Elliotts Trackside Diner (est 1-1-07)

[TRENT B]

Howdy Folks,

You guys aren't gonna belive this! Chloe, Cherry limeaide easy on the ice, Please!

We just got an American Flyer collection from a person that is in EXCELENT or Mint cond. There are a huge # of engines that I'll be doing a basic service or check up on for weeks! There are sets still in their boxes NEVER been run!!

Oh, found that set for my daughter that I'm gonna take to her this summer!

Things are getting to be ssooo cool!

Linda- hope my humor didn't offend you as sometimes my wife says one needs to add water to my jokes!

Y'all take care.

Trent 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Hi Gang: I went to the doctor this morning. He thought that it may have been something I ate. Anyway I'll go back to work tomorrow.

JR. That's is tragic about that young man. Do they have any idea what caused that?

The weather here has been warm also. It's in the upper 40s and fog and drizzel. Not the normal for here. I'd really like to see some frezzing and maybe snow. The bugs and weeds need tobe frozzen out some.

Robert: Good going on the right of way. That is eenough space to keep you busy and out of trouble for awhile. By the way, did you salvage anything else out of the fire?

 Well I'm going to go to bed for awhile. I'm still run down.

See you all later.

[Anonymous]

Attaboy, Attaboy that's deep man, and you would be right. Fargo

Train lover i guess we'll know that one when we get there. Just hope they have Mike's and F units running non-stop when i get there.

[Cox 47]

Afternoon all...Its cloudy with light rain here posta rain all evening.....I'll have a windy city dog drag it thru the garden,american fries, and a butterscotch shake...Thank you.....Wheel are turning again...Caregiver took tree down got the cover folded back pluged it back in and trains started running.....I figured i have to clean track but I guess the cover did its job....I liberated the N scale John Deere tractor from the key chain it was on that I picked up at Rural King not bad for a couple of dollars...Then I tried the LL FA I got from Ebay and my luck ran out light works but nothing moves took the shell off looks alright need to test it out more..Anybody have any experience with one any advice?....The lift on my van stopped working yesterday at Dr's  goes up and down but not in and out called the company that put it in and they told me a service call by it's self would be 130.00 looks like I'll be staying in martinsville for a spell Oh Well thats not a bad thing this time of year....Well I got a coal drag that needs to go to the interchange..You all have a good afternoon ...Jerry

[pcarrell]

How many of you bleve that there is some thing after death?? because we had a disscussion about it in english class.

I think its pretty obvious that I do, but I'm not sure this is the right place to discuss that.  If you want to talk about that just Email me.  It's one of my favorite subjects to talk about actually.

I do hope you weren't posting from class though, because school is important.

[Txrailnut07]

Howdy all. I'll have some scrambled eggs, sausage, hashbrowns, and a medium orange juice.

Thanks for the comments on my layout room. I already have a basic benchwork design down. Now I need to start the actual design of the layout. If I could show you, I would. I don't have a scanner yet.

I have a few questions? How does one get a good design drawn on paper. I have the CTT Inc. HO Scale template, and I need some pointers on the best way to use it. Also, I have Xtrkcad and know if you register it you can design larger layouts with it. Does it cost anything after you register it?

to all the newbies, btw.

Today, Jan. 4, 2007, I'm getting rain. The area south of Jasper, southeast of Woodville, and west of Louisiana. Well, the "Deep Piney Woods" if you want specifics.

Until later,

[SOU Fan]

Dekruif, I'm sure there will be more and better auctions on eBay.

I just won a Athearn Genesis SD75M for $53.09 shipped.  Not too bad eh?

-dekruif

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Yeah, I had plenty of that in the military. Hurry up to get there then wait all blasted day for something to happen. LOL

[Attaboy]

Lunchtime folks, I'm in the mood for some pepperoni pizza Chloe, thick crust and throw on some extra pepperoni.

fargo and Jeff said:

Yup,not to make any resolutions,that way there's nothing to break!

My resolution was to make no resolutions.

Didn't you break these resolution by making a resolution not to make a resolution? Oh, my head hurts!

Paul, sounds like some early symptoms of ORF syndrome to me.  Better take it easy.

See you later.

[JPowell]

Afternoon all -

  It's a balmy 54 outside right now, after a morning low of 30. Suppose to hit 56 by 2pm and be back down to 51 by 5pm.

  Well all, I just stopped by to get a nice think malt shake to go (have work to do that requires immediate attention - ya'll know how that is in the military...Hurry up and wait?!?)

Take care!

(EDIT: Looks like I got TOTP honors today! Enjoy and don't go to hard on my cc.)

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Hawaiian pizza? Comin' right up! One platter, heavy on the sauce and dress it with ham and pineapple!

[ModelTrainLover]

hey guys! it's right before lunch in English. How many of you bleve that there is some thing after death?? because we had a disscussion about it in english class.

I'll have a Hawiian Pizza and a Root Beer 

[SilverSpike]

How about a tall cup of coffee over here Chloe!

