Hey Thom! It’s Pat O’Connor, not sure how my name changed but I’ll have to fix that. It’s been a while, just getting caught up from the past couple months worth of videos. The layout is looking great and seems to be operating just as great. You sound how I feel, been fighting it all week and still going. Feeling a bit better today, but still a long ways to go. A good friend of mine is Japanese and of course also a model railroader. He started me down the rabbit hole of Kato Japanese equipment. They do have some beautiful stuff. Get some rest this weekend, looking forward to the next one.
@@CHOPZ-Bricks Hi Pat. Clinic gave me a couple of prescriptions, hopefully rest and medicine will knock this out. I am not really interested in foreign railroads. The stuff is beautifully made, but just looks weird to my eye. Hopefully he won’t be upset that I’m modifying it. If I don’t, it would just stay in the package though. Going to lay down for a bit. Enjoy the weekend and stay safe!
From the sound of your voice, you should have stayed in bed, slept this off and issued a rerun. (An oldie but a goodie.) I do really enjoy your using so many different camera angles; the new views of the buildings and streets keep our interest up. As for the S L O W running speed, I imagine the conductor/switchman walking along to throw the switched or couple/uncouple cars and you are right on. We are hoping for a quick recovery for Jazzie. Thank you for sharing.
@@craigcorson1235 Good morning, Craig. I actually ran the trains on Sunday right before I got sick. All I had to do was narrate it. Thanks for your nice words. Jazzy seems to have made a good recovery, now I just need to try to recover our bank account! Enjoy your weekend. I’ll be laying low myself. Stay safe!
Good morning Thom, Really sorry to hear you have been sick all week and a tough work schedule. Hope you, your wife and Jazzy all doing ok today. Try to take it easy this weekend. Really hope Jazzy is doing better. Enjoyed the different angles in the video today. Will be interesting to see the Kato unit when finished. And geez…. even the Alco not feeling well too. All the snow is gone here and we’ve been in the high 40s during the day so it’s overall here been a very mild winter. I don’t think we’ve even had 3 inches of snow here in the western suburbs of Chicago all season, pretty amazing. Stay safe and hope you feel better soon. Scott
@@kahunatiki6498 Good morning Scott. I came home from work early yesterday. Started getting sweaty and light-headed. Covid test was negative. I’m going to a walk-in clinic in a little while. Seem to be a little better but I need to be sure I’m ok for next week. Ellen is coughing a lot, going to get some meds while I’m out. Jazzy doing much better, thanks. Seems to be her old self. We may actually touch 65 a couple of days this upcoming week. Much milder. Glad to see the snow going away. I might include a couple of pictures of the Kato stuff if I do a mid-week layout update. I would rather not have the elaborate structure on the food as it seems like these small steeple-cabs just used a single pole to connect to the wire, but I may live with it. Have a great weekend and stay safe, Scott.
Well here we are about 2 days later so I hope you and Jazzy are doing some better and maybe your wife escaped the bug. We have warmed up a lot with a high in the low 70's on Monday. We are still deep into packing up but it's getting closer to being done.
Good afternoon, Jack. We’re a lot warmer now, too. Snow melting quickly, may make it into the 60’s a couple of days this week. Packing never seems to end, I know. I’m sure you are ready to be done with it. Enjoy your weekend. Stay safe, my friend!
@@davestrains6816 I probably could Dave but it faces away from the aisle anyway. It would be really tiny lettering. If it faced the viewer, I would have been more motivated to do it. Thanks for your well-wishes. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!
@@monkshillpottery Good morning. Thanks for your kind words. I have over 700 videos on my channel, the vast majority are of my N scale layout. If you go to my channel homepage you can click on the playlists tab and you’ll find enough to keep you busy for awhile. Have a great weekend and stay safe!
Hello Thom, after a bad bout of flu and a stay in hospital I'm back home and on RUclips for the first time. It's great to see your beautiful train again. It's always fun to watch the little locomotive shunting. You sound like I did a few weeks ago, I hope you get better soon and that everything turns out well. Best wishes and good health to you. Get well soon, Wolfgang
@@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530 I have been concerned about you, Wolfgang. You haven’t responded to a video in quite a while and you usually comment on every one. I am glad you are home and recovering. I received 2 prescriptions yesterday and slept well for the first time in a week. Hopefully I will continue to improve as you do at the same time. I see you posted a couple of videos do I will watch them today. Relax, recover, and stay safe, my friend.
Hi Thom , hope you and your wife and Jazzy are feeling better. We have had temps in the upper 60’s and low 70’s last couple of days. Thanks for sharing. Have a good weekend. 😎😎 👍
Hi Tommy. Jazzy seems to be fine, I am slowly getting better, but my wife is still getting worse. Hopefully the prescriptions I got today will help knock it out. Temps are definitely better, snow is melting quickly. Have a great weekend and stay safe!
HI, Thom. I hope you, your wife and Jazzy all feel better soon. I'm curious about the Japanese equipment. I have a small but growing collection of Japanese trains in N. very interesting stuff.
@@JDsHouseofHobbies Thanks for your well-wishes. Jazzy seems to be good, I might be getting better, Ellen is just getting sick. Fun times. I’ll try to include a picture in my next video of the Kato stuff. Have a great weekend and stay safe!
@@genej43 Thank you Gene. Slowly on the mend. I never lie in bed, always doing something, so working on the layout and shooting videos is healing for me. Have a great week and stay safe!
@@KevinSage-mu2eq Let’s wait until it warms up a little if you want to see the garden. It’s not much to look at in the winter unless there’s snow. Spring is the best, but you are welcome to see them. Thanks for watching, Kevin. Have a great week and stay safe!
@@monkshillpottery Paul, if you go to my channel homepage you’ll find a hand drawn track plan of the Douglass Avenue section and Oak Hill. I haven’t drawn anything for the yard yet. Look under ‘Posts’ and scroll back a few. All of my sound is ESU with the exception of my NW2 which has Zimo sound in it. Track in the Chillicothe yard and Douglas Avenue is Peco Code 55. Oak Hill is MicroEngineering Code 70. Turnouts are the same in each section, hand-thrown. Thanks for your interest. Stay safe!
Hey Thom and wife! Y'all been doin' all that running and you out in the cold doing videos and working, WHEW! Stay in and switch till baseball season. LOL
@@calvincurtiss2490 I do wonder if sitting in the sub-freezing temps in Princeton lowered my defenses. I was pretty cold one night when I got to the hotel, seemed like I just couldn’t warm up. I’ll be taking it easy this week. Still training but I will have more support. Thanks for your concern, Calvin. Stay safe!
@@jerrysmith1929 I’m definitely sorry to hear that, Jerry. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I hope it gets better soon. Thanks for watching and stay safe!
Hi Thom, RUclips did it again! I was the first to respond yesterday and now my reply is gone? My post did not contain any links, so I'm not sure why it got deleted? I'll send you some information I mentioned in my last post via messenger. Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. My cold / flu has been hanging on for two weeks now. It started off as a sore throat and from there went through the gambit, including laryngitis. It keeps hanging on as a dry cough. Also sorry to hear Jazzy was not feeling well, but glad she is now feeling better. I'll send you some This was another good ops video Thom and I hope you and your wife are feeling better soon. Cheers, Rich S.
@@RWSBaden Hi Rich. I’d better respond while your post is still up! I have no idea what is happening here. It is possible to block people from commenting but I have not blocked you. I’ll search around my settings. Feeling somewhat better this morning after the best night of sleep that I’ve had in a week. Hopefully the trend continues upward. My wife seems to be a little better, too. Thanks for the link. Back in 1986ish when I took the picture, the only thing on the outside of the post office was Oak Hill Ohio in raised white letters and the zip code. None of the more modern graphics. I’ll have to see if any of that would work. I hope you get better soon. Relax when you can and stay safe, Rich.
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Hey Thom! It’s Pat O’Connor, not sure how my name changed but I’ll have to fix that. It’s been a while, just getting caught up from the past couple months worth of videos. The layout is looking great and seems to be operating just as great. You sound how I feel, been fighting it all week and still going. Feeling a bit better today, but still a long ways to go. A good friend of mine is Japanese and of course also a model railroader. He started me down the rabbit hole of Kato Japanese equipment. They do have some beautiful stuff. Get some rest this weekend, looking forward to the next one.
@@CHOPZ-Bricks Hi Pat. Clinic gave me a couple of prescriptions, hopefully rest and medicine will knock this out.
