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We are having sleet and freezing rain later tonight......and on tuesday is supposed to be up to 58* with rain. So if that happens all the recent snow will melt off again.
 
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

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Good morning America! It's cloudy and currently 50° here in Forgottonia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgottonia The forecast is calling for steadily increasing temperatures through the day and night with a high of 63° tomorrow with the chance of some severe thunderstorms.

Spring will be short lived, however, with a return to temps in the thirties on Wednesday. This is all better than the little dab of freezing rain (sprinkles) we had yesterday! Just enough to make the sidewalks a little slick and nothing more. Only lasted for a few hours before warming up enough to melt.

I don't care for rain but we need it very badly, as we are a long ways from recovering from the drought. We've only had about 4" of snow this winter compared to an average of 13" by this time and not much rain in the fall either. Last year we had about 8" by this time. One of, if not the, driest spells I can recall. Reminds me of living in Arizona.
 
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And, on that note....good morning...sorta

Wherein we are getting everything in one day here...going to a high of 36F..

And I get to work from home..seeing as how the weather is so rotten out here...

Have a good day!!
 
Good morning. It's 65° with 97% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a high of 75°.
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Yesterday I got some of the clutter cleared from the layout. Today I plan to remove more. But planning to do something and actually doing it are two different things. Other things tend to get in the way. Other things around here equals family. They're busy getting my mothers things sorted out for whatever fate awaits them. One thing for certain is that the ministry's for the needy around town are going to be getting tons of clothing. What they intend to do with the antiques and other stuff I have no idea. I've already told them that any electronics will pass by me before they go out the door. Well what's good electronic items and bad electronic items all look the same to them. Checking them out and testing them for condition, use and functionality is one of my areas of expertise. So naturally I get called down there to check some things out every couple of days it seems. There wasn't a call yesterday or the day before so today will probably be the day.

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Good Morning!

It's 30°F this morning with light snow falling. The temp is supposed to rise through tonight, with the precipitation changing over to rain. By tomorrow we will be basking in the high 50s :).

Devils lost in OT yesterday, but are still off to their best start since 2003.

Spent yesterday building kits I bought in the late 80s and early 90s. Still came with x2f couplers as standard back then. Replacing them with #5s. Have 2 airslides and a tank car to finish today.

Have a great day!

Joe
 


I have to get some of my used RC airplanes, cars and accessories sorted this week to get ready for the annual RC swap meet this saturday. There is usually a big crowd and a good selection at this event. I have enough extra N scale train stuff I might take a box of items to make a ready to run setup. Can use the cash right now.



Mike
 
The freezing drizzle made its anticipated appearance here in central MD and, aside from delayed opening of schools and a few slick spots, there were no major disruptions.

I finally finished the painting and decaling of my "new" B&O motive power on Sunday night. [...except for the number boards, they're a whole 'nother story!] I used Microscale decals and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. Plenty of contrast between the yellow lettering and the dark blue paint. My leftover models from 20 years ago were lettered with Champ decals, which seem much thinner and not as high quality as today's Microscales. Oh well. At least all [except one] of the old models are first generation geeps and F-units, whose paint jobs are suppose to look worn and faded for the period I'm modeling [1969-72]. As for the lone SD40, I can probably superimpose Microscale letters over the old Champ ones.
 
Good Afternoonish...

Good thing it was a work at home day today...now it be foggy as all get out here.

Going to have a bit of an operating session with the neighbour and go to bed early tonight...early morning doctor check up ...
 
Packing it in a little early tonight. With all that's been going on with the family and memorial preparations I've been pretty busy and I'm at the point where I just can't take much more. I'll be glad when it's all over and done with. I've not been feeling good today so didn't get anything done on the layout.

It's gonna be a warm night. Looks like 65°F. Expecting some rain tomorrow.

Well, that's it for now See y'all tomorrow.

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Good Morning!

It's 37° F and foggy this morning, in Howell, NJ. Supposed to go into the high 40s today.

Yesterday marked 27 years of living in NJ. I still miss the Baltimore area. Go Ravens! Funny thing is that the Ravens were not in Baltimore when we left, but..........

Barry: Good luck with your check-up today, I have one in two weeks.

Found another old kit to build, a P2K single door 50' box car. I have a relatively small layout, yet last night I counted cars on the layout. there were 60 freight cars, 8 passenger cars, 5 cabins and 7 locomotive consists. with nothing standing on main tracks. Since the layout doesn't appear crowded, I guess it's bigger than I think.

Have a great day!

Joe
 
WJLI26 said:
there were 60 freight cars, 8 passenger cars, 5 cabins and 7 locomotive consists. with nothing standing on main tracks. Since the layout doesn't appear crowded, I guess it's bigger than I think.
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Gee, you think? Wish I had that much space on my layout. I have five locos (3 pulling, 2 pushing) on a 27 car string and it stretches halfway around the layout.
 
jeffrey-wimberly said:
Gee, you think? Wish I had that much space on my layout. I have five locos (3 pulling, 2 pushing) on a 27 car string and it stretches halfway around the layout.
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:o:o:o - My thinking was affected by all those 20' x40'+ "super" layouts featured in Model magazines - :o:o:o.

On the other hand, since my layout is primarily a switching layout, I am realistically limited to 10-12 car trains max. I kind of wish I could run something that long, or a 14 car passenger train, but it doesn't work that way.:).

Joe
 


WJLI26 said:
On the other hand, since my layout is primarily a switching layout, I am realistically limited to 10-12 car trains max. I kind of wish I could run something that long, or a 14 car passenger train, but it doesn't work that way.:).
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Aha, I didn't know you had a switching layout. See, our layouts are polar opposites. Mine is a continuous run single main line with three short dead-end spurs and a through siding. I have a three loco consist sitting on the through siding and another three loco consist sitting on the longest of the spurs. The other two spurs can hold about five cars each.
 
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