Mookie Murray After I retire, I want to become a professional Zamboni driver ... Will you be wearing a "Woodstock" yellow birdy suit like in Peanuts?
Murray After I retire, I want to become a professional Zamboni driver ...
After I retire, I want to become a professional Zamboni driver ...
LOL... Now that would be a sight!!!
Murray Mookie Murray After I retire, I want to become a professional Zamboni driver ... Will you be wearing a "Woodstock" yellow birdy suit like in Peanuts? LOL... Now that would be a sight!!!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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
Nebraska just barely knows where Ohio is - so what is Orrville?
Johnny
rvos197943,000 lbs of Orrville, Ohio's finest on board tonight, headed to Atlanta......... Have a good one.......
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Gotta haul 'em in a truck, though...100 cops and their donuts wouldn't fit in a bus.
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)
He probably picked up some smucker's.Hope he doesn't get in a jam.
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").
Joe - Google - my best friend kind of pointed me in that direction.
Well, I'll be jammed.
Norm
Well, with a name like Smuckers, it's gotta be confusing.
I fixed a radiator fan on a GE dash 7 this week. I got my pants sucked off....next time I'll wear a belt
Randy Stahl I fixed a radiator fan on a GE dash 7 this week. I got my pants sucked off....next time I'll wear a belt
I think anyone who worked around the old dash 7 engines were undressed to some degree. The running boards along the long hood were tight and if the engine was in notch 8 the suction was pretty intense.
Randy Stahl I think anyone who worked around the old dash 7 engines were undressed to some degree. The running boards along the long hood were tight and if the engine was in notch 8 the suction was pretty intense.
That's why you won't see me putting water in our RS3 while it's running. Gotta cross the fan to get to the water fill. It'd be a Marilyn Monroe moment, even without wearing a skirt... That's one BIG fan.
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...
Gotta learn to really watch more closely....
He's got the PB & J (JIF & Smuckers) - Last seen in hot pursuit of a bakery truck on US-30.
evening
had some sprinkles tonight.Thunderboomers and cooler tomorrow. Ns had a westbound waiting when I left work. time for some more chores.
Looks like Madam LaMook may be in for a rough night. Tornado watch there right now. No warnings posted that I can see, though.
Hoping we don't see that kind of stuff Thursday evening. Our firefighter memorial is scheduled then. We can do it indoors, but it's much better out at the memorial itself.
Love how it zooms through here and blows up out in the flatlands. Haven't heard from DiningCar lately to see how life on the beach in AZ is treating him. It's the second major cloudburst we've seen in less than a month in those parts. (We may see the S word down at 5200-6000 feet above MSL on Friday night mixed with rain - Got Thomas duty on Saturday and Sunday (plus housepainting), so hopefully it clears up.)
One of my co-field dogs reported a near miss with a train and a dump truck yesterday. Thank the big railroader in the sky for restricted speed in yard limits. Could have been quantum ugly
Promise of potentially heavy rainfall after midnight, and into the morning rush.
I kind of blew it today...I have my new i-Phone, and missed the perfect opportunity to shoot video of the view from the tracks between Geneva and Lombard (or a good portion thereof).
First of all, how I got to Geneva (the second time). My ultrasound was in Winfield, and I'd taken the scoot there because Pat was intending to do some Lombard Historical Society work. That didn't happen, through no fault of hers. So she came out to Winfield to pick me up; we went to lunch there, at a new (to us) restaurant in Winfield. John's is an expanded tavern, but they have a good menu and a view of the tracks. We saw three or four trains while we were there. From there we went through West Chicago, then out beyond Geneva to shop. We shopped 'til our balance dropped.
To get to and from Geneva, we had to cross the newly-half-opened bridge that carries Illinois 38 over the UP tracks. I'm sure that 99.995 percent of the drivers on 38 love that bridge because it eliminates the delays that a busy two-track main line (probably near 100 trains/day) can bring. But I'm in the 0.005% minority--both times we crossed the bridge, there were interesting freight trains passing beneath us (since only two lanes are open, no way could I even slow down to catch them).
So, when we crossed the bridge on our way home, the train below was an eastbound Com Ed coal train, and it had some relettered equipment that I was sure I hadn't known about. Something like that, for me to document and report, makes my day! So instead of going straight home, we went into West Chicago, and found a nice place for watching this train as it moved into the yard. A westbound auto train came between me and the coal train, but that was not too much of a problem. Then the auto train stopped. I moved a little so I could still see the coal train between the auto racks. Then the coal train stopped. I had not seen the relettered cars yet. So we went into West Chicago...
