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Easter Movies are on me!! made em' today!
Colby
Happy Easter morning to everyone!!! May the Peace that Jesus gave to the everyone in the world upon His victory over death at His Resurrection, be with all of you my dear friends and your families. May His healing touch be upon all who are in need this day and throughout the year.
On Christmas 2006, we had green grass, and temps of 34F, clear skies. Today, on Easter morning at 7am, we had some white on the ground, clear skies, and 26F!! Now we have cloudy skies and snow flurries. But who cares.... we all have each other and that is all that really matters right guys and gals?
Today, we are headed over to son #2's house for Easter and to enjoy the day with family and little ones.
As Mike said, lets say remember all our military men and women today throughout the world, and say a prayer for their safe return home.
HOOPLE: I sure hope you get your 2-8-0 real soon, I can't stand the suspense!!
MIKE: I wasn't sure if the CI was still CI. Great shots with your camera Mike, that is some plant !!! That price for Pellets is just what the cost should be, but there is always somebody who tries to take advantage of the situation.
A full Pallet load is 2000 lbs ( 50 bags @ 40 lbs each). Can mothers bus handle that load on the rear? Maybe with helper coils on the shocks, or leaf springs. That would be a nice savings of $42.50 by the ton ( $187.50 vs $220 ).
Well, it's time to head over the hill to son #2's house, I could walk there in 4 minutes, but carrying a pan of Lasagna and a Lemon Marangue pie is really asking for trouble on slippery hillsides isn't it? So we take the car and drive 1 mile around the hill and up the other side.
See you guys later, have a GREAT day everyone..
Morning all -
As promised, here are the photos of the frame for the Learning kit I am working on....
Looking down onto the kit, from left to right - the 'white' board is the cardboard the kit comes in. The instructions tell you to use it....
And now from right to left....
And now the underside. I added the 1x4 here as I thought the cardboard was too flimsy to support the rest of the scenery and sub-roadbed and roadbed.....
Ok. I'm off to drink my coffee and continue on with this kit. I'll bbl w/ mroe photos!
Happy Easter!
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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
HAPPY EASTER to all!
1 week ago today it was 86F outside, today looks like we have 9" of snow on the ground. I had to drive into work this morning and I-90 wasn't plowed or salted (you have to love Ohio).
Well I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning ! from Indiana.
04-08-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Mornin, ham n eggs n coffee for me Janie if ya would.
Just down to 32 this this morning, and with a high in the 40's, it'll be a cold easter egg hunt this afternoon.
Worked on the layout some yesterday, got a little bit more done, even with J Bird here. She was busy helping granny cook for today. Might get in some more time this morning after chores.
Dick, we paid $4.40 a bag yesterday, but most the time it's been running bout $4.68 or so. We can buy for 3.75 a bag in full pallets, but it's a 70 mile drive one way. There was one outfit that was trying to sell pellets for $6 last fall, [saying there was a shortage], but they didn't last long. I think they've still got most their 100 ton, they started with
The pics are of the Indaina RR yard [was IC] in Palastine. There an ethanol plant on the W side of town. They ship to Marathon refinery in Robinson. Here's a couple pics from there
Here's a couple enigines that were in the yard Fri.
Only plans [besides the normal Sun. stuff] is gong into #1 son's for lunch and the egg hunt. Hope ya'll has a great Easter and remember those in uniform, who cann't be home with their loved ones today.
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So, HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!!!
On this day in history Jesus of Nazarath defeated death and rose from the grave! Praise God for that!
So what does everyone have planned for this beautiful day? Yes, I know it's cold out there, but it's beautiful anyways!
Me? I was at church last night so I'm hanging at the house today. I've got a big day of rest and relaxation planned for myself. Might even grab a nap later on!
How about you?
Oh, and Hoople.....I'll pass on the pizza first thing in the morning. Oh hi Chloe! I'll just have the #1, and put it on Hooples tab. Thanks!
JimRCGMO wrote: JP, on the scenery, maybe you just need to do that in smaller layers and build it up as needed. Looks like you have a full crew working on the site!
Jim, I think not only small layers, but also thinner in consistency instead of the think stuff I made up.
Jeff, I think Dick may be right - you may even have to watch your plants, if our cold front gets too close to you! And DerJohn, Fergie and Luc, be careful if the backside of that storm Dick mentioned gets by you. Your weather usually is pretty cold, anyway, so you might end up with the white stuff. Actually, from the weather news I saw over lunch, I'd bet JP might be getting a bit of the sNoah - what about it, JP? Getting some powder?
Not here in Syracuse or the east/southeast suburbs, but drive about 30 minutes north and northwest, and they are measuring it in feet, not inches!
