Heartland Division CB&Q Curt! ... Happy B'day! Paul ,, Glad to hear about the improvement with your wife's health. Rob S. ... Welcome to the diner. Ken .... Take care of yourself, please. I think there are several MIA's. We'll have to think of ways to liven things up. An RBF drinking contest might be an idea. .... Barry! ... Hands off the pies!
Curt! ... Happy B'day!
Paul ,, Glad to hear about the improvement with your wife's health.
Rob S. ... Welcome to the diner.
Ken .... Take care of yourself, please.
I think there are several MIA's. We'll have to think of ways to liven things up. An RBF drinking contest might be an idea. .... Barry! ... Hands off the pies!
PIES! RBF! I'm back! I'm back!
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
-------- ( It's a worm)
Good Evening
Well, we got rained on, we got winded on, even hailed on...we are now drenched...and, our wetland is back.
And....the little Spring has just come up here to grace us with his furry presence...consider yourselves headbunted...as he just headbunted the screen, lol!
Garry: I have never ever touched any PIES here....
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/
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a decaf please...
Currently 59·F outside... Fall is now here in the Finger Lakes. My crab apple tree and the neighbors have already given up and lost all their leaves. Got some strong storms through here today. there were a few limbs down around town, but nothing I saw major around here. Got a half inch of rain out of them though.
Galaxy, hope your trailer held up to the storms and the inside didn't get too wet with the roof problem.
Barry, glad to hear the wetlands are back.. or was it you that has the wetlands in the back of your property you don't like...??? Put the pie down!
Ken, you sound depressed! Drowning it won't help... In the long run, anyway. You do want to keep your toes don't you... Watch the sugar levels, my friend.
I used up all the packages of railbars I had left today. Guess what is not back in stock yet? The first two don't count, BTW. I did get enough done so I can get about half the hand laid track weathered before moving one to installing a grade and more track that will go over a gorge and become the return loop in the new room.
I will need to be out at the R&GV RR Museum tomorrow, so I think I will call it a day... Prayers for everyone...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow if I'm feeling up to it.
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
What PIE? Where? I'se innocent I tell you!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Sunday, September 9, 2012
NKP 2-8-4 #765 running with the new NKP Heritage unit outside of Muncie IN-July 2012
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Wet Morning from SwimmingVille.
We just had another monsoonal shower show up of the 60% type...going to be like this all day as well...high? Would you believe...66F?
aaaahhhh...but t'is normal around Western Fair week to have the highs go tumbling down and to be cold at night...lows at 46F and such as well....
Going to be doing some housework here..laundry doing , vacuuming, et cetera....yay...
We'll see if any traintime comes our way here...
BillT: Great shot of the #765 doing its thing!!
Have a great day!!
BTW...Anymore talk of me grabbing at PIES will result in certain....actions that may involve food ....
Good Sunday morning, Diners!
Jeremy, you are correct! The real season starts at 3:00pm my time. GO PACKERS
Anyone want 60 cars worth of plastic wheelsets? Spent the day installing new IM metal sets. Only need 3 more 100 count bulk packs to finish my fleet! Boy, am I ever glad I GLEAMED the track 3-4 years ago. I haven't run trains much since April and besides a little dust and cobweb wiping ( all of 10 minutes), all I did was fire up the Digitrax and away we went! FUN! The new wheelsets seemed to improve the derailment count, too. Only had 1 and that was a lead SD40 because somebody missed returning a switch to the main.(me). Love those IM sets!
Today's a new day, things will be better. Hope and prayers for those that need'em.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Morning Coffee
I over slept, and the one eye that is open now tells me it is Sunday....
We often say "O.K. or OKAY, Or OK"...do you know where it came from???
okay/OK/O.K. - Okay is one of the most commonly questioned and debated expressions origins. 'OK' and 'okay' almost certainly had different origins, although the meanings were all similar and now have completely converged. There are various sources of both versions, which perhaps explains why the term is so widely established and used:
-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.
Morning All,
Got less than 5 hours of sleep last night between our daughter being in the ER (dropped a can of paint on her already injured foot) and driving my son to class this morning. I used to handle that a lot better than I do now. We had ops night at the club last night and I ran a couple of coal drags using the BF-16's.
The deadbolt on the front door quit working last night (key part). I took it apart before leaving the house this morning but still couldn't get the key to turn so before returning home I stopped and picked up a new deadbolt. The family will be over around 6 PM. Today I would like to decal the cab numbers on my American 4-4-0.
Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes.
Hope everyone has a Good day and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good morning, Chloe. Coffee with my cinnamon roll. I will take the one that has the extra frosting on it.
Terry, We made flat car loads the the extra plastic wheel sets. A little glue and you have removable flat car loads.
The art show at the WWFair was huge. Today we plan to chill.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning. It's 73° and partly cloudy. The high will be 85°.I won't be doing much today as I'm light headed and somewhat dizzy and my back and chest are hurting. Throw a bit of confusion into the mix as well. Just some of the possible side effects of the meds I take everyday. Usually they don't bother me but some days, like today they make themselves known. They can cause worse side effects but fortunately they rarely appear. I think this would be a good day to turn off the phone and crawl back into bed. I hope everyone else has a good day.
Afternoon folks.
Flo, Diet Dew pleases.
Gang, sorry for the silly stuff I did yesterday. I was really down in the dumps and crawled in to a beer can. I am paying for it today! I woke up last night around 1:00 AM and could not fall back to sleep till 6:30 AM. When Sue got up, I went back to the bedroom and sleep till 10:00 AM.
While I feel like warmed up death, I am in a better frame of mind.
Just got the front yard cut, what a mess. I have sitting own now for only 20 minutes. Wife has all ready came out and asked when was i going to cut the back grass. Then i have to BBQ. Oh well.
Ken
Curt, happy belated
I hate Rust
Good afternoon everyone! I'm sorting through all of the detail parts that arrived with the HO layout donated to the museum. I never got the chance to see most of the locomotives or rolling stock since the family was allowed to pick through it first. This means that we will have to use our own locomotives and cars, but that's ok, we have a lot of extras we're currently not using anyway. My oldest son Shane and his friend took our brass BR&P steam whistle to a steam and gas engine meet yesterday, and they rigged it up to the steam line from an old tractor. Shane said it worked great and still has a terrific sound to it. I haven't heard it yet, but he has a nice video for me to see.
Ken, I know the feeling, sometimes a few beers are needed! I as well have to get mowing hopefully tomorrow, plus a lot of other things that aren't getting the attention that they did when dad was around. Now I have two cars to care for, something I haven't dealt with since I had to sell my old Corvette 8 years ago. Oh well, life goes on!
Have a good evening, all!
Stan
OK Flo, it is Beer thirty!
OK, got to go! Just sat down from cutting the backyard and Sue want's me to start cooking.
Looks like the red truck is at the warehouse to pick up a Barry-sized helping of pie!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have the NYS strip steak medium rare, a baked potato w/ Sour cream, and a trip to the salad bar. Thank you Ma'am... Oh. a nice tall glass of lemonade as well.
Had a great day out at the museum. Not a huge crowd but a very interested group of people, a lot of them with young children.
Ken, Jeffrey has a recipe for lemonade and hot sauce that is better than he says.... Probably better in a lot of ways! Glad you are in a better mood today even if you are not, ah, up to par.
Temperature here never reached 70F today. Currently 64° under sunny skies. We had a very light, brief shower out at the museum mid afternoon today. Going down to 50° tonight. I think Fall is approaching. The crab apple trees around the area have all already lost their leaves. They hot dry summer did them in for the season they say. They are predicting that the fall colors will not be great this year for the same reason.
Starting next week and for the rest of this season, we will be running diesels and cabooses every Sunday. If you are around, it is well worth the price of admission to visit us.
Take Care!
Good afternoon all!
Been a few years since I was here, lots of familiar faces I see,
Looks like not much has changed in the diner, cept the prices on the menu!
I'll be stopping by now more, to share a little chatter, and a little pie
That is, if Barry hasn't eaten it all . (Sorry Barry, Ray put me up to it )
Karl
NCE über alles!
howmusKen, Jeffrey has a recipe for lemonade and hot sauce that is better than he says.... Probably better in a lot of ways! Glad you are in a better mood today even if you are not, ah, up to par.
Up to par or the Bar? Far as my spirits, is nice and cold! My mood was OK today, still not a happy man but not looking for a rope and rafter either.
I know what has me down in the dumps so badly is the same thing that has Ulrich in the dumps.It is not so much the lack of money (being able to make the bills would be nice) But we uses to be somebody Not Just Another Brick In The Wall. I have never been rich, but till the last 4 years I could make the bills and have some money left for the Toys.
If I had know what hand life was going to deal me, I would not have bought all the toys. Well a few I would have still bought. Heck in 1985 I made $40,000 and it kept going up. When I bought the house 20 years ago my take home after tax's was $3650.00 a month.
Really sad thing? If I knew what was coming in the later years of my life I would not have bought all the toys and the house would have been paid off 8 years ago.
But we all know about hindsight don't we?
See you all later.
Good Evening...
What is all this PIE talk of which you speak about? I have not done anything worgn with my PIES....yet....
It was a sunny but cool day up here...and we did have a few friends show up for a backyard BBQ here...good day was had by all...of course...after all the basic gotta does were done...
