Well here is a note from Tammey his wife
"Hello again everyone,
Just spoke to Elliot's doctor. They removed 33 lymph nodes and there was no cancer in any of the tissue. The next hurdle is getting rid of the drain tube, which is an annoyance but not painful. He does not have an "all clear" but this is excellent news.
In a couple of weeks he goes back to the oncologist and we will be given a course of action. Exactly what that will entail we are not sure.
Thank you again for all your support and everyone have a great weekend.
Tammy (train addict in training)"
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening people! Still cold, still a west wind making it seem colder. However the oil delivery came today, and it was less litres than the last one, before the freeze. So the wood stove is saving some dollars!
I think I’ve got the dry brushing sorted out. I was brushing along the bricks, and should have been going down them. There’s still too much white showing for my taste, but if I try for more brick colour, I’m sure to ruin it. Too much time spent on this building already. Just the window glazing and mullions to do, then I can glue the walls together and fit them to the floor / roof assembly (which should slide inside the walls like an arm into a sleeve, wish me luck!)
Dick:
A big train showing coming to NS? Have you guys saved all your $$ to have a great weekend of purchasing? Is it in Halifax?
Scott: Glad the car repairs seem to be possible now. Congratulations!
TV in a few minutes and then bed, so I’ll say Good night, and God Bless. Prayers continuing for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hi.
Just a quick visit. I'm just in from work and will have to go back tomorrow around 9ish A.M.
Der John - I'm off the weekend of the show and Saturday the 31th is very good for me. Hopefully Fergie will be able to join us. All we need to do is set a time.
RT - Thanks a bunch for the update on Elliot. I must have missed the post that says he was not well.
The missus says hello to all.
That's it for now... And it's good night from me and good night from him... (The 2 Ronnies--- Remember?)
Happy MRRing
Evening Gang:
Elliott: I'm thinking about you. I tried to send you an E-mail but something went haywire and it didnot send. Anyway hang in there and I'm pulling for you.
It was cold here today. It never got above 38f. I know that would be like a heat wave to some of you up north, but down here it was cold. There was also a wind blowing that just drove the cold right into you.
I did get some clean up done in the shop. I have to get enough room to build the track sections for the show. I'm using 1/2in x 1in flat for the the rail and 2in channel for the ties. Each section is 10ft long and has 11 ties. I'm going to mill slots in the ties for the rail and weld them together.
I see that Daisy the dog is in bed and so is Mary Ann so I guess I had better get there also.
Good Night All
Good evening gents......14.4F at the moment and headed down, probably 4F by 6am. I spent the night reading and experimenting with chapters 1, 2 and 1/2 of chapter 3 of CADRail Version 8. Making progress, the more I repeat the steps, the more comfortable I get.
LUC: Is that a NEW grandchild???
DER JOHN: A wood stove certainly can cut the heating oil bill, I had not used much of either until 3 weeks ago when the Polar Jet stream settled more to the east and south giving both of us this prolonged cold wave.
PAUL: Right now 38F would seem warm to us up north. But I can certainly understand how you guys would feel after having 70's then get hit with a raw 38F...not very nice at all.
SCOTT: I see the insurance co. came around finally, they try to get away with the least payback they can.....and as I told them when my truck was totalled, " go ahead, find another 1975 Ford F250 with the same millage and condition as my truck and I will be glad to take it" That was the end of that discussion.
RT: That is a big relief to hear about Elliot!!!!! We will continue to pray for his full recovery.
FERGIE: Wherefore art thou???? You are late with your progress report on your project!!!
Time for bed, see you guys in the AM,
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 2/10/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 32°FHumidity: 77%Dew Point: 31°F So Far TodayHigh: 37°FLow: 37°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 8mph NNE High: 55 °FLow: 36 °F
Today High: 52 Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph. Tonight Low: 35 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds.
Bacon and eggs today.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good morning
Dick - That is my great-grand-daughter Haley born Dec 7.
Off to work I go.....
Good morning ! from Indiana.
02-10-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Mornin, coffee and a couple of Bill's doughnuts please Janie
Another cold day here, have +5 now suppose to be up round 25 and some sun this afternoon,
Heading up to Springfield today visit with Jamie and the kids. A stop at the LHS, [maybe both] is planned to, along with some rail fanning along the way.
RT, thanks for the news on Elliot, sure hoping things continue ok. We'll be thinking of him.
JERRY, we're going up to Mattoon Sunday. Mother has a jewlery doings on Sat.
DER, I don't mind going to meets on Sun. I can find some better buys then sometimes.
Best get on ta have to chores an finish them. Hope ya'll has a gooden
inch
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Good Morning, Janie - I see you have the duty this a.m. Since I appear to be first one in after Bill T., I get to have first pick on those tasty donuts, so Looks like Inch snuck in ahead of me while I was writing! Well, I'll pick that cinnamon roll that's under the chocolate one, and a cup of hot cocoa. Thanks, Bill!
Great to hear about Elliott's improvement, and thank you, RT for updating us. We will continue to pray for Elliott's recovery (as others have already said), and for Tammie as well.
We're just in the cooler as Paul and others have been, this morning. It's 27F (-3 C.!), with a wind chill of 19 F (-7 C). Brrrr!! I know, that's the kind of weather where Fergie, DerJohn & Luc are still wearing short sleeve shirts... But as Dick said, at least we haven't been hit with the kind of snow that upstate NY got. I think we're even supposed to warm up past freezing today (34 F) (before dropping back to 20 F/-6 C tonight...) Ah, winter!... Janie, another cup of hot cocoa too, please. Want to warm up my insides some before I go back out there.
Luc, thanks for (re-?)posting the pic of Haley - cute GGD.
Hoping to get the rest of my track nailed down to the roadbed today. I want to have the track all nailed down before I get to moving. Have some of it just held down by pushpins temporarily. I also ordered a couple of Accurail cars (off their website - my LHS has had trouble getting one particular boxcar through Walthers or Horizon). Getting a Santa Fe 40' plug door (1952) and a Western Pacific (50' DD, 1954) boxcar. Not lots else going on on my MRR'ing.
Scott, good to hear you got the insurance company to see the light on your car. Hope you'll be able to get things all fixed and have it looking (and running) fine again soon.
That's about it for me right now. Laundry day, so need to get ready to go do that. [oh, joy!...]
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good Morning All,
good news about Elliot - thanks for pasing it on RT.
Back at work finishing up rewiring a trailer and waiting for a customer to show up. It's up to 16f already with the high today predicted at 31f and partly sunny or partly cloudy depending on your perception of life.
No work on the layout last night - took the CFO out to dinner and vegged out after that turning in early. Maybe later today after work. Sure would like to get the new bridge done enough to fit into place and connect. CUL, J.R.
Scott, gads on your play sounds like fun, i also agree with what some of the others told you. with your car keep hounding the ins. people its the only way to get anywhere with them. Go with the angle thats its a classic and you are restoring it.
You know i never minded winter to much but this deep freeze you're in, in Wisconsin is getting old, its down right painful to go outside with these temps. I tried to go to grand crossing this morning i got up just like every day 3:00 am it was -8 you can't shut the engine down for more then ten mins. at a time and with gas backup up to2.33 a gal railfanning is starting to cut into layout money.
Man i have gotten alot of work done on the layout, this week i installed my new Walthers turntable, it works great the gearing is really quiet. Also this week I picked up a Trix Mike off eBay for $181.00 all i can say is WOW I though the P2Ks sounded great this is even better. It runs like a watch and weights a ton took off up my 2% grade with 20 cars and a cab like the grade wasn't even there. The detail is as the same level as a brass engine but at a third the cost. The only thing that i don't like is it has a dummy coupler on the front. Does anyone have one of these and if so did you find a way to replace the front coupler?
Well till later I have to get all the bus and feeders put into the engine termial area today and tomorrow, and the swicth stands.
Hey Jeff you where up at my time the other day how did you like it? I have come to love it its peaceful, I drive down to work and maybe pass 2 or 3 cars all the way.
Good morning everyone, cloudy today here, and temp is 22.4F, the warmest it has been in many a day. I see they are forecasting a big snowstorm along the barrier between the Northern jet stream and moisture laden Southern jet stream, so you guys in the upper Ohio Valley all the way through Kentucky to Virginia and the coast be aware, it will be a big one. BUT, not like Parish , NY which just broke the 100" mark, and this is ONE continuous Lake Effect storm!!!! Another FOOT is due today!! I saw a picture of a guy on his roof clearing what looked like 4' of snow, the entire house was nearly buried in snow on all sides!!! WOW !!
LUC: GREAT Grandaughter!!!!! You best me!!! I think I am still about 3-5 years away from that honor. She is a little doll Luc !!!! You will have great joy with her great grand dad.
A Question for all you guys and gals: Have any of you bought TRIX Steam locomotives? If so, how do you rate them among the big 3?
Well, back to learning CAD,
Hoople wrote: La la la lala....Waitin' for my zephyr...I ordered it monday...Why is it not here!GGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHH....
I order everything next day delivery and it comes, at the latest, 3 days later.
Howdy all,
Been sick since Thur. nite and finally feeling better.
Thur. morn I replaced my front break pads, only took an hour. Then I stripped part of my layout down to the pink foam. HEY whats wrong with pink? Fergie likes it and he's a sailor.
After that I got to feeling bad, laid down and slept from 12 to 3pm when the wife came home. Yesterday slept all day and didn't wake up til 3:30pm. Then was in and out, hot and cold. Fever broke middle of night and I feel much better.
We Have Elliot and his family in our prayers as well.
Hopple- you might want toget another gray plug piece for your zephyr that way you can just plug in track or program instead of swapping wires.
MY prayers for all!
later.
Trent
Good afternoon one and all: It’s clouded over from a sunny start. It’s a little “warmer”,-5C (24 or 25F).
Luc:
Trent: Glad the fever broke. Sounds like the flu. Did you get the flu shot this Fall?
Paul: Heard tell that your dogs found Mary Ann’s kittens.
Back to work on the window mullions for the office / lab. JR, I think I’ll put a government of Canada Fisheries and Oceans sticker on the front door to designate that your sister has an office there! (In N that will be “nearly invisible” for sure) Good thing I wrote that, because I’ve just realized that I didn’t glaze the doorway! (All glass doors with side lights and transom) Hey ho, the fun just doesn’t stop does it!
TTFN.
Afternoon, Diners! It's all the way up to 34 (F) here, and if you get into your car (where the sun's been shining, it feels almost toasty! Not much wind (5 mph), so the wind chill's only got it down to 30 degrees.
Scored some figures, details and a car at Hobby Lobby today. I just went in to see what they had new, and they were running model railroad accessories at 30 percent off - I guess that would include everything but the train sets, locos and cars(!). So I picked up a Karmann Ghia car, and four or five Woodland Scenics figure sets and details. Saved about $12 on $52 worth of stuff (before taxes), so I was happy.
Fargo, I'm not familiar with the Trix locos, but have thought they look pretty well-detailed in the catalog pics, so I'll be reading along to see what others can tell you(/us) about them. Sounds like a puller, from what you wrote, though.
PC, you and our other upper-Midwesterners had better haul in the rest of your wood, with that storm Dick was talking about coming. Inch, you and Jerry might even get some more snow off the back side of it. Stay as warm as possible and inside.
'Bout time for me to head back home and nail down the rest of the track I have push-pinned down currently (and to take my loot home that I've bought)Aargh, matey!
Blessings (and a warm place to thaw out in),
JimRCGMO wrote: PC, you and our other upper-Midwesterners had better haul in the rest of your wood, with that storm Dick was talking about coming. Inch, you and Jerry might even get some more snow off the back side of it. Stay as warm as possible and inside.
BRING IT ON!!!!!! I've seen worse! Bring it on!!!!!
hey guys
Just thought I would drop in and say hi, cold here so not much fun outside these days. Anybody going to be watching the Budweiser shootout tonight? im glad racing is back on TV I will be even more happier when F1 is back
talk to you guys later
Jeremy
grayfox1119 wrote: A Question for all you guys and gals: Have any of you bought TRIX Steam locomotives? If so, how do you rate them among the big 3?
The only thing i don't like is the dummy coupler on the front. A mike was the gp9's of the steam age, most railroads used them for road switchers therefore they need to have aworking front coupler. I well be looking to fix this right away.
Ah Luc. Would you mind not using the four letter "w" word? Please.
Not much here. I got some more done on cleaning up 30yrs of neglect around the place. Not a great amount, but every little bit helps.
I think that I'll head over to the rest of the forms and check them out before heading for bed.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Hoople wrote: La la la lala....Waitin' for my zephyr...I ordered it monday...Why is it not here!GGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHH....Dids you order it express delivery? If not, it can take 4 to 6 weeks.I order everything next day delivery and it comes, at the latest, 3 days later.
Mornin,, an irish coffee Jaine,
We've got +16 outside now, it was +5 when we got home home last night. Partly cloudy today with a high bout 33. JIM CG was right on the snow, it's suppose to move in latter this evening and into Mon. night. Might even get get some mix with. Then it's back to the deep freeze for the week.
Trip to Jamie's was ok and I did get to one LHS there by her. Spent part of my birthday money, but didn't buy much. They just didn't have any thing I was looking for. I'll save the rest for next weekends swap meet
Did get a few pics yesterday, these are from the Amtrax station up there.
and this one is of a UP at the Y in Findley. Those boxes in between the rail are heat ducts for the switch points [I think].
We stopped in Findley and had supper, got to meet the guy and his wife that on the place. They're into G scale and have a track thats ran around the place. Had a great steak and the visit made it even better.
Plan on some train time today, but not much, figure we'll have grandkids here part of the day. Hope ya'll have a good day and stay warm.
Good morning,
For those CP fans out there I found www.modelpower.com is selling passenger coaches for around $10 in their clearance section.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes