Time for me to call it a night. My eyes don't hurt quite so bad today but then I didn't do much reading either. The computer did the reading and I just listened.
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howmus No sooner got up this morning and the phone rang..... 'Twas the Dodge Dealership calling about the exhaust problem on the old Dakota. I grabbed a hearing aid, and sat down. He said, "Good morning, are you sitting down?" They found a crack in the catalytic converter, and a few other things that are just about rotted through as well. Worst case scenario.... $1800!
No sooner got up this morning and the phone rang..... 'Twas the Dodge Dealership calling about the exhaust problem on the old Dakota. I grabbed a hearing aid, and sat down. He said, "Good morning, are you sitting down?" They found a crack in the catalytic converter, and a few other things that are just about rotted through as well. Worst case scenario.... $1800!
Evening Fellow Dinners!
Thank you Flo.
Berry Unless you have all ready told them to do the work on the Dodge, pull it out of the shop! You should be able to get all the work done for $900.00 or less at a exhaust shop! Pipe is cheap, if the prices is to high like at a Midas tell them to bend the pipe. A 8 foot stick was (pipe) around $12.00 to $20.00 depending on the OD and was thicker than the bolt in stuff.
Guess that is one of the reasons I not happy about this job. I feel like I am screwing people over. I am buying the same part anyone can from NAPA. Lets say NAPA list is $40.00 on a rotor, they sell it to walk in traffic for $30.00. I buy the same rotor for $20.00 but then I mark it up to $75.00?
At lease when I was selling a $200.00 Mattress for $1,000.00 I knew they could not buy the mattress direct from Sealy for $200.00. When I was in auto body the mark up was only 35% If I bought a fender for $100.00 I sold it for $135.00 not $350.00.
But then again, that is why I learned to do the work on mt own cars to began with. May have a little soul searching to do.
Ken
I hate Rust
Blimey Sorry I couldn't resist
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Curt Webb I thought I heard crickets in the Diner but Ray arrived. I think I will drink my coffee and watch him eat dinner.
I thought I heard crickets in the Diner but Ray arrived. I think I will drink my coffee and watch him eat dinner.
Evening All,
Flo I would love a cup of decaf please.
It looks like MOH's surgery will be the first week of January. She has to get Cardiac clearance then a actual date will be set. Sorry if I already posted this I couldn't remember. I did some research on the surgery and it has not calmed my worries about it. I was looking through the Diner today and I realized I missed 2 pages somehow. On a better note is that my Dad just got the news that his Prostate has no issues from his recent testing.
PA Tom- I am really happy your wife made it home and especially for the holidays.
Everyone have a good evening.
HELLOOOOOO!!!!!! Is anyone home???
Oh hi chloe, where'd everyone go and hide now?
I'll just have a coffee for now please..oh the head is better now thanks..I guess Flo didn't like the comments I made...
I'll be at the RC and so who else shows up
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/
PA Tom... I've been wondering how Mrs. PA Tom is doing. Sounds like there is progress, and it's good she can be home for Christmas holidays. Hopefully, her heeling will continue.
Rob ... Sorry you have trouble sleeping. Perhaps, you can get a nap on a rainy day.
Sue ... SOunds like a close call for the BIL.
Welcome to "Goodness181". Please continue visitng.
I'm glad at least a couple of you watched that video of the NS trains. I wonder if NS speed matched DCC for those big diesels. It's unusual to see two intermodal freight trains pacing each other at that speed.
I recall trains pacing each other on the old Burlington Route on the 3-track main west of Chicago. It was passenger trains doing that. I remember riding in one of the suburban trains with the two=level Budd cars. We were pacing the Empire Builder on the next track. Looking at the EB dome car I could see several sailors from the Navy admiring a pretty girl who was riding in the coach I was in. It looked like they were about to try jumping from one train to the other.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Things might be starting to get back to normal at our house. Well, not completely normal, but better than what it has been. After two months, the wife was discharged from the nursing home this morning. She is still limited to 50% weight bearing on her leg, and is limited to the first floor. So we now have a hospital bed in the dining room. We have 6 steps coming into the house, and she was able to come up those, although very slowly, using her quad cane and a walker. Natuarally, her walker doesn't quite fit on the walkway from the driveway to the porch steps, so I have to put a couple of pieces of scrap plywood down to provide some extra width. Not really a big deal.
Next step is to see the surgeon again on December 16th. I don't know what, if anything, will change then. I do know the screws in her ankle won't come out until late January or early February. I'm glad to have her home, and she is definately happy to be here.
Kind of a chilly and damp day here in Pittsburgh, but the best day we have had for some time.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
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Everybody ...... Here's a unique video.
I'm don't recall seeing anything like it before.
