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

[Anonymous]

Greetings All,

Just a quick visit to let you know I am still kicking LOL. Think I'll start with a few photos.

This is a KCS Switcher between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville Louisiana.

Hopper train at a crossing in Hattiesburg, MS.

'57 DeSota Police car in Hattiesburg. No longer in use.

Circa 1900 Bank building in St. Francisville, LA. Now a gift shop and antique store. Still has the bank valt inside.

PC:

Oh nonsence!  It's cool!  I just hope they work for you and you guys can bond over them.  A parent needs to be able to get in touch with his kids, and if this little "tool" helps that, then that's cool.

To all the "NEWBES"

For Inch, Fergie, Jeffery, Ryan, and all who have loveones and are recovering from any illness we keep you in our prayers.

General Anouncement:

For those modeling in O-Scale like PERRY, I have a couple boxes of what appears to be O-Scale houses to be assembled. These are wood and ready for assembly. I am giving you the same deal Pay the shipping and they are yours. There are several buildings in this assortment. E-Mail me at [e-mail]

RYAN: Great looking pictures, but who is the old man in the picture?LOL

I try to get in the CS as often as I can and I always try to read all the post. For those I haven't acknowledged I am still thinking of you. You are not forgotten.

We have a lot going on here and I really do have my wagon loaded. Holidays are around the corner so I am trying to get as much done before that happens.

Going to sign off for now...........Neal

 

[pcarrell]

PC,,, a good preacher freind of mine told me one time, A preacher neede to be able to talk alot, but be a better listener first". He did it for 85 years. I think ya might fit the bill.

You tryin' to tell me somethin'?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Inch: I didn't have even a touch of vertigo today, I had full strength all day. This was a very good day, they're rare these days. I have my good days and bad days. Yesterday was a bad day. I don't know what tomorrow holds in store for me. It could be another good day or a really bad day in which it's difficult just to get out of bed. Yes, I'm that bad off and getting worse every week. Unless there's a major change, the doctors don't think I'll make it to 60. But who knows, maybe they'll come up with a cure for degenerative bone desease and degenerative nerve complications within the next 15 years. I always have hope that things will change for the better, and if they don't, well it's been fun.

[NeO6874]

Just a quick stop to drop off a joke

You Work in Corporate America If...

- You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
- Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
- Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
- Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.
- You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of whole boxes.
- When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.
- You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.
- You learn about your layoff on CNN.
- Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
- You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
- Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than all the Third World countries' annual budgets combined.
- You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive.
- It's dark when you drive to and from work.
- Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
- Communication is something your group is having problems with.
- You see a good looking person and know they're a visitor.
- Free food left over from meetings is your main staple of your diet.
- Weekends are those days your significant other makes you stay home.
- Art involves a white board.
- You're already late on the assignment you just got.

that sounds like Office Space.... or a Tech/IS Job....

[JPowell]

Good evening all -
Sorry it has been a few weeks since my last visit, but work dictates my schedule of time off and what not, just like everyone else. Nice evening here too. I was out for my 3.5 mile - 40 minute walk through the neighborhood earlier.
Anyway, just wanted to stop in for a quick sec and let everyone know I am still alive and well, just working alot.
Need to go and get some things done and then I'll stop in for desert later.
Take care!

[inch53]

Evening all, barley pop Cleo,

Try this again, had a post almost done and lost it for some reason,

Jeff,, hope the vertigos better now, know it's no fun.  Mother has a spell of it every once in awhile.

GMT,,, seen the high lights of the giants games, look good the 2'nd half. Bears just looked bad the whole game.

Ryan, we'll be thinking of Ben and all there. Know it's hard the the kids are feeling bad an scared, and nothing you can do to help much, but be there.

Thanks for all the show and the layout pics. Nice looking engine you picked up

Jerry ,,, next time we get up to Paris, I'll get a couple cars. Don't when it'll be for sure.

 

GREAT!

