Good Morning All,
Just a regular to go please Zoe. Running in circles today waiting for our new trailer to show up and catching up on our shop backlog. We can't have the B&O, but we have a surplus Maine Central steel caboose in our yard we're gutting (it was set on fire and burned out most of the interior). It might look odd hooked to a diner and lounge car but would help with all this moving we need to do here at Elliots.
PC - we're so glad your sons operation was a success. Our continued prayers for his speedy recovery. You'll know hee's nearly ready to go home when he starts getting grouchy.
Gotta run, C.U.L., J.R.
Hey RT, you're right on the money about the MDA and Jerry's Kids! My son has been one of Jerry's poster kids now for a few years. They do wonderful work, and they are making progress!
Support Jerry's Kids, please, everyone!
OK, I'm outta here....really!
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Wow, 3 pages overnight?!?
PHILLIP: Congrats on the surgery! That is truly wonderful news. The CFO asks every morning if there's any news from " Your train geek friend's son".I shoot back with something about her old biddy quilting hens'forum.
TOM: It's brats with a cold Lienenkugle's honey weiss, thank you.Brewed in Chippewa Falls, 1 hour south of me.When a tourist asks the wife for an import beer, that's what they get.Most actually think it's an import! 'Course, she also asks that if it's tourist season why can't we shoot'm?
JEFF: Whatever decoder comes with the "on board" locos is what I've got.Progammed on the main as I don't have a dedicated program track yet.Did not change any cvs, don't know how.(except for the engine #) I'll try to reset to factory default and see if that does anything.Had a problem with another loco taking off on its own when I replaced it on the track after cleaning a while back, turned out the throttle setting was set to max. I'm hoping this is as easy a fix. Be Back Later,
Terry
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Morning all!
Rainy and cold, but who cares? My son is in an oxygen tent and doing well. He even called and asked that I grab a couple of DVD's for him to watch today. Thats a good sign! And you guys are right, it does take a while to get all of that out of the system.
Oh well, gotta run! Gotta head back to the hospital.
Good to see you back in here Bob K.!
Later!
Man, What happened to the old diner.
Oh Well. I'll have the usual.
here's a photo of my old layout:
enjoy!
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New place eh?
Well at least my old chair survived yet again. Unfortunately at this rate the old thing won't survive too many more moves I just wish for once... that Bergie would give us a "heads up" before shutting the place down so we could have a real honest to goodness all outright
FOOD FIGHT!!!!
Imagine what all that Mexican fair would look like?
Phil: Our thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.
grayfox1119 wrote: DER JOHN: A little stormy on the coast tonight is it ??? That was one intense LOW, the pressure hit a low of 29.38" here, so I can just imagine how bad it was up your way. Good thing that Fergie is in port.
DER JOHN: A little stormy on the coast tonight is it ??? That was one intense LOW, the pressure hit a low of 29.38" here, so I can just imagine how bad it was up your way. Good thing that Fergie is in port.
You got that right!!!
Anyway I have a full desk of paperworrk to do today so Have a Cuppa on me and sit back and enjoy the day!
Fergie
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Well at least jim had some answers.
Hey, Bob K., every so often Bergie comes by and has us clean the place up (by moving it a few tracks down). The twins must've called for a switcher when they saw him coming, 'cause the place got moved in record time tonight! As you can see, we come trickling into the new location after we see the sign on the old track that Bergie left us. Almost as good as a bread crumb trail. " border="0" width="15" height="15" />
I noticed two diners last night. Must part of the clean up with so many having problems with the forum.
For a while now I have been just peering in and checking up on the diner happenings.
Many of you already know about my loss last year of my dear wife April. For those that don't, last March 29, my wife lost her battle with cancer. Quite devastating, to say the least, I had been already quite active here in the forums. Philip, a quite decent and honorable man, saw my pain in posts out in the big board and invited me into the diner for some fellowship. Lately I can say that I am feeling very good. I am so grateful for the support and compassion from all of you. The great people here and my friends at my club have had so much to do with helping me through such a horrible time in my life. I am happy to say, I am getting back into participating more with the hobby. I know it was tough to bury myself in the trains. A hobby is a pastime to fullful idle hours, especially when fairly content. I had been far from that. Many at my club were counting on me to direct and continue with hthe scenery. This aspect of the hobby is an artform, at least to me, much of what I do just happens, it needs to come from the heart. I am an artist in many ways, even my work. I have been getting out more, socialize, dance and all the things I had missed.
Again, I can't thank you all enough.
So now that we've officially moved, I see that we didn't get that I-17 B&O caboose for the dinner. Heck, I'm gon'a have to have dibs on the next facility.....
Philip, I am so glad to hear that great news. To never have to think of that wheelchair is a godsend.
I'll stop by later. Really late now and I may really start to ramble.
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Evening all--
Philip--my continued prayers for your son. And yes, it does take a while to get all that anathesia out of the system. I remember it from knee surgery some years back--I kept having to do that balloon trick for a couple of days after, myself.
