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James
We've been lying low for the past several days--really don't enjoy triple-digit temperatures. And by "low", I mean The Dungeon...the laptop keyboard actually ceased to function in the upstairs heat. We got a break today in the form of a quarter-inch of rain (miniscule compared to what's needed), but it's hot and steamy again now (our current 85 feels worst than yesterday's 101 to me).Tomorrow we head west, for a wedding. First order of business: trains for breakfast (I hope!). I don't know if I'll be available to open the new place, so Dan (or somebody), I hope you'll do the honors.
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)
We're so greatfull for so many caring, good folks on this forum.
It's certainly been a trying time. But Jean's time to suffer is past now. She was a full believer, as I am as well. So it's comfort as told to us in the scriptures, believers have a place in Heaven ready for them.
Erin {daughter}, and I, thank each one of you for all the encouragement, and well wishes along with your Prayers for Jean, {us}.
Quentin
Quentin,
My wife and I sent our most sincere condolences to you.
Words fail us at a time like this. I'm sorry that Pat and I never got to meet Jean. Please know that we're thinking of you now.
Quentin, I am so sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. Please know that others care.
Nance-CCABW/LEI
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” --Will Rogers
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right! --unknown
Thoughts and prayers for Quentin this morning on his loss. One of my cousins in CO is literally on the edge of a wildfire. She hasn't been told to leave yet but she says she can see flames and definitely smell smoke.
Heard an interesting defect detector report yesterday. CN train M347 was going over a HBDE detector with 4-six axle locos and 173 cars. The detector came back with the usual direction of travel, temperature, no defects and should have said 716 axles. However it said the train had 5 axles! They never stopped moving over the sensor which can prompt "funny" readings.
Dan
Yes, Carl--for sure! T & p also to all those impacted by the terrible flooding in FL and the upper Mid-west, at least!
I couldn't agree more--I've been hard at work in our yard, and it is beginning to look cool and presentable back there. But, after days of hearing trains and not being able to see them, I think a break is definitely in order. We have car errands to run in Crestwood (lunch with a longtime friend of my daughter's and her family) and Bedford Park (Fabric store...last day of a sale), and I think I can squeeze in stops at Blue Island, Summit, and home via LaGrange.
Still trying to wrap my head around that head-on collision in Texas.
Quentin, we haven't given up on you and Jean!Thoughts, too, to the folks in Colorado under scorching heat (flame-driven and otherwise), and for everyone else in the path of this heat-wave. That includes us, come Thursday--they've revised it to the upper 90s now, but they had given the expected high as 105 as recently as Saturday.
So many reasons to be safe out there!
Might be time for a break.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Besides being the birthday of my California daughter, it's also the special day for our pal and crony JoeKoh(nen). Have a great day, Buddy.
Blownout Cylinder: Do it! Sounds interesting.(I have to do it today, too...the yard work I didn't get done yesterday. The highs are lower, but there's still plenty of heat left, and we need a bit more rain than we got yesterday. It didn't even affect the rain gauge, but managed to come down while I was biking my errands.)
I really need to get some more photos in my photobucket collection...we have a 'covered trestle'(?) thing going through Greenway Park just outside of downtown London ON that just begs for some train pix to be taken...CN doubletrack right through there...oh my ...and the neat thing about this is is that the park has benches that are below the trestle...I got some rather unusual shots there..
Now it is time to do this...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
WMNB4THRTL Prayers and thoughts to Jean and Quentin!
Prayers and thoughts to Jean and Quentin!
Much appreciated.....We're thinking positive, in our effort to get thru this....
......Just in time Carl....Thank you very much.
That quote was the inspiration for my oft-repeated line, Paul. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Nothing railroad-wise came of our visit to LaGrange and environs today, unfortunately. We had one westbound train of stacks and racks, obscured for the most part by a PACE bus.
Tomorrow's another day, and we have to be out again. It's not supposed to get as warm, and I hope the rain clears out in time for me to bike my AFHT errands. I'm also slated to do some yard service, some pickups on the branches, and perhaps a little surfacing work.
