Good Morning Railfans!
It's 26F and Sunny here at Mile High with a hit if snow maybe coming Thursday. It's been so warm this year that the trees are starting to bud out and the Iris are coming up. The grass never truly went dormat and is starting to green up. It's still January right???
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
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Present - with no news. Would look for footprints in the snow, but....no snow.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie, we're at 60 degrees at 4:32 p.m. But it is still quite breezy outside. Go ahead and be a weather complainer for the rest of the winter, and I'll be right with you!! Would have taken another walk this afternoon, but I just didn't feel like putting up with the stiff breeze that is blowing, with its occasional gusts.
The menu for the rest of this afternoon/evening:
1. Grilled chicken
2. Lasagna
3. Vegetables: garden salad, green beans, peas & carrots, white hominy, mashed taters w/milk gravy and your choice of buttermilk biscuits, cornbread or Italian bread sticks.
Everyone enjoy, have a good evening, take care and see you all in the morning.
69 degrees and sunny. I reserve the right to whine about any cold weather the rest of winter.
Moo
It's35F and Sunny here in Denver this morning. It figures it would be a nice day when I have to be at w**k!
Oh well, enjoy the day!
Good Monday morning everyone. Starting out with a temp around 29, 30 degrees, and calm winds. Supposed to get up close to 60 degrees today. Guess the bucket will empty out on us all next month.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs, toast, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy & jam/jelly/preserves, are ready and waitin' on the warmer bar.
Took a long walk yesterday afternoon, about 2 1/2 hours, just walking around the neighborhood. Walked slowly, so I wouldn't tire my knee, and also so the wind wouldn't blow me to who-knows-where. That daggone wind tried to knock my walking stick out of my hand several times, but I managed to keep a good grip on it.
Everyone have a great day, hope you all had a very good weekend, take care and see you all later.
Yes, Paula.....She is better after eating certain things today....Hot chicken noodle soup, included. So hope we can get this problem solved tomorrow. The "side effects", on the included paper with the new meds...{for arthritus}, in her hands, lists stomach as one of many problems that can be caused....So it's a pretty good suspect.
Trip to get granddaughter back with parents...went just fine. Didn't realize how much wind I was bucking on the way down there until I got out to meet daughter at our meeting place....Must have been 30 or more mph.
On the way back {with the wind at my back}, I brought up the "readout" on the dash {car}, and at that moment, I was doing 71 mph.....and mpg readout was 31. I wonder what it was when I was bucking into it on the way down. Being on cruse, I didn't realize how bad it was, but did notice it was trying to blow the car around some on the interstate.
Quentin
Quentin, hope Jean gets adjusted to the new meds all right. If not, the Dr. may have to change them again.
Here is our menu for our Sunday Dinner:
1. Lasagna w/garden salad, broccoli w/butter sauce, baked potatoes and your choice of garlic bread, Italian bread or Texas toast.
2. Broiled rib eye steaks w/garden salad, baked potatoes and your choice of any of the above listed breads.
We're supposed to get to a high of 45 to 47 degrees, last I heard on the late morning news. Winds do seem kind of brisk outside and are gusting. Everyone have a good afternoon, take care and see you all later.
.....Weather started out sunny this morning. Now, a bit of overcast. There is a "Low" north of us and moving east and that will {forecasters say}, bring some snow showers, perhaps noon and this afternoon....About 40% chance for this action. But less than an inch.
So...Have to delete church and head towards Indy with granddaughter to meet "Mom" at our meeting place, which is about half way between our respective homes. Don't want her driving on the interstate with the snow potential this afternoon....and I'd like to stay out of it too.
Was looking forward with us all getting to church this morning, and Jean has some new meds. that seem to not agree with her, so we'll just be working around these situations.
Looks like our weather, starting tomorrow...will be changing for the better. 40's and 50's and partly cloudy / sunny all this week. That sounds pretty good.
We have turned the corner, temperature wise....We're on the upswing now gaining, not losing temp.
Good Sunday morning everyone. 33 degrees, going for a high in the mid 40s today. But, it will be cloudy, and possibly have winds gusting to 40 mph or so.
