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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:18 PM

Floor in went into town and got couch wife bought yesterdayCensored [censored]Censored [censored]. Had to take door off hinges to get the Censored [censored]couch in . If  I  hear one squeak about my trains !!!!

 

Just kidding did do above but was with her when she bought yesterday so really can't complain just making a juicey entrance.

Okay its the xmas spirit time. So ooo

Life's hard, even harder if your stupid  John Wayne

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:17 PM

 

Now that's funny! Like it saya, used to.

Just been doing a liitle work on the layout today. And I think I've finally got an electrical problem with an E6 taken care of.

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Posted by Hoople on Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:58 PM
GUESS WHAT!
 
ITS SNOWING!! WHAHOOOOOO!
YAYYYYY!!!!!

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!

WHOOPIE!
 
Now if only it was a little deeper...
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 5:21 PM
Do me a favor and keep the snow up there, we don't need it in Louisiana. You haven't seen funny until you've seen a redneck trying to cross an icy bridge at 70 mph. LOL

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, November 26, 2006 5:55 PM

Jeffery ever seen rednecks use a snowplow to clear snow from the road? It usually turns out like this

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:07 PM
 rtraincollector wrote:

Jeffery ever seen rednecks use a snowplow to clear snow from the road? It usually turns out like this

 

LOL You're right! LOL

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Posted by pcarrell on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:00 PM
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 rtraincollector wrote:

Jeffery ever seen rednecks use a snowplow to clear snow from the road? It usually turns out like this

 

LOL You're right! LOL

A gold class example of government efficiency!

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Posted by pcarrell on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:03 PM

Just had to go and open my big mouth, huh?

OK, what's it going to be?  I'll have a Moxie Chloe.  Thanks!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:10 PM

I'll have the lamb chops and a Pepsi.

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Posted by inch53 on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:19 PM

To good not to pass on


A blonde pilot decided she wanted to learn how to fly a helicopter. She went to the airport, but the only one available was a solo-helicopter. The instructor figured he could let her go up alone since she was already a pilot for small planes, and he could instruct her via radio.
So up the blonde went. She reached 1,000 feet and everything was going smoothly. She reached 2,000 feet. The blonde and the instructor kept talking via radio. Everything was going smoothly. At 3,000 feet the helicopter suddenly came down quickly! It skimmed the top of some trees and crash- landed in the woods.
The instructor jumped into his jeep and rushed out to see if the blonde was okay. As he reached the edge of the woods, the blonde was walking out.
"What happened?" the instructor asked. "All was going so well until you reached 3,000 feet. What happened then?"
"Well," began the blonde, "I got cold, so I turned off the ceiling fan!"


 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:38 PM

"I got cold, so I turned off the ceiling fan!"

That's a good one!

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Posted by NeO6874 on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:40 PM
LOL!

but... what does that have to do with trains...Question [?]

... I need to get to a hobby store and get myself some more loot.... and kadees....

but first... my car needs work... the battery light came on as soon as I pulled in the parking lot at school.... as if something else couldn't go wrong with that....Angry [:(!]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:44 PM
 NeO6874 wrote:
LOL!

but... what does that have to do with trains...Question [?]

... I need to get to a hobby store and get myself some more loot.... and kadees....

but first... my car needs work... the battery light came on as soon as I pulled in the parking lot at school.... as if something else couldn't go wrong with that....Angry [:(!]
This is the Coffee Shop, you can talk about anything here.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 9:34 PM

Here's the weather for my area tonight.

Wind Chill60°F
Humidity87%
Dew Point56°F
 
 So Far Today
High75°F
Low53°F
Rain0.01"
Rain RateN/A"/h
Gust15mph SE
 
Rest Of Tonight  Low: 55    Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds. 
 
Monday  High: 75    Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A 20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds becoming east around 10 mph in the afternoon.  

Monday Night  Low: 62    Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.

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Posted by grayfox1119 on Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:48 PM
PAUL: Believe it or not, that add for the steamer was sent to me today from LHS CURRENT. I had never seen this before , so I thought it was something new...ohh well.

DER JOHN: Now that was real nice of you John, what a great meal!!

Time to hit the sack, been a long day, see you guys in the AM.
Dick If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!! Learn from the mistakes of others, trust me........you can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, I tried !! Picture album at :http://www.railimages.com/gallery/dickjubinville Picture album at:http://community.webshots.com/user/dickj19 local weather www.weatherlink.com/user/grayfox1119
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:54 PM
A friend of mine in El Paso had a HO scale live steamer in 69. It ran on alcohol.