I was just thinking about carping about our early Spring weather out here in SunnyCal and how the Sierra could sure use some more winter, and then I read about the midwest getting clobbered in the worst storm that some areas have EVER seen, so I'm never going to complain about the weather again. Ever. Now someone hold me to it, okay?
Zoe--no, you CAN'T use turnips in the vegetable sauce, you have to use parsnips, like I said. Very finely chopped. Oh, and when it's done, give Bergie a slice or two of it, okay? I mean, after all, he IS from Milwaukee, and they love Sauerbraten up there. At least they did the last time I visited. Or maybe it was Bratwurst. Make sure you serve it with DARK beer, though. Maybe he won't switch us off the siding for a while. Besides, this is a NEAT siding--just saw a Yellowstone clatter by with about 430 ore cars behind it. Tres cool--we should stay here, by golly!
Tom
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Howdy every body. Hope everyone's doing okay.
pcarrell, that's great news about your son. However, I'm sincerley sorry he had to go through the surgery and all to get there. Tell him when I was a kid I had a neighbor that went through something very much like what he is braces and all and that he got through it just fine. Today he walks better than I do...
These last two days have been fun... Yesterday while clearing my fence I got stung in the palm of the left hand by a red wasp. I'll learn to wear work gloves one of these days. Today I spent all day on my riding mower mowing my property. Now every bone in my body hurts. The best thing about it all was the Santa Fe MoW crane I won on eBay. I also made an old Coke box for the front of my Gulf gas station, as well as a common sidewalk for my main street buildings instead of having individual sidewalks that I kept having to try to match back up every time I disturbed one of the buildings.
Tracklayer
Evening Gang:
PC: I'm so happy for your son I'm dancing on the tables. Oops I'd better get down I see Cloe going to get Vinnie. Seriously I can imagine how you and the Mrs felt during that very long time in the waiting room. Been there, done that. I'll still keep a prayer going for him untill he gets it all together.
Bergie could have had us moved a page earlyer. He left me holding the bag on the one.
No MRRing today as usual. I had to put out hay this morning and then run water for the heifers in the corral. After that I put the new pressure washer together so I could clean out the concrete that had stuck in the dump trailer. That load of washout from the cement plant was real wet. By the time I got all that done and a trip to the Wally World I was beat. Then we took John and Diane and the baby out to supper. Now it's after 11pm and I'm bushed.
Before I forget WELCOME to the new guys.Tell us some more about yourselves. We're a noisy bunch here besides being blabber mouths.
Good Night All
grayfox1119 wrote: They have been showing all the flooding devastation in the midwest on the local TV news here in New England, really sad to see what people go through.
I was talking to a friend who lives in Missouri, the entire yard of his 12" gauge club is covered in a foot of water... That cannot be good for livesteamers...
Good evening gents, got some work done outside today before the gales hit, 50 mph!! With temps hovering around 34F, that was enough for me, got to do some layout design before heading off the church after supper for Holy Thursday services.
PC: I am so happy to hear that your son did so well with his operation. As for the O2, that is a function of being under anesthesia for so long, the gases are in every organ of his body, he needs to expel the gases. When I had my Prostate surgery, I remember that I was under for quite a while. The next morning the nurse had be blowing into this tube thing that had a bellows and a float. I had to try to get the reading up to some high level. It was an exercise to clear my body of the anesthesia gases. Man, that was not easy, so your little man will have some trouble for a while, but he will be just fine, Jesus is with him.
JIM: The record for Cape Girardeau is 48.5 feet, you are over 43 feet now and rapidly closing in on the all time record for major flood of old muddy. You should see the high water mark on Sunday barring any more rain upstream. They have been showing all the flooding devastation in the midwest on the local TV news here in New England, really sad to see what people go through.
JEFF: Don't have to worry about the Feds inspecting your RR, they got got in the flooding and cancelled the trip!!
Time to hit the sack, see you guys in the morning unless Bergie closes the door again, BTW, how come the Beer Barn has not been "reorganized", there number is quite high, maybe they offer Bergie freebies.
Bon soir mais amis
PC -
I know I don't ahve to tell you as you know it already, but... We're all here for you, the wife and your son whenever you need to chat! We'll make sure the don't leave a minute too soon too!
JP
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I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Phillip, I hope the best for him! With luck his breathing will resume normally soon. Its great that with modern medicine, many difficulties can be corrected.
Jim, the music is "Everything Changes, by Staind"
pcarrell wrote: Well, I was going to give everyone an update earlier today on my son's surgery this morning. I couldn't though because, though I can log on and read the forum from the hospital, I can't post. Anyways, the surgery was a success! He was in surgery from 9:30am til almost 5:00pm. They had some problems (they had trouble waking him up......a symptom of the MD), but he's through it and the prognosis is good. His feet are 90 degrees to his legs for the first time in his life. He'll have about 6 weeks in the casts and then 3 months in braces day and night, then two years of braces just at night. But my son will walk, and that wheelchair that they told him was only a decade away, ......it looks like he may never see it! Thank you God!And thank you all for your prayers!
