This afternoon we had one of the most violent storms I've experienced since we moved into our neighborhood 15 years ago. My wind gauge registered a gust of 36.9 MPH, but I'm sure it was double that out in the open. Our neighbor to the east's large Maple lost about half of its top branches, and our neighbor to the west lost several sections of wooden fence which fell into our yard. The power was out for several hours. The rain from that storm and another one which followed a couple of hours later boosted the 24-hour total to 4.31". Jeff, if UP had trouble yesterday, they're definitely having more today.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
We're getting the weather right now. Pat observed that for the month of June we've had 9.3 inches of rain. That was earlier today--we're over 10 now, for sure! It shouldn't be this dark out for another two hours yet!I spread the rest of the grass seed over bare spots earlier today. Either we'll get results or our backyard neighbors will thank us!We accomplished a lot of the stuff we've needed to. The insurance company looks over our car tomorrow morning (and the body shop can take it right in!), we start the paperwork for a new home equity loan (the old one expires next year), and I won't need to visit the cardiologist before September (well, that's the earliest they can fit me in!). During our loan discussion, we found out our credit score for the first time ever. No worries here.
I celebrated our triumphs today by taking a little train ride. I found one of the newer stack cars I'd been looking for (the ones built by Freight Car America, with the truss-type tub sides), and was able to be ready for the car when the train left the yard and went slowly by me in Elmhurst. A few other promising sightings were made, too. That, and some e-mail information from RAILINC will make me a busy camper again tomorrow!
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)
JoeKoh .New neighbor brought over 3 NS locomotives and some track plan books.Said they needed a new home.Matt was very happy. stay safe Joe
.New neighbor brought over 3 NS locomotives and some track plan books.Said they needed a new home.Matt was very happy.
stay safe
Joe
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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local was busy when I left work.Muggy outside.possible thunderboomers tonight.New neighbor brought over 3 NS locomotives and some track plan books.Said they needed a new home.Matt was very happy.Time for supper and to get cleaned up.
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").
Wouldn't surprise me- Highway 151 near Fairfax got washed out at one low spot. Pavement fell into hole when truck drove over it. Other washouts/water over road all over the place around here. Areas north of town got 3-5" overnight (I got 1.88" here), and more expected this afternoon.
To our Cedar Rapids IA area forum contingent, how are things that way? I received a message saying there is a "service interruption" over in the CR area. Something about flooding issues and a washout along the east/west main line. No word on how bad or when things will open back up.
Jeff
Wasn't bad - just unfortunate. The local TV commercials are saying basically "we're still here".
(1) Having trouble competing w/ RGRY, C&TS, Georgetown Loop and D&SNG all in the area.
(2) Railroad runs north out of Leadville towards Climax. ("Southern" from its C&S heritage, once was odd 4-rail track)
(3) Cut-off from the rest of the world at US-24 in Leadville. (and the UP Tennessee Pass Sub. is mothballed even if it managed to cross the road)
http://www.leadville-train.com/
mudchicken Amused to see the Leadville and Southern RR has re-invented itself.
Amused to see the Leadville and Southern RR has re-invented itself.
Aw, come'on, the Leadville and Southern couldn't have been that bad...
Deggesty I presume that the consultant will have some facts of railroad life explained to him, including the statement that the railroad is running certain equipment which cannot move over what he proposes, and, perhaps, he will say something like, "Oh, I had no idea; what changes will have to be made in my plan?"
I presume that the consultant will have some facts of railroad life explained to him, including the statement that the railroad is running certain equipment which cannot move over what he proposes, and, perhaps, he will say something like, "Oh, I had no idea; what changes will have to be made in my plan?"
Have had to use the terms vertical bounce/ "compression bounce" more in the last week than the past few years. Scary - this guy may be asking "want fries with that?' soon- Watch out Mooks...
Johnny
mudchickenFalcon perched on the bird bath looking in the kitchen window this morning.
That must be one big bird bath... Oh - wait, you're talking about the bird, not the car...
Decent weekend on the railroad - plenty of riders and a lot of people taking a paddle down the river followed by a train ride back. Hadn't scheduled the weekend as Mom had been talking of coming east, but she didn't make the trip. So I was bonus help for the crews, which was a good thing since the crews both days included a trainman trainee.
Even travelled down the road a bit on Saturday night for a fire department all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner. I was full after the first plateful. No seconds for this kid.
Backed into the driveway at home tonight so I could clean out the back of the truck (it's always neater when you leave than when you get back). Instead I ended up running two EMS calls. Both appear to have been a mix of hot weather and alcohol...
Time for a show, some relaxing (with perhaps a little rain mixed in - a batch of rain is on the horizon), and 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...
Deggesty MC, what length cars does the Brand X consultant expect to run on the track? 40 foot?
MC, what length cars does the Brand X consultant expect to run on the track? 40 foot?
Sir C - bet they can't make a decent sandwich, either!
Also doesn't sound like they understand engineering any better than I do?
Send Falcon - our pair didn't show up this year at the watch site...
Our sympathies on the car Carl....'Bring ya some deer whistles the next time east and cross-hairs for the windshield.....the new scourge de jour out here is freeway prairie dogs and home invasive moose.
Gotta take a remedial course on being polite with rubber tired engineering designers or prepare for execution of a drive-by slapping on Monday- got another plan submittal from Brand X consultant calling for reverse 3% grades connected with a 200 foot vertical curve and a horizontal shoo-fly with 24 degree curves in it.....in a branchline main track on a long grade.(it ain't only the service industry Mooks)....second major design blunder seen this week.
Falcon perched on the bird bath looking in the kitchen window this morning.
good morning
warm and muggy here in nw ohio.A guy came from NJ to Deshler yesterday to see what happens on CSX here. Going to get ready for church.Defiance has art in the park which supports our local library today as well.Tomorrow is back to work.
Yes, Dan, welcome back!I know I haven't been gone for as long as you and a bunch of other once-frequent frequenters, but--given this past week--it seems like forever. My last post here was on Monday evening. Going to the cottage from the McWi-fi, I managed to run into some dough. Correction...doe--a deer, a female deer. My Dodge Stratus was definitely a Ram wannabe there. Front end is a mess, but--amazingly--the air bags didn't deploy (makes one wonder if something's wrong with them!), the windshield and headlights weren't affected, and the car was drivable (we had it checked out at a local body shop, which had worked on my sister's car after a more severe encounter). Insurance will cover us, and we'll start that process Monday.Thursday the septic system at the cottage quit. We called the septic people, then I got out of the way. Turns out that someone in our family (probably a citified offshoot family) put some grease down there and it kind of solidified. Well, that took a few hours to find and fix, but it wasn't serious. Friday we came home. Saw the very same train of ISGX cars at Michigan City (CSX--looking for a couple of your units? I know where they've been for most of a week!). No other trains of note.Today we ran some errands--I saw a couple of good freights on UP. Unfortunately, the better one was while I was waiting in line at the post office for our held mail--lots of good magazines and bad bills. Tonight we went to a luau party, and I was so stuffed that I could barely walk home and am trying to gather the strength to pull myself up from this chair (it didn't help that I mowed the lawn this afternoon, with barely enough time for a shower before the party...when I mow the lawn, it's with a manual push mower, but also includes trimming of tall grass around other plants, cutting the low-hanging branches off Herr Lindenbaum, and picking up the small branches from the rainstorm we missed).Okay...here I go...uhhp, uhhp and uhh-way!
Murray Why would you want to eat a sandwich made by a toddler????
Why would you want to eat a sandwich made by a toddler????
MookieWhat really irritates me is they are not providing a free service. Got a sandwich today - perfectly good ingredients - put together by a 2 year old, completely missing an ingredient that was asked for and charged around $7. The prices are going up, the quality is going down and we are, again, left holding the sack that isn't even our order!
Give the kid a break! They are only 2!
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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mudchicken It's more like "I showed up - what the heck more do you expect?" (This kid came from a town with a strong German Protestant work ethic that seeped into everything. Class mattered not. The culture has certainly changed for the worse these days.)
It's more like "I showed up - what the heck more do you expect?"
(This kid came from a town with a strong German Protestant work ethic that seeped into everything. Class mattered not. The culture has certainly changed for the worse these days.)
We had rain Thursday evening and night, but it did not cool the air as much as was predicted.
this morning, Katie came down to tell me that she saw two quail families in the yard to the west of the house--four parents and fourteen chicks! They did not move south so I could see them without going outdoors--which would have caused them to take cover. This afternoon, I looked out and saw a father bird on the back fence (watchbird) and a mother bird on the ground; I did not see any chicks.
When several quail are feeding in the yard, one will be on top of the fence, and the males will take turns as watchbirds.
Hi Dan! Welcome back!
Entitlement: is that the same as asking the pay rate before you even know what the job will entail? Or maybe an simplified form would be "me, first" and "what do I care about you"?
MookieThey don't pay these people enough.
And a lot of us don't get paid at all...
zugmann Don't forget, many places are running with as few as people as possible, yet the workloads are still high. I had to go to an occupational health place for a physical, and they only had 2 people working there when they should have had 8. And barely a rest day goes by anymore without my phone ringing looking for someone to take an extra call. I think that has a lot to do with it. And you newspaper example, there's fewer routes, and many of them are motorized (around here). Yeah, it would be nice if they got out at each house to endure proper porch delivery, but then the morning edition would become the afternoon press real quick.
Don't forget, many places are running with as few as people as possible, yet the workloads are still high.
I had to go to an occupational health place for a physical, and they only had 2 people working there when they should have had 8. And barely a rest day goes by anymore without my phone ringing looking for someone to take an extra call.
I think that has a lot to do with it.
And you newspaper example, there's fewer routes, and many of them are motorized (around here). Yeah, it would be nice if they got out at each house to endure proper porch delivery, but then the morning edition would become the afternoon press real quick.
Dan
Joe - our weather guessers aren't sure what is going to happen. But our state is very colorful in different sections almost all the time.
Tree: will keep it short...our fire & police depts had their hands full in about 24 hours. One was a young man, going too fast on a by-pass on a cycle. Cycle stayed on by-pass and young man learned how to fly. Unfortunately the landing was on the street below.
Older man - got across several sets of train tracks, only to stumble and fall back into the passing train.
They don't pay these people enough.
busy at work.summer is usually a slow time but we have had some new accounts open up.Ns has a westbound coal train in the siding.They also had tonka toys on the track when I left.Tomorrow going to Deshler.Guessers are calling for rain sat night,sunday and monday.Means more mowing next week.
We were dispatched to a neighboring district for a traffic accident this afternoon and ended up blocking a two state highway for about 45 minutes until the lanes were cleared.
"Why can't I go that way?" was a common refrain. We know a few snuck by (through a bank parking lot on the corner), and I'm sure we saw more than a few of them come back, as the road was completely blocked at the accident scene.
And several got downright irate.
And traffic was particularly heavy due to the upcoming weekend, plus the holiday weekend next week.
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