Jeff,
Crew caller get the order screwed up, or it just worked out that way?
Anyhow, happy birthday…..seems like a bad week for railroaders wives though, mine slipped and fell in the parking garage at her office and managed to tear up her palms, and got a good deep road rash on her knee, and broke a bone in her left foot, the same side she broke an ankle on two years ago.
Xray shows an “incomplete” fracture in the bone between the little toe and the top of the foot, have appointment with the foot surgeon Tuesday, and I already know what he is going to do….finishing breaking it so the break is a clean one, then put her in a cast.
Clean breaks heal better than fractures, which calcify up instead of growing new bone.
Weather fools said thunderstorms and cool down by noon today.
At 1pm, it was 90 degrees with not a cloud to been seen and a breeze blowing in from the gulf, never rained a drop.
Did have a 8 foot gator work on his sun tan in a ladies driveway down the road in Clear Lake….Parks and Wild Life now has extra hand bag or cowboy boot material for sale!
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Randy Stahl Just for fun ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjli67VRXk
Just for fun ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjli67VRXk
Neat video. Hopefully I get to train to take the right-hand seat this year. I'm about 12 away from going. Waiting is the hardest part.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
I'll be "back in the saddle" for the first time this year at the end of May. Working a wine/beer train as conductor this coming Friday.
Ms Mook - Congrats. I'm a long way from great grandchildren - the oldest grandchild is only six. Still waiting impatiently for grandchild #4. Prospective Mom and Dad are, too. Daughter is rapidly reaching the "high risk" pregnancy age and wants to have another before it's too late.
Worked my first night at the auction tonight - managed to get through without any on-air gaffes. But it's live TV! Gotta expect something to go haywire!
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...
"BirthdayH" to "OltmannD" today! Hope it's a great one!
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)
Johnny
Deggesty No options available again, this morning. xxx I'm in Amtrak's Metropolitan Lounge (new) in Los Angeles, waiting to go up to Oakland.
No options available again, this morning. xxx I'm in Amtrak's Metropolitan Lounge (new) in Los Angeles, waiting to go up to Oakland.
Deggestry: We found the lounge somewhat small. The biggest problem was the golf cart to the train. A gold line train stopped at the Union Station platform preventing us from getting to the Sunset. The gates remained down on the cart path until the light rail train cleared 15 minutes later. Did anything like that happen to you or has the problem been cleared ?
afternoon
Ns was busy switching uptown.Ma nature has brought us some sprinkles so far.chores to do.
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").
Mother Nature raising Cain in Mississippi - good sized tornado in Tupelo.
The Weather Channel is in "all out" mode - which means anyone who has any inkling that there's bad weather coming has no reason not to have taken appropriate precautions.
They even had video of the storm itself taken from a local TV station's tower, as the tornado was on the ground.
St Louis is under the gun as well.
If you are in any of the areas affected, pay attention. This looks like a pretty serious system.
A new recommendation for taking shelter has come up, though. As you're headed for your shelter area, grab your bike helmet, and put it on! So simple even a cave man can do it!
tree68 A new recommendation for taking shelter has come up, though. As you're headed for your shelter area, grab your bike helmet, and put it on! So simple even a cave man can do it!
blue streak 1 At 6:00 PM had no storms nearby by but by 6:30 thunder bumper to west with the tornado sirens going off. By 7:00 several EMS units were heading west from different stations. No report yet. Saw very ominous clouds to the west as sirens going off but cell has dissipated going toward Newnan. Forecast for about 0400 - 0600 is that awful line of tornadoes will be passing thru our area. Going to be a long night ! ! !
At 6:00 PM had no storms nearby by but by 6:30 thunder bumper to west with the tornado sirens going off. By 7:00 several EMS units were heading west from different stations. No report yet.
A stack train on the BNSF Transcon had cars blown over this afternoon; both tracks blocked at Laura, Illinois, between Chillicothe and Galesburg. Straight-line winds are believed to be the culprit.We're being rained and lightninged on right now; the forecast has off-and-on showers for the next seven (!) days. It won't amount to much, probably about an inch for the entire week.Hang on down south!
Good Evening
Busy day today....and tomorrow off to do cardio rehab....