Later!
Evening all -
Just thought I'd stop in for a quick hello and good night. I'll get photos taken care of tomorrow morning after the 1st part (frame) has dried. I did go and add a extra brace to the bottom side as the cardboard the instructions told me to use seemed a little flimsy.
Dick - I plan on using the 3 kits I have left (Scenery - trees and grass; Waterfall/Stream; and Rock Faces) on the table I started last week. I'll keep you informed as I go along and provide photos as well.
Well all - time for bed. Night! And since it's Easter somewhere in the world right now...
Happy Easter Everyone!
Evening gang: We had a nice nap and now I feel like going back to bed. Our daughter in law (John's ) has been in the hospital the last 4 days. She had her tonsils out a couple of weeks ago and Tuesday had some stomach pains so John took her into the emergency room. They thought she might have appendacites but it's a stomach virus. Anyway shes going to come home tomorrow. It also turned out that her doctor is a model railroader. He's a smart guy, doing HO. Anyway she's OK.
No MRRing today so no news there. I guess I'll just head for bed.
Good Night All
hope you guys enjoy the up comming movies
We ended up with about 4"
no snow all year and then when spring comes we get 4" lol
Not to much happening here to cold to do anything today so just ran around town for a while
Well all Happy Easter
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: How did the MRR work progress today?
JEFF: How did the MRR work progress today?
I got part of the wiring for three of the spurs done.
Y'all never gonna believe this. IT IS SNOWING HERE!!
Here's a little B&W photo for you.
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Good evening to all...finally got to burn the annual brush pile. Two weeks ago it was windy and dry and we had red alerts, so no outside burning. Then we got 17" of snow. Today it was windy but wet enough in the woodlands that we got the green light. So from 9:30 to 5 I was carting all the tree trimmings, and winterfall to add to the pile as it burned down. I wanted to use my Wheel Horse 1980 garden tractor with the dump cart, but do you think that tired old 11hp engine would start? I even had the charger on all night to re-energize the battery. I cleaned the plug, poured a little gas in the cyclinder, it barked a few times but no dice. So, I trudged up back with all the rakes and shovels and garden hoses etc. At the end of the day, after walking countless miles back and forth to gather the branches etc. to burn, I stopped by the shed to try the tractor...OF COURSE...it started first turn of the key!!. I had left the tractor out in the sun while charging all day, but I suspect that the fuel pump, a little diaphram thing, was dried out after the winter and need some "time in the sun".
RT: Isn't it great? April 7th and you are getting 3" of snow in coastal Virginia!!!!
MIKE: Well I guess the "bus" can handle the load OK. What did you have to pay for a bag of Pellets? My son inlaw had to pay $7 a bag here a few weeks ago...I call that price gouging, that is rediculous!!! Last April, I paid $4.25 a bag, and two weeks later my daughter had to pay $4.40 a bag when the next truck load arrived from New Hampshire. The photo shots of the ry came out very clear.....that looks like an active siding...is it CSX, or CI?
JP: Let me know what you think of the WS tree kit...I had bought one at the show a while back, but have not attacked the kit yet.
CAPE JIM: You may get some record LOW TEMPS tonight. They will even have some snow as far south as the mountains of Georgia!!!
RYAN: I hope you can withstand the cold weather in April, it is very new for folks from NO to have this kind of cold in April. But your tough, I think you will make it Ok, just throw another blanket on tonight, or, as we do here up north, add another dog to the bed.LOL You will notice that FERGIE has a big furry dog, and JOHN has a dog also.
I think it is time to go relax a while, this bod is worn out tonight, I feel like PAUL did a couple of days ago after a full day on the range.
Later
JimRCGMO wrote: Hey, Colby - nice videos! Are they of your setup? Liked the way you were able to pan in the one view, and follow the passenger car without much blurring. Jim
Hey, Colby - nice videos! Are they of your setup? Liked the way you were able to pan in the one view, and follow the passenger car without much blurring.
Jim
Yes the videos are of my layout (which is on my bedroom floor). it's a 7x7 it's shaped like and oval but not a true oval.
I have more on the way. also today I bought a work caboos with a small crane for $7.99 at the same hobby shop that I got my 0-4-0.
Afternoon Gang: I'm early because it's snowing and cold. We woke up to snow on the trees and grass and it's been keeping on all day. The ground is too warm for it to accumulate so we don't have that problem. It was 27 this morning when I was feeding. It got up to 35 but I think that it has cooled off since.
The carburator on the engine from the locomotive was not too bad but the butterfly valve was locked up. It was going into the vat when I left. I'll have a bunch to do to the rest of the locomotive so I'm not in a rush to get the engine back.
