Coffee Shop Number 16

[stationmaster]

Hello, all,

Seems a bit crowded in the ol' Coffee Shop today. At least no one has taken my seat. Coffee here, Flo, dear.

Dan, I was wanting to take a bike ride(motorcyle) last night. The better half suggested taking one of the "hot rods" to the root beer stand for a "dog and suds". Being diabetic, and not having used my "free day" this week we ventured out. Since the old '41 Willys was the easiest to get out of the garage we took it. I'd been having trouble with it overheating. Did a fix by using an old "sprint car" trick and running additional water lines by adding a "spacer" to the thermostat housing and running additional lines to each of the cylinders. Seems to have worked. Stopped by the local stand after our Thursday prayer session at church. That car sure turns heads. Not often one sees a candy black cherry red '41 Willys, with a 3" chop, street rod on the streets. And the hot dogs, with everything of course, were absolutely DELICIOUS!!! The diet root beer wasn't bad either. Gotta watch this svelte figure, ya know.

Jim, the guys don't use charcoal lighter for lighting the fires. They use gasoline. I heard once, I wasn't a part of the group then, that they all had to empty their bladders to douse a fire during a previous venture. I hope they had aim good enough to miss the steaks. Enjoy your trip.

Rex, just repaired my roof a couple of months ago. I'm here to testify that it is a long way down. The fall wasn't bad, but that sudden top at the bottom was a killer. Still recuperating from that. I keep forgetting that I'm 56, not 26. And the roast beef sandwiches sound pretty tasty. I'll have the better half get to the deli and pick up a couple of pounds. Add a bit of cheese and some horseradish and I'll be good to go. Well, maybe a Coor's Light or two, too.

I've got the guys coming over tomorrow to work on the nursing home layout. I have to make another trip to the LHS for some "stuff". It seems that I always have enough of everything except "stuff". Have you guys ever been in that predicament?

Have a good one. I'll try to stop in later.

By the way, Flo, since we have a new guy here, put the coffee on his bill. I'm sure he won't mind.

Bob

 

[Screwjack]

Ahhhhhhh, Friday

Although i do have to get the yard mowed tonight before the rain tomorrow. But even with that I should still get some time in the basement to lay some more raodbed...

By the way, Flo, since we have a new guy here, put the coffee on his bill. I'm sure he won't mind.
Bob

Bob; I see now I am going to have to keep an eye on you, huh? That's okay no problem on the coffee on my bill, once in awhile it no big deal

Hey what kind of bike you ridin'? I am riding an 06 Honda VTX1300S, my wife rides an 07 Shadow Aero. Both are fairly nice bikes in my opinion.

Well, I will stop by later for a late cup, seeya around

 

[kbkchooch]

Jeff, have you ever seen pics of Karl's FU-2? That's certainly different from the norm...(sorry, don't remember the link to it, maybe Karl will help us out...?)

What, this silly thing?

It's just the nose of an F unit grafted to a U boat, and set up to be more compatible to the Mt Airy & Westerns Dash2 units, hence, FU-2!

This is what happens when you let Jack Daniels in the train room!

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

That's pretty good! I did something similar to that back in the 80's. It was the nose and cab of an F7 grafted onto the body of a GP9.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

We got a big thunder boomer coming in so I'm shutting down for a while.

 

[pcarrell]

I am riding an 06 Honda VTX1300S, my wife rides an 07 Shadow Aero. Both are fairly nice bikes in my opinion.

Man! I seriously considered the VTX1300S model (a couple of folks around here have some tasty customs based on that bike), and if it wasn't for the wife & I wanting to do a little touring, the Areo would have been high on my list of solo bikes. Both great bikes!

 

[vato loco]

Rex, I got the vehicals to run on Jims layout! You can drive ryans Koolbus!

Can't wait fer jim to see the burnouts down main!

 

[vato loco]

Chris, I'm not kidding, there's no booze on the house, Neither me or my wife can drink because we both have Meniere's Syndrome. Alcohol is one of the triggers and makes me get vertigo and vomit for about eight hours straight. There is an ABC store about two miles from the house so y'all will have to bring some money down for booze. My neighbor on the left is an FBI agent so I wouldn't be throwing darts at him. The one on the right is a scumbag doper so throwing darts at him is OK as long as you hide behind some trees so he can't see the darts coming.

Rex, you are more than welcome to play cars and trucks in downtown. It would probably be more fun than operating my dinky layout. I'm going to make sure that all the guns are locked in the safe since you're going to be bored after about an hour and you know what happens when you get bored. Please tell the cheerleaders to take home ALL their thongs with them this time. I'm never going to be able to convince Dianna that some of my train friends left them behind. I do have a nice whirlpool tub in the master bedroom but try not to splash water all over the place while you're chasing the girls or at least wipe it up when you're done. Wives notice water stained walls.

Oh, yeah, I do have a security system for the house that will be set so you need to know the code. It's the value of Pi to the 32nd significant digit. You have 10 seconds to enter it before Prattville PD is notified. You can do it as long as one of you is really good at entering numbers fast on a keypad. I'd practice before you get here. The Metro Jail is hurting for money and the PD arrests just about anyone they run across...well, except for the people they shoot. They get a little trigger happy at times.

What ever jim, you got's top shelf booze I knows it's and Rex is a blood hound when it comes to tracking it down!

Now fer your fbi neigbor and the cops........Some cash slid their via Larrys CC i swiped should cover that problem

As fer your alarm there's ways around it and chances are by the time the cheap security company calls the cops the party should be winding down

 

[vato loco]

Chris, I thought I'd let you know...
Janette sent me an extra $50 this month to help me remember where y'all live. If you send me $100, I'll be sure to forget again...


Seriously, I hope the surgery goes well. Are they going to install bags, or just remove and stitch back together?

They are removing some of her upper intestine and she getting a gastric by pass due to her stomach being FUBAR. She goes in wed. morning and home sunday night.

 

[Screwjack]

They are removing some of her upper intestine and she getting a gastric by pass due to her stomach being FUBAR. She goes in wed. morning and home sunday night.

Chris; That sounds kind of serious, what's the long term looking like, is she going to be okay down the road?

 

[blownoutcylinder]

good evening people--

Got some visitors passing through on their way to "Lake of Bays" in the Muskoka/Haliburton region of ON. They have a cottage up there that they are gonna open up for the season!! YAY!!!---we's be heading up to some friends we know who live at "Oxtongue Lake" by Algonquin Park in June so we'll be dropping by and visiting them there----heeheehee. So's we be all over this summer----

Chris Wish her well for us up here

 

[stationmaster]

Sounds like a bland diet for a bit too. Been down that road once. I hate some of the stuff to this day. I had a virus or some kind of bug that was eating the lining of my stomach. Nasty pukin' sick. Jello is about the only thing I'll still eat from that episode. I was about 15 then, but I still remember it. I couldn't even keep water down. Sick boy, I was.

Bob

 

[vato loco]

Chris; That sounds kind of serious, what's the long term looking like, is she going to be okay down the road?

When It's all over she has major eating changes Her stomach will only hold 2 oz. of food at a time. Lot's of food supplements are in her future. The doctors have gave me a list of foods to cook and stuff to prepair....My diet I'm on is hers! I'm tring it to see what it's like so it better helps me plan for when she comes home! The diet ain't half bad lot of the supplment shakes tast great and are very filling! you can very easly live of the stuff

As fer her Krohns, after her OP the chances of relapes goes way down but not completely out of the picture!

BTW I'm down to 210# myself with her diet and excercise! 50#'s gone

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Finally today there's a bit of good news. I found the decoder for the GE U30C.

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[RexHea]

Chris: Seriously, my thoughts and prayers to your wife and I wish her a quick recovery.
(It still baffles me how she will recover with a nut like you around. Poor woman! Maybe your loving SIL needs to come over and take care of her.....)

 

[tompm]

Chris, our prayers go out to your wife, you, and your family. We are hoping for a speedy recovery.

 

[IronBeltKen]

Chris - hang in there bud, you and the fam are in our prayers!

 

[stationmaster]

Flo, I need some coffee with more than caffeine in it. Some spirits mebbe. A bit of Jim Beam would do the trick. Fill the cup with Beam and pass it under the coffee spout a bit would be fine.

WOW!!! Did we have some mean stuff move through here a bit ago. Much worse up north though. Das earshplittinloudenboomers!!!!! What a light show!!! I haven't seen a storm with that much lightening in years!!!

Anyway, we survived. No direct hits, other than the cat. He looks like he just had a perm and jumps at the slightest movement, shadow, or sound. And his whiskers are singed off. Smoke is coming out of his ears. He has this odd look on his face, too.

He'll be alright in a day or two, It's happened to him before. He was stuck in a tree during a storm a few years back when the tree was hit by lightening. Couldn't find him for a bit. When he finally came to the door he looked just like he looks now. I guess he only has seven lives left now.

Got to get to the sleep room. I've got "the crew" coming over at 9am to work on the nursing home's layout. Got my "stuff" at the LHS in Kokomo and made another expedition to Fort Wayne to get some more "stuff" that wasn't in stock in Kokomo. Should be set.

Has everyone that was sending something done so? I have received so much that I am getting vertigo keeping everything straight. Somebody from Vermont sent six boxcars that I received today. Wasn't expecting those. They were even correct roads, NYC, PRR, C&O, and NKP. And nicely weathered. Even have Kadees. James Winnegard was the name. Thanks, James. I don't know you, I don't think, but the cars will be put to use on the layout. I wish that those who have sent stuff would use their screen names. I am much more familiar with most of those.

Holy Smokes, FLO .... is there any coffee in this cup at all? WOW!!!! I'd better be careful what I ask for next time. I think you just walked by the coffee pot with this cup of Beam. When I finish drinking this, sleep won't be a problem....I'll just stagger to bed and pass out.

Well all, gotta get horizontal. I'll check in tomorrow. I'd better pay for this myself rather than put it on Tony's tab. He may not be old enough to buy such spirits.

Bob

 

[AndrewC]

Good morning from Ye Olde London Towne. Its been a while but I'm still here. Can't get rid of me that easilly. A rain filled weekend ahead. Temps around 15-18c. (59 to 65f) Still trying to catch up on all the goings on here.

Not a lot going on but I still seem busier than ever. Guess that is part of the aging process. Some people age like wine. I seem to be aging like milk. Turns out I've got gout. Yippee. Just what I needed. My right foot is already a jigsaw puzzle from being broken and bashed about too many times.

Enough of my miseries. I did manage to spend some of my time off this week catching up on things. May is traditionally my model splurge month. This year is no exception. I've added 5 new locos to the roster and have been busy installing decoders and setting up sound for the first time. Not 100% sold on the noise yet but the club likes sound and so does the general public at shows so... for now the diesels will screech and burble along with the rest of the club's. For those interested the new arrivals are: Atlas low nose GP38 in BNSF, Athearn F45 in MRL, Athearn SD70mac in BNSF, and a pair of used Kato AC4400s in BNSF. Can you see a theme forming?

Chris, all the best and look after your good lady.

Flo: I'll have the steak & eggs with a vat of pure caffeine please.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning.

It's 70, cloudy and wet. The high will be around 86 and there's a fair chance of thunderstorms.

Went to Radio Shack yesterday to get some 12v 25mA light bulbs and was wondering how I could get the light to be directional without having to tape off everyplace light could get out when I happened to catch sight of a package of black heat shrink tubing. It works pretty good. I just place a short section over the bulb so just the tip of the bulb is sticking out, hold a lit match under it for just a split second and it's done. I want to get started on my next project soon. I was thinking that would be the Atlas U30C but I couldn't locate the decoder I had set aside for it. I had just decided to put the project on the back burner until I could obtain another decoder but I knew it had to be around here somewhere. It wasn't in the parts box under the layout and not in the parts boxes in the closet. Well, I finally found it but only after I had taken nearly everything out of the closet. All that trouble just to find a 1 amp Bachmann decoder. I'm still thinking about how I can modify the GE so it stands out as being unique but so far I don't have the parts to go with the ideas.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 5/16/2009

Heat Index: 70°F
Humidity: 94%
Dew Point: 68°F

So Far Today
High: 71°F
Low: 70°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph NNE

Today High: 85 Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 65 Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

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