Well good morning everyone!
Yes, I got them home last night. The wife and boy got to sleep in their own beds, and man, did they crash! They're very happy to be home though. I think my son is about done with hospitals for a while, and so is my wife. They still have lots of follow-ups, but thats nothing. I keep telling him (teasing, ya know) that he looks like a house fell on him or that he's some kind of horrible accident victim. I mean, he broke a finger a week before the surgery, so his hand is in a cast, and now both legs are in casts, and they're all big casts, so he really pulls on your heart when you look at him.
Looks like the weather is getting warmer around here. Might even hit low 60's on Sunday! Today: mixed clouds & sun - high: 58
Well, I have some work to get to, so I'll be off. Later!
Heartland Division CB and Q wrote: PC ....... I'm glad out young hero is home. If I could post those animation things, I would post a marching band and fireworks to celebrate. Please keep us posted on the recovery progress. I know it will be a long and painful raod. Prayers continue.
PC ....... I'm glad out young hero is home. If I could post those animation things, I would post a marching band and fireworks to celebrate. Please keep us posted on the recovery progress. I know it will be a long and painful raod. Prayers continue.
OK, I'll do it for you.......
Edit: It seems that while I was posting so were several others! And they brought friends! Friends with instruments!
Cox 47 wrote:....planning on checking main forum for thread I read awhile back on making plastic look like wood.....
Does this help?
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/aging_wood/
Harold (hminky on this site) is an excellent modeler with a great website. You can check it out here: http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/
Hello everybody ...
Terrific news from PC ......... Jim CG posted not just any marching band....he posted the U of Michigan marching band! ...Terrific....I have lived in Ann Arbor .............
And wow ...look at the fireworks! ........... you can see them in the diner all the way from Nova Scotia!!!!!!!!!!!
Today it's a big picnic at the diner to celebrate! ........... I bet Ryan could make a menu! .... The hot dog eating contes is later this afternoon, and I'm already betting JimCG will be winner of that.... Clowns will entertain the little ones.... Oh what a super day!
We're glad our young hero is back home in PC's house!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
....and by request......
Celebration Menu
(Courtsey of the Gold Coast Chicago Hotel - The Golden Bean Restaurant)
Starters
Indigo Chips & Cheese - Peruvian blue corn chips with warm bleu cheese dip and salsa
B.Y.O.B. (Build Your Own Bruschetta) - Flame-roasted red peppers, black and green olive tapenades, capers, herbed goat cheese, artichoke relish and marinated tomatoes, served with toast points.
Seasonal Soup: Bisque of tomato and basil with a crushed-red-pepper attitude
Entrees
BBQ Pizza - A blend of provolone and Pecorino Romano cheeses with a tangy BBQ sauce topped with herb-roasted chicken
Steak Pizza - A blend of provolone, parmesan and Gorgonzola blue cheese with a creamy alfredo sauce, mushrooms, flame-roasted onions topped with sirloin steak.
Uptown Beef Burger Angus Burger topped with watercress, tomatoes, sliced Portobello mushrooms and Munster cheese on a multi-grain wheat bun.
White Meat of Chicken - Herb-encrusted oven roasted white meat of chicken topped with a demi-glace, served with a steamed vegetable medley and rosemary roasted red potatoes.
Grilled Salmon Filet - Grilled salmon served with a steamed vegetable medley, accompanied by rosemary roasted red potatoes.
Roasted Sirloin Steak - Boneless sirloin steak served with a steamed vegetable medley, accompanied by rosemary roasted red potatoes.
Desserts
Hot Fudge Cake - topped with Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream
Baked Apple Tart - topped with Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream
Classic Cheesecake with seasonal fruit topping
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Paul, the Hulets have been saved. The local historical society saved one Hulet on Whiskey Island, the RR sold it to them at scrap price and sits disassembled just south of where they once stood waiting for funds to re-assemble it. Very impressive even in its storage condition! The taconite loader (called a pellet loader) was originally in Lorain, OH and was moved to Whiskey Island. The large lakers drop off the pellets to Whiskey Island then smaller freighters move it to the steel mill (shuttle runs) at the head of navigation. RR hoppers transport pellets to Lorain, Pittsburg, Youngstown, or where needed.
I don't remember who rebuilt that unit, I was a member of the Mid-West Historical Society for a few years and to make money for the club we rebuilt switchers and leased them to local industry. Some of our switchers can be seen in service around the Cleveland Flats area. We have a Mikado, B&O round house, several passenger cars, and a RS-3 (that just broke down and can't pull off the turn table). Several of our passenger cars have been in (recent) Hollywood movies.
That ISG switcher works the scrap yard and doesn't see much action at the blast furnace.
I think Ohio State would have been a better choice of marching bands.......
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning all--
Philip: So glad for you, to have the family back home. Continued prayers from here for your wife and son.
