I got new horns mounted on quite a few locos today. I put the FP7's back on the display rack and brought out the GP9's. They should get a good run tomorrow. Sometime tomorrow I'll bring out my rebuilt C420 and see if I can speed match it to the GP9's. It has a DZ125 so that should be a snap.Time to call it a night. 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
Evening guys
I got all but one of my thrall coal gondolas back together after striping them. The one I don't have together is missing the end ladders. I wonder if anyone here has a spare MDC Thrall gon laying around?
Ken, box arrived today. Never heard back from you on the B&O coal hopper?
Garry, mine was only shells. I'm taking the sills from the HH GP20s and using them under some GPs I'm building. The HH GP20 has the wells with the extra steps that most (if not all) the BN GPs wound up with
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please. Make that a keg with a straw!
Was Not A Good Day To Be Cuda Ken! When I got to work at 9:01 AM, Evil Tyler (store manager) was there to greet me! He has two modes Help Full Tyler, and Evil Tyler. Boy he was in overdrive Evil mode! First he got in my butt about was deserved. Store has a standing order on BFG 245/50/18 tires so I took a deposit for 1 tire. What I did not do was check to see if our warehouse had them in stock, they did not so none was coming on the truck Friday. So I deserved that butt ripping! (I knew there where some in town as well so we have the tire)
OK, I had that one coming and I will take a chewing out when I should. But the rest of the stuff was just plain stupid stuff! At one point I was just about ready to walk out, but if I did he won and I lost (But Not Much) so I just smiled and keep taking the BS.
Oh, reason Evil Tyler was at work today? Had a problem Van with a odd over heating problem. (Evil Tyler all wise shows up when there is a problem) It took 40 minutes to over heat rather sitting or moving. They did all the normal things, and it kept over heating.
After 2 days we could not fix the problem, so Tyler told them he was refunding the $500.00 and they should take it to the dealership. After that Evil Tyler was gone! He also asked them to let him know what was wrong with the Van. Hum, I told him 3 times but what does poor old Cuda Ken know? Van had 195,000 miles on it and still the original stainless steel exhaust and cat. I told Tyler sounds like a clogged cat, told me it was not!
They took it to the dealership and called back just after Good Tyler left for the day. Want to take a guess to what was wrong? Yep, the catalytic converter was clogged up and causing the over heating! Boy I am going to have a field day with that Friday!
Train Front Got the shipping cost on 11 the engines, like $16.00? But Rich and I live in the same state so that helped a lot I guess. Cost me $3.50 to send real small box to Vince's.
Well I am beat, see you all later.
Ken
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I hate Rust
galaxyJeffrey -some of the stuff you eat would give me the heartburn and "the wind" something fierce!!!
Hi Guys
Its Thursday so the work week is over for me ( I work 6am-4pm Monday to Thursday ) and its a real long weekend with Monday being a holiday. I plan on starting early tomorrow with house work at 7am and hope to be outside in the garden by 9-9:30. I am also going to clean the windows outside as well. With any luck I will finish it all tomorrow afternoon and get the rest of the weekend to relax. I am also going to head to the workbench to continuing weathering a gondola, probably have close to 4 hours so far into the thing.
Well
They did measure the glasses as right for lenses {i didn't really dispute that} but they did agree maybe a manufacturing defect. so they ordered a whole new pair...and they came out with the same script a second time as the one form the other day. Could it be my dry eye syndrome only? They are better than my old script at the computer if they didn't make the screen look "wonky". They also changed to a different type of lense.
Jeffrey -some of the stuff you eat would give me the heartburn and "the wind" something fierce!!!
Well, soon for beddy-poos with the cat snuggled next to me.Hehad his treats today already.
Got MOH's check the second little one.
OH- OH OH- JOB! if one more step MOH passes {will} ..MOH will also have a new Part time on call job that MOH was wanting!! at a higher pay rate than at the grocery store..now to see if the two jobs can work together until MOH can get more hours!
