Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[cherokee woman]

Good Sunday morning, everyone! It's a glorious day: COOL AIR!

Sunday morning brunch: leftover pizza, along with western omelettes, and,
of course, sausage and biscuits & gravy, and fried taters.

[Anonymous]

CW, we cranked the band up extra loud last night. Didn't realize we blew the cool air all the way to KY! The people on the dance floor must've really taken a beating! [(-D]
Much cooler today, going to work in the yard all day. Will stop in later for supper and a cool drink. Willy

[CSXrules4eva]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

Up a little early this morning. Going to Chicago to check out the refurbished Empire Builder which will be open for a public look today. I'll take a glass of OJ, coffee to go and see you all later.

Jay

<Puppy dogg eyes> and <sigs>. I wish I was going to Chicago today. It beats sitting here in borring Springfield Twh doing nothing.

[doghouse]

CSXrules: Philly is boring? With all those trains in your area it can't be that boring. You should see it where I live. No class 1's whatsoever. The only crossings up here are moose crossings. Speaking of the weather, our low for friday morning was 37! Cool enough for all of you?

[coborn35]

Here are some pics from work yesterday:

Heres me switching in the yard, we were not moving at the time:


Heres another shot of the same locomotive:


Me and my friend are in the process of restoring former DMIR bay window caboose C-205:


Here are the insides (we are still cleaning it, it is only 1/3 clean):


One of our speeders:


Finally, and lets keep this hush hush,lol, I got to run the BUDD CAR in the yard. Now we couldnt go over 10 mph (yard limits) but it was very fun!!!:

[cherokee woman]

Here's the supper menu for tonight:

roast beef w/potatoes, carrots & onions, green beans, and cole slaw.

Dessert: chocolate cake, and chocolate ice cream; or, you can have
white cake with caramel icing, and neopolitan ice cream, or sherbet.

[railfan619]

Hey good afternoon everyone how are we all doing fine. I hope well comes to another weekend but anyway hope everyone has a good week at work and I will be talkin to you all later Oh CW can we thorw some watermelon onto that list for tonight I have a taste for some [C=:-)][dinner][dinner]

[TrainFreak409]

Coborn35; more great pictures! Keep 'em coming!

[JoeKoh]

nice pics.thanks for sharing.better save some of that cake for mookie.
stay safe
joe

[cherokee woman]

Don't worry Joe: there's some cake saved to Mookie. I wouldn't DARE make
a cake over the weekend, and NOT save some back for the Mookster. I value
my life too much!![:D]

[railfan619]

Have a good night everyone and I will be talkin to you all tomorrow. Oh CW I have an idea why don't all of in the diner have one more big cookout for the year you know just to have a little more fun before summer comes to a close and everyone can bring something to this cookout like I can bring brats or hotdogs and everyone else can bring anything they want I'll even bring the grill do you prefer gas or carcoal and yes some one can even bring pizza you if they want to anyway if you like this idea email. Me back with a date Ok[dinner][dinner] But for now Iam going to go back this show on 9/11 so have a good night [zzz][zzz][zzz][zzz]

[locomutt]

Pat,
I imagine we'll have a BIG TO DO over the Labor Day
weekend at the very least;and if we have some good days
even after,you'll probably see one of us out grilling.
It' not time to put the grills up just yet.[:D][dinner]

[Mookie]

> sniff.....

choc.... pizz.....YOW!

mmfftmmgrbl....yum...

^~^

[cherokee woman]

Good morning everyone! Mookie, glad to see you enjoyed the food from
the weekend, that I saved for you! Personally made sure they were
guarded well, so you could have it this morning.

Breakfast this morning: toast, cereal, sausage, biscuits and gravy.

Pat, Labor Day Weekend is just a week and a half away. There will be
grilling all weekend. You asked which grill I prefer: gas or charcoal.
Doesn't really matter to me, but food does seem to taste better when
it's cooked over a charcoal grill.

[jeaton]

Two more stars for Hemphill. That makes about 10 total. GO TO THE HEAD OF THE LINE AT THE DFAC.

Yesterday-Amtrak Hiawatha service Milwaukee to Chicago, remarks by Amtrak's midwest management crew and front to back tour of the refurbished equipment for the Empire Builder. Beside new wall finish, carpets and cushions, changes to fixtures in rest rooms make them a bit more spacious and easier to give them a good cleaning. Refurb on the Sightseer lounge added tables for four at one end of the upper level and, more comfortable seating. Nice job. Rode the EB back to Milwaukee and called it a good day.