Tonight I ran some trains around and didst discover that it appears a few turnoffs around Leemer have developed a case of slllloooooww turning ....back under the table for me....
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/
CShaveRR A stack train on the BNSF Transcon had cars blown over this afternoon; both tracks blocked at Laura, Illinois, between Chillicothe and Galesburg. Straight-line winds are believed to be the culprit.
A stack train on the BNSF Transcon had cars blown over this afternoon; both tracks blocked at Laura, Illinois, between Chillicothe and Galesburg. Straight-line winds are believed to be the culprit.
I saw a video clip on the Weather channel of this about 20 mins ago. That explains the detouring intermodal trains coming up from KC and going east over the old CNW.
Jeff
nice outside now.Ns was busy today.They were also busy uptown spreading new ballast in the siding.Chores to do.
Sing along now - "And the rains came..."
What is wrong with kalmbach trains ? It will only allow me to view the 4014 live streaming if I extend my subscription. though not one to get angry ------------------ well nuts to you trains.
tree68 Sing along now - "And the rains came..."
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
blue streak 1 What is wrong with kalmbach trains ? It will only allow me to view the 4014 live streaming if I extend my subscription. though not one to get angry ------------------ well nuts to you trains.
Having said that, I have had to "visit", in last 3 days, with local delivery of paper - looks nice in the lawn with the rain falling on it or wind blowing parts of it up the street; visit with the dr office about a prescription that was so obviously wrong because someone didn't read notes; visit with grocery store about checkers finding it more fun to visit with fellow employees while customers stand and wait to be checked out, visit with pharmacy about other prescriptions that they never seem to have available, even after 2 years of ordering them every month after you waited in line in the drive thru for 20 min.
I feel much better. Blue Streak hope you do too, now that we have had our say!.
Mookie I feel much better. Blue Streak hope you do too, now that we have had our say!.
Mookie: does it seem to you that many web sites not just this one is made for persons who think one way ?. Find it hard to navigate as the sites are not intuitive ?
blue streak 1 Mookie: does it seem to you that many web sites not just this one is made for persons who think one way ?. Find it hard to navigate as the sites are not intuitive ?
And the pharmacy? Well, the local one is listed on the northeast corner of the intersection. It is actually on the northwest corner. McD's is on the northeast. Food's better, but can't get something for a headache.
Whee! I can choose my font and size again! I could not do so when I logged on early this morning. I also received three days' e-mail postings from Kalmbach about ten this morning; they were waiting for me when I logged on early this afternoon.
This morning, while I was waiting in Stockton for my train to Sacramento, I saw several freights go by; one had many UP cars with ARMN reporting mark; they are reefers? (there is a grill at one end of each). I also saw a looong shipment of what looked like sheetrock going south--and not long afterwards a northbound freight came by, with several cars with what looked like sheetrock on them.
Saturday, before we reached Alpine, Texas, we had an interesting meet. An eastbound freight was on the main, and we had to pull in in front of it so another eastbound (with many, many, empty FEMA cars--at least, those I could see into were empty) could keep going when it at last arrived on the pass track. For some reason, our engineer had to be cajoled into pulling far enough west so we would not foul the pass track switch. Once the superior eastbound was gone, we backed (after one of the conductors got off to flag a dirt road that crossed the track there) to where we could move onto the pass track and then ran past the inferior eastbound.
Oh, yes; Mookie, I'm sorry, but I will not pass through Lincoln on my way home; I will take #6 from Sacramento tomorrow morning, and get off about three Thursday morning. If I can take a train or get home at that time, surely a friend can come and wave to me when I pass through her hometown?
Johnny: no sympathy here. I did wave at you and you were asleep - remember? (that's a sleeping shade)
I don't know about you, but I am exhausted following you all over the US. I already have a nap planned for tomorrow, somewhere around the lunch hour. Ah - life is good!
Sounds like you had a good time and I am extremely jealous. But then, I don't have lots of laundry to do now, either.
DeggestyThis morning, while I was waiting in Stockton for my train to Sacramento, I saw several freights go by; one had many UP cars with ARMN reporting mark; they are reefers?
White? Probably part of the "salad shooter" that runs from the west coast to Schenectady, NY (and back, obviously).
Well our tornado of two days ago turned out to be