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Posted by ns3010 on Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:09 AM

Morning, all.

Sorry I'm still not in regularly, but I've still been busy lately. Same old stuff going on around here, but I come with great news!

I got into my first choice college, Northeastern!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND, I'm getting over $32,000 a year in scholarships and financial aid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was selected to receive the Dean's Scholarship for $16,000 a year, and I'll be getting another $16,000 in aid! For the first time, Northeastern is a realistic option, because it is so expensive. However, it is not yet definite, because I might have to go to another school if they end up giving me significantly more money. Regardless, I'm so excited!!!

Other than THAT, not much is happening around here. Still keeping busy with sch**l, college applications, scholarship applications, and hockey. Basically no time for trains. There will be none this weekend, but I might run to the LHS later anyway... Mischief

Well, I best get moving on the day's tasks, so I'll catch you all later!

EDIT: Looks like I'm buying! Eat up!

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Posted by Cederstrand on Saturday, December 17, 2011 8:44 AM

Strong coffee in a BURLINGTON NORTHERN mug, please.

Turned colder here again. Suppose that kind of thing can happen in winter.Whistling

Going to have a productive day, even with this darn injured index finger. At least I can bend it past halfway again. Just need to stop bumping it into things. Amazing how important one finger can be doing practically everything.

Have a good day all!  Rob

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Posted by gear-jammer on Saturday, December 17, 2011 7:20 AM

Good morning, Chloe.  It looks like Bill & I are the only ones moving this early.  I think waffles will go nicely with my coffee today.

  As soon as it is daylight, Larry & I will run, and proceed with the painting.  It looks good, but I need to get back to the layout.

Later,  Sue

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Good Morning...
Posted by wetidlerjr on Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:23 AM

 

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

 

 

Cool

 

 

 

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GOOD MORNING!!!
Posted by galaxy on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:29 PM

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's Saturday, December 17th, 2011!!!

Get your Christmas presents now!!!

Only 8 more shopping days til Christmas!!!

Geeked

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Posted by howmus on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:17 PM

Evenin' folks!

Janie my usual decaf, please!

Got to w*rk on a small audio project for an old friend of mine.  Her Mom lived across the street from us here.  Wonderful lady, and both her daughters are chips off the old blocks, so to speak.  Anyway she has a bunch of old tapes her former MIL made for the family way back in the 70's and early 80's.  i am transferring them from poorly made cassettes to CD for her.  She wants to distribute them to her children this Christmas.  I am trying to take out all the pops and background noise on the old tapes and give her a CD that at least is listenable.  Unfortunately it is a bit slower going than I thought and I will only work about an hour at a time on anything like this.  Want to save what little hearing I still have...  So naturally I did some w*rk in the train rooms today as well.  Didn't accomplish much other than get the siding painted and glued in place.  I made a list of odds and ends I will need to buy to finish wiring up the yard.....

Twas a nice day here in the Finger Lakes with lots of sun, but still some strong wind at times.  Temp stayed in the low 30's most of the day.  may get some flurries tonight, but no significant accumulation....

Prayers for all in need!

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:11 PM

 Hello Fellow Dinners!

 Flo, Beer Pleases.

     Them

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       Me  

 Line has been drawn in the sand, it is time for war. Well it is time to do what I was hired to do, straighten this shop out! Only thing this shop has in common with the way a NTB should be ran is the Logo on the building. While I am not fast on the computer, don't know all the codes and still have not learned everything a Manager needs to know I do know what the biggest problem is. They are doing what ever they feel like.

 One of the techs today violated a major safety issue 2 times! Anytime a wheel is removed it has to be torqued too specks by 2 different techs and signed off on the work order. Any person that cash that vehicle out, with out two tech numbers is subject to dismissal! If we have a wheel come off that we worked on, shop manager gets a $1,000.00 fine, Services Manager gets a $500.00 fine, Area Supervisor gets a $500.00 fine and tech get's fired. It is a Big Deal!

 Tonight I was handed the work order done my Ricky. It only had 1 tech number on the wheel check. I pulled the car back in and asked Ricky who did the second wheel check? He told me " I did it twice, no need to check it again". Asked Lamont to do the second check, while he was coming over to do it Ricky said "just put your number on it". Lamont did the second check. I was happy and was willing to let the subject drop at this point.

 Round 2

  Another car, same thing. This time I was just dismissed about the second sign off by both Ricky and Lamont.  So it is off to war we go!

  Going to call Dave (Area Supervisor) Saturday on my day off and give him the run down. Going to ask for the shop. It is time to do it and God knows this shop needs to be ran. Monkeys need to be put back in the cages and new ZOO keeper to step in!

