BATMANAnyone know anything about this?
Sum imfourmashion...
http://www.eastbank.org.uk/gg1.htm
Cheers, the Bear.
Edit: Oh no, top of the page!!!
Cheese rolls and lamingtons, anyone??
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
ED!!!!!! HEEEEEEELP! I need to get out of here.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
howmusYou might live in Upstate New York if your proud that your region makes the National News 96 nights a year
And you might live in Pennsylvania if you have little white Christmas candle lights in your windows.
BATMAN ED!!!!!! HEEEEEEELP! I need to get out of here.
Okay, if you're going to panic, it appears to be an IHC GG-1 Electric, Spirit of 76. Link to ebay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-IHC-GG-1ELECTRIC-PENNSYLVANIA-SPIRIT-OF-76-DC-DCC-SOUND-LOCO/371511899092?hash=item567fd5b3d4:g:oUAAAOSwMNxXYY~7.
I don't know why any snack company would want to attach that to a bag of snacks, unless it all came in the cookie tin.
Edit: Other link above says AHM. I think they're the same with a name change to protect the innocent.
Thanks Bear and Maxman, the wee lad that had asked me now has a couple of leads and now knows it is not worth the small fortune he thought it was.
maxmanOn another subject, you're an ex-GE person, correct? Did you happen to look at the return address on the missive you probably just got concerning pension funding?
Ha! I did notice that.
It used to be called One HR Service! I thought that was a dry cleaners!
Another thing I noticed in the Pension Funding Statement was "Rules Governing Termination of Single-Employer Plans" and mention of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp! Storm warnings?
GE was good at coming up with those "clever" names for things. I think Dilbert used to have fun with that stuff.
I pressed our plant manager once when there was a downturn in buseness. At an employee meeting he said "there may be time-outs". I said do you think we're a bunch of two-year olds? Why do you have to sugar-coat layoffs and call them time-outs.
Well, that's the "corporate policy". That plant manager, Bob Nardelli, went on to become the CEO of Home Depot where they gave him $ 210 million to quit!
Actually, that model GG1 sure looks better than the real Bicentennial paint job that "Old Rivets" carried for a while!
Conrail GG1 4800 Bicentennial Morrisville 1976 by Charles Warren, on Flickr
Some of those Bicentennial schemes were just awful. Others were pretty well executed.
Harumph — Ed
gmpullmanThat plant manager, Bob Nardelli, went on to become the CEO of Home Depot where they gave him $ 210 million to quit!
What plant was that?
It must have been after that when he became the big honcho of GE Power Systems, the turbine and generator people. That's the part I worked for.
When Jack (the hitman) Welch retired, Mr.N. was in the running to be a replacement along with Jeff Immelt and one other. I said to myself let it be anyone other than Bob. Well I got my wish, which turned out not to be a good thing.
But what I don't understand about corporate USA is why companies would hire individuals with dubious track records. For example not only did Bob make a mess of Home Depot, he went on to do the same for Chrysler. Or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, back then there seemed to be some attraction to former GE management. Must have been some allure to that 6-sigma feldercarb.
One thing that I'm certain of is that when you asked him about the sugarcoating he put a checkmark next to your name in his employee book. I was guilty of asking similar questions when we had our employee meetings. I believe the other attendees would bet on how long it would take me to ask. The winner was usually someone who picked less than a half hour. There were enough checkmarks after my name that they needed another book.
report on Mississippi House,
The former deputy I met two years ago is a good guy, He found me a new door, went and bought it and had a guy that could install it. He had also had boarded up the door to secure it before the new door got installed.
I drove down this morning met them at 11 am they had the door removed and new one installed by 1:30 and we left to come back home by 2:30. I could have never done all that myself in that amount of time as I would not have had the tools. door was installed for $75 ( I had to buy door of course but it was $90) plywood was $25. I am going to use the plywood to build a new crawlsapce door that they tore up as well. The only thing I could find missing was a cheap drill , maybe a level and maybe a crowbar. ( I may had brought those items home )
we figure it was the druggie miscreants ( riff raff) next door.
New alarm system goes in soon down there.
The orignial burgler from a year and half ago is in state prison now. ( guess he should not have stolen my shoes ( third strike)) He had been the one who broke in and was living there for weeks hiding from the police.
maxman6-sigma
I would like to kindly ask our moderators to add this to the list of topics that cannot be discussed in the diner.
-Kevin (6S Blackbelt)
Living the dream.
maxmanWhat plant was that?
Cleveland Wire Works, 1931 - 2016.
