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    Saturday , Sit Down, Have A Cup, And Say Hello.

    Ahhh, Time for my donut and tea break. Morning Nelson! Morning y'all! Been supervising paint operations down at Diamond Yard. Third shift just went to work not too long ago. They are in the process of ATSF repaints for the Midwestern Double-Line right now. Construction of the...
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    what happened????????

    TomPM, (uhh I am not being formal, just keeping you straight from Fassett if he should wander in here) :D :D :D :D I have. LOL! Actually, I took an hour or so to go watch a DVD. Hey, it is Friday afterall. LOL! Besides, tonight was AYCE night at Ponderosa! I could NOT pass that...
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    Railroad Line Refugees Say Hello

    Hey Russ, Glad to see you finally made it. Again, thanks for putting up the group for the RR-Line refugees. I am not sure, there may be some donuts and coffee left in the breakroom. Help yourself. I will be going to the group a bit later on tonight. It is Friday, and time to go out...
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    Member's numbers for The Gauge Railway-Car Reporting Marks

    Paul, Are ya sure you don't mean, Mike? I never mentioned "orange" or "blue". LOL!!! :D Later.
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    Rock Island Model Rosters

    Mike, The Woman always kids with me. I weathered those two cars, and a few more and she says she will have to, as a birthday present, clean them all up so that they are nice and shiny... I said, well then you won't have to worry about killing me for my money then. She goes...WHY? (which...
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    Only men like model railroad?

    Crackey! Where's my bloody head at!! No, that was actually supposed to say "encouraging" not ALLOWING. Okay guys, I think I NEED more TEA!! Tom buys the pink covered hoppers because of his daughter. In fact, Tom tries to get his whole family into the action. And that is really cool...
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    I think I found the bottom of the internet

    Rich, I thought that was a joke ad, so I entered the URL........ OMG!!!! It actually was there!! And what made it worse, was that there are 155 registered members at that club!!!! My Gawd! What in the heck is the world comin' to??! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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    Tgif! Sit, Visit, Have A Cup Or 3 & A Doughnut

    Cool! The official start of the day with the breakroom! Two donuts and some tea for me please. Hope everyone stops by, I sure ain't gonna eat all of them. LOL! Actually Tom, I hold a record for being the longest online somewhere in IA. I used to belong to this adult-oriented BBS...
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    Only men like model railroad?

    TomF, You make a good point, and I think some of it IS born into them during their childhood. This is why I praise TomPM for allowing his daughter to have an interest in trains. Maybe he will have a female engineer in his family in the not-too-distant future. Hey, I would rather have...
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    Railroad Line Forums

    Amen to Dave Hagen! Like so many of the RR-Liners, I get tired of the BS.... Especially when it causes us to lose our home!!!! Later.
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    Only men like model railroad?

    Actually, The Woman has an interest in 1800s N-scale steam. She hasn't bothered to build her layout, but we have the track design complete. She is waiting on the tax return to get the track and benchwork going. A few more months to go. Later.
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    Railroad Line Refugees Say Hello

    Nelson, I see no reason why you could not post a topic every morn for breakroom activity. You would probably have to do it here in the general forum though. I look forward to one tomorrow. If not, then Saturday at least. Been working on my ballasting job when I am not working on...
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    Rock Island Model Rosters

    Mike, I wouldn't have passed that up either! Was that an Atlas Master unit? When we gonna see pics of all your new units? Hey, thanks for joining my yahoo group. I hope the pace of things pick up there. Mosslake has posted a few messages, and I have been trying to answer them as time...
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    Member's numbers for The Gauge Railway-Car Reporting Marks

    Mike, I DID say that the number "4" was not necessarily a boxcar. See my post. LOL! Isn't 01 still 1??? Or, are you saying the railroads do not add a 0 in front of the single numbers...since you said the car#s were a two-digit number, I kept it that way. I could swear I have seen car...
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    Railroad Line Refugees Say Hello

    Okay, now this place is lookin' more like home. Just need Debbie to come in and paint it green. LOL! Hey Nelson, Ya gonna have the breakroom open tomorrow? Been missing my daily ration of donuts and tea. :( Later. Hey!!! Can someone get this nose licker off of me! Down...
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    Rock Island Model Rosters

    DIAMOND YARD PAINT FACILITY OPENS! Mike, That revised system works for me. I just got an email saying that my Bel paper is on its way via UPS. So, soon I will be doing my ROCK schemes and the new GUAG RR markings. Today I received my Caboose Hobbies order....my Bachmann Sanding towers...
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    Re Logging Forum

    Nelson, Bout time I seen your shay end around here! How are ya? Where the heck are you posting besides here?? Anyhow, why not come over to the RR-Line threads and say HI. Several of us want ya to open up the breakroom. We's a hungry bunch in the morn'. Later sirs. LOL!
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    Railroad Line Refugees Say Hello

    TomPM, I just never sleep, and have access to the net from work. Hehehe. As for caffeine...yeah! LOTS of it. Haha. I can't go near the jug. I swore that stuff off when I was in the Army. I went into a bar one night and the stuff got the better of me...I nearly killed a guy from the...
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    Member's numbers for The Gauge Railway-Car Reporting Marks

    That looks great, Paul!! WOW! Ummm, but the number needs to be a bit longer...6 digits. RI Mike came up with a numeration system for The Gauge Railway rolling stock. The first number designates the type of car, the next 4 are the member's number, and the next two are the car# (ie how...
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    The Gauge Railway

    Come on guys, it ain't that difficult. You guys can figure out complex electrical and wiring schemes, you should be able to figure this one out. Here's a little tidbit... I can figure computers out easily, but I am a DUMMY when it comes to electrical or electronics. Go figure that one out...