tree68 DeggestyCarl, it is truly convenient to have but one key for two or more locks; Wholeheartedly agree, although that's still on my list of projects for the house....
DeggestyCarl, it is truly convenient to have but one key for two or more locks;
Wholeheartedly agree, although that's still on my list of projects for the house....
If you're getting new locks, I'd really consider the ones that also have a keypad. It's really nice to not have to dig your keys out of your pocket (esp. when carrying something) to unlock the door. Plus if you are away and need someone to water the plants and walk the dog (or water the dog and walk the plants), you just can give them a code instead of getting a key to them. Model I have even lets you assign 'temporary' codes for that situation. Cool stuff.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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zugmann tree68 DeggestyCarl, it is truly convenient to have but one key for two or more locks; Wholeheartedly agree, although that's still on my list of projects for the house.... If you're getting new locks, I'd really consider the ones that also have a keypad. It's really nice to not have to dig your keys out of your pocket (esp. when carrying something) to unlock the door. Plus if you are away and need someone to water the plants and walk the dog (or water the dog and walk the plants), you just can give them a code instead of getting a key to them. Model I have even lets you assign 'temporary' codes for that situation. Cool stuff.
I installed about 6 sets of outside locks. All of them were 2 way so for all dead bolts the top always turned toward the door jam to lock the door & turned away from the jam, to unlock. Same with those handle locks.
When we moved into our house, in 1974, both the front door and the kitchen door were hollow wood doors, with locks in the doorknobs. As soon as I could, I replaced them with solid doors and two-cylinder deadlocks. Since there was no window in the front door, we could leave the inside key in the lock, but we hung the back door key on the wall about eight feet from the door--a burglar would have had to have a long arm to reach the key.
The idea of the keypad locks is interesting, but we have not considered such at all. We could put one on the front door and one on the laundry room door, but, so far as I know, it would be difficult to put such on the three patio doors.
Johnny
I've been noticing some C R England Tempstack containers and Central Refrigerated Services trailers being carried on our intermodal and Z trains. Thinking about the discussions that have centered on reefer traffic, I thought I would see if I could find out what they are hauling. Looking at a consist, mostly they just said "mixed freight," no specifics. I did see a couple that said "cereal" and maintain 0 degree temp.
That kind of threw me. Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes."
Jeff
jeffhergert ...Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes."
...Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes."
Hisssss...
billio jeffhergert ...Then it hit me. Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes." Hisssss...
jeffhergert ...Then it hit me. Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes."
...Then it hit me. Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes."
Yeah, where's the "groan" smiley when you need it.....
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...
tree68 billio jeffhergert ...Then it hit me. Why would cereal have to be kept that cold? Than it hit me. They are probably loaded with "Frosted Flakes." Hisssss... Yeah, where's the "groan" smiley when you need it.....
There will be a slight pause, while we bury the joke that just died......
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
Pay no attention to those nay-sayers, Jeff...I thought that was grrr-r-r-r-eat!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Gonna dish on how you came up with that one Jeff?
Dan
CShaveRRI wish I'd had a little more experience with unlocking our new front door...it took a while to get in.
Everyone always talks about the small town where no one ever had to look their doors. It was never that way when you grew up living in a RR station, like I did in Irricana. When we left to go anywhere, there were 7 doors that had to be checked to ensure they were locked. This was because there would be cash in the safe and sometimes express that had yet to be picked up.
First, there were three sliding freight shed doors. On the end of the building was one door which trucks could back up to, which had a hasp on the inside which was locked with a large nail. There were two sliding doors trackside. One door, which was no longer used, was locked in place with a rail spike jammed into its' slide track. The other door was locked on the outside with a hasp and a standard CPR switch lock, so trains could put anything in if the train came after hours.
Trackside there were two identical doors. One led to the waiting room, the other to the heated freight room. These were locked with both a deadbolt and a door handle lock which used a skeleton key. Dad said those deadbolt locks would have been the best money could buy in 1910. One the back of the building were two more doors. One was built when the station was, and locked the same way as the trackside doors. The other door had been added later, and had a deadbolt that would likely have been paid for by the Agent at the time, as well as having a door handle lock that used another skeleton key.
