Coffee refill, please.
***Todd, sending healing thoughts your grandson's way.
***Ray, seems you aren't working nearly hard enough.
Still haven't made it down to the train room today. Will take that coffee TO GO and head on down there now, even if all I do is run a train.
Cheers! Rob
Todd ... you have bad news. I'm very sad to know your grandson is back in the hospital. Is the court case still pending against the %$@*&! that beat him? Also, prayers for your Mom's recovery from her fall.
I'm still working on the layout although I should have doen some non-model-railroad stuff outside today with the good weather.
Jeff ... sounds like you are making good progress with the van. Feel free to tell Ray what to do with his bumper sticker idea.
Chris ... glad you could get soem work done in the railroad room.
Ray ... Don't wear yourself out with all the museum stuff.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good late afternoon folks!
Flo, I'll have a Hot Turkey Sandwich and fries (with gravy) and a Dr. Pepper tonight. I wait to later for desert...
I seem to have what is going around here today, sore and achy, or sure will be by tomorrow morning. I w*rked out at the museum doing a bunch of odds and ends and just helping out where I was needed today for about 4 and a half hours. Started helping out late in the morning with some surveying being done for new trackage where the Empire Express will stored. Our track by agreement has to be a minimum of 6" lower than the main line of the LA&L RR. After lunch a couple of us did some repairing, ajusting, and an oil change on a little dump cement hauler... Not sure what the formal name for it is. Powered by an ancient 2 cylinder air cooled engine. Probably hadn't been started in a couple years. Then helped a guy load and haul out a bunch of old scrap engines. On the largest engine sitting on a small trailer, we got it out of where it was sitting only to find a robin's nest on the engine. A couple of us carefully moved the nest and set it on an Erie crane right next to where the engine was. Probably the hatchlings are doomed, but we decided we would give them a chance to be found by the parents...... We moved it without actually touching the nest with our hands so as not to leave our scent on the nest.
By the time I got home i could barely get out of the car. I'll take an advil later.
Todd hope your Mom recovers from the fall with no problems. Will keep her in my prayers.
I think I will find my way down to the basement where it is cool nd do a bit of painting on the Steam Shovel.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
TMarshMom fell yesterday and is in the hospital for a possible broken shoulder, the Xrays say no, but the doctor seems to think the xrays aren't showing it(?) bad angle? Don't know.
Good afternoon...jug of ice water, stack of ibuproffen (don't tell KEITH!), and a stack of OTC sinus meds please 'n thank-you...
Did the mowing thing again today...a weekly exercise anymore. Felt OK when I was done, the headache finally found me however.
Managed to spend a little time in the RR room today, splashed some more paint around...the room is actually looking pretty good. If not for Tori's 4 cylinder heart transplant... I'd be looking at some lumber this weekend or next. *sigh*
Maybe next month.
Have a good-'un, gonna go have a little lie-down for awhile...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
I'd been working outside earlier trying to determine where I'll have to reinforce the floor in the rear of the van for the tie-downs. That requires getting underneath the beast. No mean feat that since it sits quite a bit higher than a car does. No, the problem is getting up again. That's a lot of work for me and I do believe I overdid it, again. I've been resting for the last 30 minutes and wondered why I felt so tired so I checked my blood sugar level and sure enough it was low. Down to 52 on the first check, 60 on the second. So I have a batch of buttered rice cooking. That'll give me a good shot of starch and protein. That'll get my level back up and out of the danger range but I'm finished today as far as work goes. It'll have to wait until tomorrow. If I try to get any more work like that done today I run the risk of doing some real harm. Next big job will be to drill the holes for the tie-downs and I also have to drill tyhe matching holes in the reinforcing plates that will be tack welded in place below the floor pan. That's gonna be fun! NOT!! Guess you can see why I have to tackle this project just a little at a time.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Aaaarrrrghgaaarrrrrrrggglllllllllaaaaaaa.... (spit).Aaaaaah! Better. Sure glad I'm not in Louisiana. Odd though, you'd think with all the shrimp and Crayfish and spicy stuff eaten, it would be MANDATORY to carry a pocket sized mouthwash. Of course in Illinoy you're not require to carry a brain so is suppose.....
