Miserable start to the day - misty, rainy, just not good weather in which to view the (magnificent, so far) fall colors in the Adirondacks. The occasional sun they suggested we might see was mostly that, a suggestion.
Still, we had reasonable crowds on the trains, and an international bunch, too, including a couple from Australia and a very nice lady from Germany who was there with a group touring across the country.
Fire department stuff tomorrow, so not on the railroad.
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...
Almost seasonal temps today....Just a little below norm.
But consider it a nice day.
Grass growing rapidly again.
Almost got really stuck in Football traffic in Muncie today. Not knowing there was a game scheduled a couple of hours later...we were going up thru town {north}, on Wheeling and all of a sudden I found we were in gridlock....So managed to get turned on a side street and wound around and got around all the traffic that was pouring into town....and got to our destination...Meijers.
Then heard on the truck radio, this and that street was clogged and they started stopping traffic from entering north on Wheeling...What a mess. I don't follow football, so I don't pay any attention when Ball State has an important game....or any game. But we were lucky and worked outself out of the mess.
Quentin
Mookie, sounds like you've had a nice day trackside. About the only thing I've done today around the house is dishes. That has been about it, except for watching Little Mook and Little Mud playing out in the front yard, and on the front porch.
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu for tonight:
1. Anchovie
2. Canadian bacon
3. Cheese
4. Chicago style
5. Goetta
6. Ham & green pepper
7. Hawaiian
8. Italian sausage
9. Pepperoni/mushroom
10. Supreme
Desserts for tonight:
1. Peach or apple cobbler w/ice cream
2. Chocolate cake w/chocolate icing
3. Yellow cake w/caramel icing
Hope you all have had a good day, and will have a good evening. Enjoy your supper, and I'll see you all later.
Just pawing thru the breakfast buffet and found a blueberry muffin somone missed. It went to a good cause!
Out watching some BNSF stock go up. Saw a Boeing train headed west this am. Friend at trackside said he saw one earlier this week with 4 bodies on it. This was just a single today. But he said he counted about 26 trains in and out of the yard on Thurs past. I knew it was noisy!
Watched some Tonka Toys. They seem to do a lot of rearranging, but very little carting off of items. Just keep stacking things up and moving ballast from over there to over here. Seems like a lot of busy work, but I am sure the railroad knows exactly what is going on and that they really are working.
Sir C?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good Saturday morning everyone. Starting at our morning with a temp of 55 degrees and very light rain/drizzle falling. Supposed to get up to about 71 degrees today.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer/serving station this morning: bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, syrup, scrambled eggs or fried eggs, fried green tomatoes, grits, toast, buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy and your choice of hash browns or fried sliced taters.
Everyone have a good day, take care, and yes, Joe, there will be plenty of pizza tonight.
.....Well, our day turned out to be seasonally very nice. Even got another mowing in. Upon looking at our rain gauge from overnight, I was surprised to see .7" had fallen.
At the same time {I was mowing}, Jean was pulling out almost all the flowers that bloomed very nice this Summer. And more bees....found a place under a sidewalk they were going down in....It got the Wasp spray a plenty.
Cw thanks for supper.matt is getting ready so we can go see his cousins.My sister says she has too much peach cobbler and ice cream.Tomorrow we are going to Fostoria.Please save us some pizza for a snack tomorrow night.
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").
Did something earlier, that I have not done in 20+ something years: watched All My Children.final episode. Way back in 1970, I watched the first episode with my Mama, so I decided I would watch the last episode. Did see a couple of old faces that looked familiar.
Well, our Friday Fish Fry is now on the warmer/serving station. All of the fish menu and all of the sides and dessert menus are also ready and keeping warm.
Not sure what our current temp is, but it is still a bit cool and breezy, but the sun is shining. Everyone have a very good afternoon, and I'll try to be back in later on. Take care and enjoy the afternoon.
Some nummer 1 mit potato salat und appfel streudel. Ja , das iss goot. Danke.
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Morning all! (Justin here if you don't remember!)
