Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/18/2007 Heat Index: 70°FHumidity: 76%Dew Point: 62°F So Far TodayHigh: 70°FLow: 68°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNE Today High: 90 Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 65 Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
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Good Morning, Diners - Zoe, a cup of coffee and a chocolate donut, please.
Thanks!
Just a quick stop for my breakfast 'snack' today. Want to get off to the w**k thing and get some more headway on some of the paperw**k.
Rob, sounds good that you and your CFO will be getting some more sleep now. 3-1/2 hours is a bit too short on that, especially if you're having to do all the stuff with the horses and farmw**k that sounds like is your usual day there. Starting with a modular (or sectional, like mine is) approach sounds like a good idea. Are you going to start with a section with a fairly long tunnel (so you can hide that new engine you were thinking of getting)?
Well, I'd best get going - Zoe, could you please put the rest of this coffee in a go cup and top it off for me? Thanks.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Tough night last night. I've been up sick all night and now I can't sleep. Called in sick to work. I can't remember the last time I did that. It's been a couple of years at least.
Oh well, I hope everyone else is doing good.
Warmer than normal air will arrive as the jet stream will lift back to the north. Highs will be in the lower 80's. Pretty toasty for this time of year around here.
in a mug, please & thank you!
[Are you going to start with a section with a fairly long tunnel (so you can hide that new engine you were thinking of getting)?]
***Not a bad idea at all there, Jim. Hadn't thought of that one.
***Philip, hope you get well soon.
***Jeffrey, the third casting looks great. Looking forward to seeing how you will do the finished wall on your layout.
Exhausted & dizzy again today, but it will pass. Have a great day, all. Rob
Just a quick checkin in fellers!
Hope you are feeling better Philip!
I've spent some time working on the roundhouse and roundtable renovations and updated my web site too. Here are a few previews of the progress:
Rusting and weathering the turntable:
Cork and sheet styrene foundation alignment checks:
More photos and documentation on my web site pages, Photos Part 6 and Roundhouse Renovations pages. Click the Piedmont Division link in my signature below!
Later,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
SilverSpike wrote: Just a quick checkin in fellers! Hope you are feeling better Philip!I've spent some time working on the roundhouse and roundtable renovations and updated my web site too. Here are a few previews of the progress:Rusting and weathering the turntable:Cork and sheet styrene foundation alignment checks:More photos and documentation on my web site pages, Photos Part 6 and Roundhouse Renovations pages. Click the Piedmont Division link in my signature below!Later,Ryan
Show Off, I wish I had room for a decent turntable...
*Since other peples is buying, orders enough food to feed an army of tracklayers and myself*
-Morgan
Hey guys. Sorry I haven't checked in in a while. I have a thunderstorm coming so I'll update later (Loud rumble of thunder). I'm fearing of losing data on the computer so I'll check back.
BTW ice tea to go.
PREPARE YER EARPLUGZ! THINGZ BOUT TO GET LOUD!
MY CHALLENGER CAME TODAY!!!! WOOOOOO!
By now, it needs more attention.
Hoople wrote: PREPARE YER EARPLUGZ! THINGZ BOUT TO GET LOUD!MY CHALLENGER CAME TODAY!!!! WOOOOOO!By now, it needs more attention.
Gee, I wonder if Hoop's Challenger has come in yet...
Pics? or even a wlink to it's web profile?
*Shwers him with confetti*
Evening Gang:
Hoople. Could you speak up some? I couldn't quite hear you. Congradulations.
I got the frame for my rider car for the SW diesel on my 7.5 sand blasted today. That was a very hot 2 hours under the hood. I'll run it over to my friend Terry's tomorrow to get it painted. I'll be glade when the locomotive back on home rails. The only thing is where to park it.
PC: I hope that you get to feeling better soon.
Ryan: Good shots of the turntable. Nice weathering.
Well I'll head for bed now.
Good Night All
thats so kewl man!!!
So eh who wants Dinner Breakfest and lunch?
Army National Guard E3MOS 91BI have multiple scales nowZ, N, HO, O, and G.
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. Sunny and hot. Thank God for air conditioning. Good reason to stay inside and stay comfortable. Did I mention that it was hot today?
