james saunders wrote: M636C wrote: kevinstheRRman wrote:Holy Heat stroke Batman... it's like 38 degrees out side.. which is... 107, 106 FI think...I think now is a good time to fix my picture issues. I'm visiting Port Hedland for the first time in two years. It's mid winter here, 25 degrees Celcius, clear blue sky and just the weather for train photos. I spent the last two days down in the Dampier area (about 250 km west of here) looking at Pilbara Iron (the former Hamersley and Robe River lines). We had bad luck with the former Robe line and the Hamersley line was closed for rail replacement for a lot of the time. We still got a lot of photos (and a flat tyre). Is Mookie still around here? Two years ago I found a new siding named "Mooka" and now there is an SD70ACe with a brass nameplate with that name! M636C What are those new ACe's like? I'd love to get over to the pilbara one day to see those big EMD's and GE's running around! (one day)
M636C wrote: kevinstheRRman wrote:Holy Heat stroke Batman... it's like 38 degrees out side.. which is... 107, 106 FI think...I think now is a good time to fix my picture issues. I'm visiting Port Hedland for the first time in two years. It's mid winter here, 25 degrees Celcius, clear blue sky and just the weather for train photos. I spent the last two days down in the Dampier area (about 250 km west of here) looking at Pilbara Iron (the former Hamersley and Robe River lines). We had bad luck with the former Robe line and the Hamersley line was closed for rail replacement for a lot of the time. We still got a lot of photos (and a flat tyre). Is Mookie still around here? Two years ago I found a new siding named "Mooka" and now there is an SD70ACe with a brass nameplate with that name! M636C
kevinstheRRman wrote:Holy Heat stroke Batman... it's like 38 degrees out side.. which is... 107, 106 FI think...I think now is a good time to fix my picture issues.
I'm visiting Port Hedland for the first time in two years.
It's mid winter here, 25 degrees Celcius, clear blue sky and just the weather for train photos.
I spent the last two days down in the Dampier area (about 250 km west of here) looking at Pilbara Iron (the former Hamersley and Robe River lines). We had bad luck with the former Robe line and the Hamersley line was closed for rail replacement for a lot of the time. We still got a lot of photos (and a flat tyre).
Is Mookie still around here? Two years ago I found a new siding named "Mooka" and now there is an SD70ACe with a brass nameplate with that name!
M636C
The original car dumper here in Port Hedland came from the Oroville Dam construction project on the California Oregon border. This operation used the first U25C locomotives and the dumper was designed for these locomotives which are much smaller than current locomotives.
The Alco C636 which started the operation here also fitted the dumper, but the later locomotives have all been trimmed to fit, the GE Dash 8s have different cabs and cut down radiators, the AC 6000s have lower cabs with sloping sides and even bigger (but lower) radiators (it is VERY hot here in summer) and even the SD40s have low profile fans to keep within the dumper profile. The SD70ACes don't fit the oldest dumper, but the radiators are lower and the cabs are slightly lower, but they are clearly taller than the AC6000s. At the moment AC 6076 and ACe 4306 are running as a pair but I've only seen them as remotes mid train. Hopefully I'll see them leading before I return East. 6076 is the only AC6000 in the orange and grey colours carried by the SD70ACes (all the others are still blue and white) so that is the pair to see leading!
The SD70ACes sound quite different to the GEs of course, but sound a lot like the SD40s, and you often get SD70ACe/SD40 combinations with a distinctive sound. There is one pair of SD70ACes running which must be number two desirable lead combination.
I spent the weekend down at the Hamersley line where everything is pairs of Dash 9 44CWs. At least there are two colour schemes (silver and silver and yellow) and three lettering styles. The Robe line has Dash 8s as trailing units still in the Robe River yellow. One rebuilt Robe Alco is in storage (clearly visible) in working order.
Mooks:
Sorry bout dat - Has to do with Chad Thomas and holes in the ground. Will put the scottie monster back up in a while. (we are having to barricade Andy in the house when we are not home. He staggers around in the heat and is going blind now. With 100+ temperatures around we are really concerned about the 17 years old guy's ability to handle the heat.)
Good morning from frighteningly hot Sacramento, California! It's supposed to be over 100 °F. highs for almost the entire week.
I hope there are plentiful cold drinks in the refrigerator--we'll all need it!
Hey, Colin! Happy birthday! (Keep cool!) E me if you decide to brave the heat and try out that scanner!
By the way, you share a birthday with "Professor" Peter Schickele, one of my favorite entertainers.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
mudchicken wrote: Mooks: Sorry bout dat - Has to do with Chad Thomas and holes in the ground.
Sorry bout dat - Has to do with Chad Thomas and holes in the ground.
chad thomas wrote: mudchicken wrote: Mooks: Sorry bout dat - Has to do with Chad Thomas and holes in the ground.
Poor Andy - this is not a good time for man nor beast(ie).....
Mooks
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
We are keeping our pup in the cool also. The heat is also getting to our neighboorhood critters. A family of bandits has taken up in the fireplace chimney. I guess they wanted even cooler and figured out how to open up the damper and let themselves into the house. Up at 3:00am this morning showing them the door.
The little rascals climb up a now unused TV antenna tower about 30 feet up to the fairly steep roof, climb up to the roof ridge then crawl up six feet of brick chimney to get in. Maybe I could talk them into taking up and installing a chimney screen. Either that or I find somebody with a sky hook to do the job.
Stay cool.
Jay
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
jeaton wrote: We are keeping our pup in the cool also. The heat is also getting to our neighboorhood critters. A family of bandits has taken up in the fireplace chimney. I guess they wanted even cooler and figured out how to open up the damper and let themselves into the house. Up at 3:00am this morning showing them the door. The little rascals climb up a now unused TV antenna tower about 30 feet up to the fairly steep roof, climb up to the roof ridge then crawl up six feet of brick chimney to get in. Maybe I could talk them into taking up and installing a chimney screen. Either that or I find somebody with a sky hook to do the job. Stay cool. Jay
Bandits of the masked variety (racoons)? Yikes! Joanie would check us in to a hotel for a week...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Jay:
If they come back, we can loan you Gus. (or you could borrow a few from Door County up in NE Wisconsin)...Gus has cornered cousins of your guests on steel fenceposts more than once here.
Scotties do not like racoons and the bandits don't like the german shepard size jaws on the terrier frame with a terrier 'tude! http://www.doorcountyscottierally.com/
Afternoon everyone.....
It's the three H's again today, with a chance of storms today. Tomorrow is going to be about ten degrees cooler, and a bunch less humid.
Gatorade and Squincher are topped off, found Mudchicken's tap empty again, will have to get him a bigger tank (is 1200 gallon big enough?).
See everyone later.
EDIT: Just had a severe thunderstorm watch posted, expecting nasty weather later as cold front moving through.
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
matt and I did go over to deshler. they are finishing up installing the diamond.they found alot of water underground so they had to set up the drainage so the extra water goes into the deshler resivouir.going to be alot of trains coming through tonight.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
cherokee woman wrote:Good afternoon, everyone. Sure is nice and HOT outside. Went for a walk, and it ended up being a very short walk. Even walking slow, it was too unbearable outside. For supper tonight, I've made a big pot of that cold soup (can't remember the name, and probably couldn't spell it, if I did remember the spelling). It's in the fridge, next to the lemonade. Guess that's about it for now. Everyone take care, try to stay out of the heat as much as possible.I've loaded up on ice cream, vitamin water, and iced tea, if no one cares for the Gatorade or squincher.Message From:The Cook
Hey Paula, we have Gatorade down here, but I haven't heard of squincher...??? Is that a home-made drink?
Dave
Brian, we know a great hotel in DeKalb--think you could convince Joanie that you had masked bandits?
And you don't want to be in the same state with them, right?
CFDMD, please! Lots of it!
CShaveRR wrote:Brian, we know a great hotel in DeKalb--think you could convince Joanie that you had masked bandits? And you don't want to be in the same state with them, right? CFDMD, please! Lots of it!
blhanel wrote: OK, I give up- what does CFDMD mean?
OK, I give up- what does CFDMD mean?
Methinks it has something to do with Cold Diet Mountain Dew, but alas! I've no clue what the "f" is...fresh?
And now for something completely different...
MC, what was the tunnel shot that was previously posted. It seemed far to green a thing to exist in our fair state (unless of course it was in the Weminuche Wilderness down Silverton way...which my cousin has renamed the "Wet Too Much Wilderness..."
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
CopCarSS wrote: blhanel wrote: OK, I give up- what does CFDMD mean? Methinks it has something to do with Cold Diet Mountain Dew, but alas! I've no clue what the "f" is...fresh? And now for something completely different... MC, what was the tunnel shot that was previously posted. It seemed far to green a thing to exist in our fair state (unless of course it was in the Weminuche Wilderness down Silverton way...which my cousin has renamed the "Wet Too Much Wilderness..."
Chris: Freeburg, Missouri (one of my client's embargoed lines when he owned it and I got to inspect it / cost the possible reopening of the line...Santa Fe built it in 1903, Rock Island wound up with it after the financial panic [irony in there somewhere]) I had fun with the green & the eerie lighting.
CopCarSS wrote:Do they make Caffeine Free Mountain Dew (Diet or Otherwise?) I suppose it's possible...it just doesn't seem to jive with the whole "extreme" marketing that they've been employing of late. Perhaps that's why I've never heard of it...they don't advertise it at all!
M636C wrote: james saunders wrote: M636C wrote: kevinstheRRman wrote:Holy Heat stroke Batman... it's like 38 degrees out side.. which is... 107, 106 FI think...I think now is a good time to fix my picture issues. I'm visiting Port Hedland for the first time in two years. It's mid winter here, 25 degrees Celcius, clear blue sky and just the weather for train photos. I spent the last two days down in the Dampier area (about 250 km west of here) looking at Pilbara Iron (the former Hamersley and Robe River lines). We had bad luck with the former Robe line and the Hamersley line was closed for rail replacement for a lot of the time. We still got a lot of photos (and a flat tyre). Is Mookie still around here? Two years ago I found a new siding named "Mooka" and now there is an SD70ACe with a brass nameplate with that name! M636C What are those new ACe's like? I'd love to get over to the pilbara one day to see those big EMD's and GE's running around! (one day) The original car dumper here in Port Hedland came from the Oroville Dam construction project on the California Oregon border. This operation used the first U25C locomotives and the dumper was designed for these locomotives which are much smaller than current locomotives. The Alco C636 which started the operation here also fitted the dumper, but the later locomotives have all been trimmed to fit, the GE Dash 8s have different cabs and cut down radiators, the AC 6000s have lower cabs with sloping sides and even bigger (but lower) radiators (it is VERY hot here in summer) and even the SD40s have low profile fans to keep within the dumper profile. The SD70ACes don't fit the oldest dumper, but the radiators are lower and the cabs are slightly lower, but they are clearly taller than the AC6000s. At the moment AC 6076 and ACe 4306 are running as a pair but I've only seen them as remotes mid train. Hopefully I'll see them leading before I return East. 6076 is the only AC6000 in the orange and grey colours carried by the SD70ACes (all the others are still blue and white) so that is the pair to see leading! The SD70ACes sound quite different to the GEs of course, but sound a lot like the SD40s, and you often get SD70ACe/SD40 combinations with a distinctive sound. There is one pair of SD70ACes running which must be number two desirable lead combination. I spent the weekend down at the Hamersley line where everything is pairs of Dash 9 44CWs. At least there are two colour schemes (silver and silver and yellow) and three lettering styles. The Robe line has Dash 8s as trailing units still in the Robe River yellow. One rebuilt Robe Alco is in storage (clearly visible) in working order. M636C
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Kozzie:
Squincher is bottled by an independent company, I've seen it in soda cans as well as small pouches (tear off top, add water, drink). As far as I know, it comes in orange, fruit punch, and lemon-lime, also saw grape when I worked for the railroad. At Stoughton Trailer here in Wisconsin the company buys the stuff by the palletload. The orange tastes a lot better than the same Gatorade flavor, and I believe the fruit punch is about the same.
Didn't get a drop of rain tonight, but had severe weather north and south of us. Supposed to be about 85 tomorrow, with much lower humidity.
Gunite all
........Table for two in the corner please!
I am expecting a nice young gentleman for fine food and a couple of cups of milk, so we need a quiet corner. His name is Willy and we are going to discuss the aspects of UP vs BNSF, a conversation I fully expect to find most enlightening!
Madame La Mook
mookie your booth is ready.want to make it 3 people?matt would need chocolate milk. breakfast will be pancakes and waffles with bacon,eggs and sausage.im not sure what we will have for lunch or supper yet.have to email a birthday girl in pennsylvania. to Nora.Im sureshe wouldnt mind chocolate cake for dessert.
Happy Happy to Nora! Guess we could now say - "Hot Nora?"...... (berry punny!)
Chocolate Cake is like the color black in clothes. It goes with all occasions.
Matt and Willy will know more than I do about the railroads. Will have to just sit and sip milk and listen!
Moo
CFDMD is, as many surmised, caffeine-free diet Mountain Dew. It's not available in all markets--in fact, we have to go to Michigan to get ours (trip coming early next month). I know where you're coming from, Brian--the caffeinated stuff tastes better, but there comes a time of day after which it shouldn't be drunk. Guess I need a supply of both, after all.
I'll add my birthday greetings to Nora--she's another person I really miss seeing here. Wouldn't mind seeing her and the guys in person, either.
Sis, I wish I could join you at your table. I'd like to meet young Willy sometime. (Already met Matt--wouldn't mind seeing him again, either!)
Back in the closet for now.
CShaveRR wrote: CFDMD is, as many surmised, caffeine-free diet Mountain Dew. It's not available in all markets--in fact, we have to go to Michigan to get ours (trip coming early next month). I know where you're coming from, Brian--the caffeinated stuff tastes better, but there comes a time of day after which it shouldn't be drunk. Guess I need a supply of both, after all. I'll add my birthday greetings to Nora--she's another person I really miss seeing here. Wouldn't mind seeing her and the guys in person, either. Sis, I wish I could join you at your table. I'd like to meet young Willy sometime. (Already met Matt--wouldn't mind seeing him again, either!) Back in the closet for now.
Willy is a very special person and someday I hope to put an X next to his name on the ballot!
SJ
Last time I chatted on-line with Nora she was happily working for the railroad at a small yard near Pittsburgh. Not the conductor gig I think she still wants, but RR nonetheless.
But, just in case she's lurking, Happy Birthday! Otherwise, all quiet on this front. Weather a little milder, but I'm in an air conditioned building today, too...
Can I get a bacon cheeseburger (cheddar cheese, medium well) for lunch? Doesn't do much for the cholesterol, but it sure tastes good....
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