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Posted by pcarrell on Saturday, November 13, 2010 3:41 PM

PC .. It's been a long time since we heard from you. Can you update us on your family? I recall your wife and son going through some ordeals with surgery.

You have a good memory there Gerry,!

Well. since it all started nearly3 years ago, wwe've had a grand total of 11 surgeries between the wife and son.  My wife is done for now (hopefully forever), and my son has 3 more until he's done.  His next one is this coming tuesday.  Prayers for that would be most awesome.

My daughter graduated collage and decided it was time to move out on her own, so she has a place about 45 minutes away.  Nice little apartment overlooking a big lake.  She graduated top of her class and was scooped up right away and makes more money, working less hours, then I do now!

My family and I have changed churches and are now plugged in at Crosspoints Biker Church.  It's an interesting place filled with folks who might not "fit in" at more mainstream churches (hate to say it, but it's true), but you won't find people who are more grounded or love Jesus more anywhere.  You can check them out here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000566562601  We're working on a web page now, so maybe soon.......

Oh, I almost forgot...... the wife's been getting some new tats!  Wanna see?  This one still needs a little touchup and some depth added to the blue areas, but it's mostly done: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/WinndysTattoo.jpg  The shine is some lotion to keep it from drying out.  The other tat is just outlines for now until we can afford to have the color done.  It'll be a sunset scene behind the Cross when done: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Tat2.jpg  And then there's the piercings: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Industrial.jpg  http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Dimples.jpg      

Yeah, I married a wild child!

So whats up with you?  I see the MRR still looks awesome!  Hows the rest of life treating ya?

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:32 PM

Ulrich: Good to hear about the job! Good luck.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:18 PM

We'll have to celebrate Ulrich's good news.

Should the diner organize a good old fashioned German festival?

At least, we can have a Beir Garten.

What should we serve?

When should we schedule it?

 

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:01 PM

Ray .... Oh, I get it. I should have read more carefully. .... Also, I think your SLOW should consider adding a line to the Poconos Mountains. Then you can rename it to "Slow & Pokey".

Hello Kyle,,,, Gald the parents could travel to Puget Sound.

Galaxy ... Sure, we'll inclde your MIL on teh prayer list.

 

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Posted by Kyle_Y on Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:24 PM

Hey guys-Flo-I'll take a diet pop, thank you.

Been a few days since I poked my head in here. My parents were up from Florida, and we had a nice little vacation. They really enjoyed the Puget Sound, and I think I might have convinced them to move. Here's to hoping. Not to much going in the train world for me. I preordered a WM Dash-9. It shipped. Kind of excited to get it on the club layout. I did FINALLY get the paint the way I want it on my painting project.  I left the masking tape to sit over night, and that resulted in some overspray. Lesson learned there. A little brush work cleaned it up rather nicely. Now it's time for some decal work.

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:21 PM

Afternoon everyone!

Zoe, just a cup of hot cocoa for me.

Ulrich!!!  Congratulations!  Bow Yes  I am am very, very happy for you!  Hope this works out well and for the long term.

Heartland Division CB&Q

Ray ...  Uh oh! .... I saw that!.... Who else noticed something in his picture when he was talking about "Bare ountain"? ... Did you guys see what I saw ..... Sssssshhhhhh ...It's a secret. Don't tell!... There was a diesel locomotive in the photo  ..

Uh.... Garry, THAT isn't my layout.....  Nope still no diseasals on the SLOW.  Not for another 30 years or so!  The photo is one of MMR, Ned Spiller's beautiful layout.

Getting close to having everything packed for tomorrow.  I'll be glad when it is over, even though I do enjoy the Modelers Corners.

Catch you all later!

73

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:18 PM

Evening all

Thanks for all the prayers asked for BUT:

In addition to putting our train-nut friends wife on the prayer add a more important-in-our-lives-person to the list- THE MIL. SHe is 83 and hasn't been out of bed for 3 days now. If she doesn't get up by Monday, we are going to STRONGLY urge FIL to call her Dr. who said in her case he would make house calls for her as she had a stroke 15 yrs ago and is in bad shape as it is. She rarely gets out of the house now as she can't cope with it very well and has "private issues" she doesn't want to deal with out in public.Other half just went to do some shopping for them as FIL doesn't want to leave MIL alone while he does. SO Please add the MIL to the prayer list... AngelAngel

 

Sir Madog

I got the job!

