Good morning, Jim. Thanks for opening. It's 21F with heavy clouds this morning in northern WV. Looks like we will be back to walking in twenties weather today. Maybe a short one.

Yesterday I wrapped up a house project and worked on my layout. A little scenery and model construction. Also tweaked the design of our club layout.

Have a great day!

Mike

Oi, the net is slow and that here this morning.....

22* here as well and moderate snow panic is in play, but looks less and less an issue....I'll still have wood for the fire as there's nothing worse than that cold rain in the old bones.

Shop time on all projects and not all that much more today other than reading and reclining waiting for some football later. Might sneak into the kitchen to do whip up something of a treat for late; got some nice lamb for in the pan to go with some veg.....

Good morning Jim, Mike, Martin and all incoming crew. Thanks for opening up the lounge for our daily cup of brew and a chat. Best way to start the day.

8 degrees but sunny here in Rhode Island today. Not a day to be outside. So I guess it will be all bench time.

Everyone have a great, safe and healthy day ahead. See you all on the RR-L Forum.

Good morning Jim and the rest of the crew. It is 10 degrees and sunny here in S.E. Michigan, with an expected high temp of 15 today.

I spoke to my brother yesterday who lives in southern New Hampshire in Jim and Dave's neighborhood, and he said it was supposed to get near zero last night. Must be winter.

I got to the modeling bench yesterday and accomplished what was on my 'to-do' list. I should get the rear wall of the engine house done today and that will leave only one wall left before assembling the walls together.

Have a great day!

Mornin' All!

Plus 4 in the northern mitten this morning, feels like-7, headed for 15, and wonder of wonders... Sunshine!!!!!!!!! Woo-Hoo!! And in even better news, my son just announced that the entire family just tested negative for Covid, which means that the youngest, who tested positive on Monday, despite the vaccinations (plural) is now over the issue. And the Division Superintendent has just opened the meeting, so I'm off to lurk for awhile.

Make it a great day, All! Be positive and test negative!!

Pete
in Michigan

Morning from the 1 degree cold NY state.

Some kitchen cabinet time today. Discovered I made the two doors perfectly square but the opening were slightly askew. So have to see if I can make the doors the same to fit. What a fun project that will be.

But I have some model time scheduled for this afternoon. Maybe the whole day if the cabinet doors pi$$ me off.

Bernd

Some photos from our trip to Rome: http://davebert.photos/rome2022 Lots of typos in picture captions that I have to go back and fix.

Today is the local NMRA (Zoom) meeting. I'm giving a brief talk on the B&M boxcar bulk build project.

dave

Speaking of temperatures , it gets real chilly in my house whenever my wife finds out what I spend on my latest hobby project!

Fifth Dave to the right.

10^o in the mitten with sunny skies -12^o at Northern Command, no thanks Good sounding breakfast, Jim. I’ll try some oatmeal. Having some here this morning.

After digging out a couple square feet of the workbench this week, I paused recovery efforts and got out a project and spent some time with it yesterday. That was fun

​ lots yet to do, it’s still early in the millennium, so… laying on it’s side like a broken egg in back is a Scaletrains.com SD-40-T2 kit I bought so I wouldn’t have to strip one before painting. I don’t think Scaletrains folks want to make kits, nor undecorated units. They include absolutely zero instructions, suggestions, diagrams nor even the slightest HINT in how to put it together. With all the bits and pieces jammed loose into a myriad of baggies or laying loose in the box it’s like about like having Stevie Wonder picking parts and Hellen Keller giving the instructions helping. It’s quite overwealming with all the fine detail they’re known for sitting all over like Dorothy’s farm in Kansas after the twister I’ve 2 more still in their boxes, one a 40-2 and another tunnel unit, -T2. Too much work for an Alco guy. EBay bait? Will see.

I found the forum to be ice jammed this morning posting on a different thread, looking at comments it ain’t just me. Those little electro-bytes on my big 10 speed dsl were pedaling uphill on the icesspeaking of ice, today is end of season for the Soo locks until March some time.

I lost at least a paragraph of brilliant repartee’ thanks to the forum or internet or something…”!” Invalid server response, Warning Will Robinson! So, here we are…lucky for me the software saves things or I’d be in orbit

Off to the grocery store while The Doll has a cyber funeral to attend.

KarlS

Good morning, all. Bruce, it was indeed below 0F last night 10 miles from your brother's house, but the sun has warmed us up considerably. Yesterday something I'm storing for Seashore arrived to be unloaded by tractor. Then the donor, who's a railroad signalman, wanted to see my layout. So that kept me busy till my birthday dinner started. Then catching up with my kids till bedtime.

I'm on line with Seashore's Trustees' meeting, so I'll miss Dave's 5 minutes of boxcars. After the meeting I'll have time to crawl around my attic drilling holes and running wires.

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.

TomO

Enjoyed the photos, Dave.

Wife and I have a bit of a tradition visiting museums. We decide which one item we want to take home. This was my choice (Vatican Museums, a friend who's an expert on Roman art said "Late 3rd century, hard to tell exactly who without a better view of the face.") http://davebert.photos/rome2022/images/78.html "Grumpy Roman" (my avatar photo on the left) from Torlonia Marbles was my 2nd choice.

dave