The Coffee Shop (a place to chat) Est. 2004

[Anonymous]

hellopsportingenius

[Anonymous]

Hi all [:)]

I didn't call in sick tonight, I went to work. But during the shift I didn't feel well and did come home. I went to bed about 10 pm (very early for me). It is now 1 am and Duchess woke me up barking at something so I decided to check out the coffee shop.


Dave [:)]

Sorry to hear about your accident. Get well soon.


Ed [:)]

If ever you were going to buy an VCR player/recorder now is the time. You won't ever find them any cheaper and if you don't get one soon you might not ever find them again period. I have heard that soon they will stop making VCR tapes and everything will be DVD. Trust me, you are talking to a guy who even though he heard the same thing about 8 tracks vs. cassettes still continued to buy 8 tracks [:0] [B)] <rut row, I guess I just "dated" myself [;)] > .


You know I never did make it to the Classic trains forum the other day/night. I should go before I forget again.

As far as the NES, I did post in both of them for a while. Being an Alco fan I always look for a way to "promote" Alco. But there was someone who was always "unpromoting" my efforts to promote Alco. And add to that the fact that I was accussed of posting just to add to my star count, therefore I stopped posting in both of them and never even went back to read them. Later someone told me that I was being bashed but I never even went there to see. And you know the funny thing about it is that the people who were accussing me of posting just for stars have probally posted in those threads many times more than I did. The forums do mirror life. You have some people who go out of their way to help others then you have some people who go out of their way just to be a, well you know just like the saying "There is one in every crowd." I am not surprised it was locked. I am actually surprised that it wasn't locked before now.

I have posted about UP before. Some good, and maybe some bad. I once made the comment that UP didn't have the class to buy a decent sounding horn. Low and behold, one of the "nice" sounding horns I was hearing and trying to see what "other" railroad it belonged to, actually was coming from a horn on a UP engine. So I made a thread posting about that and "ate crow". It wasn't the first time that I have eaten "forum crow" and probally won't be the last. This thread was made months ago.


Noah [:)]

There are actually many people in the forums that are multi-forum orientied. [}:)] [;)] [8D] You and I are just a few of the many.


My current "dream" is to win a super big lottery and buy lots of passenger train equipment and private cars. Then travel the USA and Canada meeting forum members and treating them to a nice trip with me. Every picture of Canada I have ever seen is beautiful. I really want to visit Canada. I did cross the border once into Sault Saint Marie (pronounced Soo) but that is as far as I have ever gotten.

Drats, Duchess wants to go out. That means I have to get dressed and take her out OR ELSE. [:(]

So gotta go, (not me she does lol [:D] )

bye now [;)]

[Anonymous]

I think it only appropriate that we all reserve a moment of silence tomorrow in memory of teh NES, because Bergie just pulled the plug on the NES unceremoneously on Tuesday. Little did I know that it would be me who had posted the very last 3 words -"chug, chug, chug", and I only did that because I was "lost for words". It was a lot of fun, and frankly I don't know why the plug was pulled, especially since so many of the other recent Forum topics are so seriously unpleasant and overblown with anger and misinformation. Guess we were having too much fun.

Did you think that perhaps Bergie doesn't care for the UP, and it was the last 'episode' where all the UP bashing crazies were rounded up onto a single train that someone ran off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean? Or perhaps he may have been offended by one or more references to the following: granola, wine, hobos, rabbits, hobos eating rabbits, Martha Stewart jokes, Big Boys, little boys & Michael Jackson, okra, the color 'pink', steam engines, diesel engines, The Rock, not mentioning the great state of Wisconsin, the Civil War, kudzu, Tony Soprano, pizza, New Joisey, decapods, F units, West Virginia, Mama Alabama and her pink pig, or could it be that perhaps he may be just planning on introducing a product called "OkraKola", and wants to avoid any prior claims to the possible ownership and rights to that brand name now used without license by the NES crew.

