Tue. 69-53 Wed. 69-51 Thur. 70-53
I like to double up MPC diesels. I figure then there is less load on the plastic gears and hopefully they will last then. And the open frame motors run better doubled up and of coarse they can pull much better.
I’m going to a church senors group soon with a Thanksgiving dinner afterward provided by the church.
What a happy Veterans’ Day for me. Call around 8:30 from Dr. Your white blood count is down and from yesterday’s x-ray, we think you have a blood clot in your lung. Rush to Raleigh Radiology and get CT with dye. Rush and then sit for an hour. Results, negative. Now back home. Going to Red Robin for my free burger. That is while waiting for my Dr. to call again. The words are, “If you feel worse, go to the ER.” If you want me in the hospital, say so!!!
Later.
Happy Veterans Day to all who served.
Chief, hope you are OK. I had some kind of scare a while back too. Just saw the bill for all the test they ran. Mine came back negative too. Wife went into ER recently and doctor on duty prescibed some kind of inhaler that had a very expensive copay. She only used it once. Now stuck with the rest of it.
Cool today in the low 70’s. I love it.
Finally made it to barber this morning and had my ears lowered. Now on dieuretics today and don’t have any appointments except the bathroom.
later,
Ray
Chief take care
Happy Veterans day to my fellow Veterans went and got my free hair cut at Great Clips ( yes Chief all 3 I have 1 more than SJ )
Speaking of Veterans day this was forward to me and would like to share with you all
NOW … SHE IS A TEACHER!!!
In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Valley Heights High School in Port Rowan, Ontario , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. ‘Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?’
She replied, ‘You can’t have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.’
They thought, ‘Well, maybe it’s our grades.’ ‘No,’ she said.
‘Maybe it’s our behaviour.’ She told them, ‘No, it’s not even your behaviour.’
Now nurse says no blood clot but maybe emphysema and enlarged lymph node. But could be recovering from a lung event. Remember three weeks ago, slight case of pneumonia and 4 days later, x-ray showed OK. Beginning to wonder about these Dr’s. More meds and urgent request for pulmonologist. They love your insurance.
Good Evenin’ All.
Been awhile since posting, to worn out from 10#'s in 5# bag and coming down with some sort of crud. Hope it don’t last to long. With all the new meds combined with my normal meds I feel like I have a pharmacy with me everywhere I go.
Broke out some of the Christmas trains after putting away the halloween trains. Still haven’t finished breaking down the halloween layout.
Time for more meds, later all.
Happy Veteran’s Day to all who served. http://worriersanonymous.org/Share/Mansions.htm
Good evening all,
Got rid of 13 years of frustration today by replacing the non-folding middle in the van with a used 3rd row seat from another van at a salvage yard. Now I can tote train layouts to shows with much less hassle and have an extra seat for the grandkids if needed. Got some personal pan pizzas from the new Pizza Hut in town. So good to have one back in town again. Also duplicated an American Plastic Brick building with LEGOs last night. It was a good day. Watched the Flash tonight. It was a good show. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good thing it was no blood clot there!![:O] I have had some heart attack thingees here plus a triple bypass done plus some other dang things done as well. Blood clots? nuh uh!!
Wait until they start peppering you with med appointments!!![^o)]
Today we will hit the big 33F…after yesterdays 67F…yoyo weather[banghead]
Hello all
Just finishing up another week on the mountain and thought I would check in.
On the train front, a #60 trolley project is progressing. Almost have all the chassis parts together. It runs, but just need the trolley pole set up which is on the way. Then to get something to cover the whole thing.
Corvan progress continues. We actually ran it again, sucking fuel out of the tank this time, and even got it to move a bit. End of the shift selector shaft going into the transmission was welded at some point, and came apart. My buddy who sold it to me (converted from 3 to 4spd) has another tranny for me. If we can get to it easily enough we will switch out the shifter shaft, or just r&r the whole tranny.
Chief - hope you get things figured out and fell better soon
Bob
Happy Veterans day…a day late Many Vets in my family…its a special day just for that. Chief - get well soon! Pickup a Lemax animated Clock tower and skating scene for $74- retailed for $150, will go on the Fire Dept. train layout which is in progress as we speak. LONG meeting at the FD last night from 630 to 1030, so naturally I’m beat. AND it’s my long day…off at 6 tonight [banghead] back to the grind!!
Morning all. Warm and foggy. Big change tomorrow. Wonder what adventures are in for today? Don’t feel like I have a temp this AM. Not hungry. Only one meal yesterday. Start taking the line of meds. Then work on DVR list of shows.
Have a good one.
Low to mid 70’s all week.
My dentures are being repaired and I won’t get them back until Friday or maybe Thursday afternoon. So I can’t go anyplace but I wasn’t planning to except shooting and thats not real important.
Good morning all,
Don, good idea on servicing your engines. I’m overdue on all of mine. Probably what caused the stripped gear in my steam engine.
Chief, prayers for a good outcome on your health issues.
V8, sorry you’re having denture problems again. I’ve been fairly lucky with mine but have had work done on them.
Dougda, get some rest if you can.
Dinner out tonight with what we call the Prime Club. I call it the Over The Hill Gang. Our oldest member is 91. Not exactly prime time. However, he is probably in better shape than me.
Got back to walking again this morning. Hip joints were sore from inactivity. Trying to maintain at least a 10LB weight reduction until I see the doctor next week.
Might pick up a turkey today and put it in the freezer before they get picked over too much. #2 son tells me that his new girl friend might come over for Thanksgiving dinner. That would make 7 of us and not a very large dinning area. Might have to move the table into another room.
later,
Ray
Good evening all,
Busy but quiet day at work. Got to scrimmage with soccer kids. Totally created a vacuum tonight. Do not have to drive tomorrow. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Early drive to Raleigh for Pulmonologist apt. Other side of Raleigh. [banghead] Would you believe shirt sleeve weather. Changing tomorrow they keep saying.
Sleep tight.
Good Evening,
Hope the Chief has good news today regarding his Dr visit. Best wishes and prayers.
Sometimes it takes a lot to learn a little…
1. Probably about 4 years ago I decided I wanted a MTH set of PS2 modern day diesels. So I purchased a set of UP AC4400’s, one is a “dummy” unit. I deliberated about the choice of 1 power unit and 1 dummy, versus 2 power units. Finally opted for the dummy unit option.
2. After always fighting not being able to uncouple from the dummy unit, and the lights would not operate correctly if the dummy was the lead engine. I thought it would be a great idea and inexpensive to buy a TMCC dummy upgrade kit. So I did so and installed it. I got the operating coupler and the lights working. Am I satisfied NO. Now imagine running the engine as DCS engine id number 3, it works great. Now hook the dummy in and what happens? The dummy is TMCC engine id #65. So IF I run the two together everything is OK until I go to operate them together, difficult sequence! Reverse engine #3, then select engine #65 and reverse it. (To change light orientation.) Then reselect engine #3 to facilitate movement. Now want to uncouple cars connected to the dummy, select #65, press the uncoupler button, then reselect engine #3 to move the units. THEN if your going to pick up another consist, you need to repeat the entire operation! Very, Very awkward.
Now the cost difference is less than $125, compared to buying 2 powered units. And operation would definitely been a lot easier. And could just set them up as a lash up, AND have a lot more pulling power. No more dummy units for me.
Just had to share.
Off to do a presentation Thursday, then go and play in the train room.<
Don, That is one of the redeeming qualities of running TMCC. Install an ERR upgrade in a dummy and you can incorporate it with one or more powered units in a lashup with all the “bells & whistles”. It sure would be nice if you could buy kinda like a stripped down PS-3 for installation in a dummy unit to give it the “full enchilada” so to speak. If one wanted a dummy with just lights, hello Williams.
You could always tape a DCS controller and a CAB-1 together and just flip it over for whichever engine you need to operate. [swg]
Chief, Hope all goes well in the morning. [tup]
Hope none of you guys forgot to bring in your Brass Monkeys, if you did it sounds like they will be singing soprano next week. [:-^]
Nite all !
On Remembrance Day we had a couple of Sopwith Camels flying around here. Then a DC-3. We be lucky up here…
S**w here this morning. Not much for sure but still…too dang much!!!
I’m off to the doctors office to find out what caame up on my CT scan…better not be some new thing to do…
Have a good’un folks!!
First snow flakes fell here this morning. Temp is at 32 degrees so won’t stick.
However Michigan’s UP got up to 42 inches of white stuff already.
Happy Friday the 13th.
S.J.
Same weather here SJ. cold with light snow going into the teens tonight. The cat is in. [;)]
DougDnotta, Thanks for the e-mail on the Black Bonnet set.
Frank, Hope your doing better.