Anyone want to see a first-class transportation system late at night over here?
http://www.railserve.com/jump/jump.cgi?ID=22404
A train almost every minute!
Good Morning from Tipton IN ! [:D]
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Seeing as how Alex has TOP honors I’ll have the bacon and eggs.
Good morning.
It’s a warm 79 here under somewhat clear skies. The high is expected to be in the mid 90’s and there’s a better than average chance of rain this afternoon.
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Today’s Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/13/2008
Heat Index: 85°F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 73°F
So Far Today
High: 80°F
Low: 78°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 6mph WNW
Through 7 AM…a few sprinkles may be Felt across the lakes area of southeast Texas as well as central Louisiana as decaying showers from the north continue to spread south into the region.
Today High: 95 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Light and variable winds.
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Morning all!
Just getting ready to do the work thing here. Gotta go pick up my new grill later today. I got one of those Jenn Air grills. Should be nice and last for years.
Oh well, gotta run!
Later!
Morning All
guess I’ll have a cup of tea and hang out in the back booth for a while
Seems strande not to be headed to the Hospital after 30 straight treatments
Hope that new grill does Cheeseburgers Philip
Good morning all…Its sunny and very pleasant here this morning posta be in low 80’s…I’ll have biscuits and gravey with coffee please Thank You…my brother brought his glass cutter yesterday and we got the mirror for the back drop cut…I plan to glue it in place today…and work on blending it in with some WS stuff…Got a passenger car that I’m gonna make a chapel car out of may work on that too today…gonna slip into the booth with Terry and see who drops in…You all have a good one…Jerry
It looks like we have some very nasty storms coming in, so I’ll probably be off for a while.
Afternoon. Taking miss Tally to the vet, then up to see dad and his sister and her husband got in today/last night on Amtrak. Then I’m off to train club for some viding.
Chalk up another thing I’ve managed to lose. Chapel Caboose is going great, but it’ll work better if I knew where the underbody frame with the trucks and couplers on it was… [banghead]
Good morning all,
Sunny skies for the next couple of days. Tomorrow should be interesting, my first day to publish the Local Notice to Mariners (LNM) for the Great Lakes.
Jeff, there is a brown parking garage next to my office here that looks like your air conditioner! (just a little bigger)
Lee
Strong
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Have a great day, all.
[C):-)] Rob
Mornin’ everyone. high here is supposed to be 90. So far, the high has been: 93. A 50% chance of showers. Tom & Jerrey is on the telly right now (I couldn’t resist[:P])
RFDTV 6:00est “New York Central” Documentary (2008) First Generation diesels in action from Manhattan to Albany.
refill, thanks. [C):-)] Rob
Morning everyone–
Third straight day of no smoke and Delta breezes, I’m getting SPOILED, LOL! The turn in the weather has allowed firefighters to get a handle on the three biggest fires here–Big Sur, Butte Complex and the American/Yuba River fires. Should be contained in about another week. We had a series of very WET thunderstorms come sliding up the Eastern Sierra and oddly enough, some ‘flash-flood’ warnings with them. One area on the eastern crest got 6" of rain. Man, sometimes out here in SunnyCal we get too much of EVERYTHING! [:O].
Worked a little on the layout yesterday after Mass. Found another project (do we ever run out of them?), this time on the Champion Mine. Started in on a little trestle/ore dump site for those teeny-tiny ore cars. Taking a break from the Buttes for a little while–got tired of mixing Sculptamold.[:I]
Terry: Glad to see you back in the corner booth. Hint: Pass on the “CaliforniaBurger”, it’s got Avacado and shrimp. Don’t ask me WHY, but it’s sure as heck nothing I’D eat! [xx(] We’ve been inundated with what people refer to as “California Cuisine” out here, and it’s stuff I’ve never even HEARD of, let alone eaten, and I’m a Native.
Well, have to get ready to go over to the high school and hash out my new part-time contract. Hopefully I can get Tuesday through Thursday, and give myself a four-day weekend. WHAT retirement, LOL? [:-^]
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
What do you know, it was a 50% chance of rain, and right now it’s POURING outside.
Afternoon, I’ll have a cheeseburger loaded, onion rings n ice tea, Zoe. No kids today, the other grandma’s are stuck with them So, I’ve been outside doing chores, got some sage n mint cut an drying, plus a little garden weeding. Got a little mowin to do latter now that the dew burnt off. Another nice day here, to bad it won’t last.
Sunny skies and pleasant temperatures are on tap for us today. Comfortable northwest winds will stick around all day keeping the humidity levels low with a daytime high in the lower 80’s. Expect clear skies tonight with cooler temperatures dropping down into the upper 50’s. Tuesday stays pleasant with sunny skies but warms up a bit into the mid to upper 80’s with southwesterly winds. Summer heat moves back in by mid week with daytime highs climbing into the lower 90’s Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Garry,
We were going to swing by the re-building yard on the way back from your house, but by then all we wanted to do was head back to camp n rest. Besides, I think Deb had enough trains for one day [believe I’d had to walk back to camp if I’d said anything other wise. Mother wants to go back down there sometime and camp on the KY side, so maybe next trip.
Paul,
Good to hear the surgery went well.
Dick,
Check out your weather link, looks good, so, when ya putting the camera in. How’s your garden doing, we’ve been got peppers n snow pees put in the freezer now, sliced cucumber n fried green matter for supper. Mother was out there last night n found some tomatoes starting to turn already. And with 49 plants there should be enough to can and have some for the Dinner in a couple weeks.
Best finish this burger n get back ta chores. Thoughts for those in need, n ya’ll have a gooden
Good afternoon…3H weather here today and cloudy most of the time as a very slow front approaches. Trying to balance the workload between inside and outside stuff. Two days ago I was nearly thrown off my old 1980 Wheel Horse lawn tractor. The lead bed roller hit an old cutoff tree stump that was up only 1" above the ground but the bed hit it square ON and it stopped the tractor instantly. Of course the 28 year old battered and torn mower bed is trash. Today I ordered a new 36" bed shell, $314 plus a few replacement parts for the bed. A whole new bed was $990!!! [B)] Most of the olde parts are OK on the old bed, so I will strip them off and reuse on the new shell. Always something to do.
MIKE: Thanks for comments on the new weather reporting page online. I also added the site web address to the bottom of my signature area below this thread reply for ease of checking at anytime by anyone. CAMERA? It has crossed my mond, they are really down in price now, and made very rugged for outdoor use. I can easily mount one on the equipment pole, which just happens to be up in the garden area also. Then you can check on me and give me h** if I slacken-off with my weeding etc. LOL [:O] You are ahead of me with peppers, we received some colder weather back in late May that slowed them up a bit, but I have plenty of small peppers on the plants now. Good idea on the mint and sage, with the cost of spices today, it REALLY PAYS to raise your own food if you can.
TRAINS: I noticed on the TRAINS forum that one of my neighbors who was at Palmer on Saturday for the big Railfan event on the CSX mainline at the diamond, has posted some real nice photos of frights and car carriers, as well as a Utube video
Thanks ROB!
I hear Tracks Ahead new season starts in January 2009. I wonder if they will start showing it on RFD?
Lee
Good Afternoon, Zoe - no, I didn’t fall off the edge of the earth over the weekend;, just been busy. I’ll have a cheeseburger and a RBF, please. Thank you, ma’am.
Flash, glad to hear that your Dad’s doing better than it looked for a bit. The caboose looks good - and unlike Tom, you don’t have Spooky or other cats stealing your work partway through…[;)]
Jeff, that would sound like hazardous duty to me. Glad you zapped the wasps before they got you. And was that an Irish railroad shack you had in that one pic of yours?
Terry, enjoy the extra time, now that you’re not on the road every week for the treatments. You get to kick back a little now. [yeah]
RT, I hadn’t actually shipped the MR mags yet. [oops] Got sidetracked, and haven’t found them yet among the stacks o’stuff. That sounds neat about your getting the board and track ready for that vet. In iNvisible scale, he’ll have lots of room to expand later, too. And excellent scores on getting the command control items. [tup]
A lot of Diners stopping by, I see (besides my catching up on the weekend’s posts while I was gone).
Alex, looking forward to your report on the train camp.
Nittany, congrats on your shrewd shopping skills. [yeah] On the Bowser kit, you could paint over that RR’s logo and add another using decals.
And another [#welcome] ba
If you’re reffering to the one in this mornings photo:
That’s a scratchbuild I did some years ago for my nephew’s layout. It’s modeled after a similar structure outside Leesville. The roof is made of thin strips of masking tape painted green to simulate green asphalt strip roofing that was so common in this area at the time the structure was built.
Hello …
Johnboy … Thanks for the book review. I will order it.
Jerry says he’ll also make a chapel car. We’ll have several, and I like that.
Inch … There’s always next time. I’m glad you posted the pix of the IC 2-8-2. I hope more people will be in the area to stop by. I should have mentioned Patti’s Settlement at the north end of the lakes has the best pork chops anywhere.
I can hardly wait for the blueberries to arrive. First batch is from Dick, and second is from CN Charlie. Any more?
I’m glad Terry is on a normal scheduale and certainly hope the treatment did its job.
Flash … still have your Dad on the prayer list, too.
I noticed Rob orders coffee in mugs for various railroads. None is CB&Q. Humffff
In the layout room, I’m making final plans for the next part of the layout. It will include a double deck reverse loop and will be the connection to my planned city of Heartland.
Happy Model Railorading