Call it "A Thoroughbred Race" because it is Norfolk Southern.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZN5tYIBvlA&sns=fb
Great video Garry,
That is something that we don't see up our way. I don't think there is enough double track main to do it on. There used to be but many years ago it was pulled out. I think that was about the time that CTC. came in.
Now they are hinting that it might be put back because of the volume of traffic.
I especially liked the TOFC units, I think they look so much neater than the containers. And as they passed out of sight I said good bye to my brother Fred and my other brother Fred.
Thanks for posting.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Really neat pics being posted.
Been "thinking of" cleaning the train room. Just need more energy to tackle that task.
Eyes are dried out again. Trying those artificial tears. Need more sleep. Have some required things to get done today.
Have a good day all. Rob
Mornin'!
Zoe, coffee, I need coffee! OK! You can bring me a #2 special, over easy eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sourdough toast please. Huh? Blood sugar? Don't worry about it. It was 110 this morning BTW.....
Goodness Gracious 181, to the diner! Yep, this is thee place at the forum. We do share a lot about what is going on in our lives here both in the Train Rooms and just generally. Only two No-Noes are Polyticks and Religion. Those two topics tend to divide and make folks upset when brought up. Stop in for morning coffee, a mid day lunch, or a full course dinner anytime you want. Tell us a bit about yourself (and give us a name to call you....) and enjoy yourself!
No sooner got up this morning and the phone rang..... 'Twas the Dodge Dealership calling about the exhaust problem on the old Dakota. I grabbed a hearing aid, and sat down. He said, "Good morning, are you sitting down?" They found a crack in the catalytic converter, and a few other things that are just about rotted through as well. Worst case scenario.... $1800! He hopes to be able to save some parts and bring the total down a bit for me. They will use 3rd party components at my request which will save a few bucks. Well (deep subject), at least the Credit Card WAS paid off..... It just postpones putting a new roof on the house one more month (as well as the new hearing aids I need). On the other hand, the truck has been paid for for 7 or 8 years now and only has 65,000 miles on it. Guess I know why i was falling asleep driving it last weekend!!!
If it wasn't for the fact that once every couple of weeks my son needs me to pick up #1 Granddaughter at pre-school and leaves his car (with the car seats for the girls) here and drives my truck to work, I might have said... "Scrap It!"! Last year we put all of 800 miles on it....... THAT said I would like to keep it on the road for another few years until i no longer feel able to use the splitter and haul wood around.....
Thayne, Sue, and others.... Wish I could take credit for the "Holiday Lighting" photo..... That was floating around the web a couple years ago. I just may put up a display like THAT though. I haven't because there aren't any "Snoopy's Doghouse" displays in my neighborhood.... I am trying to find another photo I am sure I saved THAT was around the web a couple years back.....
Best get moving, I have a day full of things to get done THAT should have been done yesterday or before!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Cool Picture of the Carriage Shop. My brother (the one in NC) owns an automobile repair place (foreign cars only, thank you) which is located in the old Hackney building. They used to build carriages, but are more recently known for making Pepsi and Coke type trucks. They made all of the Good Humor Ice Cream trucks. Probably not in the building my brother now owns, but the same company nonetheless.
His building looks about like that. Maybe that is what carriage works looks like, eh?
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Stourbridge Lion Good Morning MRR Fans where it got down to 1F last night and it's a balmy 3F as I left for work today.
Good Morning MRR Fans where it got down to 1F last night and it's a balmy 3F as I left for work today.
Well, Mr. Stourbridge, I have been meaning to ask you... Why is your LION smoking a cigar???
It is 11 degrees here this morning. This LION has been working on his railroad, and will shortly have it back and running in full automation mode. I will have to adjust the timing between station stops. If I can get the run down to about 18 minutes, I can use each train set three times every hour, if not, I'll need more train sets. I was thinking that I would need two trains on each of the express tracks, but I can live with just one on each loop. I hope I can get their run time down to 3 minutes per circuit. I'll blow past the hidden stations during rush hours, but then hold the trains in hiding at other times so that they may appear to make connections with the local trains.
LION has been dancing with servers this week. My utility infielder died, but the drives appear to be ok, I will rebuild the array and try to reload the computer with an OS, and then try to do a backup from server-7 but that seems to be balky too, and so the last backup I had for the down machine was in July. It should be good. I do not put too muck on this infield machine: Just network utilities, Anti-Virus and stuff like that. I had my downloads library on there, and so my most recent downloads are gone, but the older ones (that I paid for) should be ok. Maybe I should move the download stores to the main file servers, those babies do have excellent back up: Primary and Secondary domain servers running on raid-5 arrays in remote locations to each other, and with a daily incremental backup to a Buffalo Box.
Gotta keep the 'puters running. Consolidated Communications is helping me with they rebuild. They have the contract to keep the network running when I can't do it, they may as well EARN their money, eh?
Good Mid-Morning
After that head-thumping I'll go and get some things done that I plain forgot to do yesterday....
oooch..that smarts....
