Morning, Diners. Diners? Oh, guess Bill has left and the others aren't in just yet. Well, I'll have a coffee, glass of Ed's OJ, and some waffles, please.
Hey, Diners, I have more waffles than I want/need to eat. Anyone want to help me polish some of these off?
Looks like my post was so exciting last night that it about put PC and Mitch to sleep last night. Did the twins forget and just make decaf last night, I wonder?
Looks like another sort of cold day today. Currently 31 F (almost 0 C) with slight wind (3 mph, out of the ENE) and 85 percent humidity. Supposed to reach the mid-to-upper 40's (F) today, but will be chilling down over next 2-3 days, and by then it will be in the teens at night. I know, our Canadian Diners probably are chuckling about my weather description...
Actually, PC, I don't expect to be sleeping on the floor anytime soon. My bed is quite usable; Linda is just a bit overprotective/helpful. Kind of sweet, but it would likely drive me up the wall over any length of time (and maybe others as well). Best taken in small doses, if any of you know what I mean... Besides, I've already had one mother, and I've not been interviewing for any replacements since Mom's death (in the 1970's).
Better get myself going for now. See everyone later!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Morning All!
So what does this fine day bring for you all?
For me it brings a day of rest! It brings the possibility of some long overdue layout time! It also brings peace.....the kind that allows one to truly rest.
It also brings weather a lot like yesterdays.....at least to start out. Highs today will be a degree or 2 warmer than yesterday in spite of the snow shower chances. Snow showers are falling with the heaviest pockets to the west of the metro area. Some isolated areas could see some accumulation if this persists long enough. Guess I'll just sit here and watch out the window to see what happens......or maybe I'll just close the blinds and work on the layout! Who cares about the weather, huh?
So, I guess that brings me back to where I started.......what does this fine day bring for you all?
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thank you.
***Lee, sounds like a great DVD set DeeDee gave you. Enjoy!
***Jim, thanks for the chuckles at Linda's expense. You're funny.
***Philip, sounds like my kind of day you're having there. Decided not to start my day until 12:00 so am going to sip on my coffee and try not to fall back to sleep. It rained a lot this morning. Perhaps this time some of it made it into our big pond...will check when I go out later to feed the critters. It's a mud fest here right now.
Have a great day all. Rob
Cederstrand wrote: It's a mud fest here right now.
It's a mud fest here right now.
It was just a couple of months ago you had the exact opposite problem!
Cederstrand wrote:It's a mud fest here right now.
***True! I would imagine with the ground saturated these past couple rains should be adding something to the aquifer. Odd thing is all this rain hasn't been raising the water in folks big ponds yet, ours included. Not complaining, as the creek that waters our pastured horses continue to flow. Surely one day the ponds will return!?!
Well, must go do the critter rounds in the muck now. Yea Haw! Rob
Afternoon Gang: Not much doing here. Sara, the oldest grand daughter, helped me putout hay this morning. She is a good one. I told her that next year at this time she'd be able to do it by herself. She did drive the tractor a bit again but didn't want to take it over the berm so I did the driving for the feeding. She'll be able to get plenty of practice this summer when they move back here.
JimCG: The prices of homes down here all depends on locatiion and the size. The one we looked at yesterday was 3,000 sq.ft. on 4.1 acres. It is over priced somewhat but that may come down in time. The thing is that homes arn't moving fast and I think that the owner is in a position that she needs to sell. We'll see.
I think that I'll go down to the basement and see about doing something in the MRRing field.
Good Afternoon All
Well Nova Scotia is under, yet again another "Storm Watch". Dick is having way too much fun sending us these Nor'Easters. Really Dick ya gotta stop this, It's way too much.
CN Charlie: please don't complain about the Wx as I might ship you a bunch of snow your way. I now have 30 ore cars and 40 "2 bay" hoppers on stby. Think ya can handle it?
Paul: $400k+! Whoa!! Ouch, hopefully it comes with a Mega Train Room. Glad to here all are improving and will be discharged soon. A good sign for sure!
