Elliotts Trackside Diner III

[jeffrey-wimberly]

***Jeffrey, how common are those derailments and is it that the KCS doesn't maintain the rails? Work crews there will never be out of work, eh?  

I wasn't really sure what caused it at first. Derailments at that location aren't very common (the last one was over three months ago) so it took me completely by surprise. Since the loco in question draws power from the one behind it, it just kept on pulling after leaving the rails. I checked the turnout points to see if the problem was there, but if that was the case it would have effected the second loco as well. Turned out that the cause was the second wheelset in the front truck was slightly out of gauge. An easy fix.

Good morning.

Cool and wet here this morning. Currently it's 52 degrees under cloudy skies with medium fog. We're expecting a high of 70 with partly cloudy skies this afternoon.

Today's Weather for:     
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      2/24/2008

Wind Chill:  53°F
Humidity:  98%
Dew Point:  53°F

So Far Today
High:  53°F
Low:  47°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  5mph ESE

Today    High: 75    Mostly cloudy this morning. Mostly sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.     

Tonight   Low: 48    Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds.


 

[pcarrell]

Morning all! 

Still chilly out there at a whole 28 degrees, but the sun's out and it's supposd to warm up to near 40 today, so not too bad.  Just got a Bible study to lead today and then a bit of homework for my college classes.  Might even get some layout time in if I'm not careful!

I've got some catching up to do, so pardon the long post.  Just told you all I'd do it, so here it is.

PC: that was truly OUTSTANDING! That was a sound equipped loco?

No, no sound abord that loco......yet.  I'd like to do that someday in the tender though.

***PC, that is going to be one nice layout when it's finished. Wish my locos had a place like that to roam on, slthough I can't imagine finishing that size layout in this lifetime with so much to do. I'll be happy with the door-size layout when I get it built.

It's a little daunting at times, but there's only three small towns and one major port town on the whole line.  The rest of the layout is open country running.  That means that I get to build a nice variety of buildings but I should be able to get a faily "completed" look within my lifetime!

Speaking of workshop, I'm bagging much of the mound of sawdust for later use on my layout. Any suggestions on ways to use sawdust will be appreciated!!!

You could add it to a ground goop mixture to give it some texture and make it go further.

PC since I'll be laying track on the Clark Gardens layout some time this summer I'll need to look at your post. Could you please post the address again. Pretty please with a pie of your choice.

Instead of making you run all over the forum, how about I just throw it up here in the diner?  Here's a copy of what I wrote......

"When building my current layout I was looking for a cheaper alternative to the foam roadbed I used last time and with none of the drawbacks associated with cork (it dries out and gets hard and brittle as well as acting like a noise amplifier when it gets that way).  As I was walking through the local home improvement store I spotted something that might work, and even better, it was out of season so it was on sale!

I use a foam base with my roadbed and track secured by the latex caulk.  For roadbed I use rope caulking.  It comes in a roll about 15' long, and it's perfect width for HO scale track right out of the box.  Since I model N, I just tear it along the already formed centerline and I get about 30' of roadbed per box with no waste.  The advantages are that it never dries out, so it's always soft and pliable (absorbs sound!), it can easily be molded to any curve radius you want, it's easy to cut with just a xacto knife to form turnout pads, crossovers and such, or you can use a wallpaper roller on it to flatten it and make trasitions in rail heights or lower passing sidings in just a few seconds.  As if that isn't enough, the latex caulk holds well to it, but you can still slip a putty knife in there and take up the rails without damage if you need (Spread the caulk very thin with a putty knife when you lay it down and then lay the tracks and use some canned goods laid lenthwise along the tracks to hold it while it sets up).  If you get it in the off season like me you can often find it for a buck or two a box.  It comes in gray and brown that I've seen, though other brands may come in other colors.

Here's what I bought...........

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture016.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture019.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture023.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture021.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture024.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture002.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-15-077.jpg"

PC, that's one lonnnnnnnggggg run for your locos! Very nice - what'll you have in that last area inside the last big turn - mountain or somethng else? Just need a few boxes of scenicing materials, some sidings and structures, and a few spare weekends, and you should be done...

