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

[rtraincollector]

Hi all my boss you know that young man I work for (95 and 10 months old) isn't doing well hes in the hospital and I'm afraid it may be his time sorry to say.  I hope he starts to improve he went in with a bladder infection but I think it might be more hes been in now for a week.

Well have to take the CFO in to town for a couple of items so will talk to you all later.

Oh just supported my local Hoby Shop bought a 4 pack and a 2 pack of southern passenger cars (Lionel) to go with my 3  U-36-B Diesels (2 powered 1 dummy) CFO is going to kill me she still doesn't know about the 8 santa fe coming in yet either.  LOL

[pcarrell]

Mornin' everyone!

How's everbody doin' today?  Hope all is good.

Good news about Dad there Fergie!  Been prayin' for him.

Well hopefully I'll get some done on the benchwork and some done on the schoolwork today.  I've got to write my last final by monday evening and then I'm off till Feb.!  First real break I've had for 2 years!  The program I was in didn't have any breaks at all.  No summer break, no winter break, nothing.  This will be nice!

[Fergmiester]

Today's Wx here in Sunny Dartmouth, NS

Cold, Very Cold but not too Cold

Well, not much on the go... well not really, well if you have to ask I ordered another, dare I say it

5 axle CN Green Livery C-Liner!!!! Yes say it's not so!!!

Ok that feels better as it's off my chest

Got the freight yard ballast glued and set and will start to detail the rest and rewire the flood lights with LED's

Onto other things now. Looks like Dad should be out of the hospital in two weeks  if all goes well and the contractor starts in earnest come Wednesday, I hope!

Jeff: glad to see you up and running.

And to my American Friends to the South
Happy but belated Thanksgiving!

Fergie

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning.

Leesville, LA  71446      11/25/2006

Wind Chill:  43°F
Humidity:  93%
Dew Point:  41°F

So Far Today
High:  48°F
Low:  43°F
Rain:  N/A"
Rain Rate:  N/A"/h
Gust:  0mph NNE
 
High: 75 °F
Low: 48 °F

Dense fog advisory in effect until 9 AM cst this morning.

Today: High: 75    Increasing clouds. Areas of dense fog in the morning. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds. 
 
Tonight: Low: 48    Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds.

[NeO6874]

'morning guys.

Cleveland, Ohio
Currently: 37°F Partly Cloudy

Wind: South at 10 MPH
Humidity: 64%
Dewpoint: 26°F
Barometer: 30.23 inches and falling
Wind Chill: 30°F

Wind: South at 16 KPH
Humidity: 64%
Dewpoint: -3°C
Barometer: 1023 millibars and falling
Wind Chill: -1° C

Last updated: 8:00 am EST November 25, 2006

not too bad... not too great either...

today promises to be a prety laid back day.... I hope.

[Anonymous]

Good morning





Happy MRRing 

[LSWrr]

GOOD MORNING from Euclid, Ohio (conveniantly located between NYC and Chicago)

[wetidlerjr]

GOOD MORNING from TIPTON IN !

11-25-2006

[jeffrey-wimberly]

And I'm not feeling well tonight, so I'll make sure our young Mr. Parks gets home Ok, then I'm calling it a night.

[Train Master]

benchwork looks good pc.

i will see you all later. i got to get home!

[pcarrell]

Looks like this ones on me!

 

What'll it be?

[pcarrell]

That was good RT, or should I say inch?  Oh well, both of you, that was good.

Well, the first day of construction is complete.  I added cross bracing to what I'd built and now it's quite solid, yet it only weighs about 40 lbs.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture003.jpg

Tomorrow I'll see about doing more!

[rtraincollector]

Okay all had to share this that inch sent to me this is too funny

 

>Jasper and The Uncooked Yeast Rolls
>
>We have a fox terrier by the name of Jasper. He came to us in the
>Summer of 2001 from the fox terrier rescue program. For those of you
& gt;who are unfamiliar with this type of adoption, imagine taking in a 10
>year old child whom you know nothing about and committing to doing your
>best to be a good parent.
>
>Like a child, the dog came with his own idiosyncrasies. He will only
>sleep on the bed, on top of the covers, nuzzled as close to my face as
>he can get without actually performing a French kiss on me. Lest you
>think this is a bad case of no discipline, I should tell you that Perry
>and I tried every means to break him of this habit including locking
>him in a separate bedroom for several nights. The new door cost over
$200.
>But I digress.
>
>Five weeks ago we began remodeling our house. Although the cost of the
>project is downright obnoxious, it was 20 years overdue AND it got me
>out of cooking Thanksgiving dinner for family, extended family and a
>lot of friends that I like more than family most of the time. I was,
>however, assigned the task of preparing 124 of my famous yeast dinner
>rolls for the two Thanksgiving feasts we did attend. I am still
>cursing the electrician for getting the new oven hooked up so quickly.

