tree68 It was a long day, but we're done with rules, etc, for the year. Now we can go run trains!
It was a long day, but we're done with rules, etc, for the year. Now we can go run trains!
Gets longer every time. I think we are doing rules once every 3 years now (to coincide with recertification). Of course this year is my recertification year. But I did get re-promoted again. I'm hoping I can stay in the cab for the summer. But we'll see.
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Been busy lately; not about to get less busy any time soon.As far as I know, UPY units, whether stored or not, are/were assigned to yard service. They didn't completely run out of UP numbers (you'd need 9999 units to do that, and UP has had somewhere in the vicinity of 7000-8000 units lately). Giving the yard units their own reporting mark freed up a few blocks of numbers when they did it, but those blocks are probably occupied by now. One suspects that a renumbering might be more practical at this point, if open blocks are needed.
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)
I certainlly did not count all the engines I saw in Grand Junction, but if the "Y" indicates yard service, the system must be running little more than road engines in the yards.
Warm one day, cold the next, with no new precipitation for several days now.
Johnny
CShaveRRThey didn't completely run out of UP numbers...
It would be my impression that if the (fictional) "GP99's" are assigned in, say, the 6800 block, that would be all that would be assigned to that block. If UP only buys 75 "GP99's," ~25 numbers would go unused, especially if the 6900 block is already occupied.
Thus, although there are ~2000 unused numbers, they aren't in a contiguous series.
NYC numbered their RS-3's starting with 8223 (I've run it). It may sound like a random number, but I believe that 8222 was an RS-2, so they just continued the RS series.
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...
evening
Good day full of surprises.saw Amtrak's Lake Shore this morning.They were held up in Archbold due to MOW and traffic.Picked up brother and saw interesting trains in Leipsic and Deshler.Taking my brother back to his place we saw the D743(lima local) come north at XN.(Leipsic).Brother enjoyed his birthday present today.Helping nephew on a project tomorrow.
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").
Helped nephew with his project.Checked Csx on the way home.Stacey has things ready for tomorrow.Have a Happy Easter.
Well, yesterday's Easter Bunny trains started out with beautiful, sunny skies, if a bit nippy, and ended up with everyone hustling out to the field of eggs dodging raindrops.
But it was a good day.
Off to spend the day with the daughter's family.
Seeing a rainbow after this mornings SONrise service was nice.Matt and kids did great.Off to G+G house.
Joe
Sir C - saw the results of the construction you mentioned! About 45 locomotives thru our area (with trains attached) in about 3 hours, which included 2 Boeing bodies, the Hunt train, and 45 blades for wind turbines heading to the St Joe area. 5 motors were NS - we seem to be joined at the hip with NS right now. I had to write like mad while eating a scone and drinking a cup of very hot coffee. (Knees don't fail me now!)
Mooks
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Be careful over 'dere...The darned twistie thingies came back to your state today.
Sounds like BNSF finally flushed the system over the weekend.
Wasn't a bad weekend - busy Saturday with four trains (two in the rain - did I already mention that), then down to daughter's house for the Easter service, dinner, and time with the grandkids (and the adults). Made for a long weekend, though...
Had a front come through Sunday afternoon. Dropped a little rain, but nothing significant. At least one county to the southeast of us ended up with a severe thunderstorm warning, as the system continued to develop as it moved east.
Time to check my "to do" list for the day...
work busy.Ns was clear when I left work.Took care of the yardwork when I got home.Need to do some inside stuff.
Spring has been beautiful. A little cool, but all the trees and flowers seem to have survived. Little short on rain here, but just enough to green up everything.
Life is good.
Just verified my trip to Tin Shoe's backyard, I'll bring a bucket full of water along with me. (Something tells me that when Tin Shoes chases the special move I'm on, it will be nasty/stormy/rainy.) Hopefully the FROD Exploder doesn't die coming or going.
One week and counting until the scottie gets clipped and we find out how much dog is under all that fur. Groomer will have 911 on speed-dial.
Wet here today - not a bad thing. Some folks still haven't gotten the memo about the burn ban.
I remember clipping the cocker spaniel. The body wasn't bad, but the ears and feet were a real challenge...
I'm not ready to welcome summer just yet. Today Chicagoland was treated to falling temperatures during the day, and they're due to rise substantially tonight. To me, that says "winter system". Meanwhile, lilacs are blooming in Lombard, perhaps a little early for the Lilac Festival in a few weeks. Not too far south of us (the Joliet area), they're pretty profuse already. I think that the different varieties in Lombard will keep the bloomin' blooming going for as long as needed for the festivities.We, however, are over on the other side of the puddle where the temperatures aren't quite as wonky. Tomorrow's my mom's birthday (93!), so we're joining my sisters in helping her celebrate. I sent out an 18-page report about freight-car sightings and research yesterday; that one took a while. It consisted of information gathered over the month up until now. I hope it leads to more information on certain groups of cars that have been bugging me for decades.
