Hey guys!
Ya know working at the Y is truly a lot of fun, meet a lot of people too!
Just tonight I saw the preacher from my church, a girl I used to go to church with, and a girl I wish I went to church with
I was scrolling through the recent diner posts and I saw someone mentioned Billy Joel, I don't think we've played NYSOM on the Jukebox, but first theres this gem off the same Album, Tunstiles,
Say goodbye to Hollywood and hello to that New York State of Mind!
Turnstiles is one of Billy's first really great albums, not all of the songs were great but enough were, albums like The Stranger, Innocent Man and the like are the real front to back great records though.
Well I've got work again in the morning bye guys!
Top of page, drinks are on me!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Good morning.
I'll just have a coffee, black please.
I was looking through videos this morning and came across the suspension bridge, I do believe from the early 50s, that was blowing and waving in the storm. It definitely failed.
I wish I knew how to add a link or post it, sure is interesting to watch. I've seen it before but it doesn't get any less interesting to watch the second time.
TF
That was quick... Thanks Mike.
Ah yes, "Galloping Gurdy" An oldy but goodie:
This is one version.
Mike.
My You Tube
Yeah TF! That's the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the winds caused harmonic vibrations in the bridge, it started to wobble and just got worse from there!
NWP SWP Yeah TF! That's the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the winds caused harmonic vibrations in the bridge, it started to wobble and just got worse from there!
They must have got the engineering flaws ironed out quickly after that bridge.
What I couldn't believe Stephen, was the guy that stayed on the bridge hesitating, looking at his car. The car can be replaced but you can't. I think it would have been a good choice for him to get his butt off the bridge a little more quickly then he did!
The guy on the bridge hesitated because his daughters beloved cocker spaniel was in the car, he originally ran to the toll plaza and realized the dog was in the car, they sent a group of firefighters or policemen out to get the dog but the canine was so scared it wouldn't leave the car and bit on of the would be rescuers, the man finally gave it one last shot during a lull, he got halfway to the car before the winds picked up big time and he had to crawl back the the toll plaza as the bridge began to collapse under him.
The only casualty of the collapse was the cocker spaniel.
Heres his account of the experience,
"Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. The car itself began to slide from side to side on the roadway. I decided the bridge was breaking up and my only hope was to get back to shore.
On hands and knees most of the time, I crawled 500 yards [1,500 ft; 460 m] or more to the towers… My breath was coming in gasps; my knees were raw and bleeding, my hands bruised and swollen from gripping the concrete curb… Toward the last, I risked rising to my feet and running a few yards at a time… Safely back at the toll plaza, I saw the bridge in its final collapse and saw my car plunge into the Narrows."
Track fiddlerThey must have got the engineering flaws ironed out quickly after that bridge
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This is one that we reviewed in engineering classes.
It was stated that the biggest flaw in this bridge design was that the cross section of the bridge resembled an airplane wing, and when wind blew across it, it actually generated lift.
The bridge wasn't whipping around in the wind as much as it was being lifted and dropped.
The professor talked about it for hours, I remember I became quite bored. It was only interesting for 5 minutes at the most.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I never knew about the airfoil thing or the poor little dog.
Galloping Gurdy
There is a copy of this bridge going out to Deer Isle, Maine. At each end of the bridge there are,(last time I was out there) traffic lights to regulate the traffic, depending on the wind conditions. One of the men I worked with at the ship yard grew up on Deer Isle, and during the summer months when he was in high school worked painting the bridge. Deer Isle has several high grade granite quarries, and as the trucks carrying the granite would pass by where he was painting, the bridge would flex so much all they had to do was hold the brush next to the steel as the loaded truck went by and it would paint a strip nearly eight inches long.
To the East of the bridge there are two WWII landing craft, with gravel roads and landing areas on both the Island and the Main Land, built in anticipation for the collapse of the bridge.
If the traffic lights are yellow, it is one lane traffic only, and if they are red, passage is stopped. When the wind blows much over 30 MPH people on Deer Isle figgure they didn't need to go shopping anyway!
herrinchoker
So the root of the word suspension must be suspense. Flex is probably why very few railroad bridges are suspension type. For that matter, towards the end of rail use of the Poughkipsee Bridge there was a strict no brake rule in effect and that after the traffic had been restricted to one track from the original two. It was iron, not steel and the deck supposedly flexed in the wind. J.R.
Good evening folks!
Janie I could use a nice hot cup of decaf right now... Please and Thank You!
