Good morning. It's 50 and raining out here by the lake on this dark, dreary morning. The high is projected to be in the mid 50's and there's more rain on tap. Got the short in the turnout wiring sorted out yesterday and made sure there weren't more waiting in the wings and ran down a bad connection in the layout sound system. Today I think I'll just sit back and listen to the rain on the tin roof. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/6/2009 Wind Chill: 48°F Humidity: 100% Dew Point: 50°F So Far Today High: 50°F Low: 46°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 6mph SSE National weather service Doppler radar continues to indicate areas of showers and rain falling over southeast Texas...southern Louisiana and the adjacent coastal waters. Rainfall amounts are averaging less than 1/4 of an inch per hour. In addition areas of fog is lowering visibility to less than 1 mile along the coast with visibility inland ranging from 1 to 3 miles. Today High: 55 Areas of fog early in the morning. Showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent. Tonight Low: 40 Mostly cloudy early in the evening then clearing. Colder. Lows around 40. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Good morning. I'll just be having coffee and toast this morn please----
We woke up to a sunrise with a temp reading of -15C. It is going to cloud up then give us some snowflurries turning to snow and ice pellets with a risk of freezing rain as it warms up to 0C overnight---tomorrow will give us some snow---only 2" worth total but we are expecting winds up to 70kmh----
Right now 'Spring' is walking around with his beanie fish in his mouth meowing pitiously---looking for safe haven for his babies? He is a funny fellow---this one. Oh well---he only popped the GP40 off the table once last night----not everything else----
Everyone----have a great day---
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
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Last night I finished hooking up the Super Chief and took my 2-8-8-0 for a little spin around the layout with 20 hoppers and 1 caboose in tow. No real issues. The coolest thing about the DCC is the radio control. Having the ability to be right there when coupling and switching cars instead of running 10 feet back to the throttle and running back to the locomotive is great.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Just a quick stop by and off to work.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Both the little creek and the big creek are cresting. Half the neighbors pasture is under water and it sounds like a waterfall. I will have a lot of repairs to do to fences & swinging gates (if they are still there) in a day or two, when the water receeds.
New MRR mag arrived. Always enjoy viewing the trackside photos. Makes me realize I will never actually finish a layout. Wife wants the "train room" to be a place of fun and mental therapy. That might be the right approach. She now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?
Rob
Morning all!
It's a lovely morning around here!
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for much of central Indiana until 1PM this afternoon, 4pm in my area. Radar is indicating freezing rain and sleet moving through the state. Major accidents have already been reported just south of Vincennes on Highway 41 and as far north as Muncie. I65 was closed for a while, but is now open again. This precipitation should be light but as we all know it doesn’t take much to slick up the roads.
Here's what it looks like right now.
Pretty nice out there, huh?
Morning, Had breakfast home today, I will have a muffin and coffee for the mid morning visit Flo.
2nd day back at work and ready for a vacation. Expecting yuck this afternnnon for weather.. That means I go to work when they send people home early. My turn with the sand truck.
See Barry(?) has 4 leggeds (cats) I have two. Funny, they never went after the trains when they were running, (or stopped) just watched. Scenery? I lost more trees, looked like a hurricane went through. Never chewed on, just torn out since I never glued them down. I'd find them under the layout, in the corner and under the bed. Got to love it.
Hey, everyone enjoy their day! Stay warm, stay dry!
Eric
Yeah its the same here, cold and rainy. We are also under a winter watch. 7am to 7pm. Snow showers tonight, tomorrow, and the next 5 days. Nothing major thou, just a head ache for people on the road. So take this weather Chargers!!! It will be here for you Sunday.
I ordered a Athearn engine (Cotton Belt), a Conrail 2-bay hopper, and some road bed the other day from MB Klien. They were on clearence. You know I have to make them dusty, and rusty. That wiil give me something to do. The engine was $89 and on sale for $29. Now that was a steal, and I need one. I plan on using it on the lower part, kinda like a switcher. My other engine is WAY to big. He will either stay on the mainline or the upper part.
I am already hungry and its 10:30am. Thats what I get for getting up with the wife. Its to early for lunch.
Well I will be back in later. Time to hit the basement, and see how my bushes came out (blender style).
