Norm48327 Hey Bruce, I have a friend who lives in Airdrie.
Hey Bruce,
I have a friend who lives in Airdrie.
Here's an interesting tidbit you might want to pass along.
It is claimed that Airdrie generated the thickest file of complaints ever generated about the service provided to any point on the CPR. From the 1890's to sometime in the 1960's, housing devlopers of varying levels of reputation wanted to build new developments, backstopped with promises by the CPR to provide heavy rail commuter services to Calgary. Once the handwriting was on the wall that this would never happen, the town fathers orchestrated the puchase of all of the land the law would allow next to the CPR ROW and proceeded to build on it to prenent the CPR from ever putting it to any other use.
Nobody knew it at the time but this has really hamstrung plans to ever build a Calgary/Edmonton HSR line, as almost all of the land immediately west of Airdrie is too soft to support another rail line. The local farmers always knew to double-check their land before taking their farm machinery out on it, but it seems they didn't bother to tell anyone else!
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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afternoon
sun is out trying to melt the snow.Ns local was shuffling around at lunch time.They have empties to pick up in town.matt is working on homework.Time to do chores.
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").
AgentKidBest of luck to US forum members about to face this big blizzard.
On the way home, however, I did see a half dozen convoys of utility crews, as well as DOT road graders and even a couple of big snow blowers headed into the "field of battle."
I'll sit home and watch it on the news.
It snowed Saturday morning in Springfield, which caused a huge drop in attendance at the big show. The only had as many people for the whole show as they normally get for one day.
It amounted to about 5-6" of kinda wet snow. Didn't slow us snowbirds down at all...
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...
How many 'Storm of the Century' have we had in the 15 years of this century?
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
The city slickers need a reminder every so often about the real world and life in fly-over country...(and hey, the pansies get a day off out of the deal....We constantly get reminded here at work about how we are expected to deal with the snow and be here.)
I took a couple of personal leave days and last Saturday morning Becky and I went out to Council Bluffs to the Great American Train Show. Pretty nice show. I got a couple of books, an N gauge auto rack, a couple of RI/Rock plastic time table covers and a Wisconsin Central time table.
I also got a deer on the way to the show. About 715am, the sun starting to come up, driving along about 20 miles from home and all of a sudden I see a deer's head and neck in the windshield. She ran into the front driver's side panel. Did some damage, but could've been worse. After the county deputy made out an accident report, we turned around, took the car to our local Ford dealer, who did the last accident repairs we had a couple of years ago. Got a loaner car for the time being, and went out to CB any way.
Our local paper had a story last week of how a couple went from town over to Boone on old highway 30 (now a county road) and hit a deer. They came home on new US 30 and hit a second deer. Some people have all the luck.
Hey Zug, I just saw Mookie's question about cab signals. Do yours have color lights or position light cab signals? I was on an ex-CR engine once that had the position light type cabs.
Jeff
jeffhergertHey Zug, I just saw Mookie's question about cab signals. Do yours have color lights or position light cab signals? I was on an ex-CR engine once that had the position light type cabs.
Position.
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I trust that you and Becky are all right, Jeff. I got my deer this past June up in northern Michigan (I was unhurt; Pat was un-along). I didn't fill out any reports, and was able to drive away (air bags didn't deploy). Insurance covered damages, which were handled first by a local body shop. The adjustors missed something that was discovered by our local mechanics (can't say enough good stuff about them!), and insurance covered that as well. The inconvenience on both occasions wasn't much fun, but at least we didn't have to pay any money for the experience.We had the east's major blizzard (or part of it) swoop through here yesterday when it was just a pup. We're getting some more nasty stuff this evening, just in time for the road crews to share rush hour with everybody else--including us, as we have to go to a fundraiser for our grandson's school or Cub Scouts; not sure which. It has been well over a week since I've had any sun to light my way anywhere.
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)
Yes, we both came out OK. The deer however...
They seldom do, Jeff. We have more than our fair share in southeast Michigan. I've been lucky though; lots of close calls but no venison for the table.
Norm
jeffhergert Our local paper had a story last week of how a couple went from town over to Boone on old highway 30 (now a county road) and hit a deer. They came home on new US 30 and hit a second deer. Some people have all the luck. Jeff
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BaltACD How many 'Storm of the Century' have we had in the 15 years of this century?
Murphy Siding BaltACD How many 'Storm of the Century' have we had in the 15 years of this century? I suppose we're working our way up to the "Storm of the millenium".
I suppose we're working our way up to the "Storm of the millenium".
