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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Woah, first off...

You may be on my couch right now, but come night fall, your all getting the boot!

the landlord charges for extra bodies that stay overnight. the Cheap... person.


Me said we could stay as long as we want.......so there.....by the way, your frig is out of beer...could you run down to the store for us...and Vic wants a pizza,..Ed you need anything........smokes?


NY thin crust with extra cheese and pepperoni, and there better not be any pinnapple on that pizza or you'll be wearing it! I'm kinda a Purist when it comes to that.


Hey there no friggin' beer in the fridge! What gives! cant watch the Redwings game tonight with no beer?

Oh sorry Kev, forgot to tell you. Me and Dan decided to watch the Redwings game tonight , so you'll have to watch the Canadian's game on the little TV in the kitchen.


The only thing that gets stocked in my Fridge is Molson Export or Molson Canadian, and on ocasion, Moosehead. That is it, and that is all.

Hey Vic no pineapple on your pizza? what do you think this is, Arnold's pizza shop?

Redwings game, i can tell you the outcome right now: Wings loose, there you go, saves you time from wathcing it!!

I was jsut calculation what happens if The canadiens loose tonight

Vic gets 5 bucks, I have to do the dishes for a week And i have to vaccumm the entire place.

I suppose it could be worse...
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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:47 PM
Yeah it could be, you could have PINNAPPLE on your PIZZA!

AAARRRGGGH!

OFF OFF! Foul Non-Italian Object! thou shall not befoul the purity of my pizza!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:58 PM
Wow, all over pineapples on your pizza?

How about Svartsinager style, vith 9MM bullets?
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:01 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by artschlosser

Hey cjm89, I thought Carrolton was on the J and C, the Jacksonville and Carrolton, or was that leased to some small time line like the the C&A (Chicago and Alton)? ;-)
Art Schlosser


If this was the 1870's, yes, Carrollton is on the JC, then the Alton Road merged that into its system. Roodhouse, which is a few towns north of Carrollton, was where the Alton's branch to Kansas City (Western Division) begins. When the GM&O bought the C&A, then the Illinois Central merged with the GM&O in the '70s, ICG didn't want the extra trackage. The Chicago-St.Louis main was sold to the SSW-SP, while the Western Division and the Springfield-Godfrey branch was sold to a startup company called the Gateway Western. In 1997 KCS bought the GWW, and still owns it today. I think BNSF has trackage rights from Jacksonville to Alton, too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:38 PM
And I believe Canadian National has some rights, trackage or otherwise (they are partnered with KCS, I believe) from KC to Springfield (and maybe north to Joliet???)
And of course IC (read Canadian National) still owns the line from Joliet to Chicago.
Altho I worked for the north end of the GM&O, I always thought of it as the C&A.
Long Live Blackstone!!!
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:39 PM
Oh yeah kevin...if your going down to the store...go by the hobby shop and pick up that KATO C44AC for me...[:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:44 PM
Let's not pick on the bats. Bats is good guys. They eat bugs. And mosquitos. And they don't bark like dogs.
Been to Congress Street Bridge three times. Saw bats once. Good guys, but not time watchersand slightly unreliable as a tourist attraction..
Sixth street is for out-of -towners IMHO.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 6:48 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

Oh yeah kevin...if your going down to the store...go by the hobby shop and pick up that KATO C44AC for me...[:D]


Would anyone like anyhting else while i'm at it?

how abour a rare blue butterfly that only located at the peak of a mountain that has an elevation of 3, 987 meters above sea level, located soley in Mongolia, Africa

ANYONE?!?!?
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Posted by edblysard on Friday, April 16, 2004 7:22 AM
So, Art, next time we come up, instead of 6th street, where do you suggest we start?
We will be a medium sized group, about 10 railroaders and their wives, and six employees of the AGs office, and their spouses and partners.
The AG office folks are light weight drinkers, after three hours they get a little fluffy...[^]
Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by artschlosser

Let's not pick on the bats. Bats is good guys. They eat bugs. And mosquitos. And they don't bark like dogs.
Been to Congress Street Bridge three times. Saw bats once. Good guys, but not time watchersand slightly unreliable as a tourist attraction..
Sixth street is for out-of -towners IMHO.
Art

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 1:06 PM
Oh Vic- we won last night, in case i havn't rubbed it in ebough yet.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 6:19 PM
Hey Kev,
I'll need a pack of Marlboro Lights and a case of Moosehead!!!!!!!!!!! And don't forget a pizza with canadian bacon and PINEAPPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. LOL
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 9:08 PM
yeah, i'm going to put 3 full pineapples on the pizza, if you rung it out, you could have 27 glasses of fresh sweet pineapple juice

Marlboro's don't exist in Canada!

you stuck with Players lite!

yo yo players, foo!
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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:47 PM
I guess things have been getting out of hand on some boards as of late. I think that we have to watch it with the personal attacks while making sure our opinions are still heard. I think you did a good job of heading this one off Bergie.
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:17 PM
agreed

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:43 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Woah, first off...