>It was the only appliance in the whole house that worked, thus the
assignment.
>
>I made the decision to cook the rolls on Wednesday evening to reheat on

>Thursday morning. Since the kitchen was freshly painted you can
>imagine the odor. Not wanting the rolls to smell like Sherwin Williams

>latex paint #586, I put the rolls on baking sheets and set them in the
>living room to rise for 5 hours. After 3 hours, Perry and I decided to
>go out to eat, returning in about an hour.
>
>An hour later the rolls were ready to go in the oven. It was 8:30pm.
>When I went to the living room to retrieve the pans, much to my shock
>one whole pan of 12 rol ls was empty. I called out to Jasper and my
>worst nightmare became a reality. He literally wobbled over to me. He
>looked like a combination of the Pillsbury dough boy and the Michelin
>Tire man wrapped up in fur. He groaned when he walked. I swear even
>his cheeks were bloated.
>
>I ran to the phone and called our vet. After a few seconds of
>uproarious laughter, he told me the dog would probably be OK, however,
>I needed to give him Pepto Bismol every 2 hours for the rest of the
>night. God only knows why I thought a dog would like Pepto Bismol any
>more than my kids did when they were sick. Suffice to say that by the
>time we went to bed the dog was black, white and pink. He was so
>bloated we had to lift him onto the bed for the night.
>
>Naively thinking the dog would be all better by morning was very stupid

>on my part. We arose at 7:30 and as we always do first thing ; put the
>dogs out to relieve themselves. Well, the dog was as drunk as a sailor
>on his first leave. He was running into walls, falling flat on his butt

>and most of the time when he was walking his front half was going one
>direction and the other half was either dragging the floor or headed 90

>degrees in another direction. He couldn't lift his leg to pee, so he
>would just walk and pee at the same time. When he ran down the small
>incline in our backyard he couldn't stop himself and nearly ended up
>running into the fence. His pupils were dilated and he was as dizzy as
>a loon. I endured another few seconds of laughter from the vet (second
>call within 12 hours) before he explained that the yeast had fermented
>in his belly and that he was indeed drunk. He assured me that, not
>unlike most binges we humans go through, it would wear off after about
>4 or 5 hours and to keep giving him Pepto Bismol.
>
>Afraid to leave him by himself in the house, Perry and I loaded him up
>and took him with us to my sister's house for the first Thanksgiving
>meal of the day. My sister lives outside of Muskogee on a ranch, (10 to
>15 minute drive). Rolls firmly secured in the trunk (124 less 12) and
>drunk dog leaning from the back seat onto the console of the car
>between Perry and I, we took off. Now I know you probably don't believe
>that dogs burp, but believe me when I say that after eating a tray of
>risen unbaked yeast rolls, DOGS WILL BURP. These burps were pure Old
Charter.

>They would have matched or beat any smell in a drunk tank at the police
>station. But that's not the worst of it. Now he was beginning to fart
>and they smelled like baked rolls. God strike me dead if I am not
>telling the truth! We endured this for the entire trip to Karee's,
>thankful she d idn't live any further away than she did.
>
>Once Jasper was firmly placed in my sister's garage with the door
>locked, we finally sat down to enjoy our first Thanksgiving meal of the
>day. The dog was the topic of conversation all morning long and
>everyone made trips to the garage to witness my drunk dog, each
>returning with a tale of Jasper's latest endeavor to walk without
running into something.
>
>Of course, as the old adage goes, "what goes in must come out," and
>Jasper was no exception. Granted if it had been me that had eaten 12
>risen, unbaked yeast rolls, you might as well have put a concrete block
>up my behind, but alas a dog's digestive system is quite different from
>yours or mine. I discovered this was a mixed blessing when we prepared
>to leave Karee's house. Having discovered his "packages" on the garage
>floor, we loaded him up in the car so we could hose down the floor.
>
>This was another naive decision on our part. The blast of water from
>the hose hit the poop on the floor, and the poop on the floor withstood
>the blast from the hose. It was like Portland cement beginning to set
>up and cure. We finally tried to remove it with a shovel. I (obviously
>no one else was going to offer their services) had to get on my hands
>and knees with a coarse brush to get the remnants off of the floor.
>
>And as if this wasn't degrading enough, the dog in his drunken state
>had walked through the poop and left paw prints all over the garage
>floor that had to be brushed too.
>
>Well, by this time the dog was sobering up nicely so we took him home
>and dropped him off before we left for our second Thanksgiving dinner
>at Perry's sister's house. I am happy to report that as of today
>(Monday) the dog is back to normal both in size and temper ament. He has
>had a bath and is no longer tricolor. None the worse for wear I
presume.
>
>I am also happy to report that just this evening I found 2 risen
>unbaked yeast rolls hidden inside my closet door. It appears he must
>have come to his senses after eating 10 of them but decided hiding 2 of
>them for later would not be a bad idea.
>
>Now, I'm doing research on the computer as to how to clean unbaked
>dough from the carpet, and how was your day?