S o soon we celebrate!
-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.
I was busy today cutting out 'KEEP OFF!' labels. Most of the labels are 7/16" long and 3/32" high. I cut out 200+ of them. My order of three packs of Athearn geep horns came in so I now have eighteen horns to put on the locos I have that have no horns or the horns are broken. That should keep me busy for a little while. I went down to my fathers place and we chowed down on pinto beans, green beans, corn bread and jalapeno peppers.
hey guys, I'm tired and the railroad of the week on the N scale. org FB page is Pennsy so here's the one piece I own.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Well, erm
JAKE- oooooohhh senior trip to Vestal, oooohhh big deal! I live here not so fascinating to me.But it is your Senior trip, I know, I know.
A the Sam's club in Vestal is where my peeper will get exchanged. She tried to tell e they were correct, but I say different. Will need a look-see by the Dr. I told her,,so she did that. Will see him again.
You know, no WONDER the USPS is going broke! This is not to bash them though it will sound that way. I ordered X product. It left Michigan on the 9th. It stayed 2 days in Indiana, then it spent 2 days in NJ, then it moved across the border to Philly, where it has remained for 2 days AFTER being a day in the mail nether regions for an extra day...now it is who knows where..but it ain;t here yet. SO I could have driven to Mi in 8 hours, to Indiana in 8, to NJ in about 4, and Philly in 4, now where? maybe Syracuse or Rochester NY? I could drive there in 1.2 and 3 respectively. Here it is 7 dyas later, adn how many moves? no WOnder the USPS is losing money. I can have a product ordered from Hawaii in just 2 days , one if I order here at 9 am and they ship it 3 pm their time same day!...SO 5 liocations for my package form Michingan? what aobut diorect form detroit to Syracuse? there IS a flight like that I know!
away.
Well, erm got Merrygolds for the front planter..after we dropped off the old rims for collection day. Go aobut 5 varieties adn fertilizer for the hibiscuses...
well. erm off to do a few other things..
later
EDIT: HEY, I got top again!!! the stars are in alignment for me! Eat up..Daisy this will go on my Disney Credit Card...
Morning All,
Currently 58 with an expected high of 68 and afternoon thunder showers, not thunder storms. We do not get a lot of precipitation here in Nevada. Interesting fact about Nevada, it is the driest and most mountainous state in the Continental US. Who would have thunk it.
Mid day shift today, but a short road trip this afternoon to see about buying a gun collection from a woman who lost her husband a week after I lost my wife. So we have a few things in common.
Did a bit of w**k on the layout yesterday, and took the rest of the rolling stock out of the boxes and got them on the layout.
My old neighborhood in Brooklyn has changed a lot, but the one on Long Island stayed pretty much the same.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of organic Maple nut Crunch cereal with blueberries on it and my dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug, please.
The big yellow thingie is up in the sky this morning and it is already 72°F out there with my office/dining room area at 74°F due to the brightness coming in the windows and warming the place. The predicted high is only 71°F so they missed it again. Yesterday was supposed to be 73° and made it to 82°.... I shall be opening the windows to see if I will be comfortable without kicking on the new toy... (air conditioner). I bet the little wheel is spinning pretty good down cellar!
Hang in there Ulrich... The world appears to be full of loonies... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Nq3xuHkgE
JaBear, glad I learned to read Australian back in elementary school. Didn't even have to stand on my head to interpret.... Used to really tick off the teachers when they called on me to read and I was holding the book upside down....
Have a long list to get done again today... best get myself started.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning!!!
HEY!!! There’s a fungus among us!!!! Oh I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop myself in time..
Coffee and….large breakfast burrito please with extra salsa on top thank you.
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81.
Jim- No I didn’t give them anything back. Although with my luck and my wife I'm kinda surprised. Actually I gave them the machine because well, they we’re friends and I didn’t want it and….nothing exits house faster than free right? Problem is…was..., is, I said very clearly….no give backs. Not loaning it, not mine anymore. Yours. Forever. Unless you get rid of it to someone else. Feel free to do so at any time because it’s YOURS! Well!...... Guess I misunderstood the word “ok”.
