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Posted by NittanyLion on Monday, February 14, 2011 8:05 PM

jeffrey-wimberly

Ken: as far as you should be concerned the folks at Bank of America are a bunch of highway robbers in suits. 

I'll preface this with saying I've worked for one of their competitors in the past as a researcher: Bank of America is probably the worst in the business.  Everyone is pretty bad, but someone still has to be the worst at it.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:58 PM

Well, my temp is 101.2 (slightly high) and my blood pressure is 155 over 84 (again slightly high). I'm not feeling well so I'm getting off now and heading for the bed.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:46 PM

Evenin' folks!

Flo, that guy over there at the Rivit Counter....  He looks familiar....  Who?  Oh........  Galaxy, yep now I remember...  Oh, I could use a cup of decaf, please.

Galaxy, I was wondering where you were....  Glad to see you back in tonight.  Hope you are felling better!

Ken, something i was gong to tell you a couple weeks ago.  Write down, verify, and date every phone conversation you have had with the Thieves..  Ah, BOA.  Also...  the time has come to get a lawyer!  This is not something you can handle alone!  You need good legal advise! 

Jeffrey, just remember, "With a clean shirt, nice tie, and an expensive suit coat even a Banker can appear respectable..."

We are now down to a temp of 28°F with 21 mph steady winds and gusts to 28 mph.  Wood stove has been lit and I have been hiding down cellar in the train room....  Working on some scenery at the quarry.  Just making some hillsides there and getting ready to start on an Octagonal Blacksmiths shop...

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:12 PM

Ken: as far as you should be concerned the folks at Bank of America are a bunch of highway robbers in suits. Stop giving them money. It most likely won't make a difference and in the end they'll take the house and keep your money and you'll have no legal recourse to get the money back. Put your money in otthe banks as you've been advised and build up a healthy sum for another house.

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, February 14, 2011 6:50 PM

cudaken

 Bank Of America Got a letter from them dated 02-02-11. Pretty much sounds like I better start getting boxes gathered up for moving. Black Eye In a nut shell it states Yes, we took your $923.00 payment but that does not mean will give up our right to Foreclose on your happy caboose. Now if you give us $16121.53 you can keep your house. I paid in person at a local branch another $1,000.00 on the 02-10-11. I can pay them another $1,000.00 to $1200.00 this month. That mean I would have sent them between $2923.00 and $3123. in less than 28 days. 3 house payments is only $2631.00, you would think they would take that as a pretty good sign of good faith on my part would you not? Plus I have not been working a full month yet.

Ken, I hate to say it, but I stand by the advice I gave you before {which I have gotten from the famous  financial gurus who help people in such situations on TV such as Suze Orman, Clark Howard, etc}: quit giving them money and start saving it yourself {OBVIOUSLY at another bank- or rather in several banks to avoid failures} and sock it away for a  new house. BOA is OBVIOUSLY not willing to work with you and will probably foreclose on you anyway. Stop sending them $1000 + checks/payments every other week as it doesn't matter to them if they are going to foreclose on you. All it does is give them more of your money, and you loose out in the end and are broke when it comes to moving.It can take them several months to foreclose officially when they demand you OUT by sending in a US Marshall. That gives you time to save, save,save for another place. Have they given you ANY WRITTEN GUARANTEE that if you paid them their stupid $16.121.53 that they would stop foreclosure on you? Probably NOT. DOes that guarantee they still won't foreclose on you? probably NOT. That is just more money they can glean from you and still foreclose on you. Your credit is already ruined as they have already reported your delinquent and deficient  payments...even if only delinquent by one day or one dollar.

It could take them 18 months to foreclose and push you out. At teh nearly $3k you are giving them, that would give YOU  $54K to go rent/put a downpayment down on another house/take a trip to the Bahamas if you want. They don't care about your "good faith payments" or "promises to pay". You are behind, have been behind and they don't care if you loose your house or not.