Erik, welcome to the Flat Wheel Cafe! Like the sound of your version of peach cobbler. Is the dutch oven almost filled with the cobbler?
Larry, sounds like you had a really good time yesterday.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer bar: bacon, eggs, toast, blueberry muffins, pecan rolls and butter kuchen.
Everyone have a very good morning, take care going to work, Church, rail fanning, whatever you have to do this morning.
I'll go for the Italian Sausage pizza with Peach Cobbler (though nothing beats the peach cobbler cooked in a Dutch oven on a camping trip in the Owens Valley).
It's 57F now, high today was 73 and high yesterday was 83. There's a Red Flag alert for the east county area due to high winds and low humidity.
- Erik
Ah, Pizza Night. I think I will have a Supreme pizza and a piece of Mincemeat pie with a scoop of ice cream on top.
It is 24° mow and it has been since 1:00 this afternoon. It has been OVERCAST all day today and I mean really dark and dreary. The wind has been up and down but at the last report we now have a windchill of 18°.
Now new RR news today.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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First day of the biggest model railroad show on the east coast is in the books. We had a fair amount of interest in the railroad - I'm busy folding some brochures I had printed tonight 'cause we ran out of them.
The show, which is in four buildings, is almost overwhelming. One thing I like about it is that you don't just have dealers selling products, you have the manufacturers actually present hawking their line. Some of the stuff is really impressive, like brass etched O scale high tension towers.
Of course, there are plenty of layouts, many of which are quite large.
Friday night several of us visited a local resident's layout for an operating session. I actually managed to finish all my work, and I had a rather ambitious train to handle.
Wouldn't mind going back, but probably not until next year.
Back to folding brochures.
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...
Here's our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu for tonight:
01. Anchovi8e
02. Canadian bacon
03. Cheese
04. Chicago st7le
05. Goetta
06. Ham & green pepper
07. Hawaiian
08. Italian sausage
09. Pepperoni/mushroom
10. Supreme
Desserts:
01. Chocolate cake
02. Pecan pie
03. Strawberry shortcake
04. Peach cobbler
05. Mincemeat pie
06. Strawberry/rhubarb pie.
Hope you all have a good evening; take care, and see you guys/gals in the morning.
Joe - yes.....chocolate chip.
Also - Another almost 100% FURX train - heading south. Someone is really paying a lot of rental $$$$ to haul coal to them. There are now 2 of them out there, one WB and one SB.
Curiouser and curiouser.
what no cookies? csx sent a q 508 this morning with a blue and a black lease unit behind a csx unit.They also sent an ethanol train with 2 cn units.Cw hope the little toe can get better soon.Will take a pepperoni and mushroom for 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").
Mookie Joe: milk, bread, oranges, butter....put it on my tab and e-mail them to me.... It is 20 and clear here to Indiana. Better weather is on its way.
Joe: milk, bread, oranges, butter....put it on my tab and e-mail them to me....
It is 20 and clear here to Indiana. Better weather is on its way.
But Indiana had a half inch of snow overnight. Windy this morning. Temps are above freezihg though.
Yes, we expect to see quite a bit of 40's this coming week.
Good Saturday morning everyone. 37 degrees here in Louisville this morning. Should be somewhere in the mid to upper 40s today? Haven't really heard the weather report this morning, only saw/heard the current temp. And haven't seen nary a snow flake. Joe, thank you very much for taking care of breakfast this morning.
Mookie, don't know what is causing the problem with the little toe. I don't exactly go barefoot, either have my mocs slippers on, or go around in sock feet; so toes are usually kept contained.
Everyone have a very good day, keep dry and warm, take care and see you all this evening.
good morning
breakfast is ready.juice and coffee are ready.dusting of snow outside.going to help mom go to the store later.
jor
.....Didn't do well enough to win our ball game tonight....but we'll have another try, I believe next week here in Indy. Played the Celtics. Won our game with them a week or so ago.