Good Morning. Pulled a naughty naughty and slept til 9:30 this morning. Don't know why but I've just been real tired this week. Last week too. I guess today was a catchup. Still feel tired though. I probably need to eat more Jalapeno's.
My day today, what's left of it anyway, probably clean up a bit in the trainroom ( needs it baaaaaaad), maybe apply some more cardboard strips for the other tunnel/hillside until graduation party for friends daughter at 1. Then probably make the hospital rounds, Mom fell yesterday and is in the hospital for a possible broken shoulder, the Xrays say no, but the doctor seems to think the xrays aren't showing it(?) bad angle? Don't know. Keith probably would though. Aaaand Anthony, the grandson, is back in the hospital. Daughter took him in for a fever and he complained of his stomach hurt so she panic and took him in. Good thing I guess, they are concerned that the cyst hasn't shrunk as much as it should and that the cyst is causing problems again. They will do surgery on Monday to cath the cyst and see what happens over the next several days/weeks. THEN, the restaurant wants me to come in tonight if I could when I get done, to see if they might need me to help out.( I didn't tell her about the hospital people or she probably wouldn't even have asked) The dishwasher called in party and they don't know if they can cover well without him. I said I'll stop in and see. No promises when I would get there.
Have a Great Day!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Morning ya'll
Out with the unhappy stomach again. I think some of my meds may make my gut more sensitive than normal. Ever since I started taking it, I've been having more issues with it than ever before. I'm hoping I am back to normal by this afternoon so I can hit that ops session.
Regarding the crazy laws: I found this site: http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states Looks like I'm a really realy bad man acorrding to floriduhs dumb laws.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC mug, please.
***Robby, how would you like to be in that one Amtrak car with the thumping wheels. I'd rather take that steam train ride (next video) anyday. Fast turn on the round table.
Have enjoyed the pics y'all have been posting lately.
The roaming cow has moved. Looks like it's waiting for someone to come out of the farm house. No new work has been accomplished on the layout though.
Have a good day all.
Rob
Good morning all,I'm glad I got the yard cut yeasterday; it's pouring buckets outside, T-storms tonight should make for an interesting day.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Mornin,,,, an irish coffee n sweet roll Janie.
Had some thunder boomers and heavy round here yesterday with some flooding. The Legion in Marshall had 5" of water in the basement when the storm drains couldn't handle it. Mothers got 18'th district meeting upstairs today. We went over and helped with some cleaning last evening.
last mountain & eastern hogger inch53And TODD wins the prize. It is an early to mid 50's camper, which I pickup at train show some time ago. It looks kinda like ours, a 1960 Shultz [think that spelled right] only ours has the wings on the back. The ones that I have seen and remember with the wings were Shasta. Still a very nice scene though, I would like to camp there. How's the fishing???????????
inch53And TODD wins the prize. It is an early to mid 50's camper, which I pickup at train show some time ago. It looks kinda like ours, a 1960 Shultz [think that spelled right] only ours has the wings on the back.
The ones that I have seen and remember with the wings were Shasta.
Still a very nice scene though, I would like to camp there. How's the fishing???????????
JOHNBOY,,, your right on the name. I don't know what I was thinking bout at the time. And the fishing must be good, there 3 out fishing now and 4 or 5 more getting the tackle ready.
TODD,,,,, that was a good funny.
BARRY,,,, great bunch of pics
Opps gatta go, Yazee came down [brought mommy too] and spent the night and I'm hearing pa-pa pa-pa, I best beast get her afore the tears start. Thoughts for all those in need n hope ya'll has a gooden
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Galaxy.....I hope so. I didn't make it last year. Can't wait to see what goes on.