I am not really interested in foreign railroads. The stuff is beautifully made, but just looks weird to my eye. Hopefully he won’t be upset that I’m modifying it. If I don’t, it would just stay in the package though.
Going to lay down for a bit. Enjoy the weekend and stay safe!
Great video
Hope you feel better.
@@MichaelManiscalco-k5k Good morning Michael. Thank you for your thoughts. Have a great weekend and stay safe!
From the sound of your voice, you should have stayed in bed, slept this off and issued a rerun. (An oldie but a goodie.) I do really enjoy your using so many different camera angles; the new views of the buildings and streets keep our interest up. As for the S L O W running speed, I imagine the conductor/switchman walking along to throw the switched or couple/uncouple cars and you are right on. We are hoping for a quick recovery for Jazzie. Thank you for sharing.
@@craigcorson1235 Good morning, Craig. I actually ran the trains on Sunday right before I got sick. All I had to do was narrate it.
Thanks for your nice words. Jazzy seems to have made a good recovery, now I just need to try to recover our bank account!
Enjoy your weekend. I’ll be laying low myself. Stay safe!
Hey Thom, feel better!
@@thecincinnatikid6227 Thank you. Going to a clinic here in a little while, hope they can help me knock this out.
Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!
Good morning Thom,
Really sorry to hear you have been sick all week and a tough work schedule. Hope you, your wife and Jazzy all doing ok today. Try to take it easy this weekend. Really hope Jazzy is doing better.
Enjoyed the different angles in the video today. Will be interesting to see the Kato unit when finished. And geez…. even the Alco not feeling well too.
All the snow is gone here and we’ve been in the high 40s during the day so it’s overall here been a very mild winter. I don’t think we’ve even had 3 inches of snow here in the western suburbs of Chicago all season, pretty amazing.
Stay safe and hope you feel better soon.
Scott
@@kahunatiki6498 Good morning Scott. I came home from work early yesterday. Started getting sweaty and light-headed. Covid test was negative. I’m going to a walk-in clinic in a little while. Seem to be a little better but I need to be sure I’m ok for next week. Ellen is coughing a lot, going to get some meds while I’m out.
Jazzy doing much better, thanks. Seems to be her old self.
We may actually touch 65 a couple of days this upcoming week. Much milder. Glad to see the snow going away.
I might include a couple of pictures of the Kato stuff if I do a mid-week layout update. I would rather not have the elaborate structure on the food as it seems like these small steeple-cabs just used a single pole to connect to the wire, but I may live with it.
Have a great weekend and stay safe, Scott.
Well here we are about 2 days later so I hope you and Jazzy are doing some better and maybe your wife escaped the bug.
We have warmed up a lot with a high in the low 70's on Monday. We are still deep into packing up but it's getting closer to being done.
Good afternoon, Jack. We’re a lot warmer now, too. Snow melting quickly, may make it into the 60’s a couple of days this week.
Packing never seems to end, I know. I’m sure you are ready to be done with it.
Enjoy your weekend. Stay safe, my friend!
Maybe you could get a custom decal for the post office. Hope you get to feeling better. Thanks for sharing.
@@davestrains6816 I probably could Dave but it faces away from the aisle anyway. It would be really tiny lettering. If it faced the viewer, I would have been more motivated to do it.
Thanks for your well-wishes. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!
Absolutely love your layout. Hope to find more videos
@@monkshillpottery Good morning. Thanks for your kind words. I have over 700 videos on my channel, the vast majority are of my N scale layout. If you go to my channel homepage you can click on the playlists tab and you’ll find enough to keep you busy for awhile.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
@ Thanks. I’m just getting started but your layout is checking all the boxes.
Another enjoyable video Thom, appreciate your dedication and I'm sure Toyo is too. Praying y'all get better👍
@@charleszang8963 Good morning Charles. Thank you for your kind words. Think I’m on the upswing.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
Hello Thom, after a bad bout of flu and a stay in hospital I'm back home and on RUclips for the first time. It's great to see your beautiful train again. It's always fun to watch the little locomotive shunting. You sound like I did a few weeks ago, I hope you get better soon and that everything turns out well. Best wishes and good health to you. Get well soon, Wolfgang
@@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530 I have been concerned about you, Wolfgang. You haven’t responded to a video in quite a while and you usually comment on every one. I am glad you are home and recovering.