I just noticed I've got the "most active member" award! 

Kind of like getting the blabbermouth award!

Perhaps I should just read more?

PC,,, a good preacher freind of mine told me one time, A preacher neede to be able to talk alot, but be a better listener first". He did it for 85 years. I think ya might fit the bill.

Paul,,, don't worry bout the butter fly's, they'll pass in time. Glad the meet went well, even with out the photos.

Luct ,,, thanks for the reminder of remeberance week up there. We always try to keep the memory of all vets in our thoughts.

Dick,,,  We plan on voting tomorrow. don't know for sure who in some offices. I wish they had a none of the above place some times.

Best get ta moving, going to try for some layout time this evening. Catch ya'll laters

inch

[jeffrey-wimberly]

hey yall
Ryan: thanks man, i missed school today cause of it
Jeff:  bad news, the paint stripped wount strip the paint, you want i should put 2 coats of primer on it for you?

PA: I'll take it as is.

[grayfox1119]

Good evening gents, well, here we are on the Eve of election day in most states. By tomorrow evening we should all know which way the seesaw is going to tip in the Senate and House. Four more years of finger pointing, doing nothing but passing one Pork bill after another and then dumping the price tag onto the American public. But I WILL vote, I will WRITE-IN the names of several of my MRR buddies whom I feel can do a better job.

PAUL: We all faced that same feeling upon retiring. In most cases, we are making the highest salary of our lives when we retire, but then the shock of that dreaded word hits us....FIXED INCOME. I wouldn't feel so badly if all our EXPENSES were also FIXED. Alas !!!! We can always to go to WalMart and pass out smilie faces at the door for $8.50 and hour!! That's $340 a week less Fed, State , SS and Medicare taxes, so we walk away with $340 - $95 = $245!! Of course you can also CONSULT on the side and make some serious money.

I just received my NCE RB01 back in the mail this afternoon, it was converted to an RPT1-X repeater for free, just had to pay $5 shipping cost. Good service from NCE

Checking the forum, see you guys later,

[inch53]

Just a quick stop to drop off a joke

You Work in Corporate America If...

- You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
- Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
- Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
- Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.
- You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of whole boxes.
- When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.
- You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.
- You learn about your layoff on CNN.
- Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
- You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
- Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than all the Third World countries' annual budgets combined.
- You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive.
- It's dark when you drive to and from work.
- Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
- Communication is something your group is having problems with.
- You see a good looking person and know they're a visitor.
- Free food left over from meetings is your main staple of your diet.
- Weekends are those days your significant other makes you stay home.
- Art involves a white board.
- You're already late on the assignment you just got.

[pcarrell]

Somehow I knew that was going to happen!

I guess dinner's on me too!

OK, what's it going to be?  More ribs?

[PA Belt]

hey yall
Ryan: thanks man, i missed school today cause of it
Jeff:  bad news, the paint stripped wount strip the paint, you want i should put 2 coats of primer on it for you?

[pcarrell]

Who's the chef, those ribs look great, how much$$$$ is this going to set me back??

I'm the chef, it's free, and grab a plate!  You're late!

[Anonymous]

Who's the chef, those ribs look great, how much$$$$ is this going to set me back??

[pcarrell]

Hey
Any ribs left?

Plenty!  Bring it on!

Just going through some of the posts.Whats up with Happy Jack? Being new to the forum, I take it he has had  many screen names and likes to stir up a bit.Sounds like a winner.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

[Paul W. Beverung]

Hi Gang: I just droped in to see what was happening since lunch.

PC: I'll take a few ribs just to make you feel better. They do look good.

The train meet went well. I'm sorry I can't post any pictures since I didn't take any. For the first time in a long time I didn't take my camera or cam-corder. Usually I spend most of my time taking pictures and such and really not getting a chance to enjoy the meet. I didn't run my locomotive. My son did all the engineering and I rode wirh a friend of mine and visited. All went well and my narrow gauge cars stayed on the track until we were on the way to the yard to put them up and they derailed coming out of the station. No big deal but they just couldn't make it with out doing that once.

