Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Good afternoon folks!
Busy day here at the grindstone....
Ok, only twenty more days until Christmas......sorry Don!
The little elves have been really busy around here too I see.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Morning Gang: It is official, I will retire on 2 Feb 06. I'm not getting the vacation since they changed the vacation rules starting Jan 1. I think that I may be coming down with something that will be intermittant for a couple of months.
Morning Gang: It is official, I will retire on 2 Feb 06. I'm not getting the vacation since they changed the vacation rules starting Jan 1. I think that I may be coming down with something that will be intermittant for a couple of months.
Paul, I feel for ya man! But I bet you meant 2 Feb 07, eh! I know that reading glasses are in my future too, but I just need to make the appointment with the vision doc! Anytime you are ready with the images...
Inch, that story while not really true does make me want to light one up myself, but I haven't had the pleasure of a cigar in over 6 years. And still tobacco free!
Hey, Smitty, I figured the cigar story was debunked by Snopes! One of my favorite sites too!
Neal, great decision on the IC, they were a major rail service through Mississippi and Louisiana. I can remember the IC passenger service out of New Orleans NOUPT was large. Thanks for the Christmas package!
Philip, we need to see daily photo updates of your progress! Remember, progress reports are taken very seriously here, especially when you burn the midnight oil! K
Gotta go for now... more catchin up with you guys later...
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good afternoon gents, been away from the CS for 5 days. Lots going on this time of year, plus I have been online with MS working some issues with Windows Mail that turned out to be problems with the SMTP server at my ISP's site...grrr they told me it was MS's fault, WRONG...today the truth came out when many others in this area had the same problem , now Charter had to "fess-up". Incoming mail was Ok but outgoing was being rejected.
Well......Winter finally arrived here, the temp got down to 19F last night, it is all the way up to 28.1F now at 2pm...WOW ....a heat wave. The normal high for this area is 45F in early December. It has been snowing off and on all day very lightly, only sticking to the grass and trees.
The woodburner in the lower level is going full bore today, as well as the Pellet stove on the 1st floor.
Saturday, my youngest son and my grandson went to the Eastern MA MRR show in Marlboro, MA, 47,000 sq ft, over 200 tables. It was a good show, I bought an NCE Decoder Tester, and three books that cover every RR in this area for Railfanning. These books have every piece of info that you could ever want regarding the subject. The time tables, the frequencies for radios, the best locations for viewing and taking pictures, directions with maps, where the NOGO zones are ( so you don't get arrested like PC ), and so much more data that I can't list it all. Each manual/book is about 2" thick, 8.5 X 11 in size, $25 each.
PAUL:Congrats on your retirement I know that you and the wife will really enjoy life after work.....one piece of advice....don't tell her how to organize the kitchen...DON'T GO THERE PAUL !!!!!
MIKE: I love those Lawyer jokes, and you know, after taking several Law courses in college for my MBA back in 1990, there are some actual cases that are so far fetched from reality, that yours has more believability. Did mom get back from Florida yet? How is your DIL doing now?
RYAN: Now that your Christmas shopping is almost done, has your CC burned up yet? I hope you budgetted enough $$ for MRR stuff from Santa !!
DER: No big storms in sight for at least a week, so Nova Scotia is safe from the wilds of Northeast Winters along the coastline for a short time, make the most of it, get to your LHS before we do get socked, and stock up for those long Winter days and nights ahead.
JEFF: Hey, temps in the 20's at night in Louisianna???? You folks don't have Pellet or Wood stoves down that far South do you? I have been in El Paso in February and no one had heat down there, if it got cold you just put a coat on because the next day it would be 70F again.
OK, time to get back to work, see you guys at supper table....
Don H: That list is almost as long as mine. I'm working on getting the basement cleaned out and fixed up. That's been going on for quite some time now. I have also been doing little things along the way and adding more kits to the pile.
John Trent: First Welcome to the coffee shop. What are you up to modeling wise? If you haven't already done so post your question on the General Forum and over on the Trains forum. You'll have a better chance of getting some one with that information there. This is a great place to stop and chat and there is alot of information in our heads. We'll try and help you lut if we possably can.
RT: Thanks for the congrats. I sometimes thought I'd reach this point. I'm looking forward to spending more time with my wife mostly, even if it's working on fences.
