Evenin' folks!
Cloe, I'll have the lasagna and a trip to the salad bar tonight. Oh, bring me a cup of decaf too. Thanks!
Ah, we have a birthday today! All together now!
I just finished burning a couple CDs to play down in the train room. One is train songs, and the other a collection of my all time favorites. Thinking about moving my old near field monitors down there and buying a new crown amp to drive them. I also hooked up the DVD player to the little system I have right now and took some the Dream, Plan, Build series (the 1/1 scale ones) down so they can be on when I have company over.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
SEAMONSTER!!!
96 you say? Funny you don't seem old. The older I get, the young 'uns under 40 seem like babies who aren't old enough to drive,,,, and yet the older ones over 40 seem NOT SO OLD anymore! {it's just he aches and pains that remind me daily, hourly, by the minute!!}
Hope you enjoy dinner and some din sum and get lots of and some !!!!
soon I go rest my bones with food coma after news...if I make it all the way through the news....
-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.
Hi all,
Flo, a Reeds ginger beer please.
Happy birthday Seamonster! sounds like a great day overall!
CN-Charlie, I want to go to Africa too! My tax return will sort of help.
How unusual in PA during the winter-time to see Daffodil stalks showing signs of life and you have lunch with coworkers only needing to dawn your wind-breaker on a lovely day.
Got some trains listed for sale online, a Westside N&W steel caboose, obviously a CH with some details that are just wrong but it's brass so it'll sell.
Alvie
Hippo Birdie 2 Ewes!! Bob!!!
Good Afternoon
Well, got most of the stuff done for the bathroom and now I wait to do the grouting and all that stuff.
We, here, have had nothing but dull dull and dull with little tiny dribbly bits falling....
Chloe, I'll have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the RC...
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/
Train MasterJeff: That looks good. Your imagination and ingenuity constantly amazes me. One question - and I know I am going to get rapped in the mouth for this - what is the point? You are using 2 old pieces of junk to build another piece of junk that you will probably never use. What is the point of it? It makes no sense to me.
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
Hippo Birdie two Ewe!
PS: LION will turn 64 later this year
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
It's a real shame how companies don't want you to talk to a human. I wonder if it's a cost cutting thing. They've got just one human whose secondary job is to answer the phone when they're not busy with something else. Cheaper to let people run around in circles on the phone system. The worst are the ones that don't give you any option at all to connect with a human. I came across one of those recently. I thought I'd get smart and press 0 or # or * which often connects to a human. Those three choices disconnected me immediately. Grrrrrrrr!
CN Charlie: That trip to Africa sounds fantastic! Got any room in a suitcase for me?
As CN Charlie said, Mother Nature reminded us that the Winter That Wasn't hadn't ended just yet. I measured 2 3/4" of snow. Had to get the snow blower out for only the second or third time this winter. It still had 3/4 of a tank of the gas I put in it in the fall. Could have been worse. Some places in the province got up to 8" of snow. Glad it wasn't us.
Yesterday being Pancake Tuesday, my wife made potato pancakes and sausages for supper. Nice thick chunky potato pancakes. Yum yum.
Happy birthday to me.......... Happy birthday to me.......... Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeee.......... Happy birthday to me. 69. Egad, I feel old! My wife took me out to Denny's for breakfast so I could get my free birthday Grand Slam Breakfast. Eggs, bacon, hash browns and pancakes. Yum yum again. We're just getting ready to leave for supper. She's taking me to a Chinese buffet restaurant. I love Chinese buffets. She'll probably have to take me out of there on a hand cart or roll me out. The down side is that I have to drive half way across the city and through the downtown during afternoon rush hours. Oh well, supper will make up for that. Our son and his family will be coming over on Sunday afternoon to celebrate with us and we'll have the cake then. Angel food cake. I know, I have the same things every year, but, hey, it's my birthday and it happens only once a year. Hopefully I'll get a Seamonster birthday card in the mail from our daughter. She drew the picture I use as my avitar when she was a teenager.
Gotta go. Supper awaits.
..... 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.
How's the tile job coming along, Rob? Any progress yet? When you get er going post some pics. I'm interested to see how it turns out for you!
No fast clock, Brother Lion. I don't want the added pressure! LOL! I've been working on an operational system where trains are run in a sequence. Run a train, perfom that train's function, park it. Repeat. I'm a lone wolfer for now, although I have 5 digitrax throttles. Once I get the bugs worked out, I do have 3-4 buddies that want to participate.The trains will still run in sequence, but there'll be 4 at a time and the yard job. I plan on some sort of dispatcher-type job, to keep the 2 levels of staging operating smoothly and arrange meets. I'd like to use radios with ear buds.My grandson and I have run some preliminary type sessions, just 2 guys using my hunting radios, and it all seems like it'll work out OK.
I ran the first 7 events on the schedule, took an hour and 45 mins. The coal unit trains, 1 mt and 1 loaded, are the only through trains in that session. I also ran the AM pax trains, one each way plus one to St Paul (staging) with 2 real minute station stops at 5 stations.( towns) , 2 time freights(1 each way) that stop in Spooner and swap out cars, and worked the yard blocking and breaking down trains. Only a couple of Murphys, nothing serious. FUN!!
Back to the basement for session 2!
BBL!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
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Jeff: That looks good. Your imagination and ingenuity constantly amazes me. One question - and I know I am going to get rapped in the mouth for this - what is the point? You are using 2 old pieces of junk to build another piece of junk that you will probably never use. What is the point of it? It makes no sense to me.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Afternoon folks!
Flo, I'll have a cup of hot cocoa please. I'll be in the back relaxing by the stove.
galaxy RAY- those are "special love gifts" from the cats when they share their hairballs with you in bed!!! It's about as good as having it *squish up betwixt your toes* when it is on the floor on your way to the *facilities* half awake in the dark of half light of night lights!
RAY- those are "special love gifts" from the cats when they share their hairballs with you in bed!!! It's about as good as having it *squish up betwixt your toes* when it is on the floor on your way to the *facilities* half awake in the dark of half light of night lights!
Galaxy.... Been there done THAT! ROFL
About 2 minutes to 1 the doorbell rang. Looked out the window and there was a NYSEG truck sitting in my driveway. Guy had all the proper stuff like the NYSEG uniform and ID hanging around his neck, so I let him in. We went around and shut off all the gas appliances and pilot lights. Then he changed out unit, relight the pilots, picked up his stuff and left. All in about a half hour. Very pleasant and nice. I think he was the parent of a couple students of mine. he asked if I was retired and from where. I told him, and he said, "Ah, that's why you look so familiar. Might even have been one of my students, I didn't catch his name and I didn't recognize him.
Paid my House Insurance for the year. THAT took care of my tax refund, it did! Another week from now I will be making an appointment to get new hearing aids. Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! Then I can start saving for a new roof in the Fall.
saronaterry All I'm going to do is see how long it'll take to run all the events in my schedule! That's 26 trains in sequence and yard switching duties, folks! Terry in NW Wisconsin
All I'm going to do is see how long it'll take to run all the events in my schedule! That's 26 trains in sequence and yard switching duties, folks!
Are you using a fast clock?
LION'S timetable (Train Register) shows 438 daily trains, not counting trains running on the express tracks, but only the Broadway Local to 242nd Street. (Express trains are managed from a 'different tower'.)
LIONS do not use a fast clock, not enough time in the day for that. The Route of the Broadway LION has a pause button. I can freeze the action, the timer, and the Railroad Clock, and then pick up where I left off when I come back. i have not run this schedule yet: I still have five train sets waiting to be converted. LION figures, once he tries to run it, it would take me about two months of train time to run the 24 hour schedule.
ROAR
This morning I started one of those little 'can it be done' projects just to see if I could do it. I removed the body from my old Rivarossi U25C and cleared everything out of it to see if I could mount it on a 70's era Athearn SD45 frame. It took a little filing here and there on the frame and some rather radical surgery within the body shell but I got them to fit together reasonably well. I think it looks rather good with the EMD trucks.
saronaterry All I'm going to do is see how long it'll take to run all the events in my schedule! That's 26 trains in sequence and yard switching duties, folks!
