Evening Gang: John got the new baler going and it makes the best rolls I've seen. They are real tight and even. We are going to have to find a tractor with a cab. Poor John was wearing a painters hooded coverall, dust mask, and goggles. he did alright untill it got hot in the afternoon. He shut down at 4 and was going to start again in the evening. I guess he'll be finishing tomorrow. The tractor handled the baler just fine.
Since I didn't get to read the paper today I'll cut out and do it now.
Good Night All
grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: Man those Southern gals are tough!!!! Did PC fix you up with her, or was he pullin yer leg?
JEFF: Man those Southern gals are tough!!!! Did PC fix you up with her, or was he pullin yer leg?
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
in a UP mug with a large slice of , please & thank you.
Got much accomplished today and am ready to wind down. Hope everyone is doing well. I'll be in a corner booth, trying not to nod off until finished with the pie.
Rob
pcarrell wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote:PC, I seen 8 month old babies pull better jokes than that.It was spur of the moment........BTW here's your girlfriendUm, Im married. I haven't had a "girlfriend" in almost 20 years.
ModelTrainLover wrote:PC, I seen 8 month old babies pull better jokes than that.
It was spur of the moment........
BTW here's your girlfriend
Um, Im married. I haven't had a "girlfriend" in almost 20 years.
That your gonna admit to anyway... :P
(Sorry, couldn't miss the option since no one else took it.)
-Morgan
What day is this??? Waht what time is it? Why is it dark outside? Did I sleep right through Sunday ??? Man......that was some party last night, Ed, JP and I really were stokin the coals!!! And to top it off, the Red Sox have the best record in the American League, so they get home field advantage, and play the California Angels on Wednesday.
ED: you will have to keep me posted on the playoffs, I fly out of Logan on Wednesday morning for Calgary via Denver.
GARRY: Yup, getting everything ready, charging batteries for cameras, cleaning off the flash cards, checking the long range weather forecast for the Cascades and Rockies, especially in Banff and Kamloops. I have a 300mm lense for the D70 for the longer shots, 80mm to 200mm zoom for the closer shots. I was hoping to stop in to some Canadian LHS's but the dollar is now equal to the Maple Leaf, so no bargains expected in the exchange rate.
SCOTT: When you say you didn't like the music, that is a sure sign your getting older Scott, it's a new younger generation now, and there're into something that I call "Rap Rockin Roll ".
Later guys, gotta run,
Evening - I see Sue was just in a bit ago. Just a cup of coffee for me, Janie. I'm still stuffed from that steak and asparagus earlier (well, there was that piece of apple pie that you found me that PC missed...)
Sue, that's a good idea for keeping the calves close to the barn. Probably a little bottle feeding when you'd be there getting the hay didn't hurt, either. I like the NP paint scheme on their diesels (which you probably could tell a little from my paint scheme for my Colorado, Arizona & Western (CAW)):
Actually, one of the SW900/1200 P2K's that I have is in NP livery. If I could only justify how it ended up down in the Four Corners area... But I can easily justify NP and WP freight cars being down that way (well, in my mind, anyway!). I will have interchanges with the ATSF and D&RGW at the ends of my lines, though. (Hear that, Rob? )
I'll sneak another one of these to the corner booth before PC gets the scent of it. I'll be over there when anyone else comes in, Janie.
Mmmm...mmm...mmm... scrumptious!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMO wrote: Sue, I bet getting ready for those calves will keep you pretty busy. How many are you expecting to be delivering?
Sue, I bet getting ready for those calves will keep you pretty busy. How many are you expecting to be delivering?
Jim, I buy 4 weanlings from the same breeder, after we butcher the previous batch. I will pick them up when they are ready to go. You know shots, worming, and of course banded so they are steers. I bought hay from the same people so I have had a chance to get aquainted with the babies. If you make pets out of them there is little chance that they will get out. They learn to come running when I go out to the barn.
Garry, How is the NP stuff going?
Larry and I talked about our goals for the layout between now and the end of the year. His goal is to try to finish the curved trestle. That means that I need to get a few things done.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good afternoon, Janie, a root beer float and how about a nice steak with some fresh asparagus, please?
pcarrell wrote:Go to church, mow the lawn, and throw in a heavy dose of napping, that's my day today! Oh yeah, gotta get the kitty door installed!
Go to church, mow the lawn, and throw in a heavy dose of napping, that's my day today! Oh yeah, gotta get the kitty door installed!
PC, are you practicing up to be an ORF, with that schedule you're headed in the right direction! Well, except for the installing the kitty door, maybe...
pcarrell wrote:Um, Im married. I haven't had a "girlfriend" in almost 20 years. Hey, now - better treat the CFO as nice as when she was your girlfriend. You might end up outside of that kitty door..
pcarrell wrote:Um, Im married. I haven't had a "girlfriend" in almost 20 years.
