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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 2, 2014 11:39 AM

I like blueberry pie....

I figured out how to add some color, but it's not for the faint of heart...  Still working on fonts...

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, October 2, 2014 5:52 AM

The CB is like a port in a storm - no matter how bad, you can always duck in here and get away from all the problems. 

I haven't found getting around is too much of a problem.  But then I just post and go and don't do anything too fancy. 

Now back to more important matters:  where is mah fork? 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:25 AM

To our Moderators   ---   Using an old congressional question..."  Who knew what and when  ? ? ?

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:15 PM

Murphy Siding

 

 
Mookie

 

 
switch7frg

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

 

 

 

Cannonball, make it blueberry and you are on! 

 

 

 

 

 
Mookie

 

 
switch7frg

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

 

 

 

Cannonball, make it blueberry and you are on! 

 

 

 

 Yeah!  Blueberry!  With real whipped cream! Dinner

 

 

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm........  PIE!!!!!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 9:12 PM

Mookie

 

 
switch7frg

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

 

 

 

Cannonball, make it blueberry and you are on! 

 

 

Mookie

 

 
switch7frg

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

 

 

 

Cannonball, make it blueberry and you are on! 

 

 

 Yeah!  Blueberry!  With real whipped cream! Dinner

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Posted by rvos1979 on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:36 PM
If I find the guy that sold Kalmbach on using white as a background, he's gonna find out how unpleasant it is being run over by a loaded semi. Guessing they have never used a smartphone in a dark environment before...........

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 7:28 PM

switch7frg

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

 

Cannonball, make it blueberry and you are on! 

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Posted by switch7frg on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 5:55 PM

WinkMs. Mookie, you start the fire in the corner and I will bring tin cans for the trackside  coffee as well , and 2 peices of pie.   We can have a good time untill the "Bull" comes by.

 

                                                                                             Cannonball

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 4:19 PM

I was just getting used to the other one...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 3:56 PM

Holy cow!  Would you look at the changes!!!!!!

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 3:02 PM

well every time I back space on a thread it goes back to ascending.

If I disappear from this forum you know what happened.  Too many complaints ?

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:44 PM

narig01
Good afternoon everyone from SW Arkansas. Sitting on the porch enjoying the outside. It's 85 degrees and the sun is poking thru the clouds most of the time. UP been pretty quiet since late morning. (This morn after the SB Texas Eagle though the usual parade). Its been a while since I've been here. Thx IGN
 

Come back again.  We always welcome forumers. 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:28 PM

wow like the new digs!! One stack train the the siding when I left work.No local uptown.Chores to do and Matts confirmation class tonight.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by narig01 on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:25 PM
Good afternoon everyone from SW Arkansas. Sitting on the porch enjoying the outside. It's 85 degrees and the sun is poking thru the clouds most of the time. UP been pretty quiet since late morning. (This morn after the SB Texas Eagle though the usual parade). Its been a while since I've been here. Thx IGN
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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 1:10 PM

Got a 2nd brush and another ladder? 

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 11:39 AM

White Out! Methins my eyes are gonna be in poor adjustment for a bit. Are the cheesepickers at Kalmbach wishing for an early blizzard? - Or did the cat tell them about my housepainting timeliness?

 

Gah! Must...turn....monitor.........brightness.................DOWN!

 

Going outside, above 50 degrees, start painting trim on the sunny side of da house.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:18 PM

      One of my coworkers just planted grass seed at his new house.  He and his wife went on vacation this week.  I told him I'd keep an eye on the grass seed and keep it watered.  So far, no problem.  I watered it a little Saturday night, some on Sunday, and a lot Monday, and almost all day today.  Tomorrow, I'll probably just water it about 40% of the time in the morning, tapering off towards the afternoon.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:08 PM

Well, we got our gully washed proper today!  We have had at least 2 inches and maybe more.  Driver & I were on the east and south end of town and we had to pull over twice due to heavy rain and no visibility.  Of course, here at the house we had only had moderate rain.  But it has rained pretty consistantly since we came home @ 5 pm - and I am almost positive I heard a boat whistle on our street.  No flooding predicted. 

I love rain!  Shy

 

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Posted by rvos1979 on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:40 PM
Jeff, welcome to the camera club, our company is installing them in all our new trucks. Got some odd looks from our safety department head after a few drivers asked what happens if they drive naked..........

Speaking of being naked, a log truck hit a school bus in Florida this afternoon, reports of the female passenger being naked, no word on what was going on prior to the crash..........

