Mornin' everyone!
Ready to "Go Get Um!" this morning!
We had some much needed rain yesterday and we still have a few lingering showers, but overall it should be real nice today.
I start an online class tonight for college. I haven't done one of those yet, so we'll see how it goes! Since I have all of my required classes done, I now get to just take stuff I want. As the registrar said, I could take underwater basket weaving and it'd count! This class is on the literature of C.S. Lewis. It should be fun, though I'm not sure I remember how to pleasure read any more. I haven't done that in a while! Not to fear though.....I balenced out the rest of my semester with Business and Ethics classes.
So what's up with you all?
Good Morning, Diners! Zoe, just a go cup of the coffee for me. Okay, one of those donuts, too.
Got to get going for now, I'll see all of you later.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Morning guys.
one thing this morning
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNNING!!!!
Good morning ! from Indiana.
09-27-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
JimRCGMO wrote: Nigel, those chains looks good - are they in HO scale? If they are, I might have to consider some of those myself.
Jim - They are HO, It is an Athearn Ready-to-run from a few years back that came with loads. Chain is Detail Associates, "Saftey Chain", Part No: 2210. There are forty links per inch so get your magnefying glass out!
Cederstrand wrote: ***Nigel, those chains look great and certainly much nicer than any kind of rubber band.
***Nigel, those chains look great and certainly much nicer than any kind of rubber band.
Rob - Thanks, they certainly take time, but they do look better that rubber bands!
Nigel
Ahhh last call for a cold drink on this very warm night...69F at midnight on September 26th at 72.5North Latitude, not too shabby I would say.
GARRY: The trip starts from Logan Airport in Boston at 7am next Wednesday. As for pie, yes the very pleasant aroma of fresh cooked Apple pie is everywhere here in New England right now, sort of like the smell of steamed clams or lobster along the shore roads of Maine.
ED: All you need to do Ed, is get here to Leicester, Ma, anyone can join the Seniors, don't have to be from our town to come along. You have a week to get here. Magic number is "2" !!!!!!! It is beginning to look like we will play the Angels. The Yankees can have Cleveland.
PAUL: Sorry to hear about your dog, they are like family members when they are with you 12 years aren't they? I sure miss our dog Sheba, and Rosie the cat.
Well, time for bed, midnight here under a full Harvest moon....
A large slice of anything chocolate will do, pie, cake, whatever. Thanks!
***Jeffrey, nice derailment there. Hope that lard doesn't start leaking out. Would sure make a mess...yuck!
***Scott, welcome back and CONGRATS on the perfect score. No surprise there.
***Paul, very sorry for your loss of Kraussmeyer. As many dogs as we have lost over the years, it still is not easy to lose an old friend. Kraussmeyer sounded like fun dog.
Busy morning here tomorrow so hitting the hay early. Rob
JimRCGMO wrote: So Jeff, has the engineer on the derail been interviewed yet? Good to hear you have that (disorganized arrangement, not-to-be-confused-with-a-certain-RR-line, Fergie... ) cleaned up before the HazMat crews arrived.
So Jeff, has the engineer on the derail been interviewed yet? Good to hear you have that (disorganized arrangement, not-to-be-confused-with-a-certain-RR-line, Fergie... ) cleaned up before the HazMat crews arrived.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Evening, Chloe - Any of the butterscotch pie left? you mean PC missed that one?
Oh, yeah, I can understand, as focused on the Key Lime pie as PC was earlier...
Scott, excellent(!) job on your training - keep up that good attitude, and you will continue to do the Diner proud!
Nigel, those chains looks good - are they in HO scale? If they are, I might have to consider some of those myself.
Jerry, I'm with you - I've stopped even looking for the highlights of the Cardinals games. In those famous words, "Ah, well, there's always next year..."
Garry, I just want to know how soon Dick will have a tanker car of that apple cider headed for the Diner. I'll have mine with cinnamon sticks (once it gets in here). Yum!
Got my pie finished - think I'll head home for a good night's rest. See you all in the morning!
Blessings and a good night's rest,
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Jeff: the NTSB is on the way, and I thought I saw Homer Simpson heading your way also.
Jeff: the NTSB is on the way, and I thought I saw Homer Simpson heading your way also.
Evening Gang:
Scott: Great job there. Now remember to stay alert and take care.
Inch: I think that the John Deere green paint is made from ground up $5 bills.
