This week has been Doctor Week for me. Monday was my Endocrinologist appointment - was held by teleconference. Today was with my 'family doctor' for my racing physical. Was called prior to the appointment time to inquire if I had Covid sysmptoms by answering a a questionaire of them Yes or No. Arrived at the office and the door was locked - had to 'buzz in' with my name and appointment time. Mask was required while in the office.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Enjoying this busy semi-retirement of mine. I haven't been out to watch trains in over a year. Finally got my chance last week. After delivering some bagged duck feed to a home outside of Memphis up here in Michigan. I wasn't to far from I-69. So I headed up to the farming village of Emmett where a large parking lot abuts CN's Flint Sub to see if anything was coming. Only a Hi-Railer and some new track ready to be installed. Aftert that. Hopped on I-69 to Port Huron. Caught CN 397 a Toronto, ON-Memphis, TN manifest. Power was two 70M-2's and a Dash-9.
Today while on a delivery got stopped by a CN local with ex-EJE SD38-2 #676 long hood forward pulling a nice string of Hi-cube boxcars and a few empty centerbeams..
afternoon
Ns was clear after work.Got outside and took care of some leaves.Matt decided since he has online classes on Friday he's coming home a day early.Stacey has the pantry ready to go.Time to get cleaned up.
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").
JPS1Oh, I made a mistake. I should have put an ice pick up there with the shovel!
Based on reports out of Oklahoma, you'd need the ice pick there...
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...
Carl is right about today's weather. So far it has been sunny with clear skies, a welcome relief from the last few days.
tree68 Dug the snow shovels out of the garage, just in case.
By the time I was 33 I had lived in PA, NYC, and Connecticut. I had enough of the snow and ice.
I dug the snow shovel out of the closet, put it on top of the car, and headed south. When I got to Dallas someone asked me what it was for? I knew I had arrived at the right place.
Oh, I made a mistake. I should have put an ice pick up there with the shovel!
This year we had six storms take aim at us, putting us in the middle of the cone of uncertainty then turning left or right in the last couple of days. I got accustomed to constantly monitoring weather reports with their cones and spaghetti tracks and fried egg wind strength graphics. Now, the seventh storm, ZETA, is gonna get us. The weather people seem to be confident about that. We'll probably be without power for a couple days at least. If we're lucky, that'll be the worst of it.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
For the second time this year, shovelled 7.5" of the white stuff on Monday. Fortunately it was powder this time. (slowed down, but did not put out the fires west of here with 18" of snow)
The snow hurt the railroad museums festivities (Halloween Train) on Sunday with RGS-20 pulling two coaches and a caboose. At times there were more shutterbugs chasing the train than people riding on it.
Joe's ditch-hunters were out in full force.
(CS - Hope your remote printer works better than ours. Lots of walking over to the printer only to see it didn't get the message here ... The sneaker-net is reborn. )
We had snow in the morning both yesterday and today. As in your case, Larry, nothing stuck on pavement, and TruGreen was still able to treat our lawn with what was falling today. And you're right--time to move the shovels out to a place of prominence in our garage. I have been dealing with lots of work without the benefit of a printer for the past couple of days. The replacement arrived today, and has been set up and checked out. Downside...I have to print my pages full-sized (when doing reports I used to fit two pages on one side of the sheet). Upsides: it's supposed to have a less expensive appetite for ink, it holds a lot more paper in the tray, and it seems to be more quiet. It also has a wireless connection to the computer here, which thinks of it as a "printer in range". Kind of neat!I haven't been out for days, beyond normal errands (and buying the new printer), so I'm getting a little cabin fever. The gray skies don't help things. I want to change that tomorow, and the weather is supposed to cooperate.
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)
Winter has arrived - it's snowing as I write this.
It's sticking on cold surfaces but melting on the roads.
Dug the snow shovels out of the garage, just in case.
Rainy day here in Nw Ohio.Ns was clear after work.Stacey and I already took care of the voting chore.Have chores to do here at home.
CSSHEGEWISCH Lynn and I got to the polling place and VOTED yesterday. It was about 45 minutes from getting in line to getting out of the voting booth. Remember, every vote counts.
