Good Morning!
Still too hot! I really feel downbeat these days - like a polar bear sweating on a piece of drift ice vanishing due to global warming.
No plans for the daa other than to stay alive!
CU & all the best!
Evening Diners
Flo, Ed and I will have a please. Yes used the B&O F7A mugs.
ricktrains4824 think your slow days came my way
Rick Slow Front is stalled over my store! In 2 days, I have only had 4 customers and none of them bought a Dang thing! Heck none of them would show any intrest for anything!
Got here late due to doing home book keeping. Looked at what was in the checking acount, this megar check (normally the bigger check, not this time around) what I owe and so forth. It is offical, I am screwed!
Credit Score Guess I need a witch doctor to help me figuer it out! While I do understand a lot of it, still seems stupid in many ways! My total debit is around $4000.00 while my total limt is $9,000.00. So if I can get another credit card my score would go up? But, if I where to get another credit card, age of my credit history would go down and that hurts the score as well! If I had not have to have the fence work I be sitting pretty.
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Headed to Texas today. Tomorrow I will make my first call on my new customer, BNSF. Apparently, they have a small train museum in the lobby. We shall see.
Richard
Afternoon all.
Chloe, any of that cheese cake left? Good, I will take a slice. And a chocolate milk would be good, thatnks.
Weather - Nice and cool at night, warm enough for no coats during the day.
W**k - Cudaken, I think your slow days came my way, as we did 375 in sales by the time I went home yesterday! Midday report was at 540, but returns cut that down to 375 by 5pm! Midday report was sales only, zero contest or new account numbers. By the time I left, I had gotten contest and new account numbers. The fun part? Our district manager had been there the whole day... By close, we hit 700 in sales. (Normally, I would be over 1000 myself, store would be 2000-3000 in sales.) Now, as our district manager was there, neither the store manager, nor myself, got a official lunch break, just a slice or two of pizza that the Sr. Asst. manager brought in.
Where I was on 9/11 - In class, I had math class at that time, but that quickly changed to current events after the second plane hit. No school work got done, nor were any other classes attended. We simply turned on a tv, and never left it.
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have a Reubin Sandwich and a Cherribundi for lunch today. Please and Thank You Ma'am.
Been busy all morning getting the Division Newsletter tweeked and finished. just sent it off to two other officers for them to proofread and tell if anything should be changed before sending it to our webmaster for publication.
Sun has been shining most all of the day so far. It is currently 85°F ourside which is the high for the day. will get down to around 65°F overnight. Good night to open the windows and get some fresh air in the house.
Need to make a run to the Mennonite Farm Stand this afternoon and check the beans in the garden. By the end of the week I should be doing some canning. This weekend the Museum is open so you all know where I will be.
Have a good day out there!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening!
A too-hot-for anything day is coming to end. I felt pretty miserable all day long. Adding to that, there is something wrong with my computer. Each time I try to save a video I made with MSMovie Maker, my computer crashes and all the work is lost.
Not my day today!
Thank you, Janie - I don´th think I´ll have any today. Just take a breather here at the RC in this wonderfully air-conditioned Diner!
All the best!
Hey all
Just a quick note, Still crazy at w88k. Have to deliver a 6200 sqaure foot home Thursday and a 4500 sqaure foot home monday. Its nuts.
Train front bought a Broadway limited N&W 2664 #1218 this weekend for about half price rom of all places a pawn shop !
Still wearing a back brace taking pain and meds to keep the swelling down. Good to go !
Good wishes for all, prayers for those in need and Howdy to all of my friends here.
TTYL
YGW
Good morning, everybody !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning guys
up early today going over the forums I go too having my hot cup of coffee. We have been having nice fall days lately warm during the day but cool at night. Things are suppose to get hot and humid again today before cooling back off again, heck it may be the last shot of summer weather. I go back to work on Thursday after being off for a few weeks. It was a nice break but start to get a little bored. I got some things done I wanted to as far as hobbies. Got the old desktop up running good, got all my pictures from phone and PC backed up. Managed to get a few sets of strat o matic divided up, I have a couple of hockey sets coming tomorrow. One I got the other day came a little dinged up so hope they will reimburse me.
as far as modelling I haven't done much of anything, well at all to be honest since the winter. My subscription to mr is up in November and am really thinking I may end it. don't know yet for sure if I will, a lot of times now I get it and just skim through it quick.