Bad news is, that I won´t be able to start before March/April next year, as financing (public funding) has to be safeguarded before we can enter into a contractual employment. In the meantime, I will help them on a consultancy basis, which will earn me a little extra cash.

Big relief! Big step forward on the path to a normal life!

Zoe, whatever the folks in here are having, put it on my tab - no limit!

Now I can go forward with turning my layout plans into reality - oh joy, oh rapture!

CONGRATS! Now I can really have that T-bone steak and lobster for dinner with a specialty dessert. TO bad it's not official until next march, but a step in the right direction, I just hope the public funding is there when they need it for you and the job! ALso, don't get TOO caught up in the rapture of MRRing...you may loose control of yourself and spend into a hole!

Jeffrey- well, good or bad at least you know who your neighbor is not some other nut case coming along to wreck your paradise. I jsut would like to see you in something newer and better than you're in.

I certainly hope ROBBY P. is having a good time and lots of success at teh train show!

well best get on with the day for now

TTYALLL8R

 

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Posted by Flashwave on Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:35 PM

Jim: Trth be told, I haven't gotten to do a whole lot with her yet, one of the end walls keeps falling out (easy fix) but with my garage locked up from me, I canna paint Styrene Aliminum for carnames. (Though I'm considering sticking it in the windowband...)

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:28 PM

Hello everybody.

PC .. It's been a long time since we heard from you. Can you update us on your family? I recall your wife and son going through some ordeals with surgery.

Duke .... Wake up! Sleep Any layout progress or is "retirement" too much for you?

Krump .. What's up with you in BC.

Jim CG ... Are you busy?

Galaxy ... Prayers for "Mrs. Train Nut". Angel

Jeff ... Prayers for your family situation. Hopefully, your nephew will be better off with this arrangement.

Larry ... If it was a long wait for UPS, I hope he brought lots of stuff for the layout.

Robby ... I hope you are doing well at the show.

Lee ... Sounds like you are ready for country scenery. I supsect, your cornfield is by Busch because that's the only brand I know for that. I have a cornfield with their product and I'm happy with it. I included a scarecrow with crows all around him proving he's not doing his job. (Corny, I know.)

Ken (and others assisting with track plan ideas) ... For my plan I drew the minium radius curves in all teh corners first, Then I sketched in connecting straight lines (I included easement curves, too.) .. That was my basic lan. Then I added tracks for terminals, industries, and so on. Upon building the layout, I made changes to the orignal plan. I build one section at a time from bech work through scenery. When a section is "done" I start the next section. .... Are you building single level or two level?

Todd ... Good to hear you are progressing with teh layout. I still remember visiting Castle Trains in Springfield. Good LHS as I remember.

Der John ... Ah ha! .. A chicken feed bin. Either it's very tiny or you have a huge thumb!

Ray ...  Uh oh! .... I saw that!.... Who else noticed something in his picture when he was talking about "Bare ountain"? ... Did you guys see what I saw ..... Sssssshhhhhh ...It's a secret. Don't tell!... There was a diesel locomotive in the photo  ..

Barry .... Hope all goes well with the cliant.

Jerry ... Have a good one

Ulrich ... Guten Tag. CONGRATS ABOUT THE JOB!

Morgan ... Are you having fun with the aluminum passenger car?

 

Happy Model Railroading

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:48 AM

Good Evening Folks,

There are some good news:

I got the job!

Bad news is, that I won´t be able to start before March/April next year, as financing (public funding) has to be safeguarded before we can enter into a contractual employment. In the meantime, I will help them on a consultancy basis, which will earn me a little extra cash.

Big relief! Big step forward on the path to a normal life!

Zoe, whatever the folks in here are having, put it on my tab - no limit!

Now I can go forward with turning my layout plans into reality - oh joy, oh rapture!

Jeff - poor soul, what are they doing to you. There is a slight chance you may be able to command your nephew to do some "yard work". Just keep smiling.

TTFN!

 

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Posted by Cox 47 on Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:48 AM

Howdy All....Its cloudy and lite rain here and colder..Our Indian summer must be over...Just a diet Coke for me please..Thank you..I am saving myself.Our son is taking Sallie and I to Ryan's in Effingham for supper tonite and I want to be able to so it up right!...Havn't been out for a meal for a couple of years so we are realy looking forward to it...You all have a good one...Jerry

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:39 AM

Mornin'..... Ah.... Afternoon everyone!

