Hi peoples. Just stopping top get a Dr. Pepper and a do-nut.
Ken: Somebody needs to ram a boot up the service managers behind.
Jeff: You be more careful! Nice GD boxcar.
Rob: Mow are things going?
Prayers for those in need.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Time for me to call it a night. I'm a bit stiff from all the work today. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good Morning!!!
Today is Tuesday, January 24th, 2012!!!
Have a warm and sunny day!!!
-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...
Good Morning All,
Crazy weather here on the north coast of Ohio. 7” snow followed by ¾” of rain and 50F, followed by high winds, and today will be snow flurries and 33F. I have to check the weather to see if I need a winter coat, rain coat, or shorts….
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!! Coffee and oh….how bout um…..oh I don’t know. Huevos Rancheros I suppose. Thank you. What are the girls all whispery about? Something in the works? Mostly sunny, with a high near 38.
Good Morning!! Coffee and oh….how bout um…..oh I don’t know. Huevos Rancheros I suppose. Thank you.
What are the girls all whispery about? Something in the works?
Mostly sunny, with a high near 38.
Hm. I’ve…..nothing….to….say. Hm.
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 51° and clear. The high will be 68° and there's a chance of rain.Looks like it's gonna be a wet one today. A 20% chance of rain this morning shooting up to 60% around noon until about midnight. Tomorrow doesn't look any better.I'm hoping to finish up the work on the Peerless tractor this morning. At least that'll be that out of the way. When the weather permits we'll get started on working on my father's little one cylinder MTD Yardman. It sure looks small next to the other one. A has a Kohler 20 hp Courage engine which is no bad thing, it just requires more maintenance than the old two cylinder 17 hp Briggs and Stratton on the older tractor. Comparing the two, the Kohler is a gas guzzler. It's kind of funny though. Big tractor, big engine. Smaller tractor (if it can be called that), even more powerful engine. Kind of like shoe horning a 400 cubic inch V8 into a Chevy Vega.Maybe sometime today I'll have time to work on the Athearn blue box F7. The trucks still need to be cleaned and I haven't even had time to pop the shell off.
Good morning all!
28 and clear this morning. Should be a high in the mid 50's today.
Ken: I had similar brake experience at the tire shop when I bought tires. How ever I had just replaced my own brake pads about 2 months earlier and they were " 97 percent worn" I told the service guy, Lets go look. he hemmed and hawwed and said " well we only report this as a courtesy" Uh huh. I do not like car repair places because of some that are dishonest.
Good Morning...
Lee: The weather has been a bit silly lately innit? Yesterday we actually got to 60F and people were walking around in shorts...this morning..cold, blustery and snowy...
As I said earlier...uuummmm..what is all the whispering about?
I'll just have a coffee and I'll be at the corner booth...back up against the wall is kind of comforting y'know...
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/
Got top again...have at it!!
Good Morning CTTFans!
It's 34F with a chance of light snow today. Sure hope those in the path of those nasty storms in the South East are safe this morning...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Morning All
Flo, coffee please.
Still under the weather today.
Ken
I hate Rust
Extra strong coffee TO GO, please.
Fairly busy day ahead.
Have a good one, y'all.
Rob
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a breakfast bagel with bacon and cheese and a cup (or 3) of dark roast coffee in a FGLK Mug please and thank you.
Barry, told you you should have moved your car before the tide came in......
Currently 38°F outside here in the Finger Lakes under cloudy skies. Seasonable actually. Good day to spend in the train room. Hope I can forget about some other things needing to be done and just play with the trains for a change.
How about we take a side trip down to the Harrisburg, PA area today?
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening.
Only a short visit - I am not feeling well. Had a total system failure earlier in the day - just collapsed. Doc came and hooked me up to an unknown liquid in an IV bag. I am stable now, just so tired.
Will be limping back to the sofa soon.
CU, folks!
Sir Madog Only a short visit - I am not feeling well. Had a total system failure earlier in the day - just collapsed. Doc came and hooked me up to an unknown liquid in an IV bag. I am stable now, just so tired.
I DO hope you will be feeling better soon Ulrich. Take care. AN extra prayer candle will go up for you.
Not much planned for today. No money makes that easy enough. Grocery shopping tomorrow.
Well,
chat you up later
Another coffee, please.
