Welcome Bruce!
Glad to have you here! Stop by anytime!
afternoon
been working on chores and projects.Still brrrr outside and the sun is going down now.Modelcar our in laws have an all electric home but they do have a wood burning stove just in case.Larry Matt and I take care of neighbors because most are retired.We also shovel in front of our mailboxes so we can get our mail.Cw thanks for supper.we are going to meet Mr.Baden from Deleware Bend tomorrow.he said we could come over and look at his layout.A new friendship in the making.
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").
tree68 So, if any of the folks I've corresponded with in the past got some spam from me, please know that I haven't taken up a sideline selling questionable products.
So, if any of the folks I've corresponded with in the past got some spam from me, please know that I haven't taken up a sideline selling questionable products.
Greetings from Calgary. I have been meaning to join your happy little group for a while now, but this mention of spam gave me a good opportunity.
Two days ago, on another thread, Dan invited me to look at his collection of CP loco photos on Flikr. I didn't get a chance until yesterday morning. I saw one photo I particularly liked and I posted a comment under it. Immediately after that another screen popped up welcoming me to Flikr. Then at 7:03 AM I received an email confirming that I had joined Flikr. At 12:50 PM I received spam from a Photographic School inviting me to enroll! That only took 5 hrs. and 47 mins. Pretty amazing considering that in the almost 16 years I have had a home based e-mail address, I had never once before received such an invitation. These spam operators are scary!
As to the weather here, we are coming off of a particularly difficult week. We are about 38° F with partly cloudy skies right now, but last Saturday night we hit about -15° F with continuous waves of snow. CPR service has almost been brought to a dead stop between here and Kamloops, BC. They have been getting record amounts of snowfall at points in between, with Golden, BC receiving 28" of snow over a 4 day period with 40" on the ground. CP couldn't get crews in to clean off the track.
A number of years ago CP made the decision to use rubber tired and tracked machinery to do snow and avalanche cleanup. It made sense to the bean counters because you could attack problems from many intermediate locations instead of just from each end. But the plan sort of blew up in their faces when all of the highways they need for access have been closed as well. Seems to this accountant who grew up around the railroad, that keeping some track mounted heavy duty clean up equipment around would be a good idea, since trying to keep a 10 or 12' wide ROW clear should be easier than keeping a however many feet wide road would be. They still have Russel Plows and Jordan Spreaders, but some sort of railcar mounted excavator seems like something they should have several of. If there is no more snow they are still looking at a week to ten days to get service back to normal.
And I did understand Miniwyo's description of his job, because my job in the second half of the Seventies was accounting for the volumes of natural gas in pipelines like the one he is talking about.
I hope to keep visiting you folks often.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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CW - The wake for a longtime local resident was held at our social hall today. The walk at the front door was a mess so I spent some time clearing it off. Fortunately the sun peeked out enough that despite the mid-teens temperature, any remaining snow and ice melted off before anyone arrived.
Got the materials I need for a printing job, so off to the shop I go.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
CW; #3 soup & grill cheese sandwich / coffee. Also do you have Old Fashioned black bean soup / ham?? Going to yard lumber store for shelf in barn. Nice weather to trim rose bushes today also.
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Well, I took the first turn outside this morning, with the snow shovel. I think it was mostly ICE on the front steps and sidewalk. Made it 2/3 of the way to the front gate, with the shoveling and putting down ice melt. Someone else can take the next turn, as my lower back is killing me.
Here's the menu for the rest of the day: along with our regular Friday Fish Fry, we also have pots of soup and chili. Pots of chili are mild, medium and three alarm.
Our paper finally showed up. I had look all the way down the front sidewalk, whenever I looked out for the paper this morning, to no avail. But when I went out to start shoveling, found it on the sidewalk, right next to the bottom porch step. Hadn't been there any other time I'd checked.
I think our current temp is in the mid teens. High today is supposed to make it 19 degrees above zero, with wind chills in the single to minus single digits.
Everyone keep warm and take care. See you all later.