Zoe I need a raisin Bran Muffin to tide me over to ....  whatever the next meal is now, and my morning cup of dark roast coffee.  I'll go sit at the rivet counter for a while.

I was just about ready to pop in here a couple hours ago, when all the lights went out for about 2 seconds here.  I checked the computer and found the internet down as well as the phone not working.  Somebody must have hit something down the line.  Internet and phone (both Roadrunner) just came back on line.

Brakie?  What was THAT you said?  Oh, you can't hear what?  I can be sitting right next to the phone without my hearing aids, and 9 times out of 10 I won't figure out THAT it is the phone ringing.  Completely forget hearing the doorbell even with my hearing aids.  Zoe, fill Brakie's cup for him, will ya.

Today is "Packing Day" for the Train Show tomorrow in Batavia.  I hope I have everything I will need for it.  Some goodies came in via UPS yesterday I will be using for the project I will be w*rking on.  Actually most of the time I hope to be chatting with people about the NMRA.

Best get moving I guess...

Later!

73

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Posted by BRAKIE on Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:02 AM

Good morning All!

Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes on this 45 degree morning..Yesterday was wasted waiting on the UPS man..I had to stay in the front room because I can't hear anybody knocking on the front door unless they knock loud.Sadly most folk today has a weak tap tap they call a knock which can't be heard in my hobby den..

I shall have a cup and look over the forum.

Have a good'un! Thumbs Up

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:19 AM

galaxy

Jeffrewy W. Your nephew could be  a godsend? if he helps you out more? as he is rihgt next door? I thought your sister was gonna move in next door? What happened to that? Is that enough questions? should i ask more?

My sister has her own place just down the road from me and my nephew lives there right now. Thing is, her husband is returning from Afghanistan in January and he doesn't want his son in the house. So the boy has to go and what better place than a conveniently unoccupied trailer nearby? It also gives my sister some degree of control over the property until her daughter and my parents can come to some kind of agreement for purchasing it that all parties can get along with. I don't like the current state of affairs but I'm the low man on the totem pole around here. I have to cope with it as best I can.

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Posted by TMarsh on Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:09 AM

Oh G-  Forgot to tell you, your train nut friends wife is in our prayers.

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Posted by TMarsh on Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:07 AM

Today I will continue working on the hillside and start to add some bench work so I can continue with the first loop, if you will. I get tired of running trains point to point, night after night. I think I’ll work some on the Bed &Breakfast also. Might practice on some weathering too. Maybe do a little ballasting. Who knows. If there is time I hope to make it to the FLHS to do some shopping and pick up a few things I need/want. Maybe tomorrow. Then Brenda and I can make it a Castle trains and Golden Corral run. ( *snap!*) Oh wow, where am I? hm. Guess I was dreaming.

Good Morning! Coffee and some glazed donuts please. Thanks.

Robby gone? Shoot. I wanted to wish him good luck.

Just got off the not so evil bay. Have a bid in on a 4-4-0 and three cars. I don’t know why, I already have my tourist trap train. Guess the price is temping enough to bid on. I doubt I’ll get it as I bid pretty low. Ya never know though.

Back to snubbing Ray. The first thing that caught my eye is the amazingly scale look to the stairs on the coaling tower as well as the handrailsBow. Hmm I guess he did bring in pictures. Ok, I'm over it.

Jeff- I say it again Indifferent ( know the smiley thing calls it “indifferent“, but I don’t use it for that. It looks more like a wide eyed look of horror or amazement based on the situation) I’ve got it. Just post a list of things you need help with on the door……, shabing! You’ll not be bothered. Brilliant.

Best get out to Mom’s house. Odds and ends need to be done. Besides, the cordless phones here at the house seem to not be workingConfused. They ring just fine, bless their little pea pickin’ batteries, but they just don’t answer. My solution? Unplug ‘em. We have 2 corded types. Brenda, well apparently, based on the ranting and raving going on, she does not share the same opinion on phones as I do. She just keeps answering (well, trying to) the phones she knows do not work. while ignoring the ones that do. It's a woman thing I suppose. I just stay out of it. Safer for me that way.

Soon enough I’ll have time to spend being (trumpets sound) KING of TODDLAND!!! (‘tis good to be king)

Y’all have a Great Day now ya hear?!!!

