Good evening all--
Just got word from my son that he and his wife are leaving Washington tomorrow and will be here for New Year's Eve. Also my sister phoned and announced that she and Mom will be here, also. Seems that our Christmas Celebration will finally happen, now that the weather out here on the West Coast has finally settled down. So that finally means a houseful of people for at least PART of the Holidays. Of course, Tommy will just slam his suitcase on the couch and head out to the garage to rewire the train (dang Computer Experts, LOL! ) which means I get to spend the next two months trying to figure out what he DID!
Jeff: Congratulations on the heater. Wish I could find one that would heat the garage up without blowing out every circuit in the neighborhood!
Sue: If you heard a lot of noise over Christmas in Olympia, it was my son. He and his wife went up there to spend the Holidays with his best buddy--it was easier to get to Olympia than down here in Sacramento. The boy is not the QUIETEST human being in the world, LOL!
Remington developed a bad morning/evening cough last week, so I took the guy to the Vet today for some tests. Heart and lungs are fine. Vet asked me if he was 'high-strung', I said "Only when Spooky whacks him." Anyhow, the Vet ran a blood-test (THAT was fun!) to see if perhaps he had residual "Kennel Cough" from either his stay at the Pound or his Foster family. Evidently some cats get it, but it goes away after they adjust to their new home. He could also have an allergy, which should be fun trying to find out exactly what it is. Vet asked me if he coughed around the Christmas tree, I just laughed and said, "He's a NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT, how allergic can they get around TREES?" So we'll see. Right now he's eating Spooky's tuna, which could possibly lead to a Major War. NOBODY touches "She Who Must Be Obeyed's" Chicken of the Sea and lives, LOL! Since he's become comfortable, the two of them just enjoy the Hell out of bugging each other. Reminds me of Lowell and Spooky in their prime, by golly.
Well, that's about it from my end of the world--just paitently waiting for my Z-6 next month. Hey, anyone know anywhere that I can find an HO Mountain Lion? I was working on the MR today and noticed that I have WAY too many deer in the forest. I don't remember 'planting' that many. Do you suppose those little Prieser plastic figures are multiplying when I'm asleep? And don't tell me that Mountain Lions are secretive and you never see them. Not where I'M from, LOL!
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
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!
OK good evening peoples---I'll have the largest burger you have in here plus a large coke please---oh brother talk about w88k. I had two elderly people to look after and well we did all kinds of stuff---took both down to the nearby mall and hung around there,did the grocery bit took them back home and helped them with compooter issues---finished that, went to RONA's to find ABS(?) piping for cylindrical elevator bins,found a bunch-grabbed them,picked up some more insulation stuff then got them into the car. Somehow between getting back to the mall to get my groceries and coming back out to go home a new bunch of nastiness in the form of high winds shows up---up to 70kmh expected with higher gusts(yay)
Now I is home and we are sealed in for the night---we can hear roaring from the evergreens getting blown about---
I'm going to take a closer look at my wash for weathering. I got some of the streakiness out so I can have a more realistic thing going here---mud and guck on the trucks---
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Hi Jeff, looks like you got the heater just in time for another cold snap. Is it one of those that can be placed in any room when needed or is it stationary?
Flip
Got my new heater today. Only put a $370 dent in my Lowe's card but it's tucked neatly under the front of the layout (after I loped the base off of the heater that is). It heats the place up in no time and has a very nice looking fireplace effect too.
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BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hi Lee,
been working in Fort McMurray Alberta. So not much time at home, unfortunately and now getting ready for another move.
So been doing a lot of lurking here and other parts of the forum. This helps me keep my sanity when up there.
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
I'll take the biggest glass of water you've got on the menu.
Whew, just ran/walked two laps of my usual route around the nieghborhood, instead of just one. Had Skillet's CD "Comatose Comes Alive" playing on my mp3 player (a creative Zen V plus). Hey, gotta keep in shape for next football season, lol.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
NO WAY, JOSE. You have to know this stuff by heart to be a train engineer. He$$, have enough problems with traffic laws just driving a car or my w/c van.
LSWrr My DCC system came in the mail today!
My DCC system came in the mail today!
Whoo Hoo !!!!!
Time to download Decoder Pro !!!!!
I always wondered what it ment.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby, I bet that was more than you wanted to know.
The timetable will designate DTC limits. A train may enter DTC block limits only after receiving verbal authority from the train dispatcher. DTC territory will not include territory where Rule 6.13 (Yard Limits) is in effect.
The train dispatcher will issue DTC block authority to a crew member on the head end of the train when possible. An employee operating the controls of a moving train may not copy DTC block authority.
A. Recorded in Writing
The employee who receives or releases DTC block authority must record it in writing and include the following:
Each DTC block record must be kept until the block is released, and the engineer and conductor each must have a copy available.
DTC block authority must not be transferred to a relieving crew, unless authorized to do so by the train dispatcher.
When verbal authority is received from the train dispatcher to leave equipment in a DTC block, the train dispatcher may instruct a crew member to void the DTC block authority.
Employees cannot act upon DTC block authority until the train dispatcher says, '(Train), that is correct." B. Multiple Authorities
Not more than one DTC authority may be issued in the same DTC block except:
I will take a cheese burger with the works!!! Oh, and a coke.
Heres a few shots from what I could get today. Right when I got to the yard/mainline, a train was screaming through. I didn't get to it for any shots. All I got was a train doing some auto-rack switching. Heres the 2 engines doing all of the work. I also got a shot of the new lights they just put up. The old system was very rust and not as many lights. Next was a shot of a sign. No idea what it means, but I am sure some engineers out there know.
