Walks in with a Tux over his arm.*
Stopping in from our Choir Christmas concert. I'll have a Milk.
-Morgan
Good evening, All. I thought that I would stop by for a cup of coffee. I am off now until the 31st, and find myself holding up Larry's progress by working.
I hope that everyone has their shopping done.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
grayfox1119 wrote: FERGIE: What have you been up to, your so quiet sitting back there in the corner table assembling your Blue Box kit.
FERGIE: What have you been up to, your so quiet sitting back there in the corner table assembling your Blue Box kit.
Sorry I've been full bore catching up with Christmas shopping and getting into the swing of things. Did a couple of Santa stints to get me up into the spirit but I fear it just will not be the same without "Dear Old Dad". Just been a real rotten year I fear.
However things are lloking up as Lisa's mother got thumbs up from the cancer surgeon today!
Merry Christmas!
Fergie
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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
Evening all,
Just drove 721 miles today, SC to OH is a long drive. Friend sent me this video of a train plowing snow.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=23798966
Enjoy,
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good evening to all, another 4" to shovel today, it just keeps coming, but Maine got it far worse, another foot for those lucky guys like Colby, et al.
CAPE JIM: The diner is not a club event although many people attend from several clubs. The Steaming Tender management is a husband and wife team, and the wife was a neighbor of Bob's as a child. So Bob reserves a table for about 20 people and we have a great diner and a greater time talking about layouts, trains, new products, and everything inbetween.
JERRY: You betcha lil beaver, Captain goes with anything!!! I'll bet you are one of the few guys that knows who that person is that I was refering to in my first line.
RYAN: There is no lid to be found in this world for the HD jar, and for those that think HD is High Definition, you are SINGLE, or never married. LOL
ROB: Some eggnog? No Captain? Ok....coming right up. BTW, if you ever get up this way for either Christmas or Easter, or Thanksgiving, I will take you to Cooper's Farm, where you will be able to get the best eggnog that you will have ever tasted.....no bull. This stuff is from very happy cows I would say.
Ok, time for spiced eggnog, talk later guys,
XP Home
I'm trying to get it going in safe mode now. It doesn't look like it wants to go.
Nope.....safe mode gives me a black screen with the XP version info acros the top and "safe Mode" in all four corners. All prompts are unresponsive.
Oh well, have to take it in I guess.
SilverSpike wrote: Philip - What kind of error messages are you getting on your daughters computer? I might be able to assist you in that matter.
Philip - What kind of error messages are you getting on your daughters computer? I might be able to assist you in that matter.
None at all. it pulls up the login screen OK, and then you go to an identity, any identity, and you get the correct desktop pic for that identity but nothing else. No toolbar, no icons, nothing. If you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del you get no out of the ordinary programs running. If you try to run an autoboot disc like my backup dic or the windows XP disc it starts spinning, then stops. There's no way to start it manually.
It's an old computer, but it's the best hunk-o-junk I got!
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Hello, everyone!
Sorry that I have been gone for a while. It's because that I am moving.
GREAT news, though.......
I got a HUGE train colloection, worth over 1,000 dollars!
But I have a LOT of work ahead of me in rehabilitating all locomotives........
Good afternoon folks. I thought I would pop in and say hi. Does anyone have an around the walls layout that has an emphasis on passenger running? I'm looking for ideas for something that I could break down into 2x4 or 2x8 sections. I figured I could pick a section to start on that would incorporate into a larger layout. Pictures or track plans would be much appreciated. I hope everyone has a good day.
Wolfgang is back. Good to see you Wolfgang. Guten Tag!
It's raining here. Not a pretty day.
Lunch time. I would like a BLT on T , but the toast thread is fading away.
Cheers, everybody!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon folks!
Pepperoni pizza and some Coke Zero please Chloe! Thanks!
Dick - Yea, please send the snowman overnight FedEx or UPS and pack a lot of ice too so it won't melt on the trip! Oh, and you got one of them HD jars too eh! I tried to add putting a lid on it but it never made it to the list....
Duke - Nice MOW pics from Apex. That is a nice truck there too, never seen one of them either. Next time you come down for the live steam meet we'll have to get together for some rail fanning around here, both CSX and NS have plenty of live activity.
Paul - Heading to New Mexico eh! You got family in Albuquerque? I love that area of the country; I can smell the burning pinion pine smoke in the air...
Phil - You were burning the midnight oil again eh! Bringing the outdoors inside sounds like a plan, just make sure you have a large enough smoke vent hole!
Philip - Good luck with the doc visit and best wishes for the wife continued healing. What kind of error messages are you getting on your daughters computer? I might be able to assist you in that matter.
Jerry - Ditto on the Captain Morgan's...and it certainly adds life to a fresh Coke-a-Cola....