Colby, the moss looks nice so far - keep us updated on that as it goes.
Scott, sounds like a good day at work! On the dance, if they don't play the music you like, you could hum your own and dance to that, right? Keep up the good attitude at work, by the way. Good start, from the sounds of it.
Is there a Red Sox game on the TV? - I haven't seen Dick, Ed, or JP in the Diner this afternoon.
Oh, speaking of the Diner, I scored the Dixie's Diner (the one Scale Structures Ltd. makes) on eBay yesterday. May combine it and a Harriman coach I already started. I'll just need to make different signs for it.
Nice afternoon here - only got into the low 80's (F, upper 20's C) and I just had the windows open and the fans circulating the airflow. No more calls from my primary on-call, which has been nice.
Time to work on this steak, though - PC was kind of eyeing it while I was posting, and we all know that guy's appetite.
Enjoy the rest of your afternoon (and evening) - including those of you taking naps. Duke, wake up! You're hogging half the booth, and Janie said the snoring is way too loud...
Hello everybody.
Coffee and cake for me, please.
Scott...........what an improvement! The picture without cowboy hat and with Sarah in it. Very nice. Hats off to you!.
Good to hear from Sue.. Busy there, right.
Good idea for backdrop, Jeff!
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good afternoon. I think that a hot coffee would be just great.
It is stormy here today. I am hoping that the wind doesn't wreck my butterfly bushes. Lazy me. I was hoping to fill the wood shed and then hang them to dry, but I have been distracted.
Last week I worked on the fence, got hay, and worked on the fence some more. I am getting ready for a new batch of calves.
Later, Sue
TrainFreak409 wrote: Hey y'all! A cup of coffee for me please, if you wouldn't mind. Thank ya Chloe.Ready for another day of workin' on the railroad. First day wasn't bad. I've got a lot of stuff to learn, and it's gonna take a good bit of time to get everything down pat. I was working on the shifter building the local train and then building the North bound freight to Harrisburg and Enola. Had a good many high and wides on that one, as well as excessive weight cars. Today I get to be more involved, Friday was kinda just watching and learning. It's cool stuff though, it is.Yesterday was great too, spent all day with Sarah. And finished the night off with the Homecoming dance. It wasn't bad, but they didn't play any good music at all...See y'all later.
Hey y'all!
A cup of coffee for me please, if you wouldn't mind. Thank ya Chloe.
Ready for another day of workin' on the railroad. First day wasn't bad. I've got a lot of stuff to learn, and it's gonna take a good bit of time to get everything down pat. I was working on the shifter building the local train and then building the North bound freight to Harrisburg and Enola. Had a good many high and wides on that one, as well as excessive weight cars. Today I get to be more involved, Friday was kinda just watching and learning. It's cool stuff though, it is.
Yesterday was great too, spent all day with Sarah. And finished the night off with the Homecoming dance. It wasn't bad, but they didn't play any good music at all...
See y'all later.
World's Luckiest Railfan turned railroader
here's the moss for those of you who are woundering
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
ModelTrainLover wrote:Hey Jeff what do you use for your backdrop?
Poster paper painted Nimble Blue (Wal-Mart ColorPlace, color #91424, B-1, D-65, E-46). The background is just a blowup of a photo I found online.
Check your PM's for a long message with lots of pics.
I was just in time this morning to catch this shot of sunrise on the layout.
pcarrell wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: pcarrell wrote: I found a pic of Jeff's new girlfriend!T'ain't funny!Awwww, stickin' up for her? Ain't that sweet?
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: pcarrell wrote: I found a pic of Jeff's new girlfriend!T'ain't funny!
pcarrell wrote: I found a pic of Jeff's new girlfriend!
I found a pic of Jeff's new girlfriend!
Awwww, stickin' up for her? Ain't that sweet?
PC, I seen 8 month old babies pull better jokes than that.
Cederstrand wrote: ***Colby, you must post photos of that moss when it's in full growth. Interesting idea. What kind of base will it be growing on? Rob
***Colby, you must post photos of that moss when it's in full growth. Interesting idea. What kind of base will it be growing on?
Right now I have 6 pieces of moss growing, or at least I think they are growing, 5 are in a styreen dish that I carved out of a trophy holder, filled in with screened dirt leftover from my sandbox that no longer existis. and I have one piece as my experimental currently on my layout. I hoping this works. if the one on the layout grows then I go ahead with phase 2 of my master plan.
Supposed to be in the low to mid 80's today, with plenty of sunshine on tap! I'm down with that!
Inch, I made a batch of that magical fruit the other day! It's both filling and entertaining at the same time!
Mornin,, coffee and a couple doughnuts Janie please
Weathers bout the same as yesterday, sunny and bout 80.