Barry ... Vinnie says he would like to speak to you. I wonder why.
Karl ... Good to see you. Welcome to the Diner!
Ken ..... In the dumps? .... I think that happens to everybody sooner or later.... I take sanity breaks with the model trains, and that usually helps.
Stan ... I did send an email. A donated HO layout. Wow! ..Sounds like a big project going through everything.
Evening All,
Had a really nice supper of Swiss steak, Homemade Biscuits, Salad, and Blackberry Cobbler. The only MRR work I did today was re-decal the road numbers on my 4-4-0. Tomorrow I will probably start on my LCL terminal project.
Ken- Everybody needs a mental health day from time to time.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Heartland Division CB&QBarry ... Vinnie says he would like to speak to you. I wonder why.
Time for me to call it a night. Pain from this morning faded away as did the dizziness. The light headiness remained. So I didn't get much done today. See y'all tomorrow.
Heartland Division CB&Q Barry ... Vinnie says he would like to speak to you. I wonder why.
ppppffffffft.
He already spoke to me.
He needs to talk to you....
Janie just a decaf.... Ah, maybe a nice large slice of the fresh baked Peach Pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top too.... Thank you Ma'am!
Barry is that a crowbar wrapped around your head? Trying to creat a new style or just a friendly chat with Vinnie?
I have accomplished absolutely nothing tonight. And, it feels good! Did a bit of research (I guess you could call that something) on a couple projects, looked at a couple sites to see if they have the Details West railbars I am looking for in stock and they don't.
I am seriously considering getting one of the Botchmann Alco 2-6-0s for my fleet. Have been waiting for them to bring it out in a painted undecorated form. Botchmann says they don't sell. Of course they don't if you don't make one! Guess it ain't gonna happen, so I may get one that is DCC ready and try my hand at stripping off the roadnames and numbers and redecaling it for the SLOW. Have any of you stripped Bachmann steam locos? What did you use and how did it come out? Over at the Botchmann forum someone said to use solvaset and a pencil erasor.
Installer should back on my roof aeround 7AM tomorrow, so I think I will head out to bed early.
Hope you all have a good night. My prayers to all of you in need...
cudaken If I had know what hand life was going to deal me, I would not have bought all the toys. Well a few I would have still bought. Heck in 1985 I made $40,000 and it kept going up. When I bought the house 20 years ago my take home after tax's was $3650.00 a month. Really sad thing? If I knew what was coming in the later years of my life I would not have bought all the toys and the house would have been paid off 8 years ago. But we all know about hindsight don't we?
You are NOT alone, Ken. The problem is many of us fail to plan for the future. Until Middle age sets in, and we realize how far backwards we are and how bad the future may be.
I used to read Money magazine and other financial mags at the time I was in my 20's. had I planned and SAVED SAVED SAVED and invested well, I could have had a nice nest egg by now. But I didn't Follow the advice in those mags!!! {of course disclaimer: with the downfall of the market and the loss of money in investment and retirement vehicles of the last 5 years, I would have had more to loose!}
You are also not alone about take home pay either, many are making less than years ago when the economy was good. I will NOT make this a political thing, just that we shoulda/coulda/woulda done things differently. I see bad news ahead even further...
You can NOW DO something about the future from here on out.. Start saving for the future when you get into your apartment, save 10-20% of your Gross income come heaven or high water..{not that any income come by right means is Gross. LOL}. If they really are foreclosing on you, son'tmake any payments to save the money for apartment and moving expenses.
You are also not alone when you face the situation of loosing the house. ONe couple had A major bank foreclose on their house, AND THEY NEVER HAD A MORTAGE!!! ANd they were thrown out of their house, because the bank listed it as foreclosed!
The trailer we live in is 30 years old and needs roof repair, we need new skirting, thanks to that storm, we need new siding on the porch...we repalced the Furnace already last year, and the plumbing 10 years ago. Point is, it is now showing its age and is needing money we don't have. Its like a car with 150,000 miles on it,.. bound to need something and NOT cheap to repair!!!
People like me and Jeffrey make do as we can. MOH is only a parttime grocery store clerk, after all, and I am disabled...couldn't work if I wanted to. We are always broke...one reason I haven't had a hobby budget for going on 2 years now...and the reason I never got to expand my layout after I chopped it down to tracks only and packed everything up!
SO cheer up, start looking for an apartment, and saving for that and your future. You may want to buy another house when you can pay cash for it! Be greatful for the job you do have and change your outlook for that..many like Ulrich, have been unemplyed for a LONG time...
And I know you already know isn't the answer!
Prayers for those hwo need them!!!
It's Monday, September 10, 2012
NKP 2-8-4 (700 series) outside of Knox IN (1950s)