We'd better watch ourselves and not get too many posts over here, or we'll have to find another place to hang out. Guess we could always just start a new topic and move over there, huh.

It's late and time to chug off to bed. Goodnite folks.
BILL

[Anonymous]

Anyone want to go forum hopping? [:D]

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=5&TOPIC_ID=6512

Have fun. [:p]

Don't forget to leave a comment or two. [;)]

Thanks. [:)]

[egmurphy]

Morning sports fans,

Here I am tempting fate by typing directly in the quick response window again. I'll see if I get away with it again. Looks like rain here, actually heard some thunder a while ago. If it would rain it would probably help knock someof the humidity out of the air. I know you get tired of hearing me moan about the heat and humidity, but it is tough. [sigh]

Phil: "I can't imagine a reason that Bergie would want to lock up the Coffee Shop". Well you never know. While we did get approval to start it, this is a model railroad forum so I suppose it is subject to review. Got to keep injecting the occasional railfan or model rr comment just to keep it legit. [swg]

"We seem to have a pretty even handed group of people here, and we police it as well as can be expected." Yeah, you're right there. I suppose the personalities of the guys who regularly post here has a lot to do with it. In a way I'm surprised that we've come this far without any significant flareups.

A 'Cuba Libre' is simply a rum and coke, with lime. Most recipes use white rum, but I prefer añejo or solera, which are much darker and more flavorful. Imho, rum and coke is the most common cocktail down here among the locals (if we're not counting the tourists at the resorts with umbrella drinks) although beer is the most common adult beverage. I think Bacardi was originally made in Cuba. The cocktail was supposedly originally invented in Havana back around the time of the Spanish-American War. I was never much of a rum drinker in my days back up north, but it seems to go better with the climate here than a scotch and soda.

Jim - I suppose I ought to think about a vcr, but the fact is that we watch so little tv anyway, and have (outside of my new railroad tapes) maybe only 5 or 6 misc tapes, so it seems a little wasteful to get a vcr just for that. I figure I'll be able to borrow one when necessary. Yeah, I do think it will all go to DVD (or something even newer) in the future. But what do I know. I haven't even seen an 8 track tape in years, and have a box full of cassette tapes that I hardly ever look at.

Anyways, I'll check back later.

Ed

[lupo]

You are right Ed ,
Let's throw in some model railroading in:
how is your diorama surviving the painting accident? Could you save it? Or did the paint eating up the foam make some surrealistic cliff faces?
I used a similar technique spraying styrofoam to make very weird cliffs in the old days, when I was young ( and dinosaurs roamed the land [:D][:D][:D] )

[oops] almost forgot the contemporary acceptable forum atmosphere[}:)]:
I want to [:o)] sue [:o)] UP for using part of my name![:p]!

[Anonymous]

just a quick hello. I'm on my fifth coffee this morning, and since I never made it to bed last night, even though I promised I would get some much needed sleep, I didn't because I was on the 'puter all nite long, but, yeah, the 'targetword kaka' that has been driving me nutty is GONE ! Yeah!

Noah - sorry to learn of the damage to your layout, and 'doubly-sorry' for joking around about your ongoing water problem a couple of weeks ago when I had offered some info about moisture-proofing a basement. I feel like a dolt now, although I had no idea that the problem was as bad as it apparantly is. . . As someone else already said, now you'll have an opportunity to construct a better layout, because there is always room for improvement, and to alter something we did before that may not have worked out as we had originally planned. Hope you were able to salvage your rolling stock, structures and other expensive stuff.

Anyway, got lots to do, and the day is marching right along. Several of the local woodworking tool suppliers are having Father's Day sales this week, and I can't pass them up, so its off to shopping this PM for some supplies and other stuff for the shop. Got all the old fencing removed and taken away this past weekend. Now I've got to put in new fencing, build a new two-tier'd deck, as well as build some retaining walls and rock gardens. I'm getting 18 tons of rock brought in and I'll be dry stacking it by hand. . .Yuk, but it will look good and keep my house from sliding down the hill.