Hm….looks like the Australian translation program is down this morning.
Ulrich- oh there are extremists in all parties and there are people looking for parties to voice their ideas even if that means trying to change one party to their way of thinking. Sounds bad I know but, that’s the way the system was intended. Stand your ground and through solidarity and strength, those will move on or form a party themselves. Then you have the infiltrators from other parties to spy and disrupt the "enemy".... Ah democracy. Still the best (gulp) system scary as it is.
Like Ray I shall mow my yard this morning as I planned yesterday. Turns out figuring out a weight machines reconstruction (Brenda decided she could use it to fight the spreading of herself over a larger area than when she was younger ) is a much longer task than I imagined without an instruction manual for the routing of cables and the mounting of pulleys. Then, I need to clean out/straighten up the shed. Seems to have had a bomb go off in there. Then of course w**k this evening. There was something ellllse too….oh yes I need to get another gallon of paint for Brenda because she has painted two walls in the bedroom. Spring cleaning started in the bedroom you see, with the moving of her dresser from the wall and the bed. Actually with the removal of 30 years of Car Craft magazines from a shelf unit in the closet if the truth be known. Somewhere in there she decided to paint those walls with what was left over from the master bath. Needless to say…..
Spring cleaning. Does it make sense to clean your house from top to bottom, with the windows open and the farmers in the fields etc etc. Seems to me you would wait til the weather was such that you closed the windows for the AC time and then the house would stay cleaner. Just a thought
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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 66° with 100% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a small chance of rain. The high will be 82°.Running the GP7's, GP35 and slug this morning. Not doing anything kind of operations, just letting them run. I may be busy later cutting out some of the 'KEEP OFF!' labels I printed yesterday. Yesterday was very busy. I hope that doesn't hold true for today.The word for today is anagalisgi. It translates to 'electric'.
JimRCGMO Mr. Beasley, I'm impressed - you're a goalie? And do you still have all (okay, most) of your teeth? (Man I'd love to be able to say I lost that much weight!)]bow]
Mr. Beasley, I'm impressed - you're a goalie? And do you still have all (okay, most) of your teeth? (Man I'd love to be able to say I lost that much weight!)]bow]
The days of Gump Worsley, who never wore a mask and looked it, are long gone. I've played my whole hockey career with a mask, save for one game when I forgot it. It was a pickup game back in college, and I still remember it. It wasn't the pucks as much as the sticks and skates when I was down on the ice that were really scary. As for the teeth, well, the dentist has taken his toll on them. When I see those "invest in gold" ads on TV, I laugh at how much of the stuff is in my mouth and how little is in my portfolio.
We may well hit 80 degrees here under sunny skies, after a couple of near-frosts earlier in the week. New England weather is always wacky, but springtime brings the wildest temperature swings.
Today is my LHS day. Gerry orders over the weekend, Walthers ships on Monday and it arrives in the shop on Thursday. I've got a couple of Milwaukee boxcars, outfitted with grain doors, coming in, along with enough new trucks to replace the old plastic-wheel Tycos on my old Mantua operating hopper cars. These cars have stiff metal trucks, and I can't get them apart to change the wheelsets, so I'll have to do the complete trucks to upgrade.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning.
Will be going on Senior Day Trip to Vestal today. Feeling sorta tired, so I may just sleep on the bus.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
5/16/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Sir MadogDid I forget to mention our friends from Down under? Shame on me!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Aloha, kakahiaka ka'ahi ka'naka {good morning train men}
Morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, May 16th, 2013!!!
The month is now over half over officially! June, she's a-commin'!
I will light the prayer candles at 9 AM for those in need with an extra one for Gary's Oma, and one for Garry's friiend Gus and one more special one for I forgot who, but I lit the extra candle.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
hmmmmmm.... I'mma it the sleeper car.
