madhat

Mike, what's up with the truck? I must have missed that.

Ed, I feel ya. I have been on leave for 20 days, and it's been nice.

Totallyrad

Mark, you should be just about out of things on your honey-do list.

iker42

Ehh, My truck and I got to meet a 150 year old oak tree in the slush and snow. Totaled it.

Mark, the search button is your friend. LOL!!!

Fronty Owner

I think his wife is better than that...
I know mine can add two items to the list in the time it takes to do one item...

Red3quarter

Thanks Hat, I really do appriciate the advise from you and others on here. Hearing what you all have to say calms me down a little. I am gonna stick it out for while, maybe it'll change or maybe I just need to work with certian people there that work like me and not work with the lazy ones. Have still been thinkin of goin back to school part time. Work will pay for school and does offer scholarships through the company so might take advantage of it while I am there.

Afternoon all, GF and I went and did a little shopping today. She was buying some stuff for the wedding reception when we have it. She's all organized and has a little binder with all the info in it for us. We have set a date, it will be Sept 26 2009. We even have the facilities booked now. I can tell she's very happy and she likes that I enjoy talking about it with her and helping out instead of just making her do everything. Came up with a guest list and so far its up to 275 people.

Got mad today at cheap chinese made products. GF went to open the door of the truck and the door panel clips i bought from advance auto broke and the door panel got hung up when opening the door. Maybe I should have spent the extra cash on the better ones from Dodge. All is better now, I'm home and I found a long lost 6er of Molson Canadian, its on ice now so I'll be drinkin it later.

Got my new barrel for my 870 yesterday, gonna clean it, clean the gun, and install the new barrel. I got a 20 in slug barrel, Bass Pro didn't have any 18's in stock. If they did I would have gotten one. Gotta look up online for an extended mag tube for it. Gonna go to the range one day this week and if it's nice out i'll put the long barrel back on and go shoot some clay.

ramlovingvet

Bummer Mike were yo okay?

old dog

Matt How Far From Union Station Do You Work ?
Was Watching A Program Yesterday Where They Were Changing Out An Electric Motor On An Engine - Interesting .

Red3quarter

Union Station in Chicago? Probably about a half hour ride by car, maybe a little less. Actually have taken a couple trains out west from there before, was a pretty nice place. I did enjoy riding the Amtrak especially through rockies.

Was it a traction motor in the wheel assembly? Or the main Gen behind the engine?

old dog

Traction Motor & DOG BONE

FiverBob

Wonderful G'day to the gang - - late getting in for my coffee. Been busy all day except for a few minutes out working on the tan. Obviously, the weather is terrible again - - took me all of 30 minutes to get some nice browning.

OK, who forgot the ph00? Pot's on - - cinnamon - - brought in home made banana bread and strawberry butter for it. Ummmm good. OK, grabbing my ph00 before Scotty opens the door and lets some of that cold air in. See ya,

Bob

Red3quarter

Thats funs, they gotta jack or lift the carbody up to pull one. Kinda interesting when you have close to 400K lbs sitting in the air next to you begin held up by a jack or a crane.

old dog

The One They Showed Had Overhead Crane & Hoist In A Pit Below The Engine ( Regular Survice Area I Would Supose )

Red3quarter

Some are like that, the ones I've been around are big screw jacks that jack the unit up from bottom side. I'm sure every shop is different though. I've seen one done out on the road before with a couple big cranes. That was pretty cool to see.

old dog

Looks Like Amtrack Engines Are A Diffrent Breed Of Animul From Freight Engines & Rc Yrd Engines

Fronty Owner

just the addition of being able to pull power from a grid instead of just the diesel engines.