Good morning everyone, another clear day here today, in fact, it looks like great weather all the way to next Monday before showers arrive again. 55F here now at 10am after a low of 32F overnight, not bad for April 16th. Class 4 fire danger today with highs in 60's and low humidity, winds from the NW at 10mph backing around to the SW by afternoon.
RYAN: I just threw away an old toilet seat, I wish you had told me earlier before your taxes were sent in! LOL
JIM: Nope, that was indeed for RT, after reading about his amount due after early IRA withdrawal, I figured this was a perfect way to pay them back. Of course he could also ask for a Pentagon Credit Card......like the young woman that just bought all sorts of "personal" items with our tax dollars...thousands of dollars worth illegally.
Hmmm, what is all this pink coloring in the Diner, was Fergie in here this morning ?? Man he gets up early !!! Lisa has him out in the yard before dawn I think.
See you guys at lunch... Jeff, paint that loco the new scheme !!
Thanks Lee & Kevin. To have collected the real thing, now that must have been fun. Checked out the Edaville site http://members.cox.net/edaville-rr/index.html and along with some History of the place, there are some wonderful photos under the postcards link. The Inspection card (page #16) is a hoot. Would be interesting to model one of those, but not in N scale. Also among the pics is the Flying Yankee, old autos, horse drawn fire fighting equip, and assorted trains. Fun stuff!
Rob
Good Morning, Zoe - just a go cup for me, please. Thank you!
Umm, Dick - is that a copy of the letter you sent in with your tax return this year? I'd probably go with RT - don't know that I'd really mess(tm) with them Revenooers...
RT, fingerprint them all over the SC office. Tell 'em time's a wasting, and you're ready to get to w**k.
Ryan, now that you mention 'pink', that does bring to mind... let's see, a pink house and pink cows, somewhere in Texas if I recall correctly... Amazing what a fella can do with a nice Lancaster, huh?
Warming up here again today, and supposed to reach 70 F. Didn't get as cold last night (upper 30's), and I'm happy with that!
I'd best go - my 9:00 client will be here shortly. First client to inform that they'll be transferring to another therapist. No offense if there are any in the Diner, but bean-counters! [rant]
Blessings and a warm day,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Eda ville railroad was a tourist RR in Mass. the gentleman that ran it bought some of the narrow gauge stuff from Maine, I believe that the Sandy River RR last engine went there. When it closed some of the narrow gauge stuff went back to Portland Me. Narrow Gauge RR Mueseum. It was located near the Cranbery bogs in Mass
Glad to hear your wife is doing better PC.
Kevin
Morning folks!
I can support Jeff's claim on the 42 F feeling cold in Louisiana. With the high humidity typically at 100% year round, and when the cold temps arrive you feel it go straight to the bone! For some reason 30 F in Louisiana feels much colder than 30 F in the northern climates, high humidity makes a difference.
Hey Dick, I love your letter to the IRS. I would even throw in a dozen toilet seats to keep my balance in "High Cotton" for a few years!
So what's for lunch today?
Did you all notice that I posted my TOPS notification in "Hot Pink" yesterday? That was in honor of one of our old timers who used to frequent the Diner, Fergie mentioned him a few days ago!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
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
Good morning all,
Rob, it was (is) a tourist railroad opened in 1947 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edaville_Railroad
There are several websites about it if you Google the name of the railroad.
Looks like the weather is going to be decent all of a sudden! We may just remain in the 60's all week. I'm not sure what happened but the grass is looking really good and needs cut badly, so I might take some time off to take care of that today.
I haven't seen ED around, did we run out of oranges????
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
see you all tonight
Gav
tops on me keep it running
Guess it would help if I included the photo, eh?
Found this old photo of a long deceased Aunt of mine. Have no idea where or even when it was taken. On the tender is says: "EDAVILLE RAILROAD". Anyone have any idea? Sure is a pretty little steamer, I think.