***Terry, that's all? You lazy bum!
Coffee refill, please. Rob
howmus Currently 47 °F outside the door under partly cloudy skies. Manét the cat woke me up around 3AM by having a hairball on my bed! Guess I will be changing sheets and the comforter out today....... Yuck!
Currently 47 °F outside the door under partly cloudy skies.
Manét the cat woke me up around 3AM by having a hairball on my bed! Guess I will be changing sheets and the comforter out today....... Yuck!
It's 54* and sunny here. They are supposed to get an inch of *snow* just north of here...whatever will they do???
Well, have to wait for my next muscle relaxer. It is 3 weeks till I go back to the Center FOr Pain RElief. The pulled muscle really gets me and isnt healing well.
Well, a new serial I have been watching called Wind At My Back on INSP insperation channel is on in ten minutes.It is set in Ontario Canada in the 1930s during the depression feature a matriachal Grandmama and her family who owns half the town and the Mining operation there. better go.
Later.
Short day today. 36f ,cloudy and very windy!
No kit building, scenery, etc. this fine day. All I'm going to do is see how long it'll take to run all the events in my schedule! That's 26 trains in sequence and yard switching duties, folks!
BBL to let you know how it's going!
Howdy Fellow Dinners
Flo, coffee please.
All most time to go to work again. Now that I am in the habit of getting up around 9:30 PM sure does not leave much time before I have to get ready for work.
Ken
I hate Rust
Howdy ..
Rob .. I'm glad tehre is progress being made.
Hopefully, we'll hear from Ulrich soon.
Busy day for me today.
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Kon'nichiwa, anata no subete ni ohayōgozaimasu!
Zoe, I'll have a breakfast bagel with bacon and cheese and a cup of dark roast coffee to wake me up.
Currently 47 °F outside the door under partly cloudy skies. I already lit the wood stove today as the people are coming to replace the gas meter this afternoon so I will have no axillary heat until they are finished....
I think today will be start to clean the main floor of the house as it is at a point where even I am disgusted to live here.....
I may get some actual layout stuff done today..... Yippie!
Catch you all later!
Good morning
Done Did the grocery shopping. Whew...with my back muscle pulled was hard on my back. MOH was here to unload though so I didn't have to lift the heavy waters.
Got waters, some deli meatmeats, a few cans of veggies and two bags 1/2 price frito corn chips and 4 lbs hamburg, polska kilbasa and peppers, and a box of Southern fried style Chicken...that was it..and cost $90!
Dinner tonight will be afore mentioned Polska Kielbasa and onions and peppers! Tasty! ANd a heart attack on a plate!
will do a load of laundry later, for now MOH and I go back beddy-poo for mid morning nap...
Nobody hear from ULRICH yet??? Wonder if the guy is in hospital? Or iff'n he gots a new j-o-b hes working very hard at???
Morning All,
Thankfully I'm off work today. Yesterday was busier than Monday. At one point we had run so many calls back to back without any break that my mind was in melt down but my partner saw I was struggling and helped me out so it was all good. I saw last night on the weather that Fri it is supposed to be 88 F then Sat 70 F. I think we are at the end of our almost non winter this season.
It seems strange to not have a project to do on the layout. I'm in limbo until I get the needed turnouts this Sat. Next week I will be a track laying fool. I have been looking at some wooden small businesses to go into the increased space on the one side of the layout.
Today I'm doing laundry and I need to vacuum so not much happening.
Todd- Your daughter is dating a sailor? I missed that in the posts.
Galaxy- Sorry your back still hurts.
Everyone take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Extra strong, spoon required kind of coffee, in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Garry, I had to cut back on the pulsed antibiotic part of treatment do to excessive immunopathology. This is actually a sign of progress being made. Thanks for asking!
Rob
Good Morning!! Just coffee please. Thanks. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56.
Good Morning!! Just coffee please. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56.
Not much to say this morning. We’ll see how that holds up once I read the posts.
I agree with the our country has it all outlook. I have been to a few other countries, granted not a whole lot, but enough, and we in the United States have just about everything the other countries have to offer. AND can drink the water. Most times.
