Judy’s sister got Steve-O a shirt for Easter.
TF
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I got some work done. The ballast is still loose so itll be vaccumed up, but i did that to see how itll look when its ready for ballast.
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Evening everyone, hope you had a good Easter, I’m currently trading with my friend to get a bachmann Amtrak E60CP.
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Good Morning Diners. Janie, coffee and a couple poached eggs please.
I hope everyone had a nice Easter (or just a nice Sunday if you don’t celebrate it). We went to my sister’s house as she hosted for the whole family. Was nice to see everyone and we stayed just the right amount of time for a Sunday event.
Have to travel for work this week. 
Not looking forward to it. Shorter trip, but still. I’m going to do someone else’s job who just apparently won’t do it and the company won’t make him. Are you kidding me?!? Why I agreed to, I have no idea. Caught me in a weak moment.
Hope everyone has a good Monday!
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Good morning all. Mike, sorry to hear about the work travel. I know some folks who enjoy it, but it’s never something I look forward to. Our Easter was nice, at least the celebration. But with traffic on the way there, and some sort of accident closing the road on the way back, a 3 hour round trip took 5.5 hours. Oof.
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Good morning
Hope everyone had a good Easter. Sounds like a whole lot of driving going on. We stayed pretty local. Of course nothing was said, but the ham was a bit dry yesterday 
Every thing else was really good though.
Judy goes back to work today. It’ll be a little lonely around here after a three day weekend of fun.
Roll call, … York John must of went out of town. Haven’t heard from him for awhile. I’m wondering where Rich has been as well?
Have a good Monday everyone 
TF
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Morning all, busy day here got lot to do on house and train front.check in tonight
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Hi TF, I’ve noticed Roll-call as well.
I hope all is well with both those guy’s.
Paul.
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Morning all, Been quiet the past 5 days, I have been spending time with my family, Lent is over and Pope Francis passed this morning so my church is holding a mass for him, tonight I’m hoping to pickup a 3D printer to kitbash the Bachmann GP40-2R that I got in an eBay lot for $15 earlier in march, turning it into a Southern High Hood GP40-2!
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Good afternoon all. Afternoon Tea please, Flo. Add an extra scone and jam.
Catching up on some washing. Not quite a ‘ships wash’, but close to one.
David
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Good Monday morning from the edge of the Salish Sea where it is cloudy but dry and 10c.
Got about a dozen for dinner tonight. My Daughter, Son, his wife and a visiting cousin will all be here early to play video games all afternoon before the others arrive. It just seems weird to me that these kids who all hold good positions in the work force, all make good six figure incomes, still like to come here a few times a year and compete like a bunch of 12 year old’s for an afternoon. I love it.
I need to get going on cleaning the joint, my wife keeps the place spotless but she has been away at the dog show. We have six Golden Retrievers and that is a lot of hair. So I will need to figure out what a vacuum is and how to operate it, go for my 10km scoot, come home and cut the grass and then start on dinner. At least I had a good five hours in the train room yesterday, finally got all the paint off the rails that some idiot left there. If my BS 4-4-0 runs the rails with no fuss, they’re clean.
All the best to all
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Morning everyone from the platform of the Middleboro MBTA Station. Currently planning to get some audio of the MBTA’s HSP46 locomotives as they have a specific ‘scream’ that GE EVOs don’t even though they share engines, as well as having HEP generators and different air compressors. Good thing is that I’ve heard MBTA crees leave the door open between the engine and the first car of the train. Also, speaking of the HSPs, I made an illustration of one a while back.
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We are back from our trip over to the East coast of our new home state.
I thought we were going to make a quick trip to Miami to buy some rare On3 train cars, but my wife had other plans. I should have known she had other ideas when she insisted we take her Ford Edge instead of the BMW. I never get to drive my car any more.
The sale of the brass collection was amazing. It was eye-opening to see what a lifetime modeler and enthusiast had amassed. The layout was already removed, and that was kind of sad for me. I model the 1800s, so not much was appropriate for me, but I did buy a tank car and a gondola. They need proto scale trucks, but they are beautiful models. There were no appropriate locomotives, so that temptation did not come up.
I am going to send my new models to my painter this week. I can’t wait to see what he does with them.
We ended up spending a week in South Beach. The weather was perfect, and there were very few Spring breakers still there. We ate our dinners at Italian restaurants in Miami all week. A different one every night. Each and every one was absolutely wonderful.
We then took a week long odyssey up the East coast of Florida. We stopped at a different ocean front hotel every night and watched the sun come up over the Atlantic ocean the next day. We stayed in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Melbourne, and Daytona. The experience was wonderful.
We stopped at what seemed like a hundred antique stores and my wife browsed around for hours. That is why we took the Ford Edge, we needed room for everything she bought.
Now she is busy finding homes in our condominium for everything she found. I am going to go into the train room and continue working on the small foundry that has not seen any progress in weeks.
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That scone would be toasted, David? Sunny here in Pictou, NS. Windy however as it has been for days now.
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I think a roll call is a great idea!
I can start.
Here.
Terry
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Always here " copyin’ the mail" as the old CB’ers used to say!
Here’s a great photo of a New York Central shop. Note how the ash pit has a sub-grade track so a gondola can be loaded with cinders. Lots of neat, interesting details here!
NYC Mt. Carmel Shops by SE Delmar tower, on Flickr
Curious as to the site today, the backshop structure still stands:
And there’s just a hint of the roundhouse radial tracks behind Burger King:
Rich mentioned that he was going to a doctor appointment and hasn’t posted since. I PMed him a couple weeks back and he replied everything was OK but we haven’t heard since.
Cheers, Ed
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Time for a break!
Got up at 0500hrs coffee, forum, played with trains, played guitar, thoroughly cleaned half of our 5200 sqft house which is something I very rarely do. I went for a 10.44km scoot with one dog through the 100acre wood and am back on the forum with a Corona with lime in hand. When beer is done I will cut 1+ acres of lawn, come in and peel potatoes and carrots for a dozen people and then get in the shower and be out just in time for the guest to arrive. I never ever nap, who has time.
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Lot’s of ghost on that property.
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Evening everyone, rediscovered my Athearn Pullman OBS car, and found a 3D model of a railcar to diner kit. I think y’all know what it’s gonna be named…
On second thought i also have some old cabooses…
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Evening,got some home improvement started, and some painting done before back said enough. Hoe went going to doctors on 30th ,the surgeon can find what is going on with it
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