Darren's been wanderig thru Kanza going in something other than a straight line and wondering why there were so few diagonal highways in the Land of Ah's/ Flying Monkey Preserve?
.....Another "three steps forward day" for Jean, Paula.....She's had quite a few of them in a row now.
We Pray it continues.
And I too like those photos that Darren posts each day.....
Quentin
Another beautiful day here in Calgary. It is 50° now and it is cooling down with rain in the forecast, and temps in the forties for the next couple of days.
It is the Eve of the CPR AGM. By this time tomorrow, one way or another the company is going to begin changing like we have never seen before. Either the existing management realizes things can't continue like they have been, or there is going to be a new boss in town. It ought to be an interesting news day here tomorrow.
Q, good to see Jean is making progress. My Mom is getting restless in the hospital and is getting anxious to move to her new place.
That is all for now.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Peace be with you. 0700 and thunder woke me. What a way to start the day! 66 and cloudy in Carolina, headed for 78 and rain later.
Much turmoil in the political sphere. The state supreme made a ruling that kicked almost 200 people off the ballot for the primary. A rather obnoxious senator, facing serious opposition for the first time blocked a move to get them reinstated in a blatantly self serving move which got rid of his opponent. Now, the feds are involved and the entire primary may be postponed due to his action...... Public servant indeed!
Q, good to hear that Jean is still on the improve. Please give her my regards.
Everyone take care and have a great day.
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 Thursday morning everyone. Yesterday evening's thunder didn't produce any rain in our neighborhood, but it has cooled down the temps. Temperature range this morning is between the low to mid 40s north of us, and mid 50s in our area. Projected high today for us is to be only about 77 degrees.
Quentin, glad to hear that Jean has seen 3 good days of progress!
Bruce, also glad to hear that your Mom is anxious to get out of the hospital, and settle into her new home.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer bar this morning: bacon, eggs, cinnamon toast (actually made with cinnamon butter), oatmeal and cream of wheat, along with regular toast or french toast.
Everyone have a very good morning, take care and if any of you have any meal suggestions for today, I'm all ears, and want to hear the suggestions.
Mornin' everybody!
A cool 52* here at The Crossroads of America. Headed for a high of about 79* today.
Q: Good to hear that you have had three good days with Jean. I pray that these good days will continue.
Thanks for breakfast and coffee CW!
Last night I recived a tip off that NS was running 17K with the EMD SD70ACe demo unit # 2012. Here is the shot that I got of it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mainstreamrailfan/7214692142/
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....Good morning to our good railfan friends...Thanks again.
Beautiful morning here.
Good Morning Railfans!
It's 63F and Sunny heading into high 70's and then the bottom should drop out and storms are heading in.
The latest major FIRE is nearly 1,000 acres and growing but so far is still staying away from the homes in the area but evacuation warnings are going out to get folks prepared. Hopefully these new storms don't whip up the flames or start more but only time will tell...
Updated my blog again today with Day #4 of our 5 day mini vacation. Lot's of RR stuff on this day including this Frisco Water Tank
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Sadly news from the FIRE line is that the winds from last night and into today have spread the fire, now at 5,090 acres and growing. One firefighter is listed is injured...
Hello Justin! Good to see you were in earlier. Fantastic picture, btw, and I really like it. Nice looking engine!! Keep up the great work.
Darren, I also really like your picture for today. Will continue the prayers for everyone in the line of those fires, in Colorado and Arizona as well.
Here is our menu for tonight: Pennsylvania Dutch:
Meats:
1. Pork roast
2. Sauerbraten
3. Fried liver w/caramelized onions
4. Wiener Schnitzel
Salads:
1. German potato salad
Hot bacon dressing
pickled beets
Pickled cucumber salad
Four bean salad
Vegetables:
Mashed potatoes w/bacon, pan-roasted potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, corn fritters, green beans w/ham, cooked turnips and butter beans and mac & cheese
Desserts:
Lattice top apple pie, rhubarb custard pie, lemon meringue pie, apple cake, Old fasioned pound cake, shoofly cake, funnel cake and PA Dutch cruellers
Hope you all will enjoy the supper offerings; have a good evening, and take care.
afternoon
Modelcar great news.Cw thanks for supper.Tonight is friday.Going to help neice move to the country this weekend.Might try to catch some trains afterwards.Mookie a DE coal train has been sitting in the siding the past few days.Hopefully ns can get some horses and take it to the power plant.