Your best savings grace is before you send them any more money and they are threatening foreclosure, is to DEMAND a copy of the ORIGINAL LOAN DOCUMENTATION PAPERS, so you AND your lawyer {whether you get one or not} can review them. Most likely, especially if they were NOT the originators of the loan {and even if they were} WON'T be able to come up with the ORIGINAL LOAN DOCUMENTATION YOU SIGNED way back when to PROVE tehy ARE teh legal Mortgage holders!. If they CAn't {especialy if they bought a "loan package bundle" from a loan dealer}, tehn you CAN legally HOLD OFF eviction for foreclosure! THEY must prove they have the right to foreclose on you! ANd if they can't produce teh original loan docs, THEY could be in trouble as they would have NO PROOF you owe them the mortgage! By the time they produce {IF they can} the papers, you will have teh cash to pay whatever arrears may be owed in one lump sum to "redeem" your mortgage. WHy keep throwing good money after bad by sending them more of your hard earned money?

Either way, if you do loose out, you will have plenty of cash to start over. Your credit rating is most likely already ruined, so a foreclosure won't ruin it too much further. If you are in arears on your mortgage and facing forclosure your credit rating and FICO score is in the toilet already. It can only go up from here if you get on a good track and pay all your other bills on time. If you start saving the money you would send to BOA, you could even rent a house and offer teh landlord adanced payment cash for a year if you need to. Ask any prospective landlord if they report your good payment record to teh three credit bureaus. If he does, it will only  help to bolster your {likely} low score. The Landlord may indeed check your your score before deciding if you are a worthy tenant. You can offer 1st, last, and security paymetn if nothing else, you do not have to necessarily pay him all in advance.

-I am NOT in your position, I can only offer advice to your plea and quagmire of disaster surrounding you. I DO feel for you.

-I am NOT a certified financial advisor, nor do I play one on TV {like the real ones I "quote" from tv.}

-Seek Legal counsel with some of the money you would throw their way {BOA} in a possible futile attempt to save your house.

To others: I have been away for a few days, jsut didn't feel like posting. ANybody miss me?

Havea  great night!

 

-G .

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 14, 2011 6:19 PM

Looks like I overdid it today. It's 72 in here, I'm tired and I'm shaking like a leaf. I may be going to bed early tonight. Alli did was put up some weather strip in the back doors of the van, disassemble a blower (nine inch squirrel cage), clean it, lube it and put it back together. Get the layout ready for ballast work to start and I finished the painting on the two Stewart U25B's. Maybe that last did it. Felt fine before making all those trips between inside and outside. Getting up and down the steps is somewhat difficult for me. Oil well (my mother's are shut down right now so the company can import more foreign oil to keep prices up) we'll see how I feel tomorrow. If I still feel bad in the morning I may just stay in bed.

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Posted by Cederstrand on Monday, February 14, 2011 5:06 PM

Another coffee TO GO, please.

***Chris, if they got "snooty" with me, I'd offer them a lesson in how to treat customers, tell them to "Go #^*! themselves", keep the products, and never do business with them again. What are they going to do, take you to small claims court over their error?Pirate

Gave Cold Mountain (one of our horses) her first eye treatment this evening. Been waiting on the antibiotic salve to arrive, which it did. Hopefully, twice a day treatments will fix her up.

Off to the train room. Cowboy Rob

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Monday, February 14, 2011 4:39 PM

ROBBY P: Sounds good! We'll cross our fingers for ya. I just hope Jess understands what a RR career is going to mean...

ROB: Yeah, well I guess it was a "nice repeat," just remember...they want it BACK! I was kinda hoping they'd say "just keep it," but...I guess they're looking out for their bottom line/investors/etc. and would like to sell THAT merchandise rather than give it away; especially over a clerical mistake in the shipping department.

I was more surprised by the way the "customer service" lady handled it all, almost like it was an annoyance. Her "thank you" was more like a "thank you for handing me a crap sandwich, and not giving me a bottle of ketchup to put on it." It's hard to explain adequately.

Oh well, as I've been trying to get my Wife to see: "NO good deed EVER goes un-punished."

All THAT said, I'm planning on ordering some more of the TCAX hoppers in the not-so-distant future. I guess we'll see how THAT works out! IF they'd do the same paint scheme (red with white diagonal stripe) and "Minden, Nebraska Co-Op" lettering, I could replace some more foobie Athearns.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 14, 2011 4:37 PM

Cederstrand

***Jeffrey, after gleaming track, do you add a light coat of oil or does it remain dry?

It remains dry. Oil attracts dust.