Our dog Kraussmeyer passed away last night. I went out to feed him and Elly May and he was laying by his pool like he was asleep. When he didn't get up when I called I went in the yard and saw he was dead. He must have died in his sleep. There was no sign of struggle or damage of any kind. We buried him with the others in the woods out back of the house. He was 12 years old and came to me at Six Flags. He was a large goof ball that loved to have his belly rubbed.
Good Night All
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. Had some rain today, which helped keep temperatures and feeling down in the merely "warm and humid" range. I expect to see a lot more rain in the next few days from the depression out in the gulf.
Dick: The trip wasn't too bad in cost, it was a group rate for the Senior Center here in town and the adjacent town. It is 8 days, and cost $2300 which includes 12 meals, Rail fare, Hotels, Busing to and from the airport here, and Airline fares.
Phil: Hey! No fair! Where's my piece?
Scott - thanks for the update on the training. Good luck with your first assignment.
Calling it an early evening.
Hasta mañana
Ed
Well Diners,
I am on holidays for a week and have managed to get back to some projects that I have been putting off for a while. One of these is shown below:
I bought these a while ago and the rubber bands broke in the heat and did look a little ordinary. So I decided to replace them with Detail Associates Chains. All that I can say is it is good character building! One down 3 to go, yeah! Thought about putting these in weekend photo fun, but it is Thursday here.
Regards, Nigel
Heartland Division CB and Q wrote: Jeff..... have the wreck crews cleaned up yet?
Jeff..... have the wreck crews cleaned up yet?
Hello everybody...
Did you hear that? Dick has apple cider! Mmmmmmm....
Scott .... Super good news from you about NS. Please continue good work and being safe. Imagine riding those grab irons in freezing weather with sleet.
Jerry ...... thanks for comment pertainning to my layout pix in oct. MR. It's knda fun getting a little publicity.
Dick .... now I forget when you will be in western Canada. Next summer? Anyhow, the view is on the north side of our eastbound train although we went aound enough curves to confuse anyone. The other side while on the bridge looks across wide open spaces for miles across a big valley with huge mountains way over there. We were in third to last car for second day of our trip. The series of photos i posted shows the train coaches ahead of our car going over the bridge, but it's not easy to see with all the trees. Thre are lots ofwaterfalls along the way between Kamloops and Calgary ...Any apple pie, yet?
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good evening ....87F today, no records broken here, but Hartford broke their record for this date with a temp in the 90's...is this really September 26th !!! More humid today as the front gets closer and winds pick up from the SW.
Still doing Fall "get ready for Winter stuff", like placing the covers on the built-in A/C's, stacking the outside tables and chairs, putting the umbrellas away, etc.
Obviously no train activity today, but that will come soon enough..
GARRY: I will be ready for that shot when the train passes, you were headed to Calgary, so that would place the waterfall on the Southside of the train ( right side )??
JEFF: A full Safety Process Review will be required in the morning. Are you sure Lard was in that Tanker and not Ed's OJ ??
SCOTT: Very well done Scott, 100% on the test, you did the Diner proud !!!
ED: Red Sox beat Oakland 11-6, the pressure mounts on the Yankees for the Eastern Title.
Time for a cold Cider, ahhhhhh Apple time in New England, and in SUE's area also right Sue??
Hey y'all, guess who's back from Georgia?I left on Saturday, Sept. 16...Drove to Commerce, GA and got a hotel, and arrived in McDonough the next day after an additional two hours of driving. We were put up in the America's Best Inns motel. That was a hell-hole, let me tell ya. At least I had a cool roommate. He had previously worked for 8 years with CSX.
The training was awesome! It was great actually getting to work with the equipment instead of taking pictures of it. Riding on the side of a covered hopper, doing 15 mph down open track, while giving commands to the engineer via radio. It was pretty fun, and it's fairly straight forward stuff. The hardest part about this whole ordeal is having to memorize the signals. I'm on the ex-Conrail northern region, which has a huge combination of various signal equipment. I have to have all of them memorized in about three weeks or so.
We took field evaluations on Monday to see how much we retained over the week. I don't think anyone of the 54 attendees failed. The finals were pretty easy too, there was a group of people that got perfect scores on both final tests; I was one of them.
Classes ended yesterday, and I left straight from the training center and hit the highway. Made it home at about 10:00 last night, no problems. Drive is actually shorter than what it seemed, only taking about 11 hours to complete.
Tomorrow I will be going into Baltimore to the NS yard to get my work schedule and all that good stuff. They don't tell us much that's going on, they just tell us where to go to find out.
I get to go back down to Georgia October 18 for Phase III, which is all rulebook studying and signal testing. And I have a couple booklets to fill out before I get down there.