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Monday, November 27, 2006 4:59 AM
GOOD MORNING ! FROM TIPTON IN.

11-27-06

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Posted by inch53 on Monday, November 27, 2006 5:15 AM

Mornin,just coffee Zoe

Another day in the 60's, with overcast skys and some sun. They're holding the rain off till tomorrow.

Neal,,, #3 son was scrapping last year, he had a 2 ton gas eating the profits, so he got a desiel, then fuel price shot up. He was wishing he had the gaser back.  

Flip,,, I mailed the last tape you sent me to Chuck an Kathy a good while ago. Haven't heard anything on the others.

GMT,,, the crane is at the yard and caboose downtown, bout 5-6 blocks away.

Der,,, your bench project came out right nice,, looks good there.

Jim CG,,, sorry ya didn't make the show, but understand why. We've got a couple freinds like that,, kinda takes the fun out of nice day.

Nothin planned here, just another day in the woods. Mother has to finish her backing this evening and get ta bed early. MIL is picking her up bout 5 in the morning for her flight from Indy. It'll be her first time on a big plane. I'm not going with them, got kids. Time fur chores, hope ya'll has a gooden

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Posted by LSWrr on Monday, November 27, 2006 5:27 AM
Good morning all,

69 here today for the high, starting Wednesday they say the high will be 31. Does anyone have statistical data for steam switchers? ALCO or Baldwin 0-4-0 or saddle tankers?

I was disappointed my Dash-8’s didn’t sell on eBay and I lost the auction on a ten wheeler and a Niagara.

Well I hope you all have a good day,

Lee

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 27, 2006 5:32 AM
Good morning





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Posted by Cox 47 on Monday, November 27, 2006 6:00 AM
Good Morning All....Its 52 here this morning posta be up around 60 today....I'll have coffee and a couple ok Krispy Kreams please...Sallie is getting ready for dailissis ...We had 16 in for dinner on Saturday had a good tme and lots of good eats....My only grandson first thing walked up to the layout and said papa jerry where's the choo choo's....I got get it uncovered and back in operation later today...Inch nice pictures from Palestine...Jim sorry you missed the Collinsville show I have traveled with some folks like that I never want to dip into my train show stash to eat...You might make plans to come up to Mattoon in Febuary for thier show its pretty good...Well i think I'll set over here in the corner and see who else comes in...Have a good one...Jerry
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, November 27, 2006 6:25 AM

Weather for the Leesville area today.

Leesville, LA  71446      11/27/2006

Wind Chill:  56°F
Humidity:  93%
Dew Point:  57°F
 
So Far Today
High:  61°F
Low:  57°F
Rain:  N/A"
Rain Rate:  N/A"/h
Gust:  14mph ESE
 
High: 75 °F
Low: 58 °F

Today  High: 75    Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.  

Tonight  Low: 58    Increasing clouds. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Monday, November 27, 2006 6:59 AM
 Hoople wrote:
GUESS WHAT!
 
ITS SNOWING!! WHAHOOOOOO!
YAYYYYY!!!!!

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!

WHOOPIE!
 
Now if only it was a little deeper...


SEND US SNOW!!!! PLEASE!!
We are having 30* temps!! We want snow!!!!
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Posted by GMTRacing on Monday, November 27, 2006 7:14 AM

Good Morning All,

   Lots of ice on the car this morning put the heat on straight away in the shop as well. I'll have just the coffee as I got a late start this morning. Need to run over to the museum later to drop off my little generator. For the Christmas rides we set our NH caboose on the turntable and this year we will put lights on it and use the little generator to run the lights. Should look cool. I also got the light for the semaphore in the yard fixed and need to put it up before I leave tomorrow morning.

   Jerry - Glad you and Sallie had a good Thanksgiving and hope her dialysis goes well today. If we have any extra n gage stuff show up what do you need? the museum layout is a representation of Danbury and its' loop yard in the late Fifties so any rolling stock newer than that is eventually surplussed off.

   Hope everyone else is doing ok - good to see DerJohn back amoung us. Time to get to work for me. CULBig Smile [:D],J.R.

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, November 27, 2006 8:11 AM

Well good morning everyone!

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend.  I know I did.  I got a lot of benchwork done!  My son is quite the carpenter!

Now I've got to get ready for the daughters birthday party coming up next.

So hey!  How 'bout this weather we're having?  Pretty nice for this time of year!

And check this out!

A friend of mine sent this to me:

The Good news:
It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, KS when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train to head on the long trek back to Salina.
The Bad
news:
Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became overheated and melted off letting the truck support drop down and grind on top of the rail creating white hot molten metal droppings to spew downward on the rail.
The Good
news:
A very alert crew noticed a small amount of smoke about halfway back in the train and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules.
The Bad
news:
The train just happened to stop with the hot wheel on top of a wooden bridge built with creosote ties and trusses





RULES ARE RULES! Don't let common sense get in the way of a good disaster!

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Posted by SilverSpike on Monday, November 27, 2006 9:01 AM

Turkey soup is in order for tonight’s dinner, using up the left over carcass and mostly dark meat. All the turkey sandwiches and leftovers are finally done too. I think we need to start exercising again, must have gained 10 lbs. this week. We ate up the last of the pecan pie last night too.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Holiday! And now the countdown starts, only 29 days until Christmas.

We started our Christmas shopping and decorating this past weekend too. Went to a “choose and cut” tree farm near Falls Lake and cut down a Leyland Cypress and also got some White Pine garland and a wreath. The Christmas lights and decorations went up on Saturday and Sunday.

We went to the NC State football game Saturday night and watch them get beat by East Carolina University. It was fun though going to a college football night game, cold too!

Ran some trains on the nearly completed staging yard with the temporary DC power pack. All the power feed drops are soldered, just have to attach the track to the cork and make minor adjustments on the track lengths and attach them to the switches. There is one switch that has an intermittent loss of power on the throw, might test it with the power connection on the other side of the throw.

Philip, looks like Thanksgiving dinner got your energy up for some benchwork! Great start on the layout and nice leveling tool too! Not sure where I saw that before, but that train fire sure was an interesting incident.

Fergie, great news about your dad, just in time for Christmas too!

Inch, another round of great RR photos there, thanks for sharing.

Neal, now that is a good reason to get the F-250. We use the same GPS, slow to respond but it is cheaper method.

Flip, I have one of the tapes, since the move we are still unpacking. I will try to watch it soon and pass it on. Sorry for the delay.

Der John, nice work on the bench window seats, and dinner meal sounds good too! Yep, that photo confirms, just how I like my beef too, medium-rare, yum!

Jim in the Cape, I know what you mean about the holiday diet thing. Make your own pizza party sounds like a fun time.

Cheers,

Ryan

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, November 27, 2006 11:21 AM
 SilverSpike wrote:

Ran some trains on the nearly completed staging yard with the temporary DC power pack. All the power feed drops are soldered, just have to attach the track to the cork and make minor adjustments on the track lengths and attach them to the switches. There is one switch that has an intermittent loss of power on the throw, might test it with the power connection on the other side of the throw.

Looks like you're a bit ahead of me.  I'll be there soon though!

Philip, looks like Thanksgiving dinner got your energy up for some benchwork! Great start on the layout and nice leveling tool too!

Yeah, I'm all the way around the room now.  I need to take  a couple more pics.  It was kind of sad though yesterday.  I needed more wood for framework and so my son and I tore apart the staging yard for the last layout.  That was all that was left of it.  I knew I was going to have to do it, but it was still kind of tough after all the work that went into it.  Now I have pieces of layout EVERYWHERE!  But I got the framework wood that I needed!  Next is the top deck!  Then the helix! (not looking forward to that really)

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, November 27, 2006 11:34 AM

Hey!

Lunch is on me!

Your choices are:

A Turkey Sandwich,

some Salmon,

The Tex-Mex Platter,

or the Surprise Bag,

I don't expect to get rid of a lot of Surprise Bags!

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Posted by SilverSpike on Monday, November 27, 2006 12:12 PM

Thanks PC, nice lunch selection today! I'll have the salmon please!

It sure does help when you have a second set of hands assisting with the building of the benchwork. Once you get started it is hard to stop sometimes, and it looks like you are on a roll!

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, November 27, 2006 2:27 PM
 SilverSpike wrote:

Thanks PC, nice lunch selection today! I'll have the salmon please!

It sure does help when you have a second set of hands assisting with the building of the benchwork. Once you get started it is hard to stop sometimes, and it looks like you are on a roll!

Indeed!  It does go much faster.

Oh, and you're welcome!  That Salmon is good, huh?

Philip

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