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

[NeO6874]

hey guys. I have a question. Have any of you been teased at school or when you were in school because you like trains?

Cause for me well..... my friends added sexual "inputs" on to their jokes and what not. stuff like. "go ride the colby express" meaning you know what.... some times it includes the good old caboose.

 

HELP?

Colby

yeah... happened to me too... a lot... mostly between 7th-10th grade though... granted around the end of Sophomore year other things took my focus away from trains for a while... not to mention the little cash i had at the time (yep... you guessed it... girls... well... girl... but thats a whole different story)...

Didn't tell her much of anything about modelling... mostly because of its rather... cold... reception by everyone else. Though we saw something on TV once (I think one of those PBS or DIY train shows) and I stopped flipping the channels to watch it... so now she knows... and just shakes her head when i start to drool over a PRR K-4 or a NYC (streamlined) Hudson or any other steamer that i "need"...

[LSWrr]

NeO: My ex wife was like that. My Current GF thinks it's cool and she bugs the crap out of me to go downstairs to work on it. I had a gondola on the roundhouse tracks to double check clearances and she had to give it a run around the turntable, LOL

[NeO6874]

NeO: My ex wife was like that. My Current GF thinks it's cool and she bugs the crap out of me to go downstairs to work on it. I had a gondola on the roundhouse tracks to double check clearances and she had to give it a run around the turntable, LOL

Lee, call me Dan... seriously! LOL!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, what size ammo cans are you building? .50 cal, 40MM, 75mm, M-240?

These are ammo cases. They are made of plywood and each one holds two 105mm artillery rounds. They're 30 some-odd  inches long

[jeffrey-wimberly]

NeO: My ex wife was like that. My Current GF thinks it's cool and she bugs the crap out of me to go downstairs to work on it. I had a gondola on the roundhouse tracks to double check clearances and she had to give it a run around the turntable, LOL

You better marry that girl!

[Super Chief Rules]

I have never had any problems telling my fellow classmates that I am into model railroading.  I am currently a senior, and has never been an issue.  Yes being in high school and building model trains is a bit of a challenge because of various distractions (gas, girls, cars etc..) that all require money, but it is possible.  And the people that make fun of us have no idea what they are MISSING. 

Hope this encourages you.......

[wetidlerjr]

Good morning ! from Indiana.

11-21-06

[LSWrr]

Good morning all and you too Dan Seriously. LOL

Jeff, I would marry her but I haven't paid off the first wife yet. Those sound like big ammo boxes I wouldn't want to hump those very far. Well it's off to work I go, hi ho hi ho.....

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All (and Dan),

   Colder again this morning - actually turned the shop heat on when I got in. Regular coffee and after last nights football game I suppose a helping of crow will get me ready for our Dallas fan to arrive at work.  Following the win over the Colts he will be insufferable.

   No train stuff again, but when I return from this last race of the year the CFO and I are off to the Grand Canyon and Williams for a ride on the Grand Canyon Senic Railway. Should be fun.

   All for now, still battling with the Lotus 7. How the car ever ran is amazing as nothing really fits when you go to reassemble. CUL,J.R.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Leesville, LA  71446      11/21/2006

Wind Chill:  32°F

Humidity:  88%

Dew Point:  29°F

So Far Today High:  34°F Low:  32°F Rain:  N/A" Rain Rate:  N/A"/h Gust:  0mph NNE

High: 62 °F
Low: 32 °F

!  Freeze warning in effect until 8 AM cst this morning.

Today: High: 62    Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight: Low: 32    Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Light and variable winds.

This morning I would like the bacon and eggs.

[Anonymous]

Morning gang,

Tempertures in the low 30's this morning. That's about 15 degrees below normal for this time of the year. And there is a nice frost on the ground this morning.

Jerry. We wish you many, many more. I see PC is having a birthday party for you.

And we will be praying for both you and Sallie that I promise.

RYAN:

That holiday menu sounds really good, you cooking all that too?

YUP, I will be the chef  and bottle washer on that day. Glad to hear Bryan is in for the Holidays.

MoM and I went Christmas shopping Saturday and Sunday , and now that is finished. Have to pick up groceries today for Thanksgiving. I'll start cooking tomorrow and have most of that done by Thursday morning. Still need to pick up the travel trailor from the dealer. Will try to do that today. We plan to do Christmas day on the road. Don't know where, don't care. That's what is great about being retired I guess.

RT: I'll take the turkey that is well done. Never liked biting into a rare bird.LOL

PC:

I had to scrape a bit of snow off the car this morning

you can keep the snow up there. These people don't do well with snow down here. Can only remember it snowing here twice in the last 25 years.