Good Night All. Rob
Evening,
Jerry, yes they are the china group wehonest. $2 for 100 people is a great deal. I wouldn't want to try painting N-Scale people, LOL. I hear from a friend their street lights are very nice as well. If they sold track signals I'd be all over it.
PC great news glad to hear it. I'm heading to sc in morning to get finger printed and to check a couple of places out. will talk to you all thursday night most likely
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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grayfox1119 wrote: RT: Here is the info you need to pay your Fed taxes...I did some research for you, no charge of course, and I authored a letter that you can send them.Dear Internal Revenue Service: Enclosed you will find my 2008 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat. I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00. Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws). One screw is enclosed for your convenience. It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. Sincerely, RTA Satisfied Taxpayer How is this letter RT, does it solve your problem?
RT: Here is the info you need to pay your Fed taxes...I did some research for you, no charge of course, and I authored a letter that you can send them.
Dear Internal Revenue Service: Enclosed you will find my 2008 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat. I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00. Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws). One screw is enclosed for your convenience. It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. Sincerely, RTA Satisfied Taxpayer
How is this letter RT, does it solve your problem?
Nothin personal you see but I believe I'll stick to the letter I drew up and the check I'm sending I really don't look good in stripes but thank-you anyway
Evenin' Chloe - Since Ryan's the 'lucky dog' tonight, I'll just have the steak part of that surf'n'turf that I hear Jeff wolfed down. You can toss the surf part to Jeff. Just don't get too close, so you don't lose a hand...
last mountain & eastern hogger wrote:Cape Jim, hope that new Grandson (Grandfireman) is doing great. Sounds like he is indeed a keeper. Now you must continue to work on getting a step Gramma for him. Happy hunting.....
Cape Jim, hope that new Grandson (Grandfireman) is doing great. Sounds like he is indeed a keeper. Now you must continue to work on getting a step Gramma for him. Happy hunting.....
Sounds like a nice idea, Johnboy. Now to go find her...
Gav, you and Johnboy better quit bragging on your weather, or everyone else will want to move your way for all that outdoor fun! Should I mention that we hit 70 F (21 C) this afternoon and I got out my short sleeve shirt for this evening? Nah, you'd just feel sorry for us and want to send another train of snow and ice!
Rob, I sure hope your wife doesn't know how to get to the Diner. Hope you have fun sneaking all that MRR stuff into the house while she's gone!
PC, good to hear the news about your wife and your son. Hope things continue healing up like that!
Jeff, you could probably do that new KCS paint scheme - you just need some masking tape and paper to get the areas painted.
Well, I got told today by our clinical director that I'm pretty much off of seeing clients for therapy (and back on handling crisis and walk-in clinic, with all the very unscheduled-ness of that) until I get my exam and licensure out of the way so they can get me on boards for the various insurance companies. Hard part is, I have to transfer my clients over to someone else now. Ah, pooh...! Need to remind myself that this is temporary until I can get things taken care of. Just don't want clients thinking they've been dumped/passed along.
Hi Duke, OzJim! Good to see both of you again. OzJim, have fun with all that room.
Better get to my steak so I can get back home to bed at a decent hour. I'll see you all in the morning.
Blessings and prayers,
another tea please
strange night tonight last night bedlam tonight peace their up to something
Howdy!
Hello to OZJim in particular.
Is Fergie in? I don't think he is. Good. Shhhhhhh. I'm sneaking in my new P2K Heritage 2-10-2. Don't tell Fergie. (The other locomotive is Bachmann 4-8-2.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Gang: I see that an emergency exorcisum for OZ is needed. It seems that he has secumbed to the dark side. Really good to see you back OZjim.
Dick I thought that engineering challanges were a great part of the hobby.