There is a train show this week end. I've got Saturday off so John and I will go then and I'll make a quick stop Sunday before they close. That's the best time to deal. I just hope that there isn't some rare piece that I just have to have.

I talked to the boss this morning about retiring on 2 Feb and he said that would probably all right with him. The fly in the ointment is that I have to take my 4 weeks vacation in Jan or loose it. No way that is going to happen. So I leave on vacation in the middle of December and come back and work one week and then color me gone. Now I'm getting butter flys about the whole thing. Nuts.

Well I'm going to cut and run. You all have a good day and I'll see you later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

Today is the first day of an important week in Canada and my family, The National Rememberance week.  

Today I visited the on-line Memorial Chamber and if you'd like to visit this humbling place here is the link
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Memorial/main-e.htm

Lest we foget.

[dansapo]

Hey
Any ribs left?
Just going through some of the posts.Whats up with Happy Jack? Being new to the forum, I take it he has had  many screen names and likes to stir up a bit.Sounds like a winner.
I'll check in later this evening
Later

[pcarrell]

Man, I'm getting off easy!  Only 4 takers, including myself, for lunch today!  Alright you guys, eat up!  We've got a lot of food to put away here!

[grayfox1119]

Good afternoon gents, busy morning shopping with the wife at BJ's, then we did a little Christmas shopping, while the choices of colors and sizes are available in the stores. One of the nice things about being retired is that you can shop weekdays and it is not crowded at all, at least not yet.

We picked up some new lights, and guess what? They are LED's!!! They had them in Sear's in four different bulb shapes. They use 80% less power for the same light output, and the LED's have a much longer life expectancy than the mini lights. $ 11.99 a set, a little high, but, when you consider the electric bill savings, and the bulb life, they pay for themselves in a year or two.

Clear skies here today, temp is 52F with RH = 35%, DP = 53F, Wind is 2 mph from the NW.
Nice cool, crisp, clean fresh air, courtesy of the northern latitudes.

RYAN: Nice Diesel you picked up!!! And your progress is really good on your layout, you just might have a train running on one line by Thanksgiving.

JEFF: Hope your feeling better today, watch your GL level.

See you guys later,

[SilverSpike]

GREAT!

I just noticed I've got the "most active member" award! 

Kind of like getting the blabbermouth award!

Perhaps I should just read more?

Congratulations! And thanks for lunch!

BTW, I'm a close second this morning....

[NeO6874]

HAHA

I'll have some of those ribs too!

So what if you talk the most PC, you generally have good tips... not to mention good food

highest I ever got was 4th.. lol

[pcarrell]

GREAT!

I just noticed I've got the "most active member" award! 

Kind of like getting the blabbermouth award!

Perhaps I should just read more?

[pcarrell]

Hey I am just in time I'll have some of PC's Bar-B-Q please emmmm that sure looks good Thank You is that a special secret mixture on there PC?

The special blend, slow roasted over an open flame!

Dinnner's on guys!  Bring your plates and your appetites!

Bring your own drinks!

[SilverSpike]

Jerry, I just started working on my New River Mining kit, put a coat of paint on it this weekend. Good luck with the auction.

PC, is lunch ready? My stomach is growling.....

[Cox 47]

Good Morning All.....It cloudy but warmer here today....Hey I am just in time I'll have some of PC's Bar-B-Q please emmmm that sure looks good Thank You is that a special secret mixture on there PC?.....Messed around and got a little 0-4-0 off the shelve and let it run a few laps it stalled over on the back side so I put a Amtrack FP 40 on the give it a push they coupled up and it was so funny looking I just let them run kind of a weird double header....Got a bid in on a New River Mine on Ebay but I probaly won't get it...Mike....If you don't mind and you get back to Wal mart pick me up the box car and hopper I have been checking a Charleston each month but they don't have them Thanks....By the way they do have a good selection of HO cars and trucks at Charleston....Going to see if I can get power strip mounted on new work bench today.....You all keep it on the rails......Jerry

[pcarrell]

haha, not at all... breakfast is on Jeff today

Not any more!  Looks like SWdave just got deleated.  Now it's on ME!