Good Morning Folks!
I am a little sleepy this morning, as I was not home before 1am and could not find any sleep before 4am...
Did I forget to mention our friends from Down under? Shame on me! But I should also include all the folks from the rest of the wold, who share our joy of being a model railroader. The latest addition is a chap from France, who posted pictures and videos of his amazing, yet simple N scale layout (only in terms of track plan) in the "Layouts" section of this forum.
Politics surely is a "doiteee" business. Ken has the right hunch, most of the mudslinging comes from folks inside the party! One should think that we are united under one big goal, but I had to learn, that this isn´t necessarily so. Politics seems to attract all the psychos and maniacs of this world, seeking a platform to voice their shrewd views. Disgusting! I don´t shun a decent battle with our political adversaries, but being hit by friendly fire from the back on a very personal level I don´t take well.
Some time ago, I did a Google Maps search on all the places I have lived in. All of the places are still there, but their surroundings have changed dramatically of those nearly 6 decades. Most notable is the change to what was once called the town of Winslow on Bainbridge Island, Wa. It was not much more than just a Main Street with a few shops, banks, a post office and a church when I was there in 1973/1974. It must have grown tenfold in those 40 Years! Lots of new streets, buildings, etc. - hard to find my way around now. The old high school building, where I spent my year as a senior, is still there, but is now surrounded by a lot of new buildings. Gone is the pasture we used to keep our horses on during the day... those days were the good ole´ days, way back when...
Well, I have to go back to "work" - plenty of party work ahead of me.
CUL Folks & have a good one!
Good evening.
Ken and Vincent .... Wow. You guys have acquired a lot of engines in a short period of time.
Jeff ..... Thanks again for the info about Cherokee language. I think it would be constructive if schools taught it, but hopefully, they would not call it a foreign language. Every year, Native Americans have a "Pow Wow" in Hopkinsville which is about 45 miles east of here. It's good because everybody can learn about the Native AMericans. It may be mostly Cherokees.
Ulrich .... Hope you do well in the election. You menationed friends in US and Canada, but let's remember the good folks down under and other places.
On the layout today, I operated trains. Always a fun activity.
My model railroad friend, Gus, is still struggling with the spider poisen. As I said, he was transported to Vanderbilt Hopsital in Nashville, TN yesteday from the hopsital in Murray, KY.. Vanderbilt is one of the best hospitals in a wide geographic area. (I go the for my heart condition.) Gus will be there for an extended period. Much of his skin has been killed off by the poisen, and it will take a while to restore it. Meanwhile, his internal organs are screwed up. He just began taking insulin which is new for him. .... Several of you have commented and expressed concern. He like knowing poeple care about him. I told him forum members were praying for his recovery. Gus, is a very active member of the local Catholic church here.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Work Front Got the last customer out the door at 9:25 PM, walked out of the shop at 9:57 and did not sit down in the garage till 10:45 PM. I am getting to old for this pop! Plus I have to be back work at 9:00 AM Thursday!
JimRCGMOKen, that is an awesome load of locos for such a price! Sent you something to read...
Yep Jim, I am pretty tickled about the prices depending on shipping cost. Jim, if you PM me something, I did not get it? Or did you E-Mail Me?
Dennis thanks for the led. Here is a link.
http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/ledlights1.html
Well, I better get going.
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Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf and one of those hot fudge sundaes for me. What? Already had my blood tested a couple days ago, so now I can be bad for a few days....
Jim, we used to have a podiatrist here in town who's name was Dr. Foote... No kidding. Doc changed the pads on my shoe inserts and changed it to a shorter length for me. Already they seem better. He also told me to not remove the pad that comes with the shoe. The lady that was there before this doctor (the son of the owner of the practice) told me to take out the pad in the shoe. He also found that I have fungus growing on the bottom of my feet, so I will be on a cream for that for a week or so. I have gotten this a number of times over the years. And I have it again.....
