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Elliot's Trackside Diner...OCTOBER 2013!!

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:24 AM

Good morning. 

ONR Fan ... Good to see you. Hope Dave is doing well. Keep in touch. 

Galaxy...... The false teeth limerick is funny. .... I see V8 Dennis agrees. 

Jeff .... I like the C&NW passenger colors. Good to see them in your photo. 

Ray .... I liked reading about your enduring love for your wife. I bet she is saving a special place for you in Heaven. 

CN Charlie ..... If you are looking in, I finally have photos for my layout extension construction project. You asked for it! I just started a thread in the layout building section. 

Here is one photo of my project. The rest is in my thread in the Layouts and Layout Building section. 

GARRY

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Posted by TMarsh on Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:45 AM

Good Morning!!!

(yaaaawn) apparently I fell asleep in the diner. Woke up and here I am.

Coffee please and I’ll have the Sunday Breakfast buffet. Thanks.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 67.

Jeff- I was referring to the stainless steel house as ideas for the game. BUT since you brought it up about odd houses, we have, in a neighboring town, a flying saucer house. Yup. Green, on legs and looks like a flying saucer landed in the clearing. Just now decided to do an internet search and discovered it’s a Futuro house.

Today I have a house warming/birthday party to go to at 1 and then…..no idea where the walls will go so I’m not gonna pour a foundation.

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

Todd  

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:39 AM

TMarsh
Jeff- I was referring to the stainless steel house as ideas for the game. BUT since you brought it up about odd houses, we have, in a neighboring town, a flying saucer house. Yup. Green, on legs and looks like a flying saucer landed in the clearing. Just now decided to do an internet search and discovered it’s a Futuro house.

Like this one? I've seen one before but never been in one.

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Posted by kbkchooch on Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:56 PM

Hiya gang!! Cowboy

Salsa & chips and Beer Flo! (reason below) Big Smile

Posted this on WPF, but I no a few folks here knew about what happened, so here goes,  

yes , the front end damage has been fixed !!  Still have to paint the smokebox, add decals and weathering, but I'm waiting for the sound decoder to come in for it 1st. The speaker is already in the tender. 

The other "thing" in the picture is the product of my warped brain with too much time on my hands. The mount for the can motor is the bottom half of a Pittman motor from a Penn Line loco. The plan is to install it in another Penn Line loco to replace it's Pittman. 2 screws and done! Maybe it will work, maybe not, but its gonna be fun!!

Jeffrey, call the MIB!! Laugh

Gonna be over in the corner watchin the tube. Switching between  NASCAR and the Ravens-Steelers game. (This is what the snacks are for!)     Automobile Go Kevin Harvick!! Smile, Wink & Grin   Go Ravens !!! Smile, Wink & Grin

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:08 PM

Karl: The Mikado looks great.

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Well today I received one of the parts I needed for my mothers old Apple IIe. The drive controller card. I tested the card and it works like new. It's now installed. This particular machine is one of the early IIe's and had to be shaken down due to the problems that were inherent of those early offerings. Apple had all those corrected for the 1983 line. This one has had the original Revision A logic board replaced with a revision B board so it would be compatible with the expansion cards offered later. These wouldn't work on the original Revision A boards. These boards shouldn't be confused with the enhanced '"-A"' boards offered in later years. Those were in functionality Revision B boards. The only thing different besides the enhancements was the letter. One thing that made the early IIe's recognizable at a glance was the keyboard. White letters on tan keys as opposed to the black letters on tan keys that started in 1984. However that doesn't mean every IIe with black and tan keys was an '84 or later model. Lots of older IIe's got the newer keyboard when the keyboard had to be replaced as happened with my IIe.





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Posted by howmus on Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:55 PM

Evenin' folks!

Janie, a cup of hot chocolate before bedtime would really hit the spot tonight!