Went towards our meeting place down near Indy this morning and picked up our granddaughter, Heather for the weekend. Weather cooperated just fine.
Overcast then, but got up to 40 degrees this afternoon and sunshine.
Stayed in all day - it wasn't too bad temp-wise, but windy. Going to be in the 40's all next week. Groundhog day should be sunny and maybe nice enough to train watch.
CW - did your little toe wander off w/o you and get hurt? I have broken both little toes - tripped over something each time. I am barefoot most of the time and both times the little toe was gawking around and not paying attention. I now wear socks (keeps them home) and look where they are walking.
Fish - yum. I'm ready.
Well, I made it back from the doctor's office. He is ordering a test to be done on my right foot. The little toe is discolored (most of the time red, sometimes deep purple), so he's wanting to see what is going on. Don't know yet, when I will have that: they will call me, when they get it set up, probably sometime next week. Then, I go back to his office in March.
Our Friday Fish Fry is ready and on the warmer bar: all the regular kinds/types of fish, along with the regular sides and dessert menus.
Don't know what our current temp is, but it is very chilly out, and overcast. Definitely not a good day for taking a walk. Everyone have a good afternoon, take care, and see you all later.
A quick blast of snow here (1" in 25 minutes)....Good water for the asparagus barrier. Snow has all headed towards the flying monkey preserve.
afternoon
lots of errands and now chores.waiting for matt to get home so we can take advantage of the sun while we have it.hard to say about the furx cars mookie.my guess is they might be headed to somewhere on illinois central.up sometimes has furx coal cars on them too.Cw thanks for supper.hope everyone stays warm and dry this weekend.
joe
Good morning everyone,
I was out early today for breakfast and grocery shopping. It is now 27°, but the windchill is bringing it down to 14°. You definitely want to stay out of the wind. It is shall we say, crisp.
I checked around and saw that CN got the Fabyan Trestle, where the grain cars fell off the bridge into the Battle River valley, opened back up, but there is a slow order on it for an as yet undetermined time.
Also, I saw CP released their forth quarter 2011 results and got their OR down under 80. I actually didn't think they were going to do it. It is quite impressive when I think back to when my Dad retired a quarter century ago and OR's used to be about 90. The first time I ever saw such a metric mentioned was in a staff magazine, before he retired, and they were talking about trying to get it under 93.
Everyone have a good day.
.....Our day is overcast, and temps seem to be very similar as last night and yesterday....Mid 30's. No snow. A mention of some snow flurries possible today, Sat. and Sun.
Hope so, only that. Headed to pick up granddaughter in the next hour partway town to Indy.
Good Friday morning everyone. Hope everyone had a good day yesterday, as I decided to take a day off: didn't really have much of anything to say/write about.
We currently have a temp of 38 degrees, going for a high in the low to mid 40s. Rain seems to be over, and moving out of the area. I'm glad about that, as I go back to the cardiovascular dr. for my regular checkup later on this morning.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. And breakfast is on the warmer bar, including some doughnuts, danish, muffins, bagels, bear claws, bacon, eggs, toast and jelly/jam/preserves.
Everyone have a good day, take care and see you all later.
Peace be with you. WOW. January and the high was nearly 80! Right now 72 and cloudy with storms expected later tonight. With the passing of several fronts rapidly, these ole jints have been singing the blues over the past few days or so. I wish I was 18 again, but 28 will do....
The politicians are keeping the days from being boring, but I sure will be glad when this thing is over. Politics 24/7 are making Jack a dull boy....
Everyone take care
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)
Joe - Have you seen a FURX coal train? We had one go thru here going south - first one I have seen. I checked all the cars - they had two CN ones, but they were now FURX. Wow - a $$$ train. And it was right next to a BNSF coal train heading west. Lots and lots of $$$$$ right in that small space.
We usually can tell by the cars where the train is going KCPL, Alabama, Georgia, DEEX, but have no clue where all the rentals were headed.
Darren - and an SP shall lead them?
Nice day. Tomorrow not so. But weekend ok and next week still nice for end of January. Wonder if Feb will be rip your head off and snow in the hole month?
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