Cederstrand wrote: Wonder why the (N) Athearn Challengers cost more than their Bigboys?
Wonder why the (N) Athearn Challengers cost more than their Bigboys?
Larger perceived audience?
evening P.C
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Quick stop this evening, Chloe. How about a hot mocha, please? Thanks!
Heartland Division CB&Q wrote:JIM GP (not CG anymore but GP) ... train show in Southern IL may be of interest. Search on 'Southern Illinois train Club". It's in carterville, IL from 11 am to 4 pm on Sunday. Carterville is west of Marion a short distance and is the town that has the Pizza Resyaurant that also is a Lionel train dealer. Chuck of Chuck's Depot in Marion said he will have his store open for a couple of hours in the afternoon, too. Normally, he's closed Sundays. There will be some guys from our area going together to the show and arriving at about 2:00 (I think). It's a chance to meet if you can do it. Bring other model railroad guys too if you like.
JIM GP (not CG anymore but GP) ... train show in Southern IL may be of interest. Search on 'Southern Illinois train Club". It's in carterville, IL from 11 am to 4 pm on Sunday. Carterville is west of Marion a short distance and is the town that has the Pizza Resyaurant that also is a Lionel train dealer. Chuck of Chuck's Depot in Marion said he will have his store open for a couple of hours in the afternoon, too. Normally, he's closed Sundays. There will be some guys from our area going together to the show and arriving at about 2:00 (I think). It's a chance to meet if you can do it. Bring other model railroad guys too if you like.
Thanks, Garry - I'll have to figure what my available will be, and allowing extra gas, MRR purchases, etc. Just for now, not sure it'll go for this time, but I'll bookmark the S.Ill. Train Club's site for future reference.
JP, nice pics, even with the rain!
Rob, congrats on finding a reasonable deal on the bales. Good that it's the round ones (they are bigger, right?), and hope there are some more waiting for you in the morning, too.
Tommy, if you sell on that auction site, I think I've bought a few things from you (and am quite happy with my purchases, by the way). to the Diner!
RT, you could offer to come down to that VA office and provide your fingers to take the fingerprints from... Hope they get off their duff soon and you get word on the new job.
We're supposed to have a chance of nasty thunderstorms (and/or other stuff) tomorrow afternoon/evening, per our local weathercasters. So, Garry, Inch, Jerry, and points east up the Ohio valley, watch out for tomorrow and Friday.
Paul, they were showing some of the hail damage in Texas on tonight's news, and saying we might get some baseball size stuff by the afternoon. Looked like there was once cell a bit north of Dallas, and maybe others coming. We're hoping for clouds most of tomorrow, since that reduces the chance of building up energy for the front.
Well, I'd best get going for now. See everyone tomorrow.
Blessings and safe weather,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
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Good morning all,
Today: A chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. East wind between 6 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight: Occasional showers and thunderstorms. Low around 52. Breezy, with a east wind between 18 and 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
So much for spring like weather, weather guesser says; Snow Saturday night through Monday morning.
Lee
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Well that's another month punched in! Why is it that a month alongside is like three at sea? Didn't have times for forums or anything else but work!
Anyway time for getting the garden ready the garage cleaned and maybe some MR'ing done!
Later All
Fergie
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Good Morning All,
A regular to go please Zoe. Mid 40's and drizzly this morning with more of the same tomorrow. The high to be in the mid 60's. Looks like a rainy weekend at Pocono Raceway this weekend as well and the usual temps 10 - 15 deg below what we'll have here or 40 - 50F.
Spent time tidying up the bench area and layout last night. If i keep at it I might be able to find the tracks beneath the debris. Not much else to report at this point except the shop list is getting whittled down item by item and that's a good thing, Catch y'all laters. J.R.
Morning,
I'll have the usual.
Hopefully I'll get to working on the railroad today. this week sure has been busy.
I'll (hopefully) drop by later
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Morning,all.
WINTER STORM WARNING:
Expect rain ,freezing rain and snow. High winds, blowing and drifting snow. Snow accumulation 4-6" tonight,6-8" thru Saturday.
SHEEEESH! Duluth/Superior are under a blizzard warning according to the local radio! I'm guessing ,based on the radar ,it's the junk you guys down south are dealing with.
Kids are coming up from MPLS today.I'm going to try to do a tutorial on chain link fences and how I make trees. The son is a pretty good pic taker and has a way better camera than what I have available.
Terry
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Good morning! Good to see all those smiling faces!
JimRCGMO wrote: Quick stop this evening, Chloe. How about a hot mocha, please? Thanks! Heartland Division CB&Q wrote:JIM GP (not CG anymore but GP) ... train show in Southern IL may be of interest. Search on 'Southern Illinois train Club". It's in carterville, IL from 11 am to 4 pm on Sunday. Carterville is west of Marion a short distance and is the town that has the Pizza Resyaurant that also is a Lionel train dealer. Chuck of Chuck's Depot in Marion said he will have his store open for a couple of hours in the afternoon, too. Normally, he's closed Sundays. There will be some guys from our area going together to the show and arriving at about 2:00 (I think). It's a chance to meet if you can do it. Bring other model railroad guys too if you like.Thanks, Garry - I'll have to figure what my available will be, and allowing extra gas, MRR purchases, etc. Just for now, not sure it'll go for this time, but I'll bookmark the S.Ill. Train Club's site for future reference.
Jim .... I was suggesting getting some mrr's together. We have 3 or 4 and we will sahre the gas money. It's more for fun. Not planning to buy much this time. (famous last words).
Jeff ... nice photo with F7 there.
JR .... I hope you "find the track' without too much effort!
Tommy Conrail ......... WELCOME! Visit often and tell us about your Conrail stuff.
Fergie ..... You had a busy month, eh.... Great! I was able to sneak a 2-10-2 to the layout while you were tied up. Now, remember mrr'ing takes priority to gardens and clean garages!
JP .... nice photos.
Terry .... I hope the kids get there safely from Mpls.
Looks like later today our weather will be stormy. It's okay now.
Happy model railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Morning all!
Got an early start this morning. Woke up at 5am and couldn't go back to sleep. Figured I might as well make myself useful, so I cleaned house and did the dishes. My wife should be happy with that! It's going to be a long day though now. I have class tonight after work, so I won't get home until about 10:30pm. It's alright though, because I can head straight to bed when I get there.
For those of you that are unaware, when my son had his recent surgery we had a little wool pulled over our eyes. Let me explain.....you see, a forum member Emailed me and asked if he could have my address so he could send a get well card. I gave him my work address and a few days after we got home from the hospital (Can't wait to NOT go back there!) I got a box in the mail. I took it home to my son and he was overjoyed at the fact that he now had his own train (even though I'd already given him his pick of any of mine years ago). Inside the box was a beautiful 4-8-4 Northern locomotive and a few cars. A day or two later, another box arrived! Seems that my address was making the rounds! A bunch of cars were inside, just waiting to go for a spin around the layout. And yesterday, another box! More cars (a ton of them!), all carefully wrapped up and just awaiting my sons glistening eyes! I don't know what to say........he's thrilled and I'm humbled by the generosity displayed. Thanks you guys.....you know who you are. And so, without further delay, I present, The Surgery Train! (And yes, we know it has three cabooses and we like it that way!)
(Click to enlarge)
Thanks guys! You're the best!
Terry, you take it easy and just stay out of that white stuff. Hope the kids make it home OK.
Good (rainy) Morning, Zoe! I'll have a hot breakfast, please - scrambled eggs, toast, couple of those near-bacon strips, cup of coffee, glass of milk and another of Ed's OJ. Thanks!
Thunder rumbling in my area this morning; some fairly loud (but farther away) and long-rumbling thunder a couple of times this morning before I got up. Hope no one was under those when they hit, from the sounds of 'em... Just in case, I backed up the hard drive to my external drive last night, and brought it to work with me. They are predicting possible nasty stuff our way, so not taking chances on losing everyone's emails or addresses!
LSWrr wrote:So much for spring like weather, weather guesser says; Snow Saturday night through Monday morning.
Aw, Lee - you guys get all the fun weather!
Heartland Division CB&Q wrote: Jim .... I was suggesting getting some mrr's together. We have 3 or 4 and we will sahre the gas money. It's more for fun. Not planning to buy much this time. (famous last words).
Garry, if they don't have a door charge, that might be a possibility. I'm awaiting my federal tax refund (around the 18th - and planning on opening up my credit union account with that) for now.
PC, your son's gonna need another helper engine for that train if he gets any more cars. Good to hear of the blessings (continuing). Better be careful, or he'll have so much rolling stock that he may stage a takeover of your RR...
I'll get back to my breakfast now. Safe day prayers for everyone today.
Blessings,
JimRCGMO wrote: PC, your son's gonna need another helper engine for that train if he gets any more cars. Good to hear of the blessings (continuing). Better be careful, or he'll have so much rolling stock that he may stage a takeover of your RR...
I know! I'm going to have to add a track to the staging yard now! A long one!
