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

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul W. Beverung

PhillC: Please don't go out of your way, but I would appreaciate it.

No, no, no, not a problem. See, I was kind of holding out on all of you. I'm going back next Sat. because one of the guy's on the restoration crew has invited me back for a private tour of NKP No. 587, a Mikado. It's in the shop partially torn down for a rebuild and he and I talked this morning and he said he'd get me in. I'll be sure to bring the camera for that! Anyways, while I'm up there I'll get some better shots of that car. It sits right next to the shop that 587 is in, so it's only out of my way by about 50ft.! I think I can "make the sacrifice"![:D]

Here's NKP no. 587 before the teardown taken just outside my backyard;


inch,

I see you've been busy with the camera too! Nice shots! I especially like the first one. It's a nice silhouette.

[inch53]

Evenin all, Barley pop please,

Gray Fox , those days of the past are found memories. We still do that kind of cooking here.

PC , great photos, really liked the ones inside the cabs.

Der , enjoyed the photos from up your way mighty purtty
I’ll dig that crane out and get you some measurements and pics sent out.

ED , hope ya have a good safe trip

Greg , sounds like you had fun at your prom. I know, I need oh some many yours ago

Paul , a party for Greg sounds good to me. I’ll furni***he cake if I can talk Mother into baking one along with the 4 others she has lined up.

Don’t get much done in the train room today, but I did get out and got some rail fanning pics. Got these this after noon, 1’st crossing E. of Cline Orchard crossing. This is a W. bound on the N. siding



This a E. bound on the main line



Got some more for later and a story. so night all
inch

[Paul W. Beverung]

Good Evening Gang:

Greg: We've been burning brush for a couple of days now. I called the sherrifs dept and let them know what we wanted to do, they said go ahead so we fired up. I had to quit burning the right of way because the wind picked up and was making the fire hard to control. We're supposed to get some more rain Tuesday so I may do it again that evening. We've had coyotes in the back yard a couple of times. I use a copy of a 1892 Winchester in .357 for that duty. It is the real short trappers model and a very handy weapon to handle.

PhillC: Please don't go out of your way, but I would appreaciate it.

Hot Shot: That is a great job the kids are doing. My hats off to them.

Gang, I'd like to suggest that we throw a graduation party for Greg. I'm sure that the girls would let us use the coffee shop.

Ed: We're waiting.

Der: You really know how to make an old soul from the great lakes feel homesick. Those photos look good.

Well, it's time for bed again. It's getting so that it seems that the only thing I do is get up, go to work and come home and go to bed.

So, Good Night All

[Anonymous]

GREAT Photos Phillip !!! Love it.

der5997, yes HILLTOP as an experience. God's work through outreach.
It's actually HILL Tupelo Outreach Project. But yes, it's a wonderful experience. I took 311 photos over the past two days at 21 work sites. I put nearly 300 miles on my car. It was worth every bit of time and money it took me to do this.

Now Chloe and Zoe, how about a nice cold glass of Iced Sweet Tea ! :-) (Southern Thing) heheheeee

[pcarrell]

Oh, one last pic.

Just to prove there's a prototype for just about ANYTHING.......


(click to enlarge) Read the name on this thing!

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by der5997

PC: Thanks for the photos. Took me a while to orient myself inside 426. I was thinking the throttle was on the right hand. [D)]

I took it from just behind and to the left of the engineers seat. You can see the back of the seat in the photo.

BTW, those shots of your's sure do make me homesick. I lived in Belfast, Me. for a long time. Spent a lot of time on Deer Isle too.

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul W. Beverung

I don't suppose that you have a good side view of that Milwaukee Road Reefer that you could get for me? I've got a couple of Train Minature reefers that I want to letter for the Milwaukee Road.

I can get you some next weekend.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by grayfox1119

GASOLINE ALERT Filled up last night and the price was $2.83, and he was changing the prices for today to $2.89. There are some stations in the Boston area that has regular at $3.03 already! And in NJ, several stations RAN OUT OF GAS!!! The reason was given that.......the refineries are switching over to Ethenol.....ya right, and I just sold a bucket of ice to some Eskimos too !!!

COYOTE ATTACK Just came on the news, a father was bitten on the arm by a Coyote that was part of a pack near a camp ground about 25 miles NW of here on the NH border. The father tried to chase the Coyotes away with pepper spray, but one Coyote attacked. Eastern Coyotes are getting very bold and less fearful of humans.

Sounds like the service station guys are trying to feed a bunch of crap to their customers now, maybe hoping to start a new market since they're out of gasoline. I'm waiting for one of our local coyotes to come up and taunt our dogs like he usually does, there's a loaded .30-06 on my bed as we speak. (yes, the bolt's open and the safety is on)

QUOTE: By Paul B.: I guess I'll burn the dead grass and weeds on the 7.5 in track. If I'd get the weed killer out earler than I could avoid this.

FIRE!!! NEED FIRE!!! Been without it too long with these burn bans! Most places won' t burn too easily now, the grass is green enough to stop it, it's not growing, but it's green.