Wolfgang - Nice winter pics you got there..... "there is a frost in the air"....
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
We had a foggy day, about 0°C, 31°F, wonderful white frost. With flash, privet and elder :
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
Looks like a day of cold rain and on into the night here. Great time to enjy some fresh coffee.
***Dick, how about bringing some of the non-spiked eggnog into the Diner. Wife & I would sure like to try some.
***Philip, hope it is all good news for the Mrs at the Docs. Continued healing thoughts being sent her way, (and Jeffrey's way, too).
Ordered 2 last presents for the wife last night, HO Jug Band (to put on the front porch of a farm house she doesn't have yet) and the Dairy Farmers (which will go nicely with her cows). OK, Christmas shopping is officially done here.
Well, gotta get out and feed the critters. Have a great day all. Rob
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446 12/20/2007Wind Chill: 66°FHumidity: 88%Dew Point: 63°FSo Far TodayHigh: 68°FLow: 60°FRain: 1.29"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 29mph W Now through 11:00 AM CST December 20, 2007 Through 11 AM...showers and thunderstorms will continue to race eastward at 40 mph across southeast Texas...southwest...central and south central Louisiana. The strongest storms...capable of producing penny size hail...wind gusts in excess of 50 mph...and rainfall rates near 2 1/2 inches per hour...will move across eastern Jefferson and Orange counties as well as western Calcasieu Parish. Over the coastal waters...showers and thunderstorms will continue to move east from High Island to the Atchafalaya River out to 60 nm. The strongest storms...reducing visibility to less than a mile and producing frequent lightning will occur across the near shore waters between Cameron and Marsh Island. Today High: 75 Showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe in the morning. Locally heavy rainfall possible in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 48 Partly cloudy. Cooler. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
Looks like I have the page for now. Order up!
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff....Hows the foot doing? Is this going to put you off your feet for awhile?
Da ***: Thanks. I'm just dealing with it as best I can.
Good Morning everyone.....
Oatmeal and OJ please. (Any manderine OJ left?)
Rob ....That's a unique mix of steam power. I recall those aptitude tests the schools used a few decades back. Maybe they still do it. You know what I mean? They show 3 or 4 picures and you must mark the one that does not belong in the group. Two logging engines and an Erie triplex.......... hmmmmmmm ...easy.... check the trilex! ......... I suppose it's hard to find a 2-10-2 these days so do what you must.
Philnrunt........ Those propane cars will be just in time to heat the home. You won't need the campfire after all!
JimCG.......... You asked about grain hauling in the 1950's. Railroads had used box cars to haul grain through the 1950's. The very first covered hoppers for grain showed up in the mid-50's, but box cars were common into 1960. Covered hoppers were short airslide cars or PS-2 hoppers. Look at the "fine print" on cars you buy to see date built. I use mostly box cars for my grain elevators and my flour mill. Some of the box cars are Athearn's grain loading box cars which were common around 1960. To haul grain with a standard 40' box car, crews would place plywood or heavy cardboard in the doorways. Leaking cars were a good reason for pigeons to follow trains through the cities.
Philip ...... good to hear Mrs. PC is healing. We'll pray that continues. Just about any parent can relate to the "strangest thing".
Happy Model Railroading
Mornin' all!
You know, it's the strangest thing!
Every time one of my home computers gets messed up, nobody ever did anything! It always happens "all by itself"! Isn't that odd?
I walked in the door last night from work and was greeted by my daughter informing me that "the computer is acting wierd. She has a marvelous gift for understatement! That puppy is crashed hard! I'm going to mess with it later. Might have to take it somewhere to have it looked at.
Well, got a followup doc's visit for the wife today. She seems to be doing well so I'm thinking this should be a good visit.
Warming up out there today. It's supposed to warm up for the next few days, then the bottom drops out and the snow comes back. Looks like a white Christmas is a real possibility!
Oh well, gotta run!
Later!
Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a cup of coffee and one of Bill T.'s chocolate donuts, please.
Thanks!
A blazing 45 degrees (F) this morning, so I'm not expecting to have to scrape any frost. YAY!! Wind's out of the East at 9 mph, so wind chill's 41 F, and relative humidity is 96 percent. Supposed to reach a high in the low 50's today, with rain off and on through the day. Beats a lot of other forms of precipitation, anyway! Even supposed to hit 60 F tomorrow!
Chuck & Kathy, best wishes with the layout design. Of course, like all layout designs I've heard of of known, it'll be subject to 'adjustments' once you start laying the track... Sounds ike your weather is back to its usual, huh? Keep taking care of each other. Hmm, I might see if I have some of that 'fake' oatmeal in the cupboard...
Dick, your dinner sounds like a good time. Is that a local area club that does that, or does Robert (Buck) 'host' it? Think I missed that part...
Wolfgang, to the Diner, and is that house available in HO scale? Thanks for stopping by, and for your wishes.
Duke, I'm guessing that those MOW pics weren't taken during the past couple of days, right? Thanks for posting those.
IN Phil, happy 'camping' over the Christmas season with your nephew. He'll probably get a kick out of the camping. Now, how could you manage a campfire in the front room?
Jerry, between your descriptions and Mike's photos, I'm gaining the pounds this week from all those goodies your CFO's are cookin' up!
Well, better get going for now. Just today and tomorrow to w**k, and then (other than on-calls) it's vacation time until after New Year's Day! Yippee!!
Blessings and prayers for healing,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Hello all.
Got an e-mail today from firsthobby letting me know the 2 Atlas 33,000 gal Suburban Propane tanks cars that I had forgotten about ( ordered them back in Feb, I think) were shipped today. Good-o. Why, it's just like Christmas in December!
We have a freezing fog tonight, hope the roads don't get too slick. A nice quiet night is what we all want, for about the next 15 years. One of our Jay Co deputies just stopped by, he has worked midnights since he started, about 8 years now, and a few weeks ago he was asked if he wanted to work days to cover some vacationing co-workers. He said sure, his first dayshift was last Sun, the day we picked up 8" of new snow. He was supposed to work days all this week, he told them this morning he would head back to graveyard and to never offer him dayshift again!
We go to Indy later today to pick up our nephew, K.C. Not looking forward to the drive, and the nasty traffic we will no doubt get into, but very much looking forward to seeing the boy. Sure hope our weather doesn't do him in! We decided to keep his bedroom in our front room, and to temporarily turn the new addition into our sitting room. I brought in some of my camping equipment,(chairs, cot etc) all we need is a campfire in the middle of the floor and we could be out in the woods.
Well, guess we'll be a talkin' to y'all later!
Hi JEFF,
would like to wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.
Take care
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
Evenin', Chloe - I'll have an eggnog (non-Morgan, thanks, I'm driving home from the diner ) and a bowl of the beef stew, if the cook made it again tonight.
Had a first for me today - having a session via translator(). Interesting, to say the least! Language I had never studied on school (of course, that was a while back anyway...).
I was looking today to see about what kind(s) of covered hoppers I could use for 1950's era hauling of grain/beans (preferably Western or Southwestern RR's). I think a goodly chunk of the ones I have will have to be switched over to cement plant use instead (2-bay, round hatches, etc.). I may need some more of the 2893 cu. ft. 3-bay ones instead (Walthers, Athearn) - have three Athearn currently, I think, vs. about 5 of the 2-bay cov'd. hoppers. Some info I have seen online covers some models that aren't around anymore (like Intermountain ltd. edition ones, etc.), so this may take some more looking...
Better get to my stew, so I can finish up and head home. About my bedtime! Prayers for rest, comfort and healing for those ailing and/or recuperating.
Blessings,
whine session....why should I pay around $130 for a N 2-truck shay when for less than that I can pick up a cool HO...???
Or how about a heisler for under $80...???
And when will there be one of these... in N scale? It's just not fair! Hmmm, does keep the idea of combining scales alive in the old noggin. Just need time/money/space for it.
Off to do late critter rounds. Rob
Hot Tea please Chloe
It is snowing again here in Maine (I am about 45 minutes north of Colby). The scanner has been reporting people off the road pretty steady. One was real ironic couple from Florida just got pulled back onto the road then went off, officer was requesting a wrecker again seems they wanted to go to the nearest hotel.
PC hope your wife is doing well, Jeff hope the foot continues to improve. ANd for all that are not feeling well you take it easy so you may be feeling better by Christmas.For those who may be traveling in the near future hope you have a safe trip.
Kevin
Evening Gang: Again not much to report. We set out hay for the time we're gone. I put 5 bales in the lower field and put 1 in the corral pen nex to where the heifers are. The warning light for the air cleaner being plugged came on on the new tractor. The air cleaner was clean so it may have a problem with the sender. I'll take the tractor in and drop it off so the dealer can check it out while we're in Albaqueque. At least it's under warranty.
Tomorrow we'll finish up with the getting the animals taken care of and pack. Friday we'll head out.
Good Night All
DUKE: I think I've been good, I've been too darn busy to get into trouble...that doggone HD jar, you know, the one with a bottomless bottom??
CHUCK: Are you referring to "mud" as in mudslides?
And speaking of eggnog, we have a farm nearby that produces the best eggnog that I have ever tasted anywhere. So, you all know what that means, it must be LOADED with calories!!And to top it off tonight, we will add some Captain Morgan SR to it. Now that is a nice "soda" for a cold winter's night during the Christmas & New Year season. Ohh ohh, here comes FERGIE and LUC, hide the spiced eggnog Cloe, QUICK!!!