GE Shutdown Saturday 105_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's a little keepsake for you. Wallet sizes available:
Bobby_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I forget when his "tenure" was. We were going through managers faster than a revolving door could spit them out. Had to have been '81-82 I recall. Jim McNerney was the other leg of the tripod.
Crazy times, for sure.
Regards, Ed
Good evening all.
Hope all are well, and are all safe during these turbulent times.
W*^k - Had a discussion today, as the new mask rule (went into effect Sunday evening, is now an mandated governor order that all employees and customers of essential businesses in Pennsylvania, the only ones allowed to be open in the state, wear appropriate face masks, under penalty of fines and/or other penalties as needed.) was not only not being followed or enforced, but there was a ton of disrespect directed at me for actually following it. It all came to a very ugly head today, with another employee becoming very unprofessional in front of a customer, and being extremely disrespectful in the process. I was ready then and there to walk out and not go back. I did tell the boss exactly how I felt about it, and that, while I really like w*^king there, if it did not change then and there, I would indeed walk.
Now, there are signs posted everywhere throughout the store, that the mask rule required by the governor will be strictly enforced, with both employees and customers.
It was being followed for most of the day, by all, right until about 5 minutes before a Pennsylvania state trooper walked in the door....
Warnings were issued, and the rule requiring face masks looks to be staying this time.
I sure hope it is, because I will not play this game of disrespectful treatment over the fact I have asthma, or over the fact I obey the local authorities directions. If need be, I will still walk out.
I'm now headed to bed, so will post more tomorrow.
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the night!
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.
gmpullmanHere's a little keepsake for you. Wallet sizes available
Any darts come with that?
SeeYou190I would like to kindly ask our moderators to add this to the list of topics that cannot be discussed in the diner. -Kevin (6S Blackbelt)
Yes, you say that now, but I'll bet you sang a different tune when it was your job to go around and badger everyone else to do a (useless) project so that they could become green belts.
I remember when there was a period of time when drivers would flash their lights at you if you exceeded the 55 mph speed limit. Now they are nowhere to be found. Same thing with blackbelts.
I'm surprised that you would admit to being one.
Shame. Shame.
Is that still around? Like all rather static, number-based management philosophies and tools, which usually have a short half-life, I thought it had already disappeared into the nirvana of useless parctices. The effects of said management ways we now see.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Trains? Oh Yeah... Trains...
GUESS WHERE #422
ROARING!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Ricky,
Sorry to hear you experienced that at work. It's incredible how many people can't see past the end of their own noses and believe they are experts at everything. Good for you to stand your ground.
All,
The w*#k week is half way over. As far as I'm concerned, that's cause for celebration. Pick one. They're on me.
Over 100 different beers on tap, most (all?) of them craft. There has to be something for everyone.
Cheers!
Mike
Good morning from flyover country.
A sure sign of spring: The cropdusters are working. I can hear one right now spraying the ground about a half-mile from here.
Several years ago I laid down some brick walkways. Over the past years of freeze-thaw cycles, they have become wavy. That's my project for the rest of this week -- remove bricks and level the sand, then reinstall. Since there's no cutting of bricks with this, it shouldn't take long. That was the worst of the original project -- cutting bricks to fit.
Have a good day.
York1 John
Good Afternoon!
More dogfights high up in the sky above our house! Those hawks are busy preying on their victims!
Strange things happen in the times of the corona virus! Yesterday, I received an email from Kalmbach´s customer service department announcing delays in the international deliveries of the printed magazine. To "soften" the inconvenience, they´d provide a free of charge access to the online version. Guess what was in today´s mail? The thinnest copy of MR I have ever seen! 74 pages, out of which 20 were advertisements. Well, better than nothing.
Stay safe & healthy!
Good morning, everybody ....
MLC .... Sorry to hear about th situation with your place in MS. I can't understand criminals. I'm glad the local people helped you out.
Meanwhile, Back In BC ........
Here are four more photos from our 2002 trip on the Rocky Mountaineer. .. The first three are as we approached Kamloops where the train stops for the night. Passnegers stay in hotels, and the train leaves in the morning. .. Kamloops gets very little rainfall. It is the desert of Canada. ....
The fourth photo is the next morning as the train continues east ward toward Calgary on CP tracks. The train was split in Kamloops, and the other section went on CN tracks to Japser.
We continued to enjoy having our seat at the front of the leading dome car where we had some great views.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry, nice pictures!
I'm afraid on my trips I am normally too busy watching, and I forget to take good pictures. It's usually in the motel that night that I regret not getting a photo of something.
moelarrycurly4we figure it was the druggie miscreants ( riff raff) next door.