With only 985 years left in the millenium as well as 85 years left in the century.
tree68It amounted to about 5-6" of kinda wet snow. Didn't slow us snowbirds down at all...
I can believe you had no trouble with that small amount. When I lived in the Syrcuse area about 50 years ago, the local newspaper always referred to 5" or less of snow fall as "flurries" or a "dusting." And they weren't joking!
Nearly bagged a young deer with my lawn mower coming around the corner of my house once. They really are too tame here.
BaltACD Murphy Siding BaltACD How many 'Storm of the Century' have we had in the 15 years of this century? I suppose we're working our way up to the "Storm of the millenium". With only 985 years left in the millenium as well as 85 years left in the century.
Murphy:
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
....and what would our favorite alum of WeatherLiar U. be saying now?
Joe: preparing an estimate now for the black horse folks about 120 miles east of you in the Fire Lands of Erie County.
They almost have to color each storm as an apocalypse, because if they don't, the less-wise will wander out into the world and end up stuck (or worse). After all, "how bad can it be?" Those of us who have lived in the environment for years know.
On the other hand, we haven't had a really bad winter for a few years (at least, around here). I haven't asked the town to knock down the snowbanks in front of the house in several years as there was no need. And since people forget, they venture out when they shouldn't.
clear here in Nw Ohio. NS was all clear in Archbold.Did some shopping after work.Matt working on his homework.Tomorrow his confirmation class project is to work at a local soup kitchen.MC could meet you at the Mad River museum after the work is done???Time to get chores done.
Joe: have to find out still if they want us or somebody else at NS-NKP-Shinlock.
My parents used to get the Reminisce magazine. Back when there were still people who could remember what the early 1900s were like, there were stories about the winters they used to have and how it was all different anymore; hardly any snow now, rivers no longer freezing over, etc. Now the old timers aren't around to give us perspective on things like that. Therefore we succumb to Little Chicken Syndrome.
mudchicken The city slickers need a reminder every so often about the real world and life in fly-over country...(and hey, the pansies get a day off out of the deal....We constantly get reminded here at work about how we are expected to deal with the snow and be here.)
I had the day off.....
tree68 And since people forget, they venture out when they shouldn't.
And since people forget, they venture out when they shouldn't.
Anymore, there are too many drivers who shouldn't venture out after a light dusting of snow.
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jeffhergert tree68 And since people forget, they venture out when they shouldn't. Anymore, there are too many drivers who shouldn't venture out after a light dusting of snow. Jeff
TRUTH
We could always break out the Black magic markers and circle templates and draw crosshairs on the driver's side windshield
Well, Norris, if a light dusting of snow looks like an excuse to you to drive on their lawn, I don't blame 'em for yelling!Not as funny as it should be--we went to the police about our neighbors, who believe that their parked-in cars should be driven out via the lawn, and their favorite route includes ours.
Jeff (and others) -
Re: Deer
Just wondering . . . Do the deer have a fan magazine called "Vehicles" and associated computer forum for it called "Vehicles.com". There, reports of deer vs. car or truck encounters are posted, with the usual results. The members bemoan and post numerous snarky comments and responses about how their kind don't obey the posted "Deer Crossing" signs because the cars and trucks can't swerve, brake, or otherwise maneuver as nimbly as the deer can, and how the deer should be willing to wait until the car or truck passes, then look both ways before crossing the road, etc. Also, how the deer shouldn't walk along the road, because it doesn't belong to them either - they should only be on it within those Deer Crossing signs, etc. . . . just saying, that's all.
Then again, a true story: In late May 2009, when we were visting Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, one evening at about dusk we watched both a small herd of bison and a couple elk cross the North Entrance Road, headed southeasterly, at the crosswalk to the Grand Loop Road on the east side of the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel - protected by a Park Ranger in a high-visibility vest who was flagging traffic for them !!! I might have a fair picture of that someplace . . .
- Paul North.
Paul,
As to "deer crossing" and other such signs, I understand that there are people who wonder how deer are induced to cross at those places.
Another true story, concerning a hen pheasant and her chicks. One of my wife's favorite rooms at the Iron Blosam (sic), which is a timeshare building at Snowbird, which is a Ski and Summer Resort up Little Cottonwood Canyon (SE of Salt Lake City), is on the eighth floor, on the backside of the building and is not far above the highway that goes up to Alta (there, the highway is about even with the seventh floor). One afternoon, I was looking out, and saw a man trying to help a hen pheasant and her chicks cross the highway--and she was having none of it. I marveled at his ignorance of wildlife, and did not doubt she would have managed well enough on her own.
Johnny
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