I'm exhausted!  Long day out at the museum with a large crowd today.  Now that is a good thing as we depend on the ridership to pay a lot of bills around the place.  But being busy, along with the cold weather has wiped me out tonight.  The high at 1:00Pm today was 54°F and by closing it was back below 50°.  One of our younger officers got the stoves fired up in the cabeese, but the one in mine (The old Erie Caboose)  was either flooded or the control wasn't working right as it quickly got way too hot, so we shut it down after a couple of runs.  That means I got to work most of the day in a cold caboose.  All told a good day and a fun day.

Tomorrow I will be finishing up the w*rk on the booklet for the reunion.  The ladies will be arriving at 11AM to help assemble them and get them ready to mail.  We may go out for lunch after we are done to celebrate.  Them I can turn my attention to other items on the waiting list.

Jeffrey, the photos of the old Apple IIe insides make me almost wish I had kept my old Apple IIc I had years ago.  Almost but not quite...Laugh

Time to head to catch some Zzz  prayers for all in need!

73

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:32 PM

I was a bit busy today but not at what I wanted to be doing. No, my father wanted me to look up for him the medicinal and nutrition uses of cactus plants and mesquite trees. So that kept me busy for a while. I didn't get any programming time in today. Maybe tomorrow.

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





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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:41 PM

Good evening.

Today has been one of our grandson's birthday. He is now 4 years old. Shelley is in Michigan and participated in the festivities. I'm here at home. I had some time this evening to work on the layout. Slow but sure.

Karl .... I really like the Mikado. You do great work!

Galaxy,  Mr. B EMD Don, Rich, and Mike L ....   ... Thanks for the nice remarks in my thread. in the layout construction section of the forum. .

Be happy, everybody

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, October 21, 2013 3:20 AM

morning in the diner....with coffee...

GOOD MONDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Monday, October 21st, 2013!!!

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!

Today we try something different, we will have a few REAL Olde Tyme Medicine labels and ads:

Kimball Phamacy

3401 Fullerton Ave. Chicago

Tele. Bellmont 6942

White Pine and Tar

Cough Syrup

4% Alcohol

 Chloroform 4 minims

For: coughs, colds, Hoarsness, sore throat,

bronchitis, and all diseases of the lungs

Adults: 1 teaspoon; children: in proportion to age.

{It'll mute the cough and the person! We BET chloroform will not only quiet the ill person, but put them down for awhile too?!}

Weird words:

monomachy: {n.} a duel; single combat

babeldom:{n.} a confused sound of voices or noisy confusion, resembling that at Babel

Monkey's Wedding - A South African term meaning when you have a wedding that has both  sunshine and rain.  Portuguese call is a Vixen's Wedding

Geeked

-G .

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 21, 2013 4:22 AM

Good Morning Folks!

Pretty miserable weather at this end of the Big Pond! Temperatures are OK, but it´s gray outside and we have the odd spell of rain.

Nothing much planned for the day, other than revamping my CV and searching for job openings - my favorite pastime! Never thought I´d have to do that again. Well, it is like it is - why not add a few couple of hundred of unsuccessful applications to those1,000 plus I turned in the last 4 years... Grumpy

Have a good day!

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Posted by TMarsh on Monday, October 21, 2013 7:47 AM

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a bowl of frosted flakes please. Thanks.

Partly sunny, with a high near 52.

Jeff- Yep, that’s the one. I’ve never been in one myself either. Apparently there are few pictures of the insides and those there are seem to be focused on the chairs I guess you’d call them, in the living room and some of the bathroom. I found very few of anything else inside. Even the videos seem to shy away from the kitchen, dining and bedroom. The thing would be an awesome bachelor pad!

Suppose to get cold tonight they say so I best get the water out of the pressure washer pump today or buy a new one in the springLaugh. No I didn’t get the house washed off eitherSad. Hey, next spring I’m gonna get the outside of this place spruced upYes…..Whistlingya. Next year. That’s what I’ve said for the last what, 5 years. You’d think I was a Cub fan.Laugh

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

Todd  

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, October 21, 2013 8:49 AM

TMarsh
Jeff- Yep, that’s the one. I’ve never been in one myself either. Apparently there are few pictures of the insides and those there are seem to be focused on the chairs I guess you’d call them, in the living room and some of the bathroom. I found very few of anything else inside. Even the videos seem to shy away from the kitchen, dining and bedroom. The thing would be an awesome bachelor pad!

