Elliot´s Trackside Diner April 2011

[teen steam fan]

Evening. 

KudaKen- There's a guy who does work near me named Jive. I've seen his work firsthand and it's awsome. Everyone whose around me knows of him. 

UGW- Welcome. Just be careful around Vinnie and Flo 

I'll have the same as UGW. Thanks

[yougottawanta]

What a great welcome from all. Thank you so much. It has helped a great deal to have some place to go to get some kind words and general support.

Todd - thanks for the offer for help. In the months and weeks to come I will be probably asking for some advice and ditto on the thanks for Kalmbach.

Howmus - Snow !

Garry - thanks & great job on the truck and background. You did such a great job of blending the backdrop and railroad landscape at first I thought it was all one piece

Galaxy -  no probon keeping it clean ...thanks for the welcome

Jim - It is a kit I bought through Atlas , I think it was plan number twenty two or something. It has a figure eight , with a couple of outside loops on the top and bottom of the eight, A siding , a yard and a spur. After I got it built and realized that my 4-8-4 would not work on the switches , I decided to stopp, finish off a part of the basement and then build a larger layout with a bigger raduis and larger switches. Unfortunately soon after I finished the room , my wife was diagnosed with brain cancer. So the rebuild has been put on hold while we try to get her better. Good news is , is that the doctors said she was supposed to be dead next month. But the cancer with this new cutting edge treatment is actually causing the cancer to retreat Thank God for that.I am hoping to start again in June after we give her a BIG ole birthday celebration.

Ken - thanks for the terms, advice and offer of help. Question : does the bus wire hook directly to the DCC unit? Eat up , and load up ! have some drinks on me Yep you heard right it all on me .

Ulrich - I cannot thank you enough. Especially in light of your loss. For you to have a big enough heart to invite me over. I will be forever in debt to you.

Flo set these guys up and keep it coming until they have had their fill.

Guys I gotta go to bed now. Day starts off early . See ya Friday and if I do not hear from you enjoy your easter

 

[JimRCGMO]

Hi Chloe, I'm back again (oh yeah, you weren't here when I was in earlier today- my bad..). I'll have a Santa Fe mug of decaf and a hot fudge sundae, please. Thank you!

Garry, that's a nice tractor-trailer there. Is that area of your layout one that's new since I visited? Looks like several homes in the background (which - unless it's that section just ahead and to the left as you come in the train room door - I didn't remember seeing). Looks good, whether it was newer to the layout or has been there for years. Good to know Alloy Forms has the old Ulrich trailer molds. I have an old Ulrich tractor-trailer kit I assembled a ways back, which I need to figure how to get the axles to stay in place if I lift up the tractor.

Ken, thanks for the quick DCC primer - I think I even learned something there! Good to know about how many locos the DB150 powers, since that means I don't have to get another booster. (Just the throttle and the jack panel, which costs enough anyway. ).

And YouGottaWanna, as you can tell from some of my and others' typing on occasion, there is NO penalty for mistyped or misspellllled(?) posts in here. We try to keep the grammar police outside unless they keep their ticket pad in their back pockets. Will keep you and your wife (& her doctors, etc.) in my . FYI, if you hadn't been scanning for long, at the start of each new month, the Diner gets moved (when one of us opens a new post with the month and year). We try to leave a sign at the old siding location (and a trail of breadcrumbs to follow to the new location). If you're in the Diner when it gets moved, grab hold of something solid and hang on! (Oh, and Howmus also goes by Ray.)

I see that Galaxy pretty much covered what 'rules' as such that we have - we try to agree to disagree (though we still razz each other about one another's choice of scale modeled, etc.) Personally, I find that I've learned tips and tricks in modeling trains from a variety of scales and eras that other DIners model on their layouts.

JR, I think a lot of us in the Diner wouldn't mind a bit if the weather would just get to spring (maybe late spring/early summer) weather and forget all this too-warm/too-cool back-and-forth. You have the good idea by heading south (though if it's 90 F in Florida, I'm not sure I would want to go that far south...

Rob, ya better strap on your parachute in the mornings before you go out for the day. Have you got mostly caught up on the post-storm debris clean-up yet? Hopefully so, or pretty soon, anyway.

I found myself wondering how Paul B. in Texas has been doing, with all those wildfires they've been having lately. Hope he and Mary Ann got some rain around their farm.

I've started cleaning out the 'spare room-sized' layout plan I made on my Mac, and am trying to see (without structure outlines and other distractions) what changes I may need to make (for once I get a spare room for the layout, that is). May have something to post for comments, suggestions, etc. tomorrow. Want to start getting some feedback/ideas, since this next weekend I'm on-call, and can't be sure I'll have extended time periods to w**k on it.

I'll have a refill on my coffee, Chloe. Thanks!

Oh, YouGottaWanna, we forgot to mention - our servers are usually Zoe (daytime shift) and Chloe (night shift), the twins. Their cousin Vinnie helps keep things (and Diners) behaving themselves in here (don't get on Vinnie's bad side, if you know what I mean...) On the weekends, it varies, but our servers then include Flo, Janie, and another one or two ladies who help, so that the twins rest up to deal with us the rest of the week. As was said, be careful about offering p---i---e to some of the Diners (such as Barry, or PC/PhillipC) - they can go crazy when the pie appears sometimes...

For any of you Diners who don't get in this weekend, hope you have a joyous Easter (and don't eat too many chocolate eggs or bunnies!).

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

Flo I would love a great cup of coffee please.

UGW- Welcome. I have only been here about a month and like you I thought it was a private section. I am glad I decided to check. This is now my favorite part of the forum.

I just got back from visiting my brother. He is on his way to Tucson tomorrow for his job. He works for a Dutch company that uses robotics to test oil storage tanks while they are full. 

Friday I plan on spending several hours laying flex track on my 2 mains. I also recieved my second shipment of 12 tortoise switch machines so I have all of those now. I should be done laying track in the next 2 weeks then on to the new skill of wiring.

Ken- I was planning on laying my 2 main buss loosely intertwined in a big oval, soldering the appropriate buss ends together and tapping into the mains from the command station. Did I understand from your earlier post that this is not the correct way?

Well I hope everyone has a good evening.   

[Cederstrand]

Chicken enchiladas with rice & beans, please.

***Jim, haven't even begun to cut the last big tree that fell, nor have I finished cutting up the previous tree. Way down on my to do list.

Long day doing farm & garden stuff. Still exhausted. Need to just take a day or two off and really rest.

Rob

[CNCharlie]

Good Evening,

A slightly belated Welcome to UGW !  I've tried to get on the forum for the past couple of nights but just gave up after a while.

This evening didn't start out well as I was rear ended while waiting at the Yield sign making a right hand turn. The idiot who hit me was driving  cable TV company truck and just said he was "distracted". No one was hurt but the left rear tail light is smashed and there is some body damage around it. While it doesn't look like much, I am a little nervous as my car is 11 years old. Hopefully insurance determines that it is worth fixing. I will do so anyway as I've had the car since new  and it only has a little over 100K miles on it. It's a 2000 Volvo S70 to which I've become quite attached. In fact it has a name, the BSB, which is short for Black Steel Beauty. My wife named it. 

I had planned on taking it in for service next week as it is missing a little at idle or gentle acceleration. A light came on tonight that informs me there is an issue with the emission system. It runs fine once it is up to speed so I doubt that it will konk out or at least I hope not.

Tomorrow is a holiday up here for Good Friday so we get a long weekend! Would be nice if it was actually spring and I don't call 50F spring but that is supposed to be the temp.

Not much new, haven't done anything on the RR this week. I did run the RS3 a little earlier but nothing since.

After my trying evening I think I need a sleep aid as in a nice shot of brandy or such.

CN Charlie

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

[Cederstrand]

Is that a cricket I hear chirping? Oh no, it's just a tree frog. Was worried there for a sceond that the night shift was serving insects when nobody was looking. And the chirping frog sound is actually coming from an open screened window.  

Insomniac Special, please.

Rob

[yougottawanta]

wetidlerjr

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

Good morning all

Already at work, not time to start yet so I thought I would say high to everyone. Zoe can I have some of the coffe that Herb here is having. That looks like something I need this morning.

Teen steamfan - Who is Vinnie ? I will certainly heed your warning. Thanks for the heads up.

Jim - I will certainly be careful with P---I ----E . How crazy does it get when one is handing out P--I--E ...around here? Dont worry about the Grammar. Not only can I not spell , but I am bling in one eye and cant see out the other so if something is mispelled I would not notice any ways. I will be holding on tight at the beginning of the month. Thanks

Curt - thanks for the welcome and hello to you too !