I received 2 prescriptions yesterday and slept well for the first time in a week. Hopefully I will continue to improve as you do at the same time. I see you posted a couple of videos do I will watch them today.
Relax, recover, and stay safe, my friend.
Hi Thom , hope you and your wife and Jazzy are feeling better. We have had temps in the upper 60’s and low 70’s last couple of days. Thanks for sharing. Have a good weekend. 😎😎 👍
Hi Tommy. Jazzy seems to be fine, I am slowly getting better, but my wife is still getting worse. Hopefully the prescriptions I got today will help knock it out.
Temps are definitely better, snow is melting quickly.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
HI, Thom. I hope you, your wife and Jazzy all feel better soon. I'm curious about the Japanese equipment. I have a small but growing collection of Japanese trains in N. very interesting stuff.
@@JDsHouseofHobbies Thanks for your well-wishes. Jazzy seems to be good, I might be getting better, Ellen is just getting sick. Fun times.
I’ll try to include a picture in my next video of the Kato stuff. Have a great weekend and stay safe!
I hope all in your household get better real soon . Thanks for the video in your current condition. Take care.
@@genej43 Thank you Gene. Slowly on the mend. I never lie in bed, always doing something, so working on the layout and shooting videos is healing for me. Have a great week and stay safe!
Boy I sure hope you get to feeling better soon! I’m here in Lex & would love to see both layouts sometime.
@@KevinSage-mu2eq Let’s wait until it warms up a little if you want to see the garden. It’s not much to look at in the winter unless there’s snow. Spring is the best, but you are welcome to see them.
Thanks for watching, Kevin. Have a great week and stay safe!
Would love to see a diagram of the entire layout. What sound system are you using? Track? Turnouts?
@@monkshillpottery Paul, if you go to my channel homepage you’ll find a hand drawn track plan of the Douglass Avenue section and Oak Hill. I haven’t drawn anything for the yard yet. Look under ‘Posts’ and scroll back a few.
All of my sound is ESU with the exception of my NW2 which has Zimo sound in it. Track in the Chillicothe yard and Douglas Avenue is Peco Code 55. Oak Hill is MicroEngineering Code 70. Turnouts are the same in each section, hand-thrown.
Thanks for your interest. Stay safe!
Hey Thom and wife! Y'all been doin' all that running and you out in the cold doing videos and working, WHEW! Stay in and switch till baseball season. LOL
@@calvincurtiss2490 I do wonder if sitting in the sub-freezing temps in Princeton lowered my defenses. I was pretty cold one night when I got to the hotel, seemed like I just couldn’t warm up.
I’ll be taking it easy this week. Still training but I will have more support. Thanks for your concern, Calvin. Stay safe!
@@thomplacier677 Yeah that cold can be a contribution I mean those were some BRUTAL temps for rail fanning. Feel better
Nice vid. Always enjoy the ops.
@@donaldshroyer8633 Thanks for watching, Donald. Stay safe!
Your week has been a whole lot like mine.
@@jerrysmith1929 I’m definitely sorry to hear that, Jerry. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I hope it gets better soon. Thanks for watching and stay safe!
Hi Thom, RUclips did it again! I was the first to respond yesterday and now my reply is gone? My post did not contain any links, so I'm not sure why it got deleted? I'll send you some information I mentioned in my last post via messenger. Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. My cold / flu has been hanging on for two weeks now. It started off as a sore throat and from there went through the gambit, including laryngitis. It keeps hanging on as a dry cough. Also sorry to hear Jazzy was not feeling well, but glad she is now feeling better. I'll send you some This was another good ops video Thom and I hope you and your wife are feeling better soon. Cheers, Rich S.
@@RWSBaden Hi Rich. I’d better respond while your post is still up! I have no idea what is happening here. It is possible to block people from commenting but I have not blocked you. I’ll search around my settings.
Feeling somewhat better this morning after the best night of sleep that I’ve had in a week. Hopefully the trend continues upward. My wife seems to be a little better, too.
Thanks for the link. Back in 1986ish when I took the picture, the only thing on the outside of the post office was Oak Hill Ohio in raised white letters and the zip code. None of the more modern graphics. I’ll have to see if any of that would work.
I hope you get better soon. Relax when you can and stay safe, Rich.