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning, Zoe - looked like a bunch of Diners were heading out for that 'w' thing as I pulled in. I'll get there soon enough... Oh, yes, I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ and a cup of the Tim Horton, please. Thanks.
Looks like some of you east and north of Cape G. are getting some of that deeee-light ful weather we had around here yesterday evening. But amazingly, most of the slippery stuff went north and south of Cape. I had some light ice to scrape off the car this morning, but it was already 31 F by then, and warming up. ]yeah] Think the prognosticators of precipitation are saying we'll reach 40 F today, so no further icing, thankfully.
Yeah, Unca Rog, I could just picture you and your teacher as you were telling that story. You might be about right on there being some other board somewhere (maybe oprah.com?) where she's posting her side of things... On your poetry experience, I was thinking of how they talk about giving an "A for effort" and wondering about that B+ (Just kiddin'...)
Lee - from my operating with wireless DCC on our club's layout (borrowed throttle), I'd agree that it is easier to be there with the loco when doing the switching. Enjoy!
Barry, I hope your train room floor has carpet and lots of padding, if Spring knocks the locos off very often.
Well, I'll finish up my cup - about time for me to get back to that w**k thing. May your weather moderate and mellow out today.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau (grey and drizzly today)
CederstrandShe now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?
Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope!
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Mawning Everyone,
Today is "Recovery Day" after baby sitting the wild..... Oops... I didn't say that did I? Grandsons.
Duh Wifey went back to work today and I get to enjoy the Peace a quiet while I repair the damage left behind.
Grandkids... gotta love em heh?
Anotherwarm day today around here, But on the cloudy side as they expect rain to move in around here. Still no cold stuff in sight yet.
Any Bagels left over around here?
Buggy
This afternoon is go with Audrey---I find these things out a couple of hours BEFORE I run out to do something that need to be done on the OTHER side of town--- ---maybe I'll do it tomorrow(?)----Grumble, Gripe,----
Jim; He, at least, didn't go after the other locos which get put away in the display case---padlocked of course----'Spring' keeps poking at the padlock though. He hasn't figured out the lockpicking thing yet---
ewl01-eric;-so I take it that your 2 fellows are in the forestry business?---mine tends to want to kidnap--trainnap?--whatever is loose----
pcarrellIt's a lovely morning around here! A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for much of central Indiana until 1PM this afternoon, 4pm in my area. Radar is indicating freezing rain and sleet moving through the state. Major accidents have already been reported just south of Vincennes on Highway 41 and as far north as Muncie. I65 was closed for a while, but is now open again. This precipitation should be light but as we all know it doesn’t take much to slick up the roads.
Oh yeh! Then you're going to ship it off to me in the Finger Lakes for tonight and tomorrow. Thanks!
It is currently 22°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high aroiund 26°F sometime this afternoon. "havin' a Heatwave, Tropical Heatwave!"
I went to the Phlebotomist this morning. Every single chair in the place was taken....... Took over an hour of sitting and 3 minutes having my blood drawn. Now I am about out the door to go pig out for Brunch with my son. Flo, I'll have the #2 special with bacon, over easy on the eggs and a double order of sourdough toast!
Might actually get a few minutes to work on the layout today.
See you all later!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
re; the 4 leggeds. While I don't presently have a layout, I have a test track that I have been progamming my new fleet of sound-DCC units. Running trains 8 feet is better than not at all. Horns and air letoff have the cats, (Ceasar and Augustus) curious and confused. I had Augustus actually jump when I blew the horn. It's a lot of fun!
Howdy folks!
Was out of root beer last night so I made myself a Cheerwine Float. Cheerwine is a cherry soda in these parts and it was great with a few scoops of vanilla ice cream on top.
Welcome back Garry! Thoughts and prayers for Nick too!
Thanks Jim! Good to hear a positive response to the menus. DPM is great stuff, your building backdrop sounds like it's coming right along.
Yup Sue! So far...so good! My SEE food diet resolution is still in full swing and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon! Oh...and been spending more time on the layout too this past week with Monique being out of town...
Dick, with all that firewood from a few weeks ago the wood stoves should be stocked up for a good long time now! Hope the heating improves real soon though! Keeping up a wood fire is a lot of work.
