....Saw a figure this morning, the premium increase for Medicare "B", will absorb about 25% of the S S raise.
Quentin
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Not much new railway news lately, but a week ago two different semi's went under railway bridges and damaged them. One was a concrete bridge and some concrete fell away and exposed the rebar underneath. But in the other incident at Lloydminister, SK, an excavator on a lowboy flatdeck knocked a CP girder bridge right off of its' pilings, and it fell down onto the trailer, just behind the cab. There were no injuries, but there is a BIG damage bill!
Glad to be back.
Bruce
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well we now know that our northern neighbors have truck drivers who also make RR involved mistakes.
Anyone able to post links to pictures?
Bruce - I saw pictures of the Lloydminister SK bridge aftermath. Wonder if they ever found the driver's head....he obviously wasn't wearing one or maybe it was on the seat next to him. If he had been, his boss would have ripped it off....
Major damage and $$$$$.
30 here and will be sunny as soon as the sun arrives. But no north winds today, so will be a nice fall day @ 50.
I will have a fur coat & mittens for breakfast. Maybe toast and coffee later when I find my finners.
Heading out on the pack mule to town for supplies and annual flu shots.
And did the "older" generation happen to notice the mixed feelings yesterday - SS is getting a 3.6 % raise and also a rise in the health premiums? Seems like that has always been the way business has paid employees - here's a raise; oh, and you will notice it is just enough to cover the raises in parking and health insurance? You will have to deal with the increase in groceries, gasoline, property taxes, rent, etc as usual.
Don't spend it all at the gumball machine!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
morning
more rain here in nw ohio.errands later.tonight will be friday.
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").
Good Thursday morning everyone. And a BIG Welcome Back to Bruce and Bob!! Bob, the breakfast looks great. Thank you for fixing breakfast.
Haven't looked at the TV this morning, for the local news or anything; but according to the computer, our current temp is 43 degrees, with light rain, and gusty winds 30 to 40 mph again today. We went 13 days without a drop of rain, so guess we'll now get 13 days of light rain falling? For our high today, we may see 51 degrees.
Everyone have good day, keep warm and dry, if you're getting rain like Ky., take care and see you all later.
Once again, welcome back to Bruce and Bob!
WAKE UP. Good morning everyone. Biscuits are done. Sausage gravy & biscuits are the feature this morning. Coffee & orange juice are ready to go. The World Series game was great. Go Cardinals. The fans were dressed up in their finest winter coats. They seemed real happy though.
Well , I thought I should drop by, seeing as I haven't been in since September 24. I think Tom described my situation lately pretty well. I have only been getting around at somewhere between 0.66 and 0.75 of normal speed. Lots of general aches and pains along with some specific really sore places. I received a cortico-steroid shot in my shoulder yesterday, and I am only now just feeling better after the effects of that.
Weather wise, it hasn't been all that bad since I last posted. Temps ranging from the high seventies to a couple of degrees below freezing. There has been some rain, but we still have no snow on the ground.
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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10-4 , soup& sub., wth coffee.
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Good Afternoon..
Spent my morning and part of the afternoon downloading a program I'm using to make music with..it were an interesting experience. What with Avast issuing up all manner of false positives which I then had to give over to them and then retrying the download...sheeesh.
I'm also attending school...yep. Little old me...all of 56 and going back to university...after...mmmm..let's see...a few years out....
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Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Just finished making the vegetable beef soup. It is now on the warmer/serving station, along with freshly baked cornbread, and there's also chicken & dumplings, with enough broth to make it worthwile putting it into a bowl.
Also think we have gotten the printer back. Getting ready to try to print out something, and see if it works.
Mudchicken, I like that movie, Christine. Let me see if I'm correct: that was written by Steven King? If so, that is the only thing he has written that I like. Wouldn't mind seeing that movie again.
Mookie Sir C - send Lurch - you stay home with co-pilots. He's old enough to go alone!
Sir C - send Lurch - you stay home with co-pilots. He's old enough to go alone!
Larry lets see,339,380,382,e960,135,200 didn't catch the number of the ethanol train.
Cw vegtable beef soup sound great for today.In southeast ohio they have Bears,tigers and wolves(oh my) that were released from a wild animal park.The owner was found dead.Orders are shoot to kill.Hope the hunters and wildlife officials can account for all of them.Time for bed.errands to run this afternoon.
