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Last post 08-30-2009 9:11 PM by CShaveRR. 332 replies.
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Solid food will change the diapers...no, scratch that: you'll still change them, but it won't be nearly as easy.
Nice shots, there, Dan! I would have liked to have been around for that coal train. Those cars with the BN logos probably now have WC reporting marks, and I wouldn't have minded trying to get some old BN numbers off them.
A Georgetown Dump Train is on its way to Milwaukee this afternoon; should get in before dark. And the schnabel car move has left the yard, on its way to western Iowa via the Twin Cities. Might get to Adams before dark, and should be in southern Minnesota during daylight hours tomorrow.
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CNW 6000
Joined on
12-19-2005
MP 175.1 CN Neenah Sub
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Thanks Carl. I see those cars around from time to time. How many shots or WC numbers do you want?
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
I'd take anything that showed the ACI labels with enough detail for me to "scan", so I could match a BN number with the WC number on the car. Thanks for offering!
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AgentKid
Joined on
08-16-2008
Calgary AB. Canada
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Well here I am sitting under a TORNADO Watch. Two things I thought I knew since I moved to Calgary 45 years ago were that because of the altitude compared to places even 30 miles away like Strathmore and Irricana, where we lived in the station, 1) Calgary has never achieved a high temperature of 100 degrees F. and 2) we can't have a tornado. Then last summer, some scientist was on the TV saying there was no valid reason for Calgary not to be able to receive a tornado, and now this summer we have a tornado watch. Watch is less serious than a warning. That scientist should have kept his mouth shut and if this is climate change, STOP IT. I just received my TRAINS issue with the CN story so I am going to sit down and read it while paying attention to the radio. AgentKid
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AgentKid
Joined on
08-16-2008
Calgary AB. Canada
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Well, fortunately that was much ado about nothing. They lifted the watch at 6:00 PM MDT. All I got here was two quick intense showers, one clap of thunder and a bit of tiny hail. The TV weather said there were four funnel cloud sightings but there was speculation that it may have been four pictures of the same funnel cloud. I guess you can tell we are none to tornado savvy around here. Any way I guess it is back to normal now. AgentKid
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
I'm sure Willy could elaborate more, but the fact that you had hail and "intense" showers would suggest that your storm wasn't too far removed from being a tornado producer. (Duh!--it produced a photographable funnel cloud!)
My home town used to consider itself tornado-proof (supposedly protected by dunes to the west of most of it), but something caused a lot of tornado-like damage in that area several years back. And waterspouts have been seen in Lake Michigan off the local beach.
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locomutt
Joined on
09-23-2003
Louisville,Ky.
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Hmm, "Weather wise" today has been very calm, although we did have a hard shower of rain at at "O darkthirty" this morning. (to the best of my knowledge, nothing severe.)
Both Noah and Dan; good pictures, enjoyed looking at them. Dan, am very glad both Mom and baby are seemingly doing well. Had a Very Good email this evening; came from Kozzie (David Everest) Seems he's alive, doing well, and VERY busy!
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Deggesty
Joined on
08-22-2005
Near the Crossroads of the West
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
 Noah Hofrichter:
I come bearing a few new photos too. On Sunday I went after the UP's Operation Life Saver special at Adams.
Yes, nice pictures, Noah. Ricki and I have ridden three of the Operation Life Saver runs here--once almost to Ogden (we stopped about at the junction for the line north and west), once to Provo, and once almost to Provo (we were late leaving Salt Lake City, and we had to shorten the trip so that a particular group of people who would be on the next trip would not have to wait and wait for us to return). The dome car used on at least the last two is a former Burlington car; a sleeper and a flat-top coach were also in the consist. Ricki's younger daughter is a judge in Salt Lake City, and she was able to invite us to make the trips.
Johnny
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Deggesty
Joined on
08-22-2005
Near the Crossroads of the West
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Dan, it's good to hear that Aedan is doing as he should be, and that Misty is improving. I can't give you any advice on young children; Ricki's youngest was five when we married.Just think of the pleasures that I missed!
Johnny
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CNW 6000
Joined on
12-19-2005
MP 175.1 CN Neenah Sub
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Deggesty:
Dan, it's good to hear that Aedan is doing as he should be, and that Misty is improving. I can't give you any advice on young children; Ricki's youngest was five when we married.Just think of the pleasures that I missed!
Johnny
Speaking of that...he woke me up 20 min ago to have me say hi...
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Well, yes, Johnny, you've missed a lot of pleasures, 2:30 wake-ups notwithstanding. Of course, that's easy for me to say now--I don't have to live with my grandchildren. All three of them are under age five, and they're very pleasurable for the most part. Haven't had to change any yet, but have fed the youngest on occasion.
Just wait until you're our age, Dan--you'll still get up in the middle of the night, and you won't have the kid(s) to blame!
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
Is it just me, or has the "last post" arrow quit working on this site?
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CNW 6000
Joined on
12-19-2005
MP 175.1 CN Neenah Sub
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
CShaveRR: Is it just me, or has the "last post" arrow quit working on this site?
+1 and for several days now. Otherwise the revamped format is still working nicely. Maybe a bug like that's caused by a large thread somewhere.
Saw something I didn't think I'd see on CN yesterday: a 'shutdown' run. Single GP40-2 hustling SB one block behind a manifest train (had to be running on yellows) hauling a single, loaded boxcar. Reminded me of the CNW.
Getting up in the middle of the night isn't too bad...but trying to get going 'in the morning' may require a little extra oomph from time to time. I don't know how single parents do it...dang.
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locomutt
Joined on
09-23-2003
Louisville,Ky.
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
CShaveRR: Is it just me, or has the "last post" arrow quit working on this site?
FWIW it seems to not be working on all the Forums (threads) on this web site.
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AgentKid
Joined on
08-16-2008
Calgary AB. Canada
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Re: Trackside Lounge, Milepost 0906.01--no defects
+2 for the last post problem and speaking of two's, since I switched to Firefox browser last Friday I have been receiving two of every e-mail from each thread I have posted to since then. I had a lot of trouble writing a post on Friday, not necessarily related to the browser change, but I wonder if my false start posting has upset my e-mail or is it really a problem related to the browser change. If anyone out there has recently made the switch from IE8 to Firefox 3.5 and know about this problem, I would appreciate the help. As for the tornado situation, it turned out to be four separate "cold core" funnel clouds, two near Calgary and two further out. And speaking of Strathmore, which I mentioned in my post yesterday, there was the most amazing pictures from there on the TV yesterday. There was so much hail coming down and on the ground it looked like a winter blizzard scene, and they had one of the four funnel clouds near them to boot. Now It's time to get ready to work at our housing association "Stampede Breakfast" YEEE-HAW AgentKid
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