Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
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. There were no New Hollands in the size range I am looking at, but gotta say I like the low profile and wide wheelbase of those tractors. On the downside, they may not have as much ground clearance as others. They were sold out of 2011's. Have seen DOT using them, which may be a good sign!?!
Going to take it easy today. Didn't sleep well. Have a good day all. Rob
Happy TGIF MRR Fans!
It's 17F outside right now but they say we are in for a nice weekend; YIPPE!!!!!!!
Keep those RPO's running so all can't get their special RR requests this year...
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to #$%@ I go
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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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.
See some topics that peak my interest, such as i am the owner of a Ford F350 diesel crew cab, long bead ( four wheels,not six ) that is crowding 200 th mi.
jerrold
Curt Webb Jeff- That will be a good addition plus it will mean more coming from a family member that has passed.
Jeff- That will be a good addition plus it will mean more coming from a family member that has passed.
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Morning All,
Off w**k today so I'm doing my laundry. When I get done here it's upstairs to work on the offending piece of track. Later I plan on watching the recorded Stephen King movie that was on the tube last week.
Ulrich- Sorry things worked out like they did for you.
Thayne- I saved the site as a favorite and when I get a little time I will look closer at it. Did you drill all those holes in the cross beams? Just curious because when I first saw it, it reminded me of some manufactured bench work I have seen advertised.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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LSWrr Jeff, it sounds like a job for a McHenery coupler!
Good Morning All,
Yesterday it was 60f outside when I left for work, today the high will be 38f.
Garry, welcome to the dark side, your transformation is well underway, LOL. I have several friends that are DC users and when they run on my DCC layout they are confused because there are no cab switches to throw, no power districts the user has to interact with, and no limits on train movements. You do have to be careful that you don’t have a head on collision, because it’s a very real possibility!
Jeff, it sounds like a job for a McHenery coupler!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning, Chloe. I will have a cinnamon roll with my coffee this morning, please.
Finally, a day that I don't have to hurry. Today I will paint another wall in the big project. I finished a section of ceiling last night. I am anxious to see how the frog tape works. I may get some layout time this weekend between painting.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning!! Just coffe for me today please. Thanks. Sunny, with a high near 38. Thirty eight. Well I guess it is middle of December. Um, er, uh…hm. Nothing to say. Imagine that. Especially from me. Grout to day I suppose, though they want me to go into w**k at 1100 to make about 4 pizza’s for the coal mine’s classes going on. Only be there maybe an hour. Doesn’t seem worth it to me, even though they have these things all the time I guess and they want some of the “lunch budget”. Oh well, not like I have to drive any distance. Welp, that’s about all for me so far other than w**k again at 5. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good Morning!! Just coffe for me today please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 38. Thirty eight. Well I guess it is middle of December.
Um, er, uh…hm. Nothing to say. Imagine that. Especially from me.
Grout to day I suppose, though they want me to go into w**k at 1100 to make about 4 pizza’s for the coal mine’s classes going on. Only be there maybe an hour. Doesn’t seem worth it to me, even though they have these things all the time I guess and they want some of the “lunch budget”. Oh well, not like I have to drive any distance.
Welp, that’s about all for me so far other than w**k again at 5.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good morning. It's a nice balmy 60° here. It's cloudy with a 60% chance of showers this morning then decreasing to 50% all day. The high will be 58°. The low tonight is due to be in the low to mid forties.I'll be working on just one project today. I'll be mounting a Kadee coupler to the front of a 70's era Bachmann 0-6-0. The front part of the locos frame is metal with a plastic platform and steps. The dummy coupler is also metal and is a cast part of the frame. It'll have to be cut off. The frame isn't wide enough to use a Kadee coupler box without looking bad so I'll probably have to cut the end off a Kadee coupler and glue the shank into a hole I'll have to drill in the end of the frame. I like this loco for it's weight. The frame and boiler are both metal, the cab is plastic. It originally belonged to a close relative. He bought it new. At some point toward the end of his life he refitted it with a can motor and put in all new brass gears. I hope to have it done today.
Good morning, ladies and gents. Here in unpredictable New England, it's sunny and the temperature is almost 50, even before the sun peeked above the horizon. It's certainly not helping our plans to go skiing. We haven't bothered the last 2 weekends, and this one will be no different.
But, that's good for the train biz. I've got today and Monday to work, and after that I'll be burning unused vacation time and won't go back to work until January 9th.
We spent yesterday at Boston's Museum of Science, where they have an exhibit of artifacts from Pompeii. Fascinating stuff. Then we walked around the rest of the Museum. There was a model of the highway bridges and the rail lines crossing the Charles River by Boston Garden. They used N-scale trains, AMTRAK stuff. Well, it was a "museum quality" model, I guess, but I've seen far better work right here.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning everyone! I have not been in much this week I have been busy or tired or something... I'm glad its Friday! Jim & Curt and anyone else here is the link to the blog about my layout. I am just getting started but please take a look, http://modelrailroadersnotebook.blogspot.com/ Have a nice day everyone!
Thayne.
Good Morning
We are looking at another windy day today..in the dull. And cold.
Going to have a restful day to catch up on some missing sleep, well, kinda..
Flo, I'll have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the RC for now.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, December 16th, 2011!!!
Time for WPF!!!
We are half way this month to the end of the year now!!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Sir Madog Good Morning 4 am and I have been trying to catch some sleep for hours now, but no luck. Things are not looking bright. Just a few too many things have happened in that company in the past - things I don´t want to be connected with. I just don´t want to liaise with people who display a criminal attitude., being the straight forward country boy I am. I will go to the place in a few hours and hand over my keys. Another dream gone down the drain. Feeling abused and exhausted.
4 am and I have been trying to catch some sleep for hours now, but no luck.
Things are not looking bright. Just a few too many things have happened in that company in the past - things I don´t want to be connected with. I just don´t want to liaise with people who display a criminal attitude., being the straight forward country boy I am.
I will go to the place in a few hours and hand over my keys. Another dream gone down the drain.
Feeling abused and exhausted.
Mr B: Good thing to hae attention to detail on your side!!!
Well, Good Evening...
Got some things picked up and done around the house..now get to spend some time reading up on what was going on int eh forum...
Have a great evening!
Evening Folks!
Flo, Beer Please.
Well work went OK to, did not feel like hanging my self from a rafter. First thing I did when I got in today was check all of Tim's tickets. It was his tickets that made me feel like string my self up Monday. Well, they where all correct this time around. About 4 hours later on the computer screen I saw a bunch of tickets in RED. That mean the vehicle is late in getting done and or have not been cashed out. That Odd, there only 2 tickets in the completed basket, 2 in the shop being worked on and none on the lot?
Hum, seems Tim has a new trick, he does not cash out his free work tickets! When I say free work, we fix tires tires that people bought from us for free (depending on installment plan), check alignments for fee, stuff to get people in the door. So if there is no dollar amount on the ticket, he just hands them there keys and leave there tickets open in the computer. He is just being plan lazy. But till I know for sure what I am, I don't think I should say anything.
Well, time to look around the site and build some rolling stock.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Hey, Chloe. Next time MrB stops by pour him a coffee and put it on my tab.
MrB, Glad to have you stop by. A bad dream is a very bad dream when the layout is involved. Is the ski season starting on your side of the world? Sorry that Joe is having trouble keeping the BEER BARN open. Tell the guys that they are welcome over here.
Dr Pepper please. Thanks.
Got the tile finished being laid. Now to grout. Tomorrow.
Mr B- Nice to have you stop in. Please stop in more. We have another subway modeler in Broadway Lion.
I'll just sit over here with Ray and giggle about the dream. (glad I wasn't the first.)
Mornin' everyone! Afternoon!
Zoe I'll have a super sized Bran Muffin with lots of butter, and my morning dark roast coffee..... Thank you Ma'am!
Mr. Beasley, Good one! LOL Hope you know you are always welcome here in the diner.
