And a Happy Birthday to Ray and a belated one to Robby.
Finished tearing apart the Cooper/Chevy motor, added some mising pieces and fixed a couple of other things so it’s off home in a bit. Electrician has finished up for today and the equipment is working as intended so that’s all good.
I see PC has found what happens when you pay peanuts (you get monkeys or at best elephants).
Speaking of elephants - here is an elephant graveyard.
And here in the deserted streets of the panicked city, the Martians are preparing to land. Will they be handing out peanuts? Fanmail from some flounders? Sorry too many fumes today I guess.
Welb, I got told that there will be a pre-admit on Wednesday–the 1st of December for the surgery—the surgery will be on the 10th of December for my ICD—I can haz normal heart rythym?[;)]
I’m all too busy with work stuff—have a good weekend!!![:-^]
Had a very good Thanksgiving yesterday but last night wasn’t so good. It sometimes takes me a while to get comfortable enough to get some sleep due to pain in my neck, back, ribs or knees. Last night it was all of the above and I got only an hour and a half of sleep. Hopefully I’ll get more tonight. It’s supposed to be 30 tonight then in the low 60’s tomorrow. Don’t you just love yo-yo weather?
Flo, just a decaf for me… Overate big time at my son’s house today.
Thanks for all the good wishes for you folks! I did have a great day. Got to watch my Granddaughters for a few hours while my son, his wife and another couple (old high Shool buddy and his wife) did a bit of the local wine trail. After everybody got back home, we had a great supper of “Thanksgiving Leftovers” (just as good the next day), celebrated my birthday, then play Cutthroat Euchre for a few hours… My son had the fixin’s for White Chocolate Martinis… I had a small one as I am not supposed to consume much alcohol with some of the drugs I take… Not bad!
I did NOT go freaky friday bargain hunting though I may have missed a deal or two. We are done with xmas shopping and nothing in the ads screamed “come get me,take me home!!!” at me so I slept. and slept and slept. MY Other Half {MOH} has a cold and so spent a lot of time in bed as did I as I think I am coming down with it too.
Could use a nap again now and think I will as soon as I am done wih the forum. I also think that the higher dose of muscle relaxer the nuerologist gave me aslo puts me to sleep.
Good morning. It’s 32 and sunny. The high will be 62 and it will remain sunny. Wow, a whole 30 degree spread there.
Didn’t get much done yesterday as I was busy disassembling the computer power supply that I use for powering the structure lights so I could clean the dust out of it. Taking it apart was easy, cleaning it was even easier, putting it back together was a bit tricky as I almost needed 3 hands for the job. Masking tape works wonders when you need something held in place temporarily. There was a 1/8th inch thick layer of dust on everything in the power supply. Not too bad considering it was a 10 year plus accumulation. A small paint brush and a Shop-Vac made short work of it. I also got several structures wired with 3 lights each.
Zoe, I’ll have a bowl of ghot oatmeal w/ brown sugar and several cups of good hot dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug to warm me up this morning.
Lawn was white when i got up this morning… First measurable snow of the season. looked nice, but it is windy and cold out there. Currently 34°F with snow flurries predicted this afternoon.
I have to deliver the cahin saw to the museum, so i am about ready to head out the door. Hope to get back home before the white stuff starts blowing around too much.
37F and partly sunny today - I’m back in the shop again. Just a regular for me please, I’m just passing thru.
Joe - a few years ago ME scrapped out a few of their RS-11’s. We have an ex New Haven example in the yard at the museum that’s getting a cosmetic restoration and we needed parts so we wheedled our way in and bought some stairs, chairs, window frames and some other stuff. We also needed trucks and cab filter frames, but that stuff was already spoken for or gone by the time we found out. The prime movers were being sent to river barge duty and I’m not remembering about the generators butI think they were going to the same place. The trucks are used on almost all 4 wheel Alco’s as well as many early U-boats so they were snapped up right away also. The company doing the scrapping was from Miss. and had lots of contacts as well as a yard full of scrap rail equipment somewhere in Ohio. Clever people, they pretended to be somewhat slow but you tell after a couple of minutes that they were real sharp operators. After a few minutes back and forth, they decided we were ok and let us buy what we needed and also let us remove most of it ourselves which gained us all the special stuff that is normally cut off and tossed. We helped them load a couple of the dumpsters as well and scored a bunch of valves and couplings as well that were scrap to them and a fortune to us. Figure we parted with both sides happy.
Another couple of shots of the line up - all on a siding probably a half mile or so north(east) of where you took your picture. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning! Turkey and ham omelet please with lots of cheese and salsa. Coffee too thank you.
DANG IT! And I wanted to wish Ray a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Yesterday. Dog gone memory. I remembered all day Thanksgiving, (well off and on) and Friday morning but as soon as I signed on POOF! Like last weeks salary…., gone. Oh well,
HAPPY late BIRTHDAY RAY!!! [bday][<:o)] [^]Sorry you didn’t get Salmon on a slab, but I‘m sure you were quite happy with Thanksgiving leftovers. That is my second favorite meal. First being Thanksgiving Meal.
Jerry- A great surprise! What an honor to have someone think so highly of you to give their child both names after you .
One item I missed out on by not watching the adds for the door busting, people trampling, make up new words because the age old cusswords just aren’t sufficient for dealing with the people and their actions Day After Thanksgiving Day Sale. Menard’s had a 6 ft Keller stepladder for $9after mail in rebate. In store credit, but that’s ok. I’ll be in there for $30 worth of stuff sooner than later . Odd. The ladder, a 250lb limit was on display for $52 for the last couple weeks. Now they must have dropped it to $39 then the $30 rebate. Hmm.
Best get out to Mom’s house so’s I can get back at a decent time tonight. Once again running late. Nothing unusual about that. Problem is, I’ll need to go to Menard’s today for some trim. I think I’ll just pull my hair out right now and get it over with.
I did it. Sucked it up and decided, it’s MY world.
I ordered a caboose.
Worst that could happen is someone gets upset with me for having a caboose in the current era. I will cry then move it to a stationary display. Many places have those. I remember as a kid there were many places in our travels that had cabooses-es-es-es parked around and were used as displays, or most I remember, playhouses. That was as they were phasing them out and definately before they phased out the “sorry your child was hurt, but you as a parent should have been watching them better. After all they are your children” law was phased out and the, “if your child gets hurt doing something they shouldn’t have been doing or because you felt it wasn’t your rresponsibility to check out the equipment you were going to allow them to play on and/or feel it’s too much trouble to watch them as they play so you can sue” law came in.
Backs a flatcar with an outhouse up to the DIner. I think someone has earned their own private throne for the next week or three. I vote we move to someplace EXTREMELY cold, since that old barn is badly sealed. [swg]
FWIW I see cabeese all the time on the Hudson line as parts of work trains so they are still prototypical. We use one in the museum yard similarly as a tool car so don’t worry about those rivet counters and go for it. [swg] J.R.
JR, I didn’t realize that you had come down to Morristown when you took those photos. At first I thought maybe their frames had got sent somewhere after getting parted out, but I immediately recgonized that location from that second set of photos. That would be the South Jefferson Team Track, (like you said,) about a mile east of the M&E shops.
Todd, congrats on the caboose! If you ever get sick of being told that your layout is too modern, then you can consider having your shop forces transform it into a shoving platform (SPLAT). That’s what the guys at TSR’s shops are currently doing to one of their old cabooses. See my shots over in WPF: http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/183033/2003360.aspx#2003360
Well, I gotta go. Gotta do homework, then practice and other stuff.
