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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 1, 2010 8:11 AM

 Good Afternoon,

it is fairly mild outside - + 2C, but that´s going to change. The weather guessers are predicting a series of blizzards for the next days, adding another foot of that white & wet stuff to the 2 feet we have. Took me more than an hour to drive to the GULAG.

Yiipeeh! Only 6 more days in the GULAG! I will be enjoying my freedom very much!

Jeff - you are doing just fine - my Bow for your stamina you have to be able to cope with all your health issues!

Flo, just a cafe au lait for me - I´ll stay at the RC.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 1, 2010 7:51 AM

 Good morning. It's 35 with a rain and snow mix. The high will be around 50 and it will will be cloudy.

I'm able to read somewhat better today for about 8 to 10 minutes at a time. That's better than it was yesterday for sure. I'm hoping this clears up soon. To say that it's aggravating is an understatement to say the least. I'm debating on whether or not to go into town today and pay some bills that can't be paid any other way or hold off until tomorrow when I have to go into town anyway for my doctor appointment. I know it would be better to consolidate all the errands into one trip but I'm feeling rather like the Vontage gnome in those cabin fever commercials when he says I've got to get out of here. There's also the grocery shopping to consider.

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Posted by Robby P. on Monday, February 1, 2010 7:42 AM

 Good morning.  Another cold morning, and maybe a coating of snow tomorrow.

 Just a typical day for me today.  Probably head down to the layout later this morning.  

 Hope everybody has a good morning.  I will be back in for the Mondays lunch special.

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Posted by GMTRacing on Monday, February 1, 2010 7:18 AM

Good morning All,

   Just a regular to go in a NH travel mug please. Loads of fun at the Amhearst train show but didn't see Dick or Bob. Did see a bunch of fellow racers though. Finally got to go to the Steaming Tender rest. More to follow, probably tomorrow after we get the last of the panic stuff done for departure tomorrow.  CUL, J.R.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, February 1, 2010 6:59 AM

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Joe, “THOSE ARE REAL” ok, there you go, the pictures are still models but I hope that helps a little.  I know I had a real sense of inadequacy myself.

Todd, I’m right there with you, I can see myself abandoning the entire hobby if that guy was modeling N-visible or H O, LOL!

I'm with those statements!! Sheeesh!! Those 'models' are something else!Thumbs Up

Good Morning--

A nice day is forecast----minus the ever popular 30% chance of little tiny snowflurries.

Actually have a bit of time to do some MRR stuff today---may have to redo the Williston Terminal yard as it's starting to look terminally illWhistling Good thing those wall sections are paddedMischief Did Flo get that punching bag I suggested? Good---it's in the cornerMischief

Chloe, I'll just have that 3 egg special and a large coffee please--oh, sunny side up and sausages please thanks---I'll be at the corner boothWhistling

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Posted by LSWrr on Monday, February 1, 2010 6:30 AM
Tom, Chameleon paint stripper is the greatest if you run into problems stripping the old paint.  I keep a bottle of gel and liquid on hand all the time.


Joe, “THOSE ARE REAL” ok, there you go, the pictures are still models but I hope that helps a little.  I know I had a real sense of inadequacy myself.



Todd, I’m right there with you, I can see myself abandoning the entire hobby if that guy was modeling N-visible or H O, LOL!


Sue, welcome back!  I told you guys she was still alive!


Now we need Fergi to wander in,  I guess he doesn’t have internet while underway?

Duke, I’ve noticed several of the guys built a chair with wheels to get under their layout.  It’s like a wood Windsor chair, reclined, with the legs cut off and the back cut down to fit under the layout.  Too bad I didn’t have your stool or one of these Winsor’s to wire my layout.

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Posted by LSWrr on Monday, February 1, 2010 6:04 AM
Good morning all,


I’m 6 pages behind this morning, so I’m playing catch-up here.

I assembled the foundation for the roundhouse and the Machine Shop; The cement pads have been painted and distressed.  The upper edge of the inspection pits received a nice rusty highlight.  I’m trying to remember how things looked in the Stanley Engine Shops.  Not sure I’ll model the standing water that always seemed to plague the inspection pits.