Ham n bean cook went ok, plenty for everyone. One of the guys there just retired from CSX last winter and he brought me a bunch of outdated CSX books. One of them is the Great Lakes Division [which covers this area] timetable. Also ones on signal aspects and indication rules and air brake and train handling rules, plus several others, so I've got plenty of reading to do.
JERRY,, we've got a Kodak that works ok from wally world and it was easy to set up the programming. I think it was bout $80 on sale.
JIM CG,, it takes bout 4 hours to cook up 10# beans over a low fire like that.
bjdukert wrote: Inch That is one BIG pot of beans and you know what the means?? Beans,Beans,the more you eat (and I think you know the rest).
Inch That is one BIG pot of beans and you know what the means?? Beans,Beans,the more you eat (and I think you know the rest).
DUKE, oh yes I know and there were plenty of toots and smiling faces
Best gets round, and I've plenty to do. We've got the vets picnic later and that'll be a most the day deal. Hope ya'll has a gooden n stay safe
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good morning ! from Indiana.
09-30-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Cederstrand wrote: ***Jeffrey, what type of loco is that #4568? Nice details on it...looks great.Wife is home from the night shift. Going to hit the hay now. Rob
***Jeffrey, what type of loco is that #4568? Nice details on it...looks great.
Wife is home from the night shift. Going to hit the hay now. Rob
Good morningToday's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/30/2007 Heat Index: 79°FHumidity: 84%Dew Point: 70°F So Far TodayHigh: 76°FLow: 75°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 5mph NNE Sunday High: 92 Mostly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
Sunday Night Low: 68 Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
I'll start with one slice of every pie in the diner and will eat my way right up until sunrise. Then I'll be ready for a whole pot of coffee. Just put it all on Jeffrey's tab.
Cederstrand wrote: ehough babble.
ehough babble.
***Jim, it could be worse...take a look at the mugs on these women(?)...
http://www.search-female-physique.com/4images/data/media/75/juliette_bergmann1.jpg
and if that last one didn't make you wonder, this one leaves no doubts about steroid use...
http://www.female-bodybuilders.org/pictures/female-bodybuilders-42.jpg
BTW, I trained one bodybuilder for about a year, a long time ago. He suffered 3 hernias in the time I knew him. Now they are living chemistry sets. OK, ehough babble.
Been shopping around for my dream Kato. I don't care for the UP with the black lettering "WE WILL DELIVER" and I'm not so sure I like the lightning (zigzag stripe) version either. Kinda like the pure strait line with plain old Union Pacific. The "wings" are fine, but haven't seen them on the plain versions.
Good night all. Rob
Good evening, Janie! I'll have a brownie hot fudge sundae, please.
Rob, I'm not sure where you and PC are finding those women, but that just ain't appealing to me (sorry if I offended any of the ladies, or Jeff Just teasing you there, Jeff).
Ryan, I forgot to say earlier, but I really liked your photos of the roundhouse project. Did you have to add interior wall details on that back wall, or did it come with that pattern? It looks good, whichever way it was. And when will you put a little rust on the safety rails, to go with the rust on the girder sides of the turntable?
Our church is studying the 40 Days of Community book (same author as 40 Days of Purpose), and today we had 900 people at church at 7:15 a.m. for a service 'Blitz' (helping the community in some way - see article here on the church's website, or a write-up in our local paper, which incorrectly says that Rick Warren attends here - he's in California). It was something else to see that many people come out to help others.
I was amazed that I got up at my usual weekday time this morning, but got out the door an hour earlier. I did get called out by my on-call this afternoon, but was able to wind that up in time to make the 5:30 service at church.Of course, tonight I'm a bit tired, so I may head off for bed soon (after I finish my hot fudge brownie a la mode). Just hoping that my on-call doesn't need me again tonight.
Blessings on rest of your weekend,
Howdy...
Next time somebody picks on Jeff, he'll dispatch one of those girlfriends to the person. That'll put an end to that immediately.
Duke, thanks for the remarks on the photo in October trackside photos. Ryan asked about how I did it. I don't regard myself as much of a photographer. I took numerous shots with the digital camera until it seemed acceptable. I sent it to MR and one of the editors coached me a bit to improve it some more. I resubmitted, and it was accepted. It was published a few months later. I tend to have depth of field problems if camera view is looking down the line; so I opted for a broadside closeup shot to avoid that issue. Also, the camera's best focus is in the center of the picture, so I cropped off much of the scene that was away from the center. Placing the red automobile in the center helped my camera's auto focus, too.
We were at a church fund raiser today and we were high bids on two homemade cakes, a carrot cake and an Itlalian cream cake. More than we can eat, so it's on us in the Diner with the cakes. Unlike certain key lime pie fans, we share.
Happy model railroading.