Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[Modelcar]

Developers now want to build everything right on top of the next building so more money can be made.....and when something happens it all is destroyed.
Built this house on the center of 2 100' lots to get plenty of space between us and it's worked out very well....Space between us..

[louisnash]

It is getting so warm here (55 today, 58 Saturday) in the Great State of Kentucky, I have a request for supper (that's what we call it here). We eat dinner at 12:00pm. Supper at 7:00.

Anyway, I want someone to grill me a big, juicy steak. Medium Well. I want a baked potato loaded. I need someone to make some baked beans. Some corn on the cob would go well also. And when I get done with that, I will make us some Homemade banana ice cream. Someone could supply a watermelon if they wanted.

Is anyone getting hungry yet? I can't wait for summertime. lol

Brian (KY)
40 miles from Cincinnati and 40 miles from Lexington KY along Interstate 75!!
GO BIG BLUE!!!

[JoeKoh]

brian
glad you're back in the diner!!! we could fire up the grill for you.hows has csx finished opening their hole down there in the hills?
stay safe
Joe

[rvos1979]

Afternoon everyone.......

Will someone kindly tell Ma Nature that it's the end of January?!? Not that I'm complaining, opened up the house for a bit to change the air (get rid of the nasty germ-infested air). Very strange to be 50 degrees in January. Brian, I've seen a lot of hats fly by, I'm sure one of them was yours.

Developers sure like to get their money's worth out of property, I've seen too many farm fields turned into subdivisions, usually the 'for sale' signs pop up three to five years after the subdivision is filled. All that good farmland going to waste.

I'll break the Friday tradition for once, and take a big plate of spaghetti for dinner.

Randy

[Anonymous]

Brian, I'll make you some good old New England baked beans (my grandmother's recipe). It uses a traditional New England secret ingridient - maple syrup. A guy a couple of towns from me has already had sap running this year and has done some early boiling. I'll use some Grade A Amber for the beans. Not everyone likes the Grade B that I like - the taste can be a little strong for those not used to it.

[Modelcar]

...Maple syrup sounds good for baked beans...Doesn't some company advertise that ingredient in their produced baked beans on the market.

[louisnash]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

brian
glad you're back in the diner!!! we could fire up the grill for you.hows has csx finished opening their hole down there in the hills?
stay safe
Joe

Joe,
The tunnel is officially gone now. I haven't been up there since the last pics I took, but our local paper had an article about it. It was also dicussed on Yahoo Ky Railfan. At one time they had someone there 24 hours allowing the trains through. I don't know if that's still the case now or not. The bridge is to be built by the end of the year, I think. Then I'll get my "After" photo of the area. The road is currently closed.

Brian (KY)

[louisnash]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainnutz

Brian, I'll make you some good old New England baked beans (my grandmother's recipe). It uses a traditional New England secret ingridient - maple syrup. A guy a couple of towns from me has already had sap running this year and has done some early boiling. I'll use some Grade A Amber for the beans. Not everyone likes the Grade B that I like - the taste can be a little strong for those not used to it.

I'll be waiting on those beans. Sounds like a tasty di***o me. Can't wait. I am starved.

Brian (KY)

[blhanel]

Hi Brian (KY) from Brian (IA)! Hey, let's get everyone confused. Maybe refer to us as Brian squared. I'll take a big helping of that spaghetti, please, and a couple of pieces of garlic toast. Hopefully that will hold me over for awhile- tearing down the computer tonight in preparation for the arrival of my new desk at home tomorrow (woot)! Hopefully I'll be back before the pizza comes out.

[cherokee woman]

Brian, welcome back!! We've missed seeing you around. Know you've been
busy with the boys, though, and they come first before any of us!!

With it being nice and warm, maybe we will fire up the grill for tonight. We
can grill the fish, grill steaks, and have a good ole Janurary/springtime bar-
beque. We'll put some corn on the cob on that grill, too. Brian, guess we'll
have to wait until summer to get some of that watermelon, though.

[CShaveRR]

Grill--as long as it isn't being used to warm up the kitten, I'm there!