  Ken       

 

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Posted by BamaCSX83 on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:06 PM

Evening all.  Just stopping in from running around with my head chopped off.  I haven't been in since I started my vacation, so just a little update from my end of the world.  I haven't been able to work on a single MRR related thing all week long, although it hasn't been from lack of trying.  Monday was a day spent working on vehicles (pastor's daughter has a Mitsubishi Diamante that had two of its three catalytic converters crap out on it), and had a Christmas party to attend that evening.  Tuesday was spent in Montgomery doing all sorts of running around with the wife and our girls (her Dr.'s appointment, last minute Christmas shopping, dinner at my parent's, ect).  Wednesday was spent resting and working on OUR vehicles (needed to replace CV axles in my wife's Honda Odyssey van).  Thursday was a day w**k (so as to give my GM a day off and not stick him working 6 days straight).  Today has been a "quiet" day, if you can call quiet having to run into town to pick up things that were forgotten so that my wife could bake 144 cookies for her family Christmas get-together on Sunday, so yeah, I've not done ANYTHING!

Ok, ok, enough ranting from me, I think I'll have a RBF and a small grilled chicken sammich please. 

Ulrich: sorry to hear that you turned in your keys, but I would definitely have to agree with you by standing on your moral grounds of not wanting to be associated with people of such low standards in business.  Keep the faith brother, we're still all here and pulling for you.

Ken: thanks for explaining how your tech's get paid there, I know that everyone is a little different, so I appreciate the knowledge.  On the issue of tickets not being done correctly, you should still have a right to either approach the manager of the store, or even the DM about the book not being followed.  Believe me there are times where corporate rules and regs are there to frustrate you and to cover their hind ends; but you have to remember that the rules are there to be followed.  Worst case scenario, you end up making a final decision to leave the company due to utter stupidity within the management cadre (been there done that).  Best case scenario, you get the ear of someone that actually gives a flip and things start getting done the right way. 

Thayne: best of luck on the rest of your layout, hope things roll along rather nicely.  On the issue of locking yourself out of your truck, that's why I always crack the window and keep a coat hangar around....

Welp, guess I'm going to get going, I'm being beckoned to make corn bread for Amy so she can make her cornbread dressing for the thing on sunday....

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, December 16, 2011 9:16 PM

Well this evening I took a break to watch an old movie. Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in 'Up The River' (1930). Not a bad prison flick for the time.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

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Posted by thortenney on Friday, December 16, 2011 7:48 PM

Happy Friday guys! Drinks are on me tonight!  Well another day in paradise... I was gonna leave early this morning because I needed gas. The wife's car is out side because I have some wood work mess on her side of the garage. so I put all of my crap in my pick up. Started it up and went and started the wife's car. went to get in my truck and guess what the door was locked with the motor running and I was looking through the window at my bag on the seat where I all ready knew my spare keys were..... I thought about putting my fist through the window but didn't.  ended up taking the Camille's car. She called a locksmith and she ended up being late for work.  aaaahhh another day in the big city.... 

Curt, This is my 2nd layout attempt. I made the last one out of 1x4 pine and plywood. which was ok. But the 1x4 wood here is very expensive it's usually full of knots and twisted or bowed, So what I did this time, I dug through the 2x6's at my local Home Depot and found some good ones I brought them home and ripped the round edges off them on my table saw and made them a even 4''   I have seen the same add that you are talking about and I all ways thought it looked like a good idea so I put a 3/4" spade bit in my drill press in my shop and marked and drilled all those holes,   I try to do as much as I can in my shop so I dont make alot of mess and dust inside the house, My wife keeps our home nice so I try not to upset her.   Thanks for looking at  the blog, Please feel welcome to give some advice I have seen the awesome work on your layout and I can use all the help I can get.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, December 16, 2011 6:45 PM

galaxy

Our top loader washer has a musty smell to it, like they talk about on TV commercials for the Tide Washing machine cleaner. Usually it is only the front loaders that seem to have that problem, but the TIde stuff is made for Top loaders too.

In the words of Mike Holmes, that sounds like a mold problem. If and water was allowed to sit in the machine it'll sure do it and it's hard to get rid of.

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Posted by Curt Webb on Friday, December 16, 2011 6:44 PM

Evening All,

I finished up the piece of track that needed replacement. It took about 2 hours, with most the time spent sanding roadbed and shimming under the track then running a level over it. Before soldering I ran the offending loco forward and back wards over it at various speeds up to 70 on the throttle which I would never actually do running a train.

I have to leave with MOH in a little bit to meet up with some people coming from South FL with their pet skunk they have to give up. We will keep her until Sunday, when we will drive her to Jax FL for the next leg of the trip to finally end up in SC.

Everyone take care.

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, December 16, 2011 6:22 PM

Who nelly!

Our top loader washer has a musty smell to it, like they talk about on TV commercials for the Tide Washing machine cleaner. Usually it is only the front loaders that seem to have that problem, but the TIde stuff is made for Top loaders too.

BOY! does that stuff *STINK*!!!!!

I DO hope it KILLS the musty mildew or whatever and doesn't just cover up the smell with *smelly stuff*.

Seeing as how we use Free and Clear laundry cleaner and dryer sheets  {free of perfumes and clear of dyes which aggrivate our skin} There is NO SMELL to our laundry at all. I hope the Tide stuff doesn't smell up the next load or casue skin irritations!!!

A CLR rinse {Calcium, Lime, Rust} rinse also keeps that stuff down in the washer and Dishwasher too.

Pass it on to your wives/significant others/yourself for a note to clean your machines!

Time for night time food coma nap.

later.

Geeked

 

 

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Posted by Cederstrand on Friday, December 16, 2011 6:13 PM

Chicken dinner with veggies, please.

***Barry, ask him which model he has, too. Thanks! Even in sepia, that Daylight train looks magnificent. Need to run my N version again one of these days.

***Garry, heard from the-bayer and he said the replacement part is packed and ready to ship. I should have it next week. 

Rob

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, December 16, 2011 5:40 PM

OK...got top...Have at it fellows!!!!!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, December 16, 2011 5:39 PM

Rob:  One of our neighbours across the road from us uses a New Holland to do a lot of stuff...he does not 'appear' to have a lot of trouble with it...mind, I will ask him tomorrow when I see him at our diner...

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Good Evening...

Got everything ready for the weekend on-call...now I'm just restin' dem ol' bones...

Spent a bit of time on the layout this afternoon..I actually managed to finish off the Sim's Jtn area..now on to the Monroe spur....

Chloe, I'll have the 64oz becanburger platter with all the fixin's and a heaping plate o' fries as well as a tubful of RBF please...I'll be at the corner booth....

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Posted by Cederstrand on Friday, December 16, 2011 4:15 PM

***Tom, that thought did enter my mind when I was typing that.Whistling Any experience with New Holland tractors anyone?

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Posted by tcwright973 on Friday, December 16, 2011 4:10 PM

Cederstrand...

As far as DOT using the New Hollands being a good sign, maybe not. Remember all levels of government usually buy from the lowest bidder, and not necessarily the best product. As a retired County employee, trust me on this.

Tom

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Posted by Cederstrand on Friday, December 16, 2011 2:29 PM

Coffee refill, please.

***Jeffrey, well done!Yes

***Garry, not yet. I'll give him another few days before raising a stink. He has good reviews, so I don't anticipate a problem.

If I could snap my fingers and transform my N layout into HO and meld it with the current HO layout, I would. Can you imagine a 6' tall edge of a volcano in the corner of the room and the size of the mining operation? Add a subwoofer with some sporadic rumbles. Mainly, I could see the trains better and it would be fun to run just one size I think. Won't happen though...way to much work has been done on the N layout to change now. Oh well.

Time for some required farm chores. Rob

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, December 16, 2011 1:10 PM

Well I got front coupler conversion on the old Bachmann 0-6-0 done. It's a Kadee #5 with the trip pin cut off and the height is dead-on. Now I have to get some flat black paint and touch up the places on the body where the bare metal is showing through. They don't build them like this anymore.



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Posted by galaxy on Friday, December 16, 2011 12:40 PM

jeffrey-wimberly

 Curt Webb:

Jeff- That will be a good addition plus it will mean more coming from a family member that has passed.

 

.... I'm just changing out the coupler for esthetic reasons. The dummy coupler just looks so wrong and I'm surprised he never changed it out.

Jeffrey, DUMMY couplers are just that....DUMMIES!!! I wonder who the DUMMY was who thought up DUMMY couplers. In my opinion REAL COuplers just aren't THAT expensive to include one on the front of a loco...if they can mold in a plastic DUMMY...well why not put in  a REAL one???

Cederstrand

Tried out the GPS my sister gave me for Christmas (told me to open it early). Other than it telling me to turn into the John Deere dealership instead of the New Holland dealer (next drive up), it worked great.