Ryan: I see you did my roast to perfection! Love it that way or no way!! Viewed your Website through 2Guyz Well Done!
LSWrr wrote: I joined the Coast Guard and I've been a Bosun for almost 21 years now. when I do plumbing my family measures the difficulty in my task by how many trips I make to home depot and how many trips I make to the first aid kit.
I joined the Coast Guard and I've been a Bosun for almost 21 years now. when I do plumbing my family measures the difficulty in my task by how many trips I make to home depot and how many trips I make to the first aid kit.
I see we share other things in common... I average a trip to the E/R once every 4 years. Last time was last summer as I puntured a vein on my forearm while splitting a brick in two. A real gusher! PS got your e-mail and I'm wading through the scrap yard. I have found three cabeese so far in various states. I'll take photos and let you decide their fate.
Well not much on the go except heavy traffic is rolling the MESS once more as I converted my Athearn Challenger from Prodigy to Tsunami and it's quite an improvement! I am also just about completed the Tsunami install in the CPR 4-8-4 and will have pics of both posted soon.
Anyway Must run
Fergie
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959
If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
pcarrell wrote:LocoIndy PM'd me earlier today and said his wifes contractions were about 30 minutes apart! He probably has little Delaney in his arms by now!
Congrats to him.
hey, I'll have a glass of milk.
and share with you my Staging yard plan.
-Morgan
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
New Haven I-5 wrote: GM&N 425 is back on the rails! After a 11 absense, she is back! Starting in Port Clinton, she blasted through Pennslyvannia, wearing a Reading 6 chime. Search at http://www.youtube.com/ GM&N 425.Look for a video by JoMiFu.
Here's your vid. Cool. Like the royal blue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nz-kTs3qw8
Good evening gang.......we decided to take the Christmas lights in from outside, we have two more storms coming at us. A Nor'easter starting in about 2 hours, another 8 inches or more, then another storm is brewing for New year's day, another coastal low forming from an Alberta Clipper.
We will break the alltime record for snowiest December tonight. Only 1" to go and we will easily surpass that mark.
The double track around the Christmas tree worked out very nice this year, the outer oval was large enough so that the passenger cars took the radius very nicely and didn't hang over on the curves. SD40 pulled those Amtrak cars, and the "Wolves in the Woods" passenger cars pulled by a Bachmann ON3 behaved very well this year, no jammed gears like last year.
FERGIE: You ain't see nuttin yet young man......keep that shovel handy laddie.
Got to go get more firewood before the snow starts....ohh oh, the deer are at the evergreen bushes outside the front door again.....grrrrrrrrrr.
Flashwave is that port Clinton, OH or port Clinton, PA?
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good evening all,
Finally some time to stop in Chloe may I have some sautaied (sp) mushrooms with sharp chedder cheese and a glass of water.
Glad to hear everyone had a good Christmas hope every one has a safe and happy New Year. To all those in need hope your feeling better soon.
PC sorry to hear of your loss. To lose a pet can be really hard.
Mika came out to visit with Dad, her adoption was finalized Dec 26 at least it was before her second birthday. we are all pretty pleased.
Well Christmas is finally done and I can start working on completing a new room for my layout. I will have about a room that is 10 X12 and I thought I would follow the "Hog" idea for a layout. I would like to blend the PRR and the Lehigh Valley somehow doing some research on that. Have some nice Pennsy Locos and Passenger cars and some nice Lehigh Valley locos so we will see what I can come up with.
Grey fox I hope you are wrong about the extent of snow we are to get my daugher is flying into Boston tomorrow from Houston so I hope she can land all right. Weather person says we are only supposed to get 6" but Tues we are to get nailed. Did I ever say that I hate winter? Oh well. TIme to go snuggle with Mika and look at RailPictures. com till she falls asleep
Night all Have a safe and Happy New Years
Kevin
Congratulations to LocoIndy!