Lynn and I got to the polling place and VOTED yesterday. It was about 45 minutes from getting in line to getting out of the voting booth. Remember, every vote counts.
I have to open up the polling place here - I'll vote then.
But, yes, vote. Don't let polls or news stories make you think things have already been decided.
Ns was clear after work.Stacey is running errands in town.Have chores to do here.
blue streak 1 C-124s ? Globemasters better kown as old shaky. And they were not pressurized.
C-124s ? Globemasters better kown as old shaky. And they were not pressurized.
My barracks was every bit of two miles from the end of the 10,000 foot runway 31 at Tinker, probably more. There was no missing a C124 winding up. And we weren't that far off the flight path for the planes taking off, either. Runway 13/31 is now closed. The northward departure takes aircraft over a heavily populated area.
Weather is beginning to turn bad around here. A rain-snow mix is falling as I write this. Temps are predicted to be about 10 degrees below normal for at least the next week or so.
evening
Cloudy here in Nw Ohio.Watching them play football in the snow in Denver.Saw a friend on one train today on Csx.I think they were also trying to figure out how to combine 2 trains to go east at Auburn.Also saw a lonely high hood in the Ns Yard in New Haven.Not much was going on there.Back to work tomorrow.
tree68 BaltACD So street cars, with muffled exhausts made more noise than a flight of C-130's (4 engines each) with unmuffled exhausts and MSP helicopters also with unmuffled exhuasts?????? Sounds like someone didn't want you there... When I was at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, there were C124's there. Known as the "Globemaster," they weren't fast, but they could haul a lot. They were powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-4360-63A Wasp Major 28-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, and when they did a run-up, you knew it.
BaltACD So street cars, with muffled exhausts made more noise than a flight of C-130's (4 engines each) with unmuffled exhausts and MSP helicopters also with unmuffled exhuasts??????
Sounds like someone didn't want you there...
When I was at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, there were C124's there. Known as the "Globemaster," they weren't fast, but they could haul a lot. They were powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-4360-63A Wasp Major 28-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, and when they did a run-up, you knew it.
I am thinking the locals just didn't want 100+ cars using the local streets to get to the site of the lot. Without having a Db meter - I am certain the noise from our event was a very small fraction of the noise being generated by the helicopters and the C-130's.
BaltACDSo street cars, with muffled exhausts made more noise than a flight of C-130's (4 engines each) with unmuffled exhausts and MSP helicopters also with unmuffled exhuasts??????
Want a noise to shake your bones ? Grew up near an air force oil burner route. A low level route for bombers to run bombing practice. Our burner route was also over Holston mountain. You can only imagine the noise when a formation of B-36s ran the route. It shook every house in the city,
Can you imagine the fear in Europe when the 8th air force ran their bombing missions ?
ChuckCobleigh samfp1943 Kept hearing 'heavy engines' ! Looked up, and saw our resident war bird up , 'Doc" [a B-29]. There is no sound like four of those multiple recip engines climbing...Hard to forget, once you've heard them. A very early memory of mine is visiting a great aunt who lived right under the westbound takeoff path from Lindbergh field. The racket of a four-engine prop airliner passing fairly low over her house was amazing. When the "Wings over Gillespie" event is going on, sometimes there will be two or three WWII bombers in attendance and they will sometimes fly around the area and usually right over our neighborhood once or twice. Definitely a memorable sound.
samfp1943 Kept hearing 'heavy engines' ! Looked up, and saw our resident war bird up , 'Doc" [a B-29]. There is no sound like four of those multiple recip engines climbing...Hard to forget, once you've heard them.
A very early memory of mine is visiting a great aunt who lived right under the westbound takeoff path from Lindbergh field. The racket of a four-engine prop airliner passing fairly low over her house was amazing. When the "Wings over Gillespie" event is going on, sometimes there will be two or three WWII bombers in attendance and they will sometimes fly around the area and usually right over our neighborhood once or twice. Definitely a memorable sound.