Jerry: As always we're pulling for Sallie. You take good care of her. I'll be sure and let you know how the foil tape works out. I may try a bit tonight.
Lunch time so I'll see you all later.
Inch agree its funny did not mean to step on toes . just it stated it was true not you.
Paul congrats on you retiring.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Hi John,
1950 - 1960 should have been the Pennsylvania Rail Road by 1960ish, what part of Toledo did he work at? I've had a few relitives work for the RR's around Toledo. Ask your boss if he knew Gilbert Soule.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hello Everyone. My name is John and I work for a gentleman who used to work for the Rail Road. He was employed at the Toledo Terminal from 1950-1960. I am interested in trying to figure out the history of the place he worked at. Specifically I am trying to figure out who owned the Toledo Terminal during the times he worked there.
If anyone has any info they think might help please respond.
Thanks for reading and have a good day!
John Kent
RT or anyone else
Who cares if it be fiction. It was funny and does say something about the way things are in todays world
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http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Morning Paul, Jeffrey, Jerry, Philip, Lee, Smitty and any one else I missed. Aw heck, morning all.
I brought all my nearly complete models (95% done) into work to for showing off and finishing during lunch time. Speaking of showing off, when is take a model train to work day?
Since I took a hiatus for six months, I decided to take invetory last night of all the kits I have to put together.
I got quite a stack forming here in the office and at home. Seems when I get a model more than 95% done, I go out and buy two more.
This is what is sitting in boxes still waiting to be built:
4 city classic buildings
3 roundhouse stalls
1 engine shop
1 LARGE coal tower
1 Vollmer church
1 car ferry
1 car ferry apron dock
1 front street warehouse
1 pier terminal
1 pier with crane
2 blast furnces (with 2 mostly done already)
1 coke oven
1 coke gas plant
1 electric furnace
1 Rolling mills (3 already 50% converted to open hearth)
1 Vulcan works
1 storage transfer team track
1 coal mine
1 Ore dump trestle (which I no longer have plans for on my layout...so I'm clueless on this part)
I think I need more glue (and help.)
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Morning Gang: Not much going on here at work. I'm in the process of cleaning the shop and my scooter. I've been Off and on cleaning and sorting for the last couple of weeks. It's amazing how much stuff accumulates in 30 years. I am also labeling the stuff that so that whoever comes after me will have some idea of what it is. I've got parts for railroad crossing gates in several places and want to make sure that they don't get thrown out. These old gates that we have date back to the 1930s and parts are hard if not impossible to come by. I've had to make some parts for them on occation. The gates are Western-Cullen Hays model 3564 on model 10 supports.
I've got to see if I can get window castings from Walthers for there new River mine or Spooner Sash & Door. The head frame that I'm working on has windows. I'm going to try and make the corragated siding from the silver tape that is used to seal A/C ducts. I'll let you know how that works out. Un fortunately I can't do much more untill I get some windows. If I can't get the Walthers windows, there is a grandt Line window that will work. The seliction of commerical windows is rather slim.
Well I'm going to finish drinking my coffee and get back at it. Whatever it is.
Double Dou. Top of the page again. Well since everyone was so good to me yesterday I'll put the steak and shrimp on the menue for today. A nice glass of wine and some coffee with desert. Ladies please see to everones needs.
Morning all!
Chilly 'round here, but nothin' like Moline, IL.! 4 degrees! Now thats nippy!
So hows everyone today?
I'm tierd. I stayed up WAY past my bedtime last night working on benchwork. Should've gone to bed a lot sooner, but I was making progress so I kept pushing. I got most of the "flying" section done last night. I call it that because one deck just sort of hangs above the other with a 40 inch overhang that gives the whole interchange section a kind of a shadowbox effect. Anyways, the main benchwork will be wrapping up soon and then I can start with the risers and sub roadbed.
So whats everyone doing today?
Good Morning all.
Jeff it looks like we are having the same weather again today, except I have about 4" of snow on the ground here. I find it interesting you live so far south of me and we are running the same air temp.
NESU:
http://icrrhistorical.org/logos.html
All the IC logos can be found here. Good luck
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Morning all,
Decissions, Decissions, Thats what life is all about. So I've made the decission to model the Illinois Central's "Central Mississippi Valley Route". Anyone have the CMVR herald in color would be greatly appreciated? Anyone wanting to sell some ICRR rolling stock or motive power would be greatly appreciated. Especially the cars with the CMRV herald. Oh , might I add this is in HO scale only. My G-Scale I will stick with Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific "Southern Comfort".
