Elliot's Trackside Diner, October 2012

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Dennis: Now I know the guy you were talking about. Felix Baumgartner. He did that in 2010 didn't he? That was part of Red Bull's Stratus mission. Don't you just love these crazy people?

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

jeffrey-wimberly

Dennis: Now I know the guy you were talking about. Felix Baumgartner. He did that in 2010 didn't he? That was part of Red Bull's Stratus mission. Don't you just love these crazy people?

Ah, Jeffrey?  Little behind on the news today?  The record was made yesterday...  October 14, 2012.

http://www.weather.com/news/supersonic-skydiver-20120926

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

howmus

Ah, Jeffrey?  Little behind on the news today?  The record was made yesterday...  October 14, 2012.

OK. I was going on a date I found in a Google search. So much for Google having the right answers.

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

Back from supper with Mom and Dad. We ended up doing pizza.

Just finished watching Trains and Locomotives on the American 4-4-0. I found it very interesting.

I will try to post early tomorrow but if not,  talk to you on Friday.

Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.

[kbkchooch]

Evening all!

1st day back and I must say,,the feets feel fine!. Still,,whats all this shoe talk?? Did everybody look down all at once??

Other than that,,it was just another manic Monday on the work front> Mondays are extra long for us (7 to 7)

kinda precludes any train time by the time you get home, eat and unwind, but oh well, there's always tomorrow!!!

Curt, glad to hear your buddy is improving, gotta trot, MOH is calling!

Cya!!

 

[blownout cylinder]

jeffrey-wimberly

howmus

Ah, Jeffrey?  Little behind on the news today?  The record was made yesterday...  October 14, 2012.

OK. I was going on a date I found in a Google search. So much for Google having the right answers.

You went on a date?  Isn't that kind of off limits for you? J/K!! J/K!!!

Good Evening...

Felix Baumgartner has achieved some notice for some other things as well...they call him an 'extreme athlete'...and I for one applaud his abilities...then again, you're talking to a guy who went on a mountain bike excursion,,,in the dark, mind...and went over a 75 meter cliff....and still survived....

I've been cogitating my layout...yep...again....the problem appears to be in the peninsula/blob area...I need to get something to split the blob such that it will allow me to continue the run around it to terminate...properly at Williston....so I be stuck for now....ecgh....

[JimRCGMO]

Good Evening Diners, Chloe - Chloe, I'll have a hot fudge sundae and a Santa Fe mug of coffee, please. Thank you!

I've been away from the Diner for a while, but last Thursday (despite a couple of **glitches**) I got the Charter installer in and he connected my apartment. YAY! That is nice, having a reliably fast connection at home again.

I see we have some new Diners in the place. to all of you (& we have Diners with RR's all the way from Z scale to 1:1 scalers, in here), and I'll buy you each a beverage of your choice. (But this applies to new folks, not the long-time-in-here chowhounds that we all know & love...)

Oh, and our servers in here (all the best virtual food and beverages you can put away) include Zoe & Chloe (the twins - Bill T. has posted some sketches of them, I believe, somewhere here), their cousin Vinnie (you do NOT want to have to explain to Vinnie why you are a month overdue in paying your tab here...) helps out and keeps the parties in line that occasionally get thrown in here. Then there are our weekend and holiday serving helpers, Flo, Janie and - what's the new gal's name, Galaxy? They help Zoe and Chloe to take a day/evening off every so often.

Also, If you hit the Top Of Page (aka TOP) when you post, you get to pay the (virtual) tab, and you can leave your card with the twins to cover it, or if you're short on cash, you can wash dishes in the kitchen to whittle down your tab. At the end of each month, the Diner gets moved to a new location somewhere down the tracks, and we get new scenery to look at out the windows. There are a couple or so Diners who catch a nap in one of the back booths (like Duke - if you mention BERKSHIRES, you might see him wake for a little bit...). Hope that fills in a spot or two for you new Diners!

Looks like we've been talking shoes lately, eh (in addition to various things/folks who drop out of the sky...)? I have difficulty finding tennies that fit (being as I wear size 12's - not quite as bad as my brother's size 15's...) and hold up for more than 3-6 months. Even with buying a reasonably-know brand (not the big name, big ticket ones that go into triple digits, however) Of course, I'm glad that (so far, at least) I don't require any custom ones like you have Jeff - OUCH!