I also re-motored and re-wired a 1970’s MANTUA Pacific.  I added BULLFROG SNOT to the drivers without flanges.  The BullFrog snot took the locomotive from a wheel spinner with 12 cars to a pulling dynamo easily pulling 28 cars around the layout.

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Posted by ns3010 on Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:02 PM

Evening all. Flo, I'll take a RBF, thanks.

Didn't get in yesterday, cause I had to work on my chem lab and my spanish paper.

Spent the weekend down the shore. We actually got some snow down there, but none up here.

Pretty busy week. Got hockey M, W, F, and Saturday. That, and I have to finish my spanish paper, on top of regular homework... :/

Well, I got the lumber for the layout transported from my dad's office to the garage. My mom said I can't start building until I finish my spanish paper, though. MAYBE, IF I find some time (pfft, yeah, right, keep dreaming, Joe, keep dreaming...) I can finish cleaning up the basement and rearrange the furniture, so I can start construction.

Catch ya guys later!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:45 PM

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Jeffrey,  A few years before I retired our faculty was treated to a days program on handicapping conditions.  I remember quite well the task of making us read out of a mirror and having one of the teachers who w*rk with kids who have dyslexia stand over you and "harrass" you while you are trying to read a page.  Also where you are given a sheet and told to read it alowed with letters and words reversed and are treated to loud sighs, rolling eyes, and other distractions while you are trying to complete the task.  Then being told you are just lazy in front of the rest of the faculty!  It was a major big eye opener for a lot of us.

Sounds like you got a taste of it all right. There's nothing like hard experience. If I had a dime for every time someone who didn't have the problem said it isn't all that hard I'd be a rich man. Many people just have no idea. Now throw hearing problems into the mix and you have a student with a major learning disability.

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:20 PM

 Evenin' folks!

Zoe just a nice hot cup of decafe to get me warmed up.  I'll be in the back booth by the stove.

Jeffrey, comeon......  look at the page, you can do it, Just look harder!!!!  Whistling  A few years before I retired our faculty was treated to a days program on handicapping conditions.  I remember quite well the task of making us read out of a mirror and having one of the teachers who w*rk with kids who have dyslexia stand over you and "harass" you while you are trying to read a page.  Also where you are given a sheet and told to read it aloud with letters and words reversed and are treated to loud sighs, rolling eyes, and other distractions while you are trying to complete the task.  Then being told you are just lazy in front of the rest of the faculty!  It was a major big eye opener for a lot of us. Hope it rights itself soon!  Keep you in my thoughts and prayers!

TomW, the loco will be a nice addition to the fleet when you have it done!  Keep us updated.

Todd......... Two Years...........  (Shakes head) Yep I do remember now you telling us about it all.  Two years! (Shakes head)

Got to my sister's this afternoon and found her in tears.  It seems the neighbor's cat "Bilbo Baggins" who was about 3-4 years old had just died on her front porch.  She had been playing with him earlier in the day and then had gone over to the house where the cats lived and was talking with the neighbor.  when she left, Bilbo ran out and made a bee line for Nancy's porch.  She arrived just in time to see him collapse and die right in front of her.  He was perfectly OK up to that moment...  The owned called the Vet who said probably heart just stopped and that was THAT. This was taken a year and a half ago on my sister's porch:


Well, we got my sisters new MacBook Pro all set up and w*rked on little things like not moving the mouse when you click something.........Whistling  She couldn't believe how much different the process was than what she remembered.....  She has used a neighbors PC at times, but they usually have got her to where she needed to be and then clicked send for her..Whistling  It should be an interesting few weeks as she gets acquainted with the new toy. Big Smile  She will get set up for wireless on Tuesday.  Just for fun we found several of her neighbors that have wireless at their houses.  A couple of them she could have joined.......  The one she would have tried was locked, but several were wide open.  Time Warner will set hers up so that no one else can get into it without her permission.

Time to get some stuff done.  Later!