We've been busy putting in air conditioners/heaters for the last couple of days, one of the old ones was 34 years old, and the other was 29, so Dad figured it was about time to replace them, and these are a lot more energy efficient units. They're split systems, which makes them a lot harder to install than a package unit, but it looks a lot better.

Prom was last night, and Graduation's coming up on May 19. Prom was good, the theme was Las Vegas, so they had a casino set up for a little while where the winners got tickets for a drawing (you also got tickets if you were on the dance floor, that's how I got most of mine), and drew for 3 prizes every 30 minutes. My date was really nice, I really didn't know her all that well, but we go to college together, and she's a whole lot better girl (i.e. she doesn't go out in the country and get drunk every weekend) than anyone in my class, so we got along pretty well.

Well, I've got to go to youth group in a minute, so I'd better be going,
Greg

[egmurphy]

Good Afternoon Coffee Clubbers

Well, we're in the middle of packing. Should finish in a short while. We leave on our trip north tomorrow morning. So I'll be off line even more than usual for about two and a half weeks. May find someplace to log in and catch up on posts, but can't be sure.

Should be at Paul B's next Saturday, and at Teffy's the following Tuesday. So I should get a bit of a forum/model rr fix anyway. Also going to try to stop by the Railroad Museum in Dallas. They have a Big Boy on display. I've never seen one in real life (or real steel, as it were), and am looking forward to that too.

Hold the fort until I get back. I'll still be hanging around for the rest of the afternoon.

Regards

Ed

[der5997]

Good afternoon, and a very Springlike afternoon it is.[^] Thought that I’d share the sunrise this morning.

While we were having lunch, we saw the local lobster fisherman checking his traps in Mozier Cove. This is the first time we’ve seen him this season, didn’t catch him setting them in the foul weather we’ve had since the season opened on the 19th.


Jerry: Sorry to hear Sallie Wasn’t so well yesterday. On the building not being square, if you do shorten one wall, and the corner is at the back, a down spout would lead the eye away from any mismatched bricks. (It probably would in the front too, especially if you put a figure nearby.)[swg]

RT: [tup] on your find of interior boards. That’s quite the place you have there. This smilie is green with envy[:P]…so’s this one[alien]

***:

QUOTE: This is a slow mover, and it looks like next Friday before you see the sun again.

… that rain is due tomorrow. The paper said it may be sunny again on Thursday. We generally go by the TV, but Ellen has the paper, and likes the forecast there.

TupeloRob: Feeling for you in the loss of your friend. 49 is Way too young. As you say, she’s in the best place, and it’s those left who are grieving. But you grieve “not as those who have no hope”, and that makes all the difference.[angel]
That HILLTOP project sounds very good indeed. Hilltop as in experience?[?]

Mike:

QUOTE: DER , if you were doing HO, I would make you a good deal on a traveling container crane.

Could you possibly throw a scale rule over that crane, and give a photo or two? It seems I’m stuck with having to scrathbuild one if I am to get one in N. SeaRails only supply built up ones, and their price is $399 plus shipping, and I hate to think what that would be.[:O][V][sigh]

PC: Thanks for the photos. Took me a while to orient myself inside 426. I was thinking the throttle was on the right hand. [D)]

Getting on towards Rossie feeding time, so I’ll say TTFN. Did get a little more plaster work done this p.m., and should now be able to take away the newspaper that’s been preventing the container freight from proceeding for about 3 days now. [:o)]

[Paul W. Beverung]

Hay John, Come on over and have one on me. I'm just killing a few minutes untill go home time. There isn't much to say today. I spent the day here at work doing not much of anything speical. The CD player at Gold River was acting up so I got to set and fiddle with it for an hour or so. Than the water level at the gator pool was high this morning so I turned the make up water down. Then it got alittle low so had to ad some and set the make up water again. When I left it it seemed to be doing alright. Not real hard but you have to set and watch to see if what you did is riight.

I guess I'll burn the dead grass and weeds on the 7.5 in track. If I'd get the weed killer out earler than I could avoid this. I need to take the trailer down and park it at the lumber pile we're getting rid of, then take the tractor and put the hay forks back on so we can put out some hay.

Phillip: Those are good shots of the equipment. I like those old outside braced box cars. I doint suppose that you have a good side view of that Milwaukee Road Reefer that you could get for me? I've got a couple of Train Minature reefers that I want to letter for the Milwaukee Road.

Time to hit the road. I may get back in tonight. Lots to do before Ed gets here.

Good Afternoon All

[pcarrell]

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!

I'm off the hook!

Cox gets the bill!

Since that's the case, I'll have eggs, bacon, pancakes, and OJ. Thanks Cox!

[pcarrell]

OK guy's, this is probably going to hit the top of the page. With that in mind, I've taken out a second mortgage on the house. The vette didn't pan out, so I had to do something!

I'll take some of that coffee Chloe. Thanks!

Well, I went for another Sunday morning walk. Got some great pic's I thought I'd share with all of you. I won't post them all because there's too many, but I'll share some of the highlights. If you want to see more just click the link in my signature.