Joe
Good Wednesday morning everyone. Larry very good video! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. 47 degrees with drizzle here in the Louisville area this morning. Temp is only to go up five degrees today. Supposed to be very breezy out later this morning and afternoon/evening.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer/serving station.
Been sitting here at the puter, watching Little Mook and Little Mud playing on the front porch: actually, they're wresting with each other. What started the little scuffle? Little Mook running around in circles, trying to catch her tail (a game she loves to play several times a day).
What would you all like for lunch/supper? I'm thinking vegetable beef soup and minestrone soup, with maybe some sub sandwiches. What do you all think?
No trains in sight?
Pay a virtual visit to Deshler...
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...
Ahhhh! Nice to be home, in the house, out of the wind and cold. Temps have been dropping all day. Our high of 61 must have been right after midnight. The rain hasn't made it in totally in our area yet, Joe, but it is coming. They have had some storms to the southeast of us, heading northeast. But what will be here in the next little bit (?) is coming from the northwest and the west.
Here is our menu for tonight:
Beef tips w/noodles, scalloped potatoes, garden salad or slaw;
Fried chicken w/your choice of mashed taters and milk gravy, green beans or broccoli w/butter sauce, choice of dinner rolls, homemade buttermilk biscuits or cornbread.
Produce went fairly well this morning, except, since we went inside the gym today, most of the people didn't know how to act, and forgot to follow the rules in getting their bags of produce: potatoes, purple onions, strawberry milk, apples, choice of slaw mix or salad, and zucchini squash.
Hope you all have had a good day, will have a good evening, and take care.
switch7frg Quentin; plug in units are ( instead of repair) are easier to install and higher priced than if repaired. Been there and done that with my truck , the one with the big red oval on the side of the hood. ~~~ Hope they sharpen the reel on the snow blower ---- HEH HEH Comments are all in fun . Cannonball
Quentin; plug in units are ( instead of repair) are easier to install and higher priced than if repaired. Been there and done that with my truck , the one with the big red oval on the side of the hood. ~~~ Hope they sharpen the reel on the snow blower ---- HEH HEH Comments are all in fun .
Yes, Cannonball, I know, processes such as this have been in vogue for some time now. Not much is designed to be repairable. Just replace. Trouble is...when the faulty item might be "X" dollars, and instead it's "fixed" by replacing the whole unit, and at a cost of "XXX" dollars...that is just a bit much. And wasteful.
But we needed it to be replaced, so that's what one has done.
afternoon
rain has arrived here in nw ohio.Met with Carl and Pat last night at the station.chores chores and more chores.Need to go get Matt from school.Cw thanks for supper.
The dull roar Mooks will hear in about 12 hours is low flying feathers as da chicken blows through headed to tin-shoes almost backyard at Ames. This may be Lurch's last big harrah (replaced by a big sumo riceburner?)
Co-Pilots staying home.
Good Tuesday morning everyone. Very chilly here in Louisville this morning, with a temp in the low 50s, and breezy. Rain chances get higher as the day goes on. May see a few sprinkles this morning, but will probably pick up towards afternoon and evening.
Yes, Quentin, in the world today, people (businesses) tend to have the philosophy of "Let's not make parts for these machines: that way, we can get these idiots to buy a completely new, more expensive model. And the extra parts we do make, we'll charge them and arm and a leg for them." Getting off my now.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are freshly made and ready to go. And breakfast is on the warmer/serving station.
Everyone have a good morning, take care and I'll see you all sometime later this afternoon. Have a few errands to run, after I get through with Tuesday Produce this morning.
....Yes, C W....Today's many products are not made to "repair"....instead of just putting "in a new bearing", no...we replace the whole electric clutch for hundreds of dollars. That's one reason it's expensive.
Quentin, repair costs are almost always a shocker to the human's ears, isn't it? Such is life, I reckon.
Here is our menu for the rest of the afternoon:
Beef stew w/cornbread and leftovers from Sunday Dinner.
Not feeling quite up to par today, tummy is acting up and deciding to be a pain. Everyone have a good afternoon and take care.
....The crowd seems to be getting smaller...?? We have a nice morning, but cool. 40's. Probably into the 60's later today, but plenty of sunshine.