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:13 PM

Packers#1
This project is on Daoism, Confucism, Budhhism, Hinduism,a nd Legalism. Right now we're working on Mesopotamia, but soon we're moving east, haha.

I had some of that in high school (comparative religions) and again in college (eastern thought). I had a major "DOH!" moment with it. As an "art major" (art with graphic design concentration...wanting to be a news photographer...yeah, worked out great. ReallyBanged Head), I had to take a sculpture class. The eastern thought professor's office was just down the hall from the sculpture room. He's walking by one afternoon, I figure I'll display my brilliance, my complete grasp of the concepts we'd been covering during the semester. I proudly grabbed a block of wood and said "Hey look, I've got the uncarved block of Zen!"

He says..."That's Dao (or is it Tao?)." Shock I'm mortified. I'm seeing my grade for the semester vaporizing in front of me. He then starts laughing and walks on down the hallway. I'm still in full "oh-s....... oh-s.........." mode...and he's laughing more and more, harder and harder. I passed...which for a gen-ed class was the sole goal. But man...he always chuckled a bit when he'd see me in the sculpture room after THAT little show...

So glad I could bring happiness to others...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:21 PM

AmanaMedic

SAWYER: What've they got you doing in geography? Just curious...I haven't had to sweat-out a project like that in... *counts on fingers, loses count, tries again...gives up* 20-something years. Since I cover a school district for THAT, it's interesting to me to see just what you young-uns are a-learnin'.

 

This project is on Daoism, Confucism, Budhhism, Hinduism,a nd Legalism. Right now we're working on Mesopotamia, but soon we're moving east, haha.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:17 PM

Hello ... Hot cider please.

Sam .. I like the BAR 54 joke.

Duke ... That's a plush toosh caddy. Wow. 

Cal Tom ... Nice prgress on the DRGW brass loco !

Here's a video some of you may have seen of BNSF rotary plow on the former CB&Q line in Nebraska.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqEBdjaXpM

 

 

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:15 PM

Well jeepers THAT was fun... looked, looked again, looked again at the looked again... STILL can NOT find the architect scale. Had some real fun though...Loving Wife swore there was no way it had gone back to her, AND THAT she thought I also had her non-slip steel rule and some pica-thing ruler. I retrieved both items from her "art cart" within seconds. "You mean THESE?"

Soooooooooo, I keep thinking it somehow made its way back downstairs to her studio, or within a close proximity.

Then again, the mouse in our house might have grabbed it so he could design himself a better apartment than wherever he's currently dwelling. Rerun seems to have engaged in some sort of peace treaty with said mouse.Disapprove

I managed to pull-out enough math from the deepest memory banks to figure out THAT the plan in question is...roughly 3/4" = 1'. It looks like it was blown-up to fit the page, regardless of what the printed scale indicated. I think '90 might've been the same year they published a highly-touted drawing of the GP-18...then caught hell because it had too many GP-7/9 features. The MR folks later fessed up they had used a new computer system, essentially "cutting and pasting" in features.Sign - Oops

Heck, seems to me, and maybe I've banged my head a time or two too many...but it seems THAT a plan designed to fit into a 10x11 room "should" fit with some adjustments into a 9x13. A little cut here, some stretch there...

Confused

SAWYER: What've they got you doing in geography? Just curious...I haven't had to sweat-out a project like that in... *counts on fingers, loses count, tries again...gives up* 20-something years. Since I cover a school district for THAT, it's interesting to me to see just what you young-uns are a-learnin'.

BARRY: The SC is still sitting just underneath the RC...help yerself.

Heck, I'll just have myself a pull of it here... smoooooooooooooth.

And now back to using Loving Wife's gradeschool vintage wooden ruler...complete with the still kinda sharp (ask me how I discovered THAT) metal blade along one edge. You know, I for the life of me can't remember what THAT was for...cutting paper maybe?  Yeah, a 12" long strip of sharp steel...MUCH safer than scissors...Shock

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Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:54 PM

Todd........Thanks for that!!!  I like the picture at the end of the "how to" of the layout shot.  That will really help.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:41 PM

AmanaMedic

Packers#1
I wish we ahd gotten snow! and that probably sounds like crazy talk to you northerners, but the last time we had a good snow was when I was in first grade!