I think we managed to scrape the lower end of the 50s today. Slept in (after working last night), and managed to get three more miles in on the bike. Now back to sleep!

(Gee, do I sound like my sister Jen, or what?)

[espeefoamer]

It's supposed to be cloudy this weekend.Nights are down in the 40s,but one of our 3 cats,the calico Maine Coon,is shedding a litle.I'll have a plate of spagheti,with a slice of garlic bread and a pice of Texas toast[dinner][:)].

[louisnash]

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

Hi Brian (KY) from Brian (IA)! Hey, let's get everyone confused. Maybe refer to us as Brian squared.

It would be a nasty thing to do to everyone. It's been a while since I've been on the forums, I almost forgot what it was like.

Brian (KY)

[louisnash]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Brian, welcome back!! We've missed seeing you around. Know you've been
busy with the boys, though, and they come first before any of us!!

Yes it has been and is as busy as you can get. 4 days of basketball practice. They play on Saturday's.

I still read through the forums every night, so I'm not missing to much. I just got really hungry for some odd reason and reading through the diner doesn't help a hungry man much at all.

Thanks for everything to CW and LM. You know I enjoy all the emails from you both.

Brian (KY)

[switch7frg]

cherokeewoman::..>>> I sure hope you have some skilet green beans &bacon with onions on the stove and skillet corn cake . Oh , with hot coffee to wash it all down .Just got back to the homeplace from Miles City Mont. >>> Me &626 Rattler were blown out of town bt some FIERCE wind . Took some tractor parts &equipt. up there ,,spent a week there one night trying to leave. Zero deg. most of time. Nice to be home.

[locomutt]

Brian (Ky)

Welcome back;we've missed you around here,try to check in more often !![:D]

We've got a real good situation going on here ,on the river;Late yesterday evening
three barges broke loose from their tow,two were sort of captured,but the third
one sort of "banged" it's way around the hydro plant,then went through one of
the dam gates and on downstream,coming to rest against the K & I T bridge.
(against two of the piers)River current is so strong,that besides trapping it there,
it's also turned the barge on its side. Now it is leaking asphalt,and a bunch of diesel
into the river.(diesel for heaters,to keep the asphalt warm) From the last I heard on
the news,it will be at least Mon.,before ANY removal work can start.

[CSXrules4eva]

Ut oh I think someone named louisnash, is stealing my phrase!! For the great state of..... Those of you who have read my posts, those that know me, and thoes that look at my profile signiture know that when I talk about my state I always say the following. In the "Great State of Pennsylvania". hehehe

Brian, I think your hat did make it to the Burmuta Triangle. It did blow past me a couple of days ago, I saw it go by but, couldn't get to it in time, so it made it's way way way way way up the Susquehanna River, sorry. I would of returned it!

Well, I went railfaning today. I started out at 5 pm it was near dark. Anyway, I went out to Abrams Yard which is on NS's Harrisburg Division, in Upper Merion Twh, in the great state of Pennsylvania. When I reached the front of the yard I saw the strangest thing. One Dash-940CW, a Dash-840C, and a Belvidere & Delaware River GP9, all heading up a manifest out of Harrisbrug destoned for Philadelphia. That is my first time ever seeing a GP 9 in person! Here is the sad part. I couldn't get a shot of it because, it was a little bit too dark. So I waited and heard over the scanner that they were going to run through Bridgeport. So the train starts to move, and I hurry up and rush in the truck, and drove like a mad woman from Upper Merion over to Bridgeport. When I get there ............lets say I ened up waiting for over 2 hours for the train to get there.....and it's only about (5miles from were I was in Upper Merion). So, now its completely dark, and when the train finally comes through, guess what there is no GP9 in the consist, so basiclly I waited two hours in the freezing cold for two generic NS GE units. [:(!][banghead][censored]

[Anonymous]

I took Amtrak to Sprigfield, IL Today. Had a nice trip.....

[JoeKoh]

good mornig
juice and coffee are ready to go.matt and I watched the I&O and maumee and western in action.csx had a busy early afternoon then it was quiet.but when we got in the driveway and the sun had gone down we heard them coming into town.matt got extra cookies when we had supper.
stay safe
joe

[CShaveRR]

Now Sarah, if you'd been train-watching up here, the engine might have gone by you--but so would a train in the opposite direction, right in front of it!

Rainy this morning--supposed to last all day, maybe some snow mixed in tomorrow.

[cherokee woman]

Good morning, everyone! Joe, thanks for getting the coffee on, and making
the juice! Just couldn't wake up this morning. Was talking with someone
on the phone until about quater to one this morning.

Saturday brunch will be: country fried ham w/redeye gravy, biscuits, gravy,
and if anyone doesn't want country fried ham, we also have sausage for
breakfast. We also have some orange marmalade and some apple butter
to go on those biscuits.

Everyone have a safe day. We're to have a high today in the upper 50s, with
nice sunshine; then, rain coming in tonight sometime.

[Modelcar]

Saturday morning here in Muncie is pretty nice....Just was out to mailbox for paper and it feels like spring...45 and no wind and the sun peeking through a layer of clouds at the horizon....
Mutt, that sounds like a wild situation with the river barge you mention...I always tried to see what action I could see as we passed over the I-65 bridge there heading south, etc.....Once we came down the Ohio River from Madison, In. on a small boat and in passing those barges along the way they sure do look menacing....Something to stay out of the way of for sure....Massive and threatening from that angle.

[Anonymous]

CW, I still have baked beans left. When I made them yesterday, I used my grandmother's recipe but with the "church supper" quantities (enough to feed Hannibal's Army and then some). That is, if you can stand the "aftereffects". [(-D]

[Modelcar]

....Just thinking a bit of the movement of barges on the swift moving water on the Ohio I'm pondering how the lashed up consist is controlled going down stream......With swift current, what means of control would they have to control speed, etc.....?

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Just thinking a bit of the movement of barges on the swift moving water on the Ohio I'm pondering how the lashed up consist is controlled going down stream......With swift current, what means of control would they have to control speed, etc.....?

In this particular instance,I think you're going to have to ask the tow-boat
captain and crew how they "lost" these barges. Naturally NTSB will be
investigating,and an In. Sen. wants the FRA to inspect the K & I bridge,
for other than visable damage. The tow was owned and operated by the
same company that rammed a bridge in Oklahoma several years ago,
( I-40 bridge,I think)killing about 14 people.

[Anonymous]

<Jim is singing [:D] >


[bday] To John


[bday] To John


[bday] To Johnnnnnnn


[bday] To John

and many moreeeeeeeee. [:o)] [:p] [:D]


Bring on that cake. [C=:-)] [4:-)] [C):-)]


Let the fun begin. [X-)] now where is that donkey [:D]


Anyone seen Amtrak lately [?] [:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes


<Jim is singing [:D] >


[bday] To John


[bday] To John


[bday] To Johnnnnnnn


[bday] To John

and many moreeeeeeeee. [:o)] [:p] [:D]


Bring on that cake. [C=:-)] [4:-)] [C):-)]


Let the fun begin. [X-)] now where is that donkey [:D]


Anyone seen Amtrak lately [?] [:D]

Thanks Jim. I rode Amtrak to Springfield yesterday. I am going out today to see if there ontime which so far they are pretty much.

[locomutt]

AMTK200,

'Mutt is not going to sing,or even Howlllllll;but have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!

[bday][bday][bday][bday][bday][bday]

[JoeKoh]

john
happy birthday! better get the cake before mookie comes back on monday!
stay safe
Joe

[louisnash]

LM, CW
I had read that somewhere concerning the barges. Seems like they really have a mess on their hands. I may be down that way next week. As I have told you, we are busier than ever. I've got a few things I need to get there across the river from you to make our customers happy.

Thanks for the pics Joe. Great as usual.

Well, myself and the better half are going out tonight and have a couple drinks. We don't get to get out that often. So I'll check in tomorrow afternoon to see what's going on.

Brian (KY)