I think the new mattress is just what I needed. Knees and hips are feeling much better today, and to celebrate I mowed the lawn today. Well, actually because it really was getting high and I don't have a baler...
Guess I better be heading to get comfy on the new mattress soon. Prayers for all in need!
JimRCGMOJeffrey, can you email me that pronounciation guide also? Thanks.
Busy day so far. Worked on lots of things.
I got a package today. Contains several P2K GP shells. 1 GP9 (phase 3), 2 GP7s, 3 GP18s, and 6 GP20 (high-hoods). I can't use the GP7s as they have DBs, and the GP20s were bought to get the sills (because they have the extra steps like BN/GN units)
Good Evening, Chloe - I'll have a hot fudge sundae and a mug of decaf, please. Thank you!
I understand that some of C&O Terry's neighbors, after he was taking those photos of all those trees he was making lately, came up to him and wanted to place an order for their Christmas tree orders... Is that right, Terry?
Todd must've got his "Ziva fix" last night - I certainly hope so, as loudly as he was singing something yesterday (I could hear him all the way here to Cape G.-land..). And BN/SP&S Gary, I'll vouch for Todd making a few mistakes (of course, if I do that, I'll have to vouch for *my* track record, too...) Hey, Todd - you didn't have to give anything back to the folks who returned THAT weight machine, didja? (Hopefully, NOT! That'd be adding insult to injury - to your wallet, that is...)
Barry - is that 'pppfffft' sound kinda like the sound that Spring makes when he sees another cat he doesn't like? Speaking of His Royal Catness, how's he been liking your weather there recently?
Ray, it sounds like if the person at the top isn't receptive to one of your ideas, you just make an end run around him/her to the person who really knows how to set things up! Your Scouting evening sounds like a bunch of fun. And I see that earlier today you were.. afoot?
Jeffrey, thank you for the compliment on what I have in terms of a layout currently. I hope at a future time to be able to expand it when I get a spare room (even a 10' or 11' square sized one). I kinda like switching and structures - can you tell? (I actually noticed that the spelling was off on Yogi's name; small (very...) pun on the word. (By the way, can you email me that pronounciation guide also? Thanks)
Jerry, is that a new part of your layout? Nice downtown district there! (And like your banana train too!)
CB&Q Garry - thank you for the update on Gus - it sounds like we'll need to ask Galaxy to light an extra candle for him.
Galaxy, were they able to get your van fixed already? I know you'd mentioned the difficulty of finding the circuit/mother board, so I figured that might take a while. Good if they were able to get it done and running so quickly!
ONR Fan - to the Diner (but then again, maybe I was just out and MIA myself when you stopped by before), and have a beverage on me, please. Tell us/me a bit about your MRR layout/plans/ dreams (time era, scale, etc. - I take it you may be NOTB in Sunny Canada, eh? If you haven't been peeking in the window earlier (it's not unusual for people to peek in the windows before stopping in to say howdy), Galaxy can fill you in about the place. (Oh, and thanks for reminding me that it's about time to see about updating my glasses...)
Ken, that is an awesome load of locos for such a price! Sent you something to read...
CN Charlie, best wishes on the decoder programming. I had one guy locally do my only (so far) install, but that was along with upgrading my Shay's motor and gearing, plus installing and programming a decoder (to #3, I think it was - because my steam locos will all be less than 100, and in my RR's world, the Shays (hope to get another one at some point soon) were some of the earliest locos the CAW acquired. I have yet to do my first decoder install, let alone programming!
Ulrich, I'm not 100 percent sure, but I would hazard a guess that one reason that writing in German takes up more space might be: 1) German gets more precise in its words for something, 2) (American) English, on the other hand, is less precise, so we'll throw any word at something and call it "good enough", or 3) Both of the above... I also hope that you will stick with it and try to buck the tide of "modern" politics. As Mr. B. said...
CDN Dennis - thanks for the info about the LEDs!
