Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[Modelcar]

...Looks like mother nature is helping us here in the lower midwest now for the next several days....Maybe the next 5 days....Jet Stream to remain at the top edge of the US holding back those Artic cold fronts from swooping down into our area.....and as long as it remains there it will do so...So it's the 40's and 30's while that is happening here with just a bit of rain or flurries in that time period. That is better than much of December was here.

[tree68]

Day started out sunny here. Made a trip to town about dark and it was gently snowing as I arrived home again. Weather station had -3 at 8 am, but it's more reasonable now. Rather have snow than rain right now - when it rains it just gets cold again and everything is icy.

Pizza with ham & pineapple please...

Randy - My son is in the tire business on the upper left coast. A snow day means everybody goes to work, even if it's your day off....

[JoeKoh]

will take some pizza for a late night snack.matt is doing much better he is resting with mamma.
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

How's the chicken soup here? I do needs me thick low sodium broth, with bits of baby spinach, then lotsa carrots, celery, & onions. I don't care too much for noodles. Could you please substitute rice instead? Peppercorns, garlic. No crackers! Three or four sticks hearty rye (or choose your own dipping bread) to top it off would be great, thank you so much :-)

[JoeKoh]

sounds like a cure for whats going sround here.Jim special soup could be put on the menu.i'll talk to the cook.juice and coffee are ready to go this morning and we are warming up the waffle iron for waffles.
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

Jim, a batch of your chicken soup is coming right up.

Joe, thank you so much for starting the coffee, and making the juice.
And the waffles sound sooooo good this morning. Been up about
a half hour, and when I did wake up, it was with a pounding headache!

Everybody, be sure you're back here for Sunday Dinner today: we're having
country fried chicken, mashed potatoes, cream style corn, peas, and nice,
hot biscuits. Dinner will be ready at 1 p.m. EST.

[SactoGuy188]

Good morning and hello to everyone here! [#welcome]

I'm always a sucker for a good breakfast--how about a stack of pancakes? [:D]

[railfan619]

Good morning everyone how are we all doin today. Fine and dandy I hope it's been a while since I have been in here but. I have been at work all week long and last week tuesday I did not get home until 11:00 but that's another story but anywho that's about it from this end. OH Cw whats for din din cause I'm really hungry. [:D]

[JoeKoh]

[#welcome] SG 188
you'll find we are friendly bunch here in the diner and if you have any suggestions or train questions feel free to ask.CW dinner was soo good need some for work tonight.
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

Joe, have a go-go container all fixed for you for work tonight. Pick it on your
way to work.

SactoGuy188,[#welcome] to the Depot Diner and to the forums. Always
glad to have new patrons. Come in anytime.

And, for general info, there's plenty of fried chicken, etc. for supper tonight.

[Kozzie]

Good morning everyone! (well, it's morning down here, ha ha ha) and thanks to Joe, Chad, Sarah, and any one else I've missed, for your kind thoughts for my engagement.

Just fired up 'puter and being "Monday Morning at Work", the first coffee of the day went down very well! Plus some wholemeal toast and Vegemite - that savory black stuff we spread on our bread and toast down here...I know - probably looks vile to some, but it is real good stuff!

Dave

[tree68]

"...He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich..."

Looks like the wind vane for my weather station finally dried out. For the last couple of weeks every time the temperature went below freezing the wind ceased changing direction (or at least that's how it looked on the hourly log). It was solid, too. Tried tapping on it with a long pole and it wouldn't budge....

Chicken delicious, as always.

SG188 - We're honored that you chose the Diner for your first post. Be sure to look around the rest of the forum - lot's of good people and great information.

[CSXrules4eva]

SactoGuy188 welcome to the DD&CS, I'm sure you'll love it here! Espeacilly the food!!! [#welcome] Also, welcome to the forums.

Well, lets see what happened today?///.....hum..................um...................baisicly nothing. I caught a BNSF pumkin Dash-944CW heading up a NS manifest. I thought that was both weired and nice, due to the fact that the great state of Pennsylvania doesn't get any BNSF power.

Right now I'm sitting here at the computer typing, listing to Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony preformed by the New York Philharmonic; I'm in the middle of the second movement. Lastly, I'm eating a cup cake vanella. As of now, that is the extent of my activities.

[CShaveRR]

Sarah, Mahler 7 is one of my favorites, as I suspect you know [;)]!

The first movement sounds like it could have been written for an outer-space adventure (this was written about 100 years ago!). The second movement kind of plunges you into the night, the third is creepy, the fourth is a nice break from the creepiness, and the fifth is funny--like one of those plays that involve doors opening and closing on a hotel hallway. But the whole thing is spectacular.

I put my first bicycle miles on for the new year. Only 3001 to go to beat last year's total!

My trip took me to Elmhurst, where the cell-phone reception is bad ([;)] again!) but the train-watching wasn't--I got five trains going by me in short order; there was never a tile when one of those wasn't in sight, and moving.

