Gee, but it's great to be back home. (Thanks, S&G!)
Busy weekend on the railroad - large crowds. Weather kinda held until Sunday about noon, at which time the skies opened up and made for some wet work. Got pretty wet boarding the passengers for our 1230 run, and the runaround halfway through that trip finished the job. At least I had a rain jacket on, or I'd have been soaked from head to toe.
The biggest challenge, though, was for our engineers, who had their hands full pulling heavy trains up significant hills on wet rails (with leaves occasionally "helping").
Had some nice conversations with the passengers, though (one trip had a group celebrating a young lady's 4th birthday), and may have recruited a new volunteer.
One fellow who rode with us managed to check off another item on his "bucket list." He's got licenses to fly, drive big trucks, pilot large vessels, but had never been in the cab of a locomotive. He enjoyed his ride.
Time to to become reacquainted with my water bed...
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...
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
Not me, SJ...I was wondering the same thing!Pat and I were docents at the museum by the tracks this afternoon. The two scheduled scoots came by in the first half-hour or so, but after that...no trains for nearly two hours! I felt like I was back in the Land of No Trains.Then, in the last hour we were there, we had three stack trains and the next set of scoots. And, as we were packing up toward the end of that hour, a manifest went through (I was too busy to notice whether it had any good cars for me). Had to drown my sorrows with a Blizzard (Pat's idea; she had a sundae).We're already into the 40s tonight. Time to close the windows and pull up the quilts. We shouldn't need the heat yet; I'm hoping that the new room doesn't take too much more energy. We know it will be warmer than the room it replaced, as that one got all of its heat from the kitchen.
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)
Not the best of days....
Got down to almost 40 last nite and no heat in the house yet. Air was on Friday, so no change over until this afternoon. I spent most of the nite putting on more clothes and trying to find a heavier blanket in the dark! 2pm and still only 50 degrees.
Then finally got to go train watching and....no trains! Had 2 remote yard engines and one freight from the east go into the yard. So who is hiding the trains?
BOC - got your ears on? R U doing ok?
Looks like all the weather is coming in east of Texas and heading straight for Tree's neighborhood with Mutt and Joe getting tinkled on, on the way.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
We got a little smattering of rain here in Alamo City...not the big storms that were rocking up to the north and east,
Its a cool 61 here now...I have the windows open here in the house.
Enjoy your Sunday!
OKAY, who left the faucet in the sky open?!! after not much rain for the last several weeks, we suddenly get about 5 inches overnight. Overpasses/underpasses flooded, haven't heard of any railroad problems, but Louisville Fire & Rescue have had to rescue several people from their cars after the idiots drove their cars into water they thought they could get out of.(IDIOTS!)
My rain gauge here at the house only goes to 6 inches, and it is pushing that 6 inch mark.
[and to think that yesterday was pretty nice, sunglasses and shorts were the norm. Last night and today looks like I need to dig out my rain slicker, and heavier clothing with temps going down.] (no bicycle trip today.)
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!!
morning
rain rain rain here in nw ohio. Getting ready for church. Mom and I had a nice dinner last night. Matt entertained his cousins. Mookie getting the time of year where people start playing bender fenders. Tomorrow starts another week.
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").
44 and still mostly dark here. I wanted to go train watching, but will wait another day. Adjust to the shock of having to put on warmer clothes and a sweater. Plus it is game day and the streets will be very crowded!
I am going to comment that lately it seems like "It's a Mad Mad..World" applies. In all aspects.
Joe - we are playing tip over the SUV. A lot more traffic accidents than before and someone always manages to play "turtle". And now the "ka-bongs" involve more than 1-2 cars. Now they are becoming multiple - as in "look up once in awhile"?
Moo....
have some chores to do here at home. Might look at some trains in the rain later.
Semper Vaporo zardoz Mookie And, like you, we are landlocked and were watching the seagulls fly over our house for about 30 min! Now how does that happen? Ah, don't ya just love the mysteries of the universe? Kinda helps to put things in perspective when we realize how much we really do not know about how the world works. Well... there's the problem... who said the "world works"?
zardoz Mookie And, like you, we are landlocked and were watching the seagulls fly over our house for about 30 min! Now how does that happen? Ah, don't ya just love the mysteries of the universe? Kinda helps to put things in perspective when we realize how much we really do not know about how the world works.
Mookie And, like you, we are landlocked and were watching the seagulls fly over our house for about 30 min! Now how does that happen?
And, like you, we are landlocked and were watching the seagulls fly over our house for about 30 min! Now how does that happen?
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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have had on and off rain all day.someone decided that the median was the best place to drive and got stuck. Saw a CF&E switcher the elevator in Van Wert.They were on the old Cincinnati Nothern(NYC). We helped Grandpa put things away.Guessers say more rain tomorrow.
joe
Murphy Siding You seem to have a lot of dirty squirrels in your neighborhood.
You seem to have a lot of dirty squirrels in your neighborhood.
Hey - Kansas is sending you all kinds of clouds! You should really be in a fog by now! And, like you, we are landlocked and were watching the seagulls fly over our house for about 30 min! Now how does that happen?
Mookie Murray - are you home for good yet?
Murray - are you home for good yet?
Hi Mookie...Yes I came home for good last Friday. It's great to be home!
Now we're looking forward to that cold front coming down.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Sir Mud - We got 2 inches of rain last nite and just about 12-15 miles south of us (Hickman, Panama, Bennett) - they had a tornado - took out one house, and a 2nd touchdown on Roca Rd - a little closer.
We just got the rain. Really big squirrel wash!
Its 84 here now here in Alamo City....expected high of 94 later today.
The cold front should reach us by Monday...our evening temps will drop into the low 50's.
Enjoy your Friday!
Well, MC may wish we kept it west of the Wasatch. When I went out to get my paper this morning, the grass was covered with snow. Some of the grass is coming through now. Of course, at a mile high (most of Salt Lake City is about 4400 feet high), we can expect snow.
I opened the heat/cooling vents in my bedroom and kitchen-living-dining-room last night.
Johnny
Is the Jolly Green Giant having dandruff problems again?!
We're still in the 80s, close to 90s here. Please keep that stuff west of the Mississippi!!!!!!!!!
WHITE STUFF ALERT!
(Big Flakes - Proceeding to shelter in place!)
Good Morning!!
Today is a nice rainy dull yuck with humidity galore kinda day...going to 74 feeling like 88 later on...by the way...anyone need some extra humidity for their viewing pleasure?
Having a few friends over later on to run some trains around...and see whether Mr Murphy is living in my basement.....
Tree: Definitely I'll be watching the salt intake!!
Got some sudden SWMBO honey do's...later 'gators!!
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/
BOC - especially that salt. I've treated more than a few cases of CHF in my days as an EMT.
Early morning, so I can get down to the railroad on time. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Hope you're feeing better BOC.........
Sounds like you could do it safely, SJ...just don't bring Driver along!And Joe, be careful how you talk about that sailboat fuel...say it too loud and somebody's gonna want to regulate it and the cars it's carried "in."
rvos1979First person who brings that white stuff east of the Mississippi gets castrated..... Headed for Hot-lanta tomorrow, then hopefully back into cooler weather for the weekend......
Good Evening
I just spent most of my day in emerg here...my CHF was acting up...again
So, most of the day was pooched...now I'm back on-line.... thanks to our wonderful doctors...
Very low salt, low cholesterol, low fat, etc, etc, so on and so forth...although I can has lots of spicey stuff...heeheehee
JoeKohHad some rain,more on the way.tommorow is Friday.
Yeah - we're on tap for the wet stuff all weekend. Probably pour every time I have to work outside the train....
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