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").
Joe - slow down anything coming west. We are deep in track work right now and have quite a line up waiting to get into the yard.
Q - many sunny days ahead to help with the healing.
CW - I am heading to bed, but must check fridge for glass of milk before I do. It will make me sleep better in between my trips down the hall....
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Good Friday morning everyone. Looks like it'll be another beautiful, sunshiny day here in the Lou., KY part of the Ohio Valley. Could see 84 degrees for a high today, and possibly 88 & 89 for tomorrow and Sunday. No possibility of any rain until Monday.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer bar this morning: the regular menu of bacon, eggs and toast, along with some doughnuts: chocolate covered, cc long johns, cc cream filled, cc vanilla filled, and a selection of danish to choose from.
Mookie: there's always regular milk, and chocolate milk, along with strawberry milk in the fridge, so everyone can help themselves.
Everyone have a good morning, take care and see you all later.
good morning
we just got back from taking matt to school.we helped in a fundraiser for the american cancaer society.have some chores to do before I go look for what CSX is running.hope everyone can enjoy the sunshine.cw thanks for lunch.
Joe
Good morning all railfan friends. We have a good start here for the day. Jean is feeling like a good start this morning.....Prayers help...!
Let us extend our Prayers to any out there who have some difficulity now.
It's a beautiful morning. Just about perfect. Clear sky....low humidity..{in Indiana ?}, and mod temps......
And.......................Our Pacer's won against Miami Heat last night. We are now 2 and I....in our favor. Next game here at home too.
Jean commented late yesterday afternoon while sitting on the patio that there seems to be a lot of trains.....Hearing the horns in the distance from two lines.....CSX & NS. That is 2.5 mi. for one and about a mi. in distance for the other....That one being the Frankton line of NS.
Quentin, glad to hear that Jean is having another good day! And we'll be continuing the prayers for a speedy recovery for her.
Our Friday Fish Fry (Grilling) is now under way on the patio. It is such a gorgeous day, that I decided to fire up the grills and grill the fish tonight. and our usual list of side dishes and desserts are ready, and on the warmer/cooler bar.
Have had a busy day today: this morning, took care of laundry, and earlier this afternoon, took my walk. Decided to get it in today, as tomorrow and Sunday, our temps are going to hovering around 88, 89 degrees (who knows, we may actually see the temp reach 90, for the first time this season).
Everyone have a good evening and take care.
well csx was quite busy this morning.q 324 was really long today.cw thanks for supper.
Good Saturday morning everyone. Current temp here in Louisville this morning is 60 some odd degrees. Doesn't feel too bad outside, since the sun isn't out quite yet. Heard on the morning weather report that our high today, around 4, 5 p.m., will be about 86, 87 degrees.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. And our Saturday Brunch of bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, fried taters, country fried steak and pork chops are on the warmer bar; also have some fresh fruit (pineapple chunks, peaches, blackberries, strawberries) on the cooler part of the bar.
Everybody have a good morning and afternoon, take care and I'll see you all after I get back from VBS preparations.
Peace be with you. 60 and cloudy in Carolina, headed for 77 and clear later. Today is MAYFLY, the bi-annual airshow, and there have been all sorts of planes flying low for the past noisy 48 hours.
We got almost exactly 3 inches of rain this past week. It was welcomed and was a blessing. PTL
CW, why don't you download the WEATHER CHANNEL TOOLBAR? It's free and you will have current weather and up to 10 day forecast on your monitor all the time. This is not the desktop application, which is also available.
Got a tree man coming to unhang one of my antennas later today. Been waiting a long time for this.
Well, we had a good afternoon with our VBS planning session. Didn't get home until after 4:30, but we got a lot of things accomplished in just over 2 hours' time, and got everything cleaned and straightened up for Church tomorrow. And it was very warm today, as we made it up to 88 degrees this afternoon. Things are progressing very well.
