Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Thanks Carl. I see those cars around from time to time. How many shots or WC numbers do you want?
Dan
Well here I am sitting under a TORNADO Watch. Two things I thought I knew since I moved to Calgary 45 years ago were that because of the altitude compared to places even 30 miles away like Strathmore and Irricana, where we lived in the station, 1) Calgary has never achieved a high temperature of 100 degrees F. and 2) we can't have a tornado.
Then last summer, some scientist was on the TV saying there was no valid reason for Calgary not to be able to receive a tornado, and now this summer we have a tornado watch. Watch is less serious than a warning. That scientist should have kept his mouth shut and if this is climate change, STOP IT.
I just received my TRAINS issue with the CN story so I am going to sit down and read it while paying attention to the radio.
AgentKid
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Well, fortunately that was much ado about nothing. They lifted the watch at 6:00 PM MDT.
All I got here was two quick intense showers, one clap of thunder and a bit of tiny hail. The TV weather said there were four funnel cloud sightings but there was speculation that it may have been four pictures of the same funnel cloud. I guess you can tell we are none to tornado savvy around here. Any way I guess it is back to normal now.
Hmm, "Weather wise" today has been very calm, although we did have a hard shower of rain at at "O darkthirty" this morning. (to the best of my knowledge, nothing severe.)
Both Noah and Dan; good pictures, enjoyed looking at them.
Dan, am very glad both Mom and baby are seemingly doing well.
Had a Very Good email this evening; came from Kozzie (David Everest)
Seems he's alive, doing well, and VERY busy!
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!!
Noah Hofrichter I come bearing a few new photos too. On Sunday I went after the UP's Operation Life Saver special at Adams.
Johnny
Dan, it's good to hear that Aedan is doing as he should be, and that Misty is improving. I can't give you any advice on young children; Ricki's youngest was five when we married.Just think of the pleasures that I missed!
Deggesty Dan, it's good to hear that Aedan is doing as he should be, and that Misty is improving. I can't give you any advice on young children; Ricki's youngest was five when we married.Just think of the pleasures that I missed! Johnny
CShaveRRIs it just me, or has the "last post" arrow quit working on this site?
+1 and for several days now. Otherwise the revamped format is still working nicely. Maybe a bug like that's caused by a large thread somewhere.
Saw something I didn't think I'd see on CN yesterday: a 'shutdown' run. Single GP40-2 hustling SB one block behind a manifest train (had to be running on yellows) hauling a single, loaded boxcar. Reminded me of the CNW.
Getting up in the middle of the night isn't too bad...but trying to get going 'in the morning' may require a little extra oomph from time to time. I don't know how single parents do it...dang.
FWIW it seems to not be working on all the Forums (threads) on this web site.
+2 for the last post problem and speaking of two's, since I switched to Firefox browser last Friday I have been receiving two of every e-mail from each thread I have posted to since then. I had a lot of trouble writing a post on Friday, not necessarily related to the browser change, but I wonder if my false start posting has upset my e-mail or is it really a problem related to the browser change. If anyone out there has recently made the switch from IE8 to Firefox 3.5 and know about this problem, I would appreciate the help.
As for the tornado situation, it turned out to be four separate "cold core" funnel clouds, two near Calgary and two further out. And speaking of Strathmore, which I mentioned in my post yesterday, there was the most amazing pictures from there on the TV yesterday. There was so much hail coming down and on the ground it looked like a winter blizzard scene, and they had one of the four funnel clouds near them to boot.
Now It's time to get ready to work at our housing association "Stampede Breakfast"YEEE-HAW
AgentKidAs for the tornado situation, it turned out to be four separate "cold core" funnel clouds, two near Calgary and two further out.
From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud)"Cold-air funnel clouds
Cold-air funnel clouds (vortices) are usually short-lived and generally much weaker than the vortices produced by supercells. Although cold-air funnels rarely make ground contact, they may touch down briefly and become weak tornadoes or waterspouts.