About 40 years ago a car club I belonged to obtained permission to hold a Autocross (driving contest around a pylon designated course against the clock) at Martin State Airport in Baltimore County. The lot we were permitted on was located such that whenever the Maryland State Police helicopters were moved into or out of their hanger, we had to delay our activities until the MSP had completed their move. Additionally the Maryland Air National Guard had the complement of four C-130 Hercules aircraft out for their weekend training regimen. The C-130's would sit at the end of the runway adjacent to our site for a half hour or more running their check lists - running the engines up and down the rev band, then doing some touch and goes and then landing and returning to the end of the runway adjacent to us and repeating the process all afternoon.
After the event, our groups leadership inquired about being able to use the lot again in the future - we were denied, the authorities stated we made 'too much noise'. All cars in the event were street cars, none with open exhausts.
So street cars, with muffled exhausts made more noise than a flight of C-130's (4 engines each) with unmuffled exhausts and MSP helicopters also with unmuffled exhuasts??????
My daughter's neighborhood tried a new idea this year - a "Pumpkin Walk." Residents carved pumpkins and put them out for folks walking around the neighborhood to view. Others had more extensive displays as well. All in all, it was very nice. We fell in with some of the daughter's friends, which made the walk that much better.
Daughter lives in a pretty good sized development - we didn't cover the whole thing (the 5.5YO granddaughter wouldn't have handled it well), but there was plenty to see in areas we didn't walk through as well.
tree68 blhanel Aluminum Overcast, one of the last operating B-17s, is currently flying out of the Cedar Rapids airport, giving rides. Too bad our budget has been a little tight lately... I had a chance to do a "self guided" tour of a B17 some years ago at an open house. As big as they look in movies, they aren't. My 6'5" frame had some trouble getting into the nose... A C5 crewman at the same open house said they'd carried a B17 (sans wings, of course) in their cargo hold... I'd love an opportunity for a ride, too.
blhanel Aluminum Overcast, one of the last operating B-17s, is currently flying out of the Cedar Rapids airport, giving rides. Too bad our budget has been a little tight lately...
I had a chance to do a "self guided" tour of a B17 some years ago at an open house. As big as they look in movies, they aren't. My 6'5" frame had some trouble getting into the nose...
A C5 crewman at the same open house said they'd carried a B17 (sans wings, of course) in their cargo hold...
I'd love an opportunity for a ride, too.
Visited the Combat Air Museum in Topeka several years ago. Most plane displayed were various fighter aircraft from WW I through some of the early jets. It is amazing just how small they really are - especially the WW I aircraft.
While I have been to and through Pooler, GA many times I have yet to tour the 8th Air Force Museum there - they do have a B-47 posed alongside I-95.
blhanelAluminum Overcast, one of the last operating B-17s, is currently flying out of the Cedar Rapids airport, giving rides. Too bad our budget has been a little tight lately...
Kept hearing 'heavy engines' ! Looked up, and saw our resident war bird up , 'Doc" [a B-29]. There is no sound like four of those multiple recip engines climbing...Hard to forget, once you've heard them.
Aluminum Overcast, one of the last operating B-17s, is currently flying out of the Cedar Rapids airport, giving rides. Too bad our budget has been a little tight lately...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Seventy nine degrees here today. And the last nice day for a while. At least it was a dry 79.
Hopefully the oncoming band of rain will be past us by the time I go out for the "Pumpkin Walk" with the grandkids tomorrow night. High tomorrow is supposed to be +51F, with below freezing overnight.
Winter makes its way in...
Friday PM...Had a stacker parked out back for some time now...Supposed to get below freezing tonight..Honey-do, Moving plants into the garage, in advance of that. Kept hearing 'heavy engines' ! Looked up, and saw our resident war bird up , 'Doc" [a B-29]. There is no sound like four of those multiple recip engines climbing...Hard to forget, once you've heard them.
