afternoon
Csx got some trains rolling after waiting a bit.Q 506 and D 743 came north.The D 743 waited for the signal in the west sidng then went back south for his train.Paint day tomorrow in the museum.
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").
JoeKohPaint day tomorrow in the museum.
Clean up day tomorrow at the county fire training center. Hope this rain gives up by then. We've had .81" since midnite, on top of over an inch yesterday, and about a half inch the day before. We need it, though...
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PSR? CSX had several puzzling trains.
1. Parked Rip - rap train for over 24 hours here.
2. Complete bare table headed by 2 CSX locos to Fairburn
3. Manifest train southbound 2 locos and 3 car manifest with mixed traffic
good morning
Trains ran on Csx yesterday as I was painting.The big stuff got moved back.The boss/curator/drill sgt is deciding where the small stuff goes.Taking the pallet jack back up while the weekend shift will be at work today.Mother nature sending rain of course.As for Csx and it's moves we just say"Hey it's csx.
Ns was clear after work.Couple chores to do here.Guessers say great weather all week.
We've got a forecast like that, too...even the ten-day forecast shows mostly 70s for highs and nothing coming out of the sky.We dined out yesterday at the Italian restaurant in Elmhurst familiar to many long-time Forum readers. Still great for both food and ambience. In the hour or so we were there, there were two or three stack trains, two manifests, and a scoot.
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)
Hopefully the weather will hold out until Monday. I'm off work that day and I'm planning to get to Elmhurst to exercise the camera (Canon A-1 that uses film!)
Paul, we haven't actually met yet. How's about I do my darnedest to get to Elmhurst on Monday?
Sounds good to me.
Another loop closed in the trains net? (Kevin Bacon, who?)
On my return from Lincoln (and Mookie's ghost) on Saturday, was surprised to see two new BART cars, de-trucked on flatbed trailers) headed west on I-80. BNSF and UP were exceptionally light on traffic.
Ns was clear after work.Ran errands in town.Csx was all red on the signals.Saw they replaced part of the concrete wall on the Jefferson Ave viaduct with steel.Csx was working on the Wayne ave viaduct when we went by.Some areas the colors are bright but I dont think we are quite at peak time yet.One more day of work and we will go check it out.Maybe Stacey will have decided where she wants to eat for our anniversary by then.
Ns sent a westbound stack train after work.It looked like they also had an eastbound tanker train as well.Went into town to pick up calendar for next year.Csx was all red signals.The Nd&w had quite a few cars to shuffle around.Still don't know where we are going yet tomorrow.We'll find a train somewhere.
evening
Had a great day today.We went down to Marion.Crews at the museum are repainting the Erie caboose.Csx put q 216 in the yard because the crew ran out of time.Then the local crew was ordered to take the out of the yard and onto Crestline for its crew change.Switching a long train of autoracks sounds like fun.Meanwhile an FRA inspector saw a flaw in a bar at the diamond for NS.So Ns Mow got to fix it.But they had to wait on q 216 and their own 218 to get out of the way.Made a couple other stops on the way home.More good weather on tap for tomorrow.We'll take it.
Started the day with a mutual aid fire call. The occupants had left for work not long before it was discovered, but there was fire damage in the living room of the singlewide trailer, and smoke throughout, despite a quick hit by the first engine in.
We ended up not being needed.
Spent a part of the afternoon on the road, delivering some printing I had done, and doing more advertising for our chicken barbeque Sunday. It's going to be strictly a drive-thru affair, something we don't have much experience with.
Did chores here.Went back to Deshler to do some touch up work in the museum.Csx is working on fixing up the tower.They didnt send many trains by when I was there.However on the way home they had 1 westbound and 4 eastbounds.Also took a nice farmers dog back home after taking pictures on a country road.Tomorrow is set to be another nice day.
Went to Toledo today.Saw some interesting trains.Ns was going back to their yard after dropping some cars off at stanley yard.17 N and 14 M were carl specials on Ns too at Vickers.Fed Matt,got him shoes and gave him his mail.A couple hugs and he said well gotta get back to campus.Came home and crunched up some leaves.Going to relax.
blue streak 1 PSR? CSX had several puzzling trains. 1. Parked Rip - rap train for over 24 hours here. 2. Complete bare table headed by 2 CSX locos to Fairburn 3. Manifest train southbound 2 locos and 3 car manifest with mixed traffic
I guess if we are to believe the CSX ad that keeps showing up in the ad click on the forum here. They are powered to perform. Observation says otherwise.
SD60MAC9500 blue streak 1 PSR? CSX had several puzzling trains. 1. Parked Rip - rap train for over 24 hours here. 2. Complete bare table headed by 2 CSX locos to Fairburn 3. Manifest train southbound 2 locos and 3 car manifest with mixed traffic I guess if we are to believe the CSX ad that keeps showing up in the ad click on the forum here. They are powered to perform. Observation says otherwise.
Most likely -
Rip-rap train is staged for possible hurricane repair service.
It is not that unusual for cars and boxes to get out of balance at Intermodal terminals and then need a 'shipment' of bare tables to support loading.