Well, Rob....GPS's are that way. They will get you CLOSE to your destination, and sometimes you have to figure out where the place is really at. When it says "you have arrived"....well....maybe you have NOT!!! For our Trailer, it brings us to the road we live on...but at the Far south end of the circle drive!!! At a friend's, it says they live in the cemetary next door...from both directions of the main road!!  For the inlaws, it says they live the second house up the road, they actually live aobut the 30th house up the road!!!  For my father's house, it says he lives 2 doors down on the RIGHT side of the road...he actually lives on the LEFT side of the road!!! When we chose "shortest distance" It has taken us down some crazy one lane dirt roads with narrow rickety-looking single lane bridges...if a Heavy Utility truck had not just gone over it in front of us, we souldn't have trusted the bridge!!!! If you don't have the exact address it gets confused. If you have a road that is say, "route 38"...you may havet o try typing in "state route 38" or "St Rte 38" or "State Rt 38" or "something similar in nature to get the real road. They are great for getting you close, or for getting you out of trouble spots for getting lost,,,but that's about it. Good luck!!!

Sir Madog

Can´t say I am happy camper today. Went to the office, handed over my keys, said good bye to some of the folks there and went home again. Right now I feel like being in a deep dark hole, with someone throwing little rocks at me. I am just glad that there are only 15 days left in this year, which has been the worst in all my 55 years.

Well, Ulrich, Sory to hear of your string of misfortunes. Better you got out of that nasty hornet's nest before you got bitten!!! No one will throw little rocks at you here!!! we will throw doughnuts instead! at least those you can eat!!! AS for that dark hole...I have been in it before too, and often...so reach around and grab at teh darkness and pull some of it up around you for comfort!!! AS Lion says...the Lord doesn't close a door without first opening a window!!! Fresh air is always good!!! Buy a cheap bottle of Champagne and toast in the new year of better things to come!!! Cheer up old pal...better things are sure to come..."these are the times that try men's patience". Oh....sorry for the "old" comment!!!!

Well...as for us...nothing much but there is an argument over whether MOH should be following the computerized schedule per CORPORATE Declaration Company-wide{which the Store manager tends to tamper with}, or the measly handwritten schedule the Dept. manager writes out and hides. ALso bad news..they have moved someone from Front end to Floral part time, so MOH's hours WILL be reduced! MOH said 3 people asked when MOH would transfer to the front end {cashiering}??? MOH could do that..but I asked if OH could get good hours or would still have few hours...MOH thinks they would give all the hours wanted as is a good cashier. Q is does MOH wnat to play cashier all the time??? I think the Dept. manager is fidlling with it to get MOH fired for either being late or not showing up at all on a day not scheduled according to the COmputerized company MANDATORY scheduling!!

Went shopping at Wally World...$135.00 that we don't have later....got MOH some new clothes..older ones not fitting anymore. Got a few other household things we NEED, just can't really afford...oh well..just 12 easy payments of $11.25!!!!!!!! who'd think we pay interest on CLR or Draino??? I'm gonna start calling Wally WOrld "Wallet Draining WOrld"!!!! I go in there for a few Items and come out poorer.

Speaking of Draino, may have to call Roto Router to come do the drain pipes again. THAT will be another $85 {or more} we can't afford. My thoery is that the auger they use scars the plastic pipes so that "hangers-on" attach to the pipe's insides and clogs faster so that you have to call them MORE OFTEN!!!

Ok I am done for now... The SoapBox is away.

Bang Head

Sigh

Geeked

 

 

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Posted by Cox 47 on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:46 AM

Howdy All...Its cloudy and 31 here...I'll have a double cheese burger,onion rings and a RBF please...Thank You...I been looking at Lap tops-Notebooks for Sallie for Christmas...The more i look the less I know!...not much going on the railroad..Sallie has been using it to wrap gifts...

Ulrich...Sorry to hear about your troubles..It may not seem like it now but things will get better...Like The Lion said the lord never gives us more than we can handle..keep your chin up...

You all have a good one...Jerry

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:45 AM

Ulrich - Sorry to hear things have gone to this point but just look at as time to start a new fresh chapter in the book of life.  Take a few days / weeks to relax and get over the stress of what happened.  I got hit with the old "Pink Slip" in April and it was the second time in ~10 years but the next thing I found was so less stressful and asked myself my I stayed in the old position for so long.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:26 AM

Sir Madog

 Went to the office, handed over my keys, said good bye to some of the folks there and went home again.

 

Sorry, of course, how this went for your. But the Lord cannot open one door until he closes the other one.

We will pray for you.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:59 AM

Good Evening.