***Ray, sounds like good idea. Can we take the bridge that's still intact?
Did a few needed tractor chores. That's always enjoyable.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Flo, I'll have a cup of hot cocoa. Make it very hot if you would. Local temp is down to 34°F and falling at the moment. Very damp and cold outside. Not good camping weather! Now another 10° lower and it would be perfect.....
Cederstrand ***Ray, sounds like good idea. Can we take the bridge that's still intact? Rob
I think that would be a good idea.... The one that is still there is the longest stone arch bridge in the world IIRC. If we cross it, lets not try it like these mental midgets from Goah-jiah... http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/node/525800/photos "Hey y'all, waaaahtch theeis!"
Still haven't made it down cellar to the trains.....
Later!
Ulrich... I'm sorry to read your post about your not feeling well. Prayers for you.
Ray ... I like the Harrisbug pictures,
Our family has been very deeply concerned for the past two days about a family member who suddenly has meningitis. He is husband of one of our neices. This is a very nice young familiy with 3 children who lives in Michigan. Our neice is the daughter of Shelley's Michigan sister. He is in ICU and is not expected to awaken for a few days. I suppose he could be called a nephew-in-law to me.
Meanwhile, Shelley and I are getting ready for our trip, and there is not much model railroading for me to report.
Tomorrow is my 5th anniversary of being in the MR Forum.
Cheers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Plate of Tacos and a coffee refill, please.
***Garry, hope your N-I-L recovers. That is mighty dangerous stuff. And you folks have a safe trip. AZ., right? Take a deep breath of the desert air and howl at the moon for me. Well over 1/3rd of my life was spent there. Will always love the AZ. desert.
***Ray, that thar ain't no rail truck! What in the world were they thinking?
Ended up at H.D. where I bought a basic tile saw. It would have cost me about the same to hire a tile guy and this way I have one for any future projects. Now I must clear out/clean up the enclosed porch so I have a place to cut tiles, mix thin-set and grout, etc... It could take me the rest of the week just to get that far.
Need to rest a bit now. Rob
Well I finally got the Peerless tractor back together. Had to go back twice because of one small part. It's a small snap ring that holds the left front strut/spindle assembly in place. The first one was a hair too big and didn't fit properly. Got the right one the second time around. It's simple to put in. Just start it on then knock it into place with a hammer. That's after you're already using two hands to hold the strut/spindle in place and hold the ring so it can be hit. I put the wheel on the spindle with no bearings then put my foot under the tire to hold the assembly in place so I could use my free hand to swing the hammer. After that greasing the spindle and putting on the bearings and wheel was a cake walk. The tie rod went back on without a problem. So, my beast is ready for the mowing season. Problem now is I'm so tired I don't want to work on the Athearn F7. Guess it'll have to wait a while.
Evening Folks Still Feel like Caboose.
Flo, please.
Looks Like I will Have Too Go To Work Wednesday Regardless Of How I Feel. Bill in his never ending quest to get fired called in today sick. (I was schedule off Today) Plus Jim the so called manager is all so off sick with Pink Eye. So Larry is working from open to close, that is a 15 hour day. While I am not a fan of Larry, I do feel some what sorry for him.
Larry all so may have learned a lesson. Value your coworkers. He has cut out all the add on sales from the counter people with him doing all the add on sales. Why work when you are sick for less than $7.00 a hour?
Heartland Division CB&Q Ulrich... I'm sorry to read your post about your not feeling well. Prayers for you. Our family has been very deeply concerned for the past two days about a family member who suddenly has meningitis. He is husband of one of our neices. This is a very nice young familiy with 3 children who lives in Michigan. Our neice is the daughter of Shelley's Michigan sister. He is in ICU and is not expected to awaken for a few days. I suppose he could be called a nephew-in-law to me.
Along with an extra PRAYER CANDLE for ULRICH, We will put one up for your N-I-L and for your family, We will have a GENERAL Prayer candle for ANyone else in NEED!
May your thoughts and prayers be answered tonight!
Special thoughts and prayers for SPEEDY recovery for CUDA KEN, also!!
Rest, and take it easy all!
Have a restfull night all...
Later edit: I got top, so here is my Credit Card flo, everyone's tab on this page is mine also!
Well folks it looks like we are in for some flooding here again in Brisbane.
Since monday morning, at home I've had 310mm or just over 12" in the old scale, and it is STILL raining. Supposed to rain until next tuesday.
The difference from last years big flood to this year is that so far most of the rain has been on the coast, just causing local creeks and causeways to flash flood. My suburb has some low lying areas and also some high spots (where I am is around 120m ASL) so far the extent of the flooding seems to be around a foot of water over the road here and there. We did have one creek north of us flood causing some evac orders being issued by the Police with the Fire Brigade helping them move.
I have been monitoring local EMS radios and overnight there were around 10 rescues performed after some people tried crossing flooded roads and stalling their cars, or getting them washed into the creek.
We did have on the Gold coast ( South of me) have 300mm or 12" OVERNIGHT in the mountains which will cause alot of river rises down that way.
Hopefully the system won't move in land too far otherwise we might be in deep do-do!!
Anyway, we have Australia day public holiday tomorrow, so might do a bit of investigating around the place...
Cheers!
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Evening All,
It's been pretty busy at w**k the last couple of days. Everytime I tried posting I would get called away. Tomorrow I have laundry to do and I want to build the 2 train phone antennas for the BF-16's (4 sides) and drill the holes on the shells for mounting. I will let them set overnight then spray them on Thursday and final mount and gluing on Friday. It appears that USPS sent the LRT box to the wrong place during transit (Roanoke VA). . Last I looked on a map Roanoke is no where close to a line fron Houston-Orlando, I can see Atlanta or Jax but not VA.
Garry- Your N-I-L is in my prayers. Do you know if it is bactreial or viral?
Oz Jim- Good luck on keeping your house dry.
Ulrich- I hope you feel better soon.
Ken- I couldn't find the post that said you were not feeling well, but if you aren't I hope you feel better real soon.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Thunderstorms are past for now and we're getting a long slow rain. The radar picture is improving but the weather guesser is promising more doom and gloom. I'm glad I got the tractor back together before the storm busted loose. I hate working in the rain. Weather guesser says tomorrow there will be 70% or better chance of showers and severe thunderstorms with heavy rain. I may get to work on the Athearn after all. The rest of this evening, tonight and early tomorrow morning are looking ugly. Hope I don't lose power. That would majorly suck. Well, time to get back to the bed and rest my weary body.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Hello!!!! Is anyone home?!?!?!?!?
Good Evening
It has been an interesting day...dull, miserable, little snizzle bits, raw winds...blech...
Floor wars, London ON division...I'm about ready to do this. All I did today was lay down some firring strips onto the floor so that we can start laying the hardwood....3.5" wide and 1/2" thick oak flooring...there is going to be a lot of nailgun sounds in this house...
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, just a refill on my decaf please....
Ooooooooo! Barry is going to be having fun with a nail gun..... Oooooooooo! Be careful with THAT now! You can get seriously hurt with those things! That photo must have been around 1958 or 1959 I bet.
I finished up a bunch of little things today (printed some photos of committee members from the MLK Service a gifts to them at the meeting tonight), did some cleaning up and putting away, and then..... Yes, part of the day and then again after the meeting tonight, I did some stuff down cellar on the layout..... Didn't really amount to much, spent an hour looking for my scale rule. I was using some of those Words... (the ones mom told me she was going to wash my mouth out with soap for....) and had just given up trying to find it, walked back over to where I was going to use it, and there, right in front of me, in plain sight, was the %##@*&%%ed scale ruler! So I got busy applying the railbars (Details West) I had in stock to the new track in the little yard. Had about 50 of the things left and now I have none.... One more pack (of 36) should be arriving of Friday. It will take at least 2 more packs to finish THAT part of the layout.
Been trying to get more information on an old Coal Dump in Canandaigua from some of the guys at the museum and some local Model Railroaders. One guy in Canandaigua also remembers it, the old 1930's dump truck, and the little old man who filled it there. He said the guy used to deliver coal to his house. I'm thinking the same guy used to delver to my house as well before my dad pulled out the old coal furnace when he remodeled the house with an apartment for my Grandmother and put in baseboard hot water heat with an oil boiler. One guy tried to tell me it wasn't a coal unloading place but it looks more like an underpass that has been filled in. Of course he must be right since he never lived there and saw it.....
Tomorrow i start the final sorting of the Honorable mention entries (all 92 of them), attaching the certificates, and get them ready to take back to the schools. The local paper is printing the First Place entries tomorrow along with a total list of the winners for us. So I should be able to pick the items down there tomorrow as well. If I am lucky I might even get to the layout tomorrow evening.....
Stay safe and warm! Prayers for all in need.