blhanel wrote://keeps fingers crossed that it will return on the route it took east, and that I'll get advance notice of it coming from someone somewhere
aw cmon. no love for us deprived railfans up in Altoona?
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Dan
Carl
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blhanel wrote: JSGreen wrote: Modelcar wrote: We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully. I'd like to order some of that spring..... I just did the next best thing- I ordered parts for my snowblower. Sears indicates that I will receive them a week from tomorrow. That is when we'll quit getting snowstorms and spring will move in.
JSGreen wrote: Modelcar wrote: We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully. I'd like to order some of that spring.....
Modelcar wrote: We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully.
We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully.
I'd like to order some of that spring.....
I just did the next best thing- I ordered parts for my snowblower. Sears indicates that I will receive them a week from tomorrow. That is when we'll quit getting snowstorms and spring will move in.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
....Brian:
If doing that is that effective....maybe if you would purchase a brand new unit for next season, we'd actually see no Winter stuff at all.....Maybe not though.
Quentin
JSGreen wrote: Modelcar wrote:We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully. I'd like to order some of that spring.....
Modelcar wrote:We've received a Spring and Summer catalog....That should count for upcoming Spring....Hopefully.
....J S:
They would probably send it C O D.....
Dale, the local DQ has no indoor public space--you order through one window and are served through another. Kind of uninviting in the winter.
Thanks to recent changes in the local "skyline" it's now possible to view the UP main line, a long block away, from a bench while enjoying your Misty or Dilly bar.
.....Hi Carl:
Boy today seems like March. It is warm....Mid 50's and much wind....
Thanks for heads up on article. And we sure hope you will find the time and circumstances for a revisit this coming season where you can take advantage of our Trail.
The 6936 went from Pine Bluff to Avondale (New Orleans) today. It's headed to Texas for several days (big place, you know!), then back up to Kansas City.
I was also checking progress on ZWASKP today. Fruits and veggies weren't the only thing it was haulin' on the former CNW! It appeared to be making up a bit of the time lost in Oregon and Idaho (due, I suspect, mostly to congestion from coast-line detour moves).
Rain and snowmelt contributed to flooding problems today, at the yard (a few switches underwater) and elsewhere. I saw one bolt of lightning, about ten minutes before we received a tremendous downpour. The roads on the hump were like skating rinks when we got there--a liberal coating of salt helped temperatures in the upper 40s to do their stuff. We're now below freezing again, so I hope the rest of the ice disappeared. Any ice that's left will be covered by a coating of snow come tomorrow.
CShaveRR wrote: You aren't in the area, are you, Dale?
You aren't in the area, are you, Dale?
I was just wondering where it would be Monday.
Anyhow, your area is too cold for me, I don't even have a block heater in my car. And seasonal Dairy Queens?
I may "go Stateside" this year, but it is not likely.
CShaveRR wrote: --but did see a lot of the U50Cs.
Oh how I wish there was at least one of those, and one of the C855s left. The DDA40X is cool, but I always the the U50s looked more imposing and hearing a dual engine ALCo must have been quite a treat.
I got to see 6936 on the Frontier Days Train a couple years back. Of course, I was kind of downhearted that she was only there because of the mech. failure (was it a bearing, maybe?) of #3985. I did see 844 and 3985 running together briefly, and have heard rumors that I'll get to witness that again this July. No offense to the 6936, but I think I'd rather have double headed steam over a dual engined diesel any day of the week!
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
Best I could do would be tomorrow (Sunday) early afternoon--can't trace locomotives from home. I don't expect that it will come back this way--Mr. Wimmer likes to maximize his system coverage on those inspection trips (he likes the DDA40X because it has a way of detecting bad track--who knew?).
Quentin, the Cardinal Trail is featured in the current issue (Spring 2008--only the second sign of spring around here!) of Rails to Trails Magazine. Nice map, illustrations, and directions. Now I've got to get back there!
(The first sign of spring in Lombard comes on about the first weekend in February, when the Dairy Queen reopens!)
blhanel wrote:Max, I hope when that happens you won't have my luck for today and hear about it nine hours AFTER it passed by you.
I feel your pain--I discovered it after the fact as well, within two hours of the time it would have gone through here. And I should have been able to track it, had I paid attention!
No, I haven't seen that one, either. I think that when they were active, they were pretty much kept west of North Platte, which was as far west as I ever got while they were active. Didn't see any in the shop, either on that trip in 1975--but did see a lot of the U50Cs. Saw the stuffed ones at St. Louis and Omaha on recent trips.
blhanel wrote: nanaimo73 wrote: blhanel wrote:Max, I hope when that happens you won't have my luck for today and hear about it nine hours AFTER it passed by you.Have you ever seen it Brian?Nope, not that particular DDAX40. I've seen the one stuffed and mounted on the hill at Omaha from a distance.
nanaimo73 wrote: blhanel wrote:Max, I hope when that happens you won't have my luck for today and hear about it nine hours AFTER it passed by you.Have you ever seen it Brian?
Have you ever seen it Brian?
Nope, not that particular DDAX40. I've seen the one stuffed and mounted on the hill at Omaha from a distance.
CNW 6000 wrote:So is it "all CN" now or something else?
12 of them 2455-2466 are now on long term lease to CN/IC.
CNW 6000 wrote: One unit I saw recently that I thought was cool is CN 2457: all blue ex IC (ex CR?) C40-8W.
One unit I saw recently that I thought was cool is CN 2457: all blue ex IC (ex CR?) C40-8W.
Those were LMS lease units that went to CN for 6 months of the year and CR for the other 6 months.
It'll be nice to get to Madison for the show tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing some faces behind some names! Maybe (luck involved!) some fanning on Sunday!
One unit I saw recently that I thought was cool is CN 2457: all blue ex IC (ex CR?) C40-8W. It's a nice break from CaNoodle red/white/black!
So it was snowing a bit (read 11"!) and I was 'fanning...so? That puppy even has classification lights!
sounds like the time i heard about the CNW trio going through altoona. missed it. kicked myself for it, now 8575's dead and there's no more point in catching it.
well there's still 6936 to be caught. but i just dont see it coming up here. why would it? UP never has anything of importance to do on a low priority main such as this
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