B___U___M___P…Jerry
Looks like I am buying…order up and enjoy!!..Jerry
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
***Tom, any extra rain you have, feel free to send it our way. Granted, that is a long way to send it.
***Lee, would you believe after posting that show, I didn’t make it home in time to watch it? Next showing is at 4:00am, est. Something tells me I am going to miss it again.
Speaking of train shows: What steam train DVD’s do you folks have and/or would recommend? I probably care less about music & excessive voice over than I do sights and sounds of the trains. Some history is fine though. Thoughts & suggestions will be appreciated.
Have a good night, all.
[C):-)] Rob
RUN FOR THE HILLS I’M DRIVING A TRAIN!
RUN FOR THE HILLS I’M DRIVING A TOY TRAIN!
Everyone climb to the top!
Yeah, I’m a bit early today. Just a bit of coffee in a CB&Q mug.
Good Morning from Tipton IN ! [:D]
[:o)]
Good morning.
It 74 this morning, slightly cooler than yesterday morning. It’s also very cloudy. The high should be in the lower 90’s and thunderstorms are expected to raise their ugly heads.
Yesterday was a lot of fun. With the number of thunderstorms that moved through this area I’m surprised I wasn’t off-line the entire day. I also stumbled across a Mantua Tyco loco (Santa Fe 4015). With the parts I have on hand it should make a good rebuilding project. Why? Why not. I also cleaned all the track on the back side of the layout. Lots of fun that was getting the dried glue film off the rails. At least ballast isn’t something that has to be put down more than once.
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Today’s Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/15/2008
Heat Index: 78°F
Humidity: 89%
Dew Point: 71°F
So Far Today
High: 75°F
Low: 73°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph NE
Through 7 AM…scattered showers and thunderstorms over southwest Louisiana back building to the northwest then drifting southeast will produce rainfall rates around an inch an hour into Lake Charles and Sulphur as well as Iowa and Lake Arthur. Scattered showers and thunderstorms over the coastal waters from Johnson bayou to pecan island and out 60 nm will move southeast at 10 knots. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms
Mornin’ all!
Got my new grill yesterday and I broke it in right. The first thing cooked on it? STEAK! And it cooks good too! Tonight…Grilled Fish!
Hey Terry, how ya doin’? Bet you’re glan those treatments are over, huh?
Paul, take care! Prayin’ for ya!
Gotta run and do the work thing. Later!
Just looked through my mail yesterday and found that my new copy of “ABC’s of Building Model Railroad Cars” by Wayne Wesolowski came in. I’ve been waiting a while for this. My old copy, which I got back in the 80’s, had been stolen. I hope whoever has it is enjoying it as much as I did.
Good morning …
Jeff …I saw your choice of mugs. [tup] I had to look twice to see it was you. I have Wayne Wesolowski’s structure building book but not the car book. I have refered to the structure book in past years. I still have some neat old structures I made that may eventually be used on this layout. You said your first copy was stolen. That’s something. I can not imagine that such an item would not be a common target for theft.
Hello PC … You’ve been too busy. We’ve not talked much. Maybe Jeff and you and (quiet) bill can have coffe in the corner for a while. The CB&Q mug is taken, so I’ll have mine in a GN mug.
I like the pictures Guilford Guy posted…
Morning, Zoe - I’ll have some of Ed’s OJ,
a cup of coffee in a Rio Grande mug,
and a helping of Bill T.'s breakfast buffet [dinner], please. Thank you.
Jeff - sorry you were up early, but as long as you were up, did you catch that 4 a.m. Train show that Rob mentioned? Thanks for the info on your shed, too. Good to hear that you’ve replaced your book. Hmmm, wonder where Jeff might be tonight - sitting in a comfy chair with that book?[;)]
Alex, looks like you had a whale of fun at that camp. I guess that’s the trains equivalent of the old thing where people see how many they can fit into a Volkswagen/phone booth (anyone remember those?)/etc. "Hey guys, let’s see if we can get everyone up on the front of this loco. Of course, who was the one to act as the (ahem…) ‘cowcatcher’? [:-^]
Okay, PC - now you have my mouth watering for dinner. What time shall we all show up tonight? 5? 4:30? [swg] Sounds like you and your family will definitely enjoy that grill this summer.[dinner]
Well, it’s about time for that w*** thing. I’ll be finishing up my brea
Gerry, it has been a while since I could just “hang”. Think I’ll take you up on that corner booth!
Jim, those ribeye’s last night rocked! Tonight I figured that I’d rub the fish with some spices, then sear it and cook it. Dinner will probably be around 6:30pm since I can’t leave here til 5. It’s OK though since the sun doesn’t go down til like 9:30 or so.
I’ll be looking at it but not reading it much. Due to bad dyslexia I can’t read near as much as I could before the age of fourteen. I have always had problems with it but in 1974 it got three times as bad. The longest I can read at one stretch is fifteen minutes before the words all run together in a muddled patch.
Jim: did you take a good look at the F unit in this mornings photo? Tyco body on an Athearn chassis. I wonder where that came from. I have Mantua Tyco F unit coming from a friend up north.
I’m heading out to Alexandria so I’ll be off for a while.
Morning folks!
I know I’ve been awhile since paying a visit, but I gotta get something off my chest, but first… and foremost:
Thoughts and prayers to all in need, recovery and care!
Now for my rant…
Yesterday it was announced that Anheuser-Busch, brewer of Budweiser beer agreed to sell it’s interests to the Belgium based brewing company InBev for $52 billion, ending a 150 year history of the Saint Louis, MO based American owned legacy. NPR devoted almost 3 minutes of air play to the story by Adam Allington and printed an excerpt on their site (linked above). Once approved by both organizations shareholders the merger would create the largest brewing company in the world, with an expected production of 12 billion gallons of beer annually. That’s a lot of beer! I don’t even like Bud, but the company brewed 75% of the domestic beer sold in 2007 with $16.9 billion in revenues the same year with an 8.74% profit margin.
Many of the proud Anheuser-Busch workers may have their heads hanging low now because the American based company with many generations of steeped history will soon be owned by foreign interests. The trend towards global ownership appears with increasing regularity and is gaining more ground as it seems American owned interests are being bought up by Japanese, Chinese and European organizations. Is this a good thing for the American economy? Will this trend allow the continual sell off of all that is American? Will “American Made” be a thing of the past? Does the global economy dictate that this trend continue for American economic success in the future? What is “Made in America” anymore and does it really matter? Are we willing to sell off our American heritage for a short term $70.00 per share profit? Anheuser-Busch will!
“There is a price for everything!”
What is
Good morning…the air is as clean as can be today, the front didn’t stall on the coast and it dry, clear air today and 76F…just go to my website below and see the conditions anytime.
The garden is going full blast now that it is mid-July, so everyday there is some work to do, this really puts MRR to the back burner until nightfall.
I was reading today that Heat Pumps are really starting to make a move up here in the north where the temps get below 32F routinely in winter. In the past, they have not been efficient enough at lower temps, but, some improvements have been made and now a company in Maine has seen his business spike up 500%!!! We need to eliminate our dependency on oil here in this country, especially the NE for heating, so this is good news.
Heat pumps have always been good diwn south, now with technical improvements, they are making nice sale up north.
And for you Pellet stove users, get ready for a rise in prices of pellets. Now they are selling FURNACES the burn pellets, and in northern climates that means about 8 tons of pellets a heating season. Guess what that NEW demand is going to do for Pellet supples and hence…$$$$$ of pellets per ton??
RYAN: I couldn’t agree with you more!!![tup] Anything for the almighty dollar. That is what happens when the stock holders only see $$. This country had better wake up soon. The Big THREE auto makers are next, they are deep in red ink and less than 3 years from bankruptcy. The problem as I see it is…the CEO’s and company officers in many American companies are numb nuts, they can’t see what is happening, they are like Ostriches with their heads in the sand. [:(!][soapbox]If you see oil prices going UP, and demand going UP for o
in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC mug, please & thanks!
***Alex, cool photos. Looks like it was a good time for all.
***Philip, grilled fish…I’ll be over for dinner for sure.[swg]
***Jeffrey, some folks are so low. A book I ordered on using auto paints was lost in the mail. Filed a police report so the company could replaced it. Then about a year later I was talking about this same book with my postal carrier when he said, “Oh, I have that book”. I’ve always wondered what the odds were!?!?!?
***Ryan & Dick: DITTO those sentiments from me. And why we are not allowed to use our own reserves is beyond dumb.[soapbox]
Second time this year I left H.Depot only to discover I had also left one bag of items behind. This time 2 cans of spray paint and a metal grinding wheel. For the $13.- I spent on those items, it wasn’t worth the long return trip back to pick them up (providing they would still be there at all). Think I must be over-tired again. Would have been nice if one of the employees had noticed and come after me with them.
Have a good day all.
[C):-)] Rob
Good morning, again.
Wow, lots of talk in the corner booth today.
As for the beer biz, I have a few thoughts. It’s good to have foreign capital invested in the USA. Corporate take overs by foreign companies are nothing new. The ICRR is now in the CN for instance. In general, it makes economic sense to shareholders to invest in companies located in countries that have lower corporate taxes.
As for oil. All of a sudden there are lots of “experts”. Over the decades, Uncle Sam has expanded highways and airports. It takes little thought to realize they incresed the demand for fuel in the process. In the meantime, the government has restricted the production of domestic fuel to accomodate the demand that was created.
The government policies have historically been hostile to exapanding railroad capacities vis-a-vis highway capacities. Railroads are the most fuel efficient mode of travel.
Oils well that ends well. [swg]
I’m doing my best to kepp this non-political.
Happy Model Railroading
Huh?? [%-)] The USA has the highest corporate tax rate of the G-8 countries.
Mark
Ryan, who do you think has been buying those pickups and suvs for so long? The corps. were making a lot of money from them filling the demand of consumers. Now who was it that didn’t have the foresight to predict the future?
Mark
You’re the cook around here, not me!
The big US companies pay 39% income taxe to Federal government. In some states the state income tax is another 12%. Typically it’s lower elsewhere, but some locations have VAT’s and GST’s.
Here’s the comparison in Wikipedia, but read the explanation on how it’s difficult to make comparisons.