I posted a new topic on the forum this AM pertaining to kitbashing, and 'what was the most unusual kitbash you've ever done.' It could prove interesting to see and read what others have scrounged together out of their spare parts boxes.

Hopefully the UP stuff has died down. I had written *** Davidson, "chief mucky-muck" at UP, to get their latest take on the licensing & royalties issue, and received a lengthy email back within two days from the individual responsible for administrating the program. I'm going to request their permission to share their reply with the forum. An interesting aside to that email is that UP is not charging the smaller model railroad concerns, and only the larger ones, two of which will not agree to a licensing program. I was unaware of UP's posture re: the impact on small model railroad suppliers, and applaud them for not hitting them w/ what could amount to a death sentence for their operations.

Gotta go. Have a great day, and be safe.
BILL

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bill mathewson

just a quick hello. I'm on my fifth coffee this morning, and since I never made it to bed last night, even though I promised I would get some much needed sleep, I didn't because I was on the 'puter all nite long, but, yeah, the targerword kaka that has been driving me nutty is GONE ! Yeah!

Noah - sorry to learn of the damage to your layout, and 'doubly-sorry' for joking around about your ongoing water problem a couple of weeks ago when I had offered some info about moisture-proofing a basement. I feel like a dolt now, although I had no idea that the problem was as bad as it apparantly is. . . As someone else already said, now you'll have an opportunity to construct a better layout, because there is always room fro improvement, and to alter somewthing we did before that may not have worked out as we had originally planned. Hope you were able to salvage your rolling stock, structures and other expensive stuff.

Anyway, got lots to do, and the day is marching right along. A lot of the local woodworking tool suppliers are having Father's Day sales this week, and I can't pass them up, so its off to shopping this PM for some supplies and other stuff for the shop. Got all the old fencing removed and taken away this past weekend. Now I've got to put in new fencing, build a new two-tier'd deck, as well as build some retaining walls and rock gardens. I'm getting 18 tons of rock brought in and I'll be dry stacking it by hand. . .Yuk, but it will look good and keep my house from sliding down the hill.

I posted a new topic on the forum this AM pertaining to kitbashing, and 'what was the most unusual kitbash you've ever done.' It could prove interesting to see and read what others have scrounged together out of their spare parts boxes.

Hopefully the UP stuff has died down. I had written *** Davidson, "chief mucky-muck" at UP, to get their latest take on the licensing & royalties issue, and received a lengthy email back within two days from the individual responsible for administrating the program. I'm going to request their permission to share their reply with the forum. An interesting aside to that email is that UP is not charging the smaller model railroad concerns, and only the larger ones, two of which will not agree to a licensing program. I was unaware of UP's posture re: the impact on small model railroad suppliers, and applaud them for not hitting them w/ what could amount to a death sentence for their operations.

Gotta go.
BILL

Bill,

I feel your pain on the 1:1 scale landscaping. I'm just finishing up a new fence, to be followed by a retaining wall for the spouse's latest flower bed, then a new security door install and, and, and, and...........so the HO paintshop is temporarily closed......plus there has been a large swarm of these orange clay flying discs probably of Al Queda origin that have infiltrated SoCal, so I've been doing my part to help destroy them.

It would be good to see the UP response, hopefully it won't start up another round of nonsense. I was sad to see Bergie kill the NES story thread, vice some of the other more "hostile" topics. But I guess he thought it had run it's course. I don't think he'll shut this one down, as long as it stays civil as it has been.

Dan

[Anonymous]

Dan - What is an "orange clay flying disc"?

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bill mathewson

Dan - What is an "orange clay flying disc"?

sporting clay...clay pigeon....for trap and skeet shooting. My wife and I have been shooting a fair amount of trap and skeet lately (quality together time involving firearms not pointed at each other).