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:59 AM

Morning all

Jeffrewy W. I continued our conversation. Your nephew could be  a godsend? if he helps you out more? as he is rihgt next door? I thought your sister was gonna move in next door? What happened to that? Is that enough questions? should i ask more?

Der- your chicken feed silo looks great! even the rivets look cool....

Robby P. I hope you have a great day at the train show today and sell out quickly! Let us know as soon as you get home. Is this a 2 day weekend affair?

Special thoughts and prayers needed for our train-nut friend's wife who had a completed hysterectomy and honeydew mellon sized ovarian cyst removed in 4.5 hours of surgery and continues to need blood and is vomiting all the time...not recovering well as would hope....so add her to the prayer lists please...Angel Angel

I got the laundry done finally though now the sheets need to be done and time for the winter fuzzy warm fleece sheets and the mattress heater to go back on. Need to get a cheap white top sheet to go on the mattress warmer as the colored red fuzzy sheets tend to bleed where we lay. Oh, and the mattress to be rotated now. will need other half's help with that chore. LAundry never ends does it? Bang Head TG we have a washer and dryer onbaird here and don't have to go out to do it.

Have many chores to do to button down the place for winter dreading it, but must be done and witht eh cold weather we ahve been having I guess its time to take the window A/c out of BR window as we haven;t used it much. It is there to help offset eth heat produced by teh O2 concentrator. During the real cold months it is a blessing to warm up the room, but during warmer weather we roasts.

WEll other half wants a nap before we go ut shopping for supplies to button up so I could join as I didn;t sleep well last nigth and other half up early today as though was going to work onlyest thing is its a day off.

Catch y'all l8R

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Saturday, November 13, 2010 5:38 AM

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

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Posted by LSWrr on Saturday, November 13, 2010 5:36 AM

Good morning all,

My corn field, wheat field, and static grass are in so I need to make arrangements to pick that up this weekend.  Still plugging away at the east end of the layout, progress is slow but sure.  I did make some new molds; one of them a covered lath machinery load came out better than I thought. When I cast it you can feel the texture of the cloth.  All I used was a small block of wood and a bolt then covered it with a scrap of material from the GF’s sewing room.

Good luck Ulrich and Robby.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, November 13, 2010 4:16 AM

Good Early Morning-

I've got a client that needs to see me this morning so here I be all up and not-so-energeticSleep Maybe get some shut eye later this morning--if no one else calls--Whistling

Welb, I better be off and doing this---have a good day peoples!!Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Flashwave on Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:51 AM

cudaken

 Evening AZ

 Flo, lots of Beer please.

 I got to get a JOB. Either that or kill my wife, she is driving me nuts!

 Is it me or her time.

  Sue is so paranoid she makes OSH seem like a Optimist Club. I hate to BBQ chicken quarters but 10 pounds for $5.99 hard to say no to them. Reason I hate to BBQ them is due to flair up from the grease. Today I tried something different, I bought a Tin Pan thingy (like pies would come in) to start BBQing then in.Got the chicken fat out and no flair up, worked great. I told Sue I was going to wash it and reuse later. Her retort was "it had raw chicken in it, so it needs to be thrown away".

  OK, folks the tin pan thingy was sitting over open flame and the chicken hit 180 degrees before I placed them on the open grill. So any bacteria that might been on the raw chicken should be BBQ as well, in other words dead. Using Sue logic we should throw away the frying pan every time we use one. It had raw meat in it.

 OK, was it me or her? Whole day has been like this, I just picked the BBQ part.

I beginning to hope Santa brings me a pillow, deep freezer, plastic sheets, chain saw, big wood chipper and a lake full of hungry catfishes!  I all ready have the Latex Gloves.

 Morgan Just seeing where things might fit far as the yard goes. As noted it would be more for holding trains than switching. What about the rest of it?

 Ulrich  I see where you are coming from about the hugging the walls and turns are to uniform. Here in the Midwest things are pretty flat and that is what I am use to seeing. This is a plan I threw together while I was BBQing the chicken in the bacteria infested pan. While I was doing it, had the screen blown up and missed the fact the A/C was where I placed the bridges. Lines that I posted would be elevated around 6 inch off the bench. The 2 truck lines would be at bench zero for now.

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 All folks feel free to join in!

 Time to watch some CSI shows for tips! Big Smile

               Ken

I'd be gettin' some idea as to where your yard is unless I've misunderstood your most recent post and that 's the same plan. Otherwise you'll cut yorself down on space.

