Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[Anonymous]

y'all can keep your fancy jelly, jams and preserves... i'll take plain peanut butter on bread or crackers... and speaking of odd tastes... and odd hours, with my breakfasts at times consisting of coffee and jello, Pepsi and Starburst, or Pepsi and poptarts

Mikey, I have to agree with you on this one. I am up till all odd hours of the night, so when I get up the next day or the same day, I have to first grab me a nice cold Pepsi for breakfast. If I am up earlier, it could be a coffee or tea (depends on the mood I am in and the way my taste buds are going).

And seeing this is my first time in here, if there are any of those biscuits and gravy left, I would like to try them. I have had them else where, so this should and hopefully be a much better kind. I will also take a coffee and cream. I only drink it black when I really want to stay up long hours.

ralph zimmer [e-mail]

[cherokee woman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese

Strange weather here in Southern WI. Tornado warnings, heavy rain. Right now its sunny and pouring!!!

At work we spent 1.5 hours in the weather shelters (stairs). Real fun!!!

Can I get a buffalo chicken sandwich and a rootbeer?

Tom, you are so right about the weather. Tonight, we have had
thunderstorm watches, t-storm warnings, and tornado warnings
for several counties north and east of us. As Mutt said earlier,
one or the other of us had practically had to hold the weather
radio, to keep silencing the alert tones after we listen to the
messages.

This is very reminenscent of a year ago, when we had all this
mess going on. Guess I'l have to check the back yard in the
morning after daylight to see how many more limbs & branches
came out of the big old oak tree.[:(]

[cherokee woman]

Hey Kev, how're you doing? Good to see you in here. Want something
to eat? (food wise)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by mbkcs

New house, strange sounds, can't sleep.

BOOOO! [;)]


I've found drinking heavily helps[|)][zzz][zzz].....

I agree [:D]

[locomutt]

If one of us can get away from the NWS radio for a couple of
minutes,you can have what you want.
(we have to keep silencing the 'Alert' tones every couple of minutes.)
(at least we are staying informed.)

[Anonymous]

Strange weather here in Southern WI. Tornado warnings, heavy rain. Right now its sunny and pouring!!!

At work we spent 1.5 hours in the weather shelters (stairs). Real fun!!!

Can I get a buffalo chicken sandwich and a rootbeer?

[locomutt]

We're good right now,but there is still a big possibility of more severe weather
this evening,at least until around midnight. They have issued several tornado warings in our area,but we(Louisville) are still under a severe thunder storm warning
until much later tonight. I'm glad we have the NWS radio,but it seems to
keep going off about every two minutes. At least we'll have enough warning,
if we have to 'kiss' something goodbye!

[JoeKoh]

we are just getting the rain up here.hope you and mutt stay safe.
joe

[cherokee woman]

Okay everybody: the chicken & dumplings for supper are ready to eat!
Hopefully, we can eat before we get severe storms here. The NWS
radio has been going off all afternoon: at least 8 to 12 times.

[locomutt]

Carl,
Actually both CW & I DO remember that,plus I remember developing the
aluminum plates for the offset press. Always 'Loved' the smell of those chemicals.

Dad used to have a "Varityper" with bunches of 'fonts' of type.
I really learned more about the printing business growing up,
than I really wanted to.
(In that day and age,children LISTENED and DID what their parents
told them to do;NO BACK TALK !!!!!)(or else!!!)

And yes,I do remember some of the 'older' C & O H. S. newsletters,
but I didn't originally join until 1976,but have seen a few of the older ones.

[CShaveRR]

Actually, Walt, I did quite a few of the old C&O Newsletters (mimeograph stencils) on the manual typewriter, then on my first electric. We switched to photocopy pages sometime after 1974; that was the reason for buying the second electric, which used the film ribbons instead of fabric.

Remember the old blue mimeo stencil correcting fluid, and blowing on the stencil to make it dry quicker?

[cherokee woman]

Oh man, oh man, how I'd love to get my hands on an IBM
Selectric typewriter. Various places I've worked, and had the
IBM Selectric, my minimal typing speed was 95 wpm, with no
more than two errors. Boy, those days are gone!! I'm lucky I can
type on these computer keyboards without making about five
errors.

Dinner special tonight is going to be chicken & dumplings. Think I'll use
what's left of the canned biscuits (have a couple of cans left), then
make up a little bit of dumpling dough to be sure there's plenty of
dumplings.

[locomutt]

Carl,
I guess I sit corrected about "Liquid Paper",as I graduated in 1968.
But I do remember the 'correction tape'.
The typewriter I had was an older model "Remington" (manual),and it had a
'hard' roller in it for Dad's use for the mimeograph,for the church bulletins.
Then he decided to get an IBM Executive model with changeable 'Fonts',
That was after he decided to get an 'offset' press.
Spent many a day learning how to use a Multilith 1250 press (whether I
wanted to or not).

We didn't do the "Star Wars" thing last night,this morning,but bet both of
us could have done the 'Senior Citizen" thing ourselves.

Jay,
Understand VERY much about what you said. At least when we put entries
into the log books for the helicopters,they were in pencil. Although after I
became a T. I.,we did have to do a 'bit' of typing.
And yes,in the military,you can,and do learn an extra vocabulary.
(personally,I would have prefered either an M-79 or an M-203)[:D]

[jeaton]

I was a company clerk in my Army Unit way back when the Morning Report was a multiple part paper form using carbon paper and prepared with manual typewriters.

NO STRIKEOVERS OR ANY OTHER FORM OF CORRECTION ALLOWED. It was the Army so cursing was allowed, but they did frown on using the M-14 to blow away the typewriter.

How times have changed. Just a couple of years ago Matt asked, "What is carbon paper?"

And-we also are aquainted with someone who has a very large collection of typewriters. Railfan? Typewriter Collector? Take your pick.

Tina-Not to worry about the strange sounds. Probably just the foundation settling under the weight af a few boxes of books and papers being held until the library is built.

Jay

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mbkcs

New house, strange sounds, can't sleep.

BOOOO! [;)]


I've found drinking heavily helps[|)][zzz][zzz].....

[CShaveRR]

Sarah, you're more than welcome to run your compositions by me, especially if they have to do with railroads. If I suggest any changes, I'll make sure you know why, and learn from it. AMG

[CShaveRR]

Up a little late this morning. The new "Star Wars" movie was good. Tied up all of the loose ends, including how Darth Vader got his helmet patterned after the signal hoods used on the prehistoric railroads of one of the planets [}:)]. Our multiplex had at least twelve sold-out theatres showing the movie at midnight. A few costumed people were around, and folks were a little raucous before the show, but the audience was very quiet throughout the show (a little over two hours of feature--we were done at 2:35 a.m., and home well before 3:00). Pat and I may have been the only people who got in at the senior-citizen rate!

Breakfast: just cereal and OJ, please; it's nearly lunchtime already!

Typewriters: Received a manual typewriter for HS graduation in 1967; it lasted me until 1972, when I bought an electric. Second electric bought in about 1976. Selectric rented in 1979 for first book; purchased my own Selectric in 1982, and still have it.

For corrections in college, used the little white rectangles to strike over the error. My second typewriter had a special cartridge ribbon that would lift off the error. Liquid Paper first came out around 1973; I was the guy who introduced it to Proviso for use on turnover forms, etc., when I worked as a yardmaster. My own Selectric is a correcting model. It still gets used about once a year, around income tax time.

[miniwyo]

Sarah - Writing all your papers on rail related things is ok, Heck I did it for 2 sememsters, my professers actually enjoyed a little more variety that having a whole bunch of the normal things.

[cherokee woman]

Joe, here's your eggs and sausage. Anything else for you?

[cherokee woman]

Okay: today's breakfast choices will be: western omelettes, turkey bacon,
sausage, biscuits and gravy, oatmeal, toast, cereal w/fruit, and have some
orange-tangerine juice this morning.

[JoeKoh]

i'll take some eggs and sausage please.
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mbkcs

New house, strange sounds, can't sleep. Can I order an omelette?

I remember that owning an IBM Selectric was considered top notch and high tech.

Tina, it's wierd moving into a new house, isn't it? Even though it's been
17 years since we moved into our house, sometimes, it seems like it
was just last week.

Here's your omelette. Can I get you anything else?

[eolafan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

At least you guys get to use a computer with a word processor. Try doing it with a manual typewriter (or even an electric!). "Whadya mean I misspelled a word in the second paragraph?!?!?!? Now I gotta retype the whole page!"

Larry, thanks for the memories, I too remember typing a term paper on a manual typewriter and making mistakes and if they were too bad or too many I had to type the entire page over again. Wow, how much time would we have been able to save if we had one of these new fangled confusers...oops, I mean computers.

[Anonymous]

New house, strange sounds, can't sleep. Can I order an omelette?

I remember that owning an IBM Selectric was considered top notch and high tech.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

At least you guys get to use a computer with a word processor. Try doing it with a manual typewriter (or even an electric!). "Whadya mean I misspelled a word in the second paragraph?!?!?!? Now I gotta retype the whole page!"

When I was in 'High School'(a long,long time ago) all we had,were the
'manual' typewriters. I did think that "Whiteout" had been invented then.[:D][}:)]

I think we got 'electrics' a few years later;although we did have one around
the house.

Sarah,do they have an English class called 5401 ??????[:D]
(I could probably use that one.)
While I was in high school,my senior year,I had to do a 'Report',
and I did mine on the C & O Railway. ( Did get a good grade.)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Here's a plate of lasagna and garlic sticks/toast for you. Along with a
big glass of iced tea. Glad to hear that you're feeling better again. Been
praying for you to get better.

Thank You!!! 1 more day of drugs!!

[tree68]

At least you guys get to use a computer with a word processor. Try doing it with a manual typewriter (or even an electric!). "Whadya mean I misspelled a word in the second paragraph?!?!?!? Now I gotta retype the whole page!"

[Mikeygaw]

Sarah, i know how you feel about English 101, but English 102 is even worse... I had to write a paper that had to be atleast 10 pages!

[CSXrules4eva]

Yes supper tonight sounds great!! I missed the picnic and breakfast today because, I had to go to school. I also had to stay late since I wasn't regiesterd for a class that I should of been registered for English Comp 101. Which is a class I'm most certainly not looking forward to :( I have to write papers :( I think I'll do most of them on railroad related items. hehehe

Lets see today nothing really happened. I did hear over the scanner today on Septa's frequency that three of their Silverliners had disfunctional doors (that's nothing to earth shattering). It was 70 degrees here in the greater Philadelphia reagion today.

Carl, I'm envious of you, Pat and Chris going tonight or I should say eairly tomorrow morrning to see the new Star Wars at 12am. Anyway, you guys have fun. Oh and I want details tomorrow. hehehe lol. AMG

[cherokee woman]

Oooh, that picnic was such a great idea, Mookie!! I am so stuffed after
eating. We even have enough left over for supper tonight.