Well Hoss...come on up to Iowa, we're due for more tomorrow into Tuesday. Tell ya what I'll do, I'll go high-fiber the cows...see if they can flatuate enough "global warming methane" to direct the latest storm more toward your direction! Laugh

 

that just might be crazy enough to work!

Well, haven't done much today. did get almost all of my research for a project for World geography class finished.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:39 PM

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Welp, had a good-news/bad-news situamacation. I dug out the "Free Haven Terminal RR" plan from the Oct. '90 MR. I realized why one particular corner looked like it would end up over 4' deep. The plan, which CLAIMS to be 1/2" = 1' is NOT! Don't know what it is...but it's a heckuva lot bigger. I came to this brilliant Banged Head realization when I laid my 1/2" = 1' floorplan over it...and found a huge disconnect.

If it anything like certain of my own grids they might have shuffled a 1/4" grid under it by mistake!Grumpy I've seen that on some N scale "plans" that some people would fob off on some unsuspecting soul and when one would get to the point of getting it all laid out-----PTOOOFF!!Whistling Suddenly it becomes nothing more than guibble-----

AmanaMedic
I see TODD cleared off the drafting table, and it looks like some nice padded walls around it. Think I'll make use of THAT...uh, somebody maybe wanna put JIM on stand-by? I think he's still on-call, and I hear he's good at untangalating tangled up minds Mischief

I like the fact that Jim is on call----MischiefWhistling BTW---keep that SC around--we might need it too---I've discovered an issue--or 2--on my own layout----Disapprove

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:56 PM

Packers#1
I wish we ahd gotten snow! and that probably sounds like crazy talk to you northerners, but the last time we had a good snow was when I was in first grade!

Well Hoss...come on up to Iowa, we're due for more tomorrow into Tuesday. Tell ya what I'll do, I'll go high-fiber the cows...see if they can flatuate enough "global warming methane" to direct the latest storm more toward your direction! Laugh

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh good evening one and all,

Welp, had a good-news/bad-news situamacation. I dug out the "Free Haven Terminal RR" plan from the Oct. '90 MR. I realized why one particular corner looked like it would end up over 4' deep. The plan, which CLAIMS to be 1/2" = 1' is NOT! Don't know what it is...but it's a heckuva lot bigger. I came to this brilliant Banged Head realization when I laid my 1/2" = 1' floorplan over it...and found a huge disconnect.

So...I am (again) optimistic THAT this plan can be tweaked to fit my space.

However, I need the architect scale to figure-out what in the blazes scale the MR plan IS in...and it has invisibilated itself! Banged HeadBanged Head

Gone.

Like it never existed other than in my often fertile imagination...

IF it 'taint one thing...it's always another!!!!!

I see TODD cleared off the drafting table, and it looks like some nice padded walls around it. Think I'll make use of THAT...uh, somebody maybe wanna put JIM on stand-by? I think he's still on-call, and I hear he's good at untangalating tangled up minds Mischief

I'll just go and Daffy Duck around on the padded walls......

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Posted by TMarsh on Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:48 PM

Robby P.
I would love to add some "cat tail" but no idea on how to make them??

 

http://www.trains.com/MRR/default.aspx?c=a&id=391   Big Smile We'll be waiting.Wink

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:53 PM

Robby P.

 Sawyer.... No snow, well us PA people dodged a bullet.  My home town got about 6 inches, and I thought you might have.

 

I wish we ahd gotten snow! and that probably sounds like crazy talk to you northerners, but the last time we had a good snow was when I was in first grade!

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Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:47 PM

 Just a quick stop.

 Here's a shot of the swamp I've been working on.  I still gotta add some detail work, and maybe some small animals.  I would love to add some "cat tail" but no idea on how to make them??