I'm going to take a nap. Mary Ann beat me to it. I'll see you all later.
Afternoon all -
Just a quick stop in for now. I'm about to start on the Woodland Scenics 'The Scenery Kit' Learning kit. I'll take photos and post them as I go along for you all to enjoy!
TTFN!
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Good morning. Checking out for now. Starting our 5 + hour drive to Cincinnati. Wish we could ride a passenger train.
Best wishes, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
04-07-07
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. Going to continue with layout work today. I have 6 spurs to wire then I'll start in with the WS stuff.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 4/7/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 38°FHumidity: 50%Dew Point: 26°F So Far TodayHigh: 47°FLow: 44°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 20mph N Today High: 52 Cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight Low: 35 Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable. I need something quick today. How about a sausage biscuit.
Mornin an irish coffee Janie
22 outside, that's gonna hurt the apple blossoms, don't know what the weathers doing today, didn't see it last night. weather gueser be probaly get it wrong anyway, did yesterday [forecast 40 and lots of sun, had 36, clouds n snow flurries].
Had a good trip to LeveL Pebble was ok, and Dick, we was in Mothers bus and it'll haul 30 bag, no problem, but we only got 10, hoping them and what we had on hand gets us through this spell.
Went by the Palistine yard and got a few pics there to post. Here's a couple of some ethanol cars there for now.
Tried for some in Robinson, but it was just to cold n windy to stand outside much, did get a couple though.
JIM, it was a good thing to be nice to Mother, when we got back home and found a couple UPS boxes on the porch, one of an ultra-sonic jewerly cleaner, I'd been wanting, and she'd bought one. Time to clean some train parts now. Also while she was in Terre Haute, she picked up batteries, a new lense cover and a remote shutter release for me.
LUC, us and some freinds here still keeping ya'll in our prayers.
RT, 3" snow and I thought the 30's and a 20 mph NW wind was bad.
Think I'll go play for awhile, before starting chores. Won't be home much again today, gotta run out to Clarksville this afternoon. Hope ya'll has a good warm day
Mornin' All!
Gotta run! Just popped in to say hey!
HEY!
Well woke up this morning to 3" of snow and still falling and no I don't live near the mountains I live next to the chesapeake bay and atlantic ocean lol.
Morning all I'll have the country breakfast flo thanks.
Last call for coffee on the East coast!!! Just got back from Good Friday church services, man it is COLD outside...28F right now. The weather forecast for Easter morning sunrise service is 24F!!! On Christmas morning it was 32F......what's with this????
HOOPLE: If you want to know why you have 80F and we have reverted back to Winter ( even in the deep South ), just go to WWW.Weather.com , and get the North America satellite maps, and water vapor maps, to see just where all the cold air is coming from..visually!!. This is an extraordinary situation for April. But with Global Warming a reality, we can now expect all sorts of climatic abberations.
DER JOHN: You are a master of scratch building from any usable materials...great job John!!
LUC: Good to see you back on line, we prayed for Gloria tonight at services, she is in good hands buddy!!!
CAPE JIM: It must be really tough on you guys to have this cold weather in April. At least here in New England, we have had Blizzards in April, and snow as late as May 10th when 7" fell back in 1977, so even though we don't appreciate late Spring, we are used to Winter late visits.
Time to hit the sack, see you guys tomorrow,
Evening, Chloe - Tempting as PC's pizza is, I'll just have a cup of hot cocoa tonight. A short visit, and then I need to get back home and warm up my toes in bed. - looks like I'll be buying the nightcaps and desserts (and maybe breakfast, too)!
JP, on the scenery, maybe you just need to do that in smaller layers and build it up as needed. Looks like you have a full crew working on the site!
Sue, Chuck & Kathy, and Mark, enjoy that warm weather some - and then please send some of it along to the rest of us chilling out over here to the east of you! [brrrrr....!!!]
Paul, you keep getting busier and busier... What happened to your retirement? At least you got some MRR'ing in, even if it was with the 7.5" engine.
PC, that is one huge pizza - I'd already had fried fish for dinner, and I'm afraid about one slice of that would've filled me up if I had one, anyway! Have that guy on hand for our next party in here - that and some beverages and we'll be set for the evening!
'Bout time for me to wind it down - I'm going to pre-sort my laundry tonight so it'll be ready to go in the morning and get it done. I have an order in at the LHS to pick up tomorrow (some vehicles and other stuff).
Everyone stay warm tonight (except for our Northwest Coast cousins, who will need to be running their air conditioners, maybe).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau