Hello everyone,
what a lot to catch up on since my last visit to the coffee shop, thanks for all the info about the curry plant from everyone, i think i will put a ring of it around the house if it means the baby birds won’t get gobbled up by my neigbours cats,
thanks to ED for the link to the web site, now i know what it look’s like.
just had a look at something about british fungi, turn’s out there are dozens that only have the latin name, they have never been given a normal name as such.
I went for a job interview today were i work at Paccar Part’s, the position on offer is for a warehouse supervisor, fingers crossed the other 50 or so applicant’s will be unlucky[}:)][:D][}:)]
Chloe - just a quick decalf to go…
*** –
How about sharing that link with us? Something like that would be extremely useful to modelers of all eras[tup]…
Fergie –
My mind must be slowing as I get older, it took a full minute before I understood the reason for your “blushies” [swg][(-D][(-D]
inch –
I think your guess was reasonably accurate, there was a lot of variation in prices between different gas stations and towns.
Adam –
You’ve aroused my curiosity, now I’ll have to dig out my May MR to see what you’re planning to do [BTW good luck!].
Steve -
Best of luck on that job interview, I’ll “send one up” for you [angel]
Duke - you were here a minute ago and now you’re gone, musta just missed you…[sigh]
Later…
Fergie, watch yourself there, pretty soon the MESS will be a diesel road! You may have to run two different operating sessions on your layout soon, one in the steam era, and one in the diesel!
Well, I don’t have a lot of time today, but I’ll try to stay longer tomorrow. Back to school today, and back to busy times after school again too.
Noah
Good afternoon, Zoe. I’ll have a banana smoothie (thanks, Ed!) and put tebee’s order on my tab too, please.
Saw Noah was in here earlier, but guess he didn’t post yet. Found it after I posted mine.
Fergie, not to be embarassed about having diesels - happens to the best of us. Sounds like you spring and summertime up there must be better than I thought, with all the gardenry going on.
Ken:
[#ditto] that, Ken. Especially since that might offer additional ideas from other scale layouts.
***, emailed a question to you through the forum.
Steve, will pray for you to have the “upper edge” [angel] on the promotion. How long will the decision process take, or do you know yet? Oh, your Santa Fe ‘night’ shot looks good - is that a new one? Don’t recall it on your site (emailed you a question on that, too).
Need to get ready to break for dinner soon, so I’m out of here.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good eveing gents, just back from supper and a stint in the back yard doing some transplanting of small trees and plants. Of course those pesty May Flies came out just as oon as the sun came out. Only a week or two to put up with these May Flies though.
KEN: Here is the web site that has the Xcel document that has the gasolene prices from the 40’s up through 2004. Anyone else who is interested in setting the prices at their gas stations on their layour for the time period will find this useful. You must have MS Xcel of course to open it. If you don’t, let me know the year and I will send you the price. I could cut and paste to this forum but I don’t want to take up space for those not interested or who have slow modems.
JIM: Got your email, forwarded the info two minutes ago.
Ahh, now to sit near the window and watch the long haul freights go by on track 3.
Yea Ha: Way to go Phil. Now when is the big day? Will the reception be at the coffee shop? What will you wear? What will the bride wear? There’s so much to do. We must get going here. Fergie, recon they could use some of that 3in cable to tie the knot?
Grubby: I think that petrol was about $ .25 a gal. Diesel was around $ .15. Of course this was in Texas. I had to pay $ 2.09 yesterday for regular and that was cheap. There are some places charging $ 2.36 per gal.
Since Fergie is now going diesel I guess I’ll take up sewing. Oh, what am I saying? I’ll be able to pick up a bunch of steamers cheap.
Paul
The Duluth, Superior, & Southeastern
“ The Superior Route “
Good evening Clubbers. Zoe , almond danish and black coffee, please.
Anyone going to Houston for the Live Steam meet at the end of the month?
Flip
Good evening Coffee Shop patrons: Drying out from the storm. Halifax area has had 150 mm of rain this May so far. That’s just shy of 6 inches. 4 inches of that in just this storm at Halifax airport. That’s what it said on the news. Looking at the figures, it seems hard to believe.
Does anyone know if there is any risk to a stationary decoder used to handle the polarity shift on a reverse loop if the system is switched from dcc to dc?
Paul
…and I think the Canadian ones had only three cooling fans out of the standard issue four. Fergie, will you let that matter if you take the plunge? [}:)]
…ooooh! Looks like you have!
Northern Phil:
[quote]
QUOTE: Oh, she said yes!
Congratulations[yeah] [wow] [tup] [:P] [:D]
Adam:
Way to go!! No doubt about it [tup]
Steve: We’re pulling for you about the job.[tup] Is it “just a job” or what your are really after? Just curious.
Have to get some data off the internet, so I will say Goodnight, all, and God Bless.
Hi all,hope life is as good as can be expected,STEVE: good luck with the interview,if you are still having cat problems,try sticking pix of red gurnard around the garden-scared the wotsit out of me!!!–Im sure they had those things on an early black & white Dr Who story.P.S.-caught your pix of the first train round the new section-is that the new "door-wedge section in the foreground?-nice work,have a pint on me and sit back and let them run [^][:D][^] ....MATT:hope the revision is up to date,looks like weve got some sun coming,yes,Its OUTDOOR RUNNING TIME AGAIN !!!..likewise,pint,sit,enjoy!!!..was that a class 37 lurking next to the sharknose/C-Liner combo? Be well people,later,nick
Hey Guys,
Phil- Congrats!!![:D][tup]
Ken- Test Fri. and work won’t let me work even light duty til I’m fully healed[banghead][sigh].
Ya’ll take care!
Trent
Hi Gang,
Just a quick stop for a carry-out. I’m down state for a short visit, and using my stepsons computer.
I can’t get DSL up there in the woods, with any of the local servers. They have it down here, and MAN, what a difference. Looks like I’m going shopping.
Went to a hobby shop out in Utica MI, what a big mistake. With road const.,and traffic, it was more than I could stand. I gave up on the other two places on my list. The heck with it I’m headed North in the morning.
The other morning, before coming down, Kitty and I sat in the kitchen and watched a very big owl drop out of a tree and snag a chipmonk for breakfast.
As our route entered the Huron National Forest We spotted a full grown Bald Eagle on a stump not 30’ from the road. I hit the brakes and Kitty scrambled for the camera, and as I was backing up it flew off. DARN, or something like that.
Just after we pulled onto I75 south, a coyote was lunching on a deer carcass.
While fighting my way back to the kids house, I realized I just don’t belong down here any more. Kitty was ready to go back up this morning, but we promised the little ones, a picnic this afternoon.
I guess it finally happened. I’ve become a true “Jackpine Savage.” [%-)][swg]
Later,
Bill North
Hi, all, just popped in to get a quick takeout.
Phil, congratulations, hope everything goes smoothly for the nups.
Steve, good luck with the interview.
Ken, the bridge was a built by Pennsy. Originally was part of the four track main line. I think it might be down to three tracks now though. A few years ago the side of one of the spans collapsed and three fully loaded coal hoppers went in the river. I think they took out the one outside track to take pressure off the walls. That bridge is over 100 years old, it wasn’t built for the heavy trains of today.
See you all later.
***, I got it - opened fine in AppleWorks for me. The other one looked different, so maybe there was a similarly named file on your drive? Handy little file to have! If anyone needs it in another format, I can probably convert it over to some other formats (database, other kinds) if you let me know what you need and what program opens that format. [tup]
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Was that with cream cheese? [;)]
Venison special for lunch?
Huh? Hadn’t heard that phrase before, but I’m out in the Heartland here. We just have possum and raccoons in town sometimes. [:)]
Jim in Cape Girardeau
evening all ; barly pop please almost bed time
got to thinking later . i think gas was gas 35 or 36 at bakers general store in clarsville where i growed up , bout 9 mile north of here . don’t ever remember it changing till they closed the store in the 70’s after old baker died. you could go in there n get a big chunk of slap cheese and bologna , a hand full of crackers and small coke for a dollor or enough lose candy to make a kid sick for a week . it was an old time store , had fence nails . food mike , just what ever some things he had to order , but he could get it. . those were the times back then out there . then they put in a big lake n ruined it . most the people cann’t aford the taxes that lived there. enough of the past on with bigger n better things i guess
got a little cleaning done on the track today so maybe it’ll run desent this weekend when the tribes come in friday till sunday going to be more here than at xmas i think
woo gotta get off here bout time fur sleepen
till morn all ; mike
Evenin’ all. Just a quick snack before bed.
Grubby, I remember gas wars in 70. A Wareco and a Standard station used to battle it out on opposite corners and get down to 18 cents. A good thing too, I had a GTX with a 440 with a six pack. Used to have to fill up 2-3 times on Fri- Sat nights. ( and replace the back tires) Ah the days of youth. Am going to Bloomington IL this weekend. Any good LHS in the area for Saturday? Night all [zzz]
Evening, Clubbers, and Chloe, I’d like a mocha smoothie, please.
Okay, I know where to go with my questions if I want to add a C-Liner to my stable (Der John and Paul!)
***, how’re you coming with your layout planning? That thread you started was pretty useful for me, so thanks! [tup]
Was reading through my older copy of Linn Wescott’s “How to Build Model Railroad Benchwork” yesterday, and noticed that when it was written earlier, we weren’t calling the fascia that, just ‘front board’. But the idea was there in the book (1979 printing).
Have my smoothie about finished, so I’ll be heading out. See everyone later!
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Gold star for you, Mike - get those kids hooked on trains early - That’s the way! [tup]
And it looks like drinks are on me, guys! Chloe, take their orders. [:)]
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Last call before bed time…no caffeine please Zoe, I can’t get to sleep for hours, just ED’s OJ for me.
Northern Phil: Congrats young man!!! May you have many little engineers running your RR soon and a CFO that is understanding of MRR.
BILL: They used to say, “go West young man, go West”. I see now it is “go North old man, go North”[:D][:D][:)][;)][;)]. But I know “just” what you mean Bill, I am definetly not a city boy.
Der John:6" of rain, can you just imagine if that were snow if this storm hit just a few weeks ago!!![:O][:O][:O] I don’t want to think about it…
JIM: Glad you got the file OK, I found it very interesting also, I can remember when I got my first car , a 1954 Ford 6 cyl, gas was 0.19 a gallon, and during gas wars along the route 9 strip to Boston, it hit a low of .10 a gallon in 1958. That my friends…we will NEVER see again.
Time to hit the sack, big day tomorrow, my son and I are going into Boston to the###### RED SOXgame. I will have one for you ED.
Bon Soir
Fergie and John. When hobbycraft Canada did the tooling for these loco’s they did three distinct body styles,three and four fan. What this means is that the loco’s are correct yes a Canadian loco for both CN or CP. So no extra details or reworking required.[tup][8D]BTW John they did these in n scale as well so when are you getting yours?[:D]t Adam good for you if memory serves that should be a nice starting layout,something that you will likley get a good piece of done over the summer I would think as well. On a madennig side that ebay thing fell through what ticks me off the most is that the guy who one it only topped me by a buck[:(!][V]Oh well better luck next time I suppose. Talk to you all later. Rob