Flo, Ed and I will have a in a M1A frosted mug!
Work Front was a slow pain in the caboose today. High or should I say Low Lite of the day was the lady that sort of spent $2660.00 yesterday. She gave me $500.00 down and wanted to used our no credit need finance. (it can be a real pain) She is very well spoken and great looking female! If I was 50 pounds lighter, single and 50 years old I be on the hunt! She showed up at 20 minutes before closing. She seemed intellgent! Her applaction (I gave it to take home Sunday) sure did not reflect it! Did not get the App right till 5 minutes before closing so I will send it in Tuesday!
Ed and Gary welcome to my world! One night that sticks out was when I was getting my 68 Road Runner and 1970 Cuda ready for Monster Mopar Weekend! I had the Cuda detailed by say 9:00 PM, then I started on the Road Runner engine compartment. I stripped off the fan, p/s pump, alternator and etc. Touched up the block, polised the chrome and cleaned the braid stainless steel lines!
Had the engine back togarther at 2:00 AM. Hit the key and the stainless steel fuel line touched the postive post on the back off the alternator and POOF there goes the wiring harrness! But, at that time being the real Cuda Ken back then, I did not give up! Got up at 6:30 AM, happen to have a used harrness , detailed it and made Monster Mopar Weekend on time! God, it is hard to beleive my wife use to drive the 1970 Big Block Cuda!
Train Front,YGW I finally got one of the sprung truck B&O Coal Cars in services! Thought I had two ready to go, but the second one is picking like Roy Clark!
Later, Ken
Far from her prime way back when! Hope to work on her next year!
Garry:
Thanks for your thoughts.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good evening. It has been a cool and windy day in the north. Worked outside in a heavy fleece jacket all day installing a newly fabricated set of deck stairs. Its nice to see that I can still fabricate stairs that meet code and fit where they are supposed to fit.
Three more weeks and we will be headed back home. Sure hope it cools off a little before we get home as it has been in the nineties for the last couple of months almost every day at home. Ready to get back to work on the layout.
Lots of mention of 9-11 anniversary. I was about 60 miles north of the towers working on a Habitat house in Danbury, CT. One of the guys wife called to let him know about the first plane crash into the tower. It was a very spoookey day being that close to this tradgedy.
Ford stories hit home as I am also not a fan. Had two Fords and both were lemons. The brake rotor picture is really scarry.
I think we are having moose roast tonight for dinner. Just got the call to go eat.
Jim
Quite true, Ulrich.
In the case of the composite brake rotor I found that it was a mad scramble to try to reduce vehicle weight to meet environmental standards. Obviously not a very well executed idea.
I wonder if they calculated all the fuel and emissions expended by the emergency vehicles responding to the accidents caused by the "improved" design of the brake system?
Regards, Ed
Ed - this happens, when a company replaces engineers by financial controllers.
Good afternoon, Folks!
And a much better afternoon it is! Flo, I'd like a lobster omelette, home fries and a tall glass of V8! That's grrreat!
howmusSo, Ed, your wife wore out 3 sets of brakes in 68,000 miles??
Yep! I really don't think it is her driving style, Ray. I have been with drivers who "ride the brakes" and that's not her. The Ford is garage kept but still the pads and rotors corrode like crazy. The reason I had to replace the rear brakes this time was another frozen caliper. Ford had "redesigned" the caliper pins several times on this model but they still lock-up. One pad burns right down to bare metal and the other pad is like new. While surfing for more info on these brakes I came across quite a few car forums where others have had serious problems with Ford brakes, at least these models (the 500 is a clone of the Tarus/Sable).
Another Ford she had, a 1987 Mercury Sable, the rotor actually rusted off the hub! She made a hard stop when somebody pulled in front of her and she heard a "noise" from the front end. Driving home from there she said the car was pulling to the left when she hit the brakes. The car had 18,000 miles on it!
I couldn't believe what I found! The right-front rotor was hanging in free air! Ford used a stamped steel hub and a composite rotor and where the bends were (imagine a top-hat shape) the metal had corroded and the force against the rotor snapped it off.
{The photo isn't my actual rotor but it is the same condition that I found}
I called the service department at Ford and they said "Well, you're driving it on salted roads, what did you expect" Honest!