I did get a few MRR things in last Saturday - some figures (the Bachmann ones I'm not that impressed with, likely will repaint them), a Rexall drugstore electronic sign, some detail parts, and (bought from a former MRR club member I know) the Walthers ('old', non-modern) roundhouse. I went with it so the tracks would line up properly with the Walthers turntable kit (once I get THAT assembled). I think the roundhouse looks pretty plain, so I will be figuring how to add some annex or other buildings to it to break up that regular line of the outside walls... Also want to find a way to make the internal supports look more like wood than brown plastic. Now, where did I see the photos I saved of Ray's enginehouse?

Have been emailing back-and-forth with Garry for tips on what to avoid if I install a decoder in my Bachmann Spectrum 44-tonner; Have to go home tonight and see if I have the internal stuff that he did. If so, I may be selling it off and getting something else...(hopefully that won't be needed).

Galaxy, good to see you back again in here! Missed you while you were gone. Did you get things with your furnace taken care of (I hope)?

Ulrich, nice new module (or is that just a rew**k of one you showed previously? I think if there are any objectionable words on those buildings, eventually someone will point it out for us/you. Where's Chuck? Maybe he can read them.

Oh, a couple/three evenings I didn't get into the Diner because I was checking out how my St. Louis Cardinals have been doing... (pretty well, but then again, it is the playoffs, when they tend to wake back up..)

Tonight before heading over here, I hooked up my iMac (hasn't been hooked up for a while) to the broadband, downloaded some updates, and in the process found that the old 24-incher has some kind of graphics problem - I suspect the graphics processing unit may have got cooked along the same time as the original internal hard drive was. So I may donate it to a local guy who has w**ked on some other electronics gear that I've had in the past (stereo, 17" Trinitron monitor...) and let him fix it up for himself or someone else. After that, I may just get an external LCD/LED widescreen monitor to hook up to my laptop. That, or get a Mac Mini (used) and the monitor.

Jeremy, I hope you get the full-time job first , so you can cover more/all of the bills. Then keep your eye out for a better full-time job (w**ks for me...).

PA Tom (tcwright), that is one odd consist on that train you saw! They weren't old slugs heading for the scrap dealer, were they?

Oh, Jeff, I saw a bit back here that you were talking about a nibbler - I know Micro-Mark carries them (and others may, as well). (I see Bob/Seamonster beat me to that). I've never tried one of those nibblers, so can't speak to how easy/hard they are to use. Hey, when did you start DJ'ing for the neighborhood block parties, by the way?

Curt, you might check out Tom Stage's (tstage in the forums) website - I believe he has how to make (simply & affordably, if I recall correctly) light poles for exterior RR yard/roundhouse areas. His is one site I've saved some pages from for future inspiration. Thanks for your skunk photos - I'd never known there were all-white ones - cool! And hey there! Careful about using that 'W' word in the DIner (w*rk...). You'll rile up some of us Diners...

SaronaTerry - thanks again for posting some of your photos! More! More!

Aw, rats, Paul! I missed Navy Day? (former PN3 here...)

W**k was better today - only had three people that I saw (co-w**ker saw about the same), my intake (think, lots of w**k/writing...) didn't show up , and I got the backlog of paperw**k from the tail end of last week caught up. (Now, if I could get a day like that tomorrow, I could get my two intakes done and get doctor's appointments for those people...)

Oh yeah, I decided to try eHarmony again... (Last time I was with them, they matched me up with 2 different gals I already knew from church, but who I didn't connect much at all with). We'll see how it goes this time. (Galaxy, light a candle for me - and the ladies - please).

About time for me to head for home. Prayers for those job-hunting, in need of healing or comfort (or a good night's rest).

Blessings,

Jim in Cape G.

[tcwright973]

Jim - No, I don't think any of them are all that long out of rebuild. In fact, the paint looked really good. If  they weren't recently out of the paint shop, someone gave them a really good wash. That's the second time in about a year that I've seen a consist like that.   Tom

[GMTRacing]

Good Evening All,

   Good to see Jim stopped in. It's always an interesting read, no?  60 this morning and the same this evening but rainy. Got home and spent some time on the layout. Tedious it is making and installing the drops for the bus. Must have gotten lazy when putting in the track and left a bunch of drops undone. Drill 1/8" hole, Strip end of 22ga wire, tin and install on rail joiner. Clean joint add flux and solder joiner and wire. Stuff wire through 1/8" hole and cut to length. Repeat. Also need to finalize plan for power districts. Thinking now is one for upper (main line) level, one for lower level, one for main yard, and one reversing section. Catch y'all later, J.R. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Got more work done on the elevator gallery today. I put several strips of plastic in the bottom to give it some rigidity as well as to support the cut down loco body that would be put in to give it some weight. The aforementioned loco body was glued in then a card stock roof was cut, folded and installed.







Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[Burlington Northern #24]

welp looks like this page's on me with a nice generous tip from one restaurant worker to another. The layouts giving me some issues my newly MTL equipped RS1 is giving me issues but, I put up 2 signals.

[CNCharlie]

Good Evening Diners,

Well it certainly has been busy in here lately.

All this talk of shoes, and only lasting a year?  Not sure what some do but sounds like a lot of standing, running around on concrete. I get about 10 years out of a pair of dress shoes, largely because I get to sit a desk most of the day but that isn't as great as you might think at times. Still as TA462 says, 'it pays the bills' but I won't be retiring any time soon despite collecting Old Age Security in December as we have a couple of trips we want to take. Speaking of that we met with our travel agent on Saturday to finalize a few details of our next big adventure next year. I'm really looking forward to the Rovos Rail part even though it is only 2 days. They used to use their steam locos for the whole trip but now only for a few miles out of the station and then switch to diesel as the steam service facilities on the route have largely been removed.

Went to the local train show here on Sunday but I didn't buy a thing. Not much I wanted and most tables were way over priced. I can get new for less at Kleins.

Galaxy, if you want to put in a different security provider, it is very easy to do. Just go to Control Panel and look for Uninstall a program or pull up the list of programs and do a right click to find ' Uninstall' . I use a free Micorsoft security program that was recommended to me when we bought our last computer a year ago. Just search Micorsoft Security Essentials and you can download it off the net. It was recommended by a young computer salesman at the University computer store and the staff there are largely computer science students who really know their stuff. I have Windows 7.

Someone, I think it was Tom, made a comment on small businesses disappearing. That is certainly a trend that has been going on for the past 30 years especially in small towns. The companies I have worked for supply stores largely in small towns and it is amazing the number that have closed largely because of outshopping to larger centres, better roads and vehicles, plus people in small towns are exposed to a lot more 'big city' stores via TV, internet, etc. and so they want the selection and prices only stores in large centres can provide.  Also there has been a general decline in rural populations as farms have gotten larger.

Well time to call it a night.

CN Charlie

 

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

Chloe, just a refill on the decaf, please...

I just reloaded wood into the stove, so i thought I would stop by while it gets going.  After I post I will shut the damper, and head for bed.

Had a chat with a lady in the business office at the very big Medical Group in town.  She verified that my Doctors Appt. from last November was refused by Medicare for several reasons.  The first time it was sent in under my wife's SS number as I was on her Social Security at the time.  I was in the process of getting a new card when I had the appointment.  They refused to pay it as I was no longer covered on that number by the time they got the claim.  The medical group sent in a new claim using the correct # and they wouldn't pay because the new # wasn't in effect when the appt. happened (date).  They refiled one more time explaining the whole thing and it came back I wasn't covered for that because I wasn't yet 65....  They did however pay for my Flu shot at the same appointment. (go figure).  They tried to bill my old retiree insurance I had from the school and it was turned down because i no longer have that policy...   My part xyz insurance I have now through the school wouldn't pay anything because they don't pay unless the claim is OKed by Medicare!  So I wrote a check for it today and put it in the mail.  They did tell me that my appointment last May has been paid and that there should be no problem with my upcoming appointment.

Got a few things done today that have been hanging over my head for several weeks, like cleaning the 20 gal. aquarium in the living room.  It was way over due...  I had been putting it off in part because I didn't have any more filters to use in it.  I found we have a country farm store that also sells pets and pet supplies.  There is one North of Canandaigua my sister likes, but I found there is also one near Waterloo.  They had what I needed in stock and at a good price.  I bet my poor old fish (2 of them) that are all I have left wonder what happened today!  Brought the shop vac upstairs and vacuumed up the mess on the kitchen floor.

