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

[Roadtrp]

Hey Elliot,

Wasn't watching the Twins tonight rather painful? Of course we were at the game, and it was probably the ugliest of the season. I guess you would have to expect it though. The Chisox are a very good team and the Twins are really beat up.

The pitcher they just called up from the minors really looked it, and the replacements for Stewart, Koskie, Rivas and Mientkiewitcz just didn't fill their shoes, which of course you couldn't expect.

Hope the Twins get healthy soon!

-Jerry

[Anonymous]

decaff coffee please[:D]

[Anonymous]

Foune this on the second page...
Does cold coffee apeal to anyone?
Not me. Im ou t of school and about to fall asleep.
My recent drop in income has put a halt to my spending on MRR stuff...I think this is going to be the case for awhile....

[Anonymous]

It's amazing that some "interests" know no international boundaries. Think I;ll go grocery shopping later for the wife-need a lot of stuff from the frozen food section. "It's summer time and the woman -er, the living is easy" (better known as halter and tank top season. . .)

Got to get off this Forum today, or take the PC outside, It's too beautiful a day to be in the office. Guess it's back to the shop downstairs and do some framing and wiring. Good thing I've got a big overhead door in the shop. Gotta go before my spouse catches me on the Forum again. . .Enjoy your day.
BILL

[lupo]

Well thank you mr. RRman and mr. Smith!
the glutus maximus and the mamal protuberance!
Now I understand! [:P][:P] it's nature calling! [:P][:P][:P]

lets's make today official " Thursday T&A day!"

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

A T&A day...

Is... Okay for those of us who like to watch women...

if you liked watching their Eyes and Mouths (For instance) that would be a E&M day

I'm assuming you can now guess what a good T&A day is.

TOES & ANKLES

at least thats what you better be telling your girlfriend!

[Anonymous]

A T&A day...

Is... Okay for those of us who like to watch women...

if you liked watching their Eyes and Mouths (For instance) that would be a E&M day

I'm assuming you can now guess what a good T&A day is.

[egmurphy]

Fresh? At 64? In Quebec??? I thought you guys fired up the a/c when it rose above 60?? I'd love to see 64 degrees again, maybe this winter.

The humidity has been awful around here lately, in the mornings you can practically cut it with a knife. It got up to 95 or so yesterday afternoon, just before the power went off. That in itself isn't all that unusual, but this time there was no storm or wind to blame it on. Who knows? Fortunately it came back after only 4 hours.

I had my first try at lettering a car with dry transfer letters the other day. Boy, it sure is easy to get them on crooked, isn't it. Plus, while I'm burnishing one letter, my fingers are pressing it's neighbor on over the letter I just burnished. I'm only trying to put on some reporting marks and car numbers, nothing really fancy. Bought one of those sheets of letters of different sizes, thinking I'd do a few cars, wrong. I need the 1/8" letters for my reporting marks. My railroad name has a 'V' in it. Know how many v's there are in the 1/8" letter set?? 3. One and one half cars and I'm through. Okay, so actually I cut a W in half and finished both cars, but you get the idea. I'm going to use 5% of the letters and have lots left over with no use for them (future signs?). Maybe it's time to seriously consider custom decals.

Later

Ed

[lupo]

Well actually Kevin:

What is a T&A day .....??

[Anonymous]

Good Morning, Rather fresh up here, 64 right now.. hoping it gets a tad bit warmer

Lookin forwrd to a great T&A day...

I really hope i don't have to explain that....

[:D]

[cwclark]

good morning everybody...had a shower last night but looks like another hot, sticky day here on the Texas gulf coast...didn't mow yesterday as i had planned ..the ground is still too wet from the storms we had last Saturday so I finished up the clouds on the backdrop..that beats the heck outt'a mow'in anyday!..well the coffee's on..i'm at work (uck) and it's time for a cup...see ya!...Chuck

[tomwatkins]

Good Mornin' Everybody,
It's another beautiful morning in the North Georgia mountains. The coffee was really good today.
I really appreciate everyone's help on the tannery question. It will make that part of the railroad a lot more realistic and interesting.
I've got some yard work to get done this morning and then it will be off to the railroad room to have fun.
Tomorrow I'm heading down to Kennesaw Ga. to the Kudzu Rails fest. Should be a lot of fun and hopefully I can find some information I've been looking for.
Have Fun,
Tom Watkins

[Anonymous]

Man, business is getting slow here in the coffee shop. [V]

I guess I will have to order more than soup tonight. [;)]

(I have already had Cream Of Broccoli soup tonight.)

