The Coffee Shop (a place to chat) Est. 2004

[Anonymous]

Happy Thanksgiving all! [:)]

I am working on my latese HugelyOversized project, and I may have pics soon! I hope… [:)]

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tomwatkins

Scott and Der, the residual whine from exposure to turbines is well documented. Exposure to turbines sets up a sympathetic vibration which dogs or at least some of them, can sense. Exposure to the chuff of a steam locomotive or the growl of an early EMD at idle will cancel it out.

So Tom, any reccomendations as to which steam locomotive or EMD to hang around. Not that I’ll give up on my turbines, I just will need to make a quick trip to the roundhouse or diesel shop before heading over here. Would a Union Pacific 9000 series work well?

If anyone is getting snow, that doesn’t want snow, send some my way, I love the snow! Great fun, no school!

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[Sterling1]

Not a coffee drinker, but a growler at worst and cackler at best with mug of tea on a grim rainy battleship gray day . . . . .

[Anonymous]

100th post

Maybe I should add that my “project” is detailing an Athearn GP60… [:I]

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

speaking of school, I got a 4.5 day weekend! My dad is taking me out of school and we’re going to the WSOR’s Janesville WI yards. Its about a 1:45 minutes away. I’ve been waiting to go here for quite a while, so this is big for me. I’m not going to miss much at school though. they’re just going to a camp overnight. Now that I’ve gotten to the Janesville yards, I’ve got to sceam away to get to the horicon yards.

I’ve got a motion to propose. Alot of time, not all the time, but alot of the time, lupo is on here when we’re sleeping or trying to sleep. So I propose that we vote him the night watchman of this place, just to make sure it doesn’t fall off the first page at night. Ideas? Good? Bad?
Lupo, that okay with you?

Noah

Tooo bad I don’t have the option of fine train watching down here most trains are night or extras and Amtrak’s unpredictable . . .[:(]

[Big_Boy_4005]

Thanks Paul and John. As always, everyone is welcome to stop by if you ever travel to the Twin Cities.

I guess my plan for the winter is to fini***he benchwork, and get the mainline around to the third peninsula. Then if I got some wiring done, I could run some trains.[:D]

[TrainFreak409]

I wish I had space to build a permanent layout. Looks like I am going to have to settle for a sheet of plywood or homosote that I can lift on and off of the billiard table. Nothing fancy, but suitable for now.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

I wish I had space to build a permanent layout. Looks like I am going to have to settle for a sheet of plywood or homosote that I can lift on and off of the billiard table. Nothing fancy, but suitable for now.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

small layouts aren’t necessarily bad. Like my perpetual-work-in-progress 3x5 layout…

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JCtrain

yawn… plenty of homework so give me a whole pot please.
nothing like a rainy day and homework to look forward to.[|)]

Same problem here am a senior in high school and severely loaded up with Thanksgiving homework, stinks when loaded with 3 AP classes and whole lot of tantrums flying round the house. OH it’s raining outside, hadn’t rained since CFIJ hurricanes . . . . .

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

Mornin’

I’m awake–kinda.

On the second cup of coffee, it definately will take more. The sun is up and it is a nice day.

On a sad note when I came home last night from work I noticed my front porch seemed to be not as dark as usual. I turned around and noticed my neighbor had cut down a 30 to 40 year old cedar tree. Well that itself wasn’t too bad but it was strangely silent last night. The tree was home to a bird that sang all night. He/she had a variety of calls and sounds that he/she made. When I would take the dog for a walk he would sing to us and I would sometimes “call” back to him and he would then “chat” with me. But last night there was no song, no call, and no chat. I don’t know where he went but I missed his singing last night. In the summer the tree provided some shade for the front of the house so now the house will be a little warmer in the summer. So I miss that tree already. [:(] [V] [:(!]

Suggestion only: clobber that guy for being a sun freak

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by fec153

Hello,CW, no Idon’t live in Texas. mid Fla. 40 miles north of Orlando. If you will scroll up
you can read what I wrote earlier. found out from Ed where you are. Probably to far a
visit to Lusk or Palestine.
Phil

Where exactly north of Orlando, I live near Kississimee in the south . . .

[fec153]

Sterling1- I live in the city of Eustis. 441-19and 44 all go thru it, one side or the other.
It has an interesting rr history that goes back to late 1880’s.
Flip

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp

Hello all,

Seeing how it is Friday evening, does anyone mind if I bring a nice glass of Merlot into the coffee shop?

I’ve never had a problem with viruses or worms (knock on wood). At work they immediately apply the patches and anti-virus updates to our servers as soon as they come out. The servers then pu***he patches and updates out to all of our desktop computers during the evening.

At home my computer is still running Windows 95. That operating system is so darned old that the viruses and stuff don’t affect it. My wife thinks it is crazy that I make my living with computers but use a Windows 95 computer with a dial-up Internet connection at home. I figure what the heck – I always have the latest and greatest at work, why do I need it at home?

But now I am probably going to have to change. My boss gave me a new computer to use from home that of course has XP on it. Now I will have to deal with the virus stuff like everyone else. I’ve had the new one here for three weeks and still haven’t set it up. I’m sorry, but I like my OLD computer.

The new one is kid of cool though. It is one of those new one-piece jobs where the flat screen and its stand contain the guts of the computer. That will take up WAY less space than the old beast I’m on now.

But I still like my old one. We’ve been through a LOT together. [:(]

I used to run Win95 before the computer screen blew a transistor on me and the processor was Pentium 1, slow as usual and no graphix card at all if any. It was an old Compaq. Now I have a near 2 year old Dell battling it out with a 5 year old Dell (Dad’s) that when he converted the Win98 to WinXP the viruses poured in and he and his computer tech brother were in mad da***o fix the problem and get updates. Hmmm I wonder if the Macs have such teething problems as such?

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

No thanks Jim, I’ll wait till I have to work that much before I actually do work that much! Things have been going okay at school right now though, So far all I’ve lost is my sanity.[:D]

Noah

Lost your sanity . . . I lost mine long time ago . . . now I am just slogging along with plenty of clouds of blue brake smoke and no @#^#$^&%&!^honor roll

[Sterling1]

Rain and now thunder this nasty night along with the grumbler of an ol’ man may have to shut down the ship, er railroad till whenever, if you see message after this I still up . . .

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo

wow Noah only 8 days?
how long is your summervacation?

It’s approximentaly two months. The state made a new law last year that we can’t start school before labor day, so we start the tuesday after. We only get either a week and a half off for christmas of spring break, and my understanding is we’ll never have both. Our spring break this year was only a five day weekend instead of the usual week long spring break. This way thought we don’t have to go as far into the summer and we get a longer continuous break (to work on the the trains) Sooooooooooo [sigh] you win some you lose some, it all works out the same.[:D]

Noah[:p]

Down here in FLA we get two months but end school at end of May and start at beginning of August. From what state are you that made such a dumb law?

[Sterling1]

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QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac

Hey dudes, what’s up? [8D]

Back from a short hiatus (is that how you spell that? [8)]) as my computer contracted a trojan horse virus and CRASHED AND BURNED!!![:(][:(!][xx(][V][banghead] But, after a WEEK of getting my files off of it in between lockups and when it would actually allow me to log on I finally was able to reinitialize the system. It took an entire day to get my software loaded back on, but I am finally up and running again. [:)][:D][:p][^][C):-)] (Don’t you hate it when people overuse thes smily things?) When I finally logged back on my “Active Topic” list was like 6.8 mile long–so I think I will just start with today and let the rest go.

Anywayy . . . good to be back. Hideeho and blessings to all.
Ron

Ron [:)]

I had a smaller computer problem Saturday / Sunday. I deleted cookies. Shouldn’t have been a problem at all. But for some reason I couldn’t get back on the internet. I keep trying and trying but to no avail. So I finally said the heck with it, got out the HP computer disks and reformatted the drive. Of course I lost ( A G A I N ) all the pics that the forum members have sent me but at least I am back online. I should also be free of any adware. [:)] Stay away from Smiley Central, it is loaded with adware. Many programs you download sneak it in on you as part of the download agreement. You don’t even know it is there., that is UNTIL you use MS Internet Explorer Browser.

I also have to reload MSN Messenger. I tried earlier today but after waiting 20 minutes for the download to complete, I got an error message saying that the download failed. [:(!] I haven’t been on msn messenger much lately because of working so much. I MISS YOU GUYS [:(] [:0] [;)] But I shall return. [:D] Maybe not on a PT boat, hopefully a C 425 [:D] [

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

The magic number for today:

3

We’ve got a three day weekend, and there are only three days of school left!

Noah

Three is my favorite number for some strange reason . . .

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

I wish I had space to build a permanent layout. Looks like I am going to have to settle for a sheet of plywood or homosote that I can lift on and off of the billiard table. Nothing fancy, but suitable for now.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

Scott, when I was in high school, that’s exactly what my buddy across the street did, a board on the pool table. It works, and that’s what counts.[;)]

[PennsyHoosier]

Scott, as Big-Boy noted, this can be a workable solution. My high school layout shared time with the ping pong table. Ahhh, the good ole days.