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Posted by rtraincollector on Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:28 PM

 pcarrell wrote:
Well, I just got back from the train show.  I'm $300 poorer.  But for that I got 2 brand new 4-8-4's (Bmann), 2 brand new 2-8-0's (Bmann Spec.), 7 lighted Harriman passenger coaches, 4 heavyweight coaches, 4 bobber cabeese, 4 steel gons, a wooden milk stop shed, 2 wooden railroad grade crossings, 4 moose, and an aux. tender for my N&W J.  Not a bad haul I thought.

 Sounds like you robbed somebody blind there son think I need to go with you next time lol shame were so far apart.

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Posted by LSWrr on Saturday, January 6, 2007 1:53 PM
Not bad at all for $300

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Posted by fec153 on Saturday, January 6, 2007 1:36 PM

Philip- Well done. Yeah, sounds like you did darn good.

Hope I can do as well on the 20th at the show in Deland [Fla.] Let us know what roads you got and how well they run.

Phil [Flip]

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, January 6, 2007 1:32 PM
You did pretty good there for just 300 smackers.

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Posted by pcarrell on Saturday, January 6, 2007 1:06 PM
Well, I just got back from the train show.  I'm $300 poorer.  But for that I got 2 brand new 4-8-4's (Bmann), 2 brand new 2-8-0's (Bmann Spec.), 7 lighted Harriman passenger coaches, 4 heavyweight coaches, 4 bobber cabeese, 4 steel gons, a wooden milk stop shed, 2 wooden railroad grade crossings, 4 moose, and an aux. tender for my N&W J.  Not a bad haul I thought.
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Posted by Hoople on Saturday, January 6, 2007 11:49 AM
I'm getting very close to advancing to DCC. I just need $33.49 Until I can get a Zephyr and a $20 decoder.
Other than that, the only things new are:
The pacific science center train show next weekend, 3 days long.
(This is wierd cause' I live in Seattle) The Cowboys are gonna slaughter the Seahawks, and so on.
I'll stay for a bit,
Mark
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Posted by TRENT B on Saturday, January 6, 2007 9:58 AM

  Top of the morning to ya!

We got a cool front during the night and we are @ 48 as opposed to 67 this time yesterday. Rain and wind are the GO words for the day.  DCC update- Digitrax is releasing a sound decoder for those of us who don't run KATO. it has both steam and diesel on the same chip which can be actvated by adjusting some CVs for the type of engine. If you want a specific engine whistle or horn then you have to buy the programing/download accessory, then download the file from the Digitrax library.

I'm gonna put one in my new SD 45-2 bicent. Santa Fe.

10:00 gotta open up!

Trent

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, January 6, 2007 8:53 AM
Finding what you want and being able to afford what you want are often two different things.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Saturday, January 6, 2007 8:24 AM

Hope you have fun and find what you want. hope you can afford all you want also lol.

Morning all man it rained hard last night about 3 a.m. it woke me up it was coming down so hard. the wife slept threw it (whew) she would have been a nut case storms scare her. No thunder and lightening but heavy rains.

Seems to be clearing up now for a beautiful day Big Smile [:D]

Well need to get going going to clear this room out some todayYeah!! [yeah]

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Posted by GMTRacing on Saturday, January 6, 2007 7:47 AM

Must be a Baldwin - looks like the box it came in (jusst kidding).

Good Morning All,

      Long day yesterday, went to Ayer Ma to pick up a Caterham for a client - took from 6am to 8 pm including making it able to roll (it's a kit car).

     No model railroad work the last few days but I will get to the museum later this morning. Since PC is buying, I'll have the grande especiale with eggs bacon and rye toast. Coffee and an OJ would be good too please. And maybe a side of blueberry pancakes.  Yum!  CUL,J.R.  

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Posted by pcarrell on Saturday, January 6, 2007 7:24 AM

Mornin' all!

I'm off to the train show!  Have fun!  I know I will!

Philip
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, January 6, 2007 7:06 AM
Lee: The new font works just fine. I'm using Windows 98SE so I had to load it directly through the font manager.

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Posted by LSWrr on Saturday, January 6, 2007 5:36 AM

Good Morning Jeff,

Did that TT Font work for you?

Your missing the baked beans and hotdogs on your English breakfast, LOL

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, January 6, 2007 5:29 AM

 Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. How bout a nice English breakfast.

And now for a peek at the weather in my neck of the woods.

Today's Weather for:  
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      1/6/2007

Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23
 
Wind Chill:  58°F
Humidity:  93%
Dew Point:  57°F
 
So Far Today

High:  59°F
Low:  57°F
Rain:  0.01"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  8mph N
 
High: 63 °F
Low: 52 °F

Important Message: Dense fog advisory in effect until 9 AM cst this morning.  

Today  High: 65    Mostly cloudy. Areas of dense fog in the morning. A 20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.  

Tonight  Low: 55    Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:54 AM

Good morning ! from Indiana. Big Smile [:D]

01-06-07

Clown [:o)]

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Posted by LSWrr on Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:50 AM

Good Morning all, just coffee for me...

I dug a swale last night to divert the rain water and things look pretty good here, it can stop raining any time.

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Posted by PA Belt on Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:58 AM
hey all, im heading off to bed in a littel bit, cya!!
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Posted by grayfox1119 on Friday, January 5, 2007 11:21 PM

OZ JIM: The local TV stations here are calling the storm in the western Australia, your "Perfect Storm". Too bad you can't build a large reservoir in western Australia, like our Quabbin Reservoir here in western Massachusetts, to catch all the rainfall and runoffs for use in the east via aquaducts.

JP & ED : Drew was seen here in Boston area yesterday looking at real estate....tell you something? As for Randy Johnson, it doesn't surprise me one bit. He really didn't do the job that the Yankees expected, plus he had some health issues, and for what they are paying him, and his age, I think it was a wise move. I look for the Yanks to pull off some big deal for a top pitcher real soon.

Time to hit the sackaroo, we will see you guys in the AM, BTW, it is after midnight here and it is 56F (14C)......this is CRAZY for New England in early January...I was out in my "T" shirt today.....never did that before in January.

Dick If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!! Learn from the mistakes of others, trust me........you can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, I tried !! Picture album at :http://www.railimages.com/gallery/dickjubinville Picture album at:http://community.webshots.com/user/dickj19 local weather www.weatherlink.com/user/grayfox1119
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Posted by Txrailnut07 on Friday, January 5, 2007 9:53 PM

Hey all. Not much happening with me. I'll just have a medium Pepsi.

We didn't get as much rain here as predicted. Which is a good thing. We've had enough 'round here for awhile.

See y'all later,

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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, January 5, 2007 8:47 PM

 Cox 47 wrote:
PC...Hope you find some good deals at the show is that a Great American show

Thanks, and yes, it is!

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Posted by LSWrr on Friday, January 5, 2007 7:03 PM

Cox 47: The low here in Ohio tonight is 50F.  The high temp for Sat is 51F. Not normal at all. Normaly Lake Erie is frozen at least 2 miles out by now.  Our 140' Ice Breaker is enjoying the light work load so far this year. 

Oz: By 2pm we had 1.5 inches of rain today, the river will be at 17feet by 8pm and flood stage is 12.4 feet.  How much water shall we send you?

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Posted by Cox 47 on Friday, January 5, 2007 6:31 PM
Good Friday Evening All.....Its been a cloudy rainy day here but not to bad temp wise in the 50's......I'll have a pork burger, onion rings and a diet Coke please.....didn't get much railroading in today....Got a apointment next Friday to have the lift on my van checked out found a dealer in Mattoon which is much closer....PC...Hope you find some good deals at the show is that a Great American show....CID of the NMRA use to hold some shows there......Jeff...sounds like youpicked up some good deals.....I'll just set here enjoy my supper and see who comes in...You all have a good week end...Jerry
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Posted by gear-jammer on Friday, January 5, 2007 6:10 PM
 SilverSpike wrote:

Ryan, Great reminder of what is to come.  If it would dry out enough out here, I would probably mow to level the lawn.  Today it is raining and 37 with snow in the rain and 30-40 mph winds.  So they say that the globe is warm. Hmmm. Laugh [(-D]

Phillip, When we go to a train show my husband has to slow me down because am ready to buy everything with NP  on it.  At least we have decided to get R-T-R rolling stock.  You can go straight home and test drive it.

Sue

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Posted by james saunders on Friday, January 5, 2007 5:36 PM

Good day diners...I'll have a strawberry shake, thanks..

Well there isn't much happening in Oz except on the other side of the country, yesterday a superstorm hit the west australian coast, it formed from a tropical cyclone and a tropical low joining together and making a 2000km storm front 'a once in a generation' event, they got almost 200mm of rain 24 hours or about 8-9 inches and also wind gusts upwards of 110km/h  the storm is slowly moving across the country but is unlikely to hit the east coast.

In other news, Our two main water supply dams, Lake Wivenhoe is at 21% capacity and Somerset Dam is at 30%, if we get no rain by May 2008 the dams will be bone dry. we need at least 50mm of rain to just get run off and 100mm to increase the dam levels 5-10%, they haven't been full since 1999 so coming up 8 years. The dams hold about 1,500 million megalitres or something like that, so there is alot of water normally.

 

All for now Oz.. 

James, Brisbane Australia

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Posted by JPowell on Friday, January 5, 2007 5:08 PM

Evening all -

  Nice weather we're having here in the Northeast so far. Hit 62 here today - record was 60! Suppose to get near 62-65 tomorrow (record is 61) before cooling off late tomorrow afternoon.

Lee - Any chances you can send me particulars (and pics?) on the 2 Conrail GE's you're trying to 'dump'? I'm a CR fan and am going to have CR and a few others on my layout once I get it that far.

Dick / Ed - What do you think of the Yanks latest move - Johnson back to Az?

  Well all, time to go get some grub.

Take care!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, January 5, 2007 4:39 PM
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JEFF: How did you ever get those locomotives for those prices??? You surely did make out like a bandit Jeff. I guess he wanted to lighten his load for end of year inventory.

Grayfox: I do a lot of business there so he was willing to do a deal on them. I bought them more or less sight unseen. They all run fairly well but need a little work, nothing major. One of the RS3's is a Santa Fe (blue-yellow #2099, the scheme I don't like very well.) The other is a SP Black Widow #309. The 2 F7A's are both SP (Daylight #6441 and Bloody Nose #6352)

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Posted by grayfox1119 on Friday, January 5, 2007 4:29 PM

Good evening everyone,  can you believe it actually CLIMBED "up" in temp since 3pm!! It is now 58F and hit hit 60F in Nashua, New Hampshire smashing their alltime record for this date. News flash just came in on the 5pm TV Channel 4 out of Boston, it looks like a Tornado hit South Carolina, it showed cars tossed around and tipped over on the main highway like toys, no deaths reported thank God.

JEFF: How did you ever get those locomotives for those prices??? You surely did make out like a bandit Jeff. I guess he wanted to lighten his load for end of year inventory.

PC: That dinner looks just fine for me thank you !

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Posted by rtraincollector on Friday, January 5, 2007 3:59 PM
Hi all hows it going not much here had to go back a page to get this set right again so elliotts name apears when you go back before and click reply it comes up without it again no biggy its back now

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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, January 5, 2007 3:26 PM

Hey guys!  Dinners on me!

 How's Chicken Marsala sound?

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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, January 5, 2007 3:21 PM
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 TrainFreak409 wrote:
And if you really want to stand out...TURBINES are the way to go. Big Smile [:D]

Is there a model of one of those terbines? I've been looking for those for a long time.

Couldn't you just cut around the box that a loco comes in to expose the wheels, then just paint the box?  Who'd know? Shock [:O]Big Smile [:D]Blindfold [X-)]Wink [;)]

Philip

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