Turns out there was a "service bulletin" issued about a year after this happened and Ford installed two "newly designed" rotors on the front end. One-piece, machined castings.
These are just the highlights, sorry, I just can not get all cozy with Ford products. A few months ago I bought all new parts to overhaul the brakes on my 2009 GMC Canyon, 113,000 mi. I jacked up the rear end and pulled the drums. Everything looked spotless in there after I blew a little dust out and I looked at the lining and I estimate I have another year-or-so before I have to change the shoes! I bought new drums thinking that they would have to be replaced but the factory drums STILL look great!
I replaced the front pads at 60K and they still look good, too!
Anyway, I could go on about my experiences with Henry's Flivver but suffice it to say, no more Fords in my future (once this Five Hundred goes to the bone-yard). YMMV
Thanks for letting me vent about these recent experiences. Hopefully, Ken won't feel so bad knowing that Murphy does get around!
Have a wonderful day, everybody! Happy Rails... to you...
Ed
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Granola with fresh blueberries. Oh, wil need a large pot of "Ring of Fire" Dark Roast Coffee to keep R&GV RR mug filled for a while...
Herrinchocker, Matched pair of Belgians? Oh, yes! Much more fun to work with than any old diseasal tractor as far as I'm concerned! One Amish Farmer that lives over near the Boy Scout Camp uses a 6 horse lashup to pull a 3 bottom plow every spring! Watching them lean into the load is just wonderful! You can't help but see the pleasure of both the work horses and the farmer with that. He doesn't use a whip, just clicks and calls to get them to lean into the load. You should see the ripples on those leg muscles too..... My Father used to tell about working their team of 3 Percherons when he was only a 9 year old kid. That consisted of two mares and a stallion. He was especially fond of telling about the day one of the Mares came in heat. He said he never wanted to relive trying to make the stallion "behave" himself and just help plow the field...
So, Ed, your wife wore out 3 sets of brakes in 68,000 miles??? Perhaps you should teach her not to use the gas peddle and the brake at the same time (together)......... My old Dodge Truck only wore out one set of brakes in 70,000 miles and that was pulling a 2 ton trailer much of the time... Never had to replace the brakes the second time as both the front and back brake lines rotted through and the suspension collapsed on the front... Just for you:
Ahem....
"Gloom, despair, and agony on me Deep, dark depression, excessive misery If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all Gloom, despair, and agony on me"
Have a good one out there!
Good morning everybody....
Coffee and a donut, please.
Ed ... Your story reminds me of many of my "15 minute project".... For instance, I will say to my wife: .." I'm going out to the garage. I'll be back in 15 minutes after making a minor repair." ..... 3 to 4 hours later, the item to be repaired is in far worse condition, and there are at least 5 more "15 minute projects"..... It never ends.
Dave: .... I'm sad to learn your son, Glenn died in 2005. It's been over ten years, but I'm sure you will always mourn for him.
I actually found some time for the model railroad yesterday. I was working on passenger cars that were derailing. I corrected the problems with them. Not a "15 minute project" this time. Everything went well.
Good Afternoon!
I just woke up from a 2 hrs. snooze and need coffee in an IV bag to start my engine, Brunhilda, if you please? And while your at it, a slice of that cheese cake to go with the coffee could not possibly be wrong!
It has turned quite hot gain, unusually hot for mid of September. As it cooles down at night, our apartment does not heat up as much as it would do in July or early August. No sleepless nights due to heat (only for all the other issues nagging on me poor little soul).
Ed - so Murphy has moved in with you? I thought he had taken permanent residence at my place!
No plans for the rest of the day, just hanging around, contemplating life and its challenges and pitfalls.
WOW Ed,
Makes getting up this Monday morning kind of a scary thing I'd say...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good Morning, Diners...
Ken, I'll take you up on that and if Chloe can find the key to the liquor cabinet I sure could use a shot on the side to make it a boilermaker!
I feel like I've had a Charlie Brown kite-in-the-tree weekend!
It all started a few days ago after I finished the rear brakes on Mrs. Pullman's 2005 Ford Five Hundred. No, let me say here that I am not a very big fan of Henry and Edsal's machines. Just my experience, mind you.
So the Ford with 68,000 miles on it is ready for its third brake job. Last time we had it done done at a shop and the tab was $1200. So I bought new rotors, calipers and hardware.