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Posted by fec153 on Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:26 PM

Todd- Check with H.D. and Lowes. They do come in different widths Two of my friends have done it with good results. Also, another idea-Bifold doors. They come slotted ,top or bottom, for ventilation[airflow]

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:05 PM

JimRCGMO
Jeff, hope your dyslexia gets itself (better) straightened out soon. Sounds like a big bunch of bother, and possibly headaches, besides!

It's getting better, as long as I don't try too hard. Just reading short sentences yesterday was giving me a headache and a half. And no, trying harder doesn't make it easier, just more painful. It seems like it gets worse as I get older. In my school days it was just a matter of letters appearing backward or upside down, some words scrambled or reversed. Now I get whole sentences transposed on top of each other. Talk about a mess. I tried reading glasses, didn't work very well. Oh well, it'll pass soon enough.

 

 

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Boy. I wish the solution was that simple.  Don't worry, I can see the humor in it. I learned a long time ago that it helps if I don't take it seriously.

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Posted by TMarsh on Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:59 PM

I'm back, I'm back, yee haw I'm back. Now to do some work for me. Layout work that is. First I must remove the structures and rolling stock. Luckily, I have acquired some smaller plastic containers and drawer things from mom's uh, er, excess. She decided, after three times me handling them cause she had to have them, she doesn't need them.

Ray- No my good man you din't start anything. Since you appear to be done moving for the most part, I shall now remind you I have been moving my Mother for two years now. Not a typo, two YEARS. Of course the moving is how I found my layout and got back into this hobby, and also met all you fine peopleBow. So though the packing and moving is a pain, I have received so much good I am not complaining it happened. Just that it won't end! Two rooms to go then the garage and pole barn and a shed. There's no end.

Jeff- How well I know. How well I know. Moving is a never ending thing. To bad Dyslexia isn't standardized. We could just mix up the letters appropriately and you'd know what we wroteSmile,Wink, & Grin.

(sllllaaap) OW! I wasn't making fun Flo! He knows I know it's a serious problem, but gee whiz, you gotta admit it was at least worth a grin ... (slap!)

Duke- Hey you're up. (must have read my mind that I also am entertaining the idea of changing eras to include steam). Good idea with the creeper seat. But the bench work wil only be about 40 inches to the top. Depending how thick foam I use, not going to use expanded foam this time I'll use extruded like most others, I'm not sure I can get my tall skinny self under it.

Flip- Not sure my carpentry skills are up to that pocket door. The door opens into the main room of the basement....., wait, just a minute. "hey Honey......" Nope, got a strange scrunched up look from the CEO.

Robby- A lift out or dropdown hopefully will be the answer. Where and how will have to be worked out.

Chris- Maggie the Creepy Proof Reading Girl. Hmmm. You gotta tell us about her sometime.

Oh my gosh. First Garry, now Sam. "Bar 54"? (groan)

Jim- Oh don't think I haven't run that through my mind countless times. I'd be happy if she lived forever but that won't happen and aside from the obvious reasons, I dred that time also because the moving again will be back in my face. Of course it may not be as bad, after my sister swoops through and claims her "due" it's Goodwill truck, come pick it up. Mom has been giving us what we want without my sister's input all along so basically there will be nothing except very little we will want. She knows sister will want stuff that we want and since she is never around and Mom says Brenda has been more of a daughter than her own, she wants to make sure we get whatever we want. And more. Ugh. By the way, I hope you get the MRR soon, this one is just packed with stuff good for building. It's definitely a keeperThumbs Up.

Well the smell of supper is wafting through the house and I have a few more trips to unload, (see it never ends) then..... Begin disassembly process. Already got some good change ideas, unfortunately I can't change the PDF files so I have to print out and transfer to graph paper etc etc etc. I don't need a plan to take things apart and paint walls so...... TTFN

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:01 PM

Good Afternoon, Janie - we'll see if I can stick around a bit longer this time. I'll have a BLT, cheesey fries, and a RBF, please. Thanks!

Good to hear that this sn*wstorm missed some of our southern Diners (NTBCW our Diners who like the Southern...). Wink

DerJohn, good list there! Laugh Sent it along to some (non-Diner) friends. I'd second Rob's comments on the window module,Yeah!! especially since I recall when you were having fits with that grade problem at the join line (a while back).

