Mookie, if you left any, I'll take some (I shouldn't, since I gained three or four pounds while we were traveling) See - Johnny - I had your best interest at heart and saved you from gaining any more weight.....
Joe - company here; dropped off some items for reading and then disappeared. Something about an Arby's in Omaha with a young man. We are holding a small meeting trackside at 9:30 am tomorrow morning. Hope the BNSF shows up for said meeting.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Is there any of that chocolate cake left?? Or did Mookie take it all? Oh well, it really doesn't matter much here. I am baking Molasses/sugar cookies tonight, they are soft and chewy, and loaded with flavor. I think I'll leave a couple dozen here in the diner. A couple of them would go well with a glass of milk and I know they will be gone in a flash!
CANADIANPACIFIC2816Is there any of that chocolate cake left?? Or did Mookie take it all?
Yes, she did. Did you see what she said to me? I think I added most of my weight on the Canadian (four nights and three and a third days with ten meals in all) There are no prices on the menu in the First Class Diner (the cost of the meals is included in your space charge), and, with a different menu everyday, you can indulge in scrumptious meals that can add avoirdupois (no, wait, we are in Canada; kilos) without your being aware of what you are doing. Even with varying our diet with stops at McDonalds and such, we overate. We also had good meals at most of the hotels where we stayed, particularly at the former CP & CN hotels. One of our best meals was in Chicago, where Carl and Pat Shaver took us out. I'll try some of your cookies, despite what Mookie said.
Johnny
DeggestyDid you see what she said to me?
I think there's an extra pair of tin boots in the closet....
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Mookie
Talked to your brother Carl.Will be providing and update for you tommorow.Good night.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Gee, I thought I was the only one who saw these trains in that time frameof the 40s. Guess some dust was blownoff some memories. Thanks folks for the trip.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Good Saturday morning, everyone. We've got light rain this morning,at 6:47 a.m. Looks like the horses will have to be 'mudders' today. Cannonball, hope you shoulder is improving daily!
Coffee, juices, hot cider, hot chocolate, and hot water for tea are ready.
To help everyone celebrate the Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown, here's what is on the warmer bar this morning:
Country fried ham with red-eye gravy, hash browns, scrambled eggs, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, bacon, sausage (links & patties), pancakes (regular, blueberry, cinnamon), country fried steak, fresh cantaloupe, watermelon, pineapple slices.
Everyone have a very good morning, stay as dry as possible, if you're getting rain today, and see you all later on.
Another overcast morning, but we do have some bright spots.
Quentin
Carl and Pat stopped at my Arby's yesterday evening for dinner. I have to imagine that eating at the best Arby's in the Omaha Metro was the highlight of their trip! I had a very nice time talking to them, although I had to at least pretend to be working too. It'll be nice to talk again this morning at Camp Mookie where there won't be any managers wondering why I'm talking and not working.
School is just about done. Monday and Tuesday are full days and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are exam days. Baccalaureate Mass is on Friday the 15th and graduation is on Monday the 18th. Then my high school career will be offically over. Kind of sad in one way, but really exciting in another way.
Willy
Best of wishes to you on your gradulation from H S Willy. Sounds like you have accomplished a good start and with a good attitude. And now out into the future.
DeggestyThe Sunshine Special was a MoP/T&P train from St. Louis to the Southwest; I think it did have through cars (oh, what was the name of the PRR train that carried through cars from the East to St. Louis?) from the East before it was entirely replaced by the Texas Eagles.
That would have been the PRR's Penn-Texas which ran with through cars for both MoPac and Frisco/KATY.
Back in the mid 50's my Grandmother made the trip from Newark NJ to San Antonio (my Dad was a pilot stationed at Kelly AFB here). She was in the through sleeper that connected to the Texas Special of the Frisco/KATY.
Willy2School is just about done. Monday and Tuesday are full days and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are exam days. Baccalaureate Mass is on Friday the 15th and graduation is on Monday the 18th. Then my high school career will be offically over. Kind of sad in one way, but really exciting in another way.