Long story short... I forgot to torque the caliper bolts and one pair loosened up and I actually lost one bolt! Dumb Move #1! I even paused to try to remember if I had torqued them before taking the car off the stands, but never checked!
Anyway, now I need a M12 x 45 class 10.9 flanged bolt. No parts store sells them—dealer item they tell me. Call Ford dealer, yeah we got em but can't sell them to you. If you bring the car in for us to repair we can put bolts in but we can't sell 'em to you.
Amazon to the rescue. Package of ten bolts, delivered, $1.30 a-piece! Great! Jack up the car, and just for giggles, I put on the parking brake. POP! I hear a snap and the pedal goes to the floor. Dumb Move #2 if you're keeping score!
Sure enough, the connector that ties the left and right cable together has rotted out, Ford placed it less than an inch from the exhaust pipe! More calls, auto parts stores, yeah, we have the cables but we don't have any hardware items.
Call to Ford parts department. We don't support cars that old but we can get what you need from a vintage parts seller. Your cost SIXTY-EIGHT dollars! Yes, that is correct. I wish I would have recorded the conversation. It is just a little metal sleeve! Yes, $68! I didn't ask if that included shipping...
Back to Amazon... after a little searching I find a package of three different cable connectors, including shipping for the whopping price of... $4.60!
Anyway, I wrapped that job up Thursday night and was glad of that...
Chapter Two:
Friday. Mrs. Pullman comes home from making her egg delivery. Now we had been planning a ride on the Cuyahoga Valley for the next day but—she tells me that the scheduling got messed up and the trip is TODAY! Well, OK I can live with that.
After a few more phone calls, my nephew who has set the trip up for us suddenly discovers that our train is actually originating in Akron and that means we have to board at the Fitzwater Road facility by 4:15, not 6:30 as originally planned.
We have to cross Cleveland at the height of traffic AND construction (ask Garry about that) and get to the Cuyahoga Valley like—NOW!
Quick scramble, grab the camera, of course the truck is about out of gas but we make it. They were holding the train for us and were whistling-off as we climbed aboard.
Just so you know not everything was a total disappointment, our ride was fantastic! My nephew, who is Chief Mechanical Officer at CVSR arranged for our little group to have the Saint Lucie Sound an ex-Florida East Coast observation-lounge car, all to ourselves, fully stocked, with an attendant and a full buffet!
Now for DUMB move #3! I had been shooting photos the whole time, of course. I figure about 250 to 300 clicks. At the end of our ride, four trips, actually—Rockside-Akron; back to Penninsula, back to Akron then home to Fitzwater, he gave us a quick tour of the diesel shop to see what was going on in there.
I took a few more photos in the shop and just happened to glance at the info screen and caught a glimpse of one line- No CF card present, no data saved!
I had run out of the house so fast that I never thought to check!
I usually grab the camera bag but in a moment's hesitation I thought... naw, I don't have to lug around all that STUFF!
Big OOPS! I've been kicking my self since!
Chapter Three:
Train Front!
To get my mind off THAT dumb move I decided to do a little Model RR work. Well, Friday a package had arrived with a couple of ESU Loksound Select decoders loaded with the Steam sound Collection.
I have been wanting to rip out the QSI decoder from a nice little (well, big!) Erie 2-10-2 and I thought, since it already has sound it should be a breeze.
Basically it was. Traced a few wires. Soldered in the decoder. Set her up on the test track with JMRI and a SproggII. Everything's great. Sound, nice motor movement. Let me try the headlight... PooF! Wait, what just happened... OH NO
R-e-s-i-s-t-o-r (wasn't that an Aretha Franklin song?) AND wouldn't you know, the headlight LED is buried! I mean it is the second thing installed in the boiler after the motor! Since the QSI board already was set up for LEDs and the ESU not, it really didn't occur to me (obviously)! I even took a final look in there before closing up the tender
Tonight I finally found the exploded view diagram and discovered the hidden screw UNDER the steam dome! That gets my vote as the MOST difficult locomotive to disassemble! Maybe some are worse, but this guy is right up there!
So... finally, this morning (5AM) I have new LEDs in, the engine back together and everything is fine... almost. The preliminary check of the steam sounds from that soundset is none-too-special! I am going to dig around in the ESU sound projects hoping to find something a little better. I'm a bit disappointed in these. The turbo-generator actually sounds like a gasoline engine!
