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Good morning.

It's 79 and cloudy. The high today should be in the mid 80's and there's a good chance of rain.

Got my Digitrax system yesterday and I'm busy putting it through it's paces. I've already readdressed some of my locos and reconfigured the headlight on my Athearn F7 A-B set. Now it's a gyralight in forward and a steady light in reverse. I've also reset the starting voltage on one of my Atlas GP40's. It has a cannabilized decoder from a Bachmann DCC OnBoard GP40. I may get time today to install more decoders. I have a pile of DZ125's here that are in search of locos.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/7/2008

Heat Index: 83°F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 72°F

So Far Today
High: 79°F
Low: 75°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 9mph SSW

Through 6 AM...isolated showers will continue to develop and move north at 15 knots across the coastal waters off the south central Louisiana coast. Expect additional development across the inland areas of southeast Texas and Louisiana later this morning.

Today High: 85 Mostly cloudy until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 58 Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Cooler. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

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10-07-2008

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! :D

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Good Morning ! It's a bit cold out right now 34 degrees and a bit if frost on the ground . Took my Buddy out to to his potty and he didn't sniff around much . So he must be feeling it also . Ray the price we pay for the old choppers .Sometimes I thinks we should just go toothless . But then that two inch strip steak would have to be ground up and that would be tragic , Oh well gotta get going so hope you all have a nice day !!!!
 


Good morning folks

It was a chilly 42 F as I hit the pavement this morning. High today will be 66 F.

Not much happened yesterday. Finished doing the outside Halloween decorations by hanging a couple of ghosts from the tree in the front yard. I had to go over to our storage bin and assemble some of the popcorn orders I need to fill for tomorrow night.

It is beginning to look like my train time will be limited until the popcorn sales settle down.

My daughter has a volleyball game after school today. It is against their biggest rival, the other middle school in the district.

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Mornin' everyone!

Mouth feels fine this morning. Amazingly I have had no pain whatsoever. Guess all the nerves are long gone on that tooth. We got a frost last night so I will have to see if anything is left out in the garden. Also have to finish mowing the lawn today and picking up some of the clippings from the small hedge (by the house).

Andrew welcome to the coffee shop. Flo, put whatever he wants on my tab this morning. (and switch out the Latte stuff with some good dark roast black coffee.....)

I'll have some black dark roast coffee and a couple of poached eggs this morning Flo. Doc says not to eat anything crunchy for a while. I'll have to take a rain check on Tom's Chocolatey Caramel Crunch Popcorn he brought in (that stuff is decadent!).

Rex that is something about your Golden Spike. National prints them I think and then they go back to the Regional AP Chair for his signature. Do you have any AP Certificates? If so which ones?

See you all later.
 
Hi everyone! We are finally getting some rain and 73 deg after waiting ever since the cane stirred up things.

Ray, my Golden Spike was the printed form, but for some reason, the AP Chair didn't take the time to print my name by computer...just hand wrote it in...looks like...well, it is in a drawer under other things:mad:. Way back I had the hots for the AP and then I started tearing out, reworking, and expanding so much I put it on the back burner for awhile. I had the electrical and scenery near ready to go and dispatcher started, but I now would have to go back through it all. Maybe some day I'll get fired up again. If for no other reason, my personal satisfaction;).

Paul, 34 degrees!!! That makes me shake and I don't blame Buddy for not wanting to sniff around long.:D

Hi Andrew! Welcome to the chatter box:D. 12x24 is a good size to accomplish a lot of good model railroading.
 
evening gents,
Andrew Welcome, have NX got it right on the old GNER yet, i liked GNER.

Well today we got a double whammy, first of all we have 146 staff going up the Swanee river in three week's, then we heard all temp workers are also going 150+ of them, and THEN we get letters asking for voluntary redundancies,,, up sh1t creek without a paddle best describes our business today. The order bank for new trucks is dying at an unbelievable speed
 
Good Morning/Afternoon Everyone,
It was a cool 50*F here in Coarsegold, Calif this morning under clear skys.

More work has been done on the C & S West SL getting the Serpha & Anglin sideings ties
glued down and a heavy wood retaining wall errected to prevent the enbankment from colapsing on the S&A upper sideing. Now I need to figure an easy way to make a ramp to climb the half inch difference. I'll post some pictures in my new post under Layouts & Planning.

Ray: It could have well been my misunderstanding about your intended use of the Switch
Stands. I was viewing them as I would view a Caboose Hobbies switch stand and because they are functional I figured your were too!? So it's probably more my error.