There's the update y'all. I'm excited to start actually working, this is fun stuff!
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Whew! Leesville is safe. Just lard.
Everybody........ now I'm reading that Canadian national is buying most of EJ&E. The remaining EJ&E will be re-named to Gary Railway to serve US Steel in NW Indiana. CN will speed up its Chicago connections with old GTW, old IC, and old WC in the process.
Heartland Division CB and Q wrote: Quick! Dispatch the HazMat crews to Leesville!
Quick! Dispatch the HazMat crews to Leesville!
Meanwhile, i'll have a light snack. No key lime pie unfortunately.
Had a bit of a derailment today.
pcarrell wrote: inch53 wrote: PC,, like the stories the one by George Carlin is one of the few good ones he done. Hard to believe such a foul mouthed man could be so eloquent, huh? Who knew!
inch53 wrote: PC,, like the stories the one by George Carlin is one of the few good ones he done.
PC,, like the stories the one by George Carlin is one of the few good ones he done.
Hard to believe such a foul mouthed man could be so eloquent, huh? Who knew!
The story is funny, but it's probably not true that George Carlin wrote it or said it. See:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp
And the letter from the 96 year old woman, while funny, is also just an internet fable. See:
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/takethat.asp
After all, must be some pretty able bodied 96 year old that's still pulling down a regular monthly salary (not SS check, pension, or annuity check).
Regards
Lunch time, we'll have 2 Coney dog for me, 2 plain hotdogs for the girls, and 3 root beers, and here's KC sippy cup.
PC,, like the stories the one by George Carlin is one of the few good ones he done. And the one letter written by the elderly woman hit home here with us a couple years ago.
PAUL,, the higher price on the John Deere doesn't surprise me. That is some high dollar green paint there.
JERRY,,, the coal drags with the pusher's started coming through in June I think it was, bout one a week or so headed east loaded and a couple days later, west empty. Now there's one every other day. Most the time the loaded and empties meet out back here between 3 and 5 pm every other day. The coals coming out of Idaho and ends up at the Newton power plant.
ROB,, good to hear some relief is coming shortly for ya'll with inlaws.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Okay, certainly you all saved some KEY LIME PIE! .................What "Moose" ate the reast! Philip!
Jim wrote: "Garry, that's a bit of a drop-off from the bridge, in that picture, huh? " Yes, Jim, I think it's about 250', but the Canadian Pacific fans could most likely tell you for sure.
in a Southern mug this morning, please and thank you! Oh, and Key Lime Pie sounds great for dessert. (coffee is my prefered breakfast food)
FIL is walking the best he has yet since wife sprung him from the nursing home and his mind is also clearer now. Two days left before he joins the MIL at the assisted living facility.
I envy all of you who get to work on modeling, but am taking notes for when I finally get to start on my own. Do keep posting photos all.
Time to do a hay run. Rob
Good Morning, Zoe - a glass of Ed's OJ,
a cup of coffee and some waffles, please.
pcarrell wrote: egmurphy wrote: Probably the most exciting thing today was that Fran made her first Key Lime Pie, using limes from our own grove. Turned out great! I'm enjoying a piece right now along with some good hot coffee (from the mountains of Veracruz, of course).Hey! No fair! Where's my piece?
egmurphy wrote: Probably the most exciting thing today was that Fran made her first Key Lime Pie, using limes from our own grove. Turned out great! I'm enjoying a piece right now along with some good hot coffee (from the mountains of Veracruz, of course).
Probably the most exciting thing today was that Fran made her first Key Lime Pie, using limes from our own grove. Turned out great! I'm enjoying a piece right now along with some good hot coffee (from the mountains of Veracruz, of course).
Hey! No fair! Where's my piece?
Now, Ed, there you go, tormenting poor PC with pie-talk... Hang in there, PC, Zoe said the cook heard you, and has some pies (including Key Lime) in the oven as we speak.
Time for my 9:00 to show up - but then again, this one's not been consistent about showing up.
Rob, good to hear that you may have some light at the end of the tunnel on the I-L thing (and good for your CFO). I'll put 'a quick and good resolution' on my list of prayers.
JR, safe travelling at that ungodly hour of the morning. Hopefully, you dodge most of the traffic then.
Garry, that's a bit of a drop-off from the bridge, in that picture, huh?
We did get some rain yesterday. No sign yet today, though we might. I think most of it has moved toward our Indiana folks.
Well, time to get back at it here. See everyone later on.