Nothing much new on the home front here--I've got my 94-year old mother this week, but that's no problem, since she's very happy sitting in her favorite chair spoiling the cats, reading some of her Romance novels (Whew! Ever read one of those? Back when I was a kid, you'd have to get them in a Plain Brown Wrapper, LOL!) and watching every channel on DTV that shows "The Golden Girls". We've gone through all my Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, so yesterday evening I put on "A Ticket To Tomahawk"--really cute little Railroad Western from the 'fifties--and she got a kick out of it. She wants to watch it again today. Sure beats "The Sound of Mucus, er, 'Music'". I'll take her back to Nevada City on Friday, after the electrical contractors are finished.
Other than that, I'm still puttering around with the engine facilities in Deer Creek and thinking seriously of putting a ballasted deck on the Deer Creek Viaduct. Still finding little pieces of wood embedded in the scenery from that garage roof job last Fall. The Basket-Case Yellowstone was tried out yesterday afternoon and runs pretty darned good, by golly! Soon as the PSC detail parts get in from Montana, I'll get it all finished up and hauling some PFE reefers. Like my other two, it's a real team of oxen as far as pulling power. Ah, Yellowstone Heaven. Only 15 more to go, LOL!
Well, got to give Mom her mid-morning pills and head back out to the garage.
Oh, PS--the chocolate Easter Bunny is History.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Jim: It's spring break. I don't like to wake up early...
Also, big boy isn't here yet. I found a video of one on youtube... Posted on my last post.
PC, great to hear all is well over at your place, and I'm sure you are ready for some much deserved rest. I couldn't imagine having everything except one arm in a cast!!! How long will your son be in casts???
LSWrr wrote: PC, great to hear all is well over at your place, and I'm sure you are ready for some much deserved rest. I couldn't imagine having everything except one arm in a cast!!! How long will your son be in casts???Lee
The arm cast comes off Friday. His youth group at church meets on Thursday nights, so I expect he'll want to go and work that thing with the girls while he can.
Alright everyone! Line up!
My family is home and it's time to celebrate!
I'm buying!
Surf and turf for all!
Thanks PC!
Glad that everyone is home now, time to rest for sure!
And I'll a Surf and Turf too!
To answer your question, the ballast spreader works good, I just have to run it across the track a few times to get the amount of ballast I want between the ties and on the outside slopes. I still have to come back between the rails and on the outside slopes with a 1" wide paint brush to even out the loose pieces of ballast and get them where I want them before spraying and soaking it with some wet water and then the diluted white glue.
Cheers,
Ryan
Not sure the brand PC, but I bought it a package deal from Micro Mark, it was sold as the DELUXE HO GAUGE TRACK LAYING SET
Evening Gang: Not much new today. We went and looked at a house for the daughter and family. It is a 2140sqft house on 5.8 acres. The lot has a stream on the east and back that is real nice. the house is in Weatherford but is unrestricted with an agriculture tax exemption. They could have cattle, horses or any live stock the want. Unfortunatly the house is not at all liked by Lara, my daughter. It's a fairly new house built in 2000 but it has cheap doors and hardware and a bad paint job in places. The asking is $217,000 which isn't too bad if the house was decent.
On a sad note from Milwaukee. The old Coast Guard station was demolished yesterday. They had been trying to save it for some time but just couldn't get the funding together. It was a real classic built 92 years ago.
Well I'm going to head out.
Good Night All
Good evening....it was actually shirt sleeve weather this afternoon. We had a dusting of snow last night that covered the ground, by 9am it was all gone, and the temp hit 54F by 3pm.
Finally got to LHS ( Tuckers ) today and lunch at the Steaming Tender. They now have an all you can eat Italian Buffet on Wednesdays, $9.95 plus a few other nice changes. The haul at the LHS included: A Maine Central RS2 (P1k), NYC 46' usra Gondola, Ford F-850 Stakebed, '54 Ford F350 NYC RR MoW Pickup, 2-ME C-83 #6 RH Frogs, and Brian Solomon's latest book North American Railroad Bridges , this book is really nice, I highly recommend it guys, and Classic Trains Steam Glory 2 ( great article and pics and stats on Berkshires !!!! )
PC: Very happy to hear that your family is all home together and doing well!!!
HOOPLE: Looks like the BB will be running on your layout soon, I hope the radii is at least 22".
SUE: Great job on the riverbed, very impressive work!!I really like it!
JIM: How is the bank search coming along? Credit Union may be another good option, mine has been great for 28 years, they are top notch for customer service.
MIKE: You guys have been really getting hammered in the midwest, the local TV news shows the action there quite often. Now we have cold air banked up to the north and real warm weather coming up from the south and your are right on the battle line between the two temp extremes....that is real bad news Mike.
SCOTT: Good to hear from you Scott!!! Glad to hear that you are doing well, and thanks for the photos...have you made Engineer yet?
BOBK: What happened on the commuter line in Canton yesterday??? One single flat car, loaded with lumber comes off the siding and rolls down the mainline and crashes head on into the commuter train with hundreds injured ??!!! Someones butt is going to be in the fire for not setting the brake on the flatcar, and an open switch to the mainline ???? Wow !!!