Too many windows for my taste and it doesn't look to be ADA compliant.

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Good morning. It's 53° with 97% humidity. The high will be 78° and it will feel like 81°. There's a small chance of rain today.
 with a

Yesterday was a bad day for Mickey's cousins living in the kitchen cabinet. Two of them got caught in traps. One was on a glue trap and was very much alive when I discovered it trying to drag the trap away (and it was doing a pretty good job of it too considering it had only one foot to work with). A rap on the head with a small household hammer put it out of it's misery. I wrapped it up trap and all in a paper towel and asked my nieces husband next door to dispose of it as it's quite difficult for me to get outside without help. The second one got snared by a snap trap and was very much life challenged when I discovered it this morning. I wrapped it in a paper towel and as no one is home next door I put it in a plastic bucket and set it outside the front door. I checked the glue box traps and there was nothing of interest in them. So far their only customers have been a brown recluse spider (good riddance!) and a very unfortunate largish grass hopper.

Well today I hope to get some more programming done on Native Fury. I'm sure there are bugs to be worked out. I usually work bugs out of the blocks as I go along but sometimes they creep into the code that ties the blocks together. I just hate to be playing a game and suddenly get a 'GOSUB WITHOUT RETURN' or a GOTO with no address to go to or something like that.





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Posted by howmus on Monday, October 21, 2013 9:41 AM

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe, just a cup of decaf this morning and a small bowl of granola cereal...  Blood sugar was back up this morning... 155.  Don't like where this is headed.

Just ran the vacuum in the dining room office to remove the cat hair and remains of hairballs on the carpet before the ladies arrive to finish up the booklets today.

I may actually get some time to do a bit of stuff down in the train room this evening.  Time will tell.  was having a backache all night.  Almost felt like a kidney stone, but not nearly as bad.  It went away after I got uip this morning and got moving around.  I have a painful right thumb as well....  Must have strained it yesterday climbing around on the caboose all day.  Guess I'm getting old.  I tell visitors to the museum that all our equipment we have there are antiques just like the volunteers!

Later!

73

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Posted by pascaff* on Monday, October 21, 2013 10:41 AM

 Morning All,

   Currently it is 37 with an expected high of 70 under mostly sunny skies.

    Had a great time with my daughters and sil on Sat. we made and ate some great food. Then went to a local farm and walked around the corn maze the make every year. A different one each year. That was a lot of fun also. Came back to the house and had Gellato to finish off the days eats.

    Bad thing about 1:30 AM I felt a pain just below my chest, upper gastric area, and I could feel my BP pumping real hard, and my heart was racing. Took BP reading and it was 220/120 with a HR of 106. All very high for me. Kept checking it every 15 minutes and about 2:15 decided to call 911. EMT's showed up took BP and was still quite high so I went for a ride to the ER. By the time we got there it had started to normalize. Took a chest xray and EKG, those seemed to be fine, so they released me around 9:00 AM Had one of my daughters drive me home and stayed with me for awhile. BP seemed to start to stabilize. Called Cardiologist and have an appointment tomorrow morning to check things out. Feel OK, but better to know for sure. I was and still reluctant to get medical help, always thinking, "what if it is nothing." My late wife would then say "What could be better." Those words rung in my ear as I called 911.

   Prayers to all in need.

    Paul


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Posted by RideOnRoad on Monday, October 21, 2013 12:17 PM

A veggie omelet, no cheese, and some apple juice for me.  I know I can eat anything, but I still am feeling a little healthy.

We made it back from our trip to Utah, where among other things, we visited the Union Station in Ogden.  They had an interesting train museum and a number of locomotives and cars parked outside.  We were able to go into a Smoothside Railroad Post Office and a hospital car that was used during WWII to take the injured soldiers to an army hospital in Brigham City, Utah.  They also had a retired gas-turbine locomotive parked outside.  The sign said it was strong enough to pull a fully loaded train, seven miles long.  I guess the noise was a bit of a problem.