Prayers requested for Quentin's wife Jean again; she had a setback, which we hope was caught in time.
I believe it was noted industrial designer Otto Kuhler quoted in a biographical article in Trains some years ago to the effect of [corrected at 4:52 PM]:
"Have become 80, do not recommend it, will never do it again."
- Paul North.
One more day of HHH here as well. Things are supposed to change tonight or tomorrow morning.Today I hope to find some good stuff when we visit BNSF country. We meet daughter and grandkids for lunch in LaGrange, and expect to be regaled with Emily's exciting tales about Zoo Camp. Unfortunately, Pat is against a couple of deadlines (I've told her that retirement and deadlines aren't supposed to go together!), so we can't linger.
Missed a birthday here a couple of days ago. Meteorologist Willy's mother Bev had a significant birthday on Monday. I understand that most aspects of her turning this horrifying age were gratifying for her (been there, won't go back again!).
CShaveRR All I've seen so far from FHRX has been tank cars.
Hot and humid again today. CN has been changing symbols for certain trains around here...keeping me busy reordering my lists of them. Nice excuse to stay in the a/c when it's h/h/h outside.
yeah, FHRX 58xxxx sounds right. I had the paperwork for it somewhere, but I think it got tossed by now.
How about FHRX?
I'm showing that as Flint Hills Resources (another source says First Hills Resources). They have new, large-sized covered hoppers in series 580001-580100 and 628601-628820 series (different builders). The first two digits of their numbers are probably tied to their capacity in hundreds of cubic feet.
All I've seen so far from FHRX has been tank cars.
BRKX... must be a brakeman's car.
We had a misrouted gondola here with the reporting marks ZVBX. Nothign special about it, but I had fun with saying the reporting marks. ZVBX.... yes, my switchman just rolled his eyes.
There was a brand new hopper here the other week when you were on vacation, but I forget the reporting marks. FXHR or something. FRHX? Something like that... build date of 5/12, probably it's first trip on the main.
Brian, Dan, and everyone else: stay hydrated out there! It's 90 in our back yard right now, and a nice breeze is making things bearable in the shade, but I still need to keep a tall, cold one handy. My usual, thanks. (Dehydration: been there, done that, not pretty.)
One of my vacation sightings was a new-to-me reporting mark. It looks like this company--Braskem America--has acquired over 1000 cars that were formerly DOWX and CCBX, and is relettering them BRKX. This has kept me out of too much trouble for the past few days.
I'm also getting used to a new mouse (I can just see Mookie's ears perking up!), since the clicker bar on the laptop has worn out. Keep cool, SJ!
Westbound on UP Transcon, SE Cedar Rapids. Destination transfer track to CRANDIC just west of Beverly Yard, consist will be used this week for NRHS Convention excursions (we're riding the Wednesday one to Newton, IA and back). 1995 is currently sitting all by its lonesome in Beverly yard track, I'm assuming its next assignment will be to return the consist to Chicago next Monday. My album on Facebook will be growing by leaps and bounds.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Nicely done Brian. Where was that one?
I enjoyed myself today- and got treated with the opportunity to get another picture of my favorite locomotive! Thanks, UP!
Happy Father's Day, to everyone who fills the role, whether biologically, spiritually, or emotionally. And even if you're not a father, you have one, or have had one! Think of him, and show gratitude...he did nice work!
No lottery tickets purchased here. The only good luck was with trains yesterday; a lot of other things (car problems, misplaced car key, to name two) kind of compensated for that.Today will bring 90s and muggy weather to Chicagoland, but we'll be out on bikes to run our errand to the Historical Society. I might be able to get a lunch and a couple of trips across the tracks out of that. Meanwhile, those two new reporting marks remain mysteries, and the backlog of paperwork keeps growing. I need a vacation!
If he did buy one, he's helping fund the jackpot for 20 employees in the shipping/receiving department of Quaker Oats here...
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Are-You-Iowas-Next-Millionaire-241-Million-Lottery-Ticket-Sold-in-Cedar-Rapids-159027765.html
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