From our man on the ground in Houston...

[edblysard]

Uh.....

Never mind....

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

You aint seen Texas Beavers....
Lots of them around Rodeo time!!!!

Ed

I'm gonna check out the burgers one day- Nothing Half a can of pepto can't handel-- I'm ready- wathc it'll be small enough for 3 ants to carry it away.

[edblysard]

You aint seen Texas Beavers....
Lots of them around Rodeo time!!!!

Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Dan,

Remember the Mityeburger on 43rd street and T.C.Jester, just east of the fire station?

Well, they bought another building on Bunker Hill and Hammerly...

So now there's two of them.

Mookie,
If you ever get to Houston, I will buy you a What-a-burger,,,double meat with cheese, extra onions, and BBQ sauce on one side, mustard on the other...

You keep drooling for a hour after eating one!

(jeeze, I am starting to slobber just writing about one!)

Dan, they put brussel sprouts on hamburgers out there?
Yuck!

[:D]Ed

I may only Gain 1 pound every 2 years, but they don't make a burger big enough for me in Texas-

Not even the Giant bevaer Burger satisifies me, So I know Texas won't solve my burger problems either.

[edblysard]

Your on!
Got the purrrfect place...

Hickory Hollow on Heights and Washington Ave...25 feet fro the old SP main, less than a mile from the Amshack and sees about two big trains every half hour...
And the food is good too...

Ed

[Mookie]

Ed - if I get within smelling distance of Houston - you are going to buy me a steak!

Mook

[edblysard]

Dan,

Remember the Mityeburger on 43rd street and T.C.Jester, just east of the fire station?

Well, they bought another building on Bunker Hill and Hammerly...

So now there's two of them.

Mookie,
If you ever get to Houston, I will buy you a What-a-burger,,,double meat with cheese, extra onions, and BBQ sauce on one side, mustard on the other...

You keep drooling for a hour after eating one!

(jeeze, I am starting to slobber just writing about one!)

Dan, they put brussel sprouts on hamburgers out there?
Yuck!

[:D]Ed

[Mookie]

Oh yeah, Ed, nice pix and excuse the grease on them!

Mook

[Anonymous]

Very excellent photos, Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved them all!!!!!!!!!!

[tree68]

Now wait a minute. I happen to like mayo on a good, loaded cheeseburger, along with the ketchup. I can't stand good ol' yellow mustard, but give me some of that spicy stuff and I'm all set.

As for the organic rubber - I mean mushrooms, well that's another story.

My kids, however agree with Dan on Miracle Whip, even though I don't mind the stuff.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by miniwyo

Mustard is for Burgurs and Hotdogs/Corndogs only

and french fries and chicken/chicken nuggets-strips

and easily shipped by rail.....[;)]

[miniwyo]

Mustard is for Burgurs and Hotdogs/Corndogs only

[dharmon]

Mustard is not a left coast thing........this appears to be mayo central....I think that explains alot......plus they goop all sorts of stuff on burgers out here...

Stuff that's acceptable on burgers:
bacon
cheese - any type but cottage
mustard
BBQ sauce
Guacamole/avacado slices
lettuce
tomato
onion
jalapenos
pickles
grilled/sauted mushrooms
fried eggs ...now we're talking a gut buster supremo....

stuff that's not okay on burgers
mayonaise
mayonaise
mayonaise
miracle whip.......which should be outlawed and treated as HAZMAT
tofu
sprouts of any kind
any sort of fish product
pineapple
anything that has curds in it..or Kurds for that matter
anything that has the words Jenny Craig in it
patties that have been steamed.....Crystal Burgers.....yuuch!

[Mookie]

Ok - this is where the true Midwest splits from the left coast. Ick! Mayo ok - rest is garbage and mustard should not be on the list of choices!

[dharmon]

I forgot to add.....it comes standard with MUSTARD.....not that bizarre white french named mayonaise crap...MUSTARD! No freaky "special sauce" from mixing Catsup (what kind of name is this anyway) and maaayyoonnaaase...no thousand island dressing.....no hokey "secret recipe" ...MUSTARD! One of the holy trio of most blessed condiments........mustard, hot sauce and BBQ sauce....

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

OK - from a confirmed "I really can't eat those any more" person - who has these Whataburgers? And Dan - don't you have Inn and Out Burgers - those are really to die for!

Mook

WHATABURGER!!!! WHATABURGER!!! That's the name of the chain...