blue streak 1 BaltACD Sometime after yesterday afternoon train finally left. Balt. Thought you might be correct but there is no indicsation that a crane was around to loco 561 to lift it. As well the train was parked at exactly jusst south of the island circuit of the next crossing where all trains wait for clearance to proceed to CP and gain the main line.. No excuse for leaving the train blocking the next crossing for over 10 days, Complete brake test would be required anyway. blue streak 1 blue streak 1 CSX PSR strikes again. We have an empty northbound Hertzog train including a single loco parked on our siding. It has not been split and has blocked one grade crossing. The kicker ? parked here since late Tuesday afternoon. It is now Sunday evening. Still parked. 2nd hand was told the city mannager was told that loco had a broken part that was hard to find ( CSX #561 ). Going to talk to him this evening and confirm that is what was told. Can you believe ? WAG - seized traction motor. Loco facility at Tilford was probably closed when Tilford was closed. I would have thought loco people from Waycross would have been relatively 'johnny on the spot' within a day or two along with Cranemasters or some other contractor to change out the traction motor and at the very least install a idle axle (wheel set without traction motor) in place of the defective one. Not moving a locomotive that has a frozen traction motor is SOP. Letting a locomotive sit there for a week in such a condition WAS NOT the norm when I was working.
BaltACD Sometime after yesterday afternoon train finally left. Balt. Thought you might be correct but there is no indicsation that a crane was around to loco 561 to lift it. As well the train was parked at exactly jusst south of the island circuit of the next crossing where all trains wait for clearance to proceed to CP and gain the main line.. No excuse for leaving the train blocking the next crossing for over 10 days, Complete brake test would be required anyway. blue streak 1 blue streak 1 CSX PSR strikes again. We have an empty northbound Hertzog train including a single loco parked on our siding. It has not been split and has blocked one grade crossing. The kicker ? parked here since late Tuesday afternoon. It is now Sunday evening. Still parked. 2nd hand was told the city mannager was told that loco had a broken part that was hard to find ( CSX #561 ). Going to talk to him this evening and confirm that is what was told. Can you believe ? WAG - seized traction motor. Loco facility at Tilford was probably closed when Tilford was closed. I would have thought loco people from Waycross would have been relatively 'johnny on the spot' within a day or two along with Cranemasters or some other contractor to change out the traction motor and at the very least install a idle axle (wheel set without traction motor) in place of the defective one. Not moving a locomotive that has a frozen traction motor is SOP. Letting a locomotive sit there for a week in such a condition WAS NOT the norm when I was working.
Sometime after yesterday afternoon train finally left. Balt. Thought you might be correct but there is no indicsation that a crane was around to loco 561 to lift it. As well the train was parked at exactly jusst south of the island circuit of the next crossing where all trains wait for clearance to proceed to CP and gain the main line.. No excuse for leaving the train blocking the next crossing for over 10 days, Complete brake test would be required anyway.
blue streak 1 blue streak 1 CSX PSR strikes again. We have an empty northbound Hertzog train including a single loco parked on our siding. It has not been split and has blocked one grade crossing. The kicker ? parked here since late Tuesday afternoon. It is now Sunday evening. Still parked. 2nd hand was told the city mannager was told that loco had a broken part that was hard to find ( CSX #561 ). Going to talk to him this evening and confirm that is what was told. Can you believe ?
blue streak 1 CSX PSR strikes again. We have an empty northbound Hertzog train including a single loco parked on our siding. It has not been split and has blocked one grade crossing. The kicker ? parked here since late Tuesday afternoon. It is now Sunday evening.
CSX PSR strikes again. We have an empty northbound Hertzog train including a single loco parked on our siding. It has not been split and has blocked one grade crossing. The kicker ? parked here since late Tuesday afternoon. It is now Sunday evening.
Still parked. 2nd hand was told the city mannager was told that loco had a broken part that was hard to find ( CSX #561 ). Going to talk to him this evening and confirm that is what was told. Can you believe ?
WAG - seized traction motor. Loco facility at Tilford was probably closed when Tilford was closed. I would have thought loco people from Waycross would have been relatively 'johnny on the spot' within a day or two along with Cranemasters or some other contractor to change out the traction motor and at the very least install a idle axle (wheel set without traction motor) in place of the defective one.
Not moving a locomotive that has a frozen traction motor is SOP. Letting a locomotive sit there for a week in such a condition WAS NOT the norm when I was working.
Finally left sometime after yesterday afternon. D not think frozen traction motor as no evidence of crane there to replace a motor. As well train parkked just outside of next crossing's island circuit where all trains wait to ge clearance to proceed to CP and access the Main. Still no reason for some other train to pull the back of Hertzog train off the blocked siding.
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