morning
rumble and bumpy night last night but we are all ok .More thunderstorms today.Going to catch up on chores.Breakfast is ready. Momma is calling for help.
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").
And a good evening to all herein!!
Weather here be warm and sticky...not much else....
Moore OKL seemed to be in another Tstorm's sights again....we had something go over here a few days ago that looked to about come here and do us in as well...thank goodness it did not... continue for those effected by the tornadoes...keep safe!!!
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/
good morning
Breakfast is ready. Cooler and cloudy today. off to Church. Back to work tonight.
Joe
Good Morning
Kind dull but very sticky out here...we had a coupla monsoons show up earlier this morning so we do get rain here...
Today will be going to diner and seeing the gang day....then seeing the trains running...
Oh...doc appointments were all to the good....
A good Sunday to all. Sorry I haven't been in lately, but have been doing other things. Hard to believe we are in June, especially when we are having early May temps. Yesterday was a semi rainy day. My brother & sis in law were going to take all the grandkids fishing yesterday. Once a year, the Jim Beam Distillery opens the gates to let parents/grandparents bring the kiddos in to fish in their lake (something they don't even let employees do). But w/the threat of t-storms possible, they decided not to chance it. By afternoon, the sun was shining a little bit, and man, was it humid outside.
Today's a little better, with plenty of sunshine, but cool temps (70 F right now), supposed to make it up to 79, maybe 80 degrees this afternoon.
BOC, am glad to hear that your tests came out for the good!! Everyone have a good afternoon, take care and see you all later.
Ed - It is sometimes discussed in the case of line of duty deaths (LODD) whether the firefighters had any business being where they were. Sounds like in this case, they did.
Odds are the structure was made heavily of "engineered" components - trusses, etc. They're great for construction but not so much if they catch fire.
People are always amazed at how fast fire can spread.
Decent weekend on the railraod. Not a lot of riders, but ops went well. Had a heck of a thunderstorm overnight Saturday, but it didn't bring anything down on the tracks.
Plenty to keep me busy around the house. Looks like Mom will be here in a couple of weeks to attend her reunion. Still don't have her travel plans, though.
Better get off the computer and to work.
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...
Larry,
Mid 60s construction back in the day when “to code” meant what you could pay the inspector to ignore, heavy plaster ceiling or support wall collapsed, these four separated from the others in the “fast attack” group searching for civilians.
One of them was a mid 20 year old female “new hire” probationary fire fighter; it’s hard on the department to lose one that young, much less her and the other three all at once.
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Good Evening
Lots of sun and cooler temperatures for us here...we had a nice afternoon with the diner gang here...had something of a cruise afternoon going...including my '68 fastback....complete with somewhat straight pipes......mmmmm...can we has noise?
Ed, Larry: Is this the hotel fire you are talking about? Very sad either way... to the survivors....
Have a great evening!!
BOC - I had to smile @ the straight pipes. Our landlord (mid 70's) drives a fairly new truck and it has some non-factory pipes on it. They are a little loud, but are so mellow - don't think he would ever get stopped for them. With house shut up, I can still tell when "Harold is here"!
'68 fastback what? (I should probably know, but refresh my memory)
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mustang Fastback...got a 429 Cobra Jet in it...
blownout cylinderEd, Larry: Is this the hotel fire you are talking about? Very sad either way... to the survivors....
Southwest Motel, Houston. Started out bad and got worse.
Exhausts - Back in the 60's, a volunteer fire department here in the county had a pumper with straight pipes. Always a hit with the motorheads at a parade, but I'm not sure I'd want to run it at a fire...
Before I was in my department, a small tanker they had had stacks - and I don't think it had mufflers. They were all gas engines then. I understand they had "flappers" on it, and when leaving town up the hill those flappers would be straight up...
Time for bed. To beat to work on that project tonight, so it's up first thing in the morning to get ink on the printing press...
Hey CW and all. Been a while. What's new?
8 N' Sand
monday is done.breakfast is ready.Chores and errands to do later.
Got a lot cooler last night...now we are cloudy and 47F.....going back up to 55F later on....
Having some work to do today at the office...hopefully not too many reports to shuffle through...then off to the LHS to check out what's new....may pick up something there...