Stayed up late past midnight watching LSU beat up on ole Notre Dame. The Luck O the Irish just was not enough to keep LSU from racking up 41 points. And it was nice to see the Sugar Bowl back in New Orleans too.

Philip, nice looking pancakes, thanks for providing the breakfast special yesterday! Also, that Berkshire is now on display at the Steam town Museum in Pennsylvania

Jerry, I bet that was a fun trip riding with the NPR #759.

Der John, what the snow won't stick? NS should be covered with the white fluffy stuff by now, huh!

Dick, enjoying the balmy temps in January, eh!

Jeff, got any of that beef stew leftovers for us hungry folk over here in the corner stool?

Paul, hope you are feeling better soon. Chicken broth and crackers might make you feel better.

Well I thought it was great to see and meet all these people.  Anybody make a New Years Resolution?

The usual, loose weight, exercise, and eat right, drink plenty of fluids, and take Geritol! Just kidding on the Geritol part.

Dave, sounds like an interesting place to work. I currently work at the EPA National Computer Center here at the RTP in Durham, NC.

It is amazing how much processing power they can put into a CPU these days. Memory and drive space too is getting cheaper and cheaper every day. We went to Staples office supply the other day and next to the check out register is an impulse buy container full of small 40 MB USB thumb drives for $9.99 each. I just laughed and remembered my old 286 PC from 1991 with a whopping 40 MB hard drive, and I paid over $1,300 for that PC back then.

J.R., sorry to hear about your loss, that really is a tragic event. Our prayers and thoughts to you, your family, and the surviving families.

Lynda, what type of coding do you work on?

to the Diner Derrick!

[der5997]

Good morning everyone.  A medium JR Regular and some scrambled eggs please Zoe. (Thanks Trainfreek) Slow work on the scenery last night, I’m into a section that requires thought, and that’s a major pain!

Dick:

I was watching one of Pentrex's DVD's on the 50KV rail-line that was built in the 80's in BC to the mining areas....

...I haven't seen them "in the flesh", we never got that far north.   I take it the power is from catenery, right? 50K is a lot of juice! 

Lee:

Well I thought it was great to see and meet all these people.

…Well, I thought it was pretty fantastic too, but missed the stars thing, because I nearly always come in the back way (the door marked “Bookmark”, just watch for where Luc drops off the logs for the woodstove.)  Thanks for doing the number crunching.

Yes my New Years Resolution is: To put together all the buildings and stuff I have picked up over the last 30 years before spending any money on new stuff.

…Does that ever ring a bell.  One of the reasons I’m out of the gate running this year on the scenery is that it’s been sitting unchanging for well over 6 months. As for buildings, There’s way too many cardboard boxes and card mock ups…not a single finished building in the whole lot.  That’s my goal I guess, build, build, build.   <>

Robert:  Congrats on scoring the garage. That’s great news. Hope the budget comes in for those expansive plans!

RT:

I understand why people charge so much extra on S&H is to make up for ebay/paypal fees.

…I’ve given up on eBay.  The shipping charges killed any “bargains” there might have been for me.   <>

JR:  We’ll be praying for Dave and Erika , the Handy family and for you folks too. That is a terrible shock, especially at this time of year.  It’s good to see the support from their friends. 

Fargo and Jeff:

Hey, the weather's wierd all over.

…Yesterday all the Provincial Capitals in Canada were above freezing for daytime highs.  January 3^rd., and not freezing… 

Derrick, care to tell us a bit about your mrr / railfan interests? 

Got to go, TTFN.

 

 

[Derrick Moore]

Hello. Stopped by for b'fast.I'll have some eggs, bacon and sausauge. Just drove from Ridgecrest, CA thru Denver. That snow was . Saw 3 accidents, and a train got stuck in the snow. Name's Derrick.  

[pcarrell]

GMT, my prayers go out to Ryans family.  Thats a tough loss for sure.

Jeff, it's looking like rain around here for a while too.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Hey, the weather's wierd all over. It's 62 here today. This time of year it should be mid 20's to mid teens, possibly colder. Heck, my father mowed his grass LAST week!

[Anonymous]

Man i can't beleive the weather we have been having 48 and sunny today its 1-4-07 and its Wisconsin, we should be at 10 to -10 its going to cool for the weekend 30 that cool now? Then back up to the mid to upper 40's global warming ? We haven't had a winter for about 6 years now. Will i get to spend the day in the basement again, my wife gets to work she runs a day care here thats why i get so much done on the layout all the time, but i think she's getting a little on the jealous side. I get 6 weeks of Vac a year and she's lucky if she gets 2. Its kind of fun to rub it in alittle. Was up at 2am this morning went to Grand crossing

[Anonymous]

Good morning from Omaha.

It's a balmy 39 degrees here.

No meetings today, so I'll actually get to do some coding (yippee!)

Lynda

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

      26 F this morning but we should see the mid 50's and sun most of the day. Better than 40's and rain predicted a couple of days ago.

      Lousy couple of days here. Tuesday I got the first prep of the year done and the client on his way to Sebring and Homestead for some early races. That was the high point. Tues eve and yesterday were the wake and services for my friends son. Ryan Handy was fifteen. He had been helping his dad run their vintage tire business out of Danville Va. though I'd know them since they were from Redding,the next town over. Christmas day Ryan didn't feel well and ended up going in hospital. The next day his systems shut down apparently from a massive infection and he passed away. Ryan was a bright, cheerful, hard working young man, an avid and talented guitar player and active in sports. For him to have been taken from us so young is tragic, for his parents and the rest of us who work at the track with our children the loss is incomprehensible. I hope it was some comfort to the parents Dave and Erika that members of the racing community outnumbered the family at least two to one with people driving four or more hours and coming from as far away as Michigan to support and console them. Not a good couple of days.

Time to pick up tools - I'll try to catch up with posts later, CUL,J.R.

[claymore1977]

Morning all, back at the old job.  Egg. ham and cheese sammich if you will Zoe!

Jeff:  More rain?  Flash Floods?  Doesnt sound like a lot of fun.  To expand on your computer post a few pages back, I work at Army Research Labs up in Aberdeen, MD home of the original Arpanet and 2 of the worlds 13 root DNS servers!  We are in the process of upgrading all of our SMP servers to newer technology as the buying freeze has recently been lifted.  Some directorates were still running their Crays :)  We are outing a ton of SGI Origin 2000 & 3000's machines and replacing them with quad socket Opteron Boards with 880 series CPU's in em.  Since AMD plans to have their Quad Cores out this year, we are holding off buying all the server horsepower we need in favor the the 4x4 configs we can get off the quad cores.  Half the hardware density is a definete plus.  5 years ago I never would have imagined that one could get 16 4.0GHz cpus in the same volume as a standard desktop case... amazing!

[rtraincollector]

Well to all your sellers I see ebay is going up again on there fees  its getting to be almost a every 6 months thing that there raising there fees. You would think (I've notice on my trains anyway) that items are selling for more lately that that would make them more money anyway with out the increase but guess there not getting there pockets full enough at the top . I've basicly have stoped selling on there because of that and have stop accepting paypal for that reason . I understand why people charge so much extra on S&H is to make up for ebay/paypal fees.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. This morning I'll have the cheese and mushroom omelet.

Today's Weather for:  
Sundown, La 71446-6114      1/4/2007

Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23
 
Wind Chill:  51°F
Humidity:  91%
Dew Point:  51°F
 
So Far Today
High:  55°F
Low:  54°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  12mph ESE
 
High: 58 °F
Low: 49 °F

Important Message
 
Flash flood watch in effect through this afternoon.  
Now through 05:00 AM CST January 04, 2007
 
Through 5 AM...showers with a few possible thunderstorms will move northeast at 45 mph across portions of southeast Texas...as well as southwest and central Louisiana. Some of the heavier rain showers will extend from Woodville and Jasper to Orange and Deweyville to between Cameron and Lake Charles. Rainfall rates with these showers will be between one quarter to one half inch per hour. Over the coastal waters...showers with a few possible thunderstorms will move northeast at 40 knots across areas between Marsh Island and High Island out 60 nm. Some of this activity will produce heavy rainfall reducing visibilities below 2 miles.

Today  High: 62    Showers and thunderstorms...some thunderstorms will produce locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds at times. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100 percent.

Tonight  Low: 52    Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds around 10 mph.

[LSWrr]

Good Morning All,

Yes my New Years Resolution is: To put together all the buildings and stuff I have picked up over the last 30 years before spending any money on new stuff.

Robert, that's good news about the space.

Dekruif, I'm sure there will be more and better auctions on eBay.

Speaking of eBay I didn't have much luck this year on selling stuff, maybe 2007 will be better. Well after (almost) 2 weeks off work I'm heading back.  They should give you a half day on your first day back from leave, LOL.

Lee

[wetidlerjr]

Good morning ! from Indiana.

01-04-07

[Anonymous]

G'nite, y'all. It's past my bedtime, and at my age it's not good to miss out on too many industrial-sized beauty sleeps.

Lynda

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Robert: That's great news on the layout space. Wish I had that much space! I wouldn't know what to do with it all.

[Txrailnut07]

Hey all. I'm back. I'm gone a week, and you up and move on me. Thanks for atleast leaving me a map. I really like the new digs?

Seriously, I lost my dial-up service and decided to wait to get AT&T/Yahoo DSL. Now I have it. Woohoo!, I've had a few probs with it, but it is faster.

NEWS BREAK: I have some really great news? My mom said "I could have the whole garage". That means I have a space of 19' 6" x 17' 9" for a layout, with a work room of about 10' x 6' (approx.). Not all of the layout space will be used. I have to make room for the backdoor in the house. More on this developing story later.

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Until later,

[SOU Fan]

Searching ebay tonight and I just missed out on a Athearn Genesis SD75 for $50.y dad couldn't decide in time.

 

-dekruif

[trainfreek92]

hey guys whats going on tonight?