Well we only worked 8 hours tonight. They told us we are working all weekend again. [:(!] This will be the 3 rd week in a row with no day off. [:(] [:(!]

I am going to post a Help Wanted ad in the Depot Diner & Coffee Shop. This is in the Trains.magazine forum as some of you already know.

Yall have a good day/night now. See ya. [:)] [:p] [;)] [8D] [:D]

[Noah Hofrichter]

Another laugh, thanks lupo!

Noah

[cwclark]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

guess I won't be spending any time on my layout tonight, I have to write 2 pages about 'Romeo & Juliet' for school [banghead][banghead][banghead]

i'll write your paper if you cut my grass...all 2 acres..i can't work on my layout tonight either so don't feel like the Lone Ranger..i hear that John Deere rid'in lawn mower call'in my name and i don't want to answer it... ....Chuck

[lupo]

In the mindless garbage that comes to my company e-mailbox everyday (spam) and that I have to look through manually to pick out businessmail, nowadays have jokes in the text to confuse spam filters.
Here is a train related joke I picked up:

A large two engine train was crossing America. After they had gone some distance one
of the engines broke down."No problem," the engineer thought, and carried on at half-ower. Further on down the line, the other engine broke down, and the train came to a standstill.
The engineer decided he should inform the passengers about why the train had stopped, and made the following announcement::
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time.
The good news is that this is a train and not a plane."


enjoy your coffee !

[coalminer3]

Reply to Noah's D&H question: It depends on the era you are looking at as to whether you think of it as a regional or larger carrier.

D&H "in the day" was primarily an anthracite road.

In time they expanded north into northern NY with an outlet to Montreal. Thus their slogan "Bridge Line Route Between New England and Canada" which you probably remember seeing on their cars.

IIRC, and I defer to the experts out there, in 1976 the "expanded" D&H came about. They got trackage rights as part of the creation of Conrail. This included rights over the old PRR from Sunbury, PA down to Potomac Yard (Washington, DC). They also got trackage rights on the old EL from Binghamton to Buffalo. The final piece of the pie was trackage rights giving them access to New York and Phildelphia over what used to be parts of the RDG and the LV.

D&H, although it remained independent became part of the Guilford system in 1982. D&H became a CP property in June, 1990. The rest of the story has been covered extensively in the rail press.

One small aside we used to see D&H cars marked for ilmenite service off the D&H in the C&O yard here; they were carrying magnetite for use in coal prep plants. IIRC again, ilmenite is used mainly in ceramics.

Now let's go eat. As the orcs say, "look like meat's back on the menu..."

Hope this helps.

work safe

[Anonymous]

Well the coffee shop seems a little slow today/night.

I am having Cream of Chicken soup after working a 10 hour shift. I hope I am not making anyone hungry <Noah> . [:D]

You know those rolls I talked about in the Trains.magazine thread should would be good right now. Nice hot yeast rolls with lots of butter, one of my favorites. Hmmm Hmmm goood. [:D]

Well got to run. I am tired and have to finish my soup. See yall. [:p] [:)] [:D]

[Noah Hofrichter]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! We let it slip the first page! we're all doomed under the rath of Big_Boy_4005 when he finds out. Run! Hide! Help! [:D]

Seriously, it's nobody's fault, we got to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Dougal, If you see this, how many miles of the track does the D&H run? Are they a fairly small short line, or more of a regional railroad?

[Anonymous]

once again, thank you ' lupo'. I'll search for that targetword crappola and try to rid my PC of it. I'd like to get my hands on the dweeb that attached it to my system. By the way, is that you smashing a PC on your post to me? No wonder you don't have your pic posted on your profile !