Have a great day!!
Field crew opened a manhole to a culvert this morning, only to find a growling bear.
Manhole cover replaced post haste. [Nikes don't fail me now!]
Gonna be one of those weeks,.....
Permission to go home and go to bed, wake up and start over?
Permission granted - from just about 100% of forum.
X 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!
My Reader's D version of a blob for today: Spring house cleaning....Will be going to hospital for a rest here shortly. 5 closets - 4 are completely cleaned now. 1 to go. (3rd time thru the last one!)
For all you single men and domestic gods - I have 2 feather pillows to sleep on - one goes in queen pillowcase really snazzy - 2nd one - well try stuffing what seems like about 50 pounds of feathers into a regular size pillowcase.
Going to tackle the kitchen cupboards after the rest in the hospital! Guess you really don't get rest in a hospital, do you..... maybe I will just go curl up in a chair and practice my engineer napping!
Downsizing, don'tchaknow....
Hi 8NSand - long time no see here. Come back and visit again!
Good afternoon..
Yep...I got done early..not so much reports to go through...good thing too..as it looks like week after is going to be a PITA...what with quarterlies out and such...
This afternoon featured a CN train with turbine shafts and other such goodies going through town....I managed to get the thing on my Palm Pre 2 as it was going through...gonna see whether it will post up on youtube....
MC: You have my permission as well!!!
Having some light work done at KW, so drug out the laptop......
Exhausts - With all the new emissions articles under the trucks nowadays, I can roll past a sign saying "no Jake brake" with my Jakes on full, and nobody would notice.......
I have also made the mistake one night of parking next to a guy that had eight inch straight pipes, and he ran the truck all night long. Hard to get sleep that night.....
Dad had a -pre 68 John Deere 4020 Diesel with a rain cap on the muffler, the bushing was worn just enough that the rain cap would rattle at low idle. Always liked the sound of that 414 cubic inch straight six under a heavy load in the field.......
Don't see many rain caps on semis anymore, they still make them for straight cut and mitered stacks, on the right truck and balanced right, they look great.....
Mud - I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
rvos1979 I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
Thing is, you don't have to be fast - just faster than the next slowest guy...
Hello
Spent the last little while with the little Spring on my lap...think I'll head off to bed now...
Rgr, permission by the stop proceed at restricted speed until move clears next more favorable signal...
time to get matt to Bible school.Ns has a crane in the warehouse siding and the local waits in the siding uptown.breakfast is all set.
Good Morning ..thanks for breakfast..
Sunny but kinda cool out here...all of 44F going for a high later on of...oh...60F
Got a couple of meetings to get to today...another one cancelled out so that may leave a little time for train things later on...
Have a good day..
Good Evening...
Well, I got the meetings done and away with...came out with a scratchy throat....now am sneezing everywhere I go....great...creeping crud is back
Back to Fisherman's Friend and other such things...now...where is my kleenex box....
I'll be around some yet...hope ...hope...
Well, the breakfast bar is up in time for Brunch, anyhow...
Nice and sunny today, but another cool start, just like BC.
The forecast for the weekend was predictable. Despite early prognostications of half decent weather, it appears that our antique fire truck muster this coming Saturday (a decidedly outside event) will again be plagued by cool temps and rain. For the third year running...
But I still have to get stuff ready for it. Off to the tasks at hand.
Goog Bordig..
Welb...I dow hab a goog ode fashiod code...by dose seebs to hab endless subbly of creebig crud to cob oud ov id...I deed solice....and sobe deocitrand....I ab loaded ub with fisherbads fred though...mmmm...I see sbellcheg is habing fud with the sbellig here...
I'se be goig to the bagbood to curl ub ad try to heat this code oud ub be...
Hab a bedder day thad I ab habbig
BOC - do you have anything blooming close by? Something bigger than flowers? Or mold?
Our neighbors have a Tree of Heaven (it stinks) and it really bothers my eyes and nose when it leafs out and again when it blooms.
Otherwise, you probably do hab a bad code...
afternoon
had chores and errands this morning.Going to get matt from bible school.He is having fun.Supper will be burgers and brats on the grill.
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