Willy, congratulations!
Seems like a long time ago, since my high school graduation: Our last day, after final exams, was something like May 16 or 17, and graduation was May 29, 1971. Definitely another lifetime ago!
Best of luck to you, Willy! Maybe one day, we'll see you on one of our local TV stations as the new chief meteorologist.
Rain seems to have ended here, at least for now. Wonder if we'll have rain/storms by the end of the day, around 5:30, when it will be the Run for the Roses.
Willy, congrats. I remember my graduation well. 3 June, 1965 .More than a lifetime ago. Paula, by the time your young self graduated, I was a navy veteran just married. Youngsters like you still have life ahead of them. I guess Quentin will chime in and make me look like a rookie..... Everybody take care
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Yes, Willy, congratulations on reaching this point in your life. As I look back over the fifty-five years since I finished high school, I hope you do even better than I did.
How many of you watched that little horse race in Louisville this afternoon? It certainly had an exciting finish.
Yes Johnny, that was an exciting and very surprising finish to the race! While I didn't exactly have a horse picked, I was kind of rooting for the ex teacher/principal, and his horse that he owned and trained himself. That 75 year young gentlemen certainly had something going for him and the horse, to have gotten that far!
Here's our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie; 2. Canadian bacon; 3. Italian sausage calzones; 4. Pepperoni/mushroom; 5. Cheese w/extra cheese available; 6. Supreme
And for dessert, chocolate cake (made another couple of chocolate cakes this afternoon) and Mixed Fruit Jell-O.
grampaw pettiboneWilly, congrats. I remember my graduation well. 3 June, 1965 .More than a lifetime ago. Paula, by the time your young self graduated, I was a navy veteran just married. Youngsters like you still have life ahead of them. I guess Quentin will chime in and make me look like a rookie..... Everybody take care
Willy, CONGRATS on the upcoming Graduation!!!
I remember mine as well, 6 June 1968; started college the following fall.
Spent 2 1/2 years in college and joined the military in 1972; spent the
next 23 1/2 years in the Army National Guard as a helicopter mechanic,
and Crew Chief and Fire fighter. (Along with my civilian jobs of rail/highway
crossing design, Vol. Firefighter/EMT and then working for the Ambulance
service full time.)
Tom, you ain't got that many years on us; and there are a few that have
more years!!
Edit//: Kudos should be in order to the Chef of the Cafe/Diner;
All of the pizzas are made in the shape of a Horse, in honor
of this "Sacred Day" in Kentucky.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
locomutt grampaw pettibone Willy, congrats. I remember my graduation well. 3 June, 1965 .More than a lifetime ago. Paula, by the time your young self graduated, I was a navy veteran just married. Youngsters like you still have life ahead of them. I guess Quentin will chime in and make me look like a rookie..... Everybody take care Willy, CONGRATS on the upcoming Graduation!!! I remember mine as well, 6 June 1968; started college the following fall. Spent 2 1/2 years in college and joined the military in 1972; spent the next 23 1/2 years in the Army National Guard as a helicopter mechanic, and Crew Chief and Fire fighter. (Along with my civilian jobs of rail/highway crossing design, Vol. Firefighter/EMT and then working for the Ambulance service full time. Tom, you ain't got that many years on us! Edit//: Kudos should be in order to the Chef of the Cafe/Diner; All of the pizzas are made in the shape of a Horse, in honor of this "Sacred Day" in Kentucky.
grampaw pettibone Willy, congrats. I remember my graduation well. 3 June, 1965 .More than a lifetime ago. Paula, by the time your young self graduated, I was a navy veteran just married. Youngsters like you still have life ahead of them. I guess Quentin will chime in and make me look like a rookie..... Everybody take care
service full time.
Tom, you ain't got that many years on us!
Locomutt,
You graduated the spring before the first classes started at my high school. My school has been having all kinds of 40th anniversary celebrations throughout the course of this school year.
