Smudge617
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Is this the new "anti brake check" device that was rumoured about.
Running Bear's April 2023 Coffee Shop
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My avatar is at the most southern point the North British Railway made in England (near Hexham). Follow the old line northwards five miles you will find me. Our house is in England, but do most of our shopping in Hawick, Scotland.
David
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My pleasure, Willie.
In the landscape scenes I like the multitude of colors in nature. The greens, browns, blues etc..
David
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TLOC
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Good late night.
Around 1990 my son was a Mite in the youth hockey program in Central Wisconsin playing a team from St. Point. There was an extraordinary player for Point that day and because I was the scorekeeper and clock operator I remembered him. It was easy though as until my son turned 17 and had to quit hockey because of too many concussions he played Joe Pawleski at least a couple times per season and often more. Joe never seemed to be super blessed by anything other than his Hockey intelligence. But he always was on the score sheet. He was a winner and turned into a good buddy of the son.
That extra ordinary player from way back is still playing in the NHL, now for the Dallas Stars and scored his 1000th point today. Never thought that little kid would be what he is today. Congrats Joe…
Around 1990 my son was a Mite in the youth hockey program in Central Wisconsin playing a team from St. Point. There was an extraordinary player for Point that day and because I was the scorekeeper and clock operator I remembered him. It was easy though as until my son turned 17 and had to quit hockey because of too many concussions he played Joe Pawleski at least a couple times per season and often more. Joe never seemed to be super blessed by anything other than his Hockey intelligence. But he always was on the score sheet. He was a winner and turned into a good buddy of the son.
That extra ordinary player from way back is still playing in the NHL, now for the Dallas Stars and scored his 1000th point today. Never thought that little kid would be what he is today. Congrats Joe…
kbkchooch
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Good morning gang!
It’s partly cloudy and 40, heading to 72!
I broke my own rule, I got another loco. See, way back when I was just a lad I had a loco in CB&Q Chinese red that was a favorite. When Garry would post pictures of his locos, I would remember my old engine. I found this at an auction over the weekend. Yes, it needs a set of KDs and handrail fix, but it runs great!
yes, I know I only model eastern roads, but I can run what I want. I do believe Garry would approve.
It’s partly cloudy and 40, heading to 72!
I broke my own rule, I got another loco. See, way back when I was just a lad I had a loco in CB&Q Chinese red that was a favorite. When Garry would post pictures of his locos, I would remember my old engine. I found this at an auction over the weekend. Yes, it needs a set of KDs and handrail fix, but it runs great!
yes, I know I only model eastern roads, but I can run what I want. I do believe Garry would approve.
NorthBrit
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My avatar is at the most southern point the North British Railway made in England (near Hexham). Follow the old line northwards five miles you will find me. Our house is in England, but do most of our shopping in Hawick, Scotland.
David
NorthBrit
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Good morning all. A sunny day. The forecast is rain?
Pets. Had them most of our life. When the last one crossed Rainbow Bridge, Dawn's health wasn't good, so we decided no more pets. We still miss them.
Queen's View, Rosshire, Scotland
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require
David
Pets. Had them most of our life. When the last one crossed Rainbow Bridge, Dawn's health wasn't good, so we decided no more pets. We still miss them.
Queen's View, Rosshire, Scotland
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require
David
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Patrick
What, me worry?
Morning all,
48° and clear going for a high of 80° later. No rain expected now until Friday.
Sherrel: Sorry to hear about your family member (and pets are part of the family). Kids think I need another dog and are always trying to get me to get another.
Got to get to it...
48° and clear going for a high of 80° later. No rain expected now until Friday.
Sherrel: Sorry to hear about your family member (and pets are part of the family). Kids think I need another dog and are always trying to get me to get another.
Got to get to it...
TLOC
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Good morning Crew and Sherrel I am sorry about your buddy.
So. Central Wisconsin has another beautiful start to a day going. 57f degrees heading to 78 per the WeatherChannel app but Terry’s TV guy before dinner last night said 81. It’s calm and all of a sudden it’s dry enough that the fire danger is considered high.
I got a bunch done at the bench yesterday afternoon. I feel really good about the progress on the weathering projects. I may regret this but I said yes to 2 operating sessions this Saturday. Both are 3 hours each with lunch provided between. The farthest is 90 minutes and the returning session is an hour away. The schedule says starts at 10, lunch at 1 and ends at 5. The 2 layouts are part of an operating group of 12 layouts that rotate sessions. They are a well oiled machine and the single sessions have been fun. The second session on Saturday for this layout will be operating session 106. The first one Saturday I am really looking forward to. I am building the Quaking Aspen trees for a session I am going to on 4/29. Now I get to go sooner, but no the trees will not be ready. These extra sessions came up as a special day for 12 guys driving over from Milwaukee and they had some drop outs. Dr. Bill Clancy who had his layout showcased in Model Railroader I think last November and is a 1.5 miles away neighbor hopefully can car pool.
I have vacuuming duty today and more packages due per the USPS tracking.
enjoy the day
So. Central Wisconsin has another beautiful start to a day going. 57f degrees heading to 78 per the WeatherChannel app but Terry’s TV guy before dinner last night said 81. It’s calm and all of a sudden it’s dry enough that the fire danger is considered high.
I got a bunch done at the bench yesterday afternoon. I feel really good about the progress on the weathering projects. I may regret this but I said yes to 2 operating sessions this Saturday. Both are 3 hours each with lunch provided between. The farthest is 90 minutes and the returning session is an hour away. The schedule says starts at 10, lunch at 1 and ends at 5. The 2 layouts are part of an operating group of 12 layouts that rotate sessions. They are a well oiled machine and the single sessions have been fun. The second session on Saturday for this layout will be operating session 106. The first one Saturday I am really looking forward to. I am building the Quaking Aspen trees for a session I am going to on 4/29. Now I get to go sooner, but no the trees will not be ready. These extra sessions came up as a special day for 12 guys driving over from Milwaukee and they had some drop outs. Dr. Bill Clancy who had his layout showcased in Model Railroader I think last November and is a 1.5 miles away neighbor hopefully can car pool.
I have vacuuming duty today and more packages due per the USPS tracking.
enjoy the day
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 52°, it's going to be another nice day. Each day's forecast is just a little bit warmer than the day before. Still no rain in the ten day forecast.
Terrible day yesterday. I woke up with a pinched nerve in my neck and I was in agony all day until just after supper. Really put a damper on all outdoor activity that I had planned. I actually originally got it last Wednesday night but it was just a mild annoyance until yesterday morning. Today it seems to have mostly gone away.
Short and sweet post this morning, as we have a previously scheduled primary care doctor's appointment at 9:15, 50 miles away. We really need to think about a new doctor closer to home, but we have been using this one since 2005 and we like him. My wife has slowly been improving and we'll find out this morning what all of the test results from last Wednesday showed.
Despite the discomfort, I did make it out to the train shed yesterday. I didn't attempt to do anything that required concentration; I did straighten things up a bit out there. Seems like a never ending job. I ran some trains for a while without any incidents or noted repairs. I also cleaned another structure in the cleaning project. It was the body shop that I posted last week. I really won't get a lot of time out there again until tomorrow. Four of the last six days have had too many other things going on and today won't be any different
This first picture is the beginning of the overall section of layout that I am doing in this quarter's layout cleaning. I'm on the upper level.
This shot is just a random shot of the blob at the end of where I am headed. The end is the green structure in the center right before the industrial park.
This is part of the interim on the right of the above picture.
David - I like what you are doing with your daily pictures, a layout scene, a real thing scene and a landscape scene.
Tom O - I doubt that the soft drink situation is going to get any better, but good luck to you. In my seven decades I have seen inflation raise prices many times. Even though the inflation rate stabilizes or even comes down, most prices of consumer goods do not come down. Gasoline is an exception, but it will never reach the 33¢/gallon that I was paying in the 60's. Some grocery items recede but never get back to their original levels.
Living out here in the middle of nowhere has many advantages, but nearby operating sessions is not one of them. The closest are an hour away in Dallas, but I don't know any of those people well enough to participate.
Sherrel - Very sad to read about Charlie. I know how attached you were to him.
Everybody have a great day.
Terrible day yesterday. I woke up with a pinched nerve in my neck and I was in agony all day until just after supper. Really put a damper on all outdoor activity that I had planned. I actually originally got it last Wednesday night but it was just a mild annoyance until yesterday morning. Today it seems to have mostly gone away.
Short and sweet post this morning, as we have a previously scheduled primary care doctor's appointment at 9:15, 50 miles away. We really need to think about a new doctor closer to home, but we have been using this one since 2005 and we like him. My wife has slowly been improving and we'll find out this morning what all of the test results from last Wednesday showed.
Despite the discomfort, I did make it out to the train shed yesterday. I didn't attempt to do anything that required concentration; I did straighten things up a bit out there. Seems like a never ending job. I ran some trains for a while without any incidents or noted repairs. I also cleaned another structure in the cleaning project. It was the body shop that I posted last week. I really won't get a lot of time out there again until tomorrow. Four of the last six days have had too many other things going on and today won't be any different
This first picture is the beginning of the overall section of layout that I am doing in this quarter's layout cleaning. I'm on the upper level.
This shot is just a random shot of the blob at the end of where I am headed. The end is the green structure in the center right before the industrial park.
This is part of the interim on the right of the above picture.
David - I like what you are doing with your daily pictures, a layout scene, a real thing scene and a landscape scene.
Tom O - I doubt that the soft drink situation is going to get any better, but good luck to you. In my seven decades I have seen inflation raise prices many times. Even though the inflation rate stabilizes or even comes down, most prices of consumer goods do not come down. Gasoline is an exception, but it will never reach the 33¢/gallon that I was paying in the 60's. Some grocery items recede but never get back to their original levels.
Living out here in the middle of nowhere has many advantages, but nearby operating sessions is not one of them. The closest are an hour away in Dallas, but I don't know any of those people well enough to participate.
Sherrel - Very sad to read about Charlie. I know how attached you were to him.
Everybody have a great day.
NYC_George
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A what's the punishment for something like that?
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Hutch
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Oh yeah, sure, he's one of my favorites.
NYC_George
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Willie Yesterday I tried to find a doctor closer to home myself. Being the doctor I have now moved his office to NY city they suggested I use another doctor in the Armonk, NY office. They put me on hold forever and I have things to get done around here and don't need to be wasting time on the phone. I call a new doctor a few miles away and guess what they also put me on hold like forever and I gave up. They need to hire more people to staff their offices.
Swal
JeffH
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We had Easter dinner with our kids last night. They both work in the ER and both had to work all weekend, so we planned a get together for happy hour and a dinner on a Monday evening.
I took the day off. We needed to get some thigns done before the kids arrived. Well... One thinbg led to another, and we ended up helping our neighbor get rid of a huge brush pile she had accumulated. She's 78, and lives by herself. Tough old broad just had knee replacement surgery a week ago this past Friday, and was very thankful we got rid of the majority of her brush. I made 12 trips with the front loader of our tractor full of sticks, and piled them on our burn pile. We ended up with a burn pile about 6'x6'x6' that went up in flames and was gone in about an hour.
Our oldest and her new husband showed up with a Golden Retriever puppy. Here she is: Meet Rosie. She's only 11 weeks old here, nest to our 3 year old American Shepherd, Winston.
I had to zoom in to get this pic, so it's a little pixelated.
I took the day off. We needed to get some thigns done before the kids arrived. Well... One thinbg led to another, and we ended up helping our neighbor get rid of a huge brush pile she had accumulated. She's 78, and lives by herself. Tough old broad just had knee replacement surgery a week ago this past Friday, and was very thankful we got rid of the majority of her brush. I made 12 trips with the front loader of our tractor full of sticks, and piled them on our burn pile. We ended up with a burn pile about 6'x6'x6' that went up in flames and was gone in about an hour.
Our oldest and her new husband showed up with a Golden Retriever puppy. Here she is: Meet Rosie. She's only 11 weeks old here, nest to our 3 year old American Shepherd, Winston.
I had to zoom in to get this pic, so it's a little pixelated.
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
In spite of everything - the Sun came up again this morning.
A REALLY GREAT, BIG THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR THE NOTATIONS ABOUT CHARLIE!
You all are really a great group of guys!
(as BORIS (JOE) said - going to take a while to process)
He was so happy to see me ... and then the needle was inserted ...
All I thought about last night was the feeling that I had killed him ... which I did ...
Not a very good night -- I think several naps are in order today?
Now - If i can just turn off my mind for a while.
Later, fellows!
A REALLY GREAT, BIG THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR THE NOTATIONS ABOUT CHARLIE!
You all are really a great group of guys!
(as BORIS (JOE) said - going to take a while to process)
He was so happy to see me ... and then the needle was inserted ...
All I thought about last night was the feeling that I had killed him ... which I did ...
Not a very good night -- I think several naps are in order today?
Now - If i can just turn off my mind for a while.
Later, fellows!
chessie_system3
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Morning fellers. I managed to make it by again. Nothing new to really report on. Sunshine and warm temps here. I'm gonna share a pic from one of my many posts I was going to put on here before I got sidetracked. I started tinkering with my blue box athearns. I pulled the shell off of my Chessie GP40. I'm pretty sure I've posted on here. I can't really remember.
Just for some context here. It has the wrong reporting marks as this unit should be a B&O unit. I've opted to leave it as is. Now what really blew me away was the condition under the shell.
I can't recall a time I've taken the shell off of an old blue box and the motor look this good. I was blown away by it. I guess that might have something to do with how good it runs. I'll be updating the wheels and couplers. Possibly grab irons too. I haven't decided yet. I still have my GM50 locomotive to finish as well. I'll continue to try to play catch up here. I had started quite a few posts I never posted. I'll stop by again when I get a chance.
Just for some context here. It has the wrong reporting marks as this unit should be a B&O unit. I've opted to leave it as is. Now what really blew me away was the condition under the shell.
I can't recall a time I've taken the shell off of an old blue box and the motor look this good. I was blown away by it. I guess that might have something to do with how good it runs. I'll be updating the wheels and couplers. Possibly grab irons too. I haven't decided yet. I still have my GM50 locomotive to finish as well. I'll continue to try to play catch up here. I had started quite a few posts I never posted. I'll stop by again when I get a chance.
truckdad
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NorthBrit
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My pleasure, Willie.
In the landscape scenes I like the multitude of colors in nature. The greens, browns, blues etc..
David
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
I'm not really an Eastern RR fan, but this pic is really cool.
migalyto
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Good morning all,
Weather guy says to look for a 80 degree day today with plentiful sunshine. We ended up leaving the windows open last nigh. It was so nice!
Been out in the yard off and on to take care of the sticks, and winter puppy droppings.
wife ended up catching the bug I had last week, so Shes under the weather, but she is still remote for work, so not as bad as a trip to the office!
Have a great day all,
Weather guy says to look for a 80 degree day today with plentiful sunshine. We ended up leaving the windows open last nigh. It was so nice!
Been out in the yard off and on to take care of the sticks, and winter puppy droppings.
wife ended up catching the bug I had last week, so Shes under the weather, but she is still remote for work, so not as bad as a trip to the office!
Have a great day all,
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