Oh Barry, keep her in the dark on the ceramic tile shower stall. See, they don’t “make” them. You have to. One tile at a time. Plus the prep w**k and plumbing issues. All the fixtures are set at a distance farther away from the wall with the fiberglass stall than the ceramic would be from the wall. I haven’t played my Ace yet on this. See she wants the ceramic because she is tired of trying to get the molded in texture clean on the floor. When the time comes I may have to bring up the cleaning the grout issue. She won’t have just the floor and the caulk around the door frame to deal with, but the entire shower stall.
Just got a case of the Willies.
Lee- He is a super nice guy. I should have said he was in the honor guard. He isn’t anymore. But still to be chosen tells a lot about a person in my opinion. People do change but what I see of him he hasn’t. I ain't askin either. He's a big boy.
Well that wasn’t bad. Kept it kinda short.
Time to watch Ziva.
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 63° and cloudy. The high will be 75° and it will be partly cloudy.Nothing going on today other than cleaning up the layout a bit. Right now a train could make most of the trip around but would be stopped at the 180° curve on the east side due to stuff being on the track. I've gotten a couple of nibbles on my GP30's but nobody's run away with them yet.
Good morning, Diner patrons. Chloe, I will have my usual coffee.
Lee, Hope your appointments are uneventful today.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning
Another dull wet day for us..high near 34F expected.
We are having Cardinals White throated Sparrows and a couple of Robins singing out here today...
Today will be finishing off the beeep beeep bathroom floor retiling project and getting ready to redo the entrance/foyer thingumee...
Flo, I'll have a coffee for now please...I'll be at the RC...
,
Good Morning All,
Todd sounds like she got a nice guy, chances are he’s a Seaman (E3) and not yet rated if he is in the honor guard.
Curt, were not really sure, but I think part of it she doesn’t move around much. I think she needs to get up and walk around more often.
Ray sounds typical; not one human available to answer the phone but be 2 days late on your bill and you’ll have 4 humans trying to reach you. My GF had the original 1950’s square gas meter up until last summer when the gas company insisted on replacing it. I guess the meter wasn’t working right since her gas bill doubled this winter.
After running the 80 CFM exhaust fan I installed last weekend I’m disappointed in how much air it doesn’t move so I picked up a 6” 260 CFM fan last night for the paint table in the basement. Now I just need to get motivated to pull the 4” system down and install the 6” system.
I have a DDS appointment Friday morning and Saturday morning I have to get an ultra sound on my kidneys so both ends will have a good diagnostic this week. According to the 24 hour urinalysis I completed last week my kidneys are just spewing out Uric Acid, Sodium, and calcium so the Doc wants to see if the right kidney is still swollen from surgery or if I need to do something crazy like change my diet and work out more.
Since I have Friday off I might break out the camera and post a few pictures, nothing exciting just the new spray table and maybe a picture of the filled rolling stock dresser. Well not full, but I did learn I have almost zero 50 foot box cars and almost 150 forty foot box cars.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good evening folks...
Today I bought a new laptop, Its a Asus X43, Very nice little 14" screen and the price was unbeatable... $395!
Easier to post on here than my iPad. I'm really enjoying it!
Thats all for now
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Hiro Shima
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, Humpday, February 22nd, 2012!!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Fellow Dinners
Flo, thank you dear for the !
" I picked up one of those Con Cor short passenger cars and must say I'm not that impressed especially for $45. The Rapido cars are far better but alas are too long for my little layout."
Charlie What do you not like about them? Detail or tracking? I have 10 of the short Santa Fe Flyers cars and the took some work! Had to add weight, some had plastic wheels that I replaced and added coupler pockets and Kadee long shank couplers. They now track like a dream (watch them derail the next time out) and have not derailed in 200 or so laps around my layout.
With me be half blind and sitting 8 feet from the layout, lack of detail means to me there less parts for me to break off!
Work Front Larry the services manager is starting to have second thoughts about becoming King of the shop. He would make less money (that is starting to sink in) because he would be salary (no over time that he is milking) and the New Services Manager would be selling all the extra work! He on the other hand would be up to his neck in paper work.
So we will see what unfolds in the next few days. I still might stand a chances of getting the manager slot. Plus it seems I still might have another option. Gary (owner of Calvert Express) called me again this time at work. I could not talk with Larry stand right beside me. So again, we shall see.
Ulrich, come back, we miss you!