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Posted by TMarsh on Monday, February 14, 2011 4:33 PM

Afternoon all. Coffee please.

Ta Daaaa! Unloaded the snow blo….Waaaaaaaait a dog gone minute! Did Chris just post the wrong color of yellow? Or is he trying to see if Jeff will edit that pic as he does with most other UP stuff?

Thanks for the opinions on the sealing of the tunnels portals guys. Both reasons sound, well…, reasonable.

Garry- Sorry about your Mom’s situation. I hope you’re able to do something to stop it. Too bad what is done is done on some things, but may be worth a little looksee anyway. Never know. People who take advantage of the elderly should be horsewhipped. They can still do that can't they? Congratulations on the Grandbaby too!.

Jerry- Congrats on the Anniversary!! Give Sallie a little peck on the cheek from the guys.

“Why do you want to work for NS.” I HATE questions like that. Try… “because you pay pretty good, have a possible future with retirement, AND…..you’re the only railroad hiring.” On second thought, good thing you didn’t ask me.

Welp, just got back from runnin ( OK, “driving” RayConfused) a few errands, mainly taking my boots to get re-soled and heeled for spring. About time to put up the Winter Wolverines. Went to my usual place and the place is goneGrumpy. Well, closed and something else is there. So I had to find another. Only two left in town and I recognized one as a not too great stories place so I went to the other. Aaaas luck would have it the cobbler I had to find was in the area of the “other” LHS so, I stopped inSmile. They had an abundance of cork roadbed and I remembered to pick up some I-beam styrene for to make my bridge supports with. Sadly, their amount of MRR stuff was much less than last time I was there. Funny thing too, of the maybe 10 people in there, they were all shopping for MRR stuff. Only one was looking at those remote offroad truck things to the tune of $400. Without of course the maintenance kit. I guess that isn’t bad, now that I think of it, compared to some locos. A lot bigger, though not as well detailed I might add.

Best head to the restaurant to see if they need assistance or not. I don't w*rk tonight but I may need to help them open. This is usually how I get roped into working. Especially when I want to look into starting my bridge.

 

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Posted by Cederstrand on Monday, February 14, 2011 3:59 PM

Coffee TO GO, please.

***Robby, we'll keep our fingers & toes crossed for you!

***Ron, having numerous horses here, we got a real chuckle (at your expense) over the fence/horse in the barn comment. They have a way of finding the flaws in our perfect plans.Laugh BTW, we're the same way here, except we usually just buy our own gifts.

***Chris, nice "repeat". Perhaps we should all place orders with them while the gittin's good.Pirate

***Jerry, CONGRATS to you and Sallie.

***Jeffrey, after gleaming track, do you add a light coat of oil or does it remain dry?

***Garry, it is ashame there are people like that in this world. Taking advantage of elderly is about as low as it get. Glad she has you to help with such nonsense.

***Lee, looking forward to seeing the layout pics.

Cheers! Cowboy Rob

 

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Posted by Robby P. on Monday, February 14, 2011 3:36 PM

 Ahhh..........The interview for Norfolk Southern is finally over.  

 I think it went well.  I passed the tests, and I think I did good on the interview part.   Only 17 people were in the room, and they only interviewed 10 of us.  Of course my name was the last one called.  Talk about a nervous wreck!!

 They only asked two questions.   #1.  How "safe" are you.  #2 Why do you want to work for NS?

 Now its a waiting game.  I should know something in a few days.   The one good thing "I hope" is......The supervisor with NS  is good friends with the owner of the car wash I worked at.  He asked about three times if I think he would say something good about me.  I hope he does!!

 Like I said....Now its a waiting game.

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by howmus on Monday, February 14, 2011 1:44 PM

Afternoon folks!

Flo, a nice big mug of Hot Cocoa would be great right now.  I just got home from running a few errands....  In the rain!   Oh yes ,THAT 35°F liquid sunshine soaking through layers of clothing and removing all the heat from your body.........  This, my friends, is NOT good camping weather.  -10°F is much, much better.  Take it from me 37° and raining is not nice to be outside in......  The 30mph wind blowing doesn't make it any better!Grumpy

Ron, and others in those "long term" relationships such as Marriage.  Here is what you need!  I found this miracle bit of technology for you!  Get it soon and improve your relationships!!!  http://www.flixxy.com/woman-language-translator.htm

I finally made an order to New England Brownstone for some cut stone strips.  He has been waiting to remake the molds for them.  i emailed him yesterday and he got back to me and said he thinks he can find enough from the old molds to fill what I need.....  So a check is sitting in my mailbox waiting for the Mailman to pick it up today.... (Well, it could be a Female Man.... Not sure who is delivering today.)

Time to find something of value to do....

Later!

73

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Posted by DrgnTrappr on Monday, February 14, 2011 1:27 PM

Afternoon All, Zoe I will have some coffee and a slice of that peanut butter pie.

Well feeling a little better today, still hacking and coughing but I can breath today. The better half and the teenage daughter both felt well enough to go to school this morning, giving me the chance to go out and get the Anniversary / Birthday / Valentines day gift. Long ago the Wife and I agreed not to make a big deal of birthdays and such because we are always giving each other things for our art and hobbies, but I know she went to the hardware store while I was sick Saturday, and I am not about to let her upstage me. After being together 21 years Married for 19 she still thinks she can slip something by me, but she has been my wife, my business partner, my muse, my care giver during this last battle with cancer and, my best fiend, so I pretty much know when she is up to something. I had already ordered a cake and planned on taking her to dinner tonight, and I know that she loves tools as much as I do, but I have a surprise this year, you know what they say "Diamonds are a girls best friend" .

The weather is beautiful today in the 60's and not a cloud in the sky so before dinner and while I am feeling better I have to go and fix the fence hopefully this is the last place the horse has found to escape and we can take him out of the barn. Then after dinner I am hoping to get up into the studio and start working on the bench work again, after I get these next 4 modules framed and the plywood mounted I will be half way done with the layout. I am going to start laying some track on that as we are going to Tampa for a ceramic artists conference the end of March and I have to wait till after that before I can spend any more money on the train stuff.

Well that fence ain't going to fix itself so I had better get to it.

TAYAL Ron

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Posted by AmanaMedic on Monday, February 14, 2011 1:08 PM

Gooooooooooooooooood Afternoon, I think...

Not sure, but maybe I just earned some "karma points."

I placed an order with Atlas a few weeks ago, and it arrived last week via the USPS: a Railbox boxcar, piping for the Pressurade hopper, another saw, and a TCAX grain hopper; which has since been weathered and patched to Iowa Intersate (IAIS).

Just a few minutes ago, the UPS guy showed up with a box, from Atlas, containing: a Railbox box car, piping for the Pressurade hopper, another saw, and a grain hopper.Huh?Confused

Yup, an exact repeat.

So, I quick-check the bank account online...looks like I was only charged once. So, I figure I'd best call Atlas and see what they think of the situmacation. After first attempting to speak with some...India/Pakistan/something-stan native, I get connected to a genuine Jersey-Girl. After confirming and re-confirming I'd only been charged once, she said "we'll send you a call slip to have UPS pick it up. Thank you" and hung up!

Friendly...NOT.

Yeah, I'll admit it, part of me was kinda hoping they'd say "just keep it." Oh well, karma points earned (I hope) for "doing the right thing." Now, if I'd been charged twice, I woulda just re-numbered the cars and rolled with it.

JERRY (COX 47): Congrats on the anniversary!

TODD: Congrats on the benchwork, foam board and track laying! Also...glad to hear you're rid of your...charming...sister!

 

Guess I oughta find something productive to do this afternoon. I've got a city council meeting in Swisher this evening. THAT Editor has me doing a series of articles about Iowa's new gun laws, and in response to Sheriff's going from a "may issue" gun permit policy to "shall issue" cities across the state are freaking out, thinking everybody and their cousin is going to be packing heat. Thus, new ordinances, policies, and procedures are being rushed through. Swisher is going to look over a policy the city of Kalona has.

Have a good 'un peoples...

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 14, 2011 12:59 PM

Hi,

just a short stopover, as I plain ol´ tired. Spend the entire day moving furniture from the old office to the new one, so I can hardly stand on my feet now.

Zoe, just a Beer for me, please.

Garry - I am so sorry your mom is a victim to fraudulent action. Ripping of the elderly is (expletive, deleted, as the forum rules will not allow me to put in here what I really want to say).

Jerry - congratulation on your wedding anniversary. We will be celebrating our 27th this year, so we have some more years to go...

Out again - too tired!

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Posted by Cox 47 on Monday, February 14, 2011 11:29 AM

Good Morning All...Partly cloudy and in low 40's..got up near 60 yesterday so getting rid of some of the ice...I'll have coffee and a swet roll please...Thank You...Not much going on on the I&S today.I'm trying to figure out how to get new printer going...

Sallie and I are celebrating our 43rd wedding anniversary today...sure don't know where all those years went but 6 kids and 14 grandbabys make it pass alot faster!..

You all have a good one...Jerry

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Posted by howmus on Monday, February 14, 2011 11:12 AM

Mornin'.....  (looks at watch), uh, Afternoon everyone!

Still need breakfast Zoe.  I'll have the #2 special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of Sourdough toast (THAT ought to hold me 'til suppertime).

Currently 41°F here in the Finger Lakes with a forecast for Rain, Snow, and Wind today.  The middle one will happen later as the thermometer slides back down to 10°F tonight.  Better get more wood in the house.

Today or tomorrow I should be getting a package from Walthers with some toys in it.....Big Smile  In the mean time I have some ballasting to do to keep me busy.

Thanks Gary!  Sorry to hear your Mom was being taken advantage of.  Makes losing her friend even worse if she knows that she has been a victim of scams.....  I will keep you and yours in my prayers.

OK, back to doing something else...  (Lord knows I have enough "something else" to keep me busy.)

Later!

73

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, February 14, 2011 11:08 AM

Good morning. It's 61° and sunny. The high will be 65° and mostly cloudy.

I spent a good part of the day yesterday GLEAMing all my track. I could have gotten away with doing only the new track but I decided to have it all the same so I redid the areas I did in 2006. I had to stop several times to let the fumes from the Blue Magic metal polish dissipate. I had the a/c set on vent so it would ventilate the room but there's only so much it can do. Now that all the rail heads are shining like a bunch of thin mirrors I have to get ready to do the ballasting of the new track. I have half a bottle of WS gray medium ballast on hand and hope to have withing the next couple of weeks. I'm not really concerned about color as I can mix them up if need be. I have some low areas to fill in with plaster first. At least that's something I have plenty of. I have half a box on the kitchen counter, two boxes under the layout and two boxes in the closet. I also have a gallon of wall joint compound I can use. The plaster serves two purposes in that it fills the holes and it anchors the track. The layout also needs a good vacuuming. I vacuumed the track and the area immediately around the track yesterday before starting the GLEAMing operation. To say that I was tired after all that work would be an understatement and I was glad it was done. Once all this trackwork stuff is done I can move on to doing the scenery.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, February 14, 2011 10:34 AM

I'll take a break and think about model railroading. It'll help preserve my sanity.

It's good to see progress. Ray's scale model machine shop looks great. Jeff's Sundown shops are busy as ever. The layout progess looks good  for Todd and Rob. Glad to see Ulrich is building some modeluels.

Happy late b'day to Ulrich's Petra.

Todd...... I don't seal plaster castings. ... I color them with washes of water based paints such as acrylics. Each wash is almost entirely water with only traces of the color. I wait between washes until each wash is all of the way dry. (overnight or longer). I start with yellow which may look funny at first (like dog pee), but it is a good base color. Then I use browns (burnt umber, raw umber, burnt siena, raw siena, or a mix of browns from the craft store) I use grays made from black and white mixed. Final coats are black. Green can be used in very thin amounts to simulate moss.  ... I add "smoke" to tunnel portals with black pastels as the final step.... Experiment on old scrap pieces of plaster before working on a good piece. Read scenery books, too.

I'm in Alabama working with Mom's problems. It is really difficult. One small example is she has 3 contractors with service contracts to inspect her furnace twice each year. It must be the most inspected furnace in existance. Unfortunately there were many scams victimizing Mom which are very costly, and we are working on those. ... Mom remains deeply saddened due to loss of her companion.

Good news is the new grand daughter in MI is fine. We now have 2 grandsons and 4 grand daughters.

Happy V day

 

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Posted by Blazzin on Monday, February 14, 2011 10:23 AM

TMarsh

(buuuuuurp) Embarrassed Oh, excuse me! Ate at the Chinese buff-et, then to Walmart under the clever guise of needing a few groceries. "OH", I says " I'll zip to the other side and get Missy a bag of Oinkies." Sly devil I am stopped by the card section and got the required VD card. As any great wife would do, she did not acknowledge the card that I deftly hid from her, yet obviously had, at the checkout.

Question for the experienced. Would you recommend dullcoteing the tunnel portal, or any casting, that has been washed with color. I've got the tunnel portal "painted", if you will, and wonder if I should hit it with Dullcote to preserve/seal it, or will it be fine as it is. I think it should be fine myself, but this particular one will be in a very difficult locale to repair or refinish if it should need it. Can do but would rather not sort of spot if you know what I mean.Whistling 

  Good God, everytime I read your posts I get a chuckle especially this mornings.  No not this one, the one after this one.  In my honest opinion~ lol.. to the Dullcote question...

  You hit it with the Dullcote to preserve it.  If you don't .. the colors can fade a tad.  I like to hit it with the Dullcote not only to preserve the colors, but also to protect my efforts.  Stuff.. colors, paint, plaster flys around here and there.. maybe a part of a breakfast burritto .. lands on your work.. if you sprayed the Dullcote.. the cleanup is easier.   On a personal note, I like to ever hit all plaster works with a watered down versioin of Elmers glue, before any paints / wash is applied.   It just seems to keep a handle on the 'wash' soaking into the plaster.  Using a wash technique is fine.. I love it.. but that wash can also be easily rubbed off as well. 

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Posted by LSWrr on Monday, February 14, 2011 10:22 AM
Good Morning, I hope to have some new pictures of my layout progress available by the end of the month. I installed a collection point elevator in the NE corner of the layout and currently I'm finishing up all the landscaping in the camera's view. The area in front of the elevator will be a wet vacant area with dead trees, some small saplings and a small interlocking tower. Sunday I spent the day gluing my fingers together, I mean gluing wild grass and cutting dead tree material. If I don't go blind painting the wood peckers and butterflies I’ll post progress pictures. I did remember; I sent flowers to my girlfriend while she was at work last Thursday, 24 carnations in a red vase with baby’s breath and white ribbons. Tonight I’m taking her to the Willoughby brewery, on the semi-formal dining room side. The building was originally built for the Plymouth-Ashtabula-Cleveland traction railroad as a car/locomotive repair shop. Plymouth, OH (Carson, OH) once was the home to The Plymouth Locomotive Works. OK time to catch up on posts.

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Posted by GMTRacing on Monday, February 14, 2011 8:42 AM

Good Morning All,

    42F and cloudy this morning. Didn't get in from Saturday on but did get some done in the layout room Sunday afternoon. Still haven't started benchw..k but nearly have the other half of the room floor cleared so I can paint the floor and put in the ceiling. Won't do the outer walls there until I have the bench done as the layout is 6' wide there and I'll need access to all sides. To keep access, I'll make the outer walls removable so i can easily remove them and do maintainence.

   Last night was the breaking in of the refinished dining room set (a family heirloom from W.T.Grant) so progress continues on the house stuff.

   Gotta run, CUL, J.R.

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Posted by TMarsh on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:58 AM

Good Morning!! Coffee and a breakfast burrito with medium sauce please. Thanks.

Today: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 42. A little cooler than yesterday, but I’ll take it.

Hmmmm. What to do, what to do. Ah! Find my plaster to mold a tunnel wall. Or at least the south side as that is all anybody but a mouse or a contortionist with a teeny tiny little head will see. BALLAST! I must ballast as far as the eye can see also before THAT too becomes an ordeal along the lines of the tiny belts Ray was involved in.

