A half hour of heaven.

Sounds good, I think I'll go downstairs and run some trains!

 

Doug

One of my all time favorite things to do is turn off the sounds on the engines, pop in a CD  of some of my favorite tunes like the Seldom Scene or the 100's of other songs I've burnt to CD's and just sit and watch the drivers go round to the music.
Sometimes when I'm in the mood I'll sit and play along with the recording(5 String banjo). There's gotta be something special about watching the trains run while listening to the Seldom Scene's "Rider" and playing a 1934 Gibson Mastertone.
The good Lord has blessed me and I'm a very lucky guy indeed.


David

Sounds like a fine idea to me, N.Q.D.Y.  I'm going to follow your lead (instead of washing the car this afternoon).  

 

I spent part of the morning running my new tinplate Armored Train, and then moved into the "train room" where I fussed around with the layout while an Amtrak train was running around for an hour or so.  I just finished a light lunch and am now going to stretch out on the sofa to watch a few train videos from TM Books & Video.

When I'm working on my layout, there's nothing I'd rather listen to than my Glenn Miller CD's.

Phil

Sounds good. Little lad was up early this morning so we watched TM dvds 

The magic of Lionel 3 and then moved on to the Making of the scale Hudson.

Went to the train house and ran trains for a hour

Great way to spend quality time 

 

Now we are taking over the lounge building a Thomas trackmaster layout on the rug.

 

Have a good day all

 

Nick

I would like to suggest, if I may, that next time you bring down the whole pot, some scones & plum marmalade and stretch it to an hour and half and have a jolly old time.  An hour and a half is the perfect amount of time for a lot of things in my world.  To be honest, I have no idea what scones are or if plum marmalade even exists, but it sounded colourful.  Have Fun! 

I'm at work, but reading about all of your train days makes it so much easier.

I can't complain though becuase I love work almost as much as running trains. Yea I can watch both all day!

Yes plum marmalade does exist,grad ma used to make it often. My dad used to make something that required ripe plums when they came in about July, a quart jar.water and 2 cups of suger. Put the lid on the jar and open it just before Christmas.
He called it "plum dandy" . One cup of it and you wouldn't care if they were runnin trains on Venus . Coarse the next day is a little difficult to get thru.

David

What a delightful scene. My wife and I are babysitting for five kids from 3 to 9 and we just had a chicken nugget and Mac and cheese dinner; now we will be running Thomas, Percy and James very fast and loudly until their parents return. (we are giving a few young couples their date night)

Wow, a hangover from plum marmalade!  That's got to hurt.  Best to enjoy responsibly I guess.  At my age, I've learned not to overindulge in anything but O Gauge railroading.  Cheers!

Allan, looks like you are in training.

Actually Grad Ma made the Plum marmalade. Dad made Plum Brandy.
Grand Ma's was best on toast Dad's was best to get you toasted.

David

After trying unsuccessfully to get a Locosounds loco running and chuffing, I gave up and tried out my new (old) Texas Special F-3 A-B. Looks good with five 6464 cars and the 6427 Lionel LInes caboose. Bought these at a reasonable price, they were run and loved, apparently, but still work well enough to suit me. If I get brave, might put new bushings in the power truck, but not an immediate need. Good winter time project.

I was planning a day of modeling, got a new 3rdrail big six B&O from Kims estate bought it from his wife at the going rate which is almost the same as MSRP. That is OK I am sure she needed the money Kim (Chessie) passed away way to young. Anyway my plan was to run the wheels off of it but the wifey had other plans, THE MALL! after getting back from this painful adventure she said she had to go out and pick up something else. I aske if she forgot how to drive? (wrong thing to say) I thought you would like to keep me company! so off to the mall again. Got home I cooked supper. I got to run the train a couple of lapse and to bed I went.

She did let me buy the big six  so it was payback day, the train ran well.

Sounds good to me Nicole. I'll probably have something a little stronger then tea.