So the talk is Bridges today.... Here is NPR 765 crossing the old 1800's bridge over the gorge in Letchworth State Park near Mount Morris in Western NY back a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmuTmxmpD4
And here it is again from a better angle!!! Listen to that Whistle!!! Gives me chills, it does!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5iPfnDZZuo
Enjoy!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening.
I've been waiting for a few little brass detail items to arrive. Supposed to be delivered yesterday to me in NE, Ohio. Just checked the tracking to see where the delay might be?
Really? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever see!
Really? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever
see!
Liked the steamer videos Ray.
Thanks
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a Jan a mug of Nitomethane (he like High Octane stuff) JR the wine list and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Jan Always a pleasure to see your mug in the joint! Just wished you had more to say.
Ed Well it was a short vaction, wonder if the parts got a tan?
Work Front, spent another 6 hours of playing
What the Ash Pitt was Nancy and Jerry thinking! While there antics provide us some giggles I am still stuck with the task of telling the customers "No your order was not written right so it was not shipped to the store." I sure wish I could tell the customer "When I am not here the store is ran by the village idiots!"
Trains are running great, my head hurts and there is beer to drink so later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening folks,
Went to the club,
Nate the club and Jack another were going on about how in there opinion I know so little about cars and ect... meanwhile Nate doesn't know what transmission is in "his" truck, and claims that it has all these (imaginary) performance upgrades, I've seen under the hood and watched him try to get on it pulling out of the club and yeah he isn't fooling anybody, I quickly shut him down by telling him I would bring my truck next week to drag race, he quickly came up with a nonsense excuse and that was the end of that.
I wasnt actually going to drag race him, my truck is drivable just OverDrive doesn't work, I would probably beat him even though he has a 5.2l vs my 5.0l, my truck is extended cab (2 doors/backseat) and a short bed, his is an extended cab long bed and a camper on it, so he easily weighs in a good bit more and maybe makes a little more power.
Sorry for the rant, that don't know they're really bother me.
I definitely won't be talking cars with the three stooges anymore.
Anyways, Ed sounds like a nice little vacation too bad your package didn't invite you! Perhaps try mailing yourself someplace! You probably would end up in Alaska though!
Well tomorrow is a double I'm working maintenance at the hotel all day then working the night shift at the YMCA, and I'll say it again, the Y is an awesome place to work I'm really enjoying it.
I put two boxcars I had laying around into service at the club, I've got a bunch of accurail boxcars but they all have roofwalks which are verboten, I'll be buying some more to help with the recent shortage of cars.
I'll be tinkering with my KCS coal gon too.
Thursday I pick up my suit from Jos. A. Bank, 300 bucks for a tailored suit isn't bad!
Night all!
gmpullmanReally? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever see!
I sent a package to my daughter in Seattle that went to New York, back to Florida, to California, then finally Seattle.
It only happened once, but it was quite a tour.
I went to the grocery store yesterday and it there was a group of sunburned midwestern coeds in bathing suits at the deli counter. This sure beats the heck out of being in Illinois in January!
I love spring break! My wife and I have a hotel room in the Lani Kai resort this weekend, time to take it all in and pretend like we are young again. We stayed in that hotel during spring break in 1989. Trying out the way-back machine.
SeeYou190I went to the grocery store yesterday and it there was a group of sunburned midwestern coeds in bathing suits at the deli counter.
And I'm sure they thought "who is that lecherous old pharte?"
Judy and I like our cheap little annual winter vacation every year to Laughlin Nevada. Snooze you lose. We didn't book it in time this year. The early one was sold out. We usually like to go in February or March to break up the winter. This year April it is.
Good food, River Taxi's, a little gambling for fun. Oh.... and my favorite, Prime Rib Night. They bring out various roasts you can choose from to find your perfect slab
Can't wait for prime rib night! ... Almost as good as Lions rare Wildebeest
Prime Ribs? LIONS and Rare Wildebeests.
I ought to come with you.
ROPARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLion Prime Ribs? LIONS and Rare Wildebeests. I ought to come with you. ROPARING
.... The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore, I may be able to obtain a carnivore transport permit. You would have to agree to be loaded in the compartment under the plane though.... It's only about a 3-hour flight and I do have some T-Bones for the way down
The oral surgery went without a hitch. I have a follow-up in three months at which point we will schedule the implant surgery. This will be a little more involved as they will need to raise the sinus membrane and build up the jaw so there is enough jaw for the implant. As for yesterday's surgery, I feel great today. Virtually no pain, even when I press on my face where the extraction occured. The only real annoying side effect is the post-anatheia insomnia. I slept for a total of 3.5 hours last night. I am feeling well enough today that I am headed out for a bike ride in a few minutes.
mbinsewiSounds your going to be very busy, Richard. Training? like pysical training?. . .
