Next month [April 1] is 12 years.
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Ice melting here. A balmy 35 degrees!
I had to wake the Chief up this morning, fastest way was boiling some Instant grits…[:)]
Good afternoon from Rogers Corners, Ohio… Elevation 936 where it has been snowing most of the day. Just did my second cleaning of the drive after the snow plow passed through. (Hint to you poor snow freighted Sutherners, stand in your drive facing the street and then clean and pile the snow at the entrance of your drive on your right. Then when you pull out you can see who is going to hit you. [au] [B)] )
Yesterday I was looking for a Williams Monon SW-1 Switcher. Found one at Western Depot in California. I have found several good Williams pieces from Western Depot when the eastern stores were cleaned out. For example, I purchased a Williams FM Trainmaster New Jersey Central from the Western Depot when none of my regular stores in the East and Midwest had one. It cost about the same except for shipping. I really like the Gold and Black color scheme. I’m going to use it to pull a string of U.S. Steel cars.
[*] BTW, Fife and 88, have you ever heard of a store named, “Star Hobbies” south of Baltimore towards Annapolis?
This week will find me on the west side at Cleveland at Westlake. Last year I was caught in a blizzard on March 6th.
Buckeye I have the Williams by Bachmann Union Pacific NW-2 Switcher # DS1315 Part # BAC21612
I got it from Submmbob for a very good price. It is a strong puller and smooth runner. Don’t think you could be disappointed with yours. I have had it pulling 12 RMT Ore cars without an issue. Enjoy it. [Y]
Buckeye,
I have not. In the 10 years I have lived in Baltimore I have gone to Annapolis 3 times… nice place to visit for no longer than 1 day. [:)]
88 … Thanks. Here is Star Hobbies still active website. http://www.starhobby1.com/ The photos show they carry a good quantity of merchandise.
Good evening all,
A good day. Wife had family and friends for my 60th birthday (Feb.28th) today. Got an email from my Norwegian soccer friend. Lots of snow kept a lot of people away, but it was a nice crowd. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello all
Another night on the mountain. We are open right now, but more weather is headed this way.
Got the director’s AF 325 up and running. Just needs a headlamp bulb and I’m going to try a paint pen on some of the knicked areas as suggested by the Barker book.
Assembled the parts for the #60 trolley I got from Brasseur’s. Runs well enough, but I have decided to bypass the reverse slide w/ an e-unit. Also finally found a body that should be interesting. When it is done it will be a collection of parts that would make Jeff Running Bear proud:)
Buckeye - I concur on the Williams NW-2. Nice loco, strong puller and good detail. I was impressed by the construction, too. Heavy metal chassis w/ metal gears and wheels. My only complaint was the scale size dwarfed all my O-27 stuff!
Kevin and Submmbob…It is nice to hear I didn’t buy a dud. I have a Williams FM Trainmaster that tonight pulled 20 cars up a 2% grade. These old Williams are brutes. Western Depot also was having a sale, so it made it that much sweeter. BTW, try and find a Monon caboose in black and gold. It took me the better part of a year to find mine in a shop in South Chicago.
Good evening,
The last few days of the week/month were busy so I was unable to post recently. The snow started last night and continued most of today. The kids and I enjoyed it and I wish there was more. We should get some more on Tuesday and Wednesday. I worked on the layout a bit today and hopefully I’ll be able to post some photos tomorrow.
I hope everyone is well.
Joe
Mon. 62/48 Tue. 67/47 Wed. 74/45
I think were getting the rain that was forcast, just a little later. It rained good Sat. night and was dry while driving and walking for church. And now its raining pretty good and has been for a hour.
Good deal. We may get snow Wednesday!
Temps last couple weeks and into next week running 20-30 degrees below normal.
Gosh Buckeye - if we could save all the snow from the last 5 or 10 years we might be able to pile enough up to maybe make it difficult to see an approaching car - maybe.
However most of our area have alley entrances to garage at rear of house. Everyone builds an 8 Foot privacy fence so one cannot see an approaching car as one backs out. Of course everyone absolutely obeys the 5 mph alley speed limit so there are never any alley accidents. [;)] [au]
Come on Springtime! [ip]
Monday 42 - 67
tuesday 48 - 50
wednesday 58 - 80
Happy Monday - not
Bad news during the weekend - my daughter’s cat - Christopher - is dealing with failing kidneys. It happend way too fast. I called him Cat…he was very upset at me when I left 4+ years ago, he was a rescue. Been to the vet twice now throughout the weekend, today may be the last. I’ll get the vet to call me at noon today…the whole family, including my ex, is heartbroken…even his buddy Smurf (our other cat) knew he very sick…licked him on the forehead as a goodbye. Black cats are just too cool and too loving.
Went to the Greenburgs show in Edison, missed HudsonJohn, purchased a '71 GTX for the layout. Had to drive home in the ice and snow…fun!!
30F with ice right now, made it to work.
[angel] for those in need
Rich they are I have 2 black cats and our oldest cat is black we hold our breat about him and he gets the golden glove treatment as he is right at 18 - 20 years old and very frail.
Morning all time to get moving overcast and foggy at present. hope all have a good day
Sunny and 10 going to 29 then rain tomorrow and back below 0 on Wed. [banghead]
So sad on the cat Rich, sorry. I would be all alone if something happened to our George.
Buckeye I also have the Burlington Northern SD 90 Locomotive # 9587 by Williams. I would think it is a lot like the Trainmaster. It is a tugboat. If there is something on the down side it would be the TrueBlast sound system. Not any choices.
Have a good day !!!
Aloha. Sunny and 15 - but supposed to go up to 28 and even higher though with sleet and freezing rain tomorrow - then temps crash again. Ah well. It made it easy to stay in and watch Six Nations Rugby and the Atlanta race on the telly. I ran Ivor quite a lot too. Sorry to hear about Cat, Rich.
Happy belated Birthday, MikeC! [bday]
Same here. The problem is, you had better pile it to the right or DOT will plow it right back in your drive. Since it is wet snow and also has some salt or brine in it, it is usually big hard chunks. The other day, could not walk into the highway as fast passing traffic and the “gutter” was deep with water from melting snow. That was under the big pile of snow chunks in your drive. Either go get high topped boots or stand in sidewalk and reach with shovel handle. The water from melted snow was actually moving under the snow like an under ground river.
Warmer and sunny. Really warming fast.
Crew here remodeling. Yes, Wifey is having something remodeled all the time.
Meetings at 11 untill sometime tonight.
Have a good one.
[bday] [bday] Mike C ! [bday] [bday]
Rich - sorry about your cat
Ice is gone!
40 today.