Rob - What happened to the trees ? I hope it was not a wasnt a big storm or something? Any way there is nothing wrong with taking it

Charlie - sorry to hear about BSB, You okay ?Funny how vehicles get names. My cousins had a car that was passed down though the kids as they got their drivers license. They nick named the car "crunch". It looked crunch too.

Rob  hope you got some

Well its time to get started . Maybe I can leave a bit early today and go home and run some trains !

[blownout cylinder]

Jim - I will certainly be careful with P---I ----E . How crazy does it get when one is handing out P--I--E ...around here? Dont worry about the Grammar. Not only can I not spell , but I am bling in one eye and cant see out the other  so if something is mispelled I would not notice any ways. I will be holding on tight at the beginning of the month. Thanks...

I never threw any pies around...I was always away when that happened... There were certain characters who would throw pies at each other in earlier diners ...thankfully, since Vinnie clamped down on the use of pie catapaults and such we no longer have these pie wars...

Good Morning..

We are getting some more dullness and dribble bits today...high of 48F is expected...

Tomorrow I will be on call for another weekend....maybe on Monday get to do a few things on the layout...

UGW: I forgot to mention...Vinnie is the waitresses protector, as well as general all round nice guy...

Flo, I'll have a coffee and a breakfast muffin please and I'll be at the window booth for a bit..

 

[LSWrr]

Good Morning,

Todd, what are you talking about?  This isn’t a special invitation only diner? They made me go through an initiation before I could post in here, washing dishes, sweeping the floor…

 

I managed to cut the grass last night, now I’m ready for the next 10 days of rain…

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon,

we are just back from the memorial service for Alison, where we paid our last respect to her. The official funeral will be in about a weeks time here in our community.

Petra and I are deeply touched and not really good for anything today. It will take some time for us to be back to normal life.

Flo, just a coffee, please - I don´t feel like eating.

When I first visited the Diner, I too thought it was a closed shop affair, for invited guests only. Maybe it is the close relationship we maintain in our communication that makes people think that.

Lee - initiation procedure? Washing dishes, cleaning the floor? Have I been missing something? Well, I did clean up after one of those pie slinging contest, didn´t I!

We still enjoy beautiful weather - I wish we had a place to do some BBQing, but we don´t even have a balcony

Hope you all have a good day!

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

   43F this mornng with sun trying to burn through the clouds. Only an hour or so on the layout last night and that mostly seeing where recycled buildings can go or be reconfigured to go. Big problem is I can't always figure out what kits they started from anymore.

    Lee- thanks for doing the tidy up for us. Wondered why it was so clean right when you showed up. (How did that go now "Clean sweep down fore and aft.....")

    Jim - As usual I don't have it all correct. From Ga. to Ct to Wi to Al on consecutive weekends so I should have pneumonia by the time I'm done from climate shift. Just the price you pay for all this galmour

    Barry- Holy spaghetti bowl - and we get accused of making complicated layouts? In the words of Burt B. -L.A. is a great big freeway.

    UGW (see we did fiddle an abreviation for your handle) the buss is normally run under the track usually parrallel to the main(s) with 20 or 22 ga drops from the rails down to it. Best practice seems to run the drops every 3 feet or so and the buss itself is usually 12 to 14 gauge wire so it can carry enough current. The booster as Ken explained is just an uppity way of saying power supply. In DC you have powered segments so you can run multiple trains and DCC w..ks better with the same concept. This is because any short or malfunction will cause the internal breaker on the power supply to shut down all the track on the layout. Dividing the layout into zones allows easier trouble shooting and accomodates visits from Mr Murphy (who has residences on all our layouts) without smoking all our decoders at once. On my previous layout I had 3 levels and a yard plus a reversing wye so each had a zone plus an auto reverser (AR-1 from Tonys' Train Exchange). The zones were handy as on one level I had a pesky short that I finally tracked down to a not really complete cut through the rail where the wye met the lower level. Hopefully that helps or at least confuses the issue enough to get you to ask more questions. Oh, and a belated welcome to the diner.

   Time to get to it. Load list to finsih today and then check stocks in the trailers. hopefully tomorrow I'll take a day off to go to the museum yard and plumb the first 44 tonner oil system.   CUL,  J.R.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 72° and mostly cloudy. The high will be 85° and it will be partly cloudy, windy and humid.