Can´t say I am happy camper today. Went to the office, handed over my keys, said good bye to some of the folks there and went home again. Right now I feel like being in a deep dark hole, with someone throwing little rocks at me. I am just glad that there are only 15 days left in this year, which has been the worst in all my 55 years.

Sorry, but I am not a good sport these days. I´ll just send out a hearty Welcome to the new folks in here and head back to the sofa, trying to get rid of the aches of having been freight-trained.

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Posted by howmus on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:38 AM

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes, maple syrup, and a side order of breakfast sausage to give me something to wash down with the dark roast coffee.  What, yes, brew a whole pot for me please.

Lion, is that lion's name Charlie?  (Now THAT is going to be running through my head all day!)

Had a long post ready to post here last night around midnight, pushed the wrong button and went back a page, said the heck with it and went to bed.....

Yesterday was busy with no time to even walk through the train room to dry the laundry...  Had to deposit a bunch of checks in the MLK Scholarship account at the Credit Union, do some quick shopping at BJ's, pick up Rxs at the drug store, and then head out to take a wreath up to my sister in Canandaigua.  I buy 4 of them every year, two for me, one for my son's family, and one for my sister.  Then I went to the Mac Store in Mendon, NY to get my son and his wife their Christmas Present. 

They have been limping along with an old Mac Mini that is now, very, very outdated.  He got it when my old Mac G4 dually fried itself (The vents were completely plugged with dust bunnies....) back in 2006.  It was an entry level (cheapest their was) with a single 1.66GHz processor, 512Mb of RAM, and all of 80Gb of hard drive space.  He can no longer update it and it runs slower than grandma with a walker on ice.  I like to do something each year that will really help them so I figured I would get them another Mini.  They would have to still use the ancient old CRT monitor, and a first generation optical mouse that came with the old G4 back in the late 90's, and the old keyboard from the G4. But, it would be a step up from what they have.  Talked with the owner of the Store, and let him talk me into something better.  What I planned was to get them one that has a dual core 2.3Gh processor, 2 Gigs of RAm, and a 500Gb Hard drive and then add an optical drive as the Minis no longer come with them.  With everything it would have about a G note...  Ended up with an iMac.......  Quad Core 2.5 GHz (little over 6 times faster than what they have). 4 Gigs of Ram (8 times what they have) and a 500Gb hard drive.  THAT is not to mention all the other goodies they come with.......  Cost me less than $500 more.  They will be able to save and use the old one for other uses as well since they have a new keyboard, mouse, and monitor with the iMac. They are only getting cards for B-days this coming year!!!

Good to see some new faces here today!

Ulrich, I was thinking the same as you.  I would not be involved with people who have allowed those things to happen.  Guess it is the old "country boy" raising I had (a handshake was the same as my signature on a contract) and my 35 years as a Boy Scout Leader.  I don't do business with or hang around with people I know aren't Trustworthy (and all the points of the Law). 

I think I better get moving, as the clock has been all the time I have been writing this book this morning.....

Later!

73

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:30 AM

Good morning everybody ...

Coffee and a pecan roll please.

Mr B ... Great to see you here 2 days in a row! Hopefully you had no bad dreams.

Rob ... Did everything work out for you with that Ebay order.

Ken .... I hope all goes well with the job.

Ulrich ... You have me worried about you. I hope everything gets better with the work situation.

Lee ... I'm slowly moving over to DCC. I've had part of the layout on DCC for a year or more.

Happy Model Railroading.

GARRY

HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR

EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU

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    July 2006
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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, December 16, 2011 10:01 AM

Good Morning (Gutten Morgen) one and all. The LION will have a toasted poppy seed bagel with butter and Wildebeest! ☺

A little work, if I can find something to do, the train room if I cannot. 22°F hereabouts, about average I suppose, it is sunny outside at the moment although my weather icon claims that it is cloudy.

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, December 16, 2011 9:35 AM

 Morning Fellow Dinners.

 Flo, Coffee Please.

 Well, being lazy this morning did not get up till 8:00 AM. Had ton's or strange dreams last night. In one dream I was fighting a giant Moth? Cut its head off, then the head flow away? 

 Ulrich Again, sorry to hear things are not working out. Guess you know now to stay away from those people.

 See you later. Ken

I hate Rust

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Posted by Seamonster on Friday, December 16, 2011 9:30 AM

Southern Traction & Power

  I Usually  drop in to see what is going on, just listen while i have my usual half of a bagel, with peanut butter mixed with honey and two cups of strong  black peculator coffee.

jerrold

Yum!  One of my favourites.  It's just as good mixed with corn syrup.

 

..... Bob

Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)

I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)

Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.

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