Probably 99% of all the burglaries in our area are from drug users. They ignore almost everything except loose cash. The problem is they cause hundreds of dollars of damage to get a few dollars cash.
Hopefully an alarm system will help.
maxmanYes, you say that now, but I'll bet you sang a different tune when it was your job to go around and badger everyone else to do a (useless) project so that they could become green belts.
With my previous employer, in order to move into the position that I wanted, I had to be a Green Belt, and become a Black Belt in one year. It was a terrible excercize, but in the end I received credit for saving the company $500,000.00, which was a complete falsehood of data. Nonsense all the way.
I "recruited" three green belts, and we all did next to nothing. I handled the project the same way the girls and I did Science Fair Projects. The worst part was the weekly 2 hour conference calls about methods and measures.
My youngest daughter, who was a senior in high school at the time, actually did a lot of the work, and turned in the project for her "Future MBA" class. We both got "A"s for our "efforts"!
Yes... Six Sigma is still around. My previous employer still lists it on the ten Business Operating Principles.
I really do not miss being employed. The further I get away from it, the worse and worse it seems.
-Kevin
SeeYou190I really do not miss being employed. The further I get away from it, the worse and worse it seems.
There comes a time when you will be so busy you start to wonder how you were able to fit in work into your schedule!
I remember the day my boss wanted to do me a favor and send me off to a 4-week management training in Switzerland. I told him if he wanted to get rid of me to just fire me instead of waisting precious company money and my time on such a nonsense. At that time I had 20 years of management experience on my clock and had over 1,600 staff reporting to me. It´s OK for young folks to go through this type of training at the beginning of their career, but not when you have more practical experience than the teacher.
Be glad you didn't have to sit through days of school administrators' conferences or teachers' conferences.
There's a reason we drank so much in the hotel rooms in the evenings.
Tinplate ToddlerIs that still around?
6-sigma? Unfortunately yes. Just like a virus. They never seemed to develop a vaccine for it. It will eventually die off on its own, only to be reincarnated under a different name as some bright individual's new cost improvement program.
Gaaaa! 6 Sigma. We all had to go through that back before I retired. At one point they announced the company-wide cost savings from the previous year. It was, well, the entire corporate profit for the year. Sort of says that without 6 Sigma we, a large, profitable aerospace company, would have made nothing?
The government, our biggest customer, insisted on some kind of process improvement methodology for us to even bid.
I remember one guy who went off to become a Six Sigma Expert. When he came back from all that training, nobody wanted him back. I don't know what ever happened to him.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
In better news, we found a good butcher shop nearby. Monday I went for steak, and he gave me a free loaf of scrapple. I'd never had it, so we tried it this morning. I looked up how to cook it, but they told me to cut it too thin and cook it too hot. It ended up dried out and even a bit burnt. Not a bad taste, even so.,
The spicy breakfast sausage I also got was really delicious.
Good Afternoon,
A nice sunny day here with a temp of about 55F.
My wife is really having a hard time coping with the pandemic stress and it seems I'm one of her major problems. I was talking to a neighbour over the back fence and I'm sure we were at least 6 feet apart. My wife thinks we need to be at least 30 feet away and now I'm in the doghouse again. Not sure we can survive this.
Ed, forgot to mention earlier those nice shots of the CN Northern. I doubt Rapido will do a U2g given the fiasco True Line Trains had with theirs a few years ago. They made 1000 of them and while they were beautifully detailed, they had major quality control issues. I sent back 2 and got a refund from the shop from which I purchased it. I made a third try at one when they were dumping them for $400 thinking the later production ones would be better. I did manage to get one that runs great. The detail is truly amazing. The sound is good too with a speaker under the cab as well as in the tender. That experience was a major cause of True Line eventually going under.
I have some things to pick up at Home Depot but not sure I should leave my wife alone. I don't know why I just forget all we discuss and just charge ahead.
CN Charlie
I just received an estimate for ceiling repair on a 480 square foot garage and 200 square foot lanai.
To scrape/remove all the old texture (including a bad repair), fix the sags in the ceiling drywall sheeting, seal everything with Kilz-2, and apply new texture is $1,600.00, which is about double what I thought it would be.
Ouch.
Charlie, sorry your missus is having issues with the plague. Not much you can do except be patient with her. One of our guys put himself in hospital obsessing about the virus and I think the hospital is the last place I'd like to be just now.
Kevin - Is the job $1600.00 in agravation if you do it yourself ? You could always get a second opinion.....