Fergie, Thanks I appreciate your help. JR offered some too. The last train show I went to they were selling them for $1 each but they too were missing the hand rails and ladders. I haven't landed in the ER yet. My first attempt at sweating pipe left a few burns.
I got my son's computer up and running today. I needed a new CD Key for my old WinXP Pro disk. Microsoft had to get an interpreter on the line for me because poor Mishka and I were having some communications issues.
I found that DVD set is good, but they replay some of the clips from disk 1 and 2 in disk 4, the segment on the Iron range was the best so far I never actually saw how the ore loaders worked until now.
The holidays have slowed my MRR progress, but William and I plan to hit the layout full force after I get home from work tomorrow.
Larry and I will have coffee with pecan pie. That will bring Philip in.
We have been spending most of our time off on the layout.
I have been planting trees around the tunnel portal that comes down from the log landing.
Larry is working on the trestle to the sawmill. Nothing is fixed. Friction and gravity are holding the bents in place for the picture.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good evening Diners: A quick drop in to update on the blue desert covering blitz. I finished doing the sawdust / white glue ground cover at just before 10:00 Atlantic Time. The only major blue remaining to cover is roadway and yard gravel and ballast. Here's the situation on Dec 26th. ...and now
The grandkids are still here until New Year's day, but I hope to get some of the gravel and ballast done tomorrow.
PC: Sorry about Maggie...we've had to say goodbye to a number of long-term pets over the years, and it's never easy.
If I don't get in tomorrow, have a very Happy New Year everyone!
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
gear-jammer wrote: Larry and I will have coffee with pecan pie. That will bring Philip in.
Pie? Did you say PIE?
News on one of our members (though strangely, he doesn't post here much) that you may all know from other forums (and the occasional stop in the CS)..........
Locoindy76's wife will probably deliver sometime tonight! Things are going slow (about halfway along at this point), but they're moving along. Delaney Nicole will be a December 31st girl!
Check out delaneynicole.com for updates as well.
Her brother is a computer programmer so he is in lobby updating as soon as possible!
Hey der.....is today your birthday? Thats what it says across the street!
Evening folks-my "usual" please! (Hmm-pecan pie?) Dawn asked me the other day if I'd ever tried it, which I haven't-I guess this is the best time to!)
Phillip-hoping Locoindy 76's wife can hold off for another 24 hrs then I can share their birthday! Nah, can't wish that on her. I was due on 12/26/65, & Mom didn't go into labor until 12/30, & then I didn't make my appearance until 10AM on the 1st! She told me several times over the years that she was glad I wasn't the 1st one born in town in '66, as they take your picture for the paper, & I guess after being in labor for 36 hrs, you don't look very photogenic! (I was 4th I think-it was busy at the hospital that night!) Dad & my Mom's 2nd to youngest sister shares my birthday too-kinda weird! Also there was a girl I had a crush on 15 yrs ago that shared my b/day (6 yrs older) & a female friend that was born the same day as me! (7 hrs earlier & 20 miles south!)
Been a fairly quiet day. I did some model work, & coming along on my next Railbox. While over at Mom & Dad's, going thru old boxes of junk & more junk, I found my old AHM "Chessie System" Pacific. Geez was that an awful running loco. Thinking about it, it may be a good candidate as a "static park display" attesting to HVS's power back in the day. Still need to find my Atlas Chessie System SD35 & AHM B&O 0-4-0 - I thought they'd be in the same box. Oh boy-it's like a flea market there.
I did make time too to head out to the Ohio Packaging siding also, to see what interesting boxcars were there to get pics of. There were several, & while there I lucked out as the Ohio Central's daily train up to Warwick came by:
It added a few more cars to get pics of!
Oh well-better hit it-early day tomorrow but only a half day so that's good! Nite All!
Evening all. Still enjoying vacation.
Tommorow should be great, becuase it's...
THE MYTHBUSTERS MARATHON ON DISCOVERY!
But that won't even top what I've been informed of... For those rock n' rollers...