Most of what the video shows will be hidden staging, including the turnback loop.  All of the hidden track is code 80 Atlas (it's bulletproof, what can I say).  The track that shows is all Atlas code 55 and all loco's and rolling stock are RP-25 compliant.  In other words, only about a 1/4 of the track in the video wil be visible.  Just the live interchange between the class 1 RR and the shortline.  The class 1 then goes back to staging and the shortline becomes the star of the show.  It runs from the live interchange through several towns, slowly makeing it's way to the small city docks at the ocean shore.

The turnback loop area will eventually house a large double tracked helix to get trains from one level to the other.  I'm thinking that I'll probably build a scenic blister in the helix and add a whistle stop there for passengers.  It'll allow operators to catch a glimpse of the train halfway

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

Good Morning all,

Just stopped by to say that to my mentors.   No time this morning for breakfast as I am on my way to Church.   With that thought ----- I would like to ask RYAN to make a          " BREAKFAST TO GO".   I WAS THINKING SOMETHING LIKE THIS.   A waffle cone with Yogurt in the bottom with some fruit on top then some chopped bacon or cubes of ham and topped off with scrambled eggs, and a touch of ketchup.  If it can be done I'll have one this morning as I leave.

Ryan, I do want to thankyou for posting the menu from the California Zephyr.  I have copied it and will get a frame for it and it will be at the entrance to my train room.  Thanks again.

I will stop back in later to see how all of your days have gone and try to catch up on the posts from the last couple of days, as I have just not had time lately.

See about exercising your knees and faith today.    Blessings to all.

Johnboy out.....................

The "Wobbly" is doing it's thing in the Great White North.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody.

Rob ... I'm sorry to learn that your wife has pnuemonia. It's no fun at all. Preayers for her recovery.

Lee ...... I just re-read your post on the surgery your son had had to correct the hearing and also your daughter's hearing problems. Like PC said, it's good we have modern medical procedures these days.

Everyone ....... I just posted my thread on how I make rock strata if you are interested.

Roads are icy, and we will stay home this morning.

Happy Model Railroading

[Cederstrand]

***Philip, "only three small towns and one major port town on the whole line?" Your sights are set soooo low, why not create an entire state? Those long expanses will be visually outstanding.

Have to do feed rounds so I'll have a quick coffee To Go, please & thanks! Rob

[jeffrey-wimberly]

There's a bit of trackwork going on in Leesville. The KCS is extending the north end of the passing siding a little over a 1/4 mile.

This is at the north end where the new section of siding merges back into the main.


At this end they haven't quite made it to the existing part of the passing siding. There's about 150' yet to go. The problem, as I see it, is they have to figure out where to divert the street traffic from University Parkway.

The nearest crossing is almost 1/2 a mile away and would have the traffic moving through a residential area.

[pcarrell]

***Philip, "only three small towns and one major port town on the whole line?" Your sights are set soooo low, why not create an entire state? Those long expanses will be visually outstanding.

I think I've shown this before, but I'll let you take a peek once again if you like.

My track plan was almost a year in the making and it's slowly beginning to take shape now.

The RR is in N scale and it's based in 1920-30's coastal and intercoastal Maine. It's a fictional road called the Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Company. It's based on the real life Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR.

It's a double decked plan with staging under the bottom deck. The staging and the lower sceniced level share the same benchwork. The upper deck has it's own benchwork. Towns are staggered so one town is not on top of another. This makes it so that people can switch any town with tripping over somebody else.

Train control is a Digitrax Super Chief radio equipped setup with a DT400R and a UT4R for throttles. I'll probably get more as funds allow.

The door to the room is in the upper right. The upper left contains a 20 and 22 inch radius double track helix. The helix rises to a bit higher then the top level so that the run down to the port on the far end of the upper level is a downhill run. The lower level contains an interchange with a class 1 RR that serves as the connection to the outside world. The outside world is represented by the staging tracks that contain all of the class 1 trains. The only time an ARR&Nav Co. train is out of sight is when it's in the helix.