I did get down to the train room today.  I noticed that the mouse trap I had set down there was sprung but didn't have a prize....  It has been re-baited and set and put in a likely place.  I shall check it tomorrow morning.  Got a bit of stuff done on the corner scenery I am currently doing.  Should have it ready to install on the layout by the end of the week I hope.

I guess I will head to the back booth and catch some   Prayers for all in need!

73

[cudaken]

 Evening?

 Flo, what do you mean I don't have a reservation? It's me Ken! Take a number? So I wait for the pager to go off, then I can have a seat?

 Well, can I have a while I stand in the freight yard? Thank you Flo!

 Well, it was a late night, I got out of the shop around 9:48 PM and got home at 10:15PM. This might be a good week, I am at $166.00 in commission's and have 2 days to go.

 

galaxy

Ken, I think I now know WHY my vehicle repair bills are so high.. Your high commissions!!!

No wonder customers feel RIPPED OFF...because they arfe getting fleeced to pad someone's commission bonus check! TSK TSK..

  Galaxy, was that comment Tongue In Check or where you serious? If you where serious, I have to have around $10,000 in sales to make $200.00? When I sold mattress I could make $360.00 off a $2000.00 Queen set. (Kingsdown handmade with 20 year warranty and yes I have one) If you bought a $100.00 tire from me, I make a dollar. If you bought a 1 time alignment from me, I make a dollar. If you bought a 3 year alignment plan (as many alignments you may as you want) that is $155.00, I make a whole $5.00. Yea someone is getting rich, but it is not me! 

 Shoes, boy you talk about spending to little on a good pair. Cheap $30.00 Dr Scholls with inserts put me in the Hospital for 6 days and out of work for 5 weeks. Yea, I was Jellin my self into the Hospital! Before the ones I have now, the last good pair cost the Insurances Company $500.00 say 15 years ago. Current pair I am guessing would be around $700.00 as well. US Tax Payers are paying for them, I am a Vet. Galaxy, get good shoes!

 Record Breaking Jump, no thank you!  No way was I qualified to make a Halo Jump! Put, if you want to grow some hair in places I cannot say in a family dinner, make a jump at 600 feet! You either make it, or go splat and become a Bouncer! (chute did not deploy right) No reason to have a reserve, you don't have time to deploy it. 

 Jump Boots, man I miss my Corcoan's not sure what really happened to them. At this point in life (and feet) I am sure I would loses both feet if I still had them.

 Cuda Ken

 

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning! from Tipton IN.

It's Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Interurban Depot/Freight House, Tipton IN

TIPTON IN

[cudaken]

 Finally got a seat!

 So where is everybody?

 Flo, save me a seat Wednesday OK?

     Happy Wednesday I think?

 Ken

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning...

Gonna have a bit o' sun and clouds and be a little warmer today...high of...tada!!...53F is forecast here!!

Today is getting a little bit of paperwork done for work day then it is off to LHS to see about a couple of new locos that came in....Fred has been looking again...

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Well...I prefer Terra Firma myself.....I am thoroughly convinced that if we were meant to go leaping out of planes and other such paraphernalia we should have wings thankee very much....

[galaxy]

*grumble* *grumble* I slept in late

Toto, follow the Yellow brick road to the diner!

Morning Coffee in the Diner

GOOD MORNING!!!

MUST do some shopping at Wally World

Later guys And Sue

 

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

   48F and sunny this morning. Catching up paperwork in the shop today so I can lurk now and again. The month is half gone already, where does the time go?     CUL, J.R.

[LSWrr]

Good Morning all,

 

49F, Hi today 57F, Low 47F

 I’ve been invited to an “invitation only” MRR sale tonight.

 

CN Charlie, I hate to say it but some of the small stores in the small towns need to evolve with the market.  One of the LHS has started selling online and it saved their business.

 

GMT, I put a drop in every 3 feet on my layout and extras around some of the turnouts where I knew there might be trouble.  I need to break it down into power districts with a switch to isolate ground faults.

 

Shoes, I like new balance, but I don’t like the price.  I found most of the high end running shoe manufactures sell off previous year’s models online dirt cheap.

 

TA462, due to a military related injury I have to wear custom full foot orthotics. Not counting the exam, adjustment, casting, and fitting my inserts cost $350/foot 4 years ago, that’s feets not every 12”. I’m not as bad off as some people but I have to wear work boots as much as possible to keep everything in alignment.  I’m still waiting on the VA to process my claim to help cover foot care….

