Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[JoeKoh]

morning
more juice and coffee are ready.also have more hot chocolate too.have some mini chocolate doughnuts for everyone too.
stay safe
Joe

[Mookie]

^~^ You know - the kitty has ears and she knows who's been naughty or nice.

This month is also the birthday of at least one other esteemed forum member who lives in Houston Texas with the first name of ........."Bad",.... no that's not right. " White-out,".... no....I know it has something to do with winter......

.Ah - Ted "Frosty" Snow - that's it! And on New Year's Eve! What bad timing!!!!

This year, we will do a rememberance rather than a birthday - it will appeal to more forum members. Let's see - must take off booties and count nails -

64 years ago was Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Lest we forget - but maybe we have...? (just think about it; don't get political on that keyboard!)

Mookie

[mudchicken]

QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

well i can make some chili or some hot beef soup.also made some hot cocoa.as for next week I noticed the de-tails on the calendar when we flipped it to december.such events people need time to prepare so i thought i'd give out an advisory. now i'm going back to hide. :0)
stay safe
Joe

Either the soup or chili,with the hot cocoa sounds great;put me in for some !!

Yeah,the calendar jumped up and got us for Dec. also;but we do have other
means for remembering some things.And no,it wasn't the wind blowing from
that direction.The dog may have to curl up,and hide in the corner also.[:0]

MC;kitty's only 29,was thinking younger than that[:0]

In Cat Years - once in the doghouse, always in the doghouse (My two furry buddies deeded over the doghouse here to me long ago)[:D]

PS - Tell CW whatever e-mail she sent recently got mutilated by the e-mail server at the mothership.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

well i can make some chili or some hot beef soup.also made some hot cocoa.as for next week I noticed the de-tails on the calendar when we flipped it to december.such events people need time to prepare so i thought i'd give out an advisory. now i'm going back to hide. :0)
stay safe
Joe

Either the soup or chili,with the hot cocoa sounds great;put me in for some !!

Yeah,the calendar jumped up and got us for Dec. also;but we do have other
means for remembering some things.And no,it wasn't the wind blowing from
that direction.The dog may have to curl up,and hide in the corner also.[:0]

MC;kitty's only 29,was thinking younger than that[:0]

[JoeKoh]

hmmm
hadnt heard about that MC but tis the season.M&W have a lot of cars to take and csx has alot of other cars to switch to.although i havent seen any cars in the new siding for the plastics factory since csx wedged their way in.
stay safe
joe

[mudchicken]

Joe:

(1) Kitty be 29 and holding ... and you don't have 9 lives either! (friendly advice from somebody who already has "Mud" for a moniker)

(2) Your two widdle froggies at Defiance outside the plant sparked-up some serious jabs between the two railroads yesterday. I think the gloves came off before the bell rang. (Good 'Ol playground brawl has started)[B)]

Dirty Feathers[banghead][banghead][banghead]

[JoeKoh]

well i can make some chili or some hot beef soup.also made some hot cocoa.as for next week I noticed the de-tails on the calendar when we flipped it to december.such events people need time to prepare so i thought i'd give out an advisory. now i'm going back to hide. :0)
stay safe
Joe

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Lunch today will be leftover pork chop abracadbra from supper last night, and
the regular burgers, hot dogs (No, Mutt is still very much alive!!), and have some
more homemade Christmas Cookies for dessert, along with Jell-O.

HOT DOGS,My Foot (paws) I'm COLD,need some
HOTsoup to warm up with !![:D]
At least I didn't have to go from "sign-post" to "sign-post" today.[:D]

Chris,was great talking to you also,maybe next time we'll have
'vision' phones,and really see each other.

Mook,be careful about de-tail;don't think you need to go to a re-tail
store yet.[:D][}:)]

[Mookie]

Joe sucker punched me and I now owe him one back. Here I was all ready for a good cake sale! Can't get into the mood until after 12/1........

Chris - I checked my list and SD9 6124 isn't on my list! I do have 6 others, however! [^]

BC - detail is waving.....and taking de-tail into hiding at least one day next week! Forced vacation! Drat! Down with personal days!

Moo.....

[cherokee woman]

Lunch is ready, folks; got it made early, as I'm busy washing clothes.
Mutt's gone to the dentist, for his "screening" to see how his bottom
gum is healing. The denture process is to begin the first week of
January.