LED ZEPPELIN IS GOING ON AN 18 MONTH WORLD TOUR!
BOOOandaYAAAAAAAAAAAH!
I can't wait, if they come anywhere NEAR here I'm sure we'll go... Dad and I are total, total zep fans.
Mark
Der,
I didn't know eeyore9900 was so much older than me. I was born December 1966.
eeyore9900 (a little early).
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
I wish all a very good and safe 2008 !
CHEERS
Lupo from The Netherlands
Morning folks!
I'll have some whole wheat 15 grain toast this morning please and some coffee in a Southern mug. Thanks Chloe!
Glad you liked the prime rib Ed, Jim, Fergie, and Mitch. Medium rare is my favorite, and the nice thing is you can always cook it some more for those who like their beef done a bit!
Rob - We are right with you on that rain that lasted all day yesterday, it dropped 3+ inches in our land and added 4 inches to Falls Lake level. The creek behind the house was at about 2/3 height and running like rapids all day yesterday. Run off is still flowing into the creek this morning. We could use a few more days like yesterday, still -7 inches on the total rain fall for the year.
Hey Paul, $430K for a new home is way out of my price range! While 4+ acres is a nice size plot the house must be 3,500 sq ft or more eh!
Fergie - thanks for visiting the PD website, I'm really excited and it is fun to have been selected for the 2guyz site. Thanks again!
Congratulations to LocoIndy for the new born Delaney on 12/31/07.
New Haven - Wow! That Reading & Northern #425 Returns video on You Tube is fantastic! I got goose bumps and a chill down my spine watching that one, just great live steam action at its best. Thanks go to Flash for posting the URL link!
Dick - taking down the outside lights already? Well, we took down the tree yesterday too, but the outside stuff is still up!
Nice job on the layout Sue, and those bovine look like they keep the hillside well trimmed too!
Der John -nice updates on the layout! Oh....and...ah...Happy Birthday!
Mark - I heard about the Led Zep concert in London, have they released the concert dates and schedule yet?
Hey Lupo, nice to see you again, and a safe an happy new year to you too!
Happy New Year to you all!
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Mornin all!
Last day of the year and it looks like we'll bring in the new year with a bang.....or at least some fresh snow! Right now, it looks like a 1"-3" snowfall here in central Indiana by daybreak Tuesday morning. A 3"-6" band of snow may fall across the northern third of the state.
Hoping to cut outta work early today. Like to go home and work on the layout room more. I got some shelves (actually, the wife got them........thank you hunny!) yesterday and so I'm rearranging the storage in there. Should help out a bunch!
We're just going to hang at the house tonight. Weather isn't great, wife's still laid up, and there's just too many whako's out there to go out tonight.
4:20am!!!! Delaney Nicole arrives in the world! 7 lbs 9.6 oz, 20.5 inches See her first pic here: http://www.delaneynicole.com/_images/birthday/Delaney.jpg
So whats up with all of you? You heading out tonight?
New Haven I-5 wrote:Jeff, what is that engine at the bottom of your post?
LSWrr wrote:Jeff, I always wondered about your weather reports: how could it be so cold that far south. Then I had that trip to Charleston, SC, when I woke up to 26F weather. Now I understand.
Jeff, I always wondered about your weather reports: how could it be so cold that far south. Then I had that trip to Charleston, SC, when I woke up to 26F weather. Now I understand.
JimRCGMO wrote:Jeff, that loco looks like an excellent one. So, how did a Canadian steamer get all the way down to the KCS in Louisiana, anyway?
Jeff, that loco looks like an excellent one. So, how did a Canadian steamer get all the way down to the KCS in Louisiana, anyway?
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 12/31/2007Wind Chill: 47°FHumidity: 88%Dew Point: 46°FSo Far TodayHigh: 49°FLow: 36°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 5mph SSW Today High: 72 Mostly sunny. Patchy dense fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 32 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.Got something new this weekend. I picked up this Proto 2000 E6 at the LHS for $65.
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