!!!!!

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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by underworld

I think spring has arrived in NW Ohio. Supposed to be in the 50s starting on Easter!

underworld

Easter Easter Easter Easter Easter!!!!!

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Of course it won't be Easter in Ohio without the Easter Day rain, which is on the way[V]

[RhB_HJ]

Weather update from the Okanagan Valley:

Nice snowstorm up on the mountain, wind speed at 60kmh, snow drifts around the parking lot.

Lots of fun for XC skiing!

[Anonymous]

EVERY BODY ON THE GARDEN RAIL ROAD FORUM HAVE A HAPPY EASTER AND IF WEATHER PERMITS WHERE YOU LIVE ,RUN SOME TRAINS . BEN[:D]

[TurboOne]

Happy Easter to all,

I get to run more trains tomorrow, eat, run more trains, and do nothing in general.


Tim

[TurboOne]

Wow no visitors on EASTER. Hope everyone had a terrific Easter Sunday. I even got to see my brother, whom I never see but twice a year. Great day, and I showed him my trains. He was amazed that I buil the benchwork, he thought my wife did it. Way cool.

Take care all

Tim

[Curmudgeon]

Thoughts on being retired:
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

I had amnesia once - or twice.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. Now what?

Protons have mass. I didn't even know they were Catholic.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.

What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free?

They told me I was gullible - and I believed them.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway.

Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.

Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

One good thing about egotists. They don't talk about other people.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.

What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?

My weight is perfect for my height - which varies.

I used to be indecisive, Now I'm not sure.

The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

How can there be self help "groups"?

Is there another word for synonym?

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?

The speed of time is one-second per second

Is it possible to be totally partial?

What's another word for thesaurus?

Is Marx's tomb a communist plot?

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off.

It's not a optical illusion. It just looks like one.

Is it my imagination or do Buffalo wings taste like chicken?
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[TurboOne]

TOC now that was good. [tup][tup]

Took the kids to the bay today, we looked at the Star of India, The Berkeley, and The Surprize. They said they are adding your sub. Moving it in April, open to public in May. Leave a note for me from you. They also have a sailing ship called the Californian, but didn't see it.

We also went by the Santa Fe train depot. Still looks great and there was a huge Amtrak engine with 6 cars. Didn't see an engine at the other end, but heard a trolley derailed today so don't know if they had to fix the tracks to turn engine around, or if the had one of the trains where they drive them from the car. Can't remember what that is called. Anyway it looked great. My son and I oooooowwwed and aaaahhhhheeeeedddd. Then we went to Seaport Village and bought some magic tricks. Great day, but we did get some rain.

Take care all

Tim

[tangerine-jack]

On my way home last night I was stopped at the RR crossing and wish I had my camera with me. It was the Eastern Shore RR (a local low budget short line), a SD-40 (I think) and a string of 12 of the saddest worn out, saddle back gondolas you've ever seen in your life. He was evidently hauling gravel from the Eastern Shore of VA to Tidewater. Now I ain't no genius, but there are no tracks across the Chesapeake bay, so his route must have been from the Delmarva penisula, through Baltimore, and down to Tidewater using the CSX tracks.

The point of this is; he made a 300 mile journey in a worn out leaky engine, POS gondolas from ex-railroads (I spotted Southern, Rock Island and BN among others I couldn't make out because of the rust) overloaded with gravel, and didn't even have a light on the last car, just a faded red flag. Good thing there are no RR police, he woulda got a ticket and tow for sure. Talk about guts.

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[Capt Bob Johnson]

Jack,
did anybody take over the old car ferry that used to shuttle railroad cars across the mouth of the bay??? One of the major RR's used to run it; I think it might have been the Pennsy. All it would have taken is for somebody to lease the rights to the landing stages on either side, pick up an old car float, and just hire a tugboat outfit to move it across the bay when needed!

Some of the independent tug operators up in NY bought some old car floats and still move trains around and across the harbor. Haven't seen a carfloat operation along the Delaware in 15 years or more since the Reading operation from Pidgeon Pt. (Wilm., DE), to Deepwater and Gibbstown (N.J.) shut down; but there was talk about sombody using the stage at Pidgeon Pt. to load a tourist steam train that had been sold to a Jersey outfit onto a carfloat they were going to bring down from NY for that job!

Cheeze, my license is still alive, you buy the tug and carfloat and I'll come down and run it; and we can reopen the carfloat service across the Chesapeake!

[tangerine-jack]

Capt, we would make a fortune with that idea! The only ferry around here that is still in operation is the James River ferry, autos only. We could over charge the tourist for a 15 minute ride on the ferry, give them a map to Doumar's drive-in restaurant (built 1903 and inventors of the ice-cream cone), and then send them to the beach where we can sell sun burn cream to all the idiots.

As far as rail service across the bay, there isn't any. The Eastern Shore RR is a little podunk short line that runs gravel and fertilizer up and down Delmarva. At the fertilizer plant just south of Onancock, they use a John Deere tractor and tow rope to switch the cars. I always make a note to take a photo of that operation, but then forget the stupid camera. That would be a perfect RR to model in the garden; used equipment, shoe string budget, and long straight track with very few sidings serving mom and pop industries.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Curmudgeon



Is Marx's tomb a communist plot?

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I am a firm believer in Marx/Lennonist theory...








Groucho and John, that is.....[;)]

[Anonymous]

RENE,
who won FEBRUARY'S DRAWING, ?????????? DID ANY ONE HEAR , BEN

[TurboOne]

What a great morning, I see blue skys and no gray clouds. Could we have a day with no rain?

Hope the day finds everyone doing well.

How are you doing Ben ? [:)][:)]

TJ, wish you had your camera too. That sound great. [8D] We used to have car ferrys until they built the bridge to coronado. Now the last of the ferrys are up in Washington State.

Curmudgeon, the museum only got the sub for one year on a lease.

Have a great day guys.

Tim

[Curmudgeon]

Tim......May, huh?
Not likely.
Last I heard they hadn't even finished inspecting the ballast tanks.
Which one of the SD ships ran up on the rocks last week and had to be abandoned?

Now, granted, things have probably changed in 35 years, but as a general rule, there is a "proper" relieving of the watch, with a proper turnover of status.....

Take a wild guess as to who has contacted those of us who worked diligently to keep that old rustbucket afloat for 3 years and asked for a turnover.

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