The Official Summer Running Photo Thread

Bart_Salmons · July 24, 2012, 10:47am

I can’t beleive no one has started this yet…or if they did…I missed it…I actually got some train time in over the Fourth of July…

snowshoe · July 24, 2012, 11:03am

Nice Bart. Good to see you up and running. How did you make out with those storms a few weeks ago?

Ken_Brunt · July 24, 2012, 6:39pm

Summer’s been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.

snowshoe · July 24, 2012, 7:02pm

Ken Brunt said:
Summer's been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.

Its too warm its too cold. Ill have to send you a Pacifier. :) You are a wimp Ken :) You should just build a greenhouse over the layout and then you can control the temp. Nothing stops us mountain boys. ;)

Doug_Arnold · July 24, 2012, 8:18pm

This is the time of year I run at 6 a.m. or 7 p.m. I am getting quite a bit done – if I can do it in front of the cooler!

David_Marconi_FOGCH · July 24, 2012, 9:41pm

Nice pics Bart,good to see you using the layout now

SteveF · July 24, 2012, 11:07pm

Shawn said:
Ken Brunt said:
Summer's been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.
Its too warm its too cold. Ill have to send you a Pacifier. :) You are a wimp Ken :) You should just build a greenhouse over the layout and then you can control the temp. Nothing stops us mountain boys. ;)

Whoooooaaaa!!!

Somebody get me some Holy Water and pass the popcorn! This is gonna be good.

Richard_Smith · July 24, 2012, 11:51pm

Steve Featherkile said:
Shawn said:
Ken Brunt said:
Summer's been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.
Its too warm its too cold. Ill have to send you a Pacifier. :) You are a wimp Ken :) You should just build a greenhouse over the layout and then you can control the temp. Nothing stops us mountain boys. ;)
Whoooooaaaa!!!
Somebody get me some Holy Water and pass the popcorn! This is gonna be good.

Troublemaker!

snowshoe · July 25, 2012, 12:22am

Steve Featherkile said:
Shawn said:
Ken Brunt said:
Summer's been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.
Its too warm its too cold. Ill have to send you a Pacifier. :) You are a wimp Ken :) You should just build a greenhouse over the layout and then you can control the temp. Nothing stops us mountain boys. ;)
Whoooooaaaa!!!
Somebody get me some Holy Water and pass the popcorn! This is gonna be good.

Lol im still waiting for his comeback. Its taking a while.

Rumor has it Ken is building a Pacifier factory for his RR :o

Bart_Salmons · July 25, 2012, 11:32am

Shawn said:
Nice Bart. Good to see you up and running. How did you make out with those storms a few weeks ago?

Welp....the power went out on the 29th and then the town ran out of water on the 30th...... I camped on my carport for the weekend.....104 degrees and ya cant take a shower or flush the john is misery!

Ken_Brunt · July 25, 2012, 11:39am

Shawn said:
Ken Brunt said:
Summer's been a little too warm to be playin outside, however I did have a great time during the Invasion.
Its too warm its too cold. Ill have to send you a Pacifier. :) You are a wimp Ken :) You should just build a greenhouse over the layout and then you can control the temp. Nothing stops us mountain boys. ;)

Couple of cold iced teas is all the pacifier I need and an air conditioned room to drink them in (or a nice shady tree). ............;)

snowshoe · July 25, 2012, 1:10pm

Bart Salmons said:
Shawn said:
Nice Bart. Good to see you up and running. How did you make out with those storms a few weeks ago?
Welp....the power went out on the 29th and then the town ran out of water on the 30th...... I camped on my carport for the weekend.....104 degrees and ya cant take a shower or flush the john is misery!

Ugh I now how that feels. We had no power for 7 days after the hurrican and then again after the snowstorm in oct. I bet Jon can relate.

JRad · July 25, 2012, 1:19pm

Fer shure dude Best part of the power outage was the low electric bill and the $100+ rebate for inconvenience that the state forced on them

Might get some running pictures soon. I’ve been out there, but doing switching operations without the camera. Did a little (very little - about 3 feet) track work last evening. Today is a low humidity day so I might get out this evening.

jake3404 · July 25, 2012, 2:44pm

Jeez, I wish South Dakota would do that to the power companies.

I live out in the sticks and am the last guy on the grid. There is no one beyond me, so I get my power back last. I get brownouts frequently. We had a mild winter so I didnt loose power this year, but usually I can expect loosing power for a couple days every winter.

I have a large generator for backup. So I can run my well pump and the hot water heater, plus a few lights. I just have to be careful how much power I try to use at once.

JRad · July 25, 2012, 3:26pm

It was kind of a tricky deal. You had to be out of power for more than 7 days (most didn’t qualify) and you had to make application by a cut-off date. Most people didn’t learn about it until after the cut-off date when news coverage was better. That was good for me because it was a pool shared equally, but not so good for the hundreds of folks who missed out because it wasn’t big news until the payout amount was announced. By then it was too late to apply.

And, just to bring this back on-topic. It was early fall snow and outdoors was a mess so I didn’t run outdoors, but to keep from going stir crazy, with no TV or computer, I did run some switching ops in the basement on battery power