Fortunately, being ESU, I'll try downloading one of the other steam projects and maybe find something a little more to my liking.
Oh well...
Next week the Nickel Plate 767 [nee 765] returns to the Cuyahoga Valley and I'm planning a few visits... hopefully I'll remember to put a memory card in the camera this time!
Best wishes to all for a better week ahead! My thoughts and prayers are offered to all those in need
My first ride behind a Nickel Plate Berk. September 8, 1968, Conneaut, Ohio to Buffalo, New York.
Oh my THOSE were the days...
Any one interested in a matched set of Belgians, broke to the plow, and wagon??
(this being for the alt. energy section)
herrinchoker
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I could sure use a cup of decaf right now.... It is already 55°F outside. Got all the way up to 72 this afternoon. Could be that Fall is just around the corner. Nice not to have the air conditioner using up all the electricity being generated on the roof though...
Trying to find something else I was looking for on my computer tonight I found this old gem I had saved from many years ago... Seemes to apply to me sometimes... Enjoy!
Demonstration of Patience, and His Continued Responses to This!
Dear sir: I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block number 3 of the accident reporting form, I put “poor planning” as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully, and I trust that the following details will be sufficient. I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I discovered that I had about 500 pounds of bricks left over. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which fortunately was attached to the side of the building, at the sixth floor. Securing the rope at ground level, I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the brick into it. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of the 500 pounds of bricks. You will note in block number eleven of the accident form that I weigh 135 pounds. Due to my surprise to being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate of speed up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming down. This explains the fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two-knuckles deep into the pulley. Fortunately, by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope in spite of my pain. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground, and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the bricks, the barrel now weighed approximately fifty pounds. I refer you again to my weight in block number eleven. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles and the lacerations of my legs and lower body. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of bricks and, fortunately, only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the bricks, in pain, unable to stand, and watching the empty barrel six stories above me, I again lost my presence of mind -- I let go of the rope!
I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block number 3 of the accident reporting form, I put “poor planning” as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully, and I trust that the following details will be sufficient.
I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I discovered that I had about 500 pounds of bricks left over. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which fortunately was attached to the side of the building, at the sixth floor.
Securing the rope at ground level, I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the brick into it. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of the 500 pounds of bricks. You will note in block number eleven of the accident form that I weigh 135 pounds.
Due to my surprise to being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate of speed up the side of the building.
In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming down. This explains the fractured skull and broken collarbone.
Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two-knuckles deep into the pulley.
Fortunately, by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope in spite of my pain.
At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground, and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the bricks, the barrel now weighed approximately fifty pounds.
I refer you again to my weight in block number eleven. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the building.
In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles and the lacerations of my legs and lower body.
The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of bricks and, fortunately, only three vertebrae were cracked.
I am sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the bricks, in pain, unable to stand, and watching the empty barrel six stories above me, I again lost my presence of mind --
I let go of the rope!
My 9/11 story is this:
A few days before (the 7th if I remember correctly) my paternal grandfather passed from a suspected heart attack. As it is a Friday (Yes, I needed to look it up) and other issues, the funeral was to be held on the 11th. I grabbed a Greyhound bus that morning after I got off working an overnight shift as I was working at the depot in Dickinson, ND where I was living at that time. I heard about the attack sitting on that bus on the west side of Glendive, MT. I remember the driver telling us that we were the only cross-country transit moving at that point. After the funeral, I actually got to see the images and the aftermath.
Train Front: Found something interesting when I was looking for my transfer caboose this afternoon to take it with me on vacation, along with a few other cars and three other engines. I started looking for it with the rest of my cabooses (the logical place). Unfortunately, it was not there. I ended up checking just about every closed box on the layout. I finally found it when I started looking through all the boxes on my table. For some reason, when I organized my cars, rather than putting it with the cabooses (or cabeese, whichever you prefer. I've seen both used.), I had put it in with my mechanical reefer cars. How or why I put it there, I have no idea.
Flo, Ed and I will have a please.
Sept 11th ranks right with Dec 4th. I was running a Midas Shop when the attack happened, I saw on the customer TV set when the second plane hit! Like the rest of the world I was stunned! Guess what really surpised was there was only around 3000 dead. Being more of a rual person I was thinking there would be around 40,000 people in the towers.
On two happier news.