Have a good day people!!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Morning All,
At w**k today. High today is 81 F, Tomorrow 83 F, Thursday 70 F. After I got home last night I glued down Talus and ground cover over it so it will be dry come Friday. I need to go to the LHS Friday to get some couplers and look for some weeds for the tiny pond (used all I had). I'm going to send one of my K4s in for a light bulb replacement. I looked at the schematic and was afraid I would end up messing up the loco and up to this point I have not worked on wiring inside a loco.
Jeff- Hope your eyesight returns to normal real soon.
Galaxy- As someone that has back issues but not as bad as yours I can really sympathize. Hope you feel better soon.
Garry- That is a amazing video. I have never seen anything like it.
Goodness 181-
Sue- Hope your BIL is OK.
Everyone take care.
Good Morning All,
I will be shopping around for a different vet this week. I have a funeral and viewing to go to this week. I really need to get my decorations up, I’m normally the first one on the street to light up the front of the house, but just been busy with indoor projects.
Some great pictures, thanks for sharing.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning!
Flo, Coffee to go please.
Slept later than I wanted and running a little late.
Todd, good luck on the floor wars, been there done that.
Just a quick coffee today.
Ray, Nice work. You should patent that.
Thayne, The icy roads out here have been to the north. Larry's BIL is up in Alaska. He had a flat with a super single, so he needed road side service. They couldn't get the lug nuts free so the service person decided to air up the tire. The tire blew and caught BIL in the knees, knocked him over, hit his head and was knocked out. Sounds like his knees are pretty bad. He is still heading home. He is a tough one.
Be careful.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a Denver omelet please. Thanks. Scattered sprinkles and flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Ugh yuck spit patoo-eee!! Guess it had to come on sooner or later. Ray- What, do you have a set plan for your lighting you go by every year? That looks just like last years display. Oh well, when it works, why change. Smelling Off? Is that what Canadians call it? We call it “floatin an air biscuit” down here.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a Denver omelet please. Thanks.
Scattered sprinkles and flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Ugh yuck spit patoo-eee!! Guess it had to come on sooner or later.
Ray- What, do you have a set plan for your lighting you go by every year? That looks just like last years display. Oh well, when it works, why change.
Smelling Off? Is that what Canadians call it? We call it “floatin an air biscuit” down here.
Goodness 181- Yup, just like Chris said, think of this as a break room or a diner where MRR’s gather to talk about….well anything. The forum out there would get jumbled with all the small talk. Some clubs may ask that all personal talk be kept in the break room and only session talk be conducted in the layout room. Think of this as the Breakroom.
Floor Wars Williamsville Phase One: Entrance and Hallway, has been officially expanded to include the Living Room. Todd (director of Labor) and Missy (Director of Moral Support) are not real happy and will try and negotiate with the Commander of Operations. However, we are not real confident in the outcome. We saw this coming and were hoping things would not come to this. Unfortunately….well. You know. Right now what I’m hoping for is that the flooring is no longer available. What we bought was a special run and no more will be made. Problem is there was some, though not enough, left at Menard’s when she was last there Sunday. She believes there may be more at surrounding Menard’s.
Well I guess I best clean up the mess I’ve made and kinda get the house back in order.
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.
Chris: uummmmm..what happened to the building? They run out of funding for the rest of the panels? ...you are giving me ideas here....
And a good Morning to you all!!
Goodness181!
We are going to see little tiny snowfluffies today as well as my favorite winter scenario...dull dull dull...... under the semi-permanent cloud banks
Well, the water has been turned off this morning as they are preparing to tear up the main road here and redo the piping here...it appeared that we had a cave-in occur sometime yesterday..again.
So..what does this mean? I got to run around the house getting some extra water laid in..and doing some jury rigging again....
Flo, I'll have a full breakfast platter with all the trimmings and a coffee as well please..no not the 20lb special...geeesh.......just the regular size..you do remember the regular size do you? NOOOO!!! Not the cast iron frying pan!!!
KEERRRCCCLLLUUUUUUUUUNNNGGGGGGGG!!!
Oh gee!! Look at the pretty birdies!!!1
Coocoo coocoo
*thud*
Good morning. It's 42, cloudy. High - 47. Slim chance of rain for morning - afternoon. 50% chance this evening.Eyesight still giving me problems today. Keeping spell checker busy. Hope everyone else has a good day.
Morning guys & sue! I am just poppin in to say good morning before running out the door and driving down the road with frost on my windshield so I wont be late! Rob, sorry you have not been sleeping well I have the same problem lately?? I didn't get any layout work done last night I got home pretty late. I did a little ice road truckin yesterday. (Tis the season!) On the Homasote topic I mentioned yesterday, I was correct. The man from home depot called me and said Boise cascade has it, I gave him my card # and it will be at the my local store today or tomorrow. $28.50 per 4x8x1/2" (If any of you are in need of some.) I bought 5 sheets should have plenty and some left to share with my friends in my club. Well I better hit the road. Ray, I loved you Christmas light display Nice work! LOL!