[philnrunt]

Bill-sounds like Dan is a skeet shooter. You know- "Pull" whooshwhooshBANG!!!
Dan- I've shot bowling pins, hogans alley and combat courses here and there, all with handguns, and did decently- I took a long gun out and tried skeet, never hit the first one. Go figure.
Of course, that all may change soon, as we are getting rain AGAIN for the bajillionth day in a row, just a few weeks ago you could go out and enjoy the cool evening air, now the mosquitos are dressing up like pizza delivery men trying to get inside. I figure I'll load up the ol' shotgun and try "skeet" shooting for real! Wish I had a 10, don't know for sure if the 12 will bring 'em down.
Ed- I tried to register at the Railwire forum the other night, and it kept telling me something was wrong in my (i think) password, talking about pipes and spaces, none of which I was trying to use. I think. I still wish 'puters would speak a language I could understand.
Enjoying some -you guessed it- iced joe, watching the rain fall and thinking I'll be needing a Tiger tank to mow this time.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

[Noah Hofrichter]

Ed, I'm with you. There has go to be some model railroaders around here, because if I don't get to the library in time someone else checks out the Model railroader, but I just don't know them. This is my only source of info and friendship. My Dad just thinks that I'm spending way to much time on here, but it's my only connection to outside model railroad life. It really makes me sad, as I'd like to have somebody who can actually come over and help me instead of verbal help, and maybe I could solve more problems.

Bill, it's not that bad at all. Nothings been wrecked, just the track got moved out of place, and will take alittle while to re-aline. My mom had been wanting to get rid of the old furnature for a while, and she just took this as an excuse to do it. I would have had to move my layout sooner or later anyway. I'm trying to convince my Dad we shold try something like that Sealant, but he just hasn't had the time to do anything.

Jonathon, I know your secret too, but don't worry, I'm not telling.

Another boring day. Got a couple of e-mails to answer, but not much else. Still working on that project of mine. I'm begining to wonder if I'll get it done in time for the dead line, but we'll see.

Oh, and Jim sent you a reply to your e-mail, hope you get it.

Noah

[egmurphy]

Funny you should bring up the module today, Lupo. I just this morning got busy and painted it. It’s none the worse for the wear from the mistake the other day. Now to move on to some ground cover. Here it is when I had just put some material on to smooth the joints. The second photo is after painting.





I used two different materials to smooth the joints. On one side I used DAP lightweight spackle. On the other I used am acrylic caulk. Neither side had a clear cut advantage. I had a little more trouble getting the spackle to stay where I put it, it tended to come away with the putty knife when I tried to smooth it. The caulk pretty well stayed stuck to the foam. But the spackle was much easier to sand smooth. The caulk was remarkably durable and harder to sand down. I really wanted to also try just putting a scratch coat of plaster on one part but ran out of room.

I think I’ll try brushing on a thin wash of plaster on the next test section. Even though I thought the bare foam area was pretty well sanded smooth, the texture really showed up during painting. On the other hand, I am planning on covering all of this with ground cover anyway. I mean, it’s not exactly like looking for a good finish on the wife’s kitchen cabinets, is it?

The track is just temporarily tacked down, until I figure out what I’m going to put under it where the drainage passes under the track. The ground color of the paint is actually not too far off the color of a lot of the clay out in the countryside around here.

Darn it took me a long time to get around to painting this little piece. I think I have some kind of hangup about painting. It probably goes back to kindergarten when I discovered I didn’t like finger painting.

Bill – what were you doing pulling an all-nighter on the computer????? Man, between the work you do around your place and this staying up late stuff. I really envy your place out in the country but I’d forgotten how much work is involved in owning a place with a big yard.

Orange clay pigeons??? What will they think of next. The last time I ran into clay pigeons, admittedly this was a long time ago, they were painted black with a small white circle on top.

Noah, you might try seeing if the library will give you the names of the people who are checking out the MR at the branch. Maybe you could try contacting them directly. Any LHS nearby (I’m not clear exactly where you live in WI) that could provide leads to others in your area?

Well I don't know about you guys, but it's cocktail time here. Let's see if I can convince someone to bring me a Cuba Libre..............

Hasta Luego

Ed

[tomwatkins]

Hey Everybody,
It's been a busy but good couple of days. I went up to Murphy yesterday morning to talk with Bill Hughes, the mayor. His grandfather was station agent for the L & N there from 1951 to 1964. He actually started working for the L & N in 1937. Found out that my suspicions about the L & N depot there were correct. What remains is only the freight house section. The office with the bay window and the passenger waiting rooms were dismantled by the railroad in the late 1960's and the material hauled off to be used elsewhere. He had some beautiful pictures of the depot taken in the early '60's. It was a typical and very pretty L & N small town depot, very similar to, if not identical to the one in Blue Ridge, Ga.

He also confirmed that the Southern depot did have a lower roof line over the freight house section than over the office and waiting rooms. Very useful information.

The most interesting photo he had was one taken in Feb. 1953 of the last steam powered train the L & N ran into Murphy. After that it was all diesels. What made it so interesting is that the locomotive was a 1500 series class J-3 light Mikado! There has been a lot of discussion as to whether they used light mikes on the Murphy Branch or not. Many of the experts say no, the rail was too light. It was only 90 pound rail. Mr Hughes said they did run them into Murphy quite a bit because the H-28 and 29 Consolidations would have to double the ruling grade frequently with long trains. He also said they did sometimes break the rails.

If I sound excited about all this it's because I am. I now have enough information to start building models of both depots. It's also nice to know that mikes did make it into Murphy, at least on the L & N.

Fergie, a day spent gardening and railroading. Life doesn't get much better than that. Hope you enjoyed it.

Bill, I can sympathize with you. That's a lot of rock. We've hauled a lot of rock, a lot of railroad ties, lots of dirt, the list is endless. It's lots of work, but it sure does make it prettier.

Well folks, it's getting late, so I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Have a good evening,
Tom

[Fergmiester]

Tanks Tom

Was getting getting a little disheartened as I thought no one was reading my responses. Went on a road trip today and got a couple of interesting shots of a RR bridge which you all might be interested in.

You see even though I'm not in to RR Season I have not forgotten what's important!

Regards
Fergie

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergmiester

Tanks Tom

Was getting getting a little disheartened as I thought no one was reading my responses. Went on a road trip today and got a couple of interesting shots of a RR bridge which you all might be interested in.

You see even though I'm not in to RR Season I have not forgotten what's important!

oh And I almost forgot[:0] Since the LHS i just up from the Train Station I made a side trip to pick up more parts for the Turntable!

Regards
Fergie

[philnrunt]

Ed- this morn we picked up3.3 inches of rain, this afternoon another 1.7. If I could ship it to you, I sure would. This makes about 10" in June. We had a dry April and then May opened up and we havn't seen an end to it. On my way into work I came upon a semi that had gotten onto the shoulder of the highway, and the soft mud pulled him onto his side. Driver was ok, (first day on the job) and it was the county's jurisdiction, but the water is becoming a problem.
Just had a 16 year old female brought on station for drinking, she has to be transported to the hospital due to her very high Blood Alcohol. It's her mother's first night at a new job, and we had to call her away from it. The misery just stacks up. Thats why i like escaping into this forum. You guys are my safety valve. And hearing from Noah and Tim and the other young members makes me realize that there is a bit of hope for the future.
Had water up to the axle on my tractor mowing the yard. I kicked it into high gear and 4-wheeled a bit, had a good time, don't think I tore the grass up too much.
The rain and corresponding problems have kept me from getting much more done on tearing down the old layout, might just take the fireaxe to it all on Fri. That will do it.
Or get me a couple of Cuba Libres!

[krump]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes


... Then travel the USA and Canada meeting forum members and treating them to a nice trip with me. Every picture of Canada I have ever seen is beautiful. I really want to visit Canada.

Houseboating on Shuswap Lake in Salmon Arm, BC is always a good holiday...
one day I'm gonna buy a 24 ft pontoon boat and then put a g scale train on it ... fishing, boating and training ... the perfect holiday

cheers, krump

[Anonymous]

it would get in the way and what if it got wet OHH NOO!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

tranzrail to the end

[krump]

glass tunnel over it...
you're probly right, can't put all the dreams in the same basket - not the best idea[^]

[Anonymous]

Home [:)]

Tired [:(]

Overworked [V]

Underpaid [:(!]

I give up, I'm going to bed.


Noah, will email the pic of Duchess Friday afternoon.

Lupo, do you want anymore 3985 pics?

Anybody want to see my 3985 pics ? [:D]

See ya later.

Hey Dan, we had a Falcon come visit our Falcons the other night. The guy flying it came in for a special meeting, something to do with security. It had missiles on it but since there was no guard posted everybody figured out that they were probally just for show and not the real mccoy. I know you are a Navy man and all but when are YOU gonna fly in and bring an Orion? I want to go drop some fish. lol

[philnrunt]

Fergie- I don't know about the rest of you....and that pretty well sums it up.

No no, as I was saying, I don't know about the rest of you, but there are certain members that I look for and ALWAYS read. You happen to be one, Bill, Jim, Noah, Antonio, good ol' Ed, and a few others. I try to read your posts, as they are fun or thought provoking.
You've probably noticed that I post alot and at weird times. Most of these are made here at work, this job is alot like the military-hurry up and wait, and while waiting I think of things I want to ask or replies to other posts. From Sun-Fri AM I am pretty much alone here at work and at home, so if something pops into my head, I just plop down and send it off. I hope for a response, but never expect one, as I know you guys are busy with life.
But I want you and the others to know, I read ya, and laugh with ya and feel bad with ya.
I would reply more, but Bergie would send hit men to break my fingers.

[Anonymous]

Jim, can I see the 3985 pics? Please

[egmurphy]

No Ferg, I understand how you can get that impression, but I've come to the conclusion that it's just luck of the draw whether anyone comments or not. We've had this discussion on the thread before when others also made the same comment. I've made lots of posts that I thought would get some response, but just seem to get passed over. But I do get enough feedback on others that I know the posts are being read. I know I even wrote a full paragraph specifically to you in a post that I was sure you'd respond to and yet never heard anything and it made me wonder. (Thought sure referring to you as a 'naturalized Bluenoser' would get some rise, positive or negative). Based on the fact that we normally do return comments made me realize later that you had probably just been away from the thread for a couple of days and had simply not gone back to catch up. I think sometimes we read posts and may not have anything really worthwhile to comment, and pass by thinking that one of the others will respond later, which sometimes just doesn't happen.

Raining here this morning, but nothing like the guys are having up in the mid-west. And since June is normally a rainy month down here, the farmers are depending on these rains to plant. Lots of the farms around here don't have irrigation systems and depend completely on natural rains.

We went for our morning walk with the dogs, even though it looked threatening. Sure enough it started to rain just as we got to the furthest point of our route. So today we got wet from the outside in, instead of the inside out.

Like the idea of boating on Shuswap lake, and I like trains. But I'm also wondering about the combination. Maybe leave the layout in the cabin and bring mrr magazines on board.

Back later

Ed

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

No Ferg, I understand how you can get that impression, but I've come to the conclusion that it's just luck of the draw whether anyone comments or not. We've had this discussion on the thread before when others also made the same comment. I've made lots of posts that I thought would get some response, but just seem to get passed over. But I do get enough feedback on others that I know the posts are being read. I know I even wrote a full paragraph specifically to you in a post that I was sure you'd respond to and yet never heard anything and it made me wonder. (Thought sure referring to you as a 'naturalized Bluenoser' would get some rise, positive or negative). Based on the fact that we normally do return comments made me realize later that you had probably just been away from the thread for a couple of days and had simply not gone back to catch up. I think sometimes we read posts and may not have anything really worthwhile to comment, and pass by thinking that one of the others will respond later, which sometimes just doesn't happen.

Raining here this morning, but nothing like the guys are having up in the mid-west. And since June is normally a rainy month down here, the farmers are depending on these rains to plant. Lots of the farms around here don't have irrigation systems and depend completely on natural rains.

We went for our morning walk with the dogs, even though it looked threatening. Sure enough it started to rain just as we got to the furthest point of our route. So today we got wet from the outside in, instead of the inside out.

Like the idea of boating on Shuswap lake, and I like trains. But I'm also wondering about the combination. Maybe leave the layout in the cabin and bring mrr magazines on board.

Back later

Ed

You're right I forgot all about that comment you made, my apologies. Your story regarding the Fantail brought a smile to my face as the tide can be a bit troublesome, especially in places like the Bay of Fundy where the tides fluctuate 35'. One place you don't want to take a long walk off a short pier.

I suspect alot of MR's are off season as the weather is better and we want to spend more time outdoors rather than in. For me I'm back to sea in a week's time so I'll take a kit or two and hopefully fini***he Turntable.

Regards

[egmurphy]

No apology necessary, my feelings have recovered by now...sniff...[swg] By the way, it wasn't the fantail post, that was someone else. It was where I said I was born in Newfoundland, but not to let anyone else on the forum know that because it would start a run on Newfie jokes. With the number of Canadians posting here I'm actually surprised that no one picked up on it. Is it no longer PC to tell Newfie jokes? I remember when I was out on the prairie in Alberta, it was all Ukrainian jokes out there. Mostly the same jokes, just changing nationality. Although some of the dory jokes don't translate well to other nationalities. [:D] Wonder what group the boys from BC use for their jokes??

By the way Lupo, I remember a business trip once with a group of Frenchmen who spent the whole trip telling Flemish jokes.

None of you guys have any experience removing the trucks on Life-Like locos??? Not getting much useful response on my post looking for help on converting the couplers on a LL GP-38.

Oh well, it's probably time to try out some ground foam on that diorama.......

Later

Ed

[Anonymous]

Morning A L L, and I mean EVERYBODY [:)]

Just a little history chat for this day. This from the "This Day In History" site:

June 17

1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California, in San Francisco Bay, calling the land "Nova Albion."

1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

One of these days I hope to see some model "History" but until then we can chat about all the other history tidbits.

This site helps me also know what day it is. As one guy said at work the other night, "After you work a week or two without a day off you start looking at your watch to know what day it is." [:(]

We had one of "those" gully washers" yesterday. You know the type where you can see it coming and when it finally arrives it drops everything including the kitchen sink. It rained very hard for about 15 minutes then the sun came out and the "sauna" was on. Very uncomfortable, not fun, glad the hangar is air conditioned. [^]

Well got to go, time to walk Duchess and get in the shower and ready for work [:(] That too is no fun, but today I have another meeting and will know more about my proposal. I hope for good news. P L E A S E let it be good news. [;)]

Everyone have a great day/night. [:)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NJMike

Jim, can I see the 3985 pics? Please

I emailed you 4 this morning and will send 4 more after work tonight.

Since you have cable modem I can send 4 at a time instead of just 2. The upload on my end took about 35 minutes. So I started the upload and went to bed leaving the comp on. [;)]

[lupo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy


By the way Lupo, I remember a business trip once with a group of Frenchmen who spent the whole trip telling Flemish jokes.

Ed

well these guys seem to at receiving end: we dutch also have a lot off Flemish ( we call them Belg ) jokes
I'll bet they have the same contents like your BC jokes.

why does a "Belg" keeps a knife in his car??
for when he wants to cut some corners ! [:D]

sorry could not think up a railroad orientated one.

BTW let's all keep our fingers crossed for JIM today!