Nothing new since this afternoon. Mary Ann just climed into bed so I think that I'll join her. It's early but I didn't sleep through last night so I'm tired. I have to go back out to Clark Gardens tomorrow and pick up the track. There wasn't room on the trailer for it today. Actually there was space but I didn't want to take the chance of the track panels shifting and damaging one of my locomotives.
Good Night All
Gday all, posting from work, as I still cant from home :S
I got my N scale GP38-2 last sunday, its BN Proto model. I also picked up 4x atlas trainman 2 bay hoppers for $12 each.
I'm fairly certain where I want to model :) I would like to model the Tehachapi loop and then some industries on the other walls. If I was in HO scale I couldnt do this! the layout will be around the walls (4) so I will have plenty of room, now I just have to come up with a plan...
Ozjim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Dick
Duke asked me if I can run a line from this new room to the existing train room. It "is" possible, but it will be one hellava engineering feat.
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Cederstrand wrote: ***Dick, if only I had your troubles...how much space did you say you had for that layout? Will be interesting to hear & see what you figure out with that space. Rob
***Dick, if only I had your troubles...how much space did you say you had for that layout? Will be interesting to hear & see what you figure out with that space.
Rob, the room measures 15 feet wide by 19 feet long. The fun begins. Duke asked me if I can run a line from this new room to the existing train room. It "is" possible, but it will be one hellava engineering feat.
Hi Gang: I just got in from unloading the equipment at the track. Even with the new transfere table it took 1 hour 45 minutes. Tomorrow I may get over there to help Terry out a bit. There is a switch out at West Fork that needs attention badly.
Jerry the hoppers looked real good. Nice job.
Well I am going to head out. I'll stop in later.
***Jerry, excellent job on the weathering.
Beautiful day here. After a hay run, wife & I spent some time walking the farm. Found plenty of fence repairs that I'll need to tackle this summer.
(psst, I'm excusing myself from an Inlaw trip this week and plan a on a Secret trip to the LHS. SHHHHHH!)
Hope everyone is having a great day.
EVENING GANG
yes its 22:00 over here again so here i am
tea please girls its a sultry 2c over here at mo and raining so none of you complain.
oh well orf on me rounds check in later
last mountain and eastern hogger wrote:JEFF, You are truly getting to be a "wimp". 42f and you want to stay inside. Up here that is fishing weather, if only the season was open, we'd be out there.
JEFF, You are truly getting to be a "wimp". 42f and you want to stay inside. Up here that is fishing weather, if only the season was open, we'd be out there.
Good afternoon all,
Chloe, serve me up a plate of that surf and turf, I hardly got a chance to look at it Jeff inhailed it so fast.
Haven't been in much lately, as I have been very busy at work. 14 days out of 18, boy I have to do something about that. It doesn't seem like retirement to me.
Going to lay off the computer a little as between outside work now and some modelling I won't have much time for this. other than to squeeze in an odd note from work.
Will check back in from time to time, always interested in what you guys and gals are up to.
Continued best wishes and prayers for all in need. It sure sounds like our ailing friends are healing up fine and that is wonderful.
Johnboy out for now..................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
I'll have some steak and lobster on Ryan's tab.
I finally got the mystery Alco ID'd. It's an RSC-3. The trucks and body details match to a T. As for who makes it, that's still a mystery. It looks like a Kato drive but I don't they Kato made any RSC-3's.
Cederstrand wrote: ***Ryan, those are nice photos. Looks cold. Wonder how comfortable the inside of that cab is? A Coffee Maker & Snack Dispenser would be nice. Rob
***Ryan, those are nice photos. Looks cold. Wonder how comfortable the inside of that cab is? A Coffee Maker & Snack Dispenser would be nice.
Rob it was about 22 F at 4:30 PM MST when we passed the unit coal consist, and the wind was blowing too! I bet they got a nice heater in that cab, and I agree on the Hot Coffee supply!
grayfox1119 wrote: RYAN: Great photo of the coal train in the snows of CO. The family must have really enjoyed the trip.