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang:

Not much to report tonight. I spent the afternoon moving more manure. I figure a couple more hours and I'll be done with that.

RT: Bribing the better half? It's a good thing it works.

Well I have to work tomorrow. It's been a nice 4 day weekend. A couple more months and they will all be 4 day weekends

I'd better get to bed.I'll see you all tomorrow.

[rtraincollector]

hi all had a fairly good day at work today. Jeffery we need to get you padded in bubble wrap or something we don't need you taken anymore close calls.

Well received 5 B&O train cars today one long hopper one short hopper a tool car, 3 dome tank car and a double door auto boxcar. Have a gold chessie engine coming in ( Lionel General Motors Anniversary Chessie) It was made in 1973.

Ialso won the other day aU-36-B UP engine with conrail opperating search light car, Chessie bay hopper, Nicle Plate road Boxcar, Nickle plate road Gondola, and a Santa FE caboose.

I'am also waiting for a Southern U-36-B dummy engine and a standard gauge gondola car  from 1927.

and last but not least 13 sections of standard gauge 36" straight track.

Yes I'm cleaning the shed out tomorrow to make room for me myself and I to live. But I might be alright seeing I bought her a Key wind clock and a gas fireplace with mantle the other day.

Well you all have a good evening will talk to you all later

[NeO6874]

Dan, Call Stewart's Hobby Shop and ask for Rob. Stewart's Hobbies & Collectors Address: 38033 Euclid Ave, Willoughby, OH 44094 Phone: [phone] If he dosen't already have 3 of them he will order it. He always sells cheaper than the Walther's Catalog. He is the only local Hobby shop that will hunt something down for you. No steam is not that bad, steam rules! I was going to model after the NYC and the PRR but I always wanted my own road name. Now I can model whatever I want. If you need some historical pictures of NYC stuff just ask. A good portion of my family worked for NYC (1930-Conrail). I grew up hanging out at my Great Uncle's switch tower, Toledo CUT, Airline-old road, and Stanley yard. Lee

I know of the place - Tom said that they have a pretty good selection of #5's, though when I called them on tuesday, they were out .  I was able to get the #5s from Depot Trains & Hobbies though....

I'll have to go up there to see what stuff they have.... I'm going to be needing a bunch of kits soon... finished up the ones I bought tuesday, and now I need more things to keep busy with....

[grayfox1119]

Good evening everyone, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We were over the hill and through the woods out back to son#3's house for dinner, and later that evening the whole family was together there to celebrate grandson #4's 9th BD. It poured all day, and caused the cancellation of some of the Thanksgiving Day local high school games, although from the newspaper today, it looks like most were played in horrible conditions.

Today we started with Christmas decorations. We learned many years ago to stay away from the stores on Black Friday.

I haven't been in the CS for a few days, been doing some upgrading to the PC, installed a new NVidia Ge Force Video card, a new Wireless router ( combination of Cat 5 cable outputs and wireless ) and a new 7 port USB 2.0 powered Hub.

LISA: Did you hear the big Chemical Plant explosion that occured in Danvers, Ma, from where you live? 25 houses are destroyed, many more are damaged, the plant was levelled, and the explosion was so big that it registered 0.5 on the Richter Scale at Weston Observatory. It was likened to a 2000 pound bomb going off. It was heard states away. No one was killed or seriously injured , and that was a miracle!!! Many people have not even been allowed back to their homes yet. Luckily it happened about 2am so everyone was in bed. People were showered with broken glass in their beds, as every window blew out on all the homes in that neighborhood. Had this happened earlier when people were up and about, surely there would have been many people killed or injured.

Thats it for now,

[pcarrell]

It's good that you remembered that before the house was consigned to the bulldozer blade. It would have all been so many splinters.

Indeed!

[pcarrell]

PC, If you need pictures of a port that interfaces with RR let me know and what your looking for. As you know I wander around all the Ohio ports on a daily basis. Lee

Thats a very generous offer.  My time period is the 1930's so I'm not sure how much would be usable.  Plus, the two tracks that go along the pier will end on a car float, so that's probably pretty time period specific as those have changed quite a bit in the last 70 years.  If you see something that would work though, I'd be very interested!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's good that you remembered that before the house was consigned to the bulldozer blade. It would have all been so many splinters.

[pcarrell]

Looks like a good plan. Is that the Autumn Ridge?

Yeah, I just realized I left that out so I added it in.

Hey, check this!  I didn't even realize how good I was!  At some point in the past I, knowing I would be building another RR, tucked away a large stash of 1x2's, 1x4's, 2x4's, and 2x6's in the top of my old garage.  I went back there today and found them.  I now have enough wood to finish the lower deck and get a good start on the upper!  And it cost me exactly NOTHING!

