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[Chechem]

"Good morning."

Hope everyone slept well.  
Wow, page #1111.

"OMG. Seems like only yesterday we were on 1110. Morning!"

1111 beats 1110.

[Chechem]

Today's plan:  Exercise, work, shingles vaccination, meetings.

Later...

[BAMAWV]

Today's plan:  Exercise, work, shingles vaccination, meetings.

Later...

Almost every time I do something like this. I should probably grow the ____ up.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

GM

4 weeks until armageddon!

#ROLLTIDE!!!!

[BAMAWV]

GM

4 weeks until armageddon!

#ROLLTIDE!!!!

.  In the mean time, our dogs treed the neighbors cat sometime during the night. Poor cat probably almost froze (10 degrees). I had a long talk with the dogs but they just looked at me as if they had no idea what I was talking about.  

[Coach Hank Crisp]

GM

4 weeks until armageddon!

#ROLLTIDE!!!!

.  In the mean time, our dogs treed the neighbors cat sometime during the night. Poor cat probably almost froze (10 degrees). I had a long talk with the dogs but they just looked at me as if they had no idea what I was talking about.  

 

LOL! Need to send your dogs to get some sensitivity trainiing. What’s wrong with them!

We have 2 little miniature Dachshunds, a red male and a black and silver female (dapple). I have to talk to the all the time about chasing the squirrels. They never listen to me either.

#ROLLTIDE!!!

[2Stater]

GM

4 weeks until armageddon!

#ROLLTIDE!!!!

.  In the mean time, our dogs treed the neighbors cat sometime during the night. Poor cat probably almost froze (10 degrees). I had a long talk with the dogs but they just looked at me as if they had no idea what I was talking about.  

Dogs are like illegal immigrants that used to be arrested and brought to jail when I was with the SD. They act like they don't understand you, but they really do. HTH.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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[BAMAWV]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3kI_LHMDI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3kI_LHMDI</a>

I've been hungry for corn cob jelly. lol

[SUPERCOACH]

So y'all can throw switches electronically? Just like the big boys. Track status gives "same track" alerts?

When I get it all wired up, yes.  Right now I flip them manually though.  The coolest thing about DCC though is the fact that you can run multiple trains at the same time, all going different speeds or directions, or some of them not moving at all.  It isn't like the trains we had as kids where you turn up the dial on the transformer and all the engines do the same thing.

The 4x8 I am building is going to be really nice, like a piece of furniture with a model train on top of it.  The table itself is built out of oak.  I am making the oak table so that we can just lay a 4x8 sheet in there.  We can later take the 4x8 sheet out and stick a different one in there if we decide we want a new layout.  This is the first layout I have ever tried to build with scenery, so I'm thinking we might want a do-over once we figure out what we are doing and our skills improve.  I won't need a do-over on the table though, I have been building stuff like that all my life.

I am going to make a little control station on the side of the table that I sit the two Digitrax controllers on.  In between them I will have a switch board that has an exact scale map of the track layout with a toggle switch at each track switch on the map, with some LED indicator lights to see which path is active.  I want it to be simple enough that the little guy can operate it (4 years old).

Sounds great SC. In high school I built a N scale layout that was 3X6 foot.

Remember those 6 axle diesels require a pretty large radius. I don't know off hand, at least 22 inches or maybe 24 inches.

I use a minimum of 30 inch radius on my layout. I have a four complete circle helix running from the lower level to the upper level on my layout.

The diameter of the helix is 60 inches. It is a double mainline as well. So it is 2 tracks separated by 2.5 inches that climb from 38 inches up to 58 inches.


What is great about the NMRA, is that you can get on the building codes for model railroads on a DVD now. I bought my code book in the early 1990s.

It is a huge 3 ring binder full of model railroad codes.

I go by that NMRA building all the time.  Is there anything to see in there like a layout or something?  Or is it just an office building?

When we went there wan't anything. Now it may have changed, I thought they had an area or was going to open up an area for a layout. They get many a model railroad collection donated to the NMRA. The was talk of having a layout and use some of the stuff on it.

Need to get that NMRA code book (DVD) when start on a layout. Otherwise you will have questions on standards, clearances and be guessing on correct answer.

Code showes you what distances you must maintain between different classifacatoins for example. Locos like 4-8-4 are large. Code would tell you what radius is the smallest you can run that engine on by without hitting other engines on an adjacent track or a curve. 

 
We have gone to that Dixie RR club in Calera. I guess 11-12 years ago when my son was young. They had "Thomas The Tank" engine out the for a weekend.

They pulled the cars it seemed out and back a few miles. One thing I remember is that we got to ride in a passager dome car.

Is Action hobbies still open on the 231 in Huntsville?

We have been to ride Thomas at Calera.  We go to Chattanooga now because it is closer.  We do that every spring.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Today's plan:  Exercise, work, shingles vaccination, meetings.

Later...

Almost every time I do something like this. I should probably grow the ____ up.

Click here for link

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Vacations for singles

Hit the singles scene with these vacation destinations

The single life - for some a curse, for others a blessing. Sure, it might get lonely once in a while, but we've got just the thing to perk you up: a singles vacation.

Wave goodbye to Ben and Jerry, put down the remote, and get traveling. Having the ability to pick up and plan a singles vacation is a benefit for the single crowd, and we've got some great destinations for you to explore.

Whether you're nursing a breakup, seeking "the one" or just looking for a little spark in your single life, here are the top destinations for singles to meet, greet and mingle around the world.

What? OK.

Vacations for singles

OH! A "shingles vaccinations"?

Click here for link

January 12, 2011, 8:38 am


Few Takers for the Shingles Vaccine

By PAULA SPAN

The good news about the shingles vaccine, recommended for all adults age 60 or older with normal immune systems, is that it works even better than scientists first thought.

A study published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the rate of shingles was 55 percent lower in the 75,761 people age 60 or older who received the vaccine, compared with those who did not.

Formally known as herpes zoster, shingles occurs when the varicella zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox and can lay dormant in nerve cells for decades, reactivates to cause a painful skin rash. In some, the intense pain can persist for months after the rash clears, a complication called postherpetic neuralgia.

About 30 percent of Americans develop shingles at some point, a Mayo Clinic team reported in 2007; the researchers also found that postherpetic neuralgia occurs in 18 percent of shingles patients, but in a third of those 79 or older.

Medical researchers can’t explain why some people with latent varicella infections develop shingles and others never do. But the new vaccine certainly seems to better the odds of dodging this scourge.

So help spread the word. Shingles is a mean disease, and the older the victim, the meaner it gets. Apart from the pain of that postherpetic neuralgia, it can attack the eyes and permanently damage vision. And once you get an outbreak, you can get another. And another. [/quote]

[SUPERCOACH]

"Good morning."

Hope everyone slept well. 
Wow, page #1111.

Will it live up to the high standards we set way back on page 882?  Click here for link

[2Stater]

"Good morning."

Hope everyone slept well. 
Wow, page #1111.

Will it live up to the high standards we set way back on page 882?  Click here for link

   Hilarious! I guess we had to do some pretty good improv to entertain ourselves aaaaaaall the way back on page 882.

[BAMAWV]

Today's plan:  Exercise, work, shingles vaccination, meetings.

Later...

Almost every time I do something like this. I should probably grow the ____ up.

Click here for link

Singles Vacations!

Vacations for singles

Hit the singles scene with these vacation destinations

The single life - for some a curse, for others a blessing. Sure, it might get lonely once in a while, but we've got just the thing to perk you up: a singles vacation.

Wave goodbye to Ben and Jerry, put down the remote, and get traveling. Having the ability to pick up and plan a singles vacation is a benefit for the single crowd, and we've got some great destinations for you to explore.

Whether you're nursing a breakup, seeking "the one" or just looking for a little spark in your single life, here are the top destinations for singles to meet, greet and mingle around the world.

What? OK.

Vacations for singles

OH! A "shingles vaccinations"?

Click here for link

January 12, 2011, 8:38 am


Few Takers for the Shingles Vaccine

By PAULA SPAN

The good news about the shingles vaccine, recommended for all adults age 60 or older with normal immune systems, is that it works even better than scientists first thought.

A study published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the rate of shingles was 55 percent lower in the 75,761 people age 60 or older who received the vaccine, compared with those who did not.

Formally known as herpes zoster, shingles occurs when the varicella zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox and can lay dormant in nerve cells for decades, reactivates to cause a painful skin rash. In some, the intense pain can persist for months after the rash clears, a complication called postherpetic neuralgia.

About 30 percent of Americans develop shingles at some point, a Mayo Clinic team reported in 2007; the researchers also found that postherpetic neuralgia occurs in 18 percent of shingles patients, but in a third of those 79 or older.

Medical researchers can’t explain why some people with latent varicella infections develop shingles and others never do. But the new vaccine certainly seems to better the odds of dodging this scourge.

So help spread the word. Shingles is a mean disease, and the older the victim, the meaner it gets. Apart from the pain of that postherpetic neuralgia, it can attack the eyes and permanently damage vision. And once you get an outbreak, you can get another. And another.

[/quote]Maybe that'll be what I get the woman for Christmas (shingles vaccination singles vacation) but I already bought socks. Too much?

 

[SUPERCOACH]

Today's plan:  Exercise, work, shingles vaccination, meetings.

Later...

Almost every time I do something like this. I should probably grow the ____ up.

Click here for link

Singles Vacations!

Vacations for singles

Hit the singles scene with these vacation destinations

The single life - for some a curse, for others a blessing. Sure, it might get lonely once in a while, but we've got just the thing to perk you up: a singles vacation.

Wave goodbye to Ben and Jerry, put down the remote, and get traveling. Having the ability to pick up and plan a singles vacation is a benefit for the single crowd, and we've got some great destinations for you to explore.

Whether you're nursing a breakup, seeking "the one" or just looking for a little spark in your single life, here are the top destinations for singles to meet, greet and mingle around the world.

What? OK.

Vacations for singles

OH! A "shingles vaccinations"?

Click here for link

January 12, 2011, 8:38 am


Few Takers for the Shingles Vaccine

By PAULA SPAN

The good news about the shingles vaccine, recommended for all adults age 60 or older with normal immune systems, is that it works even better than scientists first thought.

A study published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the rate of shingles was 55 percent lower in the 75,761 people age 60 or older who received the vaccine, compared with those who did not.

Formally known as herpes zoster, shingles occurs when the varicella zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox and can lay dormant in nerve cells for decades, reactivates to cause a painful skin rash. In some, the intense pain can persist for months after the rash clears, a complication called postherpetic neuralgia.

About 30 percent of Americans develop shingles at some point, a Mayo Clinic team reported in 2007; the researchers also found that postherpetic neuralgia occurs in 18 percent of shingles patients, but in a third of those 79 or older.

Medical researchers can’t explain why some people with latent varicella infections develop shingles and others never do. But the new vaccine certainly seems to better the odds of dodging this scourge.

So help spread the word. Shingles is a mean disease, and the older the victim, the meaner it gets. Apart from the pain of that postherpetic neuralgia, it can attack the eyes and permanently damage vision. And once you get an outbreak, you can get another. And another.

Maybe that'll be what I get the woman for Christmas (shingles vaccination singles vacation) but I already bought socks. Too much?

 

If you got her socks for Christmas, she will probably need the singles vacation too.  HTH.

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