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Posted by jeffhergert on Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:02 AM

Mookie

Jeff - where is Doulom NE? 

Out around Columbus.   I think just a few miles east of town.  It might just be the railroad name for the ethanol plant's location.  If there isn't/wasn't an actual town there, the name may have come from the township.  I know some of our control points where there aren't any near by towns will be named after the township they are located in.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:30 PM

edblysard
Now if I can just teach her the Cossack dance.

That

will be a Kodak moment....

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:58 PM

evening

busy day.went into town.seems little brother jefferson ave also likes semi trucks for snacks.city is going to put up electric signs for that one too.saw a westbound oil train on csx.Matt got his great grade card back today.Tomorrow is his last day.Next year it's jr.high.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:20 PM

Joe - congrats to Matt and to you for helping him along!  In what will seem a few minutes, he will be graduating college.  Wow!

Why do truck drivers not understand that 15' means 15' - not 17.  Grumpy  Job security for all those who have to investigate and clean up!

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:31 PM

.....Took a peek at the Roanoke Rail cam yesterday early evening and happened upon a coal train headed west....It was going at a speed I've not seen thru that area before....It really surprised me.

I wonder if all that track re-location and work in view of the cams there has something to do with me seeing the higher speed......?

Haven't seen another go thru since then...Wonder if anyone else has noted this.....?

 

PS:  Just now took a look over there and bingo....watched a grain train go thru {west again}, being powered with {2} BNSF engines, and {2} NS power units....and it seemed to be going at the speed I've been used to....So, don't know what that was I saw last evening...Didn't see the power on it.

 

 

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:09 PM

edblysard

Maybe she should have been named Natasha....

Now if I can just teach her the Cossack dance.

Why, bless me!  It's Little Miss Fezziwig!

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:21 PM

Insert Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance".....sound track to the manic goings-on at Houston-Ed's house....Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:45 PM

I wish I looked that good in my winter hat!

 

 

 

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:34 PM

MC, you never fail to impress...spelling Aram Khachaturian's name correctly, and knowing about his greatest hit!

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:41 PM

Carl,

I think he has coffee every once in a while with Stephen Hawkins, and they discuss how big the universe will get.

MC,

I wish it would slow down to simply hectic, with that one at three and the other at four years old, hectic would a step or two down!

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:02 PM

CoffeeIck!...more like Diet Dr Pepper/ 55 Gallon IV drip Indifferent....,

At the moment, trying to figure out what to do with something I was told about a certain phony railroad operation here....extortion? theft? robbery? (IF something goes from hearsay to fact, TRAINS could have one heckuva story)

 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, May 30, 2014 5:16 PM

evening

swamp is mowed and trimmed.going to run errands tomorrow.Performed "Sabre Dance" with classmates for a high school music contest.We got a 1(superior) for that.Guessers say another nice weekend.Will see if csx can get stuff moving.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, May 30, 2014 5:32 PM

Joe:  Congrats!

When I was just old enough to understand a phonograph plays music, the Sabre Dance was playing on a record.  It has been my all time favorite since then!

Sweet! 

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, May 30, 2014 5:45 PM

Had to look up the Sabre Dance to put some music to the name.  Knew the music - didn't know the name!

That's one of those pieces that you almost expect to show up on YouTube being played by some passerby on a "play me" public piano (maybe it already has!).

Nice day today.  Got the law mowed - it was up there, but dry, so I didn't have to slog through it.

Saw my resident milk snake the other day - he/she is getting big.  Aside from startling me from time to time, I don't mind - helps keep some of the little bugs (and maybe even the mice) down some.  

Off to the railroad this weekend.  Should be interesting - I haven't run our RS-3 since last fall, so that 6 brake will take some getting used to, again.

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, May 30, 2014 7:37 PM

Tree - Sabre Dance is what they play when the circus performer puts saucers or bowls on sticks on a table and spins them above his head.  Then he tries to keep them all rotating so they don't fall.  My hero!

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Posted by edblysard on Friday, May 30, 2014 7:43 PM

For some reason I associate it with the Keystone Cops or Buster Keaton.

That and early Looney Tunes cartoons…

But it fits Autumn to a tee!

