Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

Brian-Don't know for sure. It was in Vilas County near Manitowish Waters. I suspect that you have the snow issue correct. Until the current "thaw" started, we had a foot of very powdery snow. Definately slows the lake freezing process.

Jay

Holy cow, that's WAY up there. We've been up to the Eagle River area a couple of times on vacation. Pretty country.

Well, we're back home again, and I'm ready to head out and make use of the gift card I got as one of my gifts. Our family played a fun little game as part of our gift exchange- my Mom gave everyone a list of stores that she had $40 gift cards for, and then we passed around a cup with two dice. Whenever anyone rolled doubles, they had to stand up and wish everyone else Merry Christmas, and then they could pick the store that they wanted the gift card for. I was lucky enough to roll doubles early, and got to pick one of my favorite places, Menards (the regional home improvement store). Alright, more lumber for the model railroad!

[cherokee woman]

Quinton, our temps are in the middle 50s, with sunshine now. We had some
very light rain earlier. Supposed to be getting more later on this afternoon.

Lunch today will continue on the light side: leftover soup from last night, with
BLTs to go with it.

Willy, hope you back gets better. Mutt's back has been bothering him quite a
bit since Sunday afternoon.

[CSXrules4eva]

Well, I 'm glad to see that I'm not the only one in here that has been receiving unusually strange warm weather durring winter time. It felt like spring here yesterday, and if feels like spring out here today. I'm beginging to wonder if the great state of beautiful Pennsylvania is going to get anymore snow, period this year?/ Ok.........I know don't give up hope for snow just yet. At least I got to snowboard once this year.

CW I think, I will take one BLT and a bowl of soup. I'll also have a sprite to go with that please.

[rvos1979]

Hello everyone.....

Belated Merry Christmas to everyone, I had a nice Christmas back home at my parent's in Burlington, WI. We invited my grandparents from my mom's side over for Christmas eve, had dinner and opened presents. Went to my grandmothers' house on Sunday, my dad's side of the the family is the only one that understands that cows need to be milked on schedule (almost 28 years and mom's side of the family still can't figure out why my dad needs to leave at 3:30 for chores). I also decided to grace my moms' side of the family with my presence, but that was pretty much just watching the Packer-Bear game.

At the rate this weather is going, I'll probably be able to take by new bike on a test ride this weekend on all the bike trails in Madison. Temps have been between 30 and 40 degrees for the last 5-6 days or so, and it looks like it will stay that way for a little while longer.

A bowl of soup sounds good, CW. I'll take it over in the corner wher I have my PS2 set up. Don't let Matt over by me-I'll be playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and that game is definately not for him!!

Randy

[jeaton]

Brian

Article in the Janesville paper tells the story. (front page today) http://www.gazetteextra.com/
As you can see, Mark was very well known and highly regarded in the community.

Jay

[railfan619]

Good afternoon how are we all doin today fine and dandy. I hope well today is another ugly day here in wisconsin the skies are grey it cold and rainy. It's a good day to stay in bed and do nothing but unfortanly I can't do that but anywho I do see light at the end of this tunnel. Oh CW what's for din din since I have not really been around that much but I still have a couple of days of my vaction to spend time here in the diner with all of you. Which is a very good thing. Oh well I shall be going now and I will be talkin to you all later.

[Anonymous]

Another Rainy Day in the Chicago Area. So no railfanning.

[railfan619]

[#welcome] to the fourms John J. Poshepny you will have alot of fun here. [:D][tup]

[JoeKoh]

john welcome to the forums.
randy dont worry about matt hes more interested in running the trains.
for supper tonight mamma made some tuna noodle casserole.
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

John, [#welcome] to the forums. We're always glad to have new people
drop in. Hope you enjoy your visits to the Depot Diner and Coffee Shop.
(If you good ole country/down home cooking, you'll absolutely love it here!)

Joe, be sure and give Momma a big Thank You for me for the tuna casserole.

[Anonymous]

Evenin all,
Just woke up from a long winters nap. Love that vicadin.
Great now I'll be up all night.
Carl, have you got in touch with Chris since he's been home? Don't know his schedule, but I thought I'd give him a buzz at Moms. Might be up for some chasing this weekend.
Well, Mama's cooking supper so I can't eat at the Diner but will sneak in for dessert in a little bit. Willy

[Anonymous]

Got nothing done today, I wanted to do some cleaning oh well that can be done tommorow.

[Anonymous]

Thanks to jhhtrainsplanes for recruting me here.

[railfan619]

[#welcome] to the fourms AMTK200 you'll have alot of fun in here and you'll learn alot of diffrent things from everybody

[CShaveRR]

Hi, all!

A BLT sounds positively great. Hope I can get one this late in the day.

Willy, I finally got hold of Chris this morning. He had wheels available to him, so he went out to Rochelle. Pat, my son-in-law (also Chris), and I met him out there. In spite of trackwork being done at the diamonds (building up the frogs, I suspect), there were plenty of trains today. I wluld say that 80 percent of what I saw (all UP--no BNSF except in their yard) was coal movements, loaded and empty, split up about evenly. We joined Chris for lunch, and braved the cold, wet weather for a little while before heading back home.