RYAN: Great photo of the coal train in the snows of CO. The family must have really enjoyed the trip.
Dick glad you liked em! We really had a great time in the snow. We whet snowmobiling in the morning and took a sleigh ride in the afternoon. We are already making plans to go back, just don't know when!
Fergmiester wrote: You were gone... ? But then again the lighting in this place isn't always up to snuff. (I think it's Bill trying to create an "atmosphere" of ambiance so he can put the moves on Flo. A man of very few words) I have not been the best patron here as of late. But believe it or not you would be missed as I have seen quite a large number come and go over the past few years. And it does have an impact when a valued customer departs. Speaking of which I was talking with Teffy this weekend (member from 2nd Diner group) and he has given me his e-mail address and asked me to pass it on to whomever wants it so please e-mail me if you want it.Anyway I'm having new windows installed this morning and the contractor is now here so I'd better be off
You were gone... ? But then again the lighting in this place isn't always up to snuff. (I think it's Bill trying to create an "atmosphere" of ambiance so he can put the moves on Flo. A man of very few words) I have not been the best patron here as of late. But believe it or not you would be missed as I have seen quite a large number come and go over the past few years. And it does have an impact when a valued customer departs.
Speaking of which I was talking with Teffy this weekend (member from 2nd Diner group) and he has given me his e-mail address and asked me to pass it on to whomever wants it so please e-mail me if you want it.
Anyway I'm having new windows installed this morning and the contractor is now here so I'd better be off
Fergie I know what ya mean! Got to get my spectacles on to see, and the darkness makes it hard too! A good number of folks have come and gone over the 3+ years I have raised my glass in this here Diner, I wonder what ever happened to TurboOne from San Diego? He was a straight up kinda guy.
PC thanks for the update on the family, sounds like everyone is progressing well!
Jerry I like those hoppers, you did a nice job on em!
You all have a great one!
Now how ya like that! Done got TOPS again! Chloe, here's the CC!
Good afternoon everyone.....clear skies today and the temp is now up to 54F after a low of 24F at dawn. Moderate fire danger today according to fire tower report on scanner. It looks like the entire week is going to be clear, that will bring the leaves out of bud in a hurry.
Our bowling team took all 8 points last night, so we landed in 3rd place for $$, LHS here we come!
Did you guys see where Intermountain has come out with FP9's ???? !!!!!! And the CN/CP numbering is the same for a couple of the Conway Scenic RR of NH that I am modeling, so I will snap one or two of those up in a hurry.
As soon as I draw a layout of the lower level of the house, I will post it here for some ideas from all of you. Some of the brightest and creative minds are in this Diner. Duke has posed an interesting suggestion....run a line from the new room to the existing train room. But the new room is in the SE corner of the lower level and the train room is in the far NW corner under the "L" addition. This would be one hellava engineering feat, so much so that it would make MRR magazine for sure if I could pull it off. Suspended ceiling has only 4" of height below the joists. Or, do I run a wall line about 4' off the wall going through walls ( tunnels ) and then somehow into the "L" ( through an existing door? ) Then, somehow getting across the utility room, and boring a hole through the 10" wall to get into the train room. OR, run the line OUTSIDE the house along the siding at the back of the house at sill level. This would eleiminate all the obstruction inside, but this would entail handling rather sharp curves to ( 90 degrees ) in three locations, and somehow getting approvals from wife. Maybe using the covered tracks for planters on top? What do you think Fergie ? Of course I could always go underground also, but now I would have to make it hermetically sealed, but curves would be eliminated and the run would be the shortest.
JEFF: Listen...I "know" you can paint one of your locos with that new paint scheme, we have all seen your work, go for it Jeff !!! Those locos are real sharp in those colors. You can do it !
FERGIE: How does that old song go now....."Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow. With silver bells and blue bells and millions of #$#%$ weeds" LOL I hear that 30" radius is being planned for the MESS???
Later guys,