Here's the guys you-tube account that is going to have the party/get together. He has a lot of videos, and slides!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Been busy today. Went to town this morning with the parents to get a few errands taken care of then came back and worked on the gas tank a bit. I cleaned it out as best I could. Hardly any diesel crud in it now. I installed a ten inch long piece of rubber fuel hose inside to serve as the suction line and clamped it in place. That was a lot harder than it sounds. Tomorrow I may get the chance to close up the hole in the top where the fuel pump was. I figure a metal jar lid buried under a bunch of marine epoxy should do the trick. I also cut what was left of the old filler hose off the tank. The next project will be to build a support cradle that will be bolted to the floor. Once the tank is set into it a couple of braces running across the top should keep it from going anywhere. The filler nozzle on the van will have to be moved a bit higher to put it above the top of the tank and I'll have to see what path the filler hose will take. I should be able to fashion one from a truck radiator hose, some connectors and clamps. That should prove to be an interesting project. After that will come the job of constructing an enclosure around the whole thing to keep the fumes out. It will be of course be vented to the outside to avoid a buildup.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
jeffrey-wimberly Now as for a stupid law or two, in this state it's illegal to gargle in public places. Can you believe that? Wanna get ten years behind bars? Steal an alligator. There are a bunch of others that are real beauties but I'm definitely NOT going there.
Now as for a stupid law or two, in this state it's illegal to gargle in public places. Can you believe that? Wanna get ten years behind bars? Steal an alligator. There are a bunch of others that are real beauties but I'm definitely NOT going there.
There are funny laws everyplace. In a nearby small town I grew up in it is illegal to carry a lunchpail or lunchbag down Main or Front streets. WHy? that is where the ginormous wealthy people mansions are and they did not want to see "common folk" carrying their lunchpails on the way to work! {McMansions often had a common folk apartment in the back second floor to let out in addition to servants quarters in the attic of said houses}
Also until recently, the garbage trucks actually had to back up each drive way of the McMansions to clean up the garbage cans out in sheds out in the backs of said mcmansions.That was so there was no refuse on the curb "to destroy and mar the beauty of the homes on Front and Main Streets". NOw they, who live in the mcmansions, too, must carry their trash to the curbside for pickup. Saves fuel and wear and tear on the garbage trucks. Darn! it now looks SO awful the night before garbage collection day on Front and Main streets with all that crap curbside. YUK! MY Goodness! Just like any other neighborhood now around here with refuse on the curb fpr collection. How sad. WHat is the world comming to when wealthy people must put their trash curbside?
And yes, it is illegal for a person to carry an icecream cone in their back pocket on a Sunday. I don't know who does such things, but it is illegal.
SOmewhere out west it is illegal to move a bed on Sunday. I think it was some Christian folk didn't like seeing a bed move across the street on a Sunday!
There are more but I wouldn't want you to be bored.
Feeling better with the catheter out. Remains to be seen if I am "functioning normally" and voiding all fluids. HAd to stop one of the muscle relaxers the neuroligist gave me as I take Ciprofalaxin as an antibiotic for my bladder and the do not apparently interact very well. SO back to the old muscle relaxer. I watch the intake of Oxycontin as It doesn"t always sit well with me and if I am going out need not to be under the influence of it especially if I have to drive! The hydrocodone I take I tolerate well, but it and oxycontin still have a droopy effect on me togetehr.
See the neurosurgeon the 17th of next month if I haven't said so already. WE will see what he says.
Prayer candle will lit for those in need this weekend. Thanks to all those who have said prayers for me.
Robby P. sounds like you have a fun weekend ahead! DO share with us when it's over.
have a great nite!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Jeffrey!
Up here in the great state of confusion, ah, New York, we have some really important laws like:
Citizens may not greet each other by “putting one’s thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers”.
"It is against the law to throw a ball at someone’s head for fun."
"A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket."
Oh by the way, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.
And in Ocean City New York..... Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited.
BTW I found a great bumper sticker for your Van....
"This Van will explode upon impact!"
Jeff........Talk about some crazy laws. In NC if you point your finger at someone, you can charge them for assault. Here's another dumb one from NC. If your neighbors dog (female) came in your yard and was in "heat", you can take that neighbor to court and sue for $50.!!!!
Evenin' folks!
Flo I'll have the petite Prime Rib (med. rare) with the twice baked potato and some fresh asparagus from the garden out back. And a glass of Finger Lakes Riesling to wet the pallet. I'll go sit in the back and rest.
Ahhhhhh. Feels good to sit down. I mowed about 2/3s of the lawn early afternoon and then spent an hour and a half on my hands and knees digging out the durned morning glory from the asparagus/herb garden by the side of the house. Also ran several errands during the day today as well. I will finish up the lawn before dark, I hope.
My box from Fast Tracks arrived today! As soon as my LHS gets me the code 83 ME rail i have ordered, I will be in the business of making up turnouts for the quarry area and start to lay the additional track. May peruse the DVD they send out with the forms tonight just to get a better idea of what I need to do.
Didn't tell you guys yesterday, but I had heated up one of the 2 hunks of prime rib that was left over from the dinner on Wednesday last night. Sta down to eat, got a halfway through the dinner, and the phone rang. It was the president of the MLK Committee who needed a phone # to be able to return a pair of prescription sunglasses left at the dinner. I went to the computer to look up the number, he thanked me and I hung up. Got back to the dinner table to find Blackie, the cat, hovering over my plate and licking his chops as if to say, "THAT is good daddy, can have some more!" i was NOT happy! He has been very lovey today and has made up for his indiscretion...... I didn't finish the prime rib.
Barry, nice shots!
Have a great evening! Catch you all later.
Good evening. Its been a looooong day.
Worked all day, and I'm ready for the weekend. Going to a "train" get together tomorrow at a friends house. I believe about 30+ people will be at the party. All train buffs!!! That should be fun. So I doubt I will be in here tomorrow.
Barry.....Nice shots.
I will see everybody Sunday!!
fireman216 Jeff...I am not sure about the laws in your state. But I know for a fact from being a previous auto technician and licensed state vehicle inspector that here in N.Y modifications to the fuel system like that would be an automatic inspection failure. Our vehicles our inspected annually mechanically and for emissions on the newer years. So check engine lights can cost people thousands to get a sticker. Does LS have anything like that where you have to get your car inspected?..I know N.Y just does it to **** off everyone..bad enough they raised the rates on everything from licenses to plates and registration.
Jeff...I am not sure about the laws in your state. But I know for a fact from being a previous auto technician and licensed state vehicle inspector that here in N.Y modifications to the fuel system like that would be an automatic inspection failure. Our vehicles our inspected annually mechanically and for emissions on the newer years. So check engine lights can cost people thousands to get a sticker. Does LS have anything like that where you have to get your car inspected?..I know N.Y just does it to **** off everyone..bad enough they raised the rates on everything from licenses to plates and registration.
Sam ... Enjoy Manassas! Very nice town! I'm curious if the coffee shop made out of the old depot is still there.
Barry .. those photos have lots of ides for models.
I'm still building on the layout. ... I posted pictures of my doodlebug operating on the branch line in WPF.
Happy Model Railroading
Trainman Sam Oh, and thanks to whomever started the songinto my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related Here is your reward for getting THAT songstuck in my head! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINbU6DFwaU&NR=1 Have a great day!
Oh, and thanks to whomever started the songinto my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related
Here is your reward for getting THAT songstuck in my head!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINbU6DFwaU&NR=1
Have a great day!
you had to didn't you---ooooocch!
Oh well---on that note we went and did some more photo shoots today---came up with a few things--
and some of these---
with this thrown in for good measure
and old ROW
hows them for the biscuits---mmmm?
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good afternoon my friends!
Hopefully we meet on happy terms for all!?
