Its nice here in Alamo City. Currently partly cloudy and 82.
We have a shot for some rain on Thursday....always glad to have that!
Thunder here about 5AM, then it slowly warmed up to about +70F. Now comes the decline, and more showers (and maybe thunder). The white stuff has been mentioned by the end of the week, and the weekend looks like highs won't hit +40F.
One of the things I found when I cleaned out that box of stuff from work was a golf ball imprinted with a "Soo Line" logo. Probably came from my aunt, who worked for a lumber fowarding company and who regularly dealt with railroads. The business is closed now, but I wish I could have gone through and picked up some of the railroad items they probably had. I did get a 1957 Official Guide from her.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
brr getting chilly out there.Did the gutters and some yard work.Getting ready to take Matt to confirmation class.ns had a freight in the siding and the local was moving cars when I left work.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
T-minus-2 days and counting to moving day.........
mudchickenT-minus-2 days and counting to moving day.........
My daughter's saying exactly the same thing. They have to be out of their student housing in Goleta (California) on November 1. They have a new place lined up (in Lompoc), but that isn't effective until November 14. Fortunately, they have a temporary spot lined up. This will probably be the roughest move they have to make, because of what's going on there. My son-in-law just got a new job (we hadn't known that he was unemployed for two weeks before that), which requires some adjustment, and our little guy (in age...15 months) is at the stage where he's able to get in the way, and also able to discern that things are far from normal.The s-word is still in the forecasts for Friday afternoon here.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
CShaveRRThey have a new place lined up (in Lompoc),
Spent lots of time in Lompoc (lom poke, not lom pock), "The Valley of the Flowers." I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB for something over a year. Really liked it there. If I were to move to CA, that's where I'd want to go.
The area is known as "The Valley of the Flowers" because one of the major seed companies raises flowers there for the seeds. Believe me, acres and acres of sweetpeas are a sight to see...
I deserve more respect than this. Don't know if I can keep doing this.
Nothing to do with this forum. I just need to type it out somewhere.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
zugmannI deserve more respect than this. Don't know if I can keep doing this.
Hey, Zug, WE respect you. Even in the morning...
Beyond that, I suspect I know what you mean... Not specifically, but in general.
Evening
ns had the local uptown when I left.Everything happened at once when we got home.Matt got his new lenses for his glasses.We also went to old neighborhood and raked some leaves.Csx ran a westbound ethanol train with UP and BNSF power.Ghosts and gobblins coming soon for trick or treat.
joe
zugmann I deserve more respect than this. Don't know if I can keep doing this. Nothing to do with this forum. I just need to type it out somewhere.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Hey Porkchop - it's 29 degrees this morning here in the south - what's it doing up there? Might want to shut that north door?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
23.....above!
Murphy Siding As a great philosopher once said: "I tell ya- I get no respect. When I was a baby, I was so ugly my folks used to tie a porkchop around my neck, just to get the dog to play with me."(Sorry man- the made me do it.)
As a great philosopher once said: "I tell ya- I get no respect. When I was a baby, I was so ugly my folks used to tie a porkchop around my neck, just to get the dog to play with me."(Sorry man- the made me do it.)
A most incredible death-defying feat! You've quoted two different comedians in the same post.
afternoon
damp and chilly here in Nw Ohio.Ns had a frieght in the siding.Matt made the honor roll at school.Need to go pick him up from his first jr high dance.
I stopped in for lunch at a fast food place today. Several of the employees were in costumes, including the young lady who took my order. Her costume was simple - just a T-shirt with a skeleton rib cage on it. I did notice that she seemed to have a "baby bump," and when she backed away from the counter, I saw that below the "rib cage" was an infant skeleton...
Pretty clever. The shirt looked almost looked like she'd fabric painted it herself. If so, she gets kudos for the idea, and for a great job creating it.
Our booth for the Syracuse train show is almost all set up (usually that's a Saturday morning rush-rush thing). A little more to do, but not much.
Quiet night, trick-or-treater-wise - not too many kids in town these days. That runs in cycles, I think.
I had about 8, total, way down from years ago.
Of course, I might have missed a few when we got a fire call with a neighboring department. No damage - just some overheated outlets due to a wiring problem.
The rain mostly held off, never amounting to much more than a light mist. More troubling is that blue depicted on the radar to the north of us (in Canada).
Halloween faries.
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edblysard Halloween faries.
Awwwwwwww!