I'm not feeling good today and will probably be resting most of the day. I've been pretty busy the last couple of days so that likely has a lot to do with it.

[galaxy]

Sir Madog

Lee - initiation procedure? Washing dishes, cleaning the floor? Have I been missing something? Well, I did clean up after one of those pie slinging contest, didn´t I!

Besides that, there is the polishing of the RC...the Rivet Counter, where many gather on stools to chat and eat. It must be highly polished so as to always look great.

Forgot to mention another RULE: If you get the top of the page post, It is your job to whip out your Credit Card and PAY for all the diner's meals on that page. Cash is also accepted of course, but with some guy's appetites, you mayneed a Brinks security Truck to haul that much cash around. ANd DON"T for get to TIP the waitresses!!!!   20% of the bill is considered adequate. They deserve a raise to you know! 15% if you feel service was only "OK" {which never happens here we get superior service here always}. 10% is only if you are still in the dark ages or thought service was mediocre {THAT never happens here either!}. If you feel the service was rotten, well then you only leave $0.50 on the counter to show you didn't forget teh tip, but the service was lousy, slow and incompetent.

WEll  a house hunting we will go, a house hunting we will go, Hi Ho the dairy Oh, A house Hunting we will go! After MOH gets out of work we are to look at some houses today. Unless MOH gets stuck working beyond hour of quitting, but I said tell tehm you have an appointement to go to that you can't miss! It would be nice to have extra hours pay, but the RE agetn set up appointments all week for us and it would be a shame to cancel at last minute.

I see someone else joined hte diner? I forgot who, but a hearty to any and all newcomers!

RAY, RAY, RAY, SNOW? see, you should move back "south" in NY so you won't have THAT! WE had none and even had some sun, though cool and a might bit gusty.But NO SNOW!

SPecial thoughts and prayers for those in need!

WEll, I have some phone calls to make so I'd best get to it!

HAvea  GREAT day everyone!

TTYALLL8R

[cudaken]

Good Morning from Maryville IL

Flo English Muffin and a Diet Dew

Charlie You know you are getting old when you drive a Volvo because you like the way it looks!

YGW Yep, the buss wire is hooked to the booster just like a DC system. It is pretty simple after you get past the terms.

Curt You are fine, I explained it in the fashion I did because I thought YGW was building a point to point.

 Jim The Super Empire Builder with 1 DB 150 will handle all the power needs I will need. Heck, Simon brought over his Zephyr for me to try and it ran 6 engines with no issues.

 Gate and Fences Front Boy I was off when it came to the $70.00 budget! I spent $70.00 on the wood for the gate framework and slats a lone! Guess the whole project is going to set me back around $150.00. I did go with better slats, they are pressure treated 1 X 6's and not the cheap pickets I was looking at on line. 

 One thing that was disappointing is some of the sections I had Lowe's cut is not Square on the end? Guess the lumber was just a little wrapped and when the made the cut, the lumber flexed. Guess I will have to square them up using a hand block, sanding again.  Figures it the 2 X 4 I am using for the frame work.

 Well, time to get ready for work.

          See you all later, Ken

  

[GMTRacing]

Ken,

    I thought getting old was when you drove a Dodge cause you were too slow to Duck.   Hit a nerve there Ken, a half dozen or so Volvos have been between the Fords I drive mostly 544s and 142s. Of course none of them were stock so.... (it was fun embarassing the occasional unwary BMW).  J.R. (not the Swedish Chef)

[Curt Webb]

Good Morning,

Got a late start this morning and just finished breakfast. My only plans today are to work on my layout so it should be a great day.

Ken- Thanks for the response on the wiring. I thought I was way off base (not the first time).

Jeff- Hope you feel better soon.

I will talk to you all later, Have a good day.

 

[howmus]

Mornin'!

Coffee to go Zoe!

Later!

73

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!! Coffee to go please, thunder is a rumbling and I best shut down information central here pretty quick.

Spent too much time on the “Facebook” thread and now with the thunder I just skimmed the posts in here so hope nothing happened I missed.

Lee- Well, since you’ve been here about as long as the diner has existed, I think it was the saw dust and old spilled coffee and grease from when the diner was retired to when it was re-fitted to what we have now you were cleaning up. Not my fault you still feel the need to swab the deck. Wanted to tell you you were retired and don’t have to do that anymore but……, dang you do such a good job.

Vinnie, Vinnie is the virtual bouncer or body guard or “enforcer” as he prefers to be called I hear. If someone gets a bit out of line with the rules for the forum, we say Vinnie steps in and stops it before it becomes a problem.

Whoa!  OK, best get off the cornputer.

Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!

[Cederstrand]

Extra strong coffee, please.

Have a good day y'all.

Rob

[LSWrr]

JR; Now Sweepers, sweepers,  man your brooms, give the ship a thorough sweep fore and aft, sweep all ladders and ladder backs, now sweepers…

[LSWrr]

I think the diner has been here since 2001 or so. I’m not that long in the tooth as some people here, LOL.  Looks like I’m all booked up for the weekend and I doubt I’ll be back in the diner until Monday morning.

 

Rob, shoot me an email when your junk mail arrives.  It should be there this afternoon.

[JimRCGMO]

Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ, 2 percent milk, and a CAW mug of coffee, please. Thank you!

Rainy day here in the river city of Cape G. Rain off and on, scattered thundershowers, flood watch. As Barry would say, "A dull day" - about through until Monday, I think, was the weatherguesser's take on things.

Curt, sounds like you're making good progress on the layout. Will all your turnouts be Tortoise-operated? And will you be doing the DCC thing I've heard some folks do with turnouts?

Rob, your idea of a day off to rest sounds good, especially if since you're still having some sleep problems. As you said, if the tree isn't blocking your road to town, it can wait...

Galaxy, sorry to hear of your accident. Since it was a company truck, at least you know they have insurance to pay for your repairs (and if they balk, just mention the word "lawyer'....) Best wishes on your "Happy House Hunting Day"!

JR - yeah, I though "spaghetti bowl" when I saw Barry's L.A. pic - that, and "Where are the train tracks in there?" (There aren't, I don't think...) If your schedule is back-and-forth like that one you listed, you just might catch a cold or such. Glamour, eh?

Ken, I got a good deal on my DB150 and the wall wart for it (from our LHS owner, who sometimes buys or takes on consignment various MRR stuff that people he knows want to sell off). I think it was about half-price ($75-90 sounds familiar, if my memory wasn't dozing off), but the panel and the throttle will be the bigger cost for me. Saving up me nickels and dimes on THAT...

With the weather as it will be for much of the mid-section of the USA today, it's a good day for those Diners needing to catch up on their rest. Now, if my w**kplace would just let me off for the day (HAH!)... Or, this could be a good day for "...w**kin' on the RR..."

Lee, you sound like you know that 'sweeping song' by heart, you sing it so purdy... Thanks for that link you sent me, too.

Good thing about today is, it's payday! (Of course, that means bill-paying, also...)

 

Blessings and prayers,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

HAPPY EASTER WEEK-END to all the Patrons of the Diner, your families, Wives, Sweethearts, Partners,Buddies, Kids, Grandkids.   etc.  and  a BIG welcome to the NEW Diner members.

My wife and I took a drive last evening to examine the flooding that is happening around the City and possibly later this W.E.  we might take a drive out to our old (1975 to 1980) cottage in the Qu'Apelle Valley to see how it is faring.  Once in 1976 while living there we had water within ten feet of the house, it was worse once after that, after we sold, but I think this is going to be a whole new kettle of fish. (little pun there).

Boy Tipton Bill and Rob sure weren't sleeping much last night.  Better plan for a nap sometime today.

My plan for the day includes installing a new toilet in our 3/4 bath. Most of the other work is done other than some caulking and a towel bar.  So it shouldn't take all that long. ( famous last words )

JR.   Good luck to you the next four week-ends.  Be sure to get a few "W"s in there.

Chris,  Do you have any flooding down your way ?  or has the wind removed it all.?

Der John,  You have been pretty quite for awhile, did that last storm disrupt things for you?

CN. Charlie  Sorry to hear about the OHWIE to the black beast, sure hope you came out unscathed., and I'm interested if your feet are still dry there?

Garry, how is your water situation going to be this year? and when do you see the rise occurring?

FERGIE,    Right now I think you could bring the US HUDSON down through Hudson's Bay and the Red River make a turn at the Forks in Winnipeg into the Assiniboian and the Qu'Appelle River systems and make a stop here to run a few trains on the LM&E.

Ulrich,  It is what it is.  and it wasn't pretty, but it is part of life and you did what you could. Take solace in that and be cheerful that her pain is over and that she is home again.

Barry, Lee and Ray, hope your winter is over soon.  I thought you fellas would have been out of it long before Charlie and me.

Jeff, rest well this Holiday, hope you get feeling better.  That baggage car is a dead ringer for the original.

To all you other Chow Hounds, You guys are always in my thoughts.  By the way has anyone heard from Keith, (Blazzin).??  It has been a long time since he checked in.

Best Wishes,

Johnboy out.......................................and back to the toilet,       (read above)    

 

 

[BRAKIE]

Good Morning All!

Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes on this rainy Good Friday other then I went railfaning yesterday afternoon and saw one train in 2 hours-a very bad day...No modeling over the past few days even tho' I have several projects and no update on Slate Creek...


I shall have a cup and look over da forum.

Have a good'un!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[yougottawanta]

Can I get a quick coffee, exstra strong , yea I will have the same stuff Rob is drinking . O geez this has been a long day at work already. Woke up at 4am and could not get back to sleep so I came in to work at 5:30 am , I hope they will let me leave leave early. I do not want to be here until 5pm pouring over plan details .

Its here too near the nations capital. Jim I love the snoopy happy dance. Used to read the peanuts series when I was a kid. Where do you all find these type of things and how do you post them to the post when you obtain these ?

Larry - hello , sorry about the bad day of railfaning maybe a day of working on the Model railroad will make up for it.

Johnboy - good luck with the bathroom remodeling. Yea your right those last bits and pieces always take twice as long as one would think. Hey if it makes you feel any better I saw an add the other day for a toilet that was a few hundred dollars over 6k ! I cannot imagine what a toilet does that desrves that kind of cabbage.

Ken  looks like you struck a nerve on the volvo comment . Ouch . I have a question for you. I currently have the railroad wired dc. Is it possible to just remove the current power pack and install the DCC power pack with out rewiring my current layout ?

Gotta go back to work. See you all later .

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello ...

It's a full diner today. Wow. I'll sit at the Rivet Counter and listen to the conversations.

Ulrich .. Prayers continue for Alison's family and friends.

YGW ... I read in your earlier post where you commented to JimCG. You said your wife has brain cancer, but you recently have reason for hope of recovery. We will pray for her full recovery.

Also, YGW, thanks for the remark on my photo. My layout is "around the wall", and I try to blend the backgrouns in with the scenery.

Rob ... Sorry about your insomnia. Perhaps a ride on this Budd sleeper gently rolling through the country will lull you into deep slumber.   Alos, take sleep lessons from Duke if you must.

Jim CG .. Thanks for commenting on the GN truck. I've had the axle problem on the old Ulrich models, too. Fortunately, the bottoms of the truck are out of view, because my solution was not neat. A small glob of adhesive works, and nobody sees it.

CN Charlie ... Sorry you favorit car was damaged, but I am glad id you were not hurt.

Barry ... What? Certain characters? ... Yeah, right! ... Also, do you have personal knowledge about Vinnie's being the "waitress protector"? 

JR ... What? Mr. Murphy? He certainly has a way of visting a lot of layouts!

Jeff ... That's a dirty loco! .. Hope you feel better.

Galaxy ... Happy Hunting for you layout building..... ..Oh, er, house hunting.

CudaKen ... Rain there, too?

Curt ... Looking forward to a progress rpeort on today's layout work.

Ray ... Now you see him. Now you don't.

Bill T ... Ditto my comment to Ray.

Todd ... I tried that Facebook stuff and did not care for it at all.

Lee ... Sweepers, eh. Sound like you have a full week end.

Larry ... I'm trying to recall where you are in Ohio. Is it Columbus?

Regarding the DIner, I think we should regularly invite everybody here. Also, First post of the month could include invitation and very brief explanation.

DCC ... I'm stll part DC and part DCC .. I'm gald for those who helped me get started including Cuda Ken who called on the phone to assist.

 

Happy Model Railroading

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Heartland Division CB&Q

Jeff ... That's a dirty loco!

Yep! That's just the way I like them. Don't you dare take a hose after it.