Tom, I'll check on that with the boss man, on the weather program.
Pizzas are now made, baked and on the warmer bar for our Saturday Night Pizza Fest:
01. Anchovie
02. Canadian bacon
03. Cheese
04. Ghicago style
05. Goetta
06. Ham & green pepper
07. Hawaiian
08. Italian sausage
09. Pepperoni/mushroom
10. Supreme
1. Apple crumb cake
2. Chocolate cream pie
3. Peach cobbler
4. Chocolate cake
Everyone have a good evening, enjoy your pizzas, take care and see you all in the morning.
The tree man and his dad showed up and got the antenna cleared and unhung so that it will rotate again. Then, they did some trim work alongside the driveway. When I asked who to make the check out to, he said that he and dad had a very enjoyable time working together and that was pay enough, and it was on them. I have truly been blessed this day. PTL.
Now we have a tropical storm east of us, moving to the southwest, and projected to turn north and then northeast. Looks like we may see some of it.
Everyone have a great evening.
hi
busy day.helped niece move into the country.saw few trains go by as we loaded up.cw thanks for the pizza.
Just dropping in for my biennial "hello!" A friend sent me a link which brought me to the trains.com site, so I thought I'd stop by. Hope all here, old and new, are well. :)
--Nora
Good Sunday morning everybody! Nora, hello and welcome! Question: Are you the Nora who used to come in, work for the railroad, and live in the northeast? If so, welcome back!! Good to see you.
68 degrees this morning in Louisville, KY, and going to be another hot day here. Supposed to see a high of 88 again this afternoon.May get some rain sometime tomorrow, and supposed to cool down into the low to mid 70s for Tuesday, Wednesday.
Coffee, juice and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the warmer bar this morning: pecan rolls, cinnamon rolls, bacon, eggs and toast, along with leftover pizzas from last night (you can eat it cold, or heat it up in the microwave).
Tom, that was a very nice thing the guy and his Dad did for you. You are truly blessed.
Everybody have a good morning, take care going to Church, work, railfanning, whatever/wherever you have to go this morning. Have a couple of Crock Pots going with roast, taters & carrots going for our Sunday Dinner later.
Tom do you think that the coming storm will turn into a hurricaine? Weather radio says it is the first of the season ( the storm that is) .
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Hi Nora! Get bits and pieces from places on this forum and FB, but don't know if you are still working for RR or not. Bet the boys are getting to be young men by now.
You need to stop in once in awhile and keep us updated.
CB, no, this one will fizzle in a few days. Good morning/afternoon all. Welcome back Nora. It is good to see you again, and I hope you are well.
80 and sunny in Carolina and that is the projected high. Not a whole lot to report at this time.
Peace be with you.
just relaxing today.Matt's working on the layout.Back to work tonight.Cw thanks for supper.
mudchicken Darren's been wanderig thru Kanza going in something other than a straight line and wondering why there were so few diagonal highways in the Land of Ah's/ Flying Monkey Preserve?
That can be a mixed blessing. I grew up with the phenomenon in MI. There are a few "here to there" roads, but most follow the NS/EW grid of the townships.
Here in northern NY, pretty much all of the roads go from "here to there," and not always on a straight line. You might think you're headed in the right direction, but all too often find out otherwise.
Finally recovering from our excursion to Tupper Lake on Thursday. We shuttled the Lake Placid trainset to Tupper for an event there the next day. A mechanical problem delayed our departure for nine hours, rendering the last several hours of the trip in total darkness. And I want to tell you, when you're a number of miles from anywhere on a moonless night in the middle of the Adirondacks, it gets dark[/i].
I finally got home almost 24 hours after I left, and had to work a local event (a car show) for the ambulance Friday afternoon.
Beautiful day on Saturday, so I put off working on a raffle ticket job so I could enjoy more of the car show (and more cars) on Saturday. It's beautiful today, but I'm stuck inside transfering ink from type to paper.
Back to work! One thing about running one's own business - you have to yell at yourself if you get lazy...
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If "Nora" is the original Nora.....Believe she wouldn't have to have a friend find this address.
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