Let's close this thread, o.k? I started the new one for August last night. Look for it on the thread list page.
Good Saturday morning! The coffee is about finished brewing and I've mixed a fresh batch of orange juice. Breakfast this morning will be fairly simple, I've laid out a generous assortment of donuts, rolls and bear claws. Enjoy!
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As early as 11 years ago when I first started working for a local business in my neighborhood, Howes Oil Company, their break room still had an old coke machine that dispensed pop in 10 ounce bottles, but they went to 12 ounce cans shortly after I started working for them. At Howes Oil Company a can of pop is only a quarter and one of the guys there keeps a coffee cup full of quarters on his desk, so in actuallity I pay nothing for a coke.
In the late 1960's there was a grocery store in downtown Estes Park, Colorado, and I think the year was 1968 when two of my brothers and I were visiting some cousins of ours in Estes Park. We went behind this store and found a huge stack of empty, wooden pop bottle crates, and two of my cousins and I threw every one of them into the Big Thompson River!! My cousin Mike Berryhill and I still talk about this little incident to this day!!! Several years later one of his sisters took me back to the back of this same store, but unfortunately there were no wooden bottle crates to toss into the Big Thompson.
DeggestyModelcarSpeaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!! Not the hour glass type design. At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home..... And we thought that when we found a bottle made for a California plant we had found one from far away. I wonder--did some oriental packaging expert decree that square bottles should be used despite the difficulty of holding one? It sounds as though you were out sporting about while I was, as I thought, preparing for my life's work. Little did I know that I would make it halfway to one of my ambitions when in high school--railroad conductor; I ended up with 31 1/4 years in the semiconductor industry. Johnny
ModelcarSpeaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!! Not the hour glass type design. At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....
And we thought that when we found a bottle made for a California plant we had found one from far away. I wonder--did some oriental packaging expert decree that square bottles should be used despite the difficulty of holding one?
It sounds as though you were out sporting about while I was, as I thought, preparing for my life's work. Little did I know that I would make it halfway to one of my ambitions when in high school--railroad conductor; I ended up with 31 1/4 years in the semiconductor industry.
Johnny
I remember the change of bottle sizes, nickel bottles, chest type and upright coolers for them, but I sure can not remember the "square" type bottles.
(if they were before 1950, I Sure wouldn't have any idea!)
And yes, I/we had fun trying to figure out how far that bottle had come from.
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Modelcar DeggestyDo you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle? Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!! Not the hour glass type design. At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....
DeggestyDo you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle?
Speaking of Coke and their product....50 plus years ago, while being in the far east, I came across a Coke bottle in a field {if I remember correctly}, and it was square shaped.....!! Not the hour glass type design. At that point, I thought, wow, I must be really far from home.....
My neighbors Esso Station in New Jersey had one of those old fashioned coke chest-type vending machines...in went your nickel lift up the lid, and you slid your bottle of coke down the track and out.......
Quentin
cherokee womanSoda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Do you remember when Coca-Cola began putting 6 1/2 ounces instead of six ounces into each bottle? Do you remember playing Coke bottle poker? In college, there was a Coke machine in the basement of the building which had most of the non-physical science classrooms, and there often a stack or two of empty bottles in crates. Each player would pick a bottle up, and we would look at the name of the bottling plant molded into the bottom, and the holder of the bottle for the plant farthest away would win the round.
cherokee womanWhen being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
I was in the first grade with the son of the Methodist minister. One day, the superintendent (who was also the grammar school principal) called our teacher on the intercom and asked that that particular boy be sent to his office. The boy professed great ignorance as to the location of the office, and the teacher carefully told him how to get there. I have no idea as to what befell the boy when he got home.
I did have an interesting experience several years later, when I was teaching a Vacation Bible School class in a small church. There were five or six girls and two boys in the class; the girls all sat next to each other, and the two boys sat side by side at one end. One day, the boys would not stop talking, even after I told them to stop. I walked behind the boy who seemed to be doing the most talking, picked his chair up, and moved him to the other end of the row. Perhaps I should have let it rest there, but I told his father, not realizing that his father would administer worse discipline at home.
Good Evening---
Been a bit since I was last here---how's everyone?
Bisquotti are wonderful with hot chocolate as well as coffee---I've got a bunch recently at a deli that just opened up down the road from us. Don't try them without dunking them first----kinda hard on the ol' gums otherwise
Have a good one---
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Justin, tonight's your luck night. Bisquetti (sp?) is on tonight's menu, along with some fish for tonight. Just some cod and flounder, and deep fried potato wedges, pork & beans, mac & cheese and cole slaw.
Desserts tonight: apple or peach cobbler, yellow cake w/caramel icing, and pecan pie.
That's about all I had time to fix, as I've been busy doing laundry this afternoon. Got the last load in the dryer, and need to take the rest and fold and put up.
Everyone have a great evening, and take care.
cherokee womanDO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
Yes, I remember most of them. Some, such as gym uniforms for girls did not exist in my milieu; the only girls with uniforms were those on the basketball team and the cheer leaders (small school; there were only about 100 students altogether in the 9th-12th grades when I was in the 12th grade; there were 18 in my class).
It ws not at all unusual for some boys to be held back; I passed more than one who had been in my slightly older brother's class. And, many dropped out not long after they got out of grammar school.
locomutt Were you "telling", or "yelling"?.........sort of looked like he was a bit slow on the uptake....
Were you "telling", or "yelling"?.........sort of looked like he was a bit slow on the uptake....
Just telling - I'd spoken to him earlier to fill him in - he wasn't really aware of how things railroad work and thanked me for the information.
He was busy waving traffic through - the train was on the circuit, and despite there being no gates the lights were flashing and the bells were ringing (and ringing, and ringing...).
Just to confuse the issue, they gave one toot for some reason, and didn't move, so he looked to me for confirmation - I think you can see me telling him to wait for two toots, and when they came he checked again, then stopped traffic.
The next day he got to ride in the cab of the 765 while the trooper who was in the cab that day chased the train.
Sarah - definite congrats on NREMT! I don't need it to practice here, so haven't bothered to go for it, but that doesn't make it any less of an accomplishment!
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...
Modelcar bubbajustinLarry, I bet it was awesome to have That 2-8-4 thunder by. Looks like the engineer made her slip there when first taking off. I didn't count them, but 765 had a bit of load, of maybe 20 plus rather heavy passenger cars to start that move....I'm sure she could handle that load, but suppose it is easy to slip on start up. Have seen her pull that much in our area back in the 80's.
bubbajustinLarry, I bet it was awesome to have That 2-8-4 thunder by. Looks like the engineer made her slip there when first taking off.
I didn't count them, but 765 had a bit of load, of maybe 20 plus rather heavy passenger cars to start that move....I'm sure she could handle that load, but suppose it is easy to slip on start up. Have seen her pull that much in our area back in the 80's.
I counted 16 cars behind the engine.
Congrats Sarah!
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tree68TeeHee. I was just looking at some of the YouTube videos of TrainFest 2009 and wondered if I might actually see myself in someone else's video. Yep: right here. That's me in the blue shirt and jeans, next to the orange fence and the MSP car. You can see me telling the trooper that it was time to stop traffic...
TeeHee. I was just looking at some of the YouTube videos of TrainFest 2009 and wondered if I might actually see myself in someone else's video.
Yep: right here.
That's me in the blue shirt and jeans, next to the orange fence and the MSP car. You can see me telling the trooper that it was time to stop traffic...
Nice video, would have loved to have been there and watched in person.
While the U.S.P.S. brings a lot of mail to peoples home's, seems like most of it is not always good news, most being bills, "junk mail", etc.; well, Sarah got some very Good News in today's mail; her
certificate for passing her EMS National Registry Test came in!! Kind of "Made Her Day"!!
In that particular instance, 765 was starting up from the second boarding point - there wasn't enough space to load everyone up at once. There is a bit of an upgrade there, IIRC.
I didn't do much chasing - that's a genre of railfanning all it's own. Go to YouTube and put in "Trainfest 2009" or the like and you'll find more than enough video of the event to take up the rest of your day. I wonder if some folks didn't attend just to get video to post on-line...