Cool and sunny here today. Biscuits and gravy sound good. Need the energy carbs as we get back to work on the floor.

Jay

[Modelcar]

.....Official summer runs until around September 21th....and in general, at least here in central Indiana we can have very nice weather even in October....Nice clear days with sunshine, low 70's temps and crisp nights....No humidity problems. So Locomutt can't see why you won't have plenty of nice days to do more ouside grilling in your area....

[CShaveRR]

My Labor Day will probably be just like any other Monday--work! In the event it isn't, the UP's UTU locals are having a picnic at one of the area Forest Preserves. Free food (various grilled things), plenty to drink, especially if you're into beer. I've found that I have to bring my own diet pop, though.

The nicest thing about these picnics is that quite often a lot of the retirees come out of the woodwork--you get to see a lot of your old buddies.

[cherokee woman]

Lunch is now being served: have grilled some burgers, hotdogs, steak, and
pork chops. Also have corn on the cob, and there's plenty of cake, ice cream
and sherbet left for dessert.

Supper tonight: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas and carrots.
And some of Mark's Clementine oranges for dessert.

[JoeKoh]

fried chicked mashed potatoes?man all Ive been hearing about is food all day I'm hungry!
stay safe
Joe

[coborn35]

BRING THE FOOD ON!

[CSXrules4eva]

Well have I got a story to tell today!!

I got to witness my very first big explosion today! I was going along with one of my co-workers on a road test. We were getting off of the Blue Route aka 276 on out exit Norristown which really brings you to the begining of Conshohocken, PA. Anyway from the ramp I heard and saw a very BIG ENORMOUS BOOM!!!!!! And tons of white hot flames and thick black smoke. I've never ever seen anything like that before. It turns out that some idiot cut a tanker truck off and it had crashed. This happened on the interchanges of Mid County on the PA Turnpike aka 476. Which might I add is a very very conjested interchange. This interchange is only one mile from were I was.

Thank goodness no one was hurt and the driver of the tanker escaped before the tanker blew. Becides this that has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen, in terms of blowing stuff up. It bets building rocket launchers out of aluminum 6 in diameter exhaust pipes!!!!!!!!!!!

doghouse Posted: 21 Aug 2005, 13:44:18 Quote
CSXrules: Philly is boring? With all those trains in your area it can't be that boring. You should see it where I live. No class 1's whatsoever. The only crossings up here are moose crossings. Speaking of the weather, our low for friday morning was 37! Cool enough for all of you?

doghouse I hate to let you know this but Philadelphia is very boring in terms of freight traffic ever since the good old railroads like PRR, Reading, Eire, Lackawanna, B&O, C&O, ect......... shut down. Traffic just picked up and moved out west to places like Chicago which has all of the class ones except KCS. Over here we have more than enough abandoned lines and Rights of Way. There are also tons of passenger action over here like Septa, NJT, Amtrak.

[railfan619]

Hey good afternoon everyone how are we all doin Iam just fine aside from driving all day long but any way so what's happening with everyone hope eveyone is enjoying the rest of thier summer while hear in wisconsin we are feeling temps in the 50's and 60's which feels really great for a change instead of temps in 70's and 80's or even the hot and humid. 90's which. I really hate So any like I said these temps feel really great [:D][:D]

[JoeKoh]

well every dog has their day.today is sunflowers bday.(by our guesstamations).she is now 11 years old.so [bday] sunflower
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

[bday] Sunflower! Here's an extra bowl of kibbles for you, along with a new
doggie toy.

[locomutt]

[bday] Sunflower;I did bring a doggie toy for you,but did
refrain from bring any extra food, since you've been helping
wa***he dishes and you already had an extra bowl of 'kibbles'. [swg]

[mudchicken]

Happy Birthday to Sunflower from Angus and Andy (My Scotch Whiskey Add)

[mudchicken]

CW: Yes I'm fried, but it's a mental thing[:D][:D][:D]

(think the Kerosene fumes around DIA this week are having their toll)

[cherokee woman]

Mudchicken, I wasn't talking about you being fried.

Today is Produce Day, so I've got breakfast all ready for you all, and
it's on the breakfast bar staying nice and warm: sausage, biscuits
& gravy, scrambled eggs.

Will be back in after I'm through with the Produce.

[Mookie]

Fried Chicken? ^~^ ???? I'm all ears!

[JoeKoh]

with the nicer weather we've been having how about some onions and peppers for chili from the market.could make a mild batch and a fire breatheing batch.
stay safe
Joe