Here is wishing every one a great day.............Neal

 

[ModelTrainLover]

Hey guys. thanks for the support. Now I know that I am not the only one around here that has been teased. but there is one thing I forgot to tell you.. some times my friends add sexual inputs to their jokes.

[SilverSpike]

Good morning all you coffee shop patrons out there in Internet land today!

I pulled out the 14 lb. turkey last night for the marinating preparation, and tomorrow night I’ll be baking the Pumpkin Pies and Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pies. Then on Thanksgiving Day I’ll be putting together my special Jack Daniel’s Sweet Potato Casserole. Can you say cornbread, mashed potatoes and gravy, waooooo……?

Many people are already off for the holidays, the parking lot is half full today, going to be slow here at work the next few days.

Dick, we are in the midst of a global cycle of atmospheric change that naturally occurs over time and since the industrial revolution it has been speed up a bit, and I sense that things are changing a bit faster than Mother Nature typically handles.

RT, another funny one there!

PC, thanks for dinner last night! That lobster tail and steak were perfect! Hit the spot!

Colby, just shrug it off and know that you are among friends here in the CS. There are many people who love this hobby and are not ashamed to admit it. People who make fun of others and who make put downs of others are themselves jealous and also insecure about themselves. They have to make other people feel bad in order to make themselves feel good, do not let it get you down. If you laugh with them when they are making wise cracks it usually diffuses the situation, sometimes if you just play along with it and turn it around on them they will stop. If it is coming from mean tempered classmates you should go to the office and tell the counselors or principle about their behavior. Especially since they are getting into more personal issues, and if that is making you uncomfortable I would definitely tell the office staff and let them know that they are making sexual harassments toward you, and others might be getting offended too but are too afraid to tell anyone.

Neal, good deal, I’ll be cooking too, starting tonight and tomorrow night with the desserts.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheers,

Ryan

[pcarrell]

Morning Dan!  Morning Everyone else!

Another chilly reception waiting for me when I went to the car this morning.  Heavy frost and 29 degrees.

Here's the current local weather for the Indianapolis, Indiana area:

Hey Colby, don't sweat it man.  Blow those comments off.  Kids can be mean.  If you pay attention to them it will just fuel the fire.  Blow it off and pretty soon they'll focus on something else.  Don't give them the satasfaction of getting to you.

Glad you liked the dinner Ryan.

Well, time to get some work done.

Prayers go out for all those in need (that's all of us really).

[NeO6874]

'Morning everyone!

I'll just have teo scrambled eggs and toast, with a side of bacon for breakfast today and a glas of chocolate milk to wash it down. 

Cleveland, Ohio
Currently: 33°F Partly Cloudy

Wind: at 0 MPH
Humidity: 75%
Dewpoint: 26°F
Barometer: 30.53 inches and rising

Wind: at 0 KPH
Humidity: 75%
Dewpoint: -3°C
Barometer: 1034 millibars and rising

Last updated: 9:00 am EST November 21, 2006

... and the weather people say its supposed to be in the 40s for Thanksgiving... I'll believe it when I see it...


Colby - like everyone else has said, you will do better to just ignore it (vent it later either here, or ala Gomez Addams - but only with a pair of junk locos... wouldn't want to see a nice pair get trashed).. Trust me, I had it as bad as (maybe even a little worse than) you.. both for trains and pen & paper RPGs... it was a pain for a while, but about a month after I stopped showing the people it got me riled when they said things, they finally stopped... well most of them stopped within a week, but there was always that one kid who wouldn't let it go...

[Cox 47]

Good Morning All......Sunny but cold here this morning..posta get up into low 50's great day for this time of year...I'll have a Windy City Dog drag it thru the garden onion rings and a Diet Coke....Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday makes a fellow feel good to have so many friends....I started work on a small town drive-in with car hops yesterday got the main building ruffed out...won't get much more done till after Thanksgiving....Kids have decided to have our thanksgiving on Saturday so I have a couple more days before I have to cover layout...Jeff...Sure glad to have you back but take it easy....Mike...I forgot to congratulate you on picture..Trains Magazine is gonna be offering you a job!!I think yours are better than a lot I see in there....Are you going to Florida with Deb next week? Well  I was setting thinking this morning about all I have to be thankfull for...Its a long list and I'm sure I left a lot out...Maybe we all should stop around this time of year and say thanks for all that we do have..I don't know about you all but I feel like I have been most richly bless....Jerry

[rtraincollector]

Heres a pic inch's wife sent of his earlier days

 

 

[Anonymous]

Which is inch, the one on the floor, or the one with the lamp shade on his head?