In and Out is okay but it's no Whataburger......Whataburger cures all....hunger, hangover, drunk munchies, breakfast, clean arteries...it's wholesome comfort food.....In and Out is mostly hype.....

[Mookie]

OK - from a confirmed "I really can't eat those any more" person - who has these Whataburgers? And Dan - don't you have Inn and Out Burgers - those are really to die for!

Mook

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Ok, so now I wonder which ones of the bunch I sent he chose...
The SD45 was just too neat to pass up, just about all the SP power down here has the patch paint job and the UP shield decal on the nose.

For those wondering where the crew went, they just walked across the street, to buy hambugers for lunch!

Ed[:D]

Don't tell me.......Whataburgers......oh a double Whataburger with cheese and jalapenos..........the grease saturating the bun and and little pieces of onion and cheese stuck to the wrapper.....Alas..what's in a name, but a burger by any other name would not smell as sweet....

Oh and nice pics Ed!!!!!

[edblysard]

Well,
It's a tough job, but somebodys got to do it!

[jeaton]

MOOOOOM !!! ED'S GOT HIS STUFF ON MY TRAIN AGAIN!!!!!

(Actually, I'm jealous. You get to play in the Houston sandbox and the track through my town is EMPTY 23 hours 56 1/2 minuites a day, including all daylight hours.)

Jay

[edblysard]

Taken about a mile north of the I 10 interchange and the 290/loop 610 project.
Its on the Lufkin sub of the old SP....the reason for it is simple, there is a mobile cement plant just to the right...it follows the I 10 expansion project...what they are unloading is being trucked to the site, about a mile or two away.
Once the distance becomes to great, the plant will move to a new location, closer to the work...

Ed

[Noah Hofrichter]

Ed, just saw todays photo of the day, and man is it fabulous! Can you give more details about where it was taken ect. Boy I wouldn't want to be that operator in that excavator!

Noah

[edblysard]

Minolta Dimage Hi7...great digital camera, SLR with a nice zoom, along with a digital zoom to boot, and does video too...

Ed

[miniwyo]

Is that 315 sitting on top of the rail car??? I like that pic the best but they are all great!! Great job Ed!!!!!

[Modelcar]

....Ed, what camera do you generally use to catch your railroad activities such as these last ones.....Do you carry a little digital with you to do it....?

[edblysard]

As are the tracks and the subdivision...its on the old Hearn sub.
As Modelcar pointed out in a email to me, look at the stub track on the left, its buried in the ground deep enough that they mow it with weed wackers!
First chance I get, I am going to get a photo of the lead down into this place, you would never believe you could get a train down there.
All the horror stories about how bad SP let some trackage get....are true.
Ed

[tree68]

Very Nice, Ed!

Judging by the headlight placement and the numberboards, I'm guessing the MP15 is former SP.

[Anonymous]

I see a pair of SD45T-2 almost everyday here in central Illinois on the TP&W. Still in SP lettering and all. The only thing is it they have CEFX letters under the road number. If someone wants to see there I have pics and ill try to post them.Long live the rock.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bergie

QUOTE: Originally posted by kolechovski

They now update the pics of the day on weekends? I never knew that. Anyway, since i won't be around to see it, is there any archive of past "pics of the day"?

Actually, since it's the photo of the day, it should be updated every day. Unfortunately, when push comes to shove (like when I have a bunch of our e-mail newsletters to do), the Photo of the Day gets put off.

I typically put all the Photos of the Day in our "Photos, audio, & video" section. To find it, go to www.trains.com and click that link in the left column (under Resources). In the photo section, select Photo of the Day from the Category pull-down menu and then enter "Edward Blysard" (for this specific case) in the Keyword field. Then hit search. You'll be able to see all of Ed's photos.

Now the cat's out of the bag. Oh well!

Bergie

If you have to leave a photo of the day up for longer than a day, this is a good one to do that with. The only way to improve on this photo would be if the subject is a SD40T-2.

An interesting side note is that SP 8586 has been working the haulers out of Roseville lately. Appearently the battery box doors got swapped with another SP locomotive, so now it says "El Paso" below the cab on the left side. That is the only Speed Lettering locomotive that I have seen that had the name of one of the large shops on it.

For those of you who do not know, Southern Pacific in the 1980s (I don't know exactly when they started, but judging from pictures it appears to be in the eighties) put the name of the locomotives home shop below the cab.