Rob, your finishing up the fine touches is encouraging. That plumbing issue should have been on them though! But time is of the essence and contractors are hard to find sometimes.... And we been getting a lot of rain too the past month, most likely only about 5 days without rain in the last 30 days it seems. Can you say "water logged?"
PC, that's cold man! And the temps here are dropping all day, the high temp for us today was at sun up this morning.
Today's Lunch, Dinner and Mid-Night Snack Diner Menu
How appropriate....TOPS for me! Ohhhhhh Chloe....here's the plastic....
And for dessert..... King Cake.
A little history about King Cake:
The Mardi Gras season officially begins on the Twelfth Night of Christmas which is January 6, and is also known as Epiphany. It marks the day the wise men brought gifts to the Christ Child. By doing so they 'revealed' or 'made known' Jesus to the world as Lord and King. Read more here....
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Afternoon all, just an irish coffee ta-go please.
Just dropped by to leave a couple bad jokes
A Doctor was addressing a large audience:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."
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John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully. 'Give me one last request, dear,' he said. 'Of course, John,' his wife said softly. 'Six months after I die,' he said, 'I want you to marry Bob.' 'But I thought you hated Bob,' she said. With his last breath John said, 'I do!'
I will quietly slip out the back door and disappear for a while now
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Robby P.Yeah its the same here, cold and rainy. We are also under a winter watch. 7am to 7pm. Snow showers tonight, tomorrow, and the next 5 days. Nothing major thou, just a head ache for people on the road. So take this weather Chargers!!! It will be here for you Sunday.
Hewy, the chargers will take it and have a snow day with it
It'll be interesting to see how Philip Rivers, San diego's WR, Darin Sproles, and LT match up against troy P{olomalu (or however that's spelled) and pittsburgh's D. BTW, if the steelers win, then I hope they win the superbowl, it'll be nice to see Big ben win at elast two.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Yes thats my truck. 1956 IH with a Maxim body. Came from Plymouth Twp. Pa. I've had her for about 5 years now.
LSWrrJeff, don’t you just hate shorts, I think I have a ground fault on track 3 in one turnout. When you finish up with your issue stop by and help me with mine.
Hello everybody and thanks for all the thoughts and prayers regarding brother-in-law, Nick.
I have returned to working on the layout. I am working on a background scene that will have a stream, a church, a cemetary and about eight houses.
I will tell about my Chirstmas present soon when I get a chance.
Happy Model Railroading......
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
***John, that is a very cool truck. How about posting some detail pics of it?
River Flood Warning & Severe Thunderstorm Warning..."YEE HAW"
We've been under a flood warning and rightfully so. One neighbors driveway is under many feet of water (looks more like a slow moving lake). And there is a shelf-style waterfall dropping from the pasture on the otherside of the river from ours. It's roaring. Our big pond is officially FULL now. Have another potential 2" or so on the way, so am draining the holding tank again. Tis' a mud fest.
Power is going on and off...going to exit now. If I lose our online connection, have a nice evening all.
Rob, Thanks for the compliment on the truck. In fact it is one of the reasons I got back into model railroading. My fire engine club has a museum that was an old two bay fire station, and is leased to us by the next town over from me. Every year we take the old truck (not mine) that is in there at the time, and other equipment out and replace the open area with train layouts. We have O, G, S, a three foot HO module, and my N layout that operate, plus lots of static displays of older train sets and photos of the NY,NH & H stations and areas around us. We run these every weekend from the day after Thanksgiving to the second week in January. We don't charge admission but accept donations that are placed in the "boot". All donations go toward the operation and upkeep of the museum.
John
Unable to post photos due to broken camera
***John, that's great. Hope you can post some assorted layout pics next time there is gathering. Wife & I both like looking at old fire equipment, too.
Update: Tornado Watch...that earns a double "Yee Haw" Big red line on the satelite is knock knock, on our door step. Sky just grew very dark...cool.
Wife went to check on her folks this evening. Left her a message on her cell to stay put if she hasn't left yet. Rob
Rob; How much rain fell your way? ---and more coming?---and with all that comes Tornados?-------definitly 'YeeHaww' time-----stay safe---what with all that mud----
Up here they just threw us a Freezing Rain Warning----we are supposed to get up to 0C overnight then drop to -5C tomorrow afternoon----either a lot of rain bringing floods---tornadoes----BIG thunderboomers---freezing rain---barrels of snow ---lots of bitter cold----a wonderful buffet for our viewing "pleasure" I suppose----as if we have any choice
john1947; Love the truck---
unca roggieHey, Sawyer: I recall having to do POETRY junk in high school, back in those good old days, when we walked 18 miles to school in a snowstorm, naked and covered in our own excrement, backwards, uphill both directions, battling hungry dinosaurs, and all that. I thought anything to do with poetry was so GIRLY and wondered why our MALE teacher was forcing such crap on us GUYS. So, told I better come up with SOMEthing as a poem, or face a failing grade, I thought back to a childhood saying, that most everyone is familiar with (the one about "rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief...) and turned in this ridiculous item, assuming I'd get slapped upside the head: "The buttons on my coat tell me I'm going to be an INDIAN CHIEF. I'm a girl." The teacher gave me a B+ for that, to my great surprise. One of those girls who was all competitive about getting the best grade in every class, had a total FIT over it (it was tacked up on the wall, as if it was GOOD, just to twist the knife blade into her twisted little soul.) Next day, "THIS IS TERRIBLE" was written across it in her shade of lipstick, so no one had to wonder who did it. I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
Hey, Sawyer: I recall having to do POETRY junk in high school, back in those good old days, when we walked 18 miles to school in a snowstorm, naked and covered in our own excrement, backwards, uphill both directions, battling hungry dinosaurs, and all that.
I thought anything to do with poetry was so GIRLY and wondered why our MALE teacher was forcing such crap on us GUYS. So, told I better come up with SOMEthing as a poem, or face a failing grade, I thought back to a childhood saying, that most everyone is familiar with (the one about "rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief...) and turned in this ridiculous item, assuming I'd get slapped upside the head: "The buttons on my coat tell me I'm going to be an INDIAN CHIEF. I'm a girl." The teacher gave me a B+ for that, to my great surprise.
One of those girls who was all competitive about getting the best grade in every class, had a total FIT over it (it was tacked up on the wall, as if it was GOOD, just to twist the knife blade into her twisted little soul.) Next day, "THIS IS TERRIBLE" was written across it in her shade of lipstick, so no one had to wonder who did it.
I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
LOL, that's a great story. Hey, it's just rhyming poems and such, I can do free verse no prob.
Packers#1I have a feeling she grew up to become a women's prison warden. And SHE is probably on a message board somewhere, right now, telling this story from HER perspective, about this annoying twerp in her senior English class, ending with how this creep no doubt grew up to become an INSURANCE AGENT.
Hey BC funny meeting you in here
Hey all have a question and a possible request from some of you. First how big/small can a figure 8 be in HO? Basicly whats the smallest it can be? Without hand layed track. (flex track) Will show pics in a few lines but The Veterans Affair I work at might be able to get this layout for free but the 1st problem would be getting it here as its in FL. 2nd how big is it? I'm thinking atleast 7' X12' (pics still uploading to photobucket lol)
My request is if we do get it can I get some donations in the line of train cars and engines as suposely there are none with this.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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The smallest figure 8 I've seen in HO was made with sectional track and was 32 inches x 36 inches (15 inch radius).
inch53 Afternoon all, just an irish coffee ta-go please. Just dropped by to leave a couple bad jokes A Doctor was addressing a large audience: "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake." #2 John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully. 'Give me one last request, dear,' he said. 'Of course, John,' his wife said softly. 'Six months after I die,' he said, 'I want you to marry Bob.' 'But I thought you hated Bob,' she said. With his last breath John said, 'I do!' I will quietly slip out the back door and disappear for a while now
Inch that had me rolling. I'll have to share with the fellas at work tomorrow.
I won't be having anything to eat tonight. The wife just about has dinner ready. We're gonna have jambalaya with elk sausage. Actually, I'm having jambalaya with elk sausage, the little lady doesn't go for "that crazy meat." It's hard to eat an entire elk by yourself. But I'm slowly whittling away at the deep freeze. Catch ya'll later.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale