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Morning all from a sunny and gorgeous Chicago where we are all celebrating Marcie's birthday. I remember building a crane car similar to that Tichy model when I was first in N scale. Don't think I could manipulate the tiny parts today.

Morning all. Happy belated birthday to Jeffrey. Sending overnight storms on to sir james.

Morning all. Back to work. Looks like storms here too - on their way to you next, sir james. Sounds like you made some good purchases.

Afternoon all. The middle boy dropped my work laptop last evening and I've spent the day after church putting the keys back in... Tough to type without the 1 key... and the letter O... Finally got hot here today. Kudos on the layout photo.

Hi Packers, we went to Hilton Head! Where is Aiken? I was looking at the Bachman ads in the latest O Scale magazine - that 0n30 stuff is sure neat looking.

Morning all. Glad you're healing, Jeffrey. Sunny and warm here in Chicago. Just about caught up at work. Thanks for the insights, John. Sounds like a trip for us to plan before the kids get older.

Morning all. Back from South Carolina. Couldn't get onto Zealot very easily - IE brings up a script error. Anyway, good to be back. Put the base legs on my coaling platforms last evening. Returned a defective guitar amp. John, I know you went to Williamsburg VA whilst I was gone - do you think...

Morning all. Sunny and hot here. A merry welcome to young Seth - may he live long and prosper. Great mountain, John!

Morning all. Lotsa storms here over the weekend - tornados and the like. Everything very green with all the rain. Managed to dodge the worst. Even managed to take dinner guests to sit in the sun by the lake- 'course ran trains for them later. They loved Thomas. "Lionel product" was in the Sunday...

Good morning from a sunny and very humid Chicago where I took one of the kid's scooters to zip to work - you might remember those 'Razor' scooters of a few years back - this was gathering dust in the garage - as I settle in with my first cuppa joe, I'm thinking why did I want to zip to work ;)...

bday2Hail to the Chief - happy birthday from a misty Chicago where I pity anyone trying to fly out of O'Hare today. Thanks for the weather, Jon. Missed Zambrano's antics as I was watching the Sox struggle instead. Cut legs for the coal platforms last night. Logicman, reading a book - Railways...

Morning all. Looks like storms coming in later. Hope all are well today. Reading a bio of a fireman on the Southern - in England.

Morning all. Sorry to hear about Shane's passing... Sunny and warm today again. Nice delivery Brutus and great photos Don. Spent the morning musing on the flag holders on some old RTA cars still in service on Metra.

Morning all, beautiful day here - warm, sunny - sending the storms eastward. Dennis, bring your ear protection to C.E.C. - quite the volume there - tell us if they still have an MTH train layout - we had one in ours all covered in a plastic bubble where you push a button and an Amtrack F40 and a...

Morning all. Welcome back, Graham. I look forward to your photos. :wave:Sunny and cold here again in Chicago. Jon, I thought that was a great promotion! Hmmm, maybe tickets are still available. The youngest would sure enjoy getting on the field and the bride and daughter are Cubs fans - the...

Morning all. Very interesting stuff about old computers and dialects. We had a lot of German POWs out where I live during the war - mostly ex- Afrika Corps. It was pretty rural back then. Temps dropped 40 degrees overnight here in Chicago - was 44 with the wind chill this am. BRRRR.

Morning all. Stormy overnight but sunny for now. Glad you're feeling better, Brutus - seems like an allergy-kind of day here. Gotta get going with the bride's honey-do list...

Afternoon all. Had fun serving as video director at church services this morn. Hope you are feeling better, Brutus.

Thanks, Kurt! I hadn't seen the latter.

Good morning - sunny and warmer - praying for krawler. wow, Don, am I happy I live in Illinois and not Cali today. Kurt, do you have a link to the sanding tower you mentioned? I need a sort of coaling platform. The British had some big concrete ones that lifted up the coal truck to dump - or...