There was a standard interior door between the office and the dwelling which could be locked with a skeleton key, but never was.
I always remember leaving our house was something of a production!
Bruce
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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Bruce, that is something like the house where one of my sisters-in-law was born: there are five doors opening on to the front porch (the house, except for a room on the backside, is one room wide) which is eighty feet long, a door to the porch off the downstairs backside bedroom, the kitchen door and pantry room door opening on to the kitchen porch, and one door opening on to the upstairs porch. I don't know if they made sure that all doors were locked before leaving the house.
The house that Ricki and I lived in here had only two doors, and when we left by way of the front door, we looked in the kitchen to see if the back door key was hanging on its nail--the sign that the door was locked. Now, I trust that Katie and KJackie take care of the upper exterior doors, and I lock my door.
When I lived in Reform, Alabama, I did not bother to lock my doors unless I were going to be away for a day or more. My mother had told me that her uncle who lived in Petersburg, Virginia, never locked his house.
CNW 6000 Gonna dish on how you came up with that one Jeff?
Spectacular Failure Time:
BNSF shoves 9 cars into a 5 car, stub-ended track here in Denver this morning. The last 2 car spots were in a building. There are three cars and a piece of track machinery in the back yard and the building has an extra door it it after this morning. Oops.
mudchicken Spectacular Failure Time: BNSF shoves 9 cars into a 5 car, stub-ended track here in Denver this morning. The last 2 car spots were in a building. There are three cars and a piece of track machinery in the back yard and the building has an extra door it it after this morning. Oops.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
who says BNSF can not do very fast construction ? New door in 10 seconds ?
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20130723/NEWS11/307230007/Train-derails-crashes-through-building-Denver
http://www.9news.com/news/article/346518/71/Train-derails-crashes-through-building
- Paul North.
There hasn't been much activity lately in our neck of the woods--we've spent the last couple of days re-living the Battle of Gettysburg at our park in Lombard. Pat and I minded the store for a bit both days, and I got to handle the treasury and make the deposit today. The local historical society did itself proud, in more ways than one, putting this event together.Today we left for the Land of No Trains, where we'll spend some time away from the busy-ness. Unfortunately, there is something scheduled every day we're up here from a fish-boil with our daughter's family, to a meeting with lawyers to plan for an orderly succession of the family cottage, to listening to our singer-songwriter nephew performing at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids.So today was my last crack at big-time railroading for a few days. While biking my errands before we left, I was beaten to the crossing by an eastbound manifest. Not too long after the power had passed, it was overhauled by a stack train on Track 1. The stacker was probably longer, but it cleared the crossing ahead of the manifest. It had also had a DP unit in the middle of the train.
On our way out, while running the remaining errands in the car (kind of difficult to fill the car's tank without having the car!), we encountered a pair of trains in Lombard--an eastbound load and a westbound manifest. A second westbound manifest was seen in Elmhurst, with an impressive multi-car load of crane components (a pair of depressed-center flats held the turntable base and the tone arm boom) close behind the power.The timing was right for lunch in Gary, where the NS main line held one stationary grain train and an eastbound manifest when we arrived. I was lamenting the fact that we had a perfect day for being outside watching trains--and had our lawn chairs in the trunk, even--but no time to spare.Further up the coast, we were heartened to see a CSX surfacing gang working on the track near West Olive, with plenty of fresh, dark-gray ballast on the roadbed. North of West Olive, though, it's the same-old same-old, on trackage leased to the Michigan Shore Railroad: jointed rail, fouled ballast by many of the joints and grade crossings, and visible low joints and fishplate repairs to broken rails. It's like the old Dog-'n'-Suds restaurants further to the north...Rock 'n' roll is still king!
Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the bunker:
(1) Amtrak vs. Bulldozer (Cat D6) at private crossing in ND
(2) BNSF vs Pivot Irrigation System in NE (2nd time at same location near Exeter)
Spooky
mudchicken Spooky
mudchicken (2) BNSF vs Pivot Irrigation System in NE (2nd time at same location near Exeter)
I think we need to know how many of the sprinkler heads were activated at the time of the collision, and how much water they were pumping. What training do rail crews have in regards to pivot irrigation systems? If this was just a linear irrigation system, would we have the same problems? How many people operated the pivot irrigation system? Why did they fail to secure the pivot irrigation system from movement on the tracks? What kind if signage was there in place to warn the pivot irrigation system of the tracks? Why was there a rail line built so close to a pivot irrigation system? Was the pivot irrigation system being operated on a grade? Perhaps we need a PPIPTC (positive pivot irrigation positive train control) system ?
zugmann mudchicken (2) BNSF vs Pivot Irrigation System in NE (2nd time at same location near Exeter) I think we need to know how many of the sprinkler heads were activated at the time of the collision, and how much water they were pumping. What training do rail crews have in regards to pivot irrigation systems? If this was just a linear irrigation system, would we have the same problems? How many people operated the pivot irrigation system? Why did they fail to secure the pivot irrigation system from movement on the tracks? What kind if signage was there in place to warn the pivot irrigation system of the tracks? Why was there a rail line built so close to a pivot irrigation system? Was the pivot irrigation system being operated on a grade? Perhaps we need a PPIPTC (positive pivot irrigation positive train control) system ?
You forgot the NTSB’s report on the last Irrigation system runaway and train collision, and the suitably highlighted portions, (carefully edited to show how the pivot system steering is impossible to test) which indicated this is an ongoing threat to national security, rail safety and corn production.
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Would a seminar on anchor management help?
Happy birthday today to RJ (known as "Miniwyo" on this forum)!I haven't found so much as in interesting freight car so far on this trip. The forays into wi-fi-equipped establishments are what's keeping me alive here... Things will get a lot more exciting after tomorrow night, when daughter's family is due to arrive. They will have their own agenda, but we'll get to spend a little time with them, I'm sure. Pat and I will be going to a fish-boil with them while they're up. We've never done that, but even our grandkids are old heads at this.Perhaps we can make it up to Ludington, where Marquette Rail may have an interesting mix of cars in their yard.
edblysard You forgot the NTSB’s report on the last Irrigation system runaway and train collision, and the suitably highlighted portions, (carefully edited to show how the pivot system steering is impossible to test) which indicated this is an ongoing threat to national security, rail safety and corn production.
When asked which fared better - the engine of the irrigation system, the BNSF replied: "it's a wash".
x 3 to zugman's and Ed's posts
Might not be a "new" collision, but just an update on the 2011 one since Amtrak just recently filed a suit to recover its damages from that one. See:
http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/amtrak-sues-over-crash-with-center-pivot-near-exeter/article_fc6d63fc-548c-5882-b0ba-770ade25aaa6.html
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,2530240
http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/article_7f94855c-83de-50ab-a159-e3f703cda112.html
http://www.pottroff.com/railroad-news/another-amtrak-california-zephyr-collision-occurs-nebraska
Paul_D_North_Jr x 3 to zugman's and Ed's posts
Ditto.
Think I'll start looking at installing a sub-basement in 'da bunker. Been dealin' with a couple of small town government agencies that think the railroad is their private plaything. (Seriously thinking on writing a complaint letter to PUC before somebody gets hurt or worse)
MC - Are those govt. agencies are running little railroads themselves - or trying to regulate the big ones, such as at grade crossings ? The latter would indeed be within PUC jurisdiction, but the doctrine of FRA pre-emption of such local regulations also applies. Wonder if the govt. agencies' legal counsel is fully informed of what they're up to, and (expert and competent enough in this to understand) the implications ?
Speaking of agricultural related incidents, a UP train struck a grain bin in Edgar, NE the other night. I recently found out how to read train recrew reports (interesting and sometimes unintentionally humorous reading) and saw where a few trains had to be recrewed because one struck a grain bin. I found an article, I think out of the Lincoln paper, about high winds in a thunderstorm blowing over a metal grain bin onto the tracks.
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