[blhanel]

You guys were at the pavilion today? Brrrrrrrr!!!!! I think I'm developing a case of cabin fever here- I'm sure getting tired of cloudy, foggy, misty, dreary weather. My son and his girlfriend are spending the week with us; she's originally from Tampa, now LA, and has never experienced this kind of weather before.

She'll probably never want to come back.

[cherokee woman]

Good Thursday morning, everyone! Carl, I know you and Pat enjoyed visiting
with Chris yesterday. Also know that you all had a good time, in spite of the
cold, wet weather. And Carl, you know that you can get a BLT any time
of the day in here.

Breakfast this morning: we'll start with fresh brewed coffee, hot tea, hot cocoa/
chocolate, and juice (orange, orange/tangerine, and pineapple). Then you'll
have your choice of: oatmeal & toast, or turkey bacon, scrambled eggs and
pancakes, or sausage, biscuits and sausage gravy with your choice of hash
browns or fried potatoes.

Joe, once again, please thank Momma for me on the tuna noodle caserole
last night. That was really good and tasty.

Everyone have a great morning, and I'll be back in a little bit to post the lunch
specials for today.

[JoeKoh]

mamma says no problem.I know la mook isnt here but i know shes grinning from ear to ear about the alamo bowl game last night.one more day for work this year then go back on tuesday night of 2006.
stay safe
Joe

[railfan619]

Good morning everyone how is we all doin today fine and dandy. I hope well only two more days of the year 2005 and then we start into the year 2006. But anywho that's really about it from this end oh besides I got to go to work today but oh well it keeps me out of trouble which is always a good thing but I shall be going now and I will be talkin to you all later. [:D][:D]

[CopCarSS]

Good day to you all,

Sorry I've been the shy silent type lately. Been a hectic schedule on this trip so far. Thakfully was able to get out yesterday and enjoy a day of railfanning, and meeting up with Carl, Pat and Chris.

Carl, I must tell you what I did after we parted way, though. I travelled back to Aurora by "stairstepping" (running South and East to keep intersecting the Southeast running BNSF) on country roads along the Aurora sub. At one point I saw a headlight in the distance and parked the car to get a shot from a shallow hill along the roadside. Lo and behold when I went running onto the hill, I found a showdrift waiting for me, and managed to get buried waist deep!

I did manage to get a shot, and then set about freeing myself (and retrieving a shoe lost in the drift).

Also managed to catch a manifest with a CSX unit on the point. That turned out to be a pretty neat shot despite low light levels (it was taken right around 4:00 with that heavy overcast).

Will get everything posted as soon as possible.

Anyways, hope you all had a very nice Christmas, and I wish you all the best in 2006!

[cherokee woman]

Chris, good to hear from you! Hope your shoe has dried out.

Lunch today will be: beef vegetable soup w/cornbread (or crackers,
if you prefer them in your soup), and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Dessert for lunch: white cake w/glaze over it.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Chris, good to hear from you! Hope your shoe has dried out.

Lunch today will be: beef vegetable soup w/cornbread (or crackers,
if you prefer them in your soup), and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Dessert for lunch: white cake w/glaze over it.

After that lunch it'll the eyes with a glaze.... [dinner]

[CShaveRR]

Wow! Where'd you manage to find a waist-deep snowdrift soft enough to be so accommodating? But you got your shot, frozen foot notwithstanding, and that's what's important.

Our main line provided us with a steady stream of westbounds as we were headed east, and we managed to get blocked by three trains (on two tracks) where the tracks cross 38 between West Chicago and Geneva. Good argument in favor of the CREATE plan (and this is one of the targeted grade crossings).

[CSXrules4eva]

Carl and Chris what is this I'm hearing about snowdrifts waist deep??// If you have some snow I want some, so feel freee to send it across the contental (SP) divide over here, to the Northeastern portion of the United States.

Speaking of snow, it is raining here in Philadelphia today, I cheaked out the Schuylkill River today, there is nothing to get excited over there isn't any catastrophic flooding going on, I might go back there a little later today and record the river changes. Actually, I'll go to the Conshohocken dropoff of the Schuylkill River and record the data there, that section of the river tends to experience the roughest rapids, and the most flooding.

[cherokee woman]

Since there wasn't that many people in for lunch today, the beef vegetable
soup is also on the supper menu tonight, along with baked cornbread.

[Anonymous]

Mmm.... Beef Soup I like it.

[JoeKoh]

soup sounds like a good plan for supper tonight.the snow melt has caused our rivers to go up but not flood too badly yet.
amtk 200 welcome to the forums.you'll like it here
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

And the beef vegetable soup and cornbread are now ready .[C=:-)]

I want to see everybody eat up; especially the ones who have been
out in rain or snow. [dinner]

[jeaton]

Made to Cinci about an hour ago. Checked into motel with free Wi-Fi, so the new lap-top will get some work. I'lltake a bowl of soup, a short nap and then over to stepsons housefor a few hours.

Later.

[cherokee woman]

Jay, good to know that you made safely to Cincy. Here's your soup, and
then get that nap in!!