Linda's filming for Jeopardy! took only one day. That means anywhere from one to four episodes, airing beginning on September 12. She looked great, and was doing well, despite being nervous (this according to her husband). That's all anyone will get to know before the epoisode(s) air. Her cancer still seems to be responding to treatment, and she remains upbeat, though tired.Guess I'll have to welcome some aspects of summer, after all: brother-in-law has fired up the grill for burgers tonight.
Had a bad connection under the house.Came and got fixed today.Ns had a rail train in the siding yesterday.The tie crews were working in the siding today.Took Matt uptown to mow.Csx had a grain train at the elevator and 2 stack trains passed as we went home.Mamma says supper is ready.
mudchicken Something tells me that when Tin Shoes chases the special move I'm on, it will be nasty/stormy/rainy.
Something tells me that when Tin Shoes chases the special move I'm on, it will be nasty/stormy/rainy.
Nah, think positive. We've been getting more delightfully sunny days here than stormy days (tonight could be real interesting, though).
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
It'll be interesting regardless. That country has had a few too many setbacks and we get to see what they did to get back to where they are now.
Joe - I have had a few bad connections, but never under a house....
Tree - we seem to be trying out a new sport - how many different ways can you burn your house down. We had 3 going the other day, along with a hazmat - LFR was stretched pretty thin. Of course, the house fires were on the north side and also the south side. But the fires are becoming as many as the almost daily "oops, we dug up the gas line again"
We had a drive-by spitting. Threats galore on tv, but no rain for us.
Weatherliars are predicting t-storms after dark - rare for around here. Tonight might be interesting for the critters.
Ns stack train westbound when I left work.Seems the Mow crews cut a fiberoptic cable as they were working last week.Thunderboomers this morning and more on the way for this afternoon.Extra water in the swamp.
If the fiber-optic cable was railplowed-in, the T-Cubed tribe is probably red-faced about now.
Dark clouds coming over the hill now.
MC,
I bet those thunderstorms you see in Colorado are nothing compared to those in Kansas. About fifteen years ago friends and I were in Independence, KS waiting to depart in a private plane when the mother of all storms moved through. We had to wait three hours before we could depart the Cessna factory and then had to fly a hundred miles due north before turning on course for Michigan. OTOH, your lines run through Kansas so I'd bet you've seen a few of those monsters.
Norm
(two of the top five counties in the US for tornadoes are in CO and you were close to the number 1 county (Weld))
To be fair, meteorology is not an exact science. Even somebody as well qualified as Tom Skilling will state that accuracy goes down as you go further into the future.
Bob, my new avatar is for the 367th Bomb Squadron, the "Clay Pigeons", part of the 306th BG. This was Dad's B-17 unit during WW2.
BOB WITHORNMC, One of my employees sister ? is in the "Weatherliar" dept at a local TV station, said that all they need to do to keep their jobs is be right 12 - 15% of the time
Some years ago I was attending our local community college, mostly at night. One evening, before class, I was watching as a rain shower came through. One parking lot was empty, and there was a fine line between what got wet and what didn't.
Still, forecasting has gotten better, in no small part because of computers - supercomputers, actually, which can crunch and impressive amount of data to provide forecast tools.
Radar has made a huge difference, as well (and is part of the data the computers can crunch).
And you can't forget the thousands of personal weather stations. Not that the supercomputers use the information from our fire department's weather station, but you can certainly get a level of granularity not possible if all you use are airports.
tree68 BOB WITHORN Some years ago I was attending our local community college, mostly at night. One evening, before class, I was watching as a rain shower came through. One parking lot was empty, and there was a fine line between what got wet and what didn't. Still, forecasting has gotten better, in no small part because of computers - supercomputers, actually, which can crunch and impressive amount of data to provide forecast tools. Radar has made a huge difference, as well (and is part of the data the computers can crunch). And you can't forget the thousands of personal weather stations. Not that the supercomputers use the information from our fire department's weather station, but you can certainly get a level of granularity not possible if all you use are airports.
BOB WITHORN
There is a big difference between forecasts in the North and in Florida.
In the North if the forecast is for 30% chance of rain - it means that it will rain all over the forecast area 30% of the time.
In Florida if the forecast is for 30% chance of rain - it means that 30% of the forecast area will see 'some' rain.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
afternoon
Ns had a westbound stack train when I left work.They left some tonka toys in the siding by the warehouse and cars need to be shuffled uptown.Cool-er weekend but dry.Off to work on chores.
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