Thayne.
Chamomile tea, please.
Nice pics being posted.
Had a nice rumble of thunder with a little rain a bit ago. Almost 100% chance of rain for today.
Bad insomnia. Not even 2 hours sleep. Entirely exhausted, too. Rob
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood evening, BARRY-sized cheeseburger with a bucket of Coke please 'n thank-you.
But first, GOODNESS181: Welcome! I'll let GALAXY give you the full briefing on the Diner, suffice it to say this is the least formal, but most friendly forum you'll likely ever find. In here, we talk about life. We do talk about our model RR stuff too as THAT is the common thread THAT binds us, so to speak. Here you'll find an ear and/or shoulder if you need it. You'll find advice and suggestions. You won't find any jerks...they tend not to stick around very long. "What is the Diner about?" Anything and everything, well 'cept for poly-ticks... In general, think of a diner where friends gather to shoot the bull.
The Wife has been busy lately. She's putting up the indoor plastic window insulation stuff in an effort to warm up the house. She's found THAT she can deviate from the instructions and make what amounts to a "double pane" effect. Very effective! I still have to fight the plastic Christmas shrub in an effort to hang new lights on it. Most of the factory-installed lights are kaputted. Rather than attempt micro-surgery on the ultra-fine broken wires, I figure it'd just be easier to toss a new string on. RIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHT. The first set seemed long enough at the store... it wasn't. The second string seems long enough, but only if it goes on a certain way THAT I haven't figured out yet. I told the Wife I'd try to get it done while she's at her w**k so THAT she won't have to hear all the words my saintly Mother told me to never say...
I told her next year, I'm just putting up a Festivus pole and calling it good enough!
The "airing of grievences" commenced very shortly there-after...
Speaking of "saintly," Mr. LION? I saw where you like Athearn blue boxes for storage and what-not. Do you need any? I have a bunch, in a box, in the attic. Car storage on the future layout will be accomplished on shelves on the layout, so the boxes are just space-takers.
I'll have a seat at the RC (Rivet Counter, for GOODNESS181's sake), and see who makes it in this cold evening.
***EDIT*** OK boys and girls, TOP! Order up for your late supper, late-nite snack, or breakfast in HERR ULRICH'S case. Rerun and I got this.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Evening Gang:
The rain stopped late this afternoon. I got the cattle fed with out getting wet. We got three inches before it stopped. Some folks just a little north of us got snow. I heard they got as much as 2+ inches. With the drought I don't care in what form the moisture comes just get it here.
I got three of the book shelves moved from under the layout. Now there is one to go and then the big shelves. Of course the problem now is where to put them with all the stuff that was in them. Now I can get under that part of the layout.
Time to hit the sack.
Take Care All
Evening all, just stopping in before a shower and bed. Haven't been home all that long, as today was an extremely busy day. Had to head off to the store and do most of our monthly grocery shopping this evening, so it was a "late" night getting home. I had two side jobs today since I was off from my "real" job today. One was paying, one was paying, but in another way. First one was finding out why a guy's check engine light was on. Found the problem and fixed that one. Second job was a friend of the family, they've got a Nissan Quest van and the engine has started to make a knocking sound. Unfortunately that's going to be an engine replacement for them, so I didn't get paid for that one, but I did get to enjoy hanging around with a friend, just having good fellowship. Welp, that's about it or me, I've got to get off to the shower and then to bed so that I can get up in the morning to go to w**k.
Ken: that's got to be nice to get a huge percentage off like that. I remember what it was like for me when I worked with Dodge, although for me it was a, get the parts at cost and just do the work myself. I still do the work myself now, just don't have the shop building to work in. Oh well, I'll get a building put out here on my property before too long.
Welp, I'm out, talk to y'all later.
Hey all. So i've been poking around the forum for awhile and have seen this thread several times and have tryed to read up as much as a i can and figure out what it is but I'am still woundering what is Elliot's Trackside Diner all about?
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf. I'll go sit by the stove in the back.
Cold rain outside this evening..... Supposed to get about a quarter of an inch.
Heartland Division CB&Q Ray .... Hmmmmm .... Hang in there. You'll get the lights up right.
Ray .... Hmmmmm .... Hang in there. You'll get the lights up right.
Huh? what's he talking about. That's the way they go up. Exactly like they came out of the box!!! I do still have a couple wreaths to put up. Which way do the ribbons go anyway?
Got a bit more done on the second Steam boiler tonight while I was doing a wash. Took the truck in to be checked over. I should know what is wrong and how much it will set me back sometime tomorrow.
Prayers for all in need! See you tomorrow.