I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to get in here. I've been keeping up on my schoolwork and whatnot... I assure you I haven’t forgotten about you all though!
Cool temps this morning on the western side of Indiana with a little bit of fog. looks like we will have a high of around 52* today.
Keep my school in your prayers as we take on our opponents tonight in our homecoming game! GO MUSTANGS!!!
Well I hope everyone has a grand day and I'll talk to you later!
-Justin
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....57 degrees earlier. A cloudy, overcast morning with light rain potential. Not raining now. Believe we did get a bit overnight but I haven't checked the rain gauge yet.
To stop any raining this afternoon and just cloudy.
Stopped in at Steak n Shake yesterday and had a bit of lunch. Noted something on the menu that looks new to me...."Buttery Steak Burger"......Anyone here tried them yet.
Has other stuff on it that I will have to omit, but years ago, while traveling in Mi. on my job....I stopped at a place and had a hamburg with butter on it.....More than just a little, and it was really good.
Curious to try it again.
Peace be with you! 73 and misting rain in Carolina at present. Not sure of the expected high, but it made it up to 90 yestiddy. Things drag along here with very little new to report except that the trouble with my right hand is getting worse and typing is a real chore nowadays.
I have been spending my time watching A Touch of Frost online. Those English detective movies can be riveting and are so well done that it puts domestic made rubbish to shame. Anyway, it it a delghtful way to kill a couple of hours.
Nuff for now. Everyone take care and stay safe.
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Good Friday morning everyone. Rainy with a temp range of low to mid 50s. Light rain at the present time, could be heavy at times, before it ends around noontime.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer/serving station this morning: a small assortment of doughnuts and danish, along with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns and your choice of toast, french toast or buttermilk biscuits & gravy.
I'm glad you all liked our menu yesterday. Waiting to hear more menu suggestions from you all; for example, do you want to continue with our Friday Fish menu, or switch to something else entirely?
We had movie night here at home last night: watched The Black Knight. It was a fairly good movie, although it kind of seemed to drag a couple of times to me. Made it seem like a very, very long 2.88 hours (which is the calculation of 173 minutes divided by 60 minutes). If Kevin Costner had been in that movie, I'd have sworn, by the length of the film, that I was watching Dances with Wolves.
Hope you all enjoy your first full day of the Autumn season, take care and I'll see you all later.
morning
rain here in nw ohio.good sleeping weather.chores later this afternoon.
Headed for the railroad for the next couple of days. If last weekend was any indication, the fall colors may just be spectacular and well on their way to peak.
An email note from the trainmaster advises me that I'll probably not be able to get any seat time on the locomotive on Saturday - but Friday is a real possibility. Just that much closer to wrapping up my OJT and getting down to the real learning - having to do it all by myself.
CW, sounds like the new German menu is a hit. Count me in!
77° at last report. We are having what, it weren't politically incorrect, would be called Indian Summer for the next few days. It has to be clear to be able to freeze this time of year, but the clear skies also mean radiant hearing that warm up the days nicely. We are expecting lows in the fifties tonight. This can be an interesting time of year here though, because those same conditions can produce 50° swings in the same day, from the low thirties to the low eighties. Living in a steam heated building can be problematic because the heating system can't adjust quickly enough. It is too warm in the late afternoon, and you have to step smartly when you get up in the morning, because of the chill. The next cold front to pass through town will knock the stuffing out of this problem though.
No new RR news that I can see.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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"O. S. Irricana"
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afternoon
chores done in town.saw csx had 2 new commuter cars on the back end of a train and k 638 had a mixed trio of sd 40-2's for power.now time to get ready for work.
My German side has a big fork and my English side is looking on in horror.
Cucumber salad, sauerbraten
(you can take the kid outta the German town, butch can't take the German town outta da kid) Ja!
Good afternoon. 78 and overcast in Carolina. CW, the new menu sounds outstanding. Ausgescheitnet!! Things rattle along here with nothing of import to mention. Everyone take care and have a great day.
Well, I figured it is about time to change some of the menu items, and see if it will reawaken all our appetites. So, on that note, today we go to the Pa. Dutch for our menu:
1. Sauerbraten (German Beef Roast)
2. Beef & Noodle Casserole
Veggies: German potato salad; 4 bean salad; pickled cucumber salad; pickled beats; mashed taters w/bacon; corn fritters and fried cabbage & noodles
Desserts:
1. Apple cake w/cream cheese frosting
2. Shoofly cake
3. Spritz cookies
4. Lemon sponge pudding
I hope you all like the menu for today. And, if you have any favorites from your home area, just let me know, and they will be added also.
Back....from Minneapolis (visiting w/ LARamsGuy, PDN, Yuhas, Wrinny, MattV, Steve14 and da rest of the gang....about 9500 peoples worth)...the regularly scheduled mayhem beckons...
Got to watch PDN sweat a little behind the podium on Tuesday.
....Nice morning. Partly sunny. Moderate temps. Nice. Fighting bees. Seems they like to build nests up at the top corner of our brick sides on the house. And behind the shutters. So, this morning, I've declared war on them. Right now, I'm quite a bit ahead.
Will purchase more Wasp spray today.
errands to run,chores to do,need a nap and back to work tonight.cw thanks for breakfast.Omax train left replaced with Fepx and Mbkx cars.Tonight is Friday.
Good Thursday morning everyone. 68 degrees here in Louisville this morning; supposed to get up to about 76 degrees today, with rain coming in late tonight, early tomorrow morning. Guess we all get to say "So long, 'Long Hot Summer'!" today. Autumn is to begin at 5:04 EDT tomorrow morning.
Heard last night that our local Congressman and one of our Senators will be traveling on Air Force One with the President to Cincinnati this morning, to try to get him to come on down here, and see the Sherman Minton Bridge for himself, and hopefully get some help/aid in getting the bridge repaired, and another bridge built. There's even 3 or 4 individuals who are pledging X number of $$ to help get a new bridge started.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is also ready and on the warmer/serving station: some blueberry muffins, bagels, bear claws, along with bacon, sausage links and patties, scrambled eggs, etc.
Everyone have a good morning, and Mook, if you'd like to sit out on the patio with coffee (or hot chocolate) this morning, I'm ready and waiting. Or we could just sit here in the Cafe/Diner, right next to the window, and watch the trains from the inside, looking out at them.
Mookie Q - the website isn't all that spectacular - but there is a nice video about the flooding just east of us. Otherwisee, I would just look around the website and check back maybe every 2-4 weeks. So far, since I signed up, nothing has moved. J
Q - the website isn't all that spectacular - but there is a nice video about the flooding just east of us.
Otherwisee, I would just look around the website and check back maybe every 2-4 weeks. So far, since I signed up, nothing has moved.
J
....10-4 Jen....I did see some nice photos. And the video you mentioned. We'll check occasionally.
Joe - Duh - just made the connection - OMAX is Omaha Public Power District. We see them go thru here all the time. Must keep my thoughts collected so I don't miss pertinent information!
Mutt sounds like there is alot of finger pointing going on.Mooks keep them coming.Omax coal train was still in the siding at work this morning.We visited our neighbor in the hospital today.He is doing much better.Cw thanks for supper.time to get ready for work.
Quentin, we hate having to go that route also and try to work around having to do that, this time it wasn't to be....even those people had trouble with fixing(?) the problem.(I have NO patience with things like that and like to yell, Paula gets tapped as Ambassador in certain situations.)
The Sherman Minton saga still goes on, about another 10 days before they say how much longer it will be closed and what they're going to do about it.
"Commuter Rail" has been mentioned, (on a couple of Yahoo Rail Groups I belong to, A Lot!) one of the biggest things mentioned is to bring in an Army unit to build a Pontoon Bridge across the river-with a moveable section for River traffic.(the moveable section was an after thought, they first mentioned the pontoon bridge mindless of any river traffic.)
Some of our Politicians(?) are trying to get the Pres. to come on down here from Cincy this week after he meets with their officials on the I-75/71 bridge there.
So...right now it's all talk, speculation, and a lot of griping.
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!!
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