Found her sitting on the top shelf of their closet once, she had pulled the drawers of their dresser out, and used them as a ladder, then the clothes hanger bar to get up there, was happily playing with her leap frog pad.

If there is a knob, switch or button, she gets it turned, flipped or pushed, any drawer, door or cabinet will be opened…and the house cats have wised up and just play dead when she comes in the room.

Larry,

Working on some custom reversers with exotic wood handles, will post a photo if I get it to work.

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, May 30, 2014 9:33 PM

edblysard
Working on some custom reversers with exotic wood handles, will post a photo if I get it to work.

Hmmm.   Might need one ALCO and one EMD.....

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Posted by edblysard on Friday, May 30, 2014 10:49 PM

Need to find my Alco to make a casting mold…got the EMD/GE already, prototype in the works.

Last time I saw the Alco one, it was at the bottom of my locker, which means I need to take a trash bag to work tomorrow!

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Posted by CShaveRR on Saturday, May 31, 2014 7:53 AM

Ed, Pat says Autumn is "displaying a really, really healthy curiosity."   I suspect that Summer is quieter (even if that is only relative).  Our two granddaughters are about the same distance apart in age (17 months), and they are soooo different (yet both very bright--it's just a different focus).  And the younger one is the curious, adventuresome one.  First to ride a bike, first to go wakeboarding, stuff like that.  She's the one who sat behind me so her mother wouldn't see her taking apart her baby brother's nebulizer when she was about Autumn's age or less (tomorrow we go to a birthday party for her--she'll be 8 in a week).  

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Posted by edblysard on Saturday, May 31, 2014 5:15 PM

Carl, Autumn is the hands on get dirty push it to the limit to see how far she can go with it personality.

Summer is the quite student, she studies things, and then quietly goes about doing what she wants to while Autumn has everybody’s attention diverted!

And they play off of each other, one sets you up, the other knocks you down!

Both are quite smart and intuitive, and by themselves, each is a well behaved kid, but get them together and Autumn turns into the “spoon” of the pair, always stirring stuff up, and she is the younger or the two.

I would rather have them both bright eyed and bushy tailed and as inquisitive as they are instead of a pair of quite little wall flowers…keeps life interesting.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, June 1, 2014 6:30 AM

morning

Guessers say sunshine today.Saw 2 Bnsf units on the wabash(Montpelier ohio).One was a custom NS re -stencil job. Matt is with cousins today.Going to go see if csx can run some more trains today.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, June 1, 2014 6:50 AM

Joe - I am going to go check BNSF.  I hope they aren't on their annual picnic!

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, June 1, 2014 9:05 AM

Recovery from Friday night and Saturday (all day) rehab of space that Boss-Hen's new non-profit space. Lotsa sore muscles and joints after work on a 120 year old building with "issues" (including a window a/c unit that tried to fly away off its perch Embarrassed - long story) .. The SSG (Spousal-Support-Group) has been hard at-it bringing the building up to code along with cleaning it up/ fixing it up so they can re-open on Friday...

Having a good time reading about a 10 car derailment of a long merchandise freight on CSX's B&O/CH&D St. Louis Line (Hope it wasn't involving Sarah TW/TrainGurl from the forum, hasn't been on here in a while) on the west side of Cincinnati. - Had a good giggle reading how a Cincinnati Enquirerer reporter tries to explain what happens when a train goes into emergency - warpedDunce) ....I would suspect buffing forces or a broken rail, but one of our "expert at everything/ proficient at none" bubbas would be sure to jump in and un-enlighten all of us.

http://local12.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/crews-respond-train-derailment-12358.shtml (this is the TV version, the paper issue may be blocked to non-subscribers at http://www.cincinnati.com/ )

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, June 1, 2014 10:43 AM

On-line version of the newspaper appears to allow for viewing a 'limited' number of articles - this one is at:

 http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/05/31/train-derails-in-miami-township/9807283/ 

More interesting was the article on the new Cincinnati streetcars under construction, esp. since just this morning I read the lengthy article in the current (July 2014) issue of Trains:

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/30/first-look-streetcar-construction/9763427/   

Note to editors:  It's usually "braking", not "breaking" (although sometimes "breaking" causes "braking", and vice-versa, but we know about that) - that error appears not only in the derailment article, but in the Trains' streetcar article ! (pg. 31, photo at top, the caption 'box' for "Green Up: Regenerative breaking . . . "). 

