evening
Ns sent an eastbound after work today.Went to see if Csx wanted to run it's 911 unit by before dark here it did not.Did see q 369,K 182 and I 168? Checked the ND&W yard as well.They were loading up a tamper on a lowboy trailer.Tomorrow after work time for hugs.
Gramps welcome to our chat box.Yes switching factories can be interesting.Miss the emd switchers that used to work the GM plant here in town.Now they use a trackmobile.Son once asked how does one get to do that job.Lot's of seinority son.Time for supper.
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").
why would a person on this site be blocked from just one newswire? Does not make sense. Asking for person to sign. Tried signing out and then in,
Back in the icebox again. Currently (2300L) -14.5F. At least there's no wind, although we did get a gust of 19 MPH earlier today.
Went out to a neighboring department for a hazmat refresher course. It's an annual requirement, and a chance to do a little shop talk as well.
So for now, it's warming myself back up so I can head for bed...
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...
The Failure of Santa Fe Skyway - YouTube
Not sure if fellow Chico's Orphan Diningcar had seen this, but I hadn't. Interesting. (I knew of the Skyway, but not really much about the operating logic behind it.)
Ns was clear after work.First round of hugs tonight.Everyone noticed how Matt is catching up to the old man.More hugs tomorrow.
Carl: Something right up your alley.
Projects With Madigan Ties Went to the Front of the Line in State’s Massive Rebuild Illinois List | Better Government Association
All the way up to +20F from a low of -25F overnight. Now they're talking snow. Probably lake effect, but with the current southerly wind, that could cause headaches here.
Two major fires in the area in the last couple of days, in the cold. The first (Friday AM) was around the dryer area of a paper mill. The fire was contained, but water and paper (in its finished state) don't get along, so the mill will be down for a bit.
This morning, a worker at a propane filling facility (they stock many of the "cages" in the area where you can trade your cylinder in for a full one) was working on what he thought was an empty 20 pound cylinder. It wasn't, and a fire ensued, destroying much of the facility as well as a portion of a neighboring business. They kept the fire from the really big tanks behind the fire building...
I'm still not running calls, but they didn't call my department out anyhow.
afternoon
Saw Csx q 353 light power coming east on the way home.Matt is making a detour through Deshler to help finish up a project.Lots of hugs today.Going to work on chores here at home.Guessers are calling for some snow tomorrow.
joe
blue streak 1 Carl: Something right up your alley. Projects With Madigan Ties Went to the Front of the Line in State’s Massive Rebuild Illinois List | Better Government Association
I don't find reference as to what the Noise Reduction consists of but assume that it has to do with the RETARDERS on the hump yard. Anyone know haw to quiet them? Looking at the IDOT publicity,
https://idot.illinois.gov/transportation-system/rebuild-illinois.html
I do not find any reference to this. [Well Hidden]
The noise reduction consisted of additional soundproofing at the hotels mentioned in the BGA write-up. I live about a mile south of Clearing's hump and I can still hear the retarders on a regular basis.
CSSHEGEWISCHThe noise reduction consisted of additional soundproofing at the hotels mentioned in the BGA write-up. I live about a mile south of Clearing's hump and I can still hear the retarders on a regular basis.
As long as you have hardened steel parts shearing against each other you are goint to have noise.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Did someone call me? I couldn't hear 'em because of this ringing in my ears. (UP solved its own problem by shutting down the hump where I worked...now you just have coupling noises, some louder than others.) When I first moved to the area of Proviso, I could hear the retarders in quieter hours from three and more mlies away. Coupling impacts, abut the same.I think BN tried earthen berms right at the retarders somewhere (Northtown?) to redirect flange squeal away from the ground-pounders. I don't know how successful that effort was. But of course, that would do nothing to impede the noise at, say, the residence level of nearby hotels.This has to be kind of a strange area to talk about noise reduction, with some of Midway's runways closer to the hotel than the retarders involved (all of the hotels are much newer than Clearing Yard or its retarders). Some railroad attempted broadcasting a nullifying frequency from the same direction as the source of the noise--in its case blowers for the pneumatic transloading of covered hopper cars--so that the listener would, at least in theory, hear nothing. Did it work? I haven't heard.
(An aside: all of the large buildings in the map with the original article are hotels...the difference is probably the money paid into (and out of) this sound abatement fund. Mike Madigan is no longer in office, and most of us haven't heard a peep from him in the past couple of years. And yet, his daughter Lisa made one of the best and most competent attorneys general Illinois has had in recent decades. Nothing was ever said against her.)
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)
Pneumatic vs hydraulic vs spring issue .....or is it just the steel on steel squealing at issue? (the squealing wheel complaints have also become an issue in LA on the light rail blue line at speed)
just call it local ambiance
Ns was clear after work today.Came home and took care of some more snow.Always hear the squeel along the wye tracks in Deshler.Time to do some chores.
Ns was clear after work.Ran errands in town.One place was having computer issues so they just took cash.One store was out of what Stacey needed so had to make another stop.Time for supper.
Ns was clear after work.Sunshine is nice but still cold.Need to do some chores.
Just ordered flowers for the funeral of a firefighter from a department in the Southern Tier who came up several time during Ice Storm '98 to assist. Our departments have been friends ever since, although our exchanges have dropped off as the folks who were here during the Ice Storm have left the department, etc.