Galaxy- I'm praying that your docs find something to help ease your problems?
Jeff- I'm loving the look of that van! On the fact of your police air-horn, I have heard of an engineer at Transit that attached a full GP40 air-horn to his car. There are several videos on the EWE-Tube, but I haven't figured out which one is him yet...
Joe- Glad to hear you got a job at the beach checking tags! Don't forget the sunblock! I've seen some of the new people leave the first day looking like a lobster... OUCH!
I'll hopefully be back in later today... I won't be able to get on at all next week, as I will be in Manassas, VA starting my training with the VRE! Hopefully in a few weeks I can afford a laptop so that I can take it with me... we shall see!
Sam
May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!
I Model the New Hope & Ivyland RR (Bucks County, PA)
Hi Gang, great morning here.
Is that a new waitress or did Zoe just get a new "DO" Looks great girl..
This morning I'll have cinnamon toast and a HC. Thanks much.
Places to go and things to do.......... Be back later.
Johnboy out................ for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, lets see what shall I have to go along w/ my dark roast coffee (in a FGLK mug) this morning. Ah donuts! yes! I shall have 2 of the Bavarian creme filled donuts........ Now where did I put my tin foil hat?
Todd! Bad! Very Bad! ROFLMAO!
Looking at this weeks responsibilities, what do I have left? Oh, I think I need to contact all the Deacons who signed up to serve communion this Sunday and remind them about it. On Pentecost Sunday we Deacons get to serve communion in our church. Once a year thing. Every other month the Elders get to do THAT. Guess I better prepare the sheets for who serves where and get them ready to take with me Sunday. Tomorrow I plan to help out over at the R&GV Museum.
[edit] Hold It! It's a conspiracy! I got the top of the page again! Oh well.... Donuts and tin hats for everyone!
"They're coming to take me away, ha,ha......."
Yeah here in NY, apparently only a dealer can only install/program/reprogram a new computer system. It may not make sense and be more expensive than say someone else. It's still a PITA.
We shall see next week when I take it into the dealer what he says. If it gets fixed, we were planning on running it into the ground anyway so keeping it another 6 years might make it worthwhile. Of course it also needs shocks and more inportantly struts. Many other new parts have gone into it in the last 2 years, but i was replacing 10-11-12 y/o original equipment, not bad for original equipment.
I see the neurosurgeon the 17th of next month to see what he says about the chronic back pain I experience daily. I have a copy of the MRI results to give him to be sure he has them at time of examination, I'm not sure I'm keen on them inserting needles in my spinal column or messing with my my back, but I guess I don't have a choice.
Well i have some household chores to attend to as long as my back holds out.
HAve a great day!
Good morning all. Scramble eggs, bacon, hash browns and a biscuit with Rhubarb jam please. Yup coffee too thank you.
Lee- sssssssshhhhh! Don't talk about the Government and UMRO's. They'll tell your family and friends you're crazy and haul you off. Then they put you in a room in a facility underground somewhere in Nevada. No, not there, but close by, until they brainwash you into believing that UMRO's are only models and that GERN Industries doesn't really exist except in the model world and makes Flux( yeah, more like a cover for facilities to investigate and house FLying Unidentified Xtraterrestrials). The lucky ones come out happy as a Lark with no concerns about Government conspiracies, but usually as a side effect are prone to getting the Gout. It's the poor unfortunate weaker minded ones that have suffered, they will never be able to actively contribute to society again. The brain damage is too severe. The result is a mental defect that makes them feel they are government and are the only ones who need pay raises. Sadly, this also affects their decision making process turning them in to what many refer to as a "Bonehead". Unable to make an intelligent decision regarding anything more complicated than placing two toothpicks side by side, and don't expect them to be even. Oddly, they can concoct very complicated plans if there is some benefit to themselves, so I guess the damage is limited and not broad. The government tries to hide theses mistakes and has discovered that the easiest way to hide something is in plain view. They have a Keyword when referring to them.....Congress.