[CShaveRR]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

ooo - details! I need details!!!!!

[banghead]Oh, really?

[sigh]Details on de kitten!

And de kitten should be boogeyin', if we're lucky.[swg][:-^]

[CShaveRR]

Oh, for the record, it's the dragon flu.

I'm up, have a good appetite, but everything's just draggin'! Hard to lift even an arm.

Chris, I'm looking forward to seeing what that camera of yours got while you were out with us. We'll have to make a point of getting a bunch of people together at Rochelle, Aurora, or Elmhurst sometime while you're up. Your dates coincide almost exactly with those that my daughter and son-in-law will be back from California (they're flying Southwest--cheaper than Amtrak!).

[CShaveRR]

MC: In a perfect world, that's what would happen, right?

We've had one of our longer tracks out of service for over a month. I expect that it will still be out when I go back tomorrow, and probably for the winter.

I've been dealing with an out-of-service retarder that needs a part (they call it a potentiometer; it's been described as a piece of string!). I expect to have to deal with that, along with other retarders that can't be tightened any tighter, for the foreseeable future. New shoes on that one would do wonders!

Every Tuesday morning the hump is shut down for "maintenance". If the hump is maintained and nobody's there to hear it, does it have an effect?

[mudchicken]

Welcome back Chris. The placing of bets on when the Colorado weatherman actually gets the forecast right and sticks to it has begun. (Changes every 6 hours)- 'tis the season!

Carl: If the yard is so effectively empty, are the track people busy down in the bowl? (loose nuts & bolts, spikes, general clean-up?) When that happened in LA, it was yard cleaner season.

[CopCarSS]

Tip Top of the Morning Everyone,

Well, I'm safely back in the Centennial State, though not exactly after a pleasant journey. The CZ managed to be 7 hours late. While this bugged me a little, part of it was related to the weather, so I was ready to forgive that.

What I'm not ready to let go is the fact that with a couple exceptions, the crew was less than congenial in dealing with the problem. Add to that heat that intermittently worked (thankfully I always carry a fleece blanket), a gentleman across the aisle who thought it OK to watch movies til 1:30 in the morning without headphones (and the crew not seeming to care about it), and no breaks on pricing for diner/cafe services and it was somewhat of a miserable trip.

Now I don't feel so bad about what I did just before I left Chicago. I purchased plane tickets for my December trip on Frontier Airlines. I'm not a huge fan of dealing with security (especially with the camera gear I carry...man do they love to check through that!), but I got very early flights, so the lines shouldn't be too long.

Speaking of which, I'll be back in Chicago from Dec 21st through January 3rd. Would love to try to get a gathering of forum-dwellers together while I'm in town.

I've got a lot of work to do on the pictures I took, but I'm going to try to start getting them processed tonight and tomorrow. Hopefully will be able to share some with you all very soon (including a fire breathing GE I caught at Naperville while waiting for #5!).

Once again, many thanks to Carl and Pat for the hospitality they showed while I was back there. It was a delight to meet both of you. Likewise, it was great to talk to Walt and Paula while at Rochelle. I certainly feel lucky to have such a great online family!

TTFN!

P.S. Mookie, SD9 6124 was hanging around the Denver yards as we were pulling into Union Station.

[blhanel]

C-c-c-c-hristmas c-c-c-ookies!!! Y-y-yum!

Sorry, but my teeth are chattering- 12 degrees on the thermometer right now-

[cherokee woman]

Good morning, everyone!! Jim, hope you get plenty of rest and sleep today.

Carl and Ed, hope you're feeling better very soon.

Mookie, Mutt and I are here. Been a little busy this morning; that's why I'm late
getting in here this morning. Starting to figure out the bills for tomorrow. (yuck)

Now, getting down to business: Breakfast is ready. We have nice hot oatmeal
with toast, sausage and biscuits & gravy.

Am working on a vey special cake for a very special person!! Mookie, watch your
email: Mutt has something special he's sending you via email. (No flaming
surprises!)

Lunch today will be leftover pork chop abracadbra from supper last night, and
the regular burgers, hot dogs (No, Mutt is still very much alive!!), and have some
more homemade Christmas Cookies for dessert, along with Jell-O.

[JoeKoh]

also something about the fire department on standby?
stayin safe
Joe

[Mookie]

ooo - details! I need details!!!!!