[ModelTrainLover]

hey guys.. thaks for all of the advice. I've told my dad about. like you guys said just blow it off. though one of my buds addmitted that he liked the LEGO trains. I was suprised.... and here is some RR news from Maine. Elsworth track repair is starting on the old MCE trackage that runs from Elsworth up to Calis. possible excoursions by 2008, some switches on the line are in working order. Over the years many people have worked to keep the line free of trees, cleaned out culverts, ect. next year ties will be replaced. got it from the Trains news letter

[rtraincollector]

Model Train Lover you could always reply to the smart alacks you got any old trains you don't want I'll take them I use to and believe it or not got a few good sets that way.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Model Train Lover you could always reply to the smart alacks you got any old trains you don't want I'll take them I use to and believe it or not got a few good sets that way.

Yeah, it works, I've done the same thing.

This is the current weather here.

Leesville, LA  71446      11/21/2006

Wind Chill:  60°F

Humidity:  24%

Dew Point:  23°F

So Far Today High:  60°F Low:  30°F Rain:  N/A" Rain Rate:  N/A"/h Gust:  7mph W

Tonight: Low: 30    Clear. Lows around 30. Light and variable winds.

[bjdukert]

Just a short one but,I would like to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

  Talk to you later

Duke

[pcarrell]

Just a short one but,I would like to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

  Talk to you later

Duke

And likewise to you too Sir!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well, I had a  busy day today. I got to the wood shop this morning and we loaded all the targets onto pallets and wrapped and banded them. Then we cut up 96 4 x 8 sheets of 3/4" CDX plywood. That took the rest of the day and we're still not finished. That's job #1 tomorrow.

[NeO6874]

Went to the LHS today, and bought my first packages of KDs... it was great, until the part where I realized that I didn't have any mounting hardware (stupid me for assuming that they had screws in the package....)

Also picked up a pair of roundhouse boxcar kits, and a bottle of oil.  Wow, it's amazing what a litle TLC will do to a loco...

anyway - is there anywhere I could pick up either a #50 drill and self-tapping 2-56 screws, or the drill 2-56 screws and a 2-56 drill/tap set?  I didn't think about it at the LHS because of assuming there were screws in the package, and that the locos already had body mount couplers... (learned my lesson after I got home.. NEVER ASSUME!)

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Went to the LHS today, and bought my first packages of KDs... it was great, until the part where I realized that I didn't have any mounting hardware (stupid me for assuming that they had screws in the package....)

Also picked up a pair of roundhouse boxcar kits, and a bottle of oil.  Wow, it's amazing what a litle TLC will do to a loco...

anyway - is there anywhere I could pick up either a #50 drill and self-tapping 2-56 screws, or the drill 2-56 screws and a 2-56 drill/tap set?  I didn't think about it at the LHS because of assuming there were screws in the package, and that the locos already had body mount couplers... (learned my lesson after I got home.. NEVER ASSUME!)

That's what I tell my fire fighters, never assume. If you assume something is so, you usually end up making an a*s of u and me

[NeO6874]

yep...


note to self - stock up on 2-56 screws and other loot that will come in handy...but where can I find the stuff I need?

well, looks like dinner (for the west coast guys) is on me....

what'll you guys be having?

Steak:


Pork Chops:


or Surf 'n Turf:

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the dinner Dan.

Try this    http://walthers.com/exec/search?manu=230&split=30   for the screws, drills, etc. And Dan if that is not what you are looking for just shop around Walthers.

Neal

[NeO6874]

Thanks for that... though I was actually loocking for a local supply so I wouldn't have to wait for the parts... though MicroMark has a tap&drill set for $21.95... maybe I'll just get that - it has 00-90, 0-80, 1-72 and 2-56, their corresponding drils, and a pin vise. 

I think that'd hold me over as far as tools go (well, for a while at least)

[inch53]

Mornin, coffee please Zoe,

 

Heres a pic inch's wife sent of his earlier days

 

 

Might have been me on the floor, but thats not our turkey. I always took care of that problem outside

Jerry,,,, not going ta Florida, I be stuck here at home for 4 days alone with kids, holding the fort. Course she's started a honey do list for when she's gone and thinks I should get it all done [ain't happen'en].

Found this link looking back throught pages out front. It's a great video on YouTube done with HO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XwbF3vFTn8

Heres another one for all you pumpkin pie lovers

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=HY27482779

nothin planned for the day, other than back outside for more yard work. Only have J Bird today and thats just for a couple hours. Hope ya'll has a gooden

inch