JimRCGMO wrote:Thunder rumbling in my area this morning; some fairly loud (but farther away) and long-rumbling thunder a couple of times this morning before I got up. Hope no one was under those when they hit, from the sounds of 'em... Just in case, I backed up the hard drive to my external drive last night, and brought it to work with me. They are predicting possible nasty stuff our way, so not taking chances on losing everyone's emails or addresses!
Jim: Looks like we both have nasty weather today. When I went to check the weather station message center this morning I found this: SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA528 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY...A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILLADVANCE SLOWLY NORTHEAST TODAY. THIS WILL MAINTAIN A STEADY STREAMOF WARM AND MOIST GULF AIR INTO THE REGION YIELDING A VERYUNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE UPPER AIRSUPPORT AND WIND PROFILES...WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERETHUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATEDTORNADOES.AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO BE ALERT TO THIS SEVERE WEATHERPOTENTIAL AND HAVE PLANS FOR SAFETY SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHERTHREATEN.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA528 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY...A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILLADVANCE SLOWLY NORTHEAST TODAY. THIS WILL MAINTAIN A STEADY STREAMOF WARM AND MOIST GULF AIR INTO THE REGION YIELDING A VERYUNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE UPPER AIRSUPPORT AND WIND PROFILES...WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERETHUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATEDTORNADOES.AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO BE ALERT TO THIS SEVERE WEATHERPOTENTIAL AND HAVE PLANS FOR SAFETY SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHERTHREATEN.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Jim: Looks like we both have nasty weather today. When I went to check the weather station message center this morning I found this: SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA528 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY...A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILLADVANCE SLOWLY NORTHEAST TODAY. THIS WILL MAINTAIN A STEADY STREAMOF WARM AND MOIST GULF AIR INTO THE REGION YIELDING A VERYUNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE UPPER AIRSUPPORT AND WIND PROFILES...WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERETHUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATEDTORNADOES.AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO BE ALERT TO THIS SEVERE WEATHERPOTENTIAL AND HAVE PLANS FOR SAFETY SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHERTHREATEN.
Jeff, looks like anywhere between just north of me and south to your way, is just dicey weather today. Maybe the rumbling thunder I heard was down your way?
PC, you might want to check with your son on how many staging tracks you'll need. And that's not even one of Paul's long ore car drags, either - watch out if your son gets a look at those...
Got my state tax forms (and money order) ready to mail for today. Then just to wait for the federal stuff to get in. I'm going to be tracking my medical costs closer this year, since I may do even better if I itemize next year on taxes. Strrrrretch that budget!
Back to the w**k for me.
in a UNDECORATED mug, please & thank you.
After a few hours sleep this morning (what is with some of us here and insomnia?), got up and made the trip for more round bales. Turns out he has over 100 bales, so we can pick them up as we need them. Whew!
Running on fumes here. Hope everyone is doing well. Rob
JimRCGMO wrote:Jeff, looks like anywhere between just north of me and south to your way, is just dicey weather today. Maybe the rumbling thunder I heard was down your way?
Cederstrand wrote: After a few hours sleep this morning (what is with some of us here and insomnia?),.....
After a few hours sleep this morning (what is with some of us here and insomnia?),.....
I don't know, but I for one am sick of it! I'd like to get a WHOLE nights sleep sometime soon! I think I'm going to try out something I saw in the store the other day. I was in Wally World (WalMart) a while back and saw this product called "Hyland's Calms Forte". My wife had been having trouble sleeping and needed some help. Since she's on quite a lot of medication, and she has health concerns, we needed to be careful what we used, and this stuff was all natural and claimed to be gentle. The doc said it was fine, so we bought a small bottle. She said it worked real good. Didn't leave her groggy in the morning or anything. I think I'll give it a shot this weekend and see what I think.
......got up and made the trip for more round bales. Turns out he has over 100 bales, so we can pick them up as we need them. Whew!
Now that just has to be an answer to prayer there! I've heard all about the rising prices of hay due to last years weather and to find that is like finding gold. Now you just have to keep it under your hat!
Well what started out to be a good day turned in to a MESS! Got the fire wood into the garage got rid of the old stove from the garage and cleaned up the back.
Got to the LHS and picked up 4 kits 2 HO and 2... N ... Doh! Ya Walthers kits come colour coded and I forgot! Looks like another trip to the LHS tomorrow
Heartland Division wrote:Fergie ..... You had a busy month, eh.... Great! I was able to sneak a 2-10-2 to the layout while you were tied up. Now, remember mrr'ing takes priority to gardens and clean garages!
That would explain the foot prints in the ballast
As to the priority part, Sorry not quite asw I have the winter insulation to shed and that requires good old fashion manual labour, blood, sweat and tears, lots of tears.
Well I better get at it
***Philip, hope that stuff works for you. I sometime make my own herb cocktail (no alchohol involved) which sometimes helps.
***Fergie, since you now have kits for both N & HO, why not build both scales?
NICU (the little pygmy goat) is just starting to put a little weight on that bum leg. We decided not to cast it which is now looking like the right call.
Saw the big red fox twice yesterday. My wife thought it was likely a female with pups in a den somewhere nearby. It is a very bold fox.
Anyone know an online company with an N scale Athearn Bigboy "in stock" that also accepts Paypal? Depending on how this weekend goes, think I might be ready for one next week. Need to see a Dentist, but my bad tooth can wait a bit longer.
Rob
Cederstrand wrote: ***Philip, hope that stuff works for you. I sometime make my own herb cocktail (no alchohol involved) which sometimes helps.
Lately it sounds like either you need to take more of it, or maybe change it up, because it's not working!
This place might be able to help you out: http://www.nscalesupply.com/ATH/ATH-Big-Boy.html
Afternoon, everybody! Just a glass of sweet tea for me today.
Thanks everybody for their thoughts on the career subject. I think I'll get my CDL (just in case) and ship off to CSX's in-house training center in Atlanta around August. Things may change between now and then, though.
Man, it was a great day today but it's about to get nasty around my area in a few hours. Luckily, I still have time to get out one of my favorite toys to play with...
It's actually my dad's car, but he never drives it (shame) and he trusts me with it.
MY toy will be a 1978 Monte Carlo with a Chevy 383 Stroker small block (giggle). It'll basicly be a street-legal drag car when I'm done. I already have the engine, but I'm just waiting for the ground to dry up so I can get the car out of my uncle's garage without the tow truck getting stuck. Maybe Saturday, who knows.
-Brandon
***Brandon, your Dad's car is a real beauty. From the looks of it, some real TLC has gone into that one. Do share pics of your Monte Carlo when it's finished. Sounds wicked.
***Philip, that is one of the sites I have bookmarked, but looks like they haven't any "in stock". Guess I could send them an e-mail just incase. One of the few online companies I've used is cchobbies, but they only carry HO.
Evening all,
PC that is a very special train your son has there! I'm very impressed with the caliber of the people here in the diner.
Friday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 62. Breezy, with a south wind between 20 and 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Friday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 43. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 16 and 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
There is a chance of hail tomorrow and large hail Saturday. The guy on the TV said chance of "dangerous lightening" anybody ever heard of safe lightning?
Evening all -
Just a quick stop in before I hit the shower. Thansk for the compliments on the photos. It was not raining all that hard actually. It was more of a light rain, if that.
Jerry - Back in 98, Conrail was split between CSX and NS. Anything that CSX has not painted over (which is quite a few) have had their white CR numbers sprayed out in black and restensiled with their new CSX numberss in yellow.
Take care all!
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
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
Well heres the latest news the V.A. done lost my finger prints so I have to go do it again but this time I'm going to go where I'm going to be working in Columbia, SC . See if they can do better lol.
not to much else happening will talk to you all later. PC the train looks great I agree with Jim watch out for a hostile take over of your rail road lol
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Evening Gang: I just got back from Tony's funneral. It was a nice get together. One os his friends was a fireman and played the bag pipes. He used his small pipes so he wouldn't blow us out of the chappel. Then several friends stood up and said a few words. We visited afterwords and then went over to his sisters house. She had a real nice spread out and we did some more visiting and story telling. The only problem was no electricity. That was knocked out last night by the storms. All in all a good time and good stories and memories.
We had a storm hit us about 2:30 am and knocked out the power untill 8:30 this morning. When I went to check things out and get the tractor that I had the load of news papers on I found that 2 trees had had large portions blown out and one complete Elm tree had been blown over on the stock trailer and welder. I got all of the first one cleaned and a good part of the second one cleaned up. I have to do the rest of that one and the one that was completely blown down tomorrow. An inch of rain also fell on us so the pond is almost full.
PC: I guess that jounior is is really happy with that train. Most importantly it's all his. I didn't think that I should send anything since all I have is HO. I'd hate to start a scale war.
Fergie have you seen page 19 of the new Model Railroader? Maybe you'ed better not look.
Rob good to hear that your hay situation has improved. If he will store it for you even better.
Well I'm going to hit the sack.
Good Night All