Walked away from the computer and never post this morning.... Early what's his names disease I guess.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Well, once again MOH's new manager screwed up. Seems she enter on the computer schedule that all employees must access from either their home computer or one at work that MOH was to work 3pm-7pm today. At noon-thirty te Front end manager calls MOH and says the new Dept. manager says MOH was to be at work at 8 AM!!!!!
FORTUNATELY- we PRINT OFF the computerized schedule and MOH carries it around everywhere so MOH can PROVE the COMPUTER schedule IS correct!!!!
The NEW Dept. manager has HER head screwed up on THAT matter!!! SO MOH had to go in at noon-thirty.
The NEW Dept. manager is ALWAYS late and screwing up and leaving a messy dept. for MOH. IF it was the FOOD section the health Dept. would have a kaniption fit!!! but being it is only "floral", the new manager thinks she can get away with leaving all the crap and garbage for MOH.
I think she has another think coming!!!
She will work her way right out of her job, and then MAYBE MOH will finally get it!!!
Good morning All...It was 56 here when we got up..dropped now to 48...its cloudy and very lite rain...I'll have coffee please...Thank You...Our little town has 2 scandals going at once..raided a 19 year old's house..child porn and one of the fire man charged with arson...all in the same day!...I have kinda stopped work on layout till I find out if we are moving..
Lee..This Grandson makes # 12 and my oldest daughter is expecting her first..
Todd..Yes it will be a better apartment..3 bedrooms..we just have one now...hopefully Sallie will be able to do her Dialysis at home...
Jeff..like the ball game scene on your layout..looks like you are adding lots of details..
This is lost Crick branch of the Illinois ans Southern..You all have a good one...Jerry
***Garry, so when your conversion is complete, will you still speak with those who have not entirely evolved from DC?
***Mr B, glad that was just a dream. Yikes!
I went out to run the generator a little and discovered a drip leak under the shut off valve. It smelled really strong of gas and I thought such a drip couldn't produce such strong fumes. Sure enough, it was spewing out from several other locations around the side of the unit. Must have burst some seals or cracked something when the temps were down into the 20's. I thought it would be safe under a shed roof with a tarp over it. I was mistaken. So no more backup power here presently.
Better start my chores now. Have a good day all. Rob
Mr B ! ... I'm glad you are in the Diner this morning. Evidently, you could use plenty of coffee. That was a nightmare for certain!
Perhaps, Duke will have a nightmare like that so he can wake up. Imagine his Berkshire is part of the dream. That should awaken him.
We were out with friends to a Christmas "shindig" in town last Friday evening. I think somebody had the bug and we caught it. Both of us slept for about 3 days straight. Today is improving.
I did a little bit of work on the layout, anyhow. I changed the wiring for my loop of track surrounding the city under construction. It's now DCC. Liitle by little my conversion to DCC is moving along.
"Have a good one." as Jerry would say.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Extra strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Todd, I understand the challenge matching stains from making custom frames for each oil painting. Have always enjoyed it though. Good luck with finishing the tiles up and checking that off you own To Do list. I'm sure it will look great when completed.
My sister mentioned having a Union Pacific train calendar and asked if I might want it. Was she kidding? Doesn't she know most of my model trains are U.P. and it's been my favorite line since childhood? Now the Southern Daylight is (IMO) the most beautiful color scheme ever, U.P. is among the top group in beauty. There are several others I really like as well, like the Santa Fe Super Chief. Heck, I even think the current CSX locos look pretty neat in their own way. I'd probably collect them ALL if I won the Lottery. Rob
Coffee for me, too, Chloe. I'm taking the day off.
Not a regular here, I know, but I had to tell someone. Last night, just before waking, I had a bad dream. We had a crowd of people over, families with small children, and while I was keeping some of them from tearing open unbuilt kits and scattering the parts all over the place, the rest completely destroyed my layout. It was down to a bare benchwork frame, with the foam sheets completely removed and all the scenery and trackwork demolished. Even within the dream, though, attention to detail saved me. "No, this must be a dream," I told myself, "because that's 1-inch foam, and I use 2-inch foam on my layout."
Mmmm. Good coffee. I feel better now.