RYAN, got to package up some Christmas cheer, so be watching for Santa in the next few days.
PAUL, sorry to hear you won't be geeting that back vacation time. But I figure you will be having a lot of ailments until February,HEHEHE. Glad to hear you will be joining the "retirement rocker". Think you will find it's not a bad thing once you get use to it.
Got a lot to do today, so better get cracking.
Good morning ! from Indiana.
12-05-06
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Hello all. Hope I find everyone in reasonable health.
Welcome to new members I’ve missed in the time since my last post.
Hope everyone had a decent Thanksgiving. Mine wasn’t too bad, with the exception of one of my friends being hit by a car the Friday before Thanksgiving and a murder right around the corner from me the day after the holiday.
This weather is crazy. Thursday and Friday we had 70's as highs, at the moment it is 30, and it’s supposed to go back to the 60's again next week.
Greenberg Train show this weekend up in Reading. I missed the August show as by the time I found out where it was being held after the Fort Washington Expo Center closed, it was the final day of the show.
Is it me or is it near impossible to make headway on the wanted item list? Seems that every time I pick something up, I think of at least an equal number of items if not more to get.
Well, that’s all folks!
Evening Gang: Tomorrow I have to look through the Walthers catalogue for some windows for the head frame that I started today. This one is covered with corragated sheet metal. The widows are about 4feet high and 5 feet long. They are typical industrial type steel framed windows.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the corney dogs for lunch. I felt losey all afternoon. I don't think I should have had the peanuts.
I got my flue shot today. The health services gave them out for the full time staff.I told my boss that I'll call in sick tomorrow.
I guess I'll hit the sack now. I haven't been sleeping well lately. Tonight should be different, I hope.
Good Night All
inch53 wrote: BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY.Charlotte, North Carolina. A lawyer purchased a box of very rare andexpensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment onthe policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.The lawyer sued.. and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the & lt; BR>claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire" and was obligated to pay the claim.Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurancecompany accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires".NOW FOR THE BEST PART..After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.ONLY IN AMERICA!NO WONDER THIRD WORLDCOUNTRIES THINK WE'RE NUTS
BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY.Charlotte, North Carolina. A lawyer purchased a box of very rare andexpensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment onthe policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.The lawyer sued.. and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the & lt; BR>claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire" and was obligated to pay the claim.Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurancecompany accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires".NOW FOR THE BEST PART..After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.ONLY IN AMERICA!NO WONDER THIRD WORLDCOUNTRIES THINK WE'RE NUTS
Sorry mike but if you goto www.truthorfiction.com and type in cigar in the search area it comes up as a fiction story
LSWrr wrote:Mike,Those BL2's alwaus looked cool, did some internet research and pulled some information about their history, rather interesting. I have one on my layout and Atheren and it does rather well. What was your road markings on the one you bought? Old Tyco cars; I normally run my food train cars I got when I was a kid, back in the days when tyco was owned by a food company. Lee
Mike,
Those BL2's alwaus looked cool, did some internet research and pulled some information about their history, rather interesting. I have one on my layout and Atheren and it does rather well. What was your road markings on the one you bought? Old Tyco cars; I normally run my food train cars I got when I was a kid, back in the days when tyco was owned by a food company.
its wmd #82, same as my sig pic
I thought that I saw this one somewhere before...
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp
Oh don't worry about me completely going HO I bought my self 2 lionel O gauge train sets last night just to make sure I was still okay .
Hi all
Not much happening . My boss is home but he still don't look the best but hes better than he has been thats for sure.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: DOU!Top ov the page. Girls! Corny Dogs for everyone. If you think I'm going to have you guys eat high on the hog while I have corny dogs, YOUR NUTS. Well have some peanuts too.
DOU!Top ov the page. Girls! Corny Dogs for everyone. If you think I'm going to have you guys eat high on the hog while I have corny dogs, YOUR NUTS. Well have some peanuts too.
I'm not really into
But thanks.
I think I'll just pack my onw lunch today.
Think I'll go south of the border today!