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Posted by saronaterry on Monday, October 21, 2013 12:30 PM

Good Monday afternoon, Diners!

32f and cold/ blustery. Got about 2" snow yesterday. Ick.

I've been away but checked in now and then to try and keep up with everyone's trials and triumphs. Seems they are about even.Smile

Computer seems to be working OK now, so maybe I can visit more often.

PFC Son is back stateside at Ft. Bliss, at least for the foreseeable future. He was promoted to Specialist, so a few more bucks for him.

Grand kids are growing like weeds, all is good on that front.

Had a very BUSY spring and summer for work, starting to slow up a bit now. That's ok, I can use the time off to work on the trains!Laugh

That's all for now.

Terry in NW Wisconsin

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, October 21, 2013 12:31 PM

RideOnRoad
They also had a retired gas-turbine locomotive parked outside.  The sign said it was strong enough to pull a fully loaded train, seven miles long.  I guess the noise was a bit of a problem.

The noise was one factor. Many cities had noise ordinances even then and the UP's noise factories weren't allowed to enter. They took one into Los Angeles once. Never did that again. The other big factor was the price of gas. I mean, let's face it. The thing ain't no Toyota. It gets the gas mileage of a fleet of Abram's tanks.

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Working on part two of Native Fury again. I've changed a few things. #1 when a direction is entered, IE S, the game responds with SOUTH, pauses for one second then executes the command. #2 In the middle of the circle that the homes in part two are clustered around is a large garden. Originally I had it labeled as Mr. Cable's garden and would advise the character to stay out of it. That just didn't feel right. So I changed it to Mr. Addam's garden. Seems like a good place to avoid. #3 in the kitchen of the metal house the character sees a large metal lunchbox on the kitchen counter. On the side is the label 'P. Addams'. Ring any bells? Gives me some ideas about what to put in the secret room. At present I'm starting work on the double-wide trailer next door (west) to the metal house. The plate beside the door reads 'M. Munster'. I'm planning on the character to see a large family portrait hanging on the wall as he enters. I'm gonna have some fun with this one!

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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, October 21, 2013 12:46 PM

Jeff LOL !! Thank you ! Geez I really need to turn in my prescription and pick out NEW glasses ! But the next set has bifocals and my pride and stubbornness is getting the better of me . Oh well , you know where I will be this week Sigh

Howmus - 112 MPH ??? golly by the way people drive those things around here I would never have known. Lot of folks drive in the passing lane about 5mph under and will NOT move over , when you finally work your way up guess what they are driving a Prius - no kidding. Go figure . 112 MPH amazing ! Hope your aches and pains get better.

Todd - understand. I really don't like yard work either. But I am forcing myself to do some. This weekend I put down fertilizer and seed. Money and time I would rather be spending on trains !

Ulrich - four years with out a job ? What are you living on ?

Dennis - know I understand , more country , less people Yes I think we have that many people around Wash. DC . I wish some of them would go home !

Garry - LOL !! Your pict made me laugh out loud !

Paul - smart move. I cannot tell you how many people I know who didn't go to the ER are now out to eternity. Angel to you.

No train work for me this weekend. Earth quake hit several years ago and spent the weekend pulling the brick off of the fp facing and rebuilding. Drier vent stopped up Bang Head and spent all of Sunday afternoon trying to unplug it and finally gave up and went to bed. Sigh Well gotta get back to w**K

TTYL

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, October 21, 2013 1:30 PM

yougottawanta
Jeff LOL !! Thank you ! Geez I really need to turn in my prescription and pick out NEW glasses ! But the next set has bifocals and my pride and stubbornness is getting the better of me . Oh well , you know where I will be this week Sigh

You've heard of 'no-line' bifocals? That's what I wear.

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, October 21, 2013 5:09 PM

well, erm peoples:

FIl has drawn up new will already. Eliminates old non-productive info now. He's moving fast upon the passing of MIL.