We had a very nice day in Lincoln, with the exception of a snafu at Ruby Tuesday. Not sure why they would put garlic mayonnaise on a bacon barbeque burger, but they did. I know I don't have to worry about that kind of stuff here in the diner.
The trains were running pretty frequently. We paced a KCS "Southern Belle" most of the way back to Omaha. My opinion is that it's a pretty classy paint scheme, even if it does look a little like it belongs in a circus.
Mookie has "decamped" and is pooed out. But we had a nice visit as usual and always look forward to getting together with friends.
Willy - that must be the one that comes up on the far east tracks from the south and by-passes the yard altogether. We get one over there every so often and it seems that it is always when I am looking the other way.
Nite....
Willy congrats on your graduation.Sounds like you guys had fun at camp Mookie.Camp Deshler was good as usual.Cw I will just take some Jell-o please.Matt fell asleep at route 65(west deshler) on the way home.I am going to bed very shortly.Good night.
Nope, won't do that Tom......Let me just say H S graduation for me makes me a '49er.....Now that is a lifetime back.....!
Good Sunday morning, everyone. We're getting light rain here in Louisville this morning. High today will be in the low 60s: 61or 62 for a high today, with off and on rain showers (some could be heavy), so they're suggesting for everyone to look out for localized ponding of water.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are ready. Mookie, your coffee mug is on the front counter, right next to the coffee pot.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, muffins, cinnamon rolls and pecan rolls.
Tom, you're not that far ahead of me, graduating from high school. Actually, if my first grade teacher hadn't held me back a year, I would have graduated in 1970. But that is another story for another time. Suffice it to say, that I was a good student, and being held back had nothing to do with bad grades.
Now to get back into the kitchen, and start working on Sunday Dinner.
good morning
Cw thanks for breakfast.Going to be a mild sunday.
Hmm, The "Ky. Derby" must be over......All the "Rich People"
that have private planes are flying over the house this morning.
I guess I should be grateful that Trains don't fly.
(Okay, no gripes; excluding Tornadoes, Hurricanes, etc.)
Have not/Did not get the chance to get out yesterday
to try and find any Derby Trains; have fouund out that
the departure for both CSX and NS "Derby Trains" will
be slightly delayed today......seems they can't find crews
for said trains?!
Like I said this morning, I've been in back in the kitchen, working on our Sunday Dinner. On today's menu:
1. Meat loaf w/mashed potatoes, gravy, shellie beans, corn on the cob, your choice of: cabbage, cole slaw or garden salad
2. Sirloin roast w/potatoes & carrots, and the above mentioned side dishes.
Hot items are on the warmer bar, and the cold dishes are in the cooler.
For dessert today: chocolate cake, yellow cake w/chocolate icing, white cake w/coconut icing, and the following cobblers: apple, blueberry, cherry, and peach; along with banana pudding and homemade chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal/raisin cookies.
You all enjoy your dinner, afternoon and take care.
Don't let mah meat loaf! (and a garden salad with 10 islands - please and thank you!)
MookieDon't let mah meat loaf! (and a garden salad with 10 islands - please and thank you!)
Only 10; not a Thousand?! Aren't you a bit "Blu" over that one?!
At least I didn't bet the "Ranch" yesterday!!
Mutt! 10 million comedians out of work and you and I are vying for their jobs!
Evening
another nice day here in nw ohio.matt and I went into town and saw some trains and a"hot dog" of a car at the store.Cw thanks for supper.We owe we owe back to work we go.......
Beautiful day here in the northwoods of New York. I spent today (and yesterday) in class getting recertified so I can keep running on the railroad.
On top of that, something must have kicked in Friday - I've got allergies I didn't know I had. Sheesh!
Tree: You aren't alone. My eyes feel like they have hot cinders in them and that is with drops. But you are probably worse off than I am, since the allergens right now are......drum roll.......ready for this......Tree Pollen.
With that bit of info, I am off for the nite. Hold your applause, please.
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