Unlike the related phenomenon associated with severe thunderstorms, cold-air funnels are generally associated with partly cloudy skies in the wake of cold fronts, where atmospheric instability and moisture is sufficient to support towering cumulus clouds but not precipitation. The mixing of cooler air in the lower troposphere with air flowing in a different direction in the middle troposphere causes the rotation on a horizontal axis, which, when deflected vertically by atmospheric conditions, can become a funnel cloud.[1]
They are a common sight along the Pacific Coast of the USA, particularly in the spring or autumn.[1]
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Thank you very much Dan.
That weather excitement last night left us with a chilly morning, so our Stampede Breakfast only ended up serving just over 200 people. That is down about a hundred from the last couple of years.
We had folks from Kitchener, ON to Vancouver, BC to New Zealand. Good eats, good band, a good time had by all.
A little excitement on the Adirondack Scenic this past week - the FRA's $7 Million track geometry car paid a visit to the Adirondack Park. We passed with only a few minor issues to resolve.
Now, you'd think that in the process of building a $7 Million rail vehicle that they might have made it bi-directional, at least to facilitate moves in a reverse direction.
No such luck, as the picture below shows. Having finished its mission northbound, the car waits at Thendara for two 60-ish F units to tow it back toward Utica...
Leading will be former Alaska RR F7A 1508, followed by F10A 1502 (former a GM&O F3, upgraded by IC to an F10, then to MBTA before coming to us).
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...
That's quite the interesting visitor to the Adirondack Larry! I never realized they weren't bidirection either.
Carl, when do the new Hours of Service rules go into effect? When we were coming back from Adams on Sunday we picked up the CP dispatcher on the scanner talking to an inbound train at Portage. He told them to tie the train down as the new crew was on duty but was "still in a training class." We guessed it was about the new Hours of Service regulations, and it got me to wondering about when the changeover occurs.
Noah
CShaveRROn the subject of the "last post" arrow not working, there used to be a link to which such problems could be reported. I don't see it now--did Bergie take it with him? Is anyone else out there paying attention?
I asked selector.
selector Dan, I don't know if they have found anyone, or even if they intend to. I am not privvy to such decisions, as you would understand, and they don't seem to have wanted to keep the user mods apprised of any dealings. It may stay as it is.
Dan, I don't know if they have found anyone, or even if they intend to. I am not privvy to such decisions, as you would understand, and they don't seem to have wanted to keep the user mods apprised of any dealings. It may stay as it is.
AgentKid. If anyone out there has recently made the switch from IE8 to Firefox 3.5 and know about this problem, I would appreciate the help.
I'm still on IE7 but mine doesn't work.
AgentKidsince I switched to Firefox browser last Friday I have been receiving two of every e-mail from each thread I have posted to since then.
It just hit me from the blue what was causing this problem.
Before I installed Firefox I signed out of each site I was signed in to using IE8. As I was installing Firefox I remembered that I had not signed out of Trains.com. I was surprised after I got everything installed that when I went to Trains.com again I didn't receive a message to sign in or that I couldn't sign in because I was already signed in. I just now signed out of Trains.com using Firefox, then I shut it down and started IE8 and went to Train.com and found I was still signed in. So I signed out again. I then shut IE8 down and restarted Firefox and signed into Trains.com in the normal manner. I think now that I am signed into Trains.com only once that my double e-mail problem should be solved. I'd like to thank everyone for the suggestions they offered.
This site works fine on my Blackberry Pearl...I dunno.
I heard a long, continuous horn blast last night from something on the CN. It was followed by the sound of squealing/bangs/grinding. A check of the scanner and ONW website revealed nothing. Hopefully nobody was hurt in whatever happened.
I tried local news outlets...even a source I have with the OPD: bupkis. Oh, well.
Anyone going to IRM for Diesel Days this coming weekend? I'll be going on Sunday with a few friends. Looking forward to seeing some of the equipment down there. I'll probably have my uber phone on me so I can email or text you back.
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