Well our schedule was interupted this morning. At 6:30 this morning, our power went off....Actually a large area in the Muncie system. And of course, we also had the coldest morning of the season....2 degrees.
But fortunately, at a bit after 8 the sun came up and shining brightly as it was frosty clear. And...our family room patio door faces south, so with the sun coming in brightly, that helped. Electric Co. indicated power would be back on at about 10:30....True to their word, it was restored at 10 am.
So, finally got ready and headed to the chevrolet dealer to have some service on my truck....but this put it near noon, and we decided to reschedule for Monday. 3rd time we've tried to make this happen, hopefully, we'll finally get it accomplished on Monday.
We have a total elecric home too, so power outages, get our attention.
I'm guessing a large transformer may have failed, and perhaps a temp. one possibly had to be set in until problem corrected. I thought the service was pretty good, having to do all this out in below "0" wind chill early this morning.
Fortunately, not real nasty wind and other Winter conditions....More or less an almost calm very cold January morning.
Had to wait for a west bound covered hopper train on the Frankfort NS line as I came beck from the dealer. Bet he had to use extra effort to move all those covered hoppers with the near zero temp this morning. But...he was moving right along.
Still, bright sunshine shining....thru mostly clear blue skies...
Quentin
Good morning from frosty Indiana!
Were sitting at 1 degree this morning. Hope you all will stay warm!
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Ms Mook - you can delete those messages - I don't get a cut from the sales...
Looks like the temperature is continuing to drop - should be an interesting day, especially if the wind comes up.
The weekend is supposed to be cold, too, but I've got inside projects to work on. We were supposed to have a work session on the railroad, but we can't get everything that needs work inside, so we're waiting for a warmer weekend.
Time to check the mail and get to work on the hot project of the day.
Brrrrrr outside
Cw thanks for breakfast.Matt was on time today.Going to do chores inside later after a nap.
Good Friday morning everyone. Curently 13 degrees here in Louisville, with a wind chill of between 0 and -5. Schools are closed. Furnace is running. I hate the thought of what the next gas & electric bill will be!
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. including hot chocolate this a.m. On the serving station are some homemade doughnuts, along with the regular breakfast menu items.
Guess Walt, Sarah and I will probably try to get out and sweep, shovel and put down snow melt later on.
Everyone have a good morning, bundle up to go outside, and please, please take care.
Joe - I get a cookie if I stay in the house and don't get in the way....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Soup's ready, everyone. You have your choice of:
1. Vegetable beef
2. Tomato
3. Cream of Broccoli
All three served w/your choice of grilled cheese, tuna, or PB&J.
I'll guess that we have about 2 1/2 inches of snow (at least that was the report at 6:15 EST, out at the National Weather Service. Haven't stuck my head outside today, except to get the paper this morning. Left knee acting up, so have been staying off it today.
You all have a good evening, take care and see you all tomorrow.
I have recieved the same email as well Larry. Mookie the virus is in main computer system and not in our computers.Matt got his ID card from the local police department as part of the afterschool program today.We also have cookies for shoveling the driveways of our neighbors.Cw thanks for supper.time to get ready for work.
also saw in the crescent news tonight an article about a guy from Deleware Bend that has been running model trains since he was 5.Wonder what our train room will look like when I reach his age.
Tree: you are selling weight loss items. And it is under your real name, too. I just delete them. Want me to save them for you?
PS - like your avatar!
Still have light snow coming down. Should stop sometime this evening. Have a couple inches of it now.
Project for this afternoon: Install newly purchased speaker system on this computer, including a sub woofer....Now, we can take advantage of the net digital music as we do computerese. Listening to it now...
Maybe 2 1/2" on ground of the new stuff...
Mookie JoeKoh: Mookie called computer people.someones hotmail left a virus in the system.They are working on it. stay safe Joe Joe - was it a virus on one of us or just someone on hotmail? They have been having trouble for at least 2 weeks now.
JoeKoh: Mookie called computer people.someones hotmail left a virus in the system.They are working on it. stay safe Joe
Mookie
called computer people.someones hotmail left a virus in the system.They are working on it.