You may be on my couch right now, but come night fall, your all getting the boot!

the landlord charges for extra bodies that stay overnight. the Cheap... person.


Me said we could stay as long as we want.......so there.....by the way, your frig is out of beer...could you run down to the store for us...and Vic wants a pizza,..Ed you need anything........smokes?


NY thin crust with extra cheese and pepperoni, and there better not be any pinnapple on that pizza or you'll be wearing it! I'm kinda a Purist when it comes to that.


Hey there no friggin' beer in the fridge! What gives! cant watch the Redwings game tonight with no beer?

Oh sorry Kev, forgot to tell you. Me and Dan decided to watch the Redwings game tonight , so you'll have to watch the Canadian's game on the little TV in the kitchen.



[}:)]Kev,

You're going to the store. Perchance, if you're going to the hobby shop, would you
get me a "Red Caboose" , GP-9. in O Scale? I would be highly indebted to you!

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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:39 PM
No pineapple on the pizza?[:0]I love Hawaiian pizza.Lay on that pineapple and ham.[:)]Also,while your'e at the hobby shop, pick me up an SP SD50.I forget the manufacturer,but the really look great.[:)]
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Posted by vsmith on Monday, April 19, 2004 10:00 AM
Pinnapple Pizza...

HEATHENS!!!
PHILLISTINES!!!
BARBARIANS!!!


You can have ALL that pizza, I'll get my own thanks...

But when you see my steaming hot deep dish double crust 3 cheese, sausage, pepperoni, salami, olive, mushroom, tomato, and extra garlic pizza and then look down at that soggy pinapple laden piece of cardboard smeared with ketchup you ordered, you'll wish you hadnt 'dissed me, cause like my elementary report card said, "..doesn't play well with other children, and DOESN"T SHARE" especially when you mess with my Pizza ...[(-D]


Just an aside..I'll relate a TRAIN RELATED pizza story.. several years back when I took Jamtrack back to Iowa to visit relatives. On the return trip, 2nd day on the train, crossing Utah. I was talking to the people I had met on the train, we were talking about how bad the food was at the cafeteria car (we were all too poor for the Dining Car) and what food we would like to have, we all agreed a Pizza would be just the thing. Then someone had an idea, we had an hour layover in Salt Lake City coming up and what if we ordered a pizza?[:p]

Well that did it, we were for the next hour deciding a plan of action, who to call was answered when we came out of an under pass outside the staion and saw a huge billboard for a nearby Dominoes or Pizza ***, one of them. We got the number down, and as soon as the train doors opened we bolted out into the station to the first payphone, called, ordered 2 large, its almost midnight , and we told the pizza guy we would be waiting in front of the train station, he said "OK, we've done this before"[;)]

The pizza guy shows up. When we took the pizza's on the train it was like walking into a lions cage covered in raw meat! We thought the other passngers were going to riot, kill us, and take our pizza's for themselves! They looked at us with glazed eyes and drooling lips, we though we had stumble into a scene from Dawn of the Dead! So we hastedly retreated to the lounge car where we could enjoy our prize in peace.[8D]

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, April 19, 2004 11:25 AM
Guys! Is nothing sacred!!!!! Here we have a reprimand from the Chief and you let it deteriorate into a pizza free-for-all!!!! What a country !!!![:D]

And Vic - if it was Pizza Hut - and I was there - you would have never made it to the lounge car. We would have been dining on aisle pizza!

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, April 19, 2004 3:29 PM
Try explaining to the kid from Dominoes you want those pizzas delivered to your locomotives....

"Uh, I'm sorry sir, we cant deliver to a locomotive"

"Why not, its right beside the street?"

"Because, we have to have a address to deliver to."

"Ok, it either 9608 or 9620 Clinton Drive, across from gate 8 to the Port of Houston.
Its the big blue houses, that look and sound like locomotives, with the flashing white lights on top."

"Ok, so this is a house, right/"

"Yeah, its a mobile home, a really loud mobile home"

We got the pizza for free, turned out the manager delivered the pies, he was a railfan, we ran him up and down the track some, he wrote the pizzas off and a prank order.

Ed

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, April 19, 2004 5:39 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Try explaining to the kid from Dominoes you want those pizzas delivered to your locomotives....