Man, I treat myself pretty well, ha, ha!

[LSWrr]

PC,

If you need pictures of a port that interfaces with RR let me know and what your looking for. As you know I wander around all the Ohio ports on a daily basis.

Lee

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Looks like a good plan. Is that the Autumn Ridge?

[pcarrell]

Philip, Looks like a good start. Do you have a drawing of your layout to share? I have the problem of moving every 3 to 4 years. Since the cat and the ex-wife pretty much destroyed my last layout I’ve started a modular construction. So far it’s a little more rewarding because I start and complete one 4’ x 3’ section before I move on to the next module. I’m about 50% done with the first one and hope to start on the second module in December. More pictures please, LOL Lee

Sounds like you've got a good plan going there.

My road will be a freelanced road based on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR called the Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Company. I've done a lot of studying of this road and my grandfather was even a conductor on it.

I've posted my plan a couple times, but here it is.

I'll have a port scene and an interchange in the rolling countryside, with a few towns between. The B&ML  had 33 miles of track, so using that as a base model works for my 10.5 x 15 room. I can wrap three walls and have a peninsula so I end up with a walk in plan. I'm planning on two sceniced decks with staging under the bottom one.

I've got the staging deck pretty well designed, though I'm not married to it.  Here it is: 

Here's the bottom sceniced deck that shows the interchange area:

And here's the upper deck with the port. The helix rises higher then it really needs to so thet the run into Autumns Ridge (the port) is downhill.

[LSWrr]

Dan,

Call Stewart's Hobby Shop and ask for Rob.
Stewart's Hobbies & Collectors
Address: 38033 Euclid Ave, Willoughby, OH 44094
Phone: [phone]
If he dosen't already have 3 of them he will order it. He always sells cheaper than the Walther's Catalog. He is the only local Hobby shop that will hunt something down for you. No steam is not that bad, steam rules! I was going to model after the NYC and the PRR but I always wanted my own road name. Now I can model whatever I want. If you need some historical pictures of NYC stuff just ask. A good portion of my family worked for NYC (1930-Conrail). I grew up hanging out at my Great Uncle's switch tower, Toledo CUT, Airline-old road, and Stanley yard.

Lee

[Cox 47]

Good Afternoon All...Sunny and Warm here today TV weather guy said last nite this is a second Indian Summer ..what ever we sure are enjoying it....I'll have ham salad on toast and a Diet Coke please...Can't remeber who's buying but thanks!..Mail lady brought my New River Mine today...just like Christmas...Can't do much with it because got the cover on the layout...Were having 22 Saturday for our thanksgiving All the kids are carring in...PC....Looks like you got a good start I always think it is neet to look at a empty space and try to imagine what its gonna look like....Keep us updated....Dan I think Bowser still has the "old Lady " kit in stock The boiler is from the old varney Consoldation its a USRA design I think not Pennsy...Makes into a great loco that will pull the paper of the wall and run forever...Worth the time to build it...Well you all have a good Friday nite...Jerry

[NeO6874]

Dan, Too bad you’re modeling steam; I’d sell you my contemporary rolling stock.

thanks for the offer Lee... although personaly I don't think it's "too bad" I'm modelling steam

anyone have any places that have a fair supply of loco kits?  Sure Bowser makes them, although it's nearly all PRR kits, and I'm starting to think about maybe going with the NYC as my prototype...

I'm pretty much all set with rolling stock kits - the LHS here has an entire wall of 'em (it's just finding the '40s era cars thats the trick, LOL).

[LSWrr]

Philip,

Looks like a good start. Do you have a drawing of your layout to share? I have the problem of moving every 3 to 4 years. Since the cat and the ex-wife pretty much destroyed my last layout I’ve started a modular construction. So far it’s a little more rewarding because I start and complete one 4’ x 3’ section before I move on to the next module. I’m about 50% done with the first one and hope to start on the second module in December.

More pictures please, LOL

Lee

[pcarrell]

Well, as many of you know, I had to tear down the last layout so we could move.  Now we're in the new place and the boxes are mostly unpacked..

This morning the train room looked like this:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture005.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture031.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture033.jpg

Lots of fun if you're into guitars, but not much for trains.

I just took the last two hours and changed all that though.

I just built the first of a whole lot of benchwork.  I've got a long way to go, but I'm off now to get more wood for some cross braces and such.  Here it is now:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/Picture006.jpg

[LSWrr]

Dan,

Too bad you’re modeling steam; I’d sell you my contemporary rolling stock.

All,

I uploaded some pictures I took yesterday to my Ohio Railroading album, and some new pictures of the layout in progress to the LS&W album. Just click the blue www button below.

Lee