Todd, maybe Missy got into some leftover pizza? Definite argument for an OUTSIDE doghouse...Oops You sound kinda excited about the new trackplan - go for it, fella! As you said, you have the room (and a smidgen to spare), and a plan you like. Thumbs Up And, as for that "moving...'stuff'" question, the short answer is NO, not even once your Mom moves on to THAT greater place ('cause then you'll be sorting through all the stuff to determine who gets what and what goes on sale or to the dumpster).... Well, maybe 10 years later you'll be done - but then again, by then you might have track laid down and be running trains!

Still awaiting my new issue of MR. I checked last Thursday to see if it was in the p.o. box, but no luck. Sigh

I'll need to post a photo later once I scan the photo in, but I'm gonna be looking for an older step van to get. I have a photo of the van that my Boy Scout troop used for hauling their tents and gear to the Scout camp in the summertime. It was painted in red and white (about half one color and half the other), with the troop number and a logo of sorts on the side. I have two of the Preiser Boy Scouts sets (may get one more) and can sort justify having three patrols with that many figures, I am guessing. Will also use the W-S Campers sets for some smaller tents - I need to find how to make a couple of umbrella tents (back then, the leaders usually were in those, and our family got one like those for our own use). Now, how to get enough space for (at least part of) a Scouts campground...

Tom - impressive job on that articulated of yours! I'll pass on that question about the green, never having seen the Rio Grande color scheme.

Chris, are you thinking that you might snag a button or two on any power lines along that narrow aisle? Whistling (Hey, I resemble THAT remark!) Sounds like you had a little fun at the 'waterfest' you were shooting. (heh, heh, heh...)Smile,Wink, & Grin

Hey, Barry, I didn't come up with the padded room idea - and I think Chris just wanted one padded place on the wall, not a whole room. I get more of my w**k as is, without having this place remind me of it! I'm getting by with about 5 hours of snooze time last night. One that ended with me getting home around 1:15 a.m., and then a few minutes after 6 a.m., the dang pager goes off again! Banged Head (Ouch, that hurts!) But at least I was able to catch all of the church service this a.m. (from the lobby, on their TV screens out there). Figured if I did get paged, I'd disrupt fewer people by leaving than if I were sitting in the sanctuary area... Tonight, I'm asking the Big Boss for a chance to catch up on my sleep THAT I didn't get last night. Zzz


Jeff, hope your dyslexia gets itself (better) straightened out soon. Sounds like a big bunch of bother, and possibly headaches, besides!

Ray, your sister's last computer was an Amiga, in her classroom, in the 1980's, right? (chuckle... snort.. hee, hee... Well, good that it wasn't a Commodore VIC 20...)Whistling At least her first (personal) computer is a good one! Thumbs Up

Sam - snicker...Laugh

Think I'll be at the window booth, enjoying the afternoon sunshine (which looks warm, mostly because I'm INSIDE now!). 

 

Blessings and Prayers,

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Posted by Cederstrand on Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:40 PM

Veggie & fruit smoothie, please. 

***Tom, sure do like the details on that brass project loco.

Have a good day y'all.

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Posted by Trainman Sam on Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:34 PM

Vincent- Got the package!

ns3010

 

This unit was built as BAR 54, and is now Stourbridge Line (SBRR) 54, in tourist service on Pennsylvania.

You have been watching an episode of "BAR 54 Where Are You!"...WhistlingSmile,Wink, & GrinLaugh  Sorry, I couldn't help myself!!!!

 

Ray- Hope you're feeling better... Glad to hear that your son is "mostly" moved in...

Jerry- Really like that caboose!!! I hope my feeble attempts (somewhere in the mid/far-off distant future) will look half as nice as that does! Two-foot rule my foot!  Looks great!

Der- LOVE the home remedies list!!! ROFLMAO Literally!

Sorry, I'm only up to the middle of page 14... see what happens when you work overnights and can't get into your friends for two days... I'll catch up on the rest tomorrow, hopefully

Sam

 May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:37 PM

Good Afternoon... pot of coffee, double cheeseburger basket....at the RC please 'n thank-ya ladies!