"Uh, I'm sorry sir, we cant deliver to a locomotive"

"Why not, its right beside the street?"

"Because, we have to have a address to deliver to."

"Ok, it either 9608 or 9620 Clinton Drive, across from gate 8 to the Port of Houston.
Its the big blue houses, that look and sound like locomotives, with the flashing white lights on top."

"Ok, so this is a house, right/"

"Yeah, its a mobile home, a really loud mobile home"

We got the pizza for free, turned out the manager delivered the pies, he was a railfan, we ran him up and down the track some, he wrote the pizzas off and a prank order.

Ed


For pete's sake:
(1) It has a swingset "in the yard".... (the yard doesn't move, just the "houses")
(2) It has its own police force (very safe)
(3) Can't deliver to the front porch of 9608? - Try 9620!
(4) It has its own very large treehouse out back!
(5) It's neater and safer than some of the dumps they deliver to just down Clinton Street!
(6) it has a garden even, a "wheel garden"!

I never could "dance on the carpet" very well Bergie. I guess I'm admonished though....

Just another friendly neighborhood heathen,
[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

ps...NO pineapple for me please...
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Posted by edblysard on Monday, April 19, 2004 6:00 PM
Did you notice the "swingset" also doubles as a hammock?
And we have a really big four bay garage out back!

Ed[:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 6:05 PM
Vic... You like OLIVEs on your Pizza?!?!?!

You though there was somehting wrong with the pineaple lovers, check your reflection buddy...

Yuck! Olives... Blah...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 6:27 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

yeah, i'm going to put 3 full pineapples on the pizza, if you rung it out, you could have 27 glasses of fresh sweet pineapple juice

Marlboro's don't exist in Canada!

you stuck with Players lite!

yo yo players, foo!


Canadian bacon and pineapples is an awesome pizza...

Why would you ever want to squeeze a pineapple anyhow???

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 6:35 PM
Nice work Ed. We always used a trainee to go fetch the pizza on our local jobs or the man with least seniority...

LC

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Try explaining to the kid from Dominoes you want those pizzas delivered to your locomotives....

"Uh, I'm sorry sir, we cant deliver to a locomotive"

"Why not, its right beside the street?"

"Because, we have to have a address to deliver to."

"Ok, it either 9608 or 9620 Clinton Drive, across from gate 8 to the Port of Houston.
Its the big blue houses, that look and sound like locomotives, with the flashing white lights on top."

"Ok, so this is a house, right/"

"Yeah, its a mobile home, a really loud mobile home"

We got the pizza for free, turned out the manager delivered the pies, he was a railfan, we ran him up and down the track some, he wrote the pizzas off and a prank order.

Ed
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Posted by edblysard on Monday, April 19, 2004 9:50 PM
We can get Pizza Hut to deliver to the tower and the locker room, and they can find the locomotives out on the North Shore.
Dominoes just never delivered to us before.

After the cab ride, we havent had a problem with them since.

Now, if we can just get Boston Market and Red Lobster to deliver....

Pineapples on Pizza?

Your one of those people who eat maccroni and cheese mixed with tuna fish, arent you...

Ed

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 9:52 PM
Ed-

Haven't got a local Boston Market yet, but we have done a Red Lobster run before...we did need a little cooperation from our RFE, but he is a decent sort and we were willing to share...

LC

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

We can get Pizza Hut to deliver to the tower and the locker room, and they can find the locomotives out on the North Shore.
Dominoes just never delivered to us before.

After the cab ride, we havent had a problem with them since.

Now, if we can just get Boston Market and Red Lobster to deliver....

Ed
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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:26 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Try explaining to the kid from Dominoes you want those pizzas delivered to your locomotives....

Ed

Ed
I can hear the guys from CSX"just have it out back in 40-45 mins.Just depends on the dispatcher"[:D]
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by Nora on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:22 AM
http://www.nebdiv.com/Dominos.JPG
"Domino's WILL deliver anywhere!"

As for my pizza...onions and sausage, please. NO mushrooms!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:04 AM
Nora-

How's the van driving going? Your comment on no 'shrooms reminds me that we used to have a guy who drove for Ratzenberger back in the old days who couldn't take us anywhere without pizza. We never got him to bring us any but we stopped at every Sbarro enroute...

LC

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

http://www.nebdiv.com/Dominos.JPG
"Domino's WILL deliver anywhere!"

As for my pizza...onions and sausage, please. NO mushrooms!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:09 AM
Oh and I forgot to mention that his favorite was the 'shrooms and onions...

BTW, Ed, no I am definitely NOT into tuna casserole. Nice thing about holding a road pool is I can usually avoid casserole night at home...

LC

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