But enough of me talking. Here's the staging area. I may add some holding tracks to it.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Track%20Plans/My%20Plan/Blank3004-1R1Keeper-1.jpg

This part of the plan shows the lower sceniced level along with the interchange.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Track%20Plans/My%20Plan/Blank3004-2Keeper-1.jpg

This is the upper deck. It has the port scene with a car ferry and scales, and the largest town on the layout, the small seaport of Autumns Ridge.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Track%20Plans/My%20Plan/Blank3004-3Keeper.jpg

So far, the benchwork is in, lighting is in, carpet is in, the backdrop is taking shape, and the staging area along with the interchange is being worked on now. That area is getting along nicely, so soon I can start working my way over to the helix.

[Cox 47]

Good Sunday afternoon all....Its cloudy damp and cold here today....I'll have a Windy city dog and drag it thru the garden, o rings and a diet coke please....Thank you...Sallie had a bad night last night so she is napping...We watched an old movie on TCM this morning after breakfast..I am getting ready to start on some passenger cars they will need to be stripped, and repainted..hope I can find some more IC decals and I have a bay window caboose that I want to strip and paint for Nickle Plate if I can find decals...

Garry...sorry I called you caboose Tyco but they did have one with that type of cupalow[sp]...It was pretty close to a Pennsy prototype..I'd still like to see a photo...Your post out on the main board is great...You have a talent for explaining things so even I can understand....You are a good modeler and I hope you do more like this one..I'd like to see one on some of your kit bashed buildings...

RT...Sorry I Let the whole world know about you trip to the wonderful World of N scale...I guess it goes back to my days working at the radio station I always helped the newsman by giving him tips on anything I saw newsworthy and a dyed in the wool Lionel man messing around in N scale was just to good a story to keep to myself...Thats a neet photo of O and N together....

Rob...hope your Wife is feeling better...

PC...Enjoyed your video but the one spot on the curve worries me..I can see a derailment and that engine sowly falling 500 scale feet to the floor below...Take it from someone who knows I ran a old Roundhouse box cab off a curve like the and turned it back into a kit that never ran right again....

well you all have a good sunday evening...Jerry

[Cederstrand]

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 How do model turn-tables actually work? Are there points that click in place to align the track sections? Also, it there an automatic current control to only the selected section of track or is this done by a remote switch? Lastly, are they a lot of trouble to make work properly? 

Reason I ask is it might be nice to store my locos on the layout, rather than on a shelf. Can't afford to pursue one at the moment, but doesn't hurt to plan well ahead. It would have to be a pretty small turntable (area wise). Perhaps an 6 bay engine house without a turntable would be an easier solution? Suggestions appreciated as always. 

Been moving the last of the books from the cabin into the new studio, library & porch. Didn't realize how many interesting books the wife and I have. Almost seems like a waste not to share them with others.

Rob

[LSWrr]

Rob, turntables are nice, but they are a little harder than a turnout to an engine house.  My turntable is not indexed, so you need the motor kit and you have to visually line up the tracks. Atlas makes an indexed turn table that stops at each track automatically, but it doesn't have a pit. You can go to my web site and look at my turntable in my construction pictures; it was a bit of an effort but well worth it.

http://www.cmrtrain.com/turntable.html

http://www.nyrs.com/

http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/Track/Trackphotos/305.GIF

http://www.freshwatermodels.net/ho_hon3_sellers_turntable.htm

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/322-804

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3171

 

Lee

[pcarrell]

Rob, the Atlas turntable will also automatically flip the polarity of the rails as the table passes 180 degrees, but it does this by having two "D" rings under the table.  This means that there is a moment (very momentary) as the polarity flips where there is no power to the loco.  If you're running DC it's no problem as this occers between stops on the table.  If you're running DCC you'll have to reaquire the loco and start the lights and sound (if equipped) all over again.

Other turntables require a circuit similar to a reversing loop in order to flip the polarity and so they avoid this issue.  They are usually much more expensive solutions though.  Thats where the Atlas TT really shines.  It's by far the cheapest solution on the market, and so many modelers use the parts to make a table with a pit, though there are prototype examples of covered pits like the Atlas one.  Here is one of those "solutions": http://2guyzandsumtrains.com/Content/pa=showpage/pid=11.html

PC...Enjoyed your video but the one spot on the curve worries me..I can see a derailment and that engine sowly falling 500 scale feet to the floor below...Take it from someone who knows I ran a old Roundhouse box cab off a curve like the and turned it back into a kit that never ran right again....

Actually, there were a couple of places that bothered me......those are some DEEEEEEP chasm's!  Rest assured though....they've been delt with.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-17-074.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-17-075.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-22-073.jpg

[Cederstrand]

Thanks guys! Looks like the Atlas TT would be the likely choice for me, although I MUCH prefer a pit style. Hmmm...wonder if I could pull off some 3D painting techniques to make an Atlas TT appear to have a shallow pit? The price is definitely in the right ballpark. I would want to add the motor to it (or an under the table pulley system). And yes, I'll stick with DC so no problem there.

***Philip, the more I look at your layout, the more it appears way too small. I think you could triple it...no, quadruple it. ..... (couldn't keep a strait face)

While I'm here, a  refill, please & thank you! Rob

[railroadnut675]

Ah that was a good dinner. Pear tart to look forward to!

[egmurphy]

Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,

Another beautiful day down here in Paradise.    It stayed warm today (as if you were expecting something different) but at least it was overcast until early afternoon.  So the house didn't heat up that much.

RT - radius is from the center of the circle to a line halfway between the two rails.

Dick - welcome back.  I was wondering if you'd taken off to Florida to watch the Red Sox at spring Training camp.  btw, the Red Sox go to Washington D.C. this week to visit the President.  That's a tradition with the team that wins the World Series.  The first exbibition ga is Thursday.

Lee - that was a great video, thanks for posting it.  I hope Paul B watched it, it's right up his alley.

Garry - that was a great tutorial you posted on making the rock strata.  Nice photos and nicely explained.  I'm looking forward to seeing the part on the stone retaining wall.

Jeffrey:  The problem, as I see it, is they have to figure out where to divert the street traffic from University Parkway.

Just a guess, but I'd suspect they already have it figured out and permitted.  They usually have to work these things out with the local authorities before closing crossings.

PC - that's going to be a very nice layout.  It'll keep you busy and off the streets working on it.

Rob - if space is an issue then the Atlas turntable is probably a better choice than building a switch ladder to serve 6 stalls of an engine house.  That will chew up some real estate.  The Atlas tt has a small building that fits over the motor to disguise it.

That's about it from down here.  Catch up with you tomorrow.

Hasta mañana,

Ed

[pcarrell]

Thanks guys! Looks like the Atlas TT would be the likely choice for me, although I MUCH prefer a pit style. Hmmm...wonder if I could pull off some 3D painting techniques to make an Atlas TT appear to have a shallow pit? The price is definitely in the right ballpark. I would want to add the motor to it (or an under the table pulley system). And yes, I'll stick with DC so no problem there.

Atlas sells a motorizing kit for a few bucks.  It's a cheap solution to cranking your arm off!  Also, did you see the link I gave to make it a pit?

Or you could dress it up as is.  Have you seen Bob Gresh's Atlas TT?

Looks good to me!

***Philip, the more I look at your layout, the more it appears way too small. I think you could triple it...no, quadruple it. ..... (couldn't keep a strait face)

Tell ya what.....why don't you just swing on by, and stop by the Home epot on the way, and we'll just see what we can do about that!

PC - that's going to be a very nice layout.  It'll keep you busy and off the streets working on it.

Funny.....my wife said the same thing!

[saronaterry]

Hi guys! after 2 days of messing around with pics, I think the kids have this figured out for this OsemiRF.

My first scratchbuild attempt.

Whaddyathink?

Terry

[Cederstrand]

***Philip, yes, got the link. Thanks! And that Bob Gresh's Atlas TT is perfect. I like the idea of going that route very much.

Here are a few pics of what the recent rains have accomplished. Was not long ago we could walk across without using the bridge. 

GOOSE ISLAND:

DUCK ISLAND:

THE BIG POND:

Big pond still has about 5' to go, but it is making progress now with every new rain. Sure took a long time for the ground to become saturated enough for this to take place. YES! Rob

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang:

Terry: That's out standing. How did you do the corragated siding?