 

So, last night I cast my absentee ballot and I would like to know what in the heck my town is thinking.  The county reappraised everyone’s house, decreasing the value by up to 50%, now the city wants an emergency 15 mil tax levy with the option to exceed the maximum 10 mil levy limit to support the schools.  They also want to build a fishing pier with a 5 mil levy and they say they need another 2 mil levy to improve the sewer system in town.  We just had a huge school levy pass 2 years ago and built all new energy efficient elementary schools.  They don’t understand that this will take away from model RR funds….  My house value continues to decrease and my taxes continue to increase…..

[JohnReid]

Good morning all ! Summer is definitely over in this part of the GWN.It doesn't matter to me much as it is always nice and warm in the shop.Since the age of 60 twelve years ago I have been concentrating on static layouts (dioramas),before that it was mostly model ship building and decorative bird sculpture going back to 1973.It is only with this present model that I am retuning to my youth of railroading and my much loved American Flyer.My first train set goes back to around 1945 but I now forget what it was, probably a Lionel.With my present project I have come full circle back to my first love and memories of days long gone by....I hope that I am not boring you guys with all this talk about myself but I just thought that you might like to know. Cheers ! John.

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a couple egg and cheese burritos please. Thanks.

Wow. Welcome to all the new guys.

Shoes? Can’t wear tennis shoes much anymore. That's ok cause most times I shouldn’t be wearing them anyway. I usually wear cowboy boots though I’m not a cowboy, similar to those who wear running shoes and don’t necessarily run. I’m going on 10 years for one pair, about 8 for the other pair. Can’t really state for my dress pair as they only get worn once in a blue moon. Only thing that really wears out is the soles and I take them in to the shoe guy in Springfield and he resoles em. Needs it about once a year so I guess that works out to I’ve spent between the two, oh say…, 7-800 dollars for two $125-$150 pair of boots. For winter I have a pair of Wolverines. More comfortable to me and less expensive than Red Wings. Last pair lasted about 8 or 9 years. Just replaced them last year with a new pair. They have that soft rubber shock sole and I don’t think you can replace them. Never asked. The leather was pulling off the sole and the stitching on the heal had already been re-done once a few years back plus the soles were getting flat like I said so we’ll see how long these last. But like I said, I only wear them when the winter comes. Warmer and less slick dontcha know.

Lee -Wait til the housing increases and your taxes again do as well. It won’t be their fault though because, well your property values due to the raise in maarket did it. Not them. But don’t think they aren’t thinking about that now. Basically, they are increasing revenues for the future today.

Like Ray I be a cleaning up this place and doin laundry. Yes still doing laundry. Just as a note, in three days she has, among other things, MANY other things,generated 4 dirty sweatshirts. Out of those three days, Sunday she did not wear a sweatshirt. I have never seen a person generate that much laundry so quickly. Now I know where the kids get it from. I’ve done laundry a lot, just not sat down and tried to get all the un done laundry, done. Now I see it’s an impossibility. We need a maid. Hmmmm. Wonder what kinda deal I can work out with the Chinese waitresses.

OH calm down Zoe! I’m just kidding!  

Ya’ll have a good day!!!!

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon!

Just woke up from a midday nap. I did not sleep that well last night, so I was bone tired after lunch. That infection I caught is still in my bones.

Janie, strong coffee, please, I need to get my eyes open. And while you are at it, how about a slice of that apple pie, topped with vanilla ice cream? Thank you, dear!

I will give those two new modules a test run in a few moments, just to see if everything works properly. It´s also time to clear up the shelf the layout is stored on - I won´t be needing all the building materials for a while. Need to find a big box to pack that stuff up and take it upstairs into the attic.

Lee - never heard of an American-German day. Is that the Wurst Festival in New Braunfels, TX? I know that there are about 60 million German descendants living in the US, which is an awful lot (like the double meaning of that).

Jim - no, these are two new modules, depicting a passing siding with a platform between the tracks - see below plan:

Well, that´s all from me for moment!

TTFN

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good morning .....

German-American Day? ..... Where's the strudel? ..... 

Actually, Shelley is of German descent. Same with the "outlaws" currently visiting here. 