Well, I have 46,000 lbs of milk replacer to deliver to Guntersville, AL, in the morning, so see everyone later..........

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:34 PM
I'm in Chicago now, having arrived on the Empire Builder only 2:32 late. We did well until we reached North Dakota (as expected). Friday, I will be home again, and will take my laptop to the builder for refurbishing​, and will not have to use hotels' business centers for communication when I am on the road again (the hotel in Seattle does not open its business center on weekends--apparently they do not expect businessmen on the weekends, and do not understand that other people may want to use the facility). Both in Prince Rupert and in Jasper (as well as in other places) no one else seemed as interested in communicating as I was, and I had plenty of time to catch up and to add my thoughts to the milieu.

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Posted by jeffhergert on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:04 PM

CShaveRR

I made the run from Elburn to Chicago in 24 seconds flat today, and have the video on Facebook to prove it!

The G-forces were daunting, but nothing compared to the people who were launched onto the train by the wheelchair lift!  Halfway through the run I saw NS's NS heritage unit (8104?  Red and black), and at Proviso I saw the D&RGW heritage unit and a new GE test unit (2024? Blue all over).  That radiator profile looks like it could scrape a tunnel or two!

 

The Rio Grande unit was on the MNPPR the other night and there was a NS heritage unit (I'm thinking the same one Carl saw) in QNPEL's consist the same night.  We met both out in western Iowa.  

Yesterday afternoon, I saw the UP TV commercial on the History Channel.  I almost missed it, even though I had seen a preview of it on the employee website.

Speaking of being on TV, I had my first inward facing cameral equipped engine the other day.  I imagine it was working, though the ATC/Cab signal wasn't.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:35 PM

Hey Carl!

Since I don't recall getting a "commemorative" car during my visit to your neck of the woods last year, I picked up an Evans 57' Plug Door car, CNW 600538, for my layout.  Now I just have to figure out whether it's going to haul something in or out.

Sounds like we're going to have a wet weekend here.  Not good for the leaves.  I think they'll peak in Thendara this week, and the rain just drags them off the trees.  And onto the rails.  Hope the sanders are working well on the locomotive! 

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 4:41 PM

Should have just given his boys some paintball guns.  They make house paint in ball form?

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 4:39 PM

Murphy Siding
It only took 8-1/2 weeks.

Mine's only taken about that long, just stretched over about four years....

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 4:15 PM

Murphy Siding
  I finished painting my house last Saturday.  It only took 8-1/2 weeks.  If I were given a choice between painting or doing hard time,  I'd choose breaking rocks at Sing-Sing.  I hate painting, but the going price to paint a house like mine is around $4200, so I paid myself quite well to do it.

Painting is easy.  The prep work sucks.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 2:39 PM

2 trains waiting to move on Ns.Didn't see the local.Need to do some chores.Cooler weather coming.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:12 AM

mudchicken

I was on the ladder when Ma Nature said it was time to leave. (there will be a 24 Hr delay on progress)

 

  I finished painting my house last Saturday.  It only took 8-1/2 weeks.  If I were given a choice between painting or doing hard time,  I'd choose breaking rocks at Sing-Sing.  I hate painting, but the going price to paint a house like mine is around $4200, so I paid myself quite well to do it.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, September 29, 2014 9:51 PM

For those of you out on or interested in the Great Plains: My wife saw this documentary on PBS over the weekend (I haven't yet), and recommends it highly:

http://www.pbs.org/program/great-plains/#

Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild

She said the camera work on the wildlife was really impressive, as was the explanation of the Ogallala Aquifer.

- Paul North. 

"This Fascinating Railroad Business" (title of 1943 book by Robert Selph Henry of the AAR)
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, September 29, 2014 9:13 PM

mudchicken

I was on the ladder when Ma Nature said it was time to leave. (there will be a 24 Hr delay on progress)

Nigel got bandages removed today, healing nicely. The donut comes off Thursday.

 

Go Nigel!  Go...well, the house may not get painted before the blizzard.....

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, September 29, 2014 9:10 PM

I made the run from Elburn to Chicago in 24 seconds flat today, and have the video on Facebook to prove it!

The G-forces were daunting, but nothing compared to the people who were launched onto the train by the wheelchair lift!  Halfway through the run I saw NS's NS heritage unit (8104?  Red and black), and at Proviso I saw the D&RGW heritage unit and a new GE test unit (2024? Blue all over).  That radiator profile looks like it could scrape a tunnel or two!

 

Carl

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