And here's the engineer's view........


From NKP 426.


And the highlight of the tour......

The cab of Monon # 83. Here she is......


And here's her cab....
from the engineers seat.....


And across the cab...


It was a nice walk, as you can see. There's more pic's on my railimages account if you're interested.

inch,
Yeah, I missed out on the vette. It's not nice that wetidlerjr keeps teasing me with it. [swg]

All,

There's a lot of you out there who've asked for prayer, and I haven't forgotten about you. I pray for you regularly, even if I don't always tell you that I do.

Well, I'm outta here!

Catch ya later!

[grayfox1119]

Good morning everyone, a cloudy and very raw day today, only 43F after 70's on Friday, my body doesn't know whether it is winter or spring!! Not much rain yet as they said, the rain guage says 0.09" since midnight, but, they said we will get about 2" by tonight.

Yesterday, I helped son #2 plant 10 Colorado Blue Spruce trees along the North side of his driveway. They make excellent wind and snow breaks in Winter. We get the trees from the Forestry, up here in Massachusetts, as seedlings , 25 for $13. After about 5 years they are 3' tall, and ideal for transplanting. My back told me last night that I was 67, not 35, and I said, " yes ohh great one, I know it " [:)][:)]

The way everything has turned green, I need to do the annual maintenance on the mowers, ie, new or sharpened blades, change the oil and spark plugs, grease the fittings, blow out all the nuts and grass from the engine left by wintering mice, check air pressure in tires.

INCH53 Mike, I see you were up early this morning, and it looks like you are gettin ready for some fishing too....catfish on the old black iron fryin pan like Grandma used to have for breakfast......ahhh, the good olde days of my youth.

HS CHARLIE What a great thing for the young people to do, fixin up the homes for those who cannot........this renews my faith in humanity. God bless those people!!!!

Well, were headed over the hill 1000' to son #2's house for Sunday dinner and a relaxing afternoon. I'm sure that the fireplace will be ON also on such a raw, cool, damp day.

Have a great and Blessed Sunday to all, and prayers to all who need God's helping hand....

[Cox 47]

Well looks like I'll be washing dishes to pay my tab You all have a good one and belly up and enjoy!!! Jerry

[Cox 47]

Morning all....Sunny and a little cooler here...I'll have the lumberjack breakfast this morning and plenty of coffee...I'm still cussing that DPM building but I do have the 4 walls glued together and almost square...My brother is coming this afternoon he took some measurerments and was gonna cut a old mirror to put under a hiway overpass to hopefully make my interchange track look like it goes on instead of running into back drop...Well you all have a good Sunday....Jerry

[inch53]

MORNIN ALL, coffee and a couple of Bills doughnuts Janie.

Lit the heat stove again this morning, kinda cool out, I’ll run it long enough to get the dampness out. Temps up in the 70’s today and rain coming in for tomorrow. Weather guessers are saying a chance of frost for Wed. and Thur mornin.
I got all the carpets cleaned yesterday, including the train room. Didn’t get the bed rooms done, Mother still has some cleaning to do in them the bed rooms. That pretty well shot the day and my back, so didn’t do much else.

Hot Shot , Sorry to hear of your friends passing. Our thoughts be with you and the family

DER , if you were doing HO, I would make you a good deal on a traveling container crane. I got one in a yard sale box of trains a few years ago and have no need of it.
Enjoyed the song, I’d forgotten it, but then I seem to have forgot several things

Jerry , the box car would work just fine, have them drop it on Little John’s siding just out back

RT , that a right good deal on the plywood. I could sure have use bout 20 sheets here on a couple projects.

*** , Heard bout the gas back east on the news. Gas is higher here than the national average of 2.83. It’s 2.89 – 2.92 now. #1 son said gas went up to 3.00 in Marshall this week for a couple hours then dropped
The coyotes round here are cross with domestic dogs, called coys. Haven’t heard of any attacks here, but they will challenge a body out in the woods.

PC , I heared ya missed out on the vette, better luck next time.

Need to get going and fire the smoker up, I is fixing a drunk smoked chicken for supper. Between keeping the fire hot and a race, hoping to get some train time in. Laters all
inch

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning ! from Indiana. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Hey thanks *** for the message. yep, she's better off. Happy and walking on those streets of gold.

Hope everyone has a joyus Sunday, and hope the weekend is going great. I went out and shot photos of our "HILLTOP" group today. Area churches get together and send out kids with adult leaders and repair, paint and fix up homes of those that either can't do it themselves or can't afford to do it. It's a total blessing for everyone envolved. I saw a lot of home owner tears today..... I also saw a lot of kids with smiling faces. Great project.

Hey Chloe and Zoe, nothing for me tonight.... gone to bed, early church come quickly ! Prayers for all in need.

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by der5997

A beautiful day here on the Eastern Shore. I should probably be outside, but I need to keep an eye on the credit card with PC around placing orders for exotic non-food items. PC, you can get your own here:

Hey, you can't blame a guy for trying! I was just trying to recoup some of my losses.[:D]

Philip