BILL

[lupo]

Thanks Noah!
I find those pictures across the internet, sometimes I stumble across them and bookmark 'm for later use, or I type in a search at yahoo: somethink like " animated gif " and look what comes up, if you have more than one page of results try to skip the obvious and look at pages further on, there can be interesting results there !.[8D][:o)]

btw I think your follow up on the NES for blatant was right,
but for english not being my "native tongue" [:P] [:P] I use http://www.m-w.com/ Meriam-Webster as online dictionary (not all the times as you might have noticed ), It comes with very cool pronunciation help! as well!
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?pronun03.wav=pronunciation
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?help0001.wav=help

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

Why did passenger trains not have cabooses?

Actually the caboose WAS the passenger car on some railroads. It also served as the REA area, and I have seen pics of the caboose being used to haul milk cans (you know the old metal ones).

On regular passenger trains the conductor was in the coaches and didn't need to ride in a caboose. He did have an area to himself where he would do the paperwork he needed to do. Another item to think about is weight. Why pull an extra car that really isn't needed! Many of the engines were pulling their max load and just didn't need any extra weight to pull.

[Anonymous]

Why did passenger trains not have cabooses?

[Anonymous]

guess I won't be spending any time on my layout tonight, I have to write 2 pages about 'Romeo & Juliet' for school [banghead][banghead][banghead]

[Noah Hofrichter]

Lupo, every time I come here you give me another laugh with those different moving GIF's and things. Where do you get them? I would assume it's another website of somesort.

Sorry Jim, I haven't seen your sanity around here any place, but I'll let you know if I do.

Noah

[lupo]

hello bill,
what you suggest definately will solve all problems, other options are:
speaking vey loud next to the machine that you are thinking about buying an Apple computer or going to install LINUX sometimes make them ( those @#$%^& machines) realise that they are expendable, and in some cases they start showing better conduct [:D]

but serious: I looked at the silly phrases you posted:

QUOTE: Originally posted by bill mathewson

I <A TITLE="Click for more information about <A TITLE="Click for more information about car" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||cars|AA1VDw">car</A>" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||cars|AA1VDw">car</A>

and that suggest something in your computer is trying to link something to www.targetwords.com, did you install software by them or something? or can you find in your software list something relating to that?

BTW: do not take your anger out at your computer hardware,

because IMO in 99,9 % of all trouble it is caused by the software all those little IC's and semiconductors only do what the software tells them to do or to do NOT, I tried hitting my display once and the trouble did not go away, the pain lasted longer,

[Anonymous]

Good day Tom Watkins - posted some info re: 'tannery' elsewhere on this Forum that may be helpful to you-

hey "lupo' - thanks for your continuing suggestions re: fixing the stupid +_)(*&^%$#@! problems w/ Windows XP and Internet Explorer on my PC. Do you think dropping it out my second floor office window would cure it?

BILL

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

No thanks Jim, I'll wait till I have to work that much before I actually do work that much! Things have been going okay at school right now though, So far all I've lost is my sanity.[:D]

Noah

Sanity, lost mine years ago. Still can't seem to find it, so if you do please let me know. [:D] [:D] [:D]

Maybe JCTrain will take me up on the "work trade" offer. I meant to include him too. I just forgot. Oh, memory and sanity, I seem to have lost them both. I was going to say something else but seem to have . . . .

It was foggy tonight and . . .

My Frisco E unit . . .

Did anybody . . .

Now where are my glasses, I just saw them over . . .

OH, it was foggy tonight . . . .

My SD 9 in SP Black Widow . . .

[cisco1]

Hello everyone. Another gorgeous day here in NW Missouri. BBQ season in full swing here too. (I'm with Fergie- cook out all year and keep our propane dealer happy!) Got word this week that the city of St. Joseph is helping put a roof over CB&Q 5614 finally.
Had to celebrate a little that somebody else sees the importance of preserving the past.
The garden is doing well and looks like with a little luck and some rain we'll have sweet corn by July. Got to go now- am taking the better half out for her birthday.[dinner]
Best wishes to all.
Chris

[Noah Hofrichter]

No thanks Jim, I'll wait till I have to work that much before I actually do work that much! Things have been going okay at school right now though, So far all I've lost is my sanity.[:D]

Noah