JP, are you gonna have trains on your truck layout?
Some were commenting on how your old stompin' grounds have changed. Go to Google Maps, set it for "satellite view", and copy & paste in this location - a few blocks from where I lived in junior high and part of high school: "Grundy Drive & Pont Drive, Bridgeton, MO 63044" (Carrollton subdivision didn't look like that back when we lived there; it was a couple/few decades later when it wound up looking like that). I was definitely a bit shocked to learn what had happened to "the old neighborhood" when I looked it up. I think there are a handful of webpages out there that can fill you in about the Carrollton subdivision and the mess that occurred with THAT...
Weather here lately has been good - I left the A/C running at my apartment before I headed for w**k this a.m., since we were supposed to reach the mid-80's (and higher humidity...). The rest of the week, we have possible liquid sunshine coming our way...
Well, my sundae's gone (and if I want to continue to fit into my current pants, I'd better not have seconds..), so I will be heading for home. May everyone have a restful night's sleep, comfort and healing.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
No layout work today. I was so busy sending and answering PM's, monitoring posts and sorting through old posts there was little time for much else. I did however have a little time to print up some 'KEEP OFF!' paper labels. I still have to cut them out. I just let the GP40's and the FP7's run while I worked today. Maybe tomorrow I'll have some time to run the GP7's, GP35 and slug.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Well, I'll be getting to bed now. Senior Day trip to Vestal, New York tomorrow.
Night everyone.
Good Evening
All but one of my families houses are still around..the one that was in Hamilton ON got torn down shortly after we moved to Woodstock ON...busy movers, we were...
Today we had a bit of an operating session with no incidents accident nor Broake and Howe employees deployed near our vicinity...thankee very much... Going to try a bigger op session on Saturday...heeheehee
Have a good evening peeps!!
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...
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Speaking of google, bing, mapquest, etc... I've done the very same but nothing has really changed. My parents still live in the house they bought when I was 2; my dad's parents house around the corner from theirs is still standing, along w/ the house my mom's parents lived in and my aunt's old house.
However, these same resources can be used for looking at old tracks, some of which would be covered w/ pavement or dirt or ripped up completely today. But they still help you as a modeler model some of those older businesses, if that's something you model. I really wish as a kid I was more receptive to trains than I was. CR, PC, NYC had a lot of tracks here in the Syracuse area that now you'd only know about by reading books on the history of Syracuse and the surrounding areas. CSX had changed the way they do business here at the DeWitt yard. They took out the old "hump" a few years back so unless you knew it was there, you'd never know one existed here.
Anyways, on to other business...
Ulrich - Politics of any sort, even in a business or military or fire or police, etc all sucks!!!! I'm in the military and I can tell you that next week when I conduct interviews for a job opening in my office, I've already been told who I have to hire, regardless if I want this person or not. It's called a "Downward Directed" move and I hate them w/ passion. But there's nothing my supervisor or I can do as if we go "up" the chain of command, we will be told the same thing from the next 3 commanders we can talk to. I also volunteered as a firefighter here and the board is all about politics. The volunteer captain is the mayor for the village this department is in, and one of the other firefighters is on the village board. Politics at it's finest in action at the fire dept board meetings!
Garry - I hope Gus is doing better these days. Prayers still go out every day for a speedy recovery for him.
Ok... so on my train front... I stopped off at my LHS and ordered all of the new Walther's Fire Dept buildings. I'm even jumping for joy when I see that the Walther's Scenic Master Line is carrying all of the old "Boley" vehicles. I also ordered the Walther's International Truck Dealership. That will help me display all of my International model vehicles.
I think I may need to find a building that I can use as a model for a John Deere dealership due to all the Deere items I have for my layout. I may even do a CAT dealership for all the CAT Equipment I have stored as well.
Anyways, I'm off for now. Need to check in on my ex's kid and make sure homework is getting done and discuss dinner with the child.
Take Care!
JP
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017