Part of PSR is operating all scheduled trains so that the power of the scheduled trains get to the destination terminals and thereby supply the power for that terminals outbound scheduled originations.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/train-slams-semi-truck-in-indiana-after-driver-gets-stuck-on-tracks/vi-BB19UVfl?ocid=msedgdhp
IMHO:
1/8 Fault Truck Driver (deserves to lose Class C license, stupid drayman)
1/8 Fault Town of Pendleton (allowing unsafe condition)
1/4 Fault InDOT (design fail (violated AASHTO-AREMA Spec),failed to sign)
1/2 Fault InDOT Rail* Section (Allowed unsafe condition to exist, placed flshers-gates-bell and ignored approach grade ski jumps)
(*)There ought to be a SEPARATE railroad commission to save the railroads from the deaf/dumb/blind rubber- tired clowns that call the shots at InDOT....for reasons like this. The approach from the highway to the tracks is all wrong, especially with the crossing falling in a super-elevated curve. (ski-jump)
How long was the truck stuck on the jackstand before the train arrived? Fortunately the dimwit drayman survived. (he was out of the truck when the train arrived - did he call the ENS number??? even try???)
Went for a walk in town this morning.Checked out some of the fall colors in the old neighborhood too.Csx sent some trains.Was hoping to see a friend on q 166 but he was recrewed at Garrett.MC don't know if any attempt was made to call csx's emergency number.Back to the sawmill tomorrow.
It's supposed to be cloudy, yea even rainy, tomorrow. The trains should still run, though. Paul, I hope you're still planning on coming this way. "CopCarSS" (and new daddy!) Chris plans on showing up, too.We've had some quiet days here, and I'm trying to get some sightings logged and documented. Latest purchase in the home upgrading is a new stove, to be delivered Thursday. The old stove is still functional, but kind of wonky after being moved from room to room and back again while the kitchen was remodeled in 2013.Watch out for my granddaughter...Emily dead-lifted 180 pounds last week (she's 14, and not particularly built like a weight-lifter). Her dad, in the same competition, lifted over 400 pounds. They also participated in squat lifts and bench lifts, but don't like those as well.
CShaveRR It's supposed to be cloudy, yea even rainy, tomorrow. The trains should still run, though. Paul, I hope you're still planning on coming this way. "CopCarSS" (and new daddy!) Chris plans on showing up, too.We've had some quiet days here, and I'm trying to get some sightings logged and documented. Latest purchase in the home upgrading is a new stove, to be delivered Thursday. The old stove is still functional, but kind of wonky after being moved from room to room and back again while the kitchen was remodeled in 2013.Watch out for my granddaughter...Emily dead-lifted 180 pounds last week (she's 14, and not particularly built like a weight-lifter). Her dad, in the same competition, lifted over 400 pounds. They also participated in squat lifts and bench lifts, but don't like those as well.
The Chicken Barbeque went off mostly without a hitch - ran out of the dessert, but we were able to cover that.
This was the first time we'd done a drive-through event. That went very well, as well.
One of our firefighters wished me a slightly early Happy Birthday - we share the same day. Which means it's time to wish Carl a slightly early Happy Birthday as well.
tree68 The Chicken Barbeque went off mostly without a hitch - ran out of the dessert, but we were able to cover that. This was the first time we'd done a drive-through event. That went very well, as well. One of our firefighters wished me a slightly early Happy Birthday - we share the same day. Which means it's time to wish Carl a slightly early Happy Birthday as well.
I wanted to BBQ so bad this past summer. Though I got so busy I forgot to buy a grill. I still may buy one for the winter to grill in my shed.
SD60MAC9500 I still may buy one for the winter to grill in my shed.
With plenty of ventilation!
We do ours on an open pit - I think right now it's configured at about 40' long and about 3' wide. We did all 350 halves on one "cook." While the pits take various configurations, that's the technique most organizations in this area use.
The "racks" will hold ~24 halves. Placing another such rack on top allows two people to flip the whole thing at once. With two teams of "flippers," the entire pit can be turned in well under a minute.
I've seen a few places that have configured their racks so one person can flip them.
tree68 With plenty of ventilation!
No doubt. I put my grill about half way in the doorway allowing the smoke to an easy escape. The shed had good circulation and venting.
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news (and hope I'm not too late), but I'm unable to go to Elmhurst for train-watching today. I became fairly violently ill last night, and although that could have been a fluke caused by medication, it's best to not give Chris something to take home to his family. Paul, I hope you understand...I really wanted this meeting to happen!
CShaveRR Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news (and hope I'm not too late), but I'm unable to go to Elmhurst for train-watching today. I became fairly violently ill last night, and although that could have been a fluke caused by medication, it's best to not give Chris something to take home to his family. Paul, I hope you understand...I really wanted this meeting to happen!
Get well Sir, and drink plenty of whiskey if you're allowed to
Ns was clear after work.However Matt reported another Ns grain train coming through campus.That is 4 of them since he has been at school.Carl hope you get better soon.Carl and Larry enjoy the birthdays.Chores to do here.
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