I don't know how he got them to sit that still and be that sober -
68 trick or treaters, 33 degrees. I think there's a connection.
We had a couple dozen visitors...a few more than I was expecting given the temperatures and the brutal wind out there (we had a 65-mph gust in the city).
The only costume I remember was being worn by a daschund. No, he wasn't a hot dog...he was a taco. Maybe he was a chihuahua, on second thought.
Ed, gorgeous granddaughters! Homemade costumes? A friend of my younger daughter and son-in-law made our grandson (who still has plenty of baby fat at 15 months) a costume of the "Stay Puft" marshmallow man from Ghostbusters.
It was still shirtsleeve weather here in almost-Georgia last night, and I was compelled to wear Florida's official state cologne (bug repellant). Started handing out candy at 7:00, and had run out by 8:00. Must have had at least 50 kids, and not all who came by stopped. Lots of people from outside the neighborhood; looked like the hordes of invading Mongols. Weather is vastly different this morning - low was about 40 degrees, and it's windy.
All the weather alarmists here are saying that the snow in the Ashville area means another cold winter. The snow here Nov 1 scares the bejusus out of natives. We certainly cannot know yet if there will be another polar vortex.
blue streak 1The snow here Nov 1 scares the bejusus out of natives.
He he...
Saw snow in the air most of the way to Syracuse this AM. Nothing accumulated. Then it turned to rain.
It takes the locals a snowfall or two to get back "in the groove" (and stay out of the ditch) each year. But we have a military base in the area, and there are always those for whom this is their first experience with the white stuff. Sometimes bravado overtakes common sense, but the laws of physics and coefficients of friction quickly take care of that (as does a tow truck...)
Decent day at the Syracuse train show today. Going back tomorrow.
Edit: Hey, Carl - MA&N (MWHA) has a bunch of cars sitting just north of Boonville. All are hoppers, some cylindrical, some flat sided. Based on the reporting marks, they're probably SIT, as opposed to stored, but I really don't know. There is a business that that takes plastic pellets, IIRC. Some of the reporting marks (sorry, no specific numbers) include OCPX, ACFX, BFGX, and GVDX. There's even a few blue ones there...
Mookie I don't know how he got them to sit that still and be that sober -
What gave you the idea I was in charge of anything?
24 degrees here at 6 AM. I ain't ready for that yet. BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Norm
morning
cold and frosty here in Nw Ohio.yesterdays snow dissappeared.Off to church and Sunday school.Then down to Dad's for a de-leafing.
It was frosty and in the 20s this morning (there was a whole extra hour to cool down, I guess!), but it warmed up pretty nicely in the afternoon. I was tending the Peck House museum this afternoon, and saw a pretty good assortment of trains, though the volume didn't seem very heavy.Yesterday, I walked 6.7 miles, according to my smart-phone. That walk got me from Lombard to Joliet and back by way of Chicago (well, Metra did give me a little assistance!). I wanted to check out the new Englewood Flyover (which I thought was impressive) and the new platforms at Joliet (which most assuredly were not!).There were no slowdowns at all as we crossed the NS tracks in Englewood. Just think...it took them over 150 years to come up with this solution to one of the most annoying (from a passenger standpoint) crossings in the country. I've been stuck at said crossing in at least two of the four directions waiting for the other railroad to let us get across.The temporary platforms at Joliet were pretty poor replacements for the old waiting rooms...even the ones that didn't incorporate the original waiting room. We got into town, and I was looking for (a) a rest room, and (b) a posted schedule anywhere on the premises. Found neither. So I went to a nearby restaurant for a lunch to go and a bathroom to stay, and got back to my train just in time to hear the recording announcement for intermediate stops, etc, about a minute before departure. About the only practical thing about the new platform is that the Metra trains on the RI no longer have to cross the BNSF/CN/UP tracks to get to the station.Headed into town, I was looking forward to grabbing a video of the new flyover, but the Rock Island Line/Mighty Good Road doesn't permit passenger access to the cab cars, at least not on off-peak trains. Still, I liked the view of the Blue Island crossing from high above it. Saw a CSX train waiting to get across the plant on the old CN line, so I guess that's working out for them.Wish we could get Matt's help for de-leafing our yard. Tomorrow is the day for that endeavor.
walked out the door and between the cars on the NS frieght in the siding we saw the circus train.They were being pulled with csx power.The local was also busy uptown.Nice calm fall day here in Nw Ohio.Tomorrow is election day.
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