Morning all. After such a wet April, we’ve missed most of the rains. Grey and warm here today. Don, that use of fishing line for the traction tires is just great - should send that into the magazine as a tip. Doug, how does your magnetic sweeper car work? I’d like to put one together. Getting ready for the bride and daughter to go off to Tiffin, Ohio on Fri/Sat for the latter’s freshman orientation. I’ll be ‘working’ at home. Prayers for those in NC. Missed the news of their wild weather. Also missed chatting with the guys these past evenings. Can’t wait to see your acquisitions, Dennis!
Patrick which sets you still missing. Do you have the jimmy johnson boxcar which was a seperate sale item celebrating his championship 2006 year? If not try Grzyboski’s for that. www.grzyboskitrains.com they were selling it for $19.95 a few months ago.
Morning all from the wet but great South of Grits and Sweet Ice Tea [with lemon]. Wingbackizing, been there and done that too. 1.6 inches of rain in 24 hours. Several got lots more. Garden growing and blooming. Cucumbers set out last Monday are full of blooms. Squash are full of blooms too. Cloudy and more rain to come per weatherpersons. Going to run weedeater to trim out at street before it starts again. Pull weeds out of wife’s flower bed I fex in garden every year. She is too laszy to keep it clean. Moved some of her zenias since they were coming up in the wrong places. Wet ground makes for easy pulling and also transplanting. Got to get photos of my new engines and the Ann Arbor box car. Later
PS: Old Timer, you might NOT want to here the Wiemers play. [:-^]
Sunny start today, into the low 70s with rain tomorrow.
The lowly Nascar car engine will pull a lot cars. I have seen that engine at a local show run all day with a dozen cars and they have set it up at other shows as well.
I will goof off today, shopping and grass are done.
Doug M. I missed our ride home last nite. Looked for you.
Ole Timer - Some Coffee Pot posters know my favorite NASCAR driver is Kyle Bush, and when I mention him I usually get comments.[:-^] To me, he is the aggressive talented driver I like to watch, much like Dale Sr. I think Kyle will be as good if not better than Dale Sr. in a few years.
I am always checking out ebay Etc. for additions, but now I look for the “Good Deals”.
RT - I don’t have that commemorative Jimmy Johnson boxcar. I will check out Grzboski’s, and also check to see what else I am missing.
As an aside, anyone know why I no longer get email notice’s of Coffee Pot posts? My email options are all set to “Yes” and the email Subscription is set to “Enabled”. The notices stopped coming when Chief started Pot 7A .[%-)]
DBaker48 Don, thanks for the fishing line tip. Maybe that would work on a hard to do engine like the front driving wheels on my MTH 2900 class 4-8-4. Those wheels are behind a lot of valve gear and other stuff that makes the tire hard to change without taking the boiler off and maybe more. My new GS4 4-8-4 only has traction tires on the rear set of driving wheels. That’s all they need. I don’t know why they put them on two axles on those early engines. It was overkill. Some other manufacturers did the same thing.
Ole Timer, yeah, we all play. The kids and wife are better than I am at this point. I need more practice. We have not been playing all that long, but are progressing. We can play several songs due to the Suzuki method. Regarding the difference between a fiddle and a violin…none. They are the same. I guess it just depends on the music played.
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You are WRONG for DAT! We play a mean “Hot Crossed Buns” and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”.
Howdy all! Late afternoon checkin - looks like we’re gonna get some doozies of storms later on today.
Got to run the trains last ight again with the little ones - man, they love switching things around. Still owe you a picture of the setup with the viadcut platforms setup for running.
Pat … that just goes to show you … sometimes the simplest designs work the best … just look at all those older lionels built 60 + years ago still going strong ! I’m quite sure our newer all circuit boarded up engines won’t see half that … probably not even 1/4 of that lifespan . Heck they’ll outlast us … [^] …
Dennis I think that’s really great … twinkle twinkle little star really is a pretty little song . Violins are about the most beautiful sounding hand held instrument in the world . Of couse I do love the bagpipes also … amazing grace on them chokes me up .
Ole Timer the more I think about it the more I like the postwar/prewar trains. I have a standard Gauge set from 1934 runs like a champ then I have my 671RR and 681 engines that both run like a champ also and then theres my NYC GP-9 tmcc engine from 1996 that the command board needs replacing but the pul-mor engine still runs like a champ. If I run it in conventional mode it runs great if i goto command mode after about 20 minutes to 30 minutes it will either come to a complete stop and need to shut down power to track to get it going again or it goes to conventional mode and since theres 18 volts to track it goes like a bat out of well you know what I mean. thats why I’m thinking of selling my tmcc stuff and engines other than nyc engine and going back to the conventional engines 1969 and before.
Wow … that beat the 60 year mark … 75 years old ! [tup] … GREAT …
Man it’s dumping buckets here in Maryland … I have to setup and level some riflescopes on about 5 rifles … may as well do it while it’s pouring outside . Then lasersyte them in for some guys at the local firing range . I have to take 2 of my own down for finalizing but this rain about everyday puts the damper on that . Heard on the weather channel a bit ago possible tornadoes again in Carolina … hope not .
Evening all. Spritzing a bit. Bride at the movies with a girlfriend, so I’m posting a few photos I just took of SusieQ ready for pickup on the interchange track and a few other things down in Sunday Photo Phun. Now to run trains a bit before packing Susie up for Kurt.
Just had a very big spritz here with fireworks. We were sitting in the new sun room enjoy leftovers and an adult beverage (Chardonay) and enjoying life. I’m thinking this new add on might be even more enjoyable than the train room …
Big moon out but under tornado watch until 4AM. Big storms bouncing around. Did not go to the lake house as big storm up that way. Going tomorrow AM. Think I will turn in early. Mowed grass front and back [again], mowed widow lady’s, mowed pond path and bank, mowed school street shoulder [street to pond] adn trimmed all of my yard and up the street. Sprayed Roundup this AM. Sprayed fruit trees, roses, grape vines and all of garden. Hour and half later it rained. Can still smell the spray so I think it had dried in enough. Then went and elected a new State Senator. Home for Criminal Minds. Later.
It was rainy in SE Indiana, but I did not know the difference as I stayed in bed all day. My innards were acting up again Tuesday and made death look like a pleasant option. I did nothing today. I hope everyone has a good day.
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