Didn't get time to check in yesterday. We went out to the ranch/orange grove and I was pretty much a tired puppy when we got home. Yeah, it was hot yesterday too. Had just enough energy to suffer through another Red Sox loss. (And just had to go through another one tonight.)
Things out at the orange grove still look good. The mandarin oranges are getting a bit more color on them. I suspect that in another 4 weeks we can start to pick them. The few that we bring home now have a lot of flavor, but are too sour to use as straight juice.
Still no progress on the layout. That old armchair has me entrapped.
Coffee is good and strong tonight. From the mountains of Veracruz, of course. And dessert is even better. Fran made some banana bread, but added chocolate to part of the batter to make a sort of banana/chocolate marble cake/bread. Yum!! Could be seconds in the offing.
inch: I was stationed with a guy from Mexico, him and his wife use to make them sometimes. The same way, only they used leaves from corn.
By the way, inch, thanks for posting the photo of the family. Funny, that wasn't the mental picture I had of you. It's strange how you can "know" someone on the net for a couple of years and form some picture in your head of how the other person is that, but have that picture miles off.
Dick - if I even get to build another layout, it will be around the walls and have shelving under it like you're doing. I'm also jealous of the temperature in your parts. 41º at night? That's great!
Rob - I suppose I could say that's good news about the "outlaws". Hope things work out for you. Yeah, I agree with CG Jim that designing a modular layout might be a good way to go. It would allow to you to get started without using a lot of space.
Phil : I'm needing a nap though since I was up all night.
Ryan - turntable and pit look good.
Hasta mañana
Ed
Hi Rob,
you are right the modular building method is the way to go when building a layout if room is hard to come by. Of course when moving every once in a while like myself it is essential to build modular. One thing that I discovered is that there is an awful lot of room available above the door frame. So with a 12 inch or less modular shelf layout one can get a lot of railroad in and it is out of everybodys way.
Mind you being a bachelor is an advantage but this option might get you running trains a lot sooner.
Hope it helps.
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
Good morning ! from Indiana.
09-19-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Jeff- you got any pics of steam or passenger trains on your layout?
Morning guys.
Good morning, all!
Off to Houston today to look at some equipment that caused an injury to a client of mine. It's a device that fits onto a cable that attaches to a cable that runs up a ladder. If someone slips off the ladder, it's supposed to stop them, much like a safety on an elevator. It didn't and my client free fell about 90 feet. He's alive, but pretty broken up. He was working derricks on a drilling rig in Texas.
Yes, I'm a lawyer.
The good news is that I'm going to drop in on Papa Ben's in Houston. That's my chosen hobby shop and has great service and is clean. Even my girlfriend doesn't mind going there!
Having a train get together this weekend at my house. The group has a bunch of shows and layout openings coming up and we're going to use this Saturday to tune up our equipment so that hopefully it will run well when exposed to the public.
Have a great day! Phil, I hope you are feeling better!
Steve
Mornin all!
Feeling better today! Gotta take the wife and son to the bad doctors (Muscular Dystrophy docs) today, so I'm off work for another day. Those trips are always bad. I'll be playing dotor all night tonight.
Hot and humid air will be the rule of thumb today! Highs will be in the mid to upper 80's. Here is a map of highs across the area. Hotter air is building across the west, and will gradually move towards us over the next several days. There is a cold front that will move towards the area, but it will weaken, and lift north as it passes by. Figures, huh? For right now it's not bad though.
Well, I'm off and running!
I pray that today finds you all well!
Oh, and Ed.....thanks! Somehow I just knew you'd have my back!
Just a tall glass of cool, clear water this morning. Thanks!
Just missed bidding on a new kato last night after forgetting to watch the time. Sold for less than I would have bid...dang!
Exhausted beyond words. Have a good day all. Rob
Good Morning.
SSSShhhhhhhhhhh ..... everybody curb the lawyer jokes....there's one on board........ oh, hello Steve, TX...
Philip (Moose) ...sorry to learn about the "bad doctor" visits. Prayers.
Paul.... did you see my note regarding C&S 2-6-0 info I found in my Colorado books?
Ryan ... for great looking turntable. Visited your Piedmont Division website briefly and I am quite impressed.
Just got back from Nashville. No model railroading reports this morning.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/19/2007 Heat Index: 78°FHumidity: 94%Dew Point: 72°F So Far TodayHigh: 73°FLow: 66°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNE Today High: 92 Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Mornin' all!
Just poppin before school.
No pictures of my challenger, I'm not done playing with it!
I'll probably get them in for WPF.
http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATHG9132
There's her web profile though.
Well, looks like I gotta run.
Mark
Morning folks!
I'll have some of that cool clear spring water....oh, and a Hot Cup O' Joe too!
Mike - great to see the new addition to the family and the reunion photo too! Looks like the beard is all ready for the Santa duties this year!
Ed - thanks for the OJ update, Chloe says they have a bit of empty space in the back cold storage for the next shipment. Glad you liked the turntable progress; I have another date with that project on Friday.
Phillip - glad to hear that you are feeling better, hope the doctor visits go well today!
Steve - I'll take Garry's advice and hold off on the lawyer jokes! I bet you have a few to tell too eh! I hope your client gets a good settlement, but the hobby shop visit sounds like more fun!
Garry - What you been doing in Nashville? Glad you liked the website; I spend a lot of time updating it, almost more time than I spend in the train room.
Hoople aka Mark - Congrats on the Challenger!
....let's see what's a brewing in the kitchen....
Oh, that lunch special looks too good....making me hungry already....
Hot Roast Beef Po-Boy.........yummm!
Good afternoon to all......just dropped in for a minute, today I am in the middle of transplanting 150 strawberry plant runners for next year's crop. I also tried to start the 18hp lawn tractor this morning but the battery was real low so I have a trickle charge on it now, hopefully it will start when I go out to the shed in a few minutes. That is what happens when you gave a drought and haven't used the tractor in weeks.
The weather is just spectacular!!! Dark blue sunny skies, temps in the 70's, very low humidity, and this is going to hold for at least the next 8 days!!! Ahhh, nothing better than early Fall in New England....no mud, no bugs, no clouds, no rain, just ideal weather.
And, as if that isn't enough to keep me from the Train room, we have three big Maple trees that are just about dead near the house. All the same variety of Maple tree. I see no signs of insect infestation, the bark looks OK, etc. The other varieties of Maple trees around the yard are just fine. So, I have three to take down, each is about 36" in circumference, and 10 to 15 feet from the house, so this will take some very careful workmanship. We tackle one of them on Saturday when two of my sons will be available to help.
PC: Drink your Orange Juice !!!!!!! How many times do I have to tell you young man !!!!
ED: As you can see, people are in bad need of OJ. All of my younger grandkids have colds. Two weeks back to school and now the adults all have colds also. Around the room layout, very nice ED!!! And the storage underneith is real handy!!!!
Time to run, far too much to do outside ...
Afternoon, Zoe - since NScaler's got the lunch today, I'll have a Dr. Pepper,
a burger,
and some cheesy fries, please.
'Nuther day for the [ugh!] paperwk. Saw one client, and my other one rescheduled (was sickly today, she said). So more time to dig into the paper mountain...
Steve/BaylorMax, liked your MR article. Can you write a follow-up one for me, since I use Macs? Hope your LHS trip (I mean, trip to see your client...) goes well (and you find some good bargains in there). I guess you don't want me to send you my file of lawyer jokes?
Inch, you looked taller than I expected in the family pic. Or was everybody else just shorter? I'd about second Ryan's suggestion for your possible Christmas duty, the beard is a natural for that.
And Ryan, you've been taking rust lessons from Jeff, I'd say! Thanks for the info on the spacer between the rails in the roundhouse, too.
Well, time for me to chow down on this burger and fries. Hope everyone's getting some warmer fall weather today. We're actually in a bit of a drought here locally, so if that rain they're talking about for next Monday or Tuesday arrives, it will be appreciated here. But PC, I think you're right, a lot of it's going to head more toward Inch and Jerry's direction (and across the Lakes) than near either of us.