It looks like the Duluth Superior and Southeastern maybe moving. If you all remember the layout that Jack Lucks had when he passed Clark Gardens decieded not to use it. Today when we were trying to figure out where to put it the light came on. I can get into my former garage. I filled in the garage doors with the intension of fixing up the garage for a rec room. Now I may put Jacks layout in there and bring my layout from the basement up also. All I need is the OK from the boss. I mentioned it to Mary Ann and she didn't say no.

Rob I hope that your wife gets to feeling better soon. I agree with the others that the Atlas TT is your best bet. I really like your ponds. Ours is basically round and no trees.

Well I'm trying to watch Blackhawk Down while typing this and it isn't working. Mary Ann is getting worried that I maybe having flashbacks.

Lee I really enjoyed the video. Any idea where your friend got his copy? Not to pick nits but that was in Minnesota.

Good Night All

[rtraincollector]

Cox no problem I kinda figured you couldn't resist. and I'm just having fun i been thinking it would be neat if I could find an HO also then I could go down in series lol. might say baby , dad, and grand dad lol.

[saronaterry]

ROB: Don't buy one yet, I have one knocking around the layout room somewhere you can have, let me look a bit this week! It's a manual, but I've seen the power units on E bog.

Terry

[JPowell]

Another find from "the lost closet", a few old Matchbox vehicles. Had over 100 of them back as a youth, now long gone. Will probably sell these few on the bay, as they are too big for wife's HO. Will keep the green tractor and the trailer that compliments it, just cuz.  Rob

Rob - If it will help you any, send me a email (link is in my profile) and photos of those Matchbox vehicles. I may want to grab a few off of you before you sell them to the 'General Public' if you don't mind.

 

[JPowell]

Dick - welcome back.  I was wondering if you'd taken off to Florida to watch the Red Sox at spring Training camp.  btw, the Red Sox go to Washington D.C. this week to visit the President.  That's a tradition with the team that wins the World Series.  The first exbibition ga is Thursday.Ed

And, btw, they also signed Bartolo Colon to a minor league deal in case they need another pitcher in the first few months. And, they also gave Tito a new contract that expires in 2011, with club options for 2012 and 2013.

[JPowell]

Ok folks -

  Take it easy on my tab for the page. Janie, I'll stop back in tomorrow and pay the final tab. Could you leave a note for Chloe letting her know so? Thanks!

I'm off to bed now. Everyone have a good night and a even better day tomorrow.

Take care!

[LSWrr]

Paul,

I'm not sure, the link was posted on the ore rails group and my neighbor sent me a link to the original post. However, it sounded like the same narration as 'Railway joumeys".  if my neighbor (Dale) has the same video, then is came from amazon.com.

Wisconson, Minnasota that's what I meant.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Terry, I like the grain elevator very much!

Thanks everone for the kind remarks on the rock strata thread I posted.

I just completed my Burlington modernized heavyweight diner/parlor car and posted it in WPF....

Happy Model Railroading!

 

[JimRCGMO]

Evening, Janie - just a cup of hot chocolate for me, please. Thanks!

Well, I hate to disappoint Jerry (and maybe others), but didn't get to Chuck's yesterday (Sat.). Had to tend to some other things first. I may get there in a few more weeks (with my shopping list...). Spent a chunk of Saturday with TurboTax (and Quicken) looking at my taxes for this year (hoping to get the refund quickly for a bill). I'll be getting a refund on my federal (looks like), but (so far) will owe the great state of Missouri about $50 (Pooh...) I'm debating about itemizing, to see if I can get my refund up (and maybe the MO taxes down or to a refund). But doing that will require getting a bunch of cash purchases entered. Only have up to March 2007 entered so far, but have pretty much all purchase with the debit card in Quicken (I can download my entries into Quicken through my bank). Ah, taxes...

PC - proud for you (and your son)!! Maybe you can post a clip from the video on YouTube.Com and give us a link?  I'm sure your son is tickled about it, and I'm sure you both are glad that you have all those pizzas made and delivered, too. Oh, on your layout, my comment about it being 'a snap' was rather tongue-in-cheek, in case you missed it. You know you really need another town or two, so you can generate enough traffic for your line, right?

Lee, I like those trees - good job! The natural trunks makes it look like some knarled old tree out west or such. Nice price, even at the first batch price. I'm curious about that billboard - do they make a Fox Creek one, or did you get one for making your own town's billboard (and whose, since Bar Mills has stopped making their general billboard kit)?

Garry, good to see your layout in pics again. Wouldn't mind seeing some more of it, either. A good job on the caboose, too! You got me thinking that I want to find more info on and pics of some D&RGW cabeese, as it doesn't appear they're making one now with the 50's paint scheme. So I may do a repaint and get some decals for that scheme's lettering. Meanwhile, I'll go take a peek at your rockmaking topic. Oh, I'm sure that if you started a topic about "Bachmann or Tyco?" out in the general forums, odds are good that it'd be shut down in flames, before very long at all.  

Flashwave, will you be putting the Indy Union Station on your layout somewhere? Better take care of that throat - one variation of the flu that has been making the rounds in this area includes a sore throat, so hopefully it's not that.

Flip, I wouldn't consider it selfish to ask for prayers for Deb. Consider her (and you) added!

JP, if she's a picky eater, I guess the old rule of "If you don't like what's fixed, you can fix your own" might apply - at least, that was our household's rule when I was growing up. But as Ed said, 2 out of 3 and all that! Guess you two could trade off cooking duties... Hey, you're probably lucky you hit TOP this late at night - you only will have the morning breakfast bunch to worry about! (Of course, they can be a hungry crew...)

Welcome back, Dick - I see that you've been getting everybody's share of the snow lately, huh? At least you were able to have some fun with it! Haven't worn out your snowblower yet, have you?

RT, you had me wondering there at first about the 'N scaler' bit. So are you going to follow the lead of a few others and be a mega-multi-scaler? You could ask Paul for some tips on 7.5 scale...

Rob, I'll be keeping your wife in my prayers, also. She didn't catch it from work, did she (with all the people she may see at the hospital)? Good to hear about the check coming in; for all of us, income is always appreciated!

Terry, I like that elevator - but you need more rust on that baby! Pretty nice backdrop, too!

Paul, congrats on the (implied) permission to acquire additional right-of-way for the DS&S. If the movie is giving you flashbacks, no need to keep on watching it, okay? Will you be combining/connecting the DS&S with Jack's layout? More planning and drawing ahead, i'd guess.

Our weather Saturday was warm enough to melt a fair amount of our snow, and then I woke up this morning to see a couple of inches of new white stuff(!). But the snow stopped and it was above freezing most of the day. I saw this evening that they're saying we may get some backside snow on Tuesday after the next front comes through (with rain on Monday). While I don't really want as much snow as Dick got up MA way, I wouldn't mind a few inches of snow around here.

Time for me to wrap it up and head myself off to bed. See everyone in the morning.

 

Blessings and prayers,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[grayfox1119]

Good evening gang....spend part of the day working on that doggone master bath redo project, ya, another HD jar project that I am trying to put to bed for good.

Received the new Atlas Quarterly catalog on Saturday, some real nice equipment in there guys, check it out.

ED/JP : Ya, I saw the news on TV today, that is real good for Tito and Colon will make a nice backup if he stays healthy.

JIM: The Snowblower is kept in A1 condition, I'm a nut for preventive maintenance. It had a vacation last year, as we have a very low snowfall, but this year is running 12" over average for the date, so mother nature knows how to work the averages.

JOHNBOY: Ok up there in Saskachawan, you can turn off the snow and cold anytime now, daylight savings time starts two weeks from today and Spring in 4 weeks !!!! LOL

LEE: Thanks for the welcome and lunch in the Diner, much appreciated.

Time for bed, see you guys later,

[AggroJones]

HEY!!!

Do they serve Tequila in this dinner?

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[egmurphy]

HEY!!!

Do they serve Tequila in this dinner?

¡Por supuesto que sí!  May not have all the fancy high priced brands, but I'm sure there's a decent selection.

Nice to see you dropping in here, Aggro.

Regards

Ed