John R ....... I like the picture you posted yesterday. You mentioned American Flyer. My good friend in norther Illinois has lots of it. I think he has at least one of nearly everything ever produced by American Flyer. He tries to have 2 of everything, and may have several of certain locomotives and cars. We grew up togethr. I had Lionel and he had American Flyer. 

Anybody else here grow up with AMerican Flyer or Lionel. 

Ulrich. You may be interested my first HO was some Fleischmann trains my Dad brought back to me as he returned from a business trip in Germany. 

How many people here remember their first train? 

Cheers. 

[Anonymous]

Garry - I do quite well! It was Christmas 1963, when I got my first train set. Marklin, of course, as my father had a Marklin OO set 30 years earlier! Together with the train set came a Faller kit of a small station building, which I still have. I really wonder how it survived those nearly 49 years! It was also my first kit I assembled.

Test run completed - all systems work properly. I had to tinker around with the switches, though. Despite all care, some glue must have sneaked into the delicate parts of them. A clean-up with a toothpick took care of that.

When model railways grow up:

watch?v=6VAuPPufNro&feature=playerpopout

Enjoy watching!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Heartland Division CB&Q

Anybody else here grow up with AMerican Flyer or Lionel. 

My second electric train was a Lionel Double Diesel set I got for Christmas in 1965. My last O Scale set. The first was a Marx O Scale set I got in 1964.

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Good morning. It's 56° with 87% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a high of 82°.


If it wasn't for the clouds it'd be a nice day today. Only plans for today are get a coat of paint on the elevator gallery structure. As for the windows that are on such a structure I believe I'll paint those on as well. Cutting holes in it would only reveal the loco shell inside. Now as for plans others may have for my time, that I have little control over.

[galaxy]

Well

Been to wally world. Gotta go back as the cashier just scanned the top 3 pack of 5 3 packs of tissues. It was aPuffs 3 pack at $5, the others were Great Value {WW brand} at $3. SO I was over charged by about $8.00.

Went to ALDIs too. picked a hefty bag of stuff for $30 there.. better than the money I spend at MOH's store for less! {twice as much money half as much food!

Went to the pharmacy too. Picked up scritps and stuff.

So Now my left hip is screaming at me and my left knee isn't happy either. THAT the Drs will say "loose weight and it'll feel better"!!!

Hey...anybody tried the LASER fat reduction program? If so how was it? price and results? MOH say not to trust it, but I can't very well exercise much so I am left with alternatives!

I guess i go take a nap now.

[galaxy]

LSWrr

So, last night I cast my absentee ballot and I would like to know what in the heck my town is thinking.  The county reappraised everyone’s house, decreasing the value by up to 50%, now the city wants an emergency 15 mil tax levy with the option to exceed the maximum 10 mil levy limit to support the schools.  They also want to build a fishing pier with a 5 mil levy and they say they need another 2 mil levy to improve the sewer system in town.  We just had a huge school levy pass 2 years ago and built all new energy efficient elementary schools.  They don’t understand that this will take away from model RR funds….  My house value continues to decrease and my taxes continue to increase…..

 

Around here a town will have its taxes increase majorly as a larger business concern got its property tax burden cut by Millions of dollars. The taxes on the average house on a tiny city . 2 acre lot {yes POINT 2 acres} is about $5K a year...it will go up to about $6k a year next! Another manufacturing company is trying to get into that town and will undoubtedly want a break in taxes too. It is moving form one town to another in the area, so no jobs lost for the area, and I don't think they plan to add any.

 

Also a Major health care system built a huge new complex in another town near here, and they are trying to claim "non profit" status and cash in on no taxes!!! {if only health care was "non profit" maybe it wouldn't cost so much!}

 

Businesses around here are trying to avoid any taxes they can and burden the people who live here with more as it does cost the towns something to have businesses located in a town.

 

[chochowillie]

Time flies don't cha know when ya get more ahem   more mature . Flo, just a decaf this morning please and thank you. Don't want the hands to shake today, have to do some window trim in the sun room this Morning.

Have a good one folks!

CDN Dennis

[Burlington Northern #24]

good morning, everybody.

I remember y first set it was an HO scale bachmann set diesel flyer I think an F7, boxcar, hopper, caboose. unfortunately it's in a state of disrepair. 

welp, this page's on me

excuse me miss, could I please have the 5 piece french toast, with a side of bacon and sausage links. 

What to drink? hmmmmm... just a glass of root beer please.

thank you.