Now I've got to go to bed, and get up in the morning for work (my first day ever for going to work at 0630 instead of 0700). That extra half hour's going to be a killer!

[blhanel]

Hey Carl, hopefully this spring I'm getting my Giant RinCon out and putting some serious miles on it. I'm now down about 38 pounds AND COUNTING. Starving tonight, though- gotta get a blood draw tomorrow morning for the Doc, hopefully to prove to her that I've reversed the diabetes indications she saw back in October.

//rummages around the Diner counter- Mmmm, leftover chocolate cake!

[jeaton]

We met my daughter for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory celebrating her birthday today and the temperature in the northern Chicago suburbs was 40+. Not quite as good in the cold state of Wisconsin-up to about 39- but, THE SUN WAS SHINING!!!!! After grey skies for so long, that was almost as good as catching a busy day at a favorite rail hot spot.

Oh yes, I should say I over ate, so I am passing on supper here. Back for something tomorrow.

Jay

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

//rummages around the Diner counter- Mmmm, leftover chocolate cake!

Drop the cake and no one gets hurt!

Masked Mook

[Mookie]

Well, I scared Brian from Iowa and he dropped the cake - right on the floor where it was just where I wanted it. Could have left the plate under it, but no matter.

Did two things this weekend - Sat was so nice - it was just under 60 degrees, so went train watching and then driver got in a little fly fishing at our local watering hole. No bites - the fish were busy teasing the geese.

Seems BNSF has a schedule of running all their traffic after dark. So when weather warms up overnight there will be a small lantern and pen and book next to the tracks with a dark figure writing notes. Don't worry, I will give him a cell phone in case he needs to call for backup.

In the event Mudchicken reads this: We are going to be known as the Rock & Roll Railyard. Even the engines rock a lot when they go through the east yard at 1st. It is getting a little scary again! And this is in the middle of all the tracks. Evidently that whole area is sinking again! Stay Tooned!

Now - COFFEE!!

[Mookie]

please & thank you!

[cherokee woman]

Good morning, everyone! We reached our high today (around 58 just after
midnight), and will be going downhill slowly all day today.

Coffee is ready, and juice is made. Breakfast will be: choices of turkey
bacon, scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits & gravy, oatmeal & toast.

Lunch today: beef stew w/cornbread.

[JoeKoh]

mookie
saw 2 bnsf sd40-2s in heritage 1 paint coming for home.we talked about it last summer but coming this summer i think matt will be old enough to camp at deshler. should be fun.
stay safe
Joe

[Mookie]

They are running a lot of those old 40's through here! No reason not to - they seem to do just fine. And we did see two KCS motors on headend - both 40's - pulling freight - heading north/east on Sat.

I think camping there would be great fun. Don't forget to pack the ketchup!

Auntie Mookie

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Well, I scared Brian from Iowa and he dropped the cake - right on the floor where it was just where I wanted it. Could have left the plate under it, but no matter.

10-second rule! I would assume that CW keeps the floors spotless...

[jeaton]

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Well, I scared Brian from Iowa and he dropped the cake - right on the floor where it was just where I wanted it. Could have left the plate under it, but no matter.

10-second rule! I would assume that CW keeps the floors spotless...

Bergie is on line now. He takes care of all the housekeeping on the forum, so I am sure this has been cleaned up.

[JoeKoh]

yes we run a clean ship in here.good thing mookie isnt in new york where they dumped chocolate into the east river.ever see a kitty swim?
stay safe
Joe

[CopCarSS]

And a tip top of the morning to you all,

My sincerest apologies for my absence of late here. My annual Christmas/New Years trip was quite full of activity this time around and thus I did not spend much time online. Now back in my fair state, I've been swamped at work and helped a friend with moving tasks over the weekend.

Anyways, had a good trip home, and it was certainly good to see Carl, Pat and Chris. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you all the best in 2006.

P.S. Will try to get some pictures processed sometime today or tonight. They're not really anything spectacular as it was gray/rainy for pretty much the whole trip. The new sig. shot is taken in Big Rock, IL. A pretty awful picture, but a little "moody," I guess.

[Kozzie]

Hey Chris, I really like your sig shot - you're right, a certain moodiness to it because of the low lighting and the train looming out of the greyness.......

Dave

[cherokee woman]

Chris, glad to know you made it home safely. That's a nice looking sig. pic!

Supper tonight will be: shrimp w/your choice of cocktail sauce or tarter
sauce, and home fries.

Sorry Mutt and I haven't been around this afternoon: we went to our
local libray this afternoon.

Dave, have you started coming down to earth yet? Or are you still
floating in the love clouds?

[Modelcar]

...Yipey....The DOW finally closes above 11,000 first time in roughly 5 years...! That's a good thing....Hope we have more of it.

[cherokee woman]

Noticed that Quintin: matter of fact, I had an email news alert about it.
Hope it continues to rise like that.