Rex: What is this Golden Spike award or thing your mentioning?

Andrew: Hello and welcome to the forum, a great bunch of guys and a couple of ladies.

Take care, and easy on the Throttle!
 
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Hi Y'all!
Flo, please bring me a piece of apple pie and a cup of black coffee.
This is the first time I can slow down for days.
Looks like a lot of people have been busy the last few days, getting railroads and "outside " projects done.
I was looking for Chris on here. I was in the Tampa area over the weekend and drove through Spring Hill Sunday night on my way home.
I looked for Chris at the track crossing off highway 19, but the rain must have made him stay inside. I wanted to ask him if the "Pickled Parrot" was a popular establishment in Spring Hill or just the people from Wickee Wachee.
I cannot spell those indian names, much less pronounce them correctly!!

To the Alabama Rail Gang: please plan to make it to the Irondale Cafe site on the 18th. I need to put some faces to the names I see on the forum so often.

Flo, I'm going to pay my own bill today! :eek:
Jim or Rex can get it for me next time.
Mikey
 
Steve B said:
evening gents,
Andrew Welcome, have NX got it right on the old GNER yet, i liked GNER.

Well today we got a double whammy, first of all we have 146 staff going up the Swanee river in three week's, then we heard all temp workers are also going 150+ of them, and THEN we get letters asking for voluntary redundancies,,, up sh1t creek without a paddle best describes our business today. The order bank for new trucks is dying at an unbelievable speed
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That is a big lump of Brown stuff Steve. Hope you manage to float to the top. I'm lucky and most of my work is government based and has to be done as per the ******* in Brussels, so I'm safe for the next 3 years at least.

NX is crap. Done them too many times recently. This time I ended up trying Grand Central for the first time. Not bad, Ex Virgin HST still with proper seats and tables, not the First Group cattle class plastic things. Decent wireless and a tolerable cup of java with a smiling pretty lady in the buffet car. £59 peak return as opposed to £122 on NX. Sadly it means hanging about the Maltings for 3 hours until my train tomorrow as the cheap tix are GC only. :D What a shame. With a bit of luck I will finish my meetings in time for a visit to the National Railway Museum as well.
 
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David: The Golden Spike Award is given to members of the NMRA that have demonstrated a level of familiarity with the many areas of the hobby by completing listed tasks. It is more of an entry level award that probably 90% of this forum's members could qualify...if they would join NMRA.;):)
http://www.nmra.org/education/achievement/gold.html

Mikey: My plans for the 18th are still not clear. Right now, there are a lot of "if's".
 
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Good early morning, everyone.

Geez, make sure you have all your Yahoo account information saved somewhere if something goes wrong. It's been three days of back and forth including sending in copies of my Alabama and California driver's licenses. They kept wanting to know what the answer to my "Secret Question" was without giving me any hint as to what the question was. Like I could remember that from 8 years ago. I finally got one guy today to tell me it was my S.O. badge number! I sent that back and told him I'd even send him a picture of my badge with the badge number on it if that would help. Still haven't heard. back. The only thing I can think of is that someone hacked my password and changed it since they are going through all this checking. It's all Sarah Palin's fault. :)

Rex, no "Ifs". You live way closer than me and I want to meet you.

Steve, sorry to hear the staff cuts are getting deeper. I don't see an end to this crisis soon and I'm afraid it's going to tough on everyone. I hope you're one of the survivors.

Ray, glad to hear your tooth is better but laying off the crunchy stuff for a while is a good idea.

Paul, I wouldn't want to take a leak outside if it was 34 either. :D

We finally got a whopping .12 inches of rain from a few showers earlier today. There's still some rain around but it's all to the east of us. At least this will settle the dust for a day or two.

The Asian markets are plunging again tonight and I fear tomorrow will be more of the same for the US markets. The Fed seems to be making things up as they go along. OTOH, if you ever wanted to buy a country, Iceland is officially bankrupt. I'm not kidding, look it up. Their eight banks make a lot of very risky investments in the European and US housing markets and the Iceland government used up all the cash in the treasury trying to keep them open. It all disappeared like water down a sewer. Iceland is now officially broke, all its bonds have been reduced to junk status, and they have no idea how they will pay for things like gasoline and fuel oil they need to import. The credit system is closed down and the only thing you can use to purchase anything is cash. A miniature version of what lies ahead for larger countries? We'll see. :(
 
Good morning.

It's 62 and clear this morning. The high will be around 80 and it will be partly cloudy. It's definitely cooling off. That barbed wire fence between here and the north pole must have fallen down!

Got the new crossover put in yesterday. Today I'll be pouring the plaster in around it to lock it in place. It'll be a very thin mix at first so it'll reach into all the areas under the track then thicker as it nears the top. Also got to go see an individual who owes me a bunch of green backs. I should be able to squeeze 5 portraits of Ben Franklin out of that turnip. Other than that it should be another slow day like yesterday was.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/8/2008

Wind Chill: 61°F
Humidity: 72%
Dew Point: 52°F

So Far Today
High: 63°F
Low: 61°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 7mph NNW

Today High: 80 Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 52 Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.

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Good morning folks

It looks like autumn is here. It was 41 F as I rolled out of the driveway. Our high will be 70 F with mostly sun.

Yesterday my daughter’s volleyball team had an up and down match. They won the first game 25 to 22, lost the second 25 to 12. The second wasn’t that close. They won the tiebreaker 15 to 4. One server on my daughter’s team had an awesome run and when she gave up the serve the score was 10 to 0. So Drexel Hill Middle School 7th grade volleyball team defeated Beverly Hills Middle School 7th grade to win the Upper Darby School District middle school bragging rights.

Not much else happened. I did not get any modeling in. It was one of those nights where I spent time helping the kids with homework, the wife with computer problems, etc. Before I knew it was bedtime.

Tonight we have Cub Scout den meetings.

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Mornin everyone!

Another chilly but sunny day so far in the Finger Lakes. Currently 52°F with a high of 64°F. Some rain showers this evening and overnight but supposed to be sunny again tomorrow.... Yep I live in Camelot:rolleyes::D Garden is still around and with a warming trend over the next few days, I might actually get a couple more usable zucchini and some beans (Still in blossom). I haven't fired up the wood stove yet. I'm thinking about buying a couple more face cords of wood to be sure I have lots for the winter particularly considering the possibility of a colder than normal Winter and the economy.

My son was over yesterday to work on the boat trailer. Got a lot done. Hopefully he will pop over a couple of hours today before he goes to work and can get it done. Then we can get a crew and move the durn boat onto it and out of my yard......:(

Have a great day!
 
good morning/afternoon all. Its a beautiful sunny day here in York. temp around the 15c (58f ish) mark, not bad for this time of year. Lucked out at work and have 3 hours to spare this afternoon so its off to the National Railway Museum. No coffee for me today Flo. Mine's a pint of Centurian's Ghost please. :) The sun is well and truly over the yard arm.

Take care all. We are living in interesting times. Anyone interested in some Icelandic Landbankii shares? They aren't perforated and are a bit rough, but you will get used to it soon enough. :D:D:D
 
Well Good Morning to Everyone from Coarsegold, Calif,
It's almost 9:00 Am here and a cool 58*F and should get into the 70*s or above. It's nice to have some cooler weather for a change.

I didn't get to much more done on the layout yesterday but did check into a couple of things. I have glued down three sections of ties and even glued some switch ties down to position the curved switch at the beginning of the S&A sideings and main line.

Say Rex, thanks for the information on what the GSA Certificate is all about. To advanced for me, remember I'm still back into the old block system wireing and hand throws for the turnouts, I'd never make the grade, well maybe if I double headed?

Take care all and use those whistle signals so the rest of the crew knows what's going on, Ok?

Have an enjoyable day,
David
 
Good Morning All,

I was just wondering about a forum member I hadn't seen on here in quite a while.

I don't remember his name, he was an engineer ona Coal Drag someplace? He even posted a couple of pictures of the Diesel Loco he ran and it had a image of a horse on it's nose like the horse on a Ferrari Car, upright on its hind legs!
 


Some of you "Good 'Ol' Country Boys" just might like this...... A musician friend who is also into model railroading sent me this. (Have no idea how he finds this stuff). Good use for a tractor with a couple bad cylinders...... Enjoy! I did! In fact I bet we got a Fairbanks Morse Prime Mover out at the museum that could be used as the percussion for "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad".

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David block system DC or DCC makes absolutely no difference for the Golden Spike. I would be willing to bet you already have about 90% of it done. You don't have to do each of the suggested items, just the needed number of them for each requirement. Of course you do have to be a member of the NMRA........;)
 
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