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:36 PM

Sir C:  I have a picture of you hanging by your tippy-toes while retrieving a window a/c.  Shades of Wiley C and RR!  Will be anxious to hear how Boss Hen likes new/old digs. 

And local tv/radio isn't any better.  Kindygarten and mauled town names, irk me to death, ya' know?

The rest of this will be to Joe and BC.  I doubt anyone else will be interested, since some don't care and some work with it every day. 

Went to my favorite train site.  Right at about 2 hours there saw:  4 coal, 6 X freight, 2 grain, and something I have never seen @ our site - a unit auto train (mt) (with UP, BNSF, NS, CSX, Ferromex, CN and Conrail cars).  I didn't know a 2 track main going thru a sorting yard could move that much traffic in that short of time!  Also saw a former SOO Line CEFX motor. 

That type of traffic usually moves during the dead of nite when I never get to see it. 

Brother Carl - BN 500-310 - Gondola - what's under its white hat?  Ecolabs printed on "hat". 

Watched a grain train come in and every car was dented at least a little.  Each in a different place.  Another year of use and there will be more grain outside than inside. 

And BNSF didn't disappoint with their dance card.  All freight, interesting since coal is boring, came in or went out with lots of lumber or auto rack cars between us and the freight.  They always run at least two trains at the same time - side-by-side or one in, one out which always meet right in front of us!

Joe - after seeing all your traffic - neener, neener!  Kisses 

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:44 PM

SJ, I suspect that it's low-level-radioactive "dirty dirt" in that gon.

Were the cars in that auto train the tall Auto-Max (TM) "cars with shackles" (NCID*)?


MC, in all of your years and having come from around Cincinnati, have you ever dealt with "disheveled" track before?  How does that compare to "damaged" or "totally f'ed up"? 

* Nut Case Identification 

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, June 1, 2014 3:02 PM

Did anybody else have to login today before making remarks?

Yes, the yellow band is still there; at least it is not warning me to keep back from the track, so I can ignore it. When I really think about it, I tell it to go away--it obeys for a time.

Mookie, look for me Thursday morning; I will be in Bedroom E (middle of the car) in car 0632 (last car on the train) as I head east to see some of the people I grew up with in South Carolina.

Yesterday, Ricki's daughter, Jackie, graduated from high school; it was quite an event. Afterwards, several of the family (including Jackie's 4 1/2 month-old nephew, Henry) along with Henry's other grandmother, and a close friend of Katie's whom she met in nursing school years ago, ate lunch together. 

 

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, June 1, 2014 3:48 PM

BC - just the every day garden variety of auto racks.  The ones that if the light is just right, you can see if they are "occupied".  They were all empty. 

Wow - dirty dirt!  I am impressed, now!

Johnny - no log in.  Not sure I remember how to do that! 

I didn't realize my bedroom was named E.  That will be the only way I will see you go by at that early hour.  So if you clear your throat, I will wave.  Smile, Wink & Grin

Banner still there.  Maybe they could at least change the color?  Maybe black w/black lettering?  Mischief

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, June 1, 2014 10:21 PM

Mookie
Wow - dirty dirt!  I am impressed, now!

Glowing Burrito car with chafing dish cover?

********

The window unit was in questionable shape when we were told to mount it. There isn't any question now. found another secondhand unit that sorta works. I see a future set of weekends overhauling double hung windows which are dry-rotted and splintered.

MC- Window A/C Unit Flight InstructorEmbarrassed.

 

ps- Ask BossHen in about two weeks after she gets de-frazzled and rested. May pay the server-room in cheesepicker central a visit and unleash my bad ju-ju if the banner gets outta hand.Mischief

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, June 1, 2014 10:31 PM

CShaveRR
MC, in all of your years and having come from around Cincinnati, have you ever dealt with "disheveled" track before?  How does that compare to "damaged" or "totally f'ed up"? 

Trackulence? (Remembering the old Far Side cartoon)

Would have believed some of the catcalls if this had been on some of the old CR/PC/NYC trackage that spun off to RailAmerica et al - But this was old CSX/B&O/CH&D passenger main that generally was kept to Cls 3 or 4 standards.

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