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Good evening CS patrons: Looks like I'm TOTP, so that saves PC's card for a day or so. Chloe, as the nights are getting cooler, I think a mug of Ovaltine made with extra cream would go down well. Came across this item that I thought would be of general interest.The railroads are hiring aggressively right now. In fact, average railroad worker compensation including benefits in 2005, according to stats from the Association of American Railroads, was $92,598.
The railroads are hiring aggressively right now. In fact, average railroad worker compensation including benefits in 2005, according to stats from the Association of American Railroads, was $92,598.
RT: Our condolences to you and your wife on Edythe’s death. It’s always a shock, even when expected. You have memories to share, good times and bad to recall. These will help. And now your own mother’s health is in crisis. This is a very tough time for you. We’ll continue to support you all in prayer.
Neal: Thanks for the ID. I called them lumber cars because that’s what I see them loaded with, the plastic wrapped cut lumber that is. What other loads do you folks see put on these cars?
Duke: Congratulations on the grandson’s arrival. We didn’t get our daughter from the hospital for about a month. She had to gain a couple of pounds before they would let her go. Can be trying…we’ll be thinking of mom and dad. The motorcycle pic you sent me was worth showing around the Coffee Shop, I thought. So, if photobucket will only oblige (it’s temperamental I find) Ah!, here goes…it only took 5 tries.
Fergie: Glad to hear your Dad’s getting better. Must be a worry. Who does that contractor think he’s fooling? Amazing isn’t it? Hope you find an honest one to do the work. Rats too! When we were in Alberta there was an enduring myth that “There are no rats in Alberta”. Kind of like “There are no skunks in Nova Scotia”!...Right.
Luc: Thanks for the up-date on the Dawson College shootings. Last I heard they still thought that there might be a second gunman, and none of the injured had died. One gunman had been “neutralized”. A sad situation, and we may never learn a motivation.
Time perhaps for a lighter note. It involves Florida, but I’m sure it can't be Flip!
A man called his mother in Florida. "Mom, how are you?"
"Not too good," said the mother. "I've been very weak."
The son said, "why are you so weak?"
She said, "because I haven't eaten in 38 days."
The man said, "that's terrible. Why haven't you eaten in 38 days?"
The mother answers, "Because I didn't want my mouth to be filled with food if you should call."
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers continuing for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evening Gang:
RT: I'm here and thinking of you and yours. I've known people like your Edyth and they truly are something speical. I'll also be praying for your mother. Remember that we are here.
Nothing going on here. The trains on the U.P. have been going slowly past here this afternoon. They must have a slow order east of us for some reason.
I took some pictures in to work today. I'm to get my 30 year award next month and they wanted some pics of me at verious times in my life for the award presentation. Woop de doo.
I ordered some stuff from the Walthers sale catalogue today. Two mine head kits by Faller and two boiler house kits by Kibri. They are both european design but will fit in with very little alteration. I should have all the needed stuff for my mines. If anyone wants to see a bunch of real good pictures of iron mine structures google Michigan Iron Mine Structures. I printed out most of the pictures and made a book out of them. That and the Cliffs Shaft site are very good.
Well time to get to bed. I had planned to sleep in tomorrow but we have to take one of the tractors in for a long delayed servicing and take a water sample to be tested.
Good Night All
Good morning ! from Indiana.
09-14-06
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Mornin all coffee n a short stack Zoe,
Cloudy n cool this morning, suns suppose to be out later and warm up to the upper 70's. Worked on the layout again most of yesterday got most of the creek painted.. Need to find the box with the ground cover, so I can do to area under the bridges, then I'll be able to lay some more track.
Fergie,, I over look ya yesterday,, sorry. Hope your dads doing better now. The wife broke her ankle in 81 and I learned quick how much cast can hurt. I'd hate to make a woman mad with two cast to swing. Hope you get the contractors lined out up there.
Dick, havn't heard why coppers so high other than there a shortage. #1 sons going to rewire part of his house and is sure glad, he bought his before the price skyrocketed. We don't have sattelite any more. so I can't see that show [darn it].
Best get ta chores got kids today, so the funs over till evening. Mother's got a dist. AL aux. meeting in Paris tonight, so I'll have some more play time. Hope ya'll has a good day
inch
Good Morning All,
Light rain with moderate temp and no wind just now. I'll have a regular and one of Bills' donuts please Zoe.
RT - our condolences and prayers for you. I know bad news seems to come in clumps, but you will always have the memories of Edyth to comfort you. Hope your mom gets better. CFO is going though the same stuff with her mom and some days are worse than others.
Inch - how is progress going on the model railroad? With Ed getting motivated you will soon both be past me as I've been mostly stalled all summer. Working on the 1:1 locomotive restoration also ate into my time a lot this summer.
Fergie - my BIL is a carpenter up your way andsome of the stories he's related about the GC's he's worked for would stand your hair on end. There are good, reasonable people near you - better luck next try. Oh, and I hope the rats are just old shipmates on shore leave and due for recall soon.
All for now - we are now digging through the last months backlog of non emergency jobs in the shop and with any luck we'll find the walls and floor in a week or so. Next race weekend will be VIR at Danville, Virginia end of Sept for you Casey Jones afficianados out there. J.R.
Good mornin' all, top 'o' the mornin' to ye from Leesville, Louisiana. Looks like everybody has their own problems to deal with today, includin' myself. Mine is gettin' a terpermental water heater to work. I really must get around to replacing that thermostat someday.
On the model front, I finally got around to repainting the Bachmann GP50 I bought a couple of weeks ago. It was a southern penguin, now it's on it's way to MKT livery, starting with a coat of Kelly green. The trick is going to be getting the striping right.
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Morning all!
RT, sorry to hear about mom. After all you've gone through this must seem like a lot. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we're here for you. I'll keep you and your in my prayers. Oh, and the poem is actually a song that a friend of mine wrote when he lost someone close to him.
Jeff, bad water heater huh? I had one of those go out a couple of years ago. Bought a brand new one from Sears. Want it? Come get it. You can have it on the 30th of this month as I'm moving out and the place is going to be bulldozed. You have to take it out though. Seriously, those on demand ones are pretty cool. We've got one here in the office and it does a good job. Of course, we don't take showers here, so I don't know about that, but you can run hot water from the sink for an hour and it's still hot.
So, finally getting around to painting that loco, huh? I was wondering how long that would take. Had to get it broken in first?
Good morning all: Kris, and her co-writer Pat are “artists of the month” at a local craft store this morning (wearing their crafts making hats, but with the books on the side), so I am in charge of Pat’s dog until they return. Instructions…DON’T LET HIM OUT.
All is quiet downstairs now, so I hope he’s being good.
Dick:
I guess when someone comes into a building wearing a long black trenchcoat and a mohawk haircut, no one gets suspicious that he might just have a rifle under that long black coat on a warm day in the city!!
Things to do. TTFN
Hey, wanna hear something very cool? Check this out.
I told my work that I was taking off a week to move. The owner of Indiana Telephone Co. (the company I work for) just came into my office and said he doesn't think he can do without me for a whole week (!) and would I be interested in taking just a couple of days here and a couple of days there so that I'm not out for such a long stretch. To sweeten the deal he said that Indiana Telephone Co. would pay to have movers move everything for me so I don't have to do it! I told him that I think we can work something out. How cool is that?! I don't have to break my back and bug all my friends for help!
We had a dish, but they couldn't keep the billing straight [kept getting charged for pay per veiw] and the price got to high. when they credited some one else's account with our payment [for the 3'rd time], agured with the bank about it before giving us credit. Since they considered it late and it was shut off, they thought we should pay a reconnect charge [ that's what they told the bank even]. So the bank stop payment [no charge] and we told them where to stick it.
Exactly what I would have done. I always get fed up real quick about these companies weak excuses about botched bills and so on. Someday, somebody's gonna stick it to 'em good!
Evening all....It's been a nice day here but clouding up now....I'll have a double root beer float please...I got a little more trck ballasted today did my first Kato swithch and just checked it didn't glue it shut..I have glued a few shut in HO over the years...Been looking and wishing on E bay...
Jeff....I missed it what scale do you work in? How about some pictures of some of your repaints?
RT...Our condolences to you and your wife on Edthe's death...Our prayers and thoughts are with you...
John....Florida joke was a knee slapper...Glad yo hear your working on the railroad again....
Mike....Did you find your box of ground cover...Sounds good your back laying track....
PCarrel...Must make you feel good to know they can't get along without you....Sounds like a good deal they are offering you..
Well Sallie's up from her nap and its almost time for the news...We found out yesterday that our daughter in Kentucky is expecting Twins and My youngest called and said DR says she is 2 centameters dialated and baby could come at any time..# more Grand Babys....You all have a good evening...Jerry
inch53 wrote: PC,, sure glad the companies paying to move ya, I wasn't lookin forward to helpen ya
Ahh, you know if you'd come over no work would get done. Maybe a trip to the museum, but certainly no work!
Cox 47 wrote:PCarrel...Must make you feel good to know they can't get along without you....Sounds like a good deal they are offering you..
Yeah, but it's kind of a mixed blessing. I haven't had a vacation in two years and now I've worked myself into a position to where I can't take even one week off. It's great that I'm valued, but a guy needs a break every now and then, ya know? I think I'll be training someone to hold the fort down for short periods in the future. But you're right, it's a sweet deal!
Evening Gang: Mary Ann and I got alot done today. The burn ban was lifted so we burned one of the piles of brush that's been piling up. I took the hood off of her tractor and hope that I found the fuel leaks. Two of the nuts that hold the fuel lines to the injectors were about a half flat loose. Not enough to cause a big leak but a little seep. I then drove my tractor into the dealer to get it serviced. I'd been planning to do it myself but figured that they can do it easyer and besides that's not my favorite job on that tractor. We went to the Pythian Home for they'er beans and corn bread supper fund raiser. Mary Ann saw me eyeing a portable dvd player that was going to be auctioned off and she said that we needed to leave, NOW. Nuts, I would have liked that for watching RR dvds while working on the layout.
RT: Congratulations on the grand kids, all of them. Are you going to be busy spoiling them. Espeicially the boy. Have you got him some trains yet?
PC: You are a lucky son of a gun. Now you can just sit back and watch the work. Work facinates me I can sit and watch it for hours. I know how it feels to not get a vacation. We can't take more than one week at a time without approval. Sometime I can't even get that. When I retire I want to take a long vacation just to see how it feels.
Well I'm going to head for bed.
Congradulations JERRY!!!!Sounds like you will be up to your eyeballs with grandbabies before you know it.
Here is the Quilt MoM made after 9-11. Note the eagle with the tear in his eye and the twin towers burning in the background. Also note the stars on the blue fields of the quilt. these are chrystal stars one for each life lost that day. It's still not finished in that there are more stars to be sewed on Thought you might like to see it.
LATER................NEAL
Well I see I will have to go to the bank and get a 2nd Mortage on the homestead to pay for all the chow tomorrow. Call all your friends and tell them chows on me tomorrow. Eat Fresh!!!!!!!
Paul W. Beverung wrote: When I retire I want to take a long vacation just to see how it feels.
When I retire I want to take a long vacation just to see how it feels.
Being retired is being on permanent vacation.............
Are you still on target for January?
Regards
Ed
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Well, sitting here with a nice hot cup of strong coffee. Dessert has already disappeared.
We went out to the orange grove today for some more routine maintenance. I've started picking more green oranges. The juice is sweet enough for me as is. Still too acidy for Fran. The rains we have been getting have really helped, and the trees look like they are in real good shape.
Surprise of surprises, I actually did some model railroading this morning. Not much, so don't get too excited. Replaced the old plastic (original issue) wheelsets in 6 cars with new metal wheelsets that I bought a few months ago. Wanted to just try them out. I've heard that they help in the battle against dirty track. I bought Atlas wheelsets. Turns out after struggling with them that they are made for MicroTrains trucks. Slightly different axle points. I didn't ask and the LHS guy never mentioned that there were two slightly different models. Oh well, I have plenty of M-T cars to convert anyway. Next time I go north I'll get some of the Atlas wheelsets for Atlas cars.
While I was messing around with the axles I also put a couple of M-T tankcars back together. I had taken them apart to paint (they were undecs) and letter quite a while ago. Never got around to lettering them. So they're now running around with new metal wheelsets, but just in plain 'black'.
Don't know if my heart can stand the excitement of actually doing some modeling. I may need to lay down and take a nap.
Hasta mañana
Good Morning.
Coffee on me...
Happy MRRing
09-15-06
Mornin all, just coffee Zoe
Suuny an warm here today, high round 80, back to outside work. Didn't get any MRR time yesterday. After the kids left, #3 son called and ask if I'd come up an help him with his fence. He knew Mother was going up that way, thought I could just ride along. OH well, at least I got to play some with his 4 boys.
Jeffery,,,, we don't fool much with outfits that screw up their billing, then blame you. To many other business's out there.
Jerry ,,,, congrads on the future arrives. I think your trying to catch me in ythe grandkid dept. No didn't find the ground cover box, didn't get much chance to look for it yet. I'm still a few days from laying more track, but some
PC,,,,, the trip to the musuem sounds alot betters than moving. Mothers had jobs like yours in the past, were she couldn't get away, but just a day or so. Kinda spoiled a couple summers for us.
Paul,,,, know how ya feel, Mother drags me off at swap meets n such, when I'm standing there drooling.
Neal,,, thanks muchly for the quilt pic, Mother n me both liked it.
Grayfox,,, seen the spinich warning on tv yesterday. Looks like we got got lucky here. Mother just fixed a batch Tue. for supper
Outside work planned for the day, like it or not. I've got J Birds for a couple hours also, but she likes to help pa pa in the yard. Need ta get on chores, hope ya'll has a gooden.
Still rainy here - probably into tomorrow. Hope it lets up soon enough to get some outdoor work in.
Grayfox - thanks for the warning on the spinach - don't watch much tv (except for the Giants). Any word on the whereabouts of Bluto during the contamination time period?
Luc - hope you and Gloria are doing better. With all the track down on Gloetown what's next?
Got a bit done last night on a bridge I needed to widen for clearance of the rail cars. Using a plastic sheet called kydex which is imprinted with a texture so if i miss with a bit of ballast it'll be hidden. The basic road bed and routing is just about done and track can go down next once the turnouts are spotted. I'll leave the industrial sidings for last since I need the main and branch lines in place to finalize clearances.
Time to pick up tools - another busy day with motors out to the builders and clients coming in to check progress. CUL, J.R.