No, thank goodness, it is product training for the software I will demoing.
Richard
Track fiddlerThe plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore,
The plane won't be sold out if he eats a couple of the other passengers.....
maxman Track fiddler The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore, The plane won't be sold out if he eats a couple of the other passengers.....
Track fiddler The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore,
Yes, yes.... I have considered this as posing a possible problem. I have invested in a pretty sturdy Lion leash.
I don't suppose buying a few extra T-Bones as a deterrent to avoid potential fatalities such as this would be to bad of an idea.
Tell'em he's your service lion, ya know, like a service dog? I bet you'll get what ever seat you want.
Hey wait a minute, it's 1:47, get back to work!
Good afternoon (for 18 more minutes) it was a warm 20c sunny day today.
Cut the lawn for the first time this year, could have waited another week but I wanted to vapourize all the branches that had fallen on it through the Winter.
Finally got the tree that fell over cut up. The chain saw I pulled out had not been used in three decades and I had forgotten the chain had been destroyed by the person I had lent it to. So off to get a new chain, cut half the tree up and the saw stops. The fuel line had disintegrated, so off to get a new fuel line and gas filter, that was a very finicky job getting that in. With a little carb tuning the thing now rips through wood like a hot knife through melted butter.
Steven, congrats on finding and having two great jobs. I liked every job I ever had and the only bad days I ever had were when I got injured. I guess over a forty year period it is bound to happen. I think working at the Y will let you meet lots of young ladies that come through. When I worked at the golf course there were many girls my age that would flirt with me, there were a few older ladies that would flirt as well, didn't go there though. I had a girlfriend at the time (this is high school years) and was quite happy with her. We are still friends to this day, she is a Doctor at the University of Chicago Hospital.
Ray and others, I have been really enjoying the tour, beautiful country made even better by having trains rolling through them.
Got the kids hockey gear all packed up and will take it to the coach tomorrow. He flies out of Ottawa to Alberta at 0700hrs Friday and they play their first game that night. They paid his airfare and hotel to get him there, I think he is feeling quite a bit better from his Norwalk virus. Being young and healthy makes those events easier to get through. He gets a lot of school work done on the flights because he doesn't get bothered by anyone.
I remember studying the Tacoma Bridge collapse in both elementary school and in Physics in high school. Vancouver has a similar bridge that was built in 1937 and there were a lot of concerns about that one afterward.
Well, the girls are home with dinner so all the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good evening, everybody .... I'll have an RBF please.
Our New York visit is very enjoyable.
Where should we go in April?...... I don't have suggestion for April, but I deinfatelythink we should visit Utah in May so we may celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike in Promontory. ...
It's been a little busy here lately. I hope to slow down so I can work on my coal mine scene most of the coming week.
Have a nice evening, everybody .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hey guys, went to the Y but got sent home after 2 hours because there were three front desk clerks me, Ms. Janice and Angie another trainee.
I'll be working the 8 to 1 shift which is good because it allows me to work the front desk 3 to 11 at the hotels a few days a week, I also work nights on Saturdays.
Far as meeting girls, yeah I noticed a few more come in in the evening but I figure more young people will come through during the day as summer starts.
Well I've gotta get up early tomorrow so goodnight all!
Flo, give the gang and I a JR the wine list, I will pay for Garys tab for the RBF and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Rally not a lot to talk about today which is a good thing I guess.
Old car bug is starting to bite me again. Going to visit a old car friend this weekend. Allen has been storing my 68 Road Runner inside for the last 3 years and it is time to visit him and my Road Runner.
Later, Ken
I visited a pretty impressive layout tonight along with a few other club members. It is 3 rail O gauge, approximately 2100 sq. ft. Our host was very gracious. After a brief introduction we went down to the the layout room. He let us look around for a few minutes and then handed one of the guys a throttle. If we wanted to see trains run then we had to run them ourselves! By the middle of the evening we had four trains running. There were only a couple of minor hitches throughout the entire evening.
The layout consists of two 'loops' with interchanges at three different points. The term 'loops' hardly describes the track plan. They both snake around the entire basement and there are multiple sidings, a large yard, and the best piece was a double track bascule bridge that operated automatically as trains approached. The track height goes from about waist level to almost six feet in the air. I have to admit that O gauge sound is impressive!
Perhaps the best part of the whole affair was that the host invited us to come back on a regular basis. He built his layout specifically so that he could have people visit to run trains. Next time we visit he will get us doing some operating.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
ROAR