We did our flu shots yesterday, too. Debating the shingles vaccine, but not yet. Today I cleared out about 30 square feet or more of weeds in our back yard. I'm hoping for a miracle that will turn that into lawn. Right now it looks pretty green, but it isn't pretty.That was this morning. Then I went to cardiac rehab this afternoon, and did all right. Pat and I bagged my harvest after we got back home.I need a good train fix! It's been nearly two weeks since I've made any meaningful observations. I have another rehab session tomorrow morning (they're increasing my resistances almost imperceptibly). Eventually I'll be increased from two sets per session to three (then four, down the road). I can handle it.What I was trying to say before the rehab got in the way is that we have our weekly session at the Peck Homstead tomorrow afternoon. I certainly hope we get more freights (and not just intermodal!) through there than we did last week.
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)
BaltACD Watched Tractor Pulls at the Ohio State Fair a couple of decades ago. Was most impressed with what they were calling 'Super Stock Tractors' Diesel farm tractors that had been 'breathed' on! Turbo whine coupled with a black smoke exhaust jetting skyward for 100 feet or more. The multi-engined Unlimiteds were fun - and then someones GMC blower would let go.
Watched Tractor Pulls at the Ohio State Fair a couple of decades ago.
Was most impressed with what they were calling 'Super Stock Tractors' Diesel farm tractors that had been 'breathed' on! Turbo whine coupled with a black smoke exhaust jetting skyward for 100 feet or more.
The multi-engined Unlimiteds were fun - and then someones GMC blower would let go.
The Super stock class has split into two classes now, diesel and open. Open allows alcohol for fuel, and they usually make more power than diesels.........
My DVD library this week includes several volumes of the series 'Wild Rides, Wrecks, and Fire', which is basically what happens when things go wrong in the sport. With the Super Stock class making between 200 and 300 psi of boost, you can imagine what happens when something lets go. As one announcer is noted for saying, it's nothing that about forty thousand dollars won't fix........
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
I can only imagine how far the shrapnel flies when the engines or drive trains self-destruct.
CSSHEGEWISCHI can only imagine how far the shrapnel flies when the engines or drive trains self-destruct.
Don't know about tractor pulling, but the NHRA and other drag racig organizations required the use of various kevlar blankets on their blown cars as protection against some of the shrapnel that exploding engines create.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
afternoon
Ns sent an eastbound stack train when I got off work.Chores and errands to do.
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").
CSSHEGEWISCH I can only imagine how far the shrapnel flies when the engines or drive trains self-destruct.
Remember that red line around jet engines? As I understand it, that was where the compressor blades were, and if said fan came apart, in line with the plane was not the place to be...
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...
Not very far, actually. NTPA has extensive rules concerning engine and driveline shielding that protects both drivers and spectators. Some items are shared between sanctioning bodies (blower restraints and clutch/transmission blankets, for example), and others are unique to the sport, like cabling wrapped around the engine block between #1 and #2 cylinders of inline engines. This prevents the top half of the engine block from launching itself into the driver should the engine block fail in a run. NTPA even has their own specifications for roll cages for various classes........
CShaveRRI need a good train fix! It's been nearly two weeks since I've made any meaningful observations.
tree68 Remember that red line around jet engines? As I understand it, that was where the compressor blades were, and if said fan came apart, in line with the plane was not the place to be...
Turbo props and recip engined airplanes also had some markings on some aircraft. The Electra had reinforced band around the fuselage in the prop plane. What material reinforcement have no idea.
evening
Took brother out tailgateing at the Butler library.Had some old fashioned chicken noodles and mashed potatoes.Ns ran some trains by.Had a cp run through with unit 8939.It had a Strathcona's label on the front.There was a train on the wabash side waiting for a northbound.I think the northbound got stuck at St.Joe due to Csx traffic.Didn't make the the southside residents of Butler too happy with the crossing being blocked.Need to get a shower.
JoeKohDidn't make the the southside residents of Butler too happy with the crossing being blocked.
A fellow in Deshler today took matters in his own hands and drove up the ROW (on and over the tracks) from Marion Street to the rail park. I'm sure the CSX crew blocking the crossing was looking on with amazement (as were we all).
JoeKohHad a cp run through with unit 8939.It had a Strathcona's label on the front.
Hello Joe, and all the other Chatterbox contributers.
Here is a bit about Lord Strathcona's Horse from Wikipedia.
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) (LdSH [RC]) is a regular armoured regiment of the Canadian Army. Currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, the regiment is part of 3rd Canadian Division's 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. Members of the regiment are commonly called Strathconas or Strats as a short form. It was one of the last regiments in the British Empire to be created and raised by a private individual, Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal.
Donald Smith was a co-founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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I just received my November issue of Trains, with a renewal-notice envelope inserted. The label says something like my old subscription expired in May 2012. The thing is, my subscription doesn't expire until I do--I bought a lifetime subscription back when they were still available for $75.00 (1967, I think). I think I've gotten my money's worth, but it's a terrible notice to receive the day after I was diagnosed with returning cancer.(No fears there--we have a plan of attack and a very high probability of success thereon.)
I hope someone at Kalmbach reads that.
The insert should have read:
'Thank you for your lifetime subscription in effect since 1967. It has been subscribers such as yourself that has contributed to our long term success. We all hope you enjoy Trains magazine for many many more years to come'.
Or something like that along those lines.
Very bad ju-ju, ominous and totally impersonal. Computer generated nonsense with no oversight. It's disappointing.
Wishing you the very best.
I'm sending the form back with a note of my own. I can write; you can imagine.
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