Do any of you N scale modelers have the Walthers N scale catalog? I’m looking for the stock number for N-Scale evergreens or Christmas trees to be used on a Christmas tree lot for my layout. Thanks for your help.
Da ***: Nice seeing you in the diner again, what have you been up to?
Lee
That's interesting trains.com beeped out your name......
jeffrey-wimberly pcarrell jeffrey-wimberly My special shoes have finally come in! I'm going to the docs office tomorrow to pick them up. Yeah, I've got them all ready for you! Very funny. Excuse me while I die laughing.
pcarrell jeffrey-wimberly My special shoes have finally come in! I'm going to the docs office tomorrow to pick them up. Yeah, I've got them all ready for you!
jeffrey-wimberly My special shoes have finally come in! I'm going to the docs office tomorrow to pick them up.
My special shoes have finally come in! I'm going to the docs office tomorrow to pick them up.
Yeah, I've got them all ready for you!
Oh, not those kind of "special" shoes?
Jeff- you have to "Weather" them first. lol
Any news about Jerry and Sally or Luc and Gloria??????????????
Phil [Flip]
pcarrelljeffrey-wimberly My special shoes have finally come in! I'm going to the docs office tomorrow to pick them up. Yeah, I've got them all ready for you!
Mornin' everyone!
Flo some dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug would do me well as would a large bowl of Cream of Wheat (and some maple syrup as well).'
Currently 34°F outside here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 39°F later this afternoon. Some cloud cover but a nice calm day for a change. Have some white stuff coming in a day or two.
Sue have fun at w**k.
I will probably spend most of today in the train room. Hopefully things have dried up overnight and I can get the flooring back down and do some scenery.
Have a great day!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning. Just a quick coffee before heading to work. I haven't worked since the 17th so it will feel good. I think that I can work 2 days and then be off until the 5th.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Goooood Mornin’ everbody! I’ll have a big cup of coffee, scrambled eggs, sausage, fried potatoes, and a biscuit. Put it all in a pile and smother it in milk gravy please. Thank you young lady!
Looks like it’s gonna be a beeeutiful day here today. High 47 and sunny. My kind of winter. Yup.. mid to upper thirties to 40’s for the “dead of winter” is just fine for me.
Big, big plans for today. First, bookwork for the church. Then off to Hobby Lobby for their big 30% off train accessories sale (train sets not included). Got my notice on that E-mail thing last night. Then it’s over to my moms house to put a piece of gutter back on her garage from the storm. That’s all the damage she had but about a ¼ mile down the road a mobile home was blown off its blocks and ripped the roof sheeting off. It didn’t roll over just scooted enough to make it look like someone drove nose first into a ditch. No one was injured so that was good. Everyone said tornado because nothing not even an open ended Quansit hut shed sitting next to it nor another trailer there was touched, The weather service didn’t report any rotations though. I think it was just setting broadside to the wind and it was strong enough to shove. Mom said in 32 years she has never had her windows rattle like that night.
Well as John Wayne would say I’m “burnin’ daylight!” I hope today finds everyone healthy and happy.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Ugh. I haveto be up.. Throw a muffin at me, I might catch it. Stupid swim practice... I guess I shouldn't complain, only two over the holidays. Oh well.
Lee: Just caught the mailman issue, if it makes you feel anybetter, we have 2 Pennsylvania Streets here. It doesn't get the mail people, but anyone else, including package dudes, visiting friends, plumbers, electricians, etc. call us in fits because they can't find our house or numbers anywhere close to ours on a Pennsylvania Street. Pennsy dead-ends into a field and then picks up again for 3/4 of a block on the other side. We're on that last almost a block
-Morgan
Hello everybody,
I would like to order the Hungy Mans Breakfast. Sunny out today and a couple of Celsius below zero. Here in Ontario. Last night the last trains ran on the layout. Will start a total demolition today. Looking forward to moving to another apartment to put a double level layout in a spare bedroom with a helix , will keep me busy for the next year or so for sure.
Morning All Looks like we'll see some sun today in Houston
Sure beats yesterdays cold and rain
I'll be in the back booth waiting to see who shows up
Good morning everyone. Lets see, the weather says 45 for today. Not to bad. I can live with that.
I didn't work at all last week. I don't know if i will this week, since it will be another short work week.
I am planning on going to another LHS later this morning. I am starting to get some track for the lower part of the layout. Kinda see what there prices look like. Also there is a CSX main line (well 2) that goes through the town. One a good day, the trains are non stop. Its a VERY good place for some train shots. No trees, houses, etc. They even have a parking lot for you to sit and wait for the trains. Theres also a old Amtrack station. Not much to the station, it looks more like a glass box.
I will try to get some shots today, and see what I can post. Everybody have a good day, and I will be back in here for a late lunch.
Robby
Good morning, again,
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 13 mph increasing to between 18 and 21 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a west wind between 16 and 21 mph.
Good morning from us to you---we are currently watching a lovely sunrise--hey when was the last we saw one of those?---it is, however, supposed to cloud right back up and give us some wet snow tonight and back to some more wind---up to 70kmh today. High for today 2Cwith a low of -6C tonight.
Well, when I woke up this morning I found 'Spring' cuddled up on the layout table with a paw around two boxcars---a teddybear substitute? And of course forgot to take picture of such---duh---