Good morning. It’s 53° and cloudy. The high will be 68° and it will be patyly cloudy. Looks like rain tonight.
Not feeling good today so I’ll be taking a break from the layout. There’s been some kind of bug going around and I think I caught it. I need a break anyway. I’ve been working on locos so much lately I’m seeing them in my sleep. Even so, watching the trio of F3’s pulling fifty NMRA weighted cars like they weren’t even there yesterday was a pleasant sight. Gonna be watching some movies for a change. See y’all later.
Joe & Kev, A few years back CTT did a “How To” feature on an Under The Bed layout. Unfortunately I no longer have it, gave it to a family with a train crazed 6 y.o. Maybe someone else on the Pot can recall which issue it was, possibly scan and e-mail to you or order it from Back Issue dept.
No museum tomorrow, still worn out from last weekend .
Jack, When it comes to dry skin I think I am the worst and it has only gotten worse with all the meds. Now if a cuticle or knuckle gets dry and cracks I bleed like a stuck pig. It has gotten to the point that at nite I sometimes will grease the hands with Eucherin(sp?) cream, almost like axle grease, and have to sleep with plastic bags over them to keep from making a mess of the linens. Bag Balm is good also.
Good afternoonY’all! Very pretty out, but temps were in low sixties. Did some shopping and now I am making dinner for the gang. I am a bit tired, didn’t sleep well last night.
Rich, I heard a FF in Woodbridge died in the line of duty. Sad. I think one of the occupants of the house died too. This a dangerous career.
Did some work on some buildings for the layout. I need to finish up and get them in place.
I am about to leave for work but I figured I’d grab a quick cup of coffee. It is snowing nicely now, but since it rained first the ground is too wet for it to accumulate. Fortunately it wasn’t cold enough for it to freeze either. I would love for the snow to accumulate so the kids and I can play in it; we love the snow.
Kev - I’ll look for your PM.
Dougdagrump - I believe Kev found the issue. I saw an under-the-bed layout in the other magazine a year ago I believe. It was nicely done as well.
Dennis: It was an LODD of a FF/Medic in Hopelawn. I haven’t seen anything else at this time. Updates as I get them.
58 year old volunteer died on scene. Apparent heart attack after getting the truck to the scene, he collapsed. Owner of the hope was DOA in his home.
This, on top of an 8 alarm fire in Union City, left 40 homeless. Started 9 PM last night and is ongoing.
6 PM here on the East Coast…getting ready to go to fire drill. It’s been a busy and deadly week here for the fire service. 2 firefighters hurt at a gas leak/explosion just north of NYC.
OK off to dinner and drill…[angel] for our intentions and those of us ailing.
14 degrees and going down to 6 overnight. We got about an inch of white stuff on the walks, more coming tomorrow night. It was a stay in day so no major news events here. I shall wait with the Banilla…S.J.
A little chilly out tonight. Not going below freezing. Near 60 tomorrow and then climbing. [8D]
Electrical cable buried. In plastic conduit under ground so Wifey can’t dig it up. All ready to wire into box in garage. Hopefully by lunch tomorrow, power will be to the box. Then skirting.
Dougsnotagrum has a wonderful club layout. Been there.
Looks like I am going to be in Charlotte Bass Pro
Shops last weekend in Feb. Ft. Lauderdale first weekend in March at Bass Pro Shops.
Later
PS: sure is quite around here with RT’s computer down. [:-^]
I was looking through some stuff in the closet and came across a couple of items. One is a shell from an old Mantua F unit. I put it on a Varney frame so it can at least sit on a siding. The other is a Bachmann FT shell on an Athearn chassis with a Proto 1000 motor. DCC of course, a DZ125 decoder still set on address 3. It has some pickup issues and feels like it has a cracked gear in the rear truck. Nothing I can’t fix. Once I get it working properly I can put an F7B body on it or maybe an F3B body (don’t have any more A’s) and start building another multi-unit consist.
Well time for me to call it a night. I’m still not feeling well and am very tired. See y’all tomorrow.
Website ate my post, but it might have been a glitch on my wireless connection. Had a nice lunch with an old friend today at a little place in the city - Blues City Deli. Great handmade salami and etc, so good. I had to drink a lot of water, because it was so salty compared to what I usually eat nowadays [(-D]
TARDIS had a little blip on takeoff - had to move some electronics and that of course resulted in loose connection on the stereo and tv that had to be redone. All is well now, so let’s get going!
Good morning everyone. Getting ready for a full day. Plenty of work to do. Got some more work done on the buildings for the layout. Tomorrow is our annual train show, so I am looking forward to that. The next nearest train show is three hours away.
Today is supposed to be near seventy with possible rain. I need to stop and get some fruit trees to plant and also to prune the peach trees.
Chief, I am going to be heading down to Sanibel Island in Florida for a meeting the end of February. We need to try to coordinate meetings and Bass Pro shows.
Gotta get running. Pray that you all have a blessed weekend ahead.
Doug M. – batten down the hatches, Ol’ Man Winter showed up here and he is PO’d. He’s got a frown on his face and is headed your way, hide the women and children [:'(]
It’s a chilly 14 here with one inch of snow over night. Roads are good. We’re scheduled for the southern edge of Laz’s snow. 1 to 2 inches of snow, sleet & rain. Starting after dark tonight. Guess I’m going to have to break down and put the snowplow on the tractor this evening.
Mrs & I may take down the Christmas tree this weekend. Maybe not. We’re still enjoying it and the needles are tight.
Well although it snow all morning and the better part of the afternoon we had no accumulation; the ground was too wet. [:'(] My kids and I were hoping to have a snowball fight when I came home from work, but we had to settle on playing the Wii. I need to finish some schoolwork tonight and then spend some time wiring the blocks on the UTB RR this weekend. I may try to catch the Tardis tomorrow morning (Friday night for you guys).
Ohayō (O-hi-o) Chuck - Aim the snow cannon Far East again and crank it up to high please.
Banks - Thanks. Yes, the cars are lighted. I may try to run them this weekend by jury rigging (twist ties?) them to one of my modern locos. And I’m pretty jealous that you still have your Christmas tree up; that is great.
Good morning. It’s 65 and cloudy. Expecting isolated light showers this morning. The high will be 74 and mostly cloudy. There’s a 20% chance of rain this afternoon and evening then light drizzle and fog after midnight.
I’m feeling a little better today but not by much. This morning I’m performing an inspection on a loco I found in the closet yesterday. It’s an Athearn blue box F7 chassis with a Bachmann FT-A shell. It has bad pickup issues so it’s looking like I’ll be opening up the bottoms of the trucks and pulling out the wheel sets. My thinking is that there’s corrosion where the bearings meet the frame. With my luck the corrosion will be between the bearings and axles. I hope not. I really don’t want to have to take the wheel sets apart just to run a pipe cleaner with Krud Kutter through the bearings then have to put them all back together. I’ll have to take one of them apart in any case as it feels as though there’s a cracked gear in the rear truck. I have enough spare wheel sets around I should be able to just drop another one in. That’s all I’m looking at doing today.
Aloha [ip]. Oh boo, here comes the snow from I-O-Way. A brisk 8 degrees now and anything from 4-9 inches forecast. But I’m here in the city; sure to have a good home-commute story tonight. At least I bought a couple of train books with me…
Winter found us too. It was 4 degrees at 7:30am. We have bright sun and 10 now but sn-- is expected later. Doug M your at work so I guess that van started. Too bad huh. Chief RT may be missing but we can run one page for two days when your at your summer box mansion. I had a restless night, nose is stuffy, me thinks someone shared their cold germs with me…S.J.