Welp, like I said, gotta find my plaster. Pretty sure I still have some. I guess. If not, next time to town, couple $‘s at Mee-nard’s. Maybe do a little ballasting, though I’d prefer to wait until the side is done, or maybe it would be better before. Depending on accessibility.Confused Nah, best do it before. I’m gonna have to assess the area and decide how I need to approach this as it’s so small I may have to do something out of order to what I usually do. (which, is not always the best order anyway so…..) The bookwork for Church, I'm still recovering from the latest computer crash here. Yes it’s true. Had to restore back to original. It’s embarrassing and I didn’t want to admit it, but I, well, I did something very stupid. I mean VERY stupid. Let’s just say no matter WHAT the name of the program is or how much it sounds like something in windows, if it finds a corrupt or missing file and says it must fix the file, do NOT repeat DO NOT turn off the anti-virus program no matter HOW good the reasoning sounds. POW! I opened the door and said “come on in! Make your self at home. Lock the computer and disable EVERYTHING except the browser and only allow it to go to one website to correct the problem for like $80? Why sure! Sounds good! Why not!” (long Sigh) if anybody had asked me what to do when that popup showed up, I would have screeeeeamed “ STOP! Don’t do a thing, scan with AV and spy ware/ad ware remover and reboot” Why I didn’t will never be knownBang Head. Anyway, all is well except I lost a few things. Nothing important, just the time. And….., yes you guessed it. Still haven’t done it. Take the snow blower out of the back of the truck.

Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!

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Posted by Wisconsin Railfan on Monday, February 14, 2011 6:01 AM

Good day Folks!

Cup of coffee please!

Have a great day all!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, February 14, 2011 5:13 AM

Good Morning!!

Gonna be a windy day here..winds up to 80kmh during the early morning to late evening with temperatures going from 38F down to 17F this afternoon then down to -1F by morning on Tuesday...Huh?

Have classes today after my shift is over then it'll be getting a few things done on Tuesday...heeheeheeMischiefSmile, Wink & Grin...think I may just pop over to the LHS to see what is there...

Rob: Like how the layout is working out there...Thumbs Up ...and yeah, the 1.47% grade should work just fine...a lot better than my 2.44% grade...Whistling

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Monday, February 14, 2011 5:07 AM

 

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

Geeked

Dinner

 

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Posted by ns3010 on Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:31 PM

Evening.

All of today just disappeared. Went out to lunch with the family (and I mean, the whole family!), and that was most of the day.

Then we had a game 45 minutes away. We won, 5-4.

Playoffs are Tuesday. We'll see how THAT goes. But, to be honest, it's not looking too good...

It's very late, and I have school tomorrow (ugh), so I better go. Catch you guys later.

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:29 PM

Evenin' folks!

Just a cup of decaf Janie.

Didn't light the woodstove today for the first time in weeks.  Temperature got all the way up to 40°F for most of the day.  Will be heding back down below freezing tomorrow.  It will be lit then

Rob, 3" rise in 17'.....  Well, 17' would be equal to 204".  Easy way to figure it would be divide 3" by 204" to get percent rise.  The answer is...... 1.47%  Very usable grade. 

Oh...  I forgot to tell you earlier, I got a Valentines card from my #1 granddaughter.  She signed it herself!  Three and a half years old.  She was very proud!  Grandpa got a big hug too! Big Smile

Hope you all have a great night!

73

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Posted by TMarsh on Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:18 PM

IndifferentWHOA! Thanks Johnboy!!!! I didn't even think of the liner. Luckily I did for the end I have somewhat done, but this end........completely slipped my mind. I use the term Dullcote generically by the way. Just curious if it would change the texture of the stone/rock.

Ron- Hope the family feels better soon. In case I forget tomorrow,  Happy Anniversary to you and the wife and Happy Birthday to her! 

Rob- I like your layout so far. I don't believe I've seen your part (chuckle) before, yet the bridge seems familiar. EDIT: I calculate 1.5%. Check my math guys.

Bedtime. PFTIN

Todd  

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