TMarsh
Talked to the wife and she didn't bat an eye. Well, after she found out that the new plan doesn't get out of my space anyway. Didn't really expect her too though. If you think about it as far as she's concerned, so what. Kinda like when she asks me which shoes look better. She wasn't, however keen on the idea of moving the door. Turning it around was fine. I did let it slip about taking most of the basement, THAT got no response other than a quick glance from looking at the TV. Translation: "Not even worth me responding too". Just checking to see if she was listening. If women would do that, there'd be a lot less problems

Sooooooo, as long as THAT "thing" stays contained within it's limits...she's OK with it...Laugh

Loving Wife made it clear early on, THAT I could do whatever I wanted with my office and the RR room...welp, other than cause the imminent destruction of the house...other than THAT..."anything goes!" At the same time, the office and RR room are seperated from the rest of the upstairs by a door THAT can be closed at .... "oppertune times." The arrangement essentially gives me the "east wing" of the upstairs as 'MAN LAND.' Heck, she even railed on a former co-worker who refused, flat-out refused, to let her husband have a "man cave" or "man land." No soup for him, apparently, and no place to hide from his wife (and the rest of the world) either!Disapprove But back to Loving Wife, I told her I'd be knocking holes in walls so as to facilitate the movement of trains from staging in my office to the layout in the RR room. Like TODD's Perfect Wife, she gave the "quick glance" and went back to Wife World....Whistling

ROBBY P: Loving Wife has looked over the BUGS, I'll shoot you an e-mail soon with her directives...

TMarsh
Of course one never knows what tomorrow brings, might be shakin hands with St Peter and dancin' around sayin' "I knew it! I just knew it! Naaa na na naaaaa na "

Fr. Mychal Judge, FDNY Chaplain (Dec.) was famous for saying "if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans for tomorrow." Fr. Judge was one of the 343 members of FDNY murdered on 9-11-01Angel May he and the others never be forgotten.

Sorry, TODD's quote just reminded me of that...

TMarsh
Tom- Yes I am grateful for the room. You bet I am. I just can't come up with a decent plan by myself to use it. And yes I'm sure things will change a bit before completion, but I have a good start point.

AMEN Brother!

Welp...back to w**k. I got a dozen water fight pics uploaded for THAT to retrieve tomorrow during newspaper layout day. Now, I have to bang-out captions and a "graph" or two of copy to go with it all...get THAT hammered-out and filed so Maggie the Creepy Proofreader Girl can have at it yet this evening.

Have a good rest of the day, moving, canceled programs, sn** (or not), etc., etc., etc. not withstanding!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:35 PM

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Jeff: As far as Dyslexia is concerned, my sisters "favorite"Whistling phrase of all time is the one people throw around at her----"Oh!! Just try harder!!"Grumpy

Yep, the phrase used by nearly all who have little or no understanding of the condition. Trying harder makes it worse.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:04 PM

Hello--

We're snowing again.

And I went and found out that there was a blinking hole in the basement hallway so we could not use the dang spaceBanged Head so here I was frantically phoning people and waiting for the inevitable lost soul wandering around going--"where'd he go? where'd he go?-" trying to find me.Sigh So I managed to get a hold of enough people to get a few more lost souls and we pretty much got everything under controlWhistling I also left a wonderful message to certain people in charge of such things that reminded them of getting hold of affected staff and such so's we could cancel classes BEFORE we see lost puppies wandering around----GrumpyMischief

Todd: Is the doorway something you can make into a pocket door? I kinda like Flip's idea there. My door is at the top of the basement stairs so a certain 'Spring' can no longer try to get into the room---paws will, however, show up under the door beckoning "come, come---"  BTW--as far as moving---NAH!!Sigh

Jeff: As far as Dyslexia is concerned, my sisters "favorite"Whistling phrase of all time is the one people throw around at her----"Oh!! Just try harder!!"Grumpy

I'm going to spend the rest of the day trying to fit a few more sidings into the Williston Terminal yard---Whistling

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