That was a pretty substantial consist, including several heavyweight coaches. Still, as I was essentially racing down a back road (read "gravel" in Michigan) at around 50-ish, I was having trouble staying ahead of 765 on Sunday morning - the train was travelling on a diagonal to me, so it should have been losing ground based on distance to be travelled. My video of it on a crossing at speed lacks the first blast of _ _ . _ - I was that close.
Diner stool trivia: Out at Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, we now see one of the two massive concrete and steel rebar....arches are connected. It appears the 2nd arch is within about 3 or 4' and is about to be connected as well.
Correction: First arch is within 3 or 4' of being connected too......
They are now in the process of dismantling the "traveling forms", that created each concrete segment to form each arch. Each segment, 24' in length for each "pour".
Tension support cables still are in place that have supported the growing arch as the build continued.
Vertical shafts are next process that will reach upwards from arch to support the roadway to be extended across the canyon.....About 2000'. The arches reach about 1000' across the canyon and river to support it all.
Temporary support collums on top of each bridge end, {Nev. side and Az. side}, have been in place to support the arch while it was being constructed. Those {2 collums}, and the support cables will be removed in the process as construction continues.
Mookie I'm going to go claw a bear and then have a big cup of coffee. Just because I can!
I'm going to go claw a bear and then have a big cup of coffee. Just because I can!
A little grumpy this morning Mook?
Thanks to all for the well, wishes on the dog. I guess the only thing that will help this get better is time. CW, I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore. I hope she is having fun on the Rainbow Bridge. Maybe eating her favorite food… Ironically, Skittles. Basketti sounds good tonight by the way.
Larry, I bet it was awesome to have That 2-8-4 thunder by. Looks like the engineer made her slip there when first taking off. (Not that the film guy didn’t give that away or anything…
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I see the Cedar Rapids observation car was being put to good use there.
cherokee womanIf you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
(Moi included)
After last weekend I'm pretty well "foamed" out, so this weekend comes a change of pace - the annual boat show at the Antique Boat Museum, where I'll be be doing EMS standby, and possibly (reports indicate possible attendance) running into Alan Jackson, the country singer. Not a huge country fan, but it's always fun to meet a celebrity.
Got this in an email from a friend; thought I'd share with everyone here.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?Nobody owned a purebred dog?When a quarter was a decent allowance?You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . And they did?When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?And saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace? Share it with the children of today.When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.How many of these do you remember?Candy cigarettesWax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.Newsreels before the movie.P.F. Flyers. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.Peashooters.Howdy D OOdy.Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.78 RPM records!Green Stamps.Mimeograph paper.The Fort Apache Play Set.Do you remember a time when...Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?War was a card game?Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life .I double-dog-dare-ya!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
morning
Cw thanks for breakfast.got an email from a friend who is in the corn city.says mamma has some hot dogs and brats to grill.I just say well what do you want us to bring.going to have to go have lunch there after my nap.
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").
Good Friday morning everyone.
Coffee, juices, and all the other morning beverages are ready. On the warmer bar this morning: plenty of doughnuts and danish to start your Friday morning, including bear claws and bagels.
We had a nice, gentle rain coming down last night, when I went to bed, around 10:30. Looks like it is out of our area, and going to have a beautiful day, with a high of 84. Think the current temp is hovering around 69, 70 degrees.
Everyone have a good morning, take care, and see you all later.
Mookie, I like your idea for supper! So, I've got the spaghetti ready, with plenty of meat in the sauce. You also have a choice of Italian bread or Texas garlic toast to go with the spaghetti, along with freshly made garden salad.
Justin, I'm very sorry to hear about your uncle's dog. Know how bummed out you are feeling right now. Be comforted by the thought that she's no longer hurting, and is in a better place: running around Rainbow Bridge.
We've had a couple of thunder showers this afternoon. The first around 12:30, and one about an hour ago.
Willy, if I could, I'd send some of our rain back to you all in Nebraska!!
Everyone have a good evening, and take care.
Evening all.
Had a terrible day yesterday. Had to put down my uncles dog. She was like a little sister to me. I’m really bummed out. Can’t wait for supper Cw.
Liked the pics of Trainfest. Glad all had fun.
Justin
MookieTrains are quiet this morning. I think they run according to the stock market Market must be down
Shhhh.....Don't scare the market....It's up, and quite a bit today....!
Willy2Would it kill it to just pour for once??
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