Wish I could go down, but I don't relish driving 200 miles wearing this boot on my foot (broken ankle).
He was a great guy - could fix anything...
Still cold here - only reached about +8F for a high today, and more sub-zero temps are in the forecast. Wish the weather-guessers would be wrong, but, no. At least we're pretty much used to it. Those folks in the southeast getting 30's and below are the ones suffering.
Ns was clear after work.Did see some mow with a big piece of rail on the truck.It is the season.Tomorrow off work to give hugs.Simple Funeral with military honors.Going to make our soup recipie again on Saturday.Matt said he will be home.Off to do chores.
Went to Deshler and gave hugs.Between the salute and the playing of Taps Csx had a loram mini grinder come through town.Csx also has some new trains to split the autorack and container traffic through Deshler.One of the new trains is 261.It goes from North Baltimore to Baldwin Florida.Caught up with the mini grinder on the way home.Saw K 182 come westbound with 2 new rebuilt units 7017 and 7025.Matt will be coming home tomorrow.Guessers say things could be interesting here on Groundhog day next week.Time for some chores.
Not necessarily regretting that I can't make it to the Springfield show this weekend. They're due to get that Nor'easter, which could make life interesting.
I am getting reports (and pictures) on the set up of our booth. So far it's looking pretty good.
I'll be sitting in my ham shack, seeing how many contacts I can make during the Winter Field Day contest.
Once again the weather guessers mised it when talking about snow. Looks like Boston is really going to get hit. Here in Georgia the NE mountains of the state is forecast to get 1 - 2 inches. Forecast nothing this way 45 miles SW of ATL.
OOPS. Wrong again guesser. We just got a dusting of about 1/4 on items above ground. Fortunately still 34 degrees and ground warm enough as today's high 55. Low will be around 22 tonight.
My take of snow is expect a difference 50 miles of any forecast is possible. Well that got blown as here some 150 miles SW.
blue streak 1 My take of snow is expect a difference 50 miles of any forecast is possible. Well that got blown as here some 150 miles SW.
Welcome to our world of lake effect snow. Sometimes the bands are so tight that you can go from sunshine to whiteout in a mile...
tree68 blue streak 1 My take of snow is expect a difference 50 miles of any forecast is possible. Well that got blown as here some 150 miles SW. Welcome to our world of lake effect snow. Sometimes the bands are so tight that you can go from sunshine to whiteout in a mile...
Currently getting ready for the Florida freeze.
Looking at a traffic camera 5 mile from my Maryland base of operations it looks like the area got a dusting and not much more.
The Baltimore area is really sensitive to storm tracks and some areas can get dumped on while 50 or 60 miles away there is virtually none.
Recall one time when living in Akron - we had miserable rainy 34 degree day, meanwhile the heights area East of Cleveland (about 40 miles North) got will over 40 inches of snow. The snow line stopped about 2 or 3 miles from the shores of Lake Erie.
Csx is having fun with track and train issues.Deshler needs a super size plunger.The soup will be ready when Matt gets home for supper.
CSSHEGEWISCHWe get that fairly regularly in the Chicago area. I grew up on the far southeast corner of Chicago and lake effect snow often meant that we and NW Indiana would get 6+ inches and ther rest of the city would get only a dusting.
A few years ago I recall seeing on radar a "piling on" of lake effect. Northwest winds, and you could see that the lake effect was essentially a continuous line from Lake Superior, over Lake Huron (and especially Georgian Bay), then over Lake Ontario.
I don't have problems here at the house if it's a northwest wind, but Rochester, Oswego, and especially Syracuse sure do.
One of our crewmembers is working the big Amherst show in Springfield, MA. She sent me pictures - the place is deserted, and some vendors apparently didn't make it, either.
Just got my Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's newsletter. Their modular group declined their Amherst invitation some time ago for various reasons, Covid being one. Their layout would've been 18' x 156' and I'll bet they're glad now. They've already been invited for 2023 which will be the group's 40th anniversary.
This morning I suggested to my son that he check out Great Lakes winter lighthouses on the internet. The serpentine and loofah-like ice formations are my favorites. Also pop-quizzed him on H.O.M.E.S and I had to help him on E and S.
Rick
rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
rixflix Their modular group declined their Amherst invitation some time ago for various reasons, Covid being one.
Report from our crew member on the ground is that the day's attendance was likely somewhere south of 1,000. She sent me pictures of the deserted aisles...
I also got reports from a fellow ham in the Boston area that they've seen 20" of the white stuff (plus the wind) so far. Springfield apparently only got a couple of inches, but a substantial amount of the audience for the show was likely snowed in.
morning
Article in the paper said Defiance was proposing a walking path along the NDW bridge across the river.Have other locations as well.All the current roster units for the NDW were in the Defiance yard this morning.Csx was busy.Maintainer had to wait for a few eb container trains to get by.Saw the J 715 run out to the Henry county line for the grain elevator.Matt is going to stop at G+Gs house on his way back to school today.We will stop after work tomorrow to wish them Happy 55th anniversary.Guessers are still guessing how much stuff we are to get this week.
stay tuned
Joe: Town is about to discover trails and trains don't mix. Wait until the town has to pony-up the insurance for that if they can even find it. People across the way in the building next door are all too well familiar with the risk..
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