Also, the bottom curve around the Airconditioner, there's an S curve in there, it heads to the wall a bit, then makes a second turn. it's best I think to put a straight section. The pros reccomend the length of your longest unit, but all you need is proper space for the truck to straighten out, so a 6" straight there will do you wonders I think.

Also, and I'm addign this to my list as well (my RTS screwed up, I moved out of the Admin panel on my comp and into a non-admin user side, and RTS on that side doesn't see any of it's libraries anymore so I have to go back and find them...) have you thought of crisscrossing and/or splitting the mainlines, or do you want to keep them parallell at all times? It would help to break some fo the uniformity Madog mentioned. Case in point: SP's Donner Pass, at several points, one trac went trough a mountin's edge, the other went along the outside rim of it. They weren't split too far from each other, but it gives you some varience.   

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:15 AM

Good Morning Folks,

Saturday, November 13th - an important day for Petra and me. To say I am a little edgy about today´s outcome is just a little understatement!

Janie, I´ll have a mug of coffee and a breakfast bagel, please!

Ken - I see you are moving in the "right" direction. The two of us have to combine our efforts - your design ideas and my ability to master RTS should lead to your dream plan. How about making a rough drawing of what you have in mind and I will put it into RTS?

Robby - good luck and good success at the show. I know you will have that - your cars are just perfect!

John -  this water tank is just great! How can you handle such small parts?

Ray - Bare Mountain? Reminds me of Grizzly Adams, but who´s the Grizzly and where is Mr. Adams?

PC - Often - oftener -  oftenest, bad - batter - batterest, good - goodier - goddess? Ain´t that correct? English speak is difficult speak. When I started out learning English in school, I kept telling myself that in the US and the Commonwealth, even little children are able to learn that language, so why shouldn´t I? One day I might have learned it!

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Posted by der5997 on Friday, November 12, 2010 9:04 PM

Got the snow blower running this afternoon. It was a wonderful, almost warm, sunny day, so I thought I'd better "In time of peace, prepare for war!" Smile, Wink & Grin

 

JR:

Der - that water tank should be good - keep us posted please. Our machinist gave me an article on how to scratch build a water tower using sheet plastic and a stocking container (one of those old Leggs things that came in an egg shaped plastic container) so I can try my hand at that as well. Did find a box of girder parts (probably Central Valley) in cleaning the other day.
...yup, the Leggs egg would make a dandy modern water tower. However, this particular project calls for a chicken feed silo - sorry to disappoint  - but Hey, the construction wouldn't be that far off I guess.  This particular HO project is based on a cut-down Craft acrylic paint bottle (two silos from one bottle, as it happenedThumbs Up) A larger tank just needs a larger bottle as a starting  core (and for a water tank, I'd guess a different profile on the base, if not the top as well.) I'm typing this waiting for the white glue to dry under a strip of  "rivets" joining the plates that make up that base cone in the real thing. Photos when I'm through that phase. OK, so I've done that. Here's the result and the top

 

Ken: I'm already liking the look of the new plan - those bridges near the A/C could be made to work if you are going to have some moveable access thing for getting at the A/C - what do you think?Question

(by Ray) Ah, yeah, I would just wash out the pans well.  It might be a good idea to mark them for THAT single purpose, as bacteria could grow on any thing not washed away, but certainly no problem with using them over for the BBQ Grill....
...we have a cutting board for veggie things, and one for meats,  and  thus far the system has not been broken. The meat one has a tag on the handle so we know which is which. (Suck it up, Microsoft, "that is that" makes no sense in this context!Clown)

 

Time for bed, early start to get some errands done before the train show tomorrow.  Good Luck RobbyP, you'll do just great!Yeah

Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of Healing, Comfort, Prosperity, and Peace.Angel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, November 12, 2010 8:49 PM

Robby P.

 Well its time to pack for the show.  I probably won't make it in here tomorrow morning, and maybe not at all.  Wish me luck, and hopefully make some money!!

 

Good luck, and I hope those cars make it to you before you leave for the show. Stupid sytem...

-Morgan

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, November 12, 2010 8:49 PM

Good evening guys

Jeffrey W. I sent you a conversational PM kinda Off Topic BUT very important to you and me!

Cuda Ken- somethings, like ziploc storage or freezer bags or tinfoil  that had raw meat in it needs to be thrown out. WAShing those doesn't work well enough to kill the germs. If it was a "pie pan" of which you had a lot of, I would have thrown it away to satiate the wife, but otherwise I would have put it inthe dishwasher or hand washed it with very HOT water and soap...

