Helped provide comms support (amateur radio) for a foot race today - runners had the choice of a half marathon or 18.12 miles (as in War of 1812).
Watching the radar, hoping an oncoming storm would pass without incident. Nope. In fact, we were on the edge of a severe-warned cell. I think most of the runners decided to finish, even if soaked.
Took along a pop-up canopy and the camp rocker, but the wind decided neither would be appropriate. Nothing blew away, but it all got put away and I sat in the dryness of my truck instead.
Between a pre-race meeting and the last runner in it was over five hours.
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...
afternoon
Didn't see anything on Ns after work.Heard they are changing symbols based on destination? Yesterday Csx was in a mess.Mother nature didn't help with tornadoes and flash flooding.Dispatchers were getting creative parking trains that had no crews available.Have chores to do here.Need to go give hugs on Friday.
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").
JoeKohafternoon Didn't see anything on Ns after work.Heard they are changing symbols based on destination? Yesterday Csx was in a mess.Mother nature didn't help with tornadoes and flash flooding.Dispatchers were getting creative parking trains that had no crews available.Have chores to do here.Need to go give hugs on Friday. stay safe Joe
NS train naming conventions have always mystifyed me. They don't even operated Amtrak trains under their Amtrak schedule numbers.
I am sure they make sense to NS employees, but to outsiders they don't appear to have a rhyme or reason.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
CSX is no different. Walking a mile in another muggles shoes can be a thrill.
mudchickenCSX is no different.
CSX recently made some sense out of their designations when they got away from all of the "Q" stuff. I'm sure calling everything a "quality" train made sense at some point, but "M" for manifest makes a lot more sense... With the Q's, at least the three digit number had some significance, though.
The numbers stayed the same in some cases, with only the leading letter changing. At one point odd and even numbers followed a plan, but I'm not sure that's the case any more.
mudchickenCSX is no different. Walking a mile in another muggles shoes can be a thrill.
Numbers have identified train schedules since the second train was operated. The prefix letter could be considered confusing to some, the three digit 'train number' and the two digit date of origin are self explanatory.
I loved the Chessie System's applying names to trains, however, that even more confusing to outsiders.
Gets weird from the get-go, before the train ever departs the yard. Trainmen's names for certain tracks vs. computer location (ZTS/SPIN/CLIC etc) vs. ICC Track numbers on maps gets really bizarre. Different worlds.
mudchickenGets weird from the get-go, before the train ever departs the yard. Trainmen's names for certain tracks vs. computer location (ZTS/SPIN/CLIC etc) vs. ICC Track numbers on maps gets really bizarre. Different worlds.
Worst part of railroads dealing with the public - "Where is here?"
"It's on Main Street"
mudchicken"It's on Main Street"
Does Main Street cross the railroad?
Ns had stuff uptown and a westbound after work today.Came home and mowed the yard.Matt took care of the trimming for me.Neighbor was watching and said he did a good job.Almost time for supper.Balt yes "Main st." crosses both the Toledo sub and Willard sub in Deshler.The toledo sub likes to remind Deshler that is was trains that founded the town.Especially when they decide to have a parade.
Ns had stuff uptown after work.Chores and errands to get to here.One thing that helps is ODOT finally got the exit done on the west side of Defiance.Mamma is happy.
Spent part of the day at the NY State Fair with the ADKRR display. Probably 150 folks came through the entire exhibit (several old rail cars - we were in one of them with our set up).
Some folks were interested, other walked right past us.
I think they are still looking for help for later in the event. I may go down and help again.
BaltACD mudchicken "It's on Main Street" Does Main Street cross the railroad?
mudchicken "It's on Main Street"
mudchicken BaltACD mudchicken "It's on Main Street" Does Main Street cross the railroad? Several hundred times in a given state. Ask them for a DOT# and all you get is the deer in the headlights look and no way of narrowing down where "here" is.
Several hundred times in a given state. Ask them for a DOT# and all you get is the deer in the headlights look and no way of narrowing down where "here" is.
Been there - done that - for years. (normally they will say the city they are calling from) It's down by the Quickee Mart.
BaltACDBeen there - done that - for years. (normally they will say the city they are calling from) It's down by the Quickee Mart.
It's down the street from the old Quickee Mart...
Matt can help you find those numbers. Csx had a small derailment in its North Baltimore terminal this morning.Ns had stuff uptown after work.Had to get around a fender bender on the way home.Tomorrow Matt moves his stuff back to school.Also need to give hugs.
evening
Went and gave hugs.Csx and Ns had trains parked.The coal tower north of Marion is still there.Matt got some pics of the 765 today.Tomorrow taking my brother to go see it.Need to get some sleep.
Brother got to hear the whistle of the 765 and watch her run.We let the chasers chase and went back to Bryan Ohio for lunch.Ns sent a good mix of trains.They even sent the "PC" heritage unit east as well.Chores to do here at home.
Took our brush truck to a local racetrack for a "First Responder's Night" tonight. Not a bad turnout of fire, police, and EMS, but I was stunned to see the dearth of race fans. The stands were virtually empty. It wasn't that long ago that it would have been SRO.
One of my firefighters just changed over from DIRT to asphalt, he was racing tonight. I didn't stick around to watch him as I wanted to get the brush truck back into our district.
A central theme of this year's event was commemorating a young firefighter who died while training at our state fire academy. There are many questions still unanswered.
Csx ran some trains while we were on our walk.Conductor friend is on one out of Chicago later this afternoon.Won't be by here until after dark.Csx has trains parked everywhere.College boy is getting stuff around to go back to campus.Back to work for us tomorrow.
tree68...he was racing tonight.
Until he hit the wall and bent his car up. He's fine...
Had a Monday feel at work today.Ns had cars uptown and a westbound intermodal after work. Mother Nature sent almost an inch of rain this morning.About to send us some more.Very Muggy.On our errands after work noticed 3 trucks in the hotel area.Two of them had 1 track each for a big crane.The other truck had other parts.Not sure where the rest of the big crane is at.Time for supper.
Mother nature sent us a wallop last night.Our road south of us is still closed due to downed power lines.I cleaned up the tree debris and other things last night.We were without power for about 4 hrs. At work the warehouse lost part of its roof.Today Ns has cars uptown and it looks like an autorack train too.Having a PB&J and thinking of Carl.Still miss him.Chores to do.
JoeKohafternoon Mother nature sent us a wallop last night.Our road south of us is still closed due to downed power lines.I cleaned up the tree debris and other things last night.We were without power for about 4 hrs. At work the warehouse lost part of its roof.Today Ns has cars uptown and it looks like an autorack train too.Having a PB&J and thinking of Carl.Still miss him.Chores to do. stay safe Joe
Joe's storm is about to arrive Central Maryland.
We're getting rain, but nothing "heavy."
We had a severe thunderstorm warning last night, and even a tornado warning, but aside from a brief power outage (15-20 seconds), and a few trees and wires down around the area, nothing really came of it.
Although the sailboat that got dumped in the St Lawrence River might disagree.
What we're getting right now is the same system Balt is seeing.
Storm dropped a whopping 0.12 inches of rain - in about an hour.
Ns had cars uptown and looked like another train too after work.Crews finished last night fixing the damaged poles.They shut our power off at about 11 pm or so.Then it was turned back on and we could go back to sleep.Some poles our or road still have quite a lean to them.Whats going on in Colorado? Seems a hospital had a record number of twins born? Whats left in the water? Chores to do.
JoeKohtwins born? Whats left in the water?
Why are those crossing signal masts at the former Deshler station site?
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.
Drove past a linear warehouse here that's a distribution center for local papermill's production. Has truck docks on one side and a long rail siding alongside the other side with many boxcar loading docks. Haven't seen boxcars there for a long, long time. Today there were 8 boxcars set out dock by dock there. This line was CN that they sold this year to Watco (Foxy Rail). So encouraging to see.
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