...at which point Pat came up with an idea. She'd go home and unload the groceries, and leave me in West Chicago to wait for the train...I could get home on a scoot after I'd seen it. This sounded good to me, so away she went. I went down to the station and waited. While there, I saw a couple of passenger employees who still remembered me (when in heck is J.J. ever going to retire?). The eastbound scoot's impending arrival was announced, and I thought about taking it and waiting in Lombard for the coal train to come through. But then the westbound scoot was announced, and I was blown away by a stroke of genius: since I ride for free anyway, why not go west, past the last location of the train, see the cars if I could, and then go home?
So I got on the westbound. Right away, I knew it was a good move: the train was right where we left it. And, it was on the connector to the CN...had I gone to Lombard, or even stayed at the West Chicago station, I would never have seen it (I could have gone to JB tower and watched it cross our line, but...more on that later)! Both the coal train and the auto train were still sitting where we had left them. So I saw my mystery cars (three of them, on a train of over 130 cars), and yes, I needed to document them...seems Com Ed is getting rid of its oldest coal gons.
I'd thought about riding the train to the end of the line and taking the same consist back home. But then I decided to get off at Geneva, go into Cabooses for a drink (Diet Coke), and watch trains from there. While I was there, we had two westbound stack trains, and the train of autos, also westbound, came through (I snickered when one of the Cabooses patrons waved at the DP locomotive on the hind end.). When the eastbound scoot came (right after the second westbound stacker), I was ready to go home.
I should have broken out the video cam right away...gotten the spectacular crossing of the Fox River, the climb up the grade, and the new Route 38 overpass from below. At West Chicago, the coal train was still there, on my left, and a westbound stacker was on my right as we went past the yard. Across the diamond (I could see the coal train's head end on the connecting track). At the station, we met the westbound scoot. Another westbound stack train met us at Sunset on Track 2, and a westbound empty NORX coal train was sitting at Winfield on Track 3. At College, a westbound manifest went past us on Track 2. All of this action would have made for a neat video that would show how busy the line was, but hindsight's 20-20. I was surprised that there were no trains sitting at Finley this time, but when I got off the train in Lombard, I could see an eastbound stacker at CP Plow. After helping a little old lady down the stairs and across the street, I headed home.
Hello Noah? We've got some of your animals. They're floating around the back yard.
Murphy Siding Randy Stahl I fixed a radiator fan on a GE dash 7 this week. I got my pants sucked off....next time I'll wear a belt Ya know, I'm tryin' to understand this, or to even visualize this in my mind. It ain't workin'.
Consider yourself lucky, very lucky!
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The ride to work this morning wasn't too bad despite the ongoing deluge. Streets weren't flooded (yet) and the Southwest Service was operating on time. Not sure on whether any other routes were affected.
Paul, I didn't get any problem reports this morning from UP West or BNSF (those are the only two Metra lines I keep tabs on). Did you have fun with the Union Station signal problems last night?Here the rain started well after midnight, and lasted until about 10:00 (we might get more in the afternoon; it's still looking pretty dismal out there). There was 1.6" in our gauge, but the lack of any heavy downpours kept the flooding away.
lot's of rain today.even rained sideways.Ns still has a westbound waiting to go west.Need to take matt to Church for his activities.Might build an ark while we are there.
Joe - we didn't get that much here in central city parts. But our airport said about 2 inches. However, with our temp in the 60's and humidity in the 70-80%, it is very "sloggy" feeling.
I do get the feeling however, that we are the city of only moderation. Just enough sun, just enough rain, just enough wind, just a lot of allergies - , so now I wonder if this winter will be the same with snow and ice?
MMmmmmm.......Jam.
Now where's the toast????
Oh Murray - one of my favorite songs..."We Like Bread & Butter; We Like Toast & Jam".....
There's an oldie-but-goodie ear worm for ya...
Supposed to rain here later tonight and into tomorrow morning. Hopefully it will be past by evening.
Carl - could have recorded a real alphabet soup of reporting marks today - all on cylindrical hoppers. Didn't have a pen ready, and I really needed to get where I was headed (and back). They were sitting in Boonville, NY, either as storage or SIT. I think I mentioned them last week, now that I think about it.
Got some cucumbers from a friend last week, and some Mason jars today - there may be refrigerator pickles in my future...
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