Work Front While I did not have a lot of customers (had 6) it was a good day with $4100.00 in sales! That might shut the old witch mouth up! Nancy (owners wife) has been in my caboose giving me pep talks that has had me all most ready to walk out!
Jerry Work Front OK, Jerry has finally admitted he has been having memory problems! Step in the right direction finally! He kept blaming all of his mistakes on not beeing told, not that he cannot remember.
Train Front A line is running great!
On 9/11 I was sitting with my son Glenn watching television in the morning. We never watched TV in the mornings but that day was an exception. He was off school because of a cold and was watching cartoons. I decided to join him for some father/son time.
When the programming was interupted I couldn't believe what we were seeing. I knew that there were thousands of people in the twin towers, and honestly I expected the death toll to be much higher than it was. Watching people falling to their deaths was horrible. Glenn and I hardly spoke.
It certainly wasn't the bonding exercise that I was hoping for, but it did give us both a very sobering lesson in the realities of the world.
The memory of us sitting together watching the disaster unfold is burned in my mind. Glenn died in 2005. Whenever I think of him, the 9/11 memories come back.
I heard about it from the cashier in the cafeteria where I'd gone for my morning coffee. Coincidentally, it was the same cashier that told me about the Space Shuttle Challenger crash years earlier.
We were at work with no TV, and we were trying to get our news from the Internet. The whole web was bogged down, at least at our end, and news was difficult to come by.
My company (a very large one) lost 4 employees and two contractors on the planes that day.
Every year since then, our facilities held a memorial service on that morning, or the nearest work day to it. We, at least, are not going to forget.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
We were on vacation in Washington State, enjoying ourselves. Needless to say, that ended all enjoyment. We flew back on the first or second day that the airlines resumed service, I forget exactly which.
We were on a 757 with a total of about 30 passengers on board. It was surreal.
Sir MadogNo matter how you write it, what happened on this date 15 years ago has changed the course of the world, and I am afraid not to the better. Evil caused the collapse and evil has risen from the ashes of the WTC, still haunting us to the very date.
I was getting Fr. Raphel ready to move into a nursing home, and I watched the towers fall on TV. I watched them build those towers and I watched them fall down again. I was in the WTC exactly 50 days befre they fell. I felt those thousands of souls in my heart as the tower came down, and I ran into the Abbot's office to tell him what had happened. It hits hard when they were buildings that you were in. I know people who died in there. Several of them in face.
Years Later, The nursing hom had Fr. Raphael circumcised for sanitary reasons, and New Orleans Flooded. Go Figure.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
(moment of silence remembering the day...............................)
I, all too well, remember 9/11. My Father had a major heart attack the day before and was in the local hospital at the time. I was at his house helping the folks who were putting in some new carpeting in the living room that day. One of the installers got a phone call from his wife who was sobbing into the phone, telling him to turn on the TV. We watched in complete shock! My Mom, who had dementia couldn't comprehend what was going on and was only concerned that the rug be finished so she could use it.... She insisted the disaster was only some TV show... Difficult day in so many ways for my family. My prayers still go out to all who were so horribly affected that day.
I slept well last night! Needed it after 24 hours out at camp working with the handicapped Scouts and their Moms.... I think the training went very well so it was a well used Saturday for the Troop. The Scouts themselves took the training to heart and were great students. They put some of the training to work immediately to get packed up to leave. I think we may have convinced the Moms that their job is not to clean up after the Scouts........
My response last night in here was due partly to being exhausted from the day at camp. Do forgive.... For anyone interested, here is an interesting fact:
"Chevrolet Volt in full electric mode uses 36 kilowatt-hours per 100 miles (810 kJ/km; 96 mpg-e), meaning it may be more energy-efficient than walking for 4 or more passengers."
You can find a lot more (should you enjoy some intense reading on the subject) here. Note that it is mostly from European sources as well. Enough different sources are shown to keep you reading for a while. This is the last I will discuss this on here for a while as I don't want to get "Vinnie" upset.
Have a great day out there. I hope to get a whole bunch of odds and ends done today that I put off.
V8Vega Heartland what did it cost to leave your car at the airport all that time?
Heartland what did it cost to leave your car at the airport all that time?
Dennis .... We were in the "Economny Parking Lot" and at the time it may have been $7 to $8 per day. .... I think it was about 12 to 13 days.