Well, I was going to give everyone an update earlier today on my son's surgery this morning. I couldn't though because, though I can log on and read the forum from the hospital, I can't post. Anyways, the surgery was a success! He was in surgery from 9:30am til almost 5:00pm. They had some problems (they had trouble waking him up......a symptom of the MD), but he's through it and the prognosis is good. His feet are 90 degrees to his legs for the first time in his life. He'll have about 6 weeks in the casts and then 3 months in braces day and night, then two years of braces just at night. But my son will walk, and that wheelchair that they told him was only a decade away, ......it looks like he may never see it! Thank you God!
And thank you all for your prayers!
PC - That's great news! We'll keep you and the rest of your family in our thoughts and prayers for a quicker recovery!
All,
My son and I were talking this morning before we left and he was reading all of your posts of support for him. He read all of your words of encouragement and your promises of prayerful support. He was visibly moved by it. Now understand, he's 12, so he's way too cool to cry or anything, but he was really moved by your words......words from people all over the world who he'd never met or even conversed with. It really did mean a great deal to him. I'll be showing him around the new diner so he can see all that you've said when he feels up to it. Right now he's in a lot of pain, but the Morphine helps. It makes him real sleepy though. *UPDATE* I just got a call as I was typing this from my wife who's staying the night with him in the hospital and she said his breathing monitor keeps going off. Seems he's not breathing deep enough in his sleep and he's not getting enough oxygen. They may put an oxygen tent on him. Looks like we're not out of the woods yet!
Gotta go!
Hoople wrote:Did Bergie kick us out again?Geeze, that's like twice in two months...
Did Bergie kick us out again?
Geeze, that's like twice in two months...
Hey, Mark, what can I say? We're just very chatty!
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Hi Chloe, I see Zoe's working on that recipe that BridgeTom dropped off, huh? Oh, I'll have a Dr. Pepper and some popcorn, if you have any to fix. Want to watch Alex's movie. Thanks!
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Hey, Alex! That was a great video - but who was the musician/group on the soundtrack? I like that tune, too!
PMeyer wrote:I was in the bathroom at the old Diner when suddenly all the lights went out and I was locked in!Paul
I was in the bathroom at the old Diner when suddenly all the lights went out and I was locked in!
Paul
PMeyer, aren't you glad the windows in the bathroom can be opened from the inside? I don't think it was anything you did, but as I pulled up to the Diner III, I thought I heard Bergie saying something as he walked away, about "If they're gonna serve an all you can eat Mexican buffet, for safety's sake they ought to serve Beano, too!" Guess somebody had one too many burritoes... But maybe I heard Bergie wrong.
PC, that is great news on your son's surgery! and for the surgery team, too! (and the Big Guy who watched over the whole shebang). I'm sure this is a load off your and your wife's minds, right?
Hey, Bob K., every so often Bergie comes by and has us clean the place up (by moving it a few tracks down). The twins must've called for a switcher when they saw him coming, 'cause the place got moved in record time tonight! As you can see, we come trickling into the new location after we see the sign on the old track that Bergie left us. Almost as good as a bread crumb trail.
Chloe, I'm hungry now that the movie showing is over. How about a hot fudge sundae and a cup of coffee, please?
Let's see those new mugs, Chloe! Hey, that should solve the numbering problem so we don't keep having to re-order them.
Thanks, Alex. Movies and picking up the tab - what a deal!
I'll be in the corner booth - hmm, the view of the evening train is pretty nice in the new location. Ah... time to kick back.
Blessings,
LSWrr wrote:***Philip, that is OUTSTANDING news. So happy for your and yours. Sending healing thoughts your son's way. " border="0" width="15" height="15" /> ***Alex, great shots in that video. Some real well used workhorses & equipment. It's amazing what medicine can do!Alex, I reconize the RS units, what are the low hood units?Lee
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***Alex, great shots in that video. Some real well used workhorses & equipment.
It's amazing what medicine can do!
Alex, I reconize the RS units, what are the low hood units?
Lee
Lamoille Valley Rostered 7 locomotives. 5 RS3's and 2 RS11's. In the late 80's 1 of the RS11's and 4 of the RS3's had their noses chopped. The roster at time of death was 4 RS3m's (7802-7805), one original RS3 (7801), 1 Chopnose RS11 (3608), and one original RS11 (3612).
Should be fairly easy to represent in HO, although getting loksound decoders for all of them may be difficult...
Hello again, everyone........
PC .... That's absolutely outstanding news! Prayers do work miracles. Please pass on our well wishes from Elliott's Diner. If you let us know in advance when your son is to be discharged and is to go home ..... We will call out the marching band to celebrate. ...........maybe have fireworks, too.
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***Philip, that is OUTSTANDING news. So happy for your and yours. Sending healing htoughts your son's way.
Got some stuff listed on the bay. Exhausted tonight, so am heading for bed where I am going to eat pizza and watch TV awhile. Have a good night all.
Rob