Robby P. here's to a GREAT weeekend show and a total sell out!

well, TTYALL8R

-G .

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, November 12, 2010 7:40 PM

Ken, if you got to just wash the dang pan. Easy way to get around that problem.

well, not much work on the "plan", although I think I have a design that I like. Of course it's pretty basic, but then it will be expanded later on.

Robby, GOOD LUCK AT THE SHOW!

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Posted by howmus on Friday, November 12, 2010 7:26 PM

Evenin' folks!

Flo, I'll have 14oz rib eye steak, baked potato w/ sour cream, and a trip to the salad bar to start with.  Oh and a cup of decaf coffee please.  What?  Oh medium rare, like I always do, yes ma'am and thank you.

Holy Moley, Jeffrey.  Around your place it doesn't rain but it pours I guess!  Well (deep subject), maybe he can help you with the Van......  Hey, sorry!  Cheesh, Jeffrey, I was just being funny...  Hey!  Cut it out....

Whew!  OK, the operating session was a blast this afternoon.  I ran 2 different runs.  The first a local Passenger Train, and the second A through freight.  I picked up a lot more info of how he is doing operations on his layout.  This will be a big help as I plan for operations on the SLOW.  As soon as I have the lift out back and permanently put in place at the top of Bare Mountain (Yes THAT is spelled right!) I can finish the tracks up there.  I am then ready to start looking at operating the pike.  It doesn't hurt to be running trains on a layout THAT looks like this.

The Coaling Tower is scratch built for a modeling contest.  It has individual bolt heads on the bracing.....  The 100' turntable is also scratch built.  You can see some other quick snapshots of Ned's (MMR) empire here.

Hey again PC!

Robby, good luck and have fun at the show!  I bet you sell out.....

Ken..............  Ah............  I think your wife may be related to my sister.........  Hmmmmm.  (Shakes head....)   Ah, yeah, I would just wash out the pans well.  It might be a good idea to mark them for THAT single purpose, as bacteria could grow on any thing not washed away, but certainly no problem with using them over for the BBQ Grill....

Later!

73

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, November 12, 2010 6:45 PM

 Evening AZ

 Flo, lots of Beer please.

 I got to get a JOB. Either that or kill my wife, she is driving me nuts!

 Is it me or her time.

  Sue is so paranoid she makes OSH seem like a Optimist Club. I hate to BBQ chicken quarters but 10 pounds for $5.99 hard to say no to them. Reason I hate to BBQ them is due to flair up from the grease. Today I tried something different, I bought a Tin Pan thingy (like pies would come in) to start BBQing then in.Got the chicken fat out and no flair up, worked great. I told Sue I was going to wash it and reuse later. Her retort was "it had raw chicken in it, so it needs to be thrown away".

  OK, folks the tin pan thingy was sitting over open flame and the chicken hit 180 degrees before I placed them on the open grill. So any bacteria that might been on the raw chicken should be BBQ as well, in other words dead. Using Sue logic we should throw away the frying pan every time we use one. It had raw meat in it.

 OK, was it me or her? Whole day has been like this, I just picked the BBQ part.

I beginning to hope Santa brings me a pillow, deep freezer, plastic sheets, chain saw, big wood chipper and a lake full of hungry catfishes!  I all ready have the Latex Gloves.

 Morgan Just seeing where things might fit far as the yard goes. As noted it would be more for holding trains than switching. What about the rest of it?

 Ulrich  I see where you are coming from about the hugging the walls and turns are to uniform. Here in the Midwest things are pretty flat and that is what I am use to seeing. This is a plan I threw together while I was BBQing the chicken in the bacteria infested pan. While I was doing it, had the screen blown up and missed the fact the A/C was where I placed the bridges. Lines that I posted would be elevated around 6 inch off the bench. The 2 truck lines would be at bench zero for now.

 All folks feel free to join in!

 Time to watch some CSI shows for tips! Big Smile

               Ken

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, November 12, 2010 6:39 PM

 Well its time to pack for the show.  I probably won't make it in here tomorrow morning, and maybe not at all.  Wish me luck, and hopefully make some money!!

 

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, November 12, 2010 6:33 PM

Found out the other day I have a new neighbor moving in. Found out today that it's my nephew!

YIKES!

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