I have the "swallows" tonight, that usually means a throat infection/cold is attacking, so I am off now to get a ginger brandy otr. See you guys tomorrow,
Hamilton Ohio PRR Depot 7th St., Early 1900s
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Well it's an end to a weary, stressed out day. I don't get stressed out very easily, but it's crunch time and the owner has beat up just about everyone on the project. I guess it finally was my turn. They sold their other house and now have to move into this one I've been working on since Jan. I feel like telling them to stay with relatives and let us finish and do the final touches right, not rushed. Oh, well not much I can do.
Philip: I can tell things must be way better now... your talking about trains again.
Dick: That loaded CSX centerbeam out of Stoughton made a lot of matchsticks for sure. Can you imagine if the commuter took to the siding instead! This happened only a 1/2 mile from my uncle's house. Here's a link to info http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/26/freight_car_rams_commuter_train_injuring_150/ Nice to hear from you. How's the skiing been? We did have another great show, and I still retain my nickname "Crash".
Paul: I guess you can get a lot of house for your $$$ down there. Something like that here around Boston would be $700K and up. That price may get you a 2 BR condo in these parts.
I really need to head off to bed... Rarely ever get wiped out like this.
Have a good evening,
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
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Good Morning Everyone!
I'm staying home for the morning again due to a bad cough I've had the past week. I probably won't be able to attend most of the train show this weekend either
We'll see how everything plays out tomorrow.
PC- Glad he's back home, I always liked my own bed better than those in a hospital or hotel.
Alex
Morning All, I'll have the usual
Glad to hear PC's son is back from the Hospital. I hope he has a quick recovery.
Guilford Guy- That Cough/cold seems to be going around- I have it too.
here's a project I'm working on:
Enjoy!
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Good morning, Chloe. I will have coffee for starters, please.
I had a great birthday yesterday. We started partying last Friday. Larry got me a Guitar Hero III for the Wii. I have not laughed so hard in a long time. It will be great fun when you have company over.
Both offices had little mini parties, and now I don't work until the 8th. Maybe I will have some layout time. By the way, I thought that I finished my cowboys and their horses, but found one horse in the clutter on the layout.
I will check in later.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning.
Happy belated (1 day) birthday, Sue. I like the tunnel scene.
Guilford ...........feel better soon!
Ozark .... I like the grain elevator.
RT .... Good luck on today's trip to Ashville.
Happy Model Railroading
I had a very humbling experience last night.
Good Morning!
So just before I got off work yesterday, I got a call from a couple of ladies from our church. They wanted to come over and visit, see how we're doing, and so on. I told them when I'd be home and I'd see them then, no biggie. Well, about 15 minutes after I get home, the doorbell rings. I find them standing on the porch with bags and bags of groceries! As soon as I open the door they ask where the kitchen is, so I point the way. Five minutes later they're standing in my kitchen with me, the countertops covered with groceries, and they're telling me that if I'll name the time, they'll be over every day for the next two weeks to cook us dinner! They don't want us doing any of it! Now we only started going to this church about 9 months ago, so we don't know a lot of people real well, so right then, you could've knocked me over with a feather. My mother happened to be there helping out my wife and was blown away as well. I just couldn't help but think of Romans 12:10 as I was standing there. It was very humbling to have these beautiful people give, not only of themselves, but also out of their own supplies and of their own time & money.
So we had chili last night for dinner. It was already made when they brought it over, and they wanted to serve us, but they have families of their own, so I told them I could more then handle that and I sent them home to their families. They'll be back tonight around 6pm. I don't know whats for dinner, but you know what? I really don't care. I'm really looking forward to just getting to know these folks better. These fine ladies are just the type of people the Bible talks about, so I can't wait to get to know them!
Oh, and check this! My wife worked for many years and, like everyone else, paid into Social Security. Five years ago she could not work any more due to her physical disabilities, and she's been trying to get her disability money that she paid in to SS for the last 3 years. She's been flat denied every step of the way, even though she's clearly disabled and has even gone so far as to have DNA testing to prove her condition and it's severity (You can't "fake" a DNA test ya know!). So we ended up taking SS to court to get her benefits, which include a decent monthly check, but more importantly, allows her to get medicare for her doctors bills. Well, the court date was the middle of this last January. We just got word yesterday......SHE WON! She took Uncle Sam to court and won! Not only that, but it looks like they're going to start her monthly checks within the next couple of months. To top that off, the judge stipulated that since she's been disabled for 5 years, even though she's only claiming three years, he's going to split the difference and he's ordered SS to pay her all of the benefits she would've had (retro) for the last 4 years! He said that if he was allowed to give her all 5 years he would've, but I guess he couldn't. Still!!!!! How awesome is that!?!
Also, (whew!) my son is starting to get around pretty well. He's walking with a walker in his casts, and he's even doing stairs (with a spotter of course). He says the pain is much better and he's not even watching the clock any more for the pain meds. He just takes them here and there.
To wrap it all up, I really just want to say one thing to all of you this morning. Take the time today to love those around you, but most of all, take the time to show some of that love to God.
And Sue..... Girl!
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff...From the looks of those containers your road must be shipping covered hoppers of Woodland scenics product?