Yes , you lot .
I loyally leap (hah) to the fount of all knowledge worth having , the renowned and unabashed LSC ,and what do I find ? There is hardly anything new to read .
Do you get dragged out shopping by SWMBO?Is that tradition of perdition on a Saturday practised in the Good Ole USof A? And Canada and Australia , like it is here in the good old Kof U ?
Excuses please .
Mike M
Honestly I’ve been wondering th same thing. We’ve had a influx of new mebers in th last week, howver traffic sems to have slowed to a dribble. I’m currently Dead In Th Water for new projects, but someone out there should be up to somthing neat! How bout it? Anyone doing any earthshattering? Got plans for anything???
Hi everybody!!
I guess this would be a good opportunity to introduce myself. I have been lurking on LSC for a few weeks now, but have been a Large Scaler for some time. I have started my third layout and I am making pretty good progress. I like Swiss and German narrow gauge, but all railways interest me. I won’t bore you right now with layout details, but you may find this interesting:
John O’Reilly hoisted his beer and said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!”
That won him top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, “I won the prize for the best toast of the night!”
She said, “Aye, did ye now, and what was your toast?”
John said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife!”
“Oh, that is very nice indeed, John” said Mary.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John’s drinking buddies on the street corner.
The man chuckled leeringly and said, “John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary.”
She said, " Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he’s only been there twice in the last four years. Once, he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him …
26 years working in the steel fabrication business will take its toll on a person, I can assure you.
Paul
Recovering.
Start in Thgursday removing branches and such from the yard, empyting trash, fixing couplers the idi…careless operators broke last session, brakes wheels, grab irons, cleaning all the projects out of the shop, putting boxes away, Friday morning make the last shipments of the week, grab some lunch quick before one guy shows on the dot of 1230 for a 1400 operating session (you can set your Timex), run until we lock the doors at 2115 (last night), come in, try to find some dinner, check the boards, answer e-mails, make the calls, crash.
Next day, errands and such with and for the wife, deal with Johann 4 times on the phone over the porn spam that has 50 hits on the forum, go out for the weekend meal, come back, document 20 more porn spams for Johann, research protocols that will help prevent this, send them off to Johann and the front office for them to consider, grab a qick nap, have the wife call you to ask a question, go back to work for a bit, and come in and read this.
Yeah, I just sit on my hindquarters.
Welcome Aboard Paul.
Mike, as far as what I do on the weekends. Run a marina, weekends are when the boaters are around. Usually quite busy. On top this weekend, my kids are here with the younguns. Little Luke is 2 and an absolute train nut. He eats, sleeps and breathes Thomas, plus Grandpa’s trains. We get along real well. All of the family is still asleep and we are planning on another full day. The other half of the family comes today. So our full house is going to be overflowing. Should be fun. 3 Grandkids with the oldest being just over 2. Wow! Jan’s Dad also is with us, because Jan’s Mom is in the Health Care Center here. 4 generations playing with trains. How about that?
Had the whole place cleaned up and Friday about 2 pm we had a big hail storm. Pimpled the hood of the Jeep and knocked lots of new growth off the trees. Before kids came, had to try to reclean up. Pummeled new leaf growth makes a great green addition to the mulch pile. Only damage to the railroad, looks to be a ladder on the water tower. Got blamed for tearing up Jan’s Tulips. I didn’t do it, the hail did. Got blamed for the hail.
Late in the week I did a bit more to the 7/8n2 critter.
Pix in modelling forum.
Yesterday I redid the installs on an Accucraft K27 and C21. I had used the SSI power supply for the Sierra to also power the low voltage lighting circuits. This overloaded the SSI which kept shutting down.
Won’t shut down now. The lights have their own 5 volt regulator.
Today I started on a Shay installation.
Haven’t done one of them for years so it will be a good opportunity to take proper pix and update the kit instructions.
Ric Golding said:
Welcome Aboard Paul.Mike, as far as what I do on the weekends. Run a marina, weekends are when the boaters are around. Usually quite busy. On top this weekend, my kids are here with the younguns. Little Luke is 2 and an absolute train nut. He eats, sleeps and breathes Thomas, plus Grandpa’s trains. We get along real well. All of the family is still asleep and we are planning on another full day. The other half of the family comes today. So our full house is going to be overflowing. Should be fun. 3 Grandkids with the oldest being just over 2. Wow! Jan’s Dad also is with us, because Jan’s Mom is in the Health Care Center here. 4 generations playing with trains. How about that?
Had the whole place cleaned up and Friday about 2 pm we had a big hail storm. Pimpled the hood of the Jeep and knocked lots of new growth off the trees. Before kids came, had to try to reclean up. Pummeled new leaf growth makes a great green addition to the mulch pile. Only damage to the railroad, looks to be a ladder on the water tower. Got blamed for tearing up Jan’s Tulips. I didn’t do it, the hail did. Got blamed for the hail.
Geee I guess Ric really "caught hail’ for that one…
Mike -
Personally for the last month I’ve been consumed with a project re-alignment of the indoor railroad. Been working every evening until 10 and all weekend (except last one was ECLSTS) for at least a month. Making good progress though. Yesterday I finished cutting and assembling a curved folding lift-up bridge that completes the balloon track. Today I need to align it at both ends and set the hinges; then run a test train.
Today is also the first sunny and warm weekend day in a long time and the yard needs a lot of clean up work.
So that’s where I be on the weekends!
My weekday posting is usually from work where I sneak onto the forum a few times a day. Have to do something about the plush carpet outside my office though 
P.S. Haven’t forgot about my promise. I looked up your software and I’ll download it soon; probably Monday at work.
JR
Well , hush mah mouf, ah sho’ picked a busy crowd to ask why dey doin’ nuffin’ . Ah muss git down an’ do sump’n mahself . Jeez , wish ah had’na axed now .
Mahk from y’all know wheya .
Well Friday morning I arrived in Pompano Beach Fl after delivering a truck load of shit bubbles to Miami and had breakfast at the Farmer’s Market Restarant. Called the boss and got a load of cantalopes to pick up around the corner at the cold storage place to be delivered Sunday morning in Philly. Spent the rest of friday dodging accidents on I-95 as I made my way north. Friday evening I loaded up on diesel fuel in Jax and made it up to St. George SC where I spent the nite.
Sat. morning I proceeded on my way north and after looking at the fuel gauge realized someone had borrowed about a half a tank of diesel fuel off me while I was sleeping. Made it to Florence, SC , refueled the truck, fueled up myself with 3 over easy eggs, sausage, hash browns and coffee and made my way merrily northward. All went well until I entered Va and then proceeded to crawl at a snails pace from Fredericksburg to the MD line. All this going on in a drenching rainstorm. Made it home for dinner about 6PM and got a good nites rest. Cantalopes were delivered to the Philly produce market early sunday morning and when I got home decided to plant a few more plants on the layout.
So…how was your weekend?..
Mm, I agree about the carpet outside the office door - problem is I only have dial up at home, and it’s really unreliable (I live in the boonies, on a boon-ier island!) so, at work BB is useful!
Did a good bit in the garden too, and work on the HO indoor line, plus spent a long time drooling at pictures of the Roundhouse Fowler I have on order!!!
Oh yeah, almost forgot the Manx equivalent of the ‘honey do’ list - ‘gerrit done or your dead’!!!
Neil
As an employee of the railroad, I have Sun-Mon off - as a result Fri-Sat to me is like Thur-Fri to most of you other guys. After work on Sat, I usually come home & crash, kick back and watch sports - GO REDWINGS, GO PISTONS, and GO TIGERS!!! (you all are welcome to the lions).
Me?
Now that I live in Libertyville, it seems I have to drive to Macomb for something or other every weekend.