John Deere, pick up fellow, was here earlier {very}, this morning, and picked up my tractor for some major tune up and service. Had it parked right near the front door of our home, under the wide overhang, and they got it without our extremely sensitive watch dog hearing them...! That would be Ella....in the Avatar.
Nor did either I or Jean hear anything. And just had a call from J D and it was them that picked it up....I was shocked, that maybe someone else "picked it up", but every thing is ok. Except what it will cost....
Good Monday morning everyone. Larry, sounds like you had a fairly good day for your birthday yesterday, and got to share it with someone who also had a b-day yesterday.
Our temp is 59 degrees this morning, with cloudy skies. High will be around 70, then the temps will drop tomorrow, with a high in the upper 50s, and down into the upper 30s, low 40s tomorrow night.
Coffee is ready, along with OJ, OJ-tangerine, pineapple, apple and grape juices. Plenty of hot water for our hot tea drinkers, hot cider, hot chocolate, and whatever pop/soft drink you might want for your morning pick-me-up. On the warmer/serving station this morning: bacon, sausage links & patties, eggs, toast, and assorted jams, jellies/preserves/marmalades.
Everyone have a good morning, and if anyone has any meal requests for today, please let me know. Take care, and see you all later.
Reading Sunday paper when some weather announces it's arrival with a few flashes and rumbles.
Check radar - nice little line forming up as it comes off the lake and passing right over us.
As I'm looking at it on the computer I hear the rain get harder - literally. Checking outside I see what looks like BB sized hail on the driveway. A few seconds later there's definitely hail on the driveway - it's covered.
Still some bumps and rumbles - looks like it could go on for a while.
Wet weekend on the pumpkin patch (and in town with my visitors). Good thing we've got a shelter there (a lawn canopy, with sides) and heat. Thought we were through with it by mid-day Sunday, but the last trip of the day brought more rain, including while we were breaking down after the train left to return to Thendara.
I hope it's nicer next weekend!
....I put 67,000 miles on a 1949 Chevy 4-door Fleetllne in 23 months. Uncle Sam wanted me then, It was really a good car. And while I was gone...
The "Southern Car Buyers" purchased it, {in Pennsylvania}, and pulled another car with it...down to one of the Carolina's back then.
As I mentioned in my earlier post...We have exceptions.
Best overall car I ever owned: 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 with 390 V8
Most Dependable car: 1967 Rambler American 220
Most fun car: 1972 VW Beetle w/ Porsche engine
Worst car: 1982 Ford Escort Wagon
What I drive now:
2002 Jeep Liberty Sport and a 2009 Kia Rio LX Sedan
....Automobiles. I believe they are much more reliable and capable now than several decades ago. But if one does have one that gives trouble it will cost much more to have it put back in order. {If out of warranty}.
Years ago, 50,000 miles was somewhat of a reach with many automobiles, and now 100,000 is somewhat normal if the proper care and use is provided for it.
Overdrive transmissions allow engines to turn much less RPM's traveling down the road....and the interstate, hence, much less wear on it's internal parts, for each given mile. Much improvement in lubricating oils too....and better yet...synthetic oils.
Many suspension parts are now able to go longer mileage too and without much care....Chassis lube was necessary...{and many more fittings to lube}. every 1,000 miles, One example: Gas filled shocks vers. shocks of two decades ago last much longer, and do a better job.
Even radial tires are capable of much more mileage than tires of the bias ply of some decades ago....and safer too.
The list goes on and on. I know, lots of plastic and what looks like short cuts in designs...But overall, today's automobiles will serve for much longer miles / time than cars we might have had decades ago.
Of course we have to say there are exceptions to everything....but I'm considering, overall.
Ed, I really wonder about the construction of cars in the last few years. We did have trouble with a 1983 Park Avenue after about four years--the catalytic converter failed, but it was covered under its warranty. Our 1985 LeSabre wore its airconditioner compressor out in about twenty years, and I had to have the gas supply system that is in the tank replaced abut the same time.
This year, our 2002 LeSabre (with only about 50,000 miles on it) has had to have extensive work on the cooling system done, and the engine mounts replaced. There have been some other things that I had nevered worried bout in anyother car, but the details are not currently in mymemory.
I drove a 1967 Biscayne for eight years and 125,000 miles, and it had needed no heavy repair at all.
Johnny
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