[JoeKoh]

hey mookie
i hear they are having a cake contest in lincoln next week? did i read the article right?
hiding out in ohio
stay safe
joe

[Mookie]

Turn the blankets up to medium people! The wind has lessened, but still out there and a tad bit of snow, too.

We will need to take attendance. Everything is so changeable - haven't found Chris, Tree is somewhere, Ed and Carl are sick, Tom "drifts" in and out, etc....

So if you are out there, you need to check in at the front door of the diner....

Joe, CW, Mutt - will record your entry - I will guard the fire in the fireplace....

@

[Anonymous]

Good morning all [8D]

Well I worked Monday night then worked Tuesday day. I went to bed about 8 pm Tuesday night and got up around 11:30 or so. After this post I am going back to bed. Duchess has been walked during this "up" period so hopefully no more "wake ups" until around 8 am.

Things were sure crazy over the holiday period and all weekend. Now maybe it will be a little better. I am so tired I don't know if I am in Lead, Trail, or have bypassed the Alerter. [:0] [8] [B)] [}:)] [;)] [8D]

Well, <yawn>, I guess I am hitting the sack again. It certainly is nice being in a warm bed on this cold, windy, chilly night.

[CShaveRR]

Sarah, I hope to feel a bit better soon. Went out in spite of things today, and am likely to do some necessary shopping and visiting again tomorrow. I will survive; I'm able to get a little "homework" done.

That looked like quite a squall line headed your way. It might be what's left of the great Midwestern Blizzard, which seems to have passed us by, for the most part.

[jeaton]

Carl- What can we say-An early quit is an early quit!

That reminds me. It was about 7 years ago when I made my first trip in decades on Amtrak. Took the Capital Limited from DC to Chicago. Don't know what day of the week, but CSX's Cumberland Yard was pushing the last cut from the inbound yard over the hump and the bowl and the outbound yard barely had enouugh cars to make up anything like a respectable train. I wondered then if on my next trip by there would be any thing but weedy ballast in the space. On my last trip coming back a couple of weeks ago, the it didn't look like there was room for another modest cut of cars and trains were stashed all around the place.

Times do change.

Jay

[CSXrules4eva]

Well, today over here in Philadelphia it got up to 70 degrees here! It was really warm out. I'm begining to wonder if we are going to get any snow this year?/ Last year we didn't get too much due to warm weather in the winter. Usually when that happens the winter after, really hits hard like, the blizzard of 1996 over here in Philadelphia. I miss that blizzard, I had off from school for a two weeks and I think we received 3ft of snow, something like that. Well, its raining here now,and is very windy out. I hope the power doesn't go out.

Carl, this is an order..... GET WELL SOON, ok.

[CShaveRR]

No bonus, Jay--and not unexpected. Monday and Tuesday are normally slow, coming after the civilized world's weekends, and this was after a very long weekend. Of course, things will be winding down until the slowest week of the year, starting around Christmastime.

However, I did get to come home after only 7 hours 55 minutes on duty! Got paid for eight hours--that was my "bonus".

Banana pudding is something I haven't had for a long time. I think the pudding will help soften the adverse effect bananas have on me (mild allergic reaction, I suspect).

[Anonymous]

Very windy and very cold here today. I could use some hot choco and warm cookies.

I followed everybody led and hung my outside lights over the weekend - it was in the 50's and now its in the 20's.

[cherokee woman]

Supper is now being served. If you don't like any of the veggies listed for
tonight, also have some green beans w/onions & potatoes.

Joe, I've made some mixed fruit Jell-O w/sliced bananas especially
for Matt. Hope he enjoys it. And have plenty of banana pudding for
everyone else.

[jeaton]

Carl-The crew get a bonus when you empty the yard? (I suppose the people in charge of road operations were trying to blame the weather or something.) [}:)][}:)][:D]

Jay

[CShaveRR]

Was looking, Mutt--they haven't turned up yet! I thought there were others when somebody got a copy last year [:)], but can't find 'em now.

We were out and about for a while today. A few in-your-face snow pellets driven by strong wind. For lunch I had the chicken, no noodles, no soup. Then we had to buy a spool of thread--"Dark Spinach". There's a connection there, bright people!

We had the receiving yard emptied out when we went home last night. Today, the trains were running like crazy. We had six or seven at Elmhurst in about an hour.