I've had a couple of instances with my Hotmail-based account lately where spam is sent out using addresses from my received mail list, not my address book. Really strange. I know it's my received mail because I'm getting "cannot deliver" replies from "do-not-reply" notification accounts from sites where I bought something on-line.
RJ - nice to hear from you - and just like reading Sir Mudchicken, I only understand about 2 or 3 words out of each line. But it sounds like going to school didn't hurt one bit career-wise!
Now, Kindle is a whole other matter!
About 3-4 inches of snow yesterday, and cold but very sunny today. Driver used big snowblower this morning. He does our side and lets the landlord do the other side. I think i hear some zzz's going right along side the tv.
Re: Netherlands - the peregrines have been very active all day. Hobby was in box about 4-5pm their time. This is a bird that makes you want to have it in your living room - like a parakeet. It is all soft and downy looking and would probably rip your fingers off if given a chance. But I think it is adorable.
Saw some big orange flashes moving across the canal screen. I thought I was seeing some kind of a huge orange animal, but turned out to be 2 men in orange slickers walking on the footpath. They went by 2x. They keep a pretty close eye on the canal and if necessary, dig it out so it flows freely.
If you check the #1 screen - that big white building is - I think - a tavern. Maybe that is why there are so many pedestrians toward the last of the evening?
Mookie, Married life is definitely going well.
I work in the natural gas industry as a plant operator. The plant I work at receives gas from the field, we use a couple of different processes to make it very cold. Making it cold makes the liquids separate making the gas almost pure methane which we then dry and filter and then compress to about 1000 psi and send it down the pipeline to our customers who usually distribute it to retail customers for use in homes and businesses. The liquids that we removed get sent to a process called fractionation. We basically boil off the lightest liquid starting with ethane. I just recently started operating the plant. Before that I loaded product on railcars. The schedule is nice, 7 to 7 5 and 4 depending on the day alternating between days and nights. On a side note, I posted this using my new Kindle.
RJ
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At a few minutes past noon, we have bright overcast with light wet snow. Earlier this morning it appeared we received about a half inch over night.
It no doubt will snow most of the day, as they are saying roughly 3" in this area using an avg. of several sources.
Believe the heavier layer is going by south of us, and heading east, northeast. 25 degrees a bit earlier. probably still in that range.
Mookie Dan - 6 am and 5 here. I missed it by one. Ugh - is it spring yet?
Dan - 6 am and 5 here. I missed it by one.
Ugh - is it spring yet?
Dan
morning
matt is on time and on the bus.Points south will get the colorado snow.Guessers say maybe an inch or two for us.Cw thanks for breakfast.Time for bed.Chores and errands this afternoon.
When the temp # is lower than the hour # it's cold outside. OJ, coffee, & a quiet corner to lurk in where I might just fall asleep if I'm not careful...
Good Thursday morning everyone. 30 degrees w/no snow falling at the present time. So far, it is just a very light dusting on the grassy areas, streets are good.
Coffee, juices, other morning beverages fresh and ready to go. Breakfast on the serving station.
Already working on lunch/supper menu.
Hi RJ, good to see you back in last evening.
You all have a good morning and see you all in a bit.
RJ - sounds like married life is agreeing with you. What kind of work are you doing - just generalities.
Colo sent us a wad of snow, but we are both retired now, so don't care as long as it doesn't cover the 2nd floor windows.
JoeKoh Mookie called computer people.someones hotmail left a virus in the system.They are working on it. stay safe Joe
I hope everyone is staying warm! We finally had our january thaw and its starting to get cold again. Hopefully not as cold as last week. I left work monday morning at -23F. It was a frigid one that day. I don't think it topped 0.
Haven't had much time trackside except for the drive to and from work. But I am trying to get my HO scale 4x8 started on my long set of days off if I can get past all the honey dos.... I will post photos of the progress later!
Hope everyone has a good night!
Turn off the fan - you are blowing it right over us!
Uh Oh ..... Large white flakes be fallin' from the sky again. Time to lash up da' boys to da sled soon.
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