Paul- Glad to know that it was only a "scare", not something serious, as of now...I had an imense chest pain once that turned out to be a "gas bubble" in the upper GI tract. I called 911 for help and MOH thought for sure I was having a heart attack. SOme nasty slimy stuff to drink, about like snot,{really}  helped it pass. it knocked vitals out of whack a bit too. Now once in awhile i have that same problem but less intense, and wait for it to pass via massing.

Jeffrey- I tried those noline bifocals. I could only see things in the very top thin 1 MM and the very bottom thin 1MM, and nothing in between made an visual acuity at all. I traded them in for a regulaar pair of lined bifocals, my old standard. THAT I can deal with. MOH claims to get sick with the old standard lined bifocals and has to have the expensive lenses...cost about $500/pair!

Well dinner of chuck roast, smashed potato, green beans is over now.

Junque mail lots of it came today. I once donated to the VFW and Paralized Vets and now get a ton of mail wiht addy lables and mini 3-sheet note pads in the mail form aobjut anyh agency that wants donations. They obviously sold my name and USPS addy to these parasitic agencies. Feed the Hungry? I AM the hungry! Help the Disabled {NON vets} I AM the disabled! AARP wnats donatins to help the needy in their programs too! Guess what? I AM the needy of their programs!  I probably qualify for these agency's handouts, and they want me to donate? Catholic Charities {local} sent me  a card and wanted me to donate for their TG campaign, Well, Guess what I am doing tomorrow? Signing up for it!!!! I DO donate when I can, or when I feel "flush" and donate a few dollars where I can. but I can qualify for most of their programs...sned them a $1 and they will send you freebies all year long!

Well off to beddy soon, maybe a load of laundry first...funny I had all the laundry DONE except what we were wear ing as of Thursday. 3 days later we have a full hamper and at least 2 if not 3 loads...besides the bedding and towels loads. Amazing how we accumulate so much for 2 peoples!

Geeked

-G .

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Posted by howmus on Monday, October 21, 2013 5:54 PM

Afternoon folks!

Chloe, I'll have a glass of lemonade for the moment...  What?  No, no... no hot sauce like Jeffrey has it, just plain lemonade.

yougottawanta
Howmus - 112 MPH ??? golly by the way people drive those things around here I would never have known. Lot of folks drive in the passing lane about 5mph under and will NOT move over , when you finally work your way up guess what they are driving a Prius - no kidding. Go figure . 112 MPH amazing ! Hope your aches and pains get better.

LOL!  But you see we lose gas mileage driving 112mph!  I had only owned the PiP about 2 weeks when I drove it to Rochester, NY to the RIT Train Show.  Sunday Morning I got off 390 North at Hylan Drive and stopped at the stop light.  A big old van got stopped at the light going on the road I was turning onto.  I got through the light and seeing the light ahead turning yellow, I just kept my speed to about 20mph (30mph zone) The Van floored it and roared around me, then slammed on his brakes for the red light.  I pulled over into the other lane and hit the stop light just after it turned green.  As I got through the intersection the Van roared past me so he could again slam on his brakes and stop at the next light!  He was really in a hurry.  This happened at every light (about 10 of them) all the way out to RIT.  He kept trying to go faster every time.  I think he got up to 70 a couple times before slamming on his brakes so he could stop for the light which I then just kept right on going through as it turned green.  At a couple of them I gave him the peace sign as I glided past him...  He was nice and gave me half of it back.Laugh  We were both going to the same train show.  He finally got a couple hundred yards ahead of me as there is no light for the last bit before turning into RIT.  He took the first driveway in where he...  Yep!  He got to slam on his brakes to wait for all the cars coming the other way.  I drove down to the next driveway and timed it so I could keep going across traffic into the college without stopping...  He had just pulled into the unloading area and was opening the doors to his van as I got out of the PiP.  Of course he got burn a lot more gas than I did I think. Smile, Wink & Grin  Years ago what you mentioned used to be all the snowbirds driving their Cadidlyacks to Fowiduh for the winter, passing each other doing 50mph on the expressway...... "Slow down!  Your driving like a maniac!"  I think AARP got that ad pulled within a week after it came out...  I generally drive with traffic, but like to take routes where I will not have to put up with too many idiots doing stupid things out there.  This time of year, during the rut, intelligent folks do drive considerably slower so they can avoid creating venison grease spots on the road....