In that case I'll have what he's having! Oh, did I say I'm hungry!

Plenty to go around!

[SilverSpike]

Dick, here is another update on the Piedmont Division layout Progress Report. This time with photos, just check out the thread I started here:

http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/944757/ShowPost.aspx

Cheers,

Ryan

[SilverSpike]

haha, not at all... breakfast is on Jeff today

Not any more!  Looks like SWdave just got deleated.  Now it's on ME!

In that case I'll have what he's having! Oh, did I say I'm hungry!

 

[pcarrell]

haha, not at all... breakfast is on Jeff today

Not any more!  Looks like SWdave just got deleated.  Now it's on ME!

 

Since that's the case, I guess I'd best get the BBQ going!

 

Who's up for some BBQ Ribs for lunch?

[SilverSpike]

Monday, November 06, 2006

You know you are really a great bunch of people here in the Coffee Shop Forum. The generosity and friendships I have found in this place are invaluable. Truly a great group in here!

Dick, I like your analogy with the canoe, but sometimes I just feel like trading in my paddle for an oar. LOL

PC and Neal, I got your emails! (You already know I responded too) The excitement level here has been turned up a few notches, Friday night I told Monique about what you guys are doing and she was really excited. Mums the word with Ben though, he will be so happy come Christmas morning! Your spirit of giving has warmed the spirit in my heart too!

PC, your daughter was raised right I see, and I am sure you had a big hand in that too! It is always nice to hear of teenagers getting along with their parents, it gives me something to strive for with our kids as they grow up too! I also hope that the kits will help Ben and I bond more. Looks like the train room is ready for some benchwork activity…. And you play the guitar too, eh! Ben and Bryan both play too! Sounds like the concert was fun too! My step son Bryan is a member of a Christian rock band in south Louisiana, their name is Miscreant. I'm partial to the Texaco station too, my dad worked for them for 30 + years.

Welcome to all the new faces here in the Coffee Shop! And welcome back to those who have been away for awhile.

Jeff, sounds like you had been pushing yourself too hard there buddy! Take a break and drink plenty of fluids, you know the Coffee Shop is open 24/7 okay! Also, thanks for sharing your accident experience. You really are a brave soul, and a true survivor. I think that is a great dream too, the Orient Express is such a storied and romantic train! And you got a great E7 there, Proto 2000 are good trains.

PA Belt, good luck with the sinus infection! We just shook off those over here, took about two weeks of antibiotics to get them under control.

Hoople, sorry to hear about the soccer game, but you win some and you lose some. Better luck next time, eh!

I've got some good news, and some bad news...

 

Good news is:

 

I finally found someone elso who likes trains. YES!

 

Bad news is:

 

Only one of us can run trains at a time...

 

Sounds like a good excuse to get DCC and a second throttle!

GMT, yes, adding texture to your paint is a great way to add realism to the layout.

Inch, I know what you mean about the commercialism of Christmas, but when you have the spirit of true giving in your heart, all the rest just rolls off your back like water on a duck. All that junk of promotions and stuff before Halloween does get old quick though! Hopes and prayers for Becky too! And nice pics of that crane there too!

Perry, I love the updated photos, and that wood carving is great! Chief Bolting Light… LOL

Fergie, prayers for your father, and hopes he gets to feeling better soon.

Jim in the Cape, got any more of those cinnamon rolls left from Saturday? They sure do look good!

ModelTrainLover, great train show from the sound of it! Looks like you got some good deals too!

Cheers,

Ryan