We got all the booklets assembled and put into the envelopes.  Just got an email that they will go out in tomorrow's mail.  Now I have to put together the MLK Financial statement for tomorrow's meeting...  I need a secretary!

Paul, glad you got medical help in time!  Keep you in my prayers!

Later!

73

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, October 21, 2013 6:56 PM

Well I got the M. Munster residence programmed and a high old time I had of it too. It seems as a standard double wide trailer until the character gets inside. There's some of the funny parts of the Munster home in there. the kitchen is one. Grandpas bedroom is another and the sleeping quarters of one Edward Wolfgang Munster. But it's when the character searches the master bedroom that the character breaks the land speed record getting out of there. Seems there was this little thing with Herman sitting up in bed 'Excuse me young man, we'd like to have you for dinner.'. Somehow I think I would've left too! It wasn't a hard bit to program. Just thirteen blocks. But some blocks have up to ten lines of code and some variable lines of code. If a variable is set one way a certain set of lines are displayed and if the variable is set another way another set of lines is displayed. Some funny things are found too. A Vandergriff generator connected to a hair dryer (That'll curl your hair!). A large bucket of electric eels connected to a washing machine? Grandpas been at it again!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, October 21, 2013 9:14 PM

As I said earlier, I got the M. Munster residence programmed in. Next will be a three room cottage nearby. The cottage, porch, front and back yards and lake and road frontage will consume eleven blocks of program space and will likely take half a day to type it all in. No CADs or scanners for that old Apple computer. Scanners were the new toy on the block back when the //e was on the market (01/83 to 11/93) and there was little or no support for such a device on the //e's logic board. I don't think it was ever made available for the //gs either.

Not much else went on today. My nurse came this afternoon and checked my foot out and said it's doing well.

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





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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, October 21, 2013 10:36 PM

Good evening everybody. 

Terry in Wisconsin.... Good to see you. Glad your son is back in the good old USA. 

Ray .... I thought about your blacksmith shop when I received my NMRA magazine with an article about how to make a random stone sided house. 

V8 Vega..... We have helicopters overhead, but instead of police it is the Army from Fort Campbell. 

Don't say anything bad about Berkshire locomotives. Duke might be looking in. 

Happy Model Railroading 

GARRY

HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR

EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU

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Posted by galaxy on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:09 AM

GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!

Today is Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013!!! 

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!

Today's "whacky children's olde tyme medicine claims" {from Jelke.}:

"Is your child paying the penalties from fat starvation?

Two million school children suffer from grave forms of malnutrition...which wholesome meat fats help correct!

Here is a convenient, economical way to give your children meat fats in concentrated form. The growth and Sunshine vitamin spread!

Jelke. Correct fat starvation with Jelke. GOOD LUCK!"


Olde tyme and strange words:

zhoosh: (Jush)[fr. Romani cant] chiefly UK (gay) slang
to tweak, finesse or improve something(e.g., one's hair)
pabouche: (pəˈbuːʃ) (n.) a soft shoe, slipper
Phenakism -{noun, From phenakite,a crystal resembling diamond, see also phenacite.}: Deception, Trick, 
Cheating

Have a GREAT DAY!

Geeked

-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.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:37 AM

Good Morning Folks!

Well, whaddaya know? It´s a beautiful day outside! Went for a little walk this morning, which led me into "town" to get a few supplies I need to start w*rk on those background buildings. Not much, just two bottles of acrylic paint, white glue, two small bottles of AC - the gel type - and a set of new blades for my hobby knife. I am now set to start, but I need to wait for the plywood and the DAS clay to arrive.

Not much planned for the rest of the day, other than waiting for lunch. Petra´s in the kitchen preparing something smelling awfully nice.

YGW - the net of social security is knitted  much tighter in Germany than in the US. The monthly "contribution" we get allows for a rather basic life, without any bells and whistles. Over 30 years I have contributed heavily into that fund, so I don´t have a bad feeling about it, But still, I´d prefer to have a proper job, so I could take out Petra for dinner, buy her an occasional bouquet of flowers and, foremost, go on a vacation with her...

Have a nice day!

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Posted by TMarsh on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:17 AM

Good Morning!!!

Coffee please. Thanks.

Rain likely, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.

Paul- Glad it appeared to be nothing, but never take anything like that lightly. Brenda had an issue like Galaxy said 4 or 5 years ago and it turned out to be GERD. I’m sure glad we didn’t dismiss it as GERD this time, and I'm glad you didn't either.

Terry- Good to see you’re back amongst us.

Ray- Though I don’t drive anywhere near an economy car, I shake my head as the idiots drive like they are in a NASCAR race through town only to arrive at their destination about 2 seconds before I do.Mischief

Galaxy- I have been saying about our laundry here lately pretty much what you said. Only what I say is how can SHE generate that much laundry. As an example, I kid you not, I had all the laundry done Saturday morning except for just a few items. Like a couple dish towels and a bath towel I forgot. You know how that is. Kinda like after you drain the dish water you find that one glass. Anyway, this morning I find a pile of clothes and the hamper is full. It is at least two loads worth of clothing. Three days and among them are 4 sweatshirts and a hoodyTongue Tied. Three days.

Just thinking. Maybe I do drive an economy truck. I mean with as much fuel as it burns and as much money as I spend on fuel it has to be good for the economy.

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. Laugh

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:39 AM

Good morning. It's 61° with 100% humidity. The high will be 72° and feel like 75°.


Nothing much going on today. I'll get to work on Native Fury a little later. So far I have only a cottage planned but I may program in the house next door as well since it was here in the time period I'm using. While I'm using the basic description of homes that were then the room layout, their location in the community and their directional orientation differ. Some locations were here then, others weren't and some have never been. I'm using my own creative license.

On the mouse front, none of the traps were tripped and there was nothing stuck in the glue traps.



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Posted by yougottawanta on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:44 AM

Jeff - Its not the lines that bother me. Its the symbolism that bothers me. It means I am getting old and need bifocals , no disrespect meant to you or any one. Its just one of those things like your first grey hair...

Howmus -  LOL ! Half a peace sign , that is funny. Venison grease ? That is the first time I have heard that ! That is pretty funny too. My trouble is not the light to light driving it is the highway driving. In variably there is someone in the passing lane driving slower than the posted speed and they just will not be considerate and move over for the rest of the 30 cars behind them. At any rate we all eventually get there.

V8Vega - I think if the local bird was a police helicopter , I think I would move from there. In a real hurry.

Todd - economy truck LOL ! I have one of those. F150, 302 Stick shift. Nice big truck but it sure does love those pumps.

Ulrich - Not knocking you on the job. Sorry if it came across that way. I just don't know how you do it. Years ago I was rear ended by of all things a very large flat bed tow truck. I was not allowed to drive for 30 days while recovering. I finally went and begged the doctor to let me go back to w**k ( I think MOH gave him a few dollars to persuade him too , to get me out of "her" house ) I was climbing the walls ! Driving MOH and kids crazy. Just about went nuts ! I cannot imagine 4 years !!! Oh Geez.

Just in case anyone is interested NMRA mag came out with a nice article on the history of the N gauge . Pretty interesting.

Breaks over. Gotta get back to w**k

TTYL

YGW

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:04 AM

yougottawanta
I cannot imagine 4 years !!! Oh Geez.

You can say that again!

Well, this year I was busy w*rking on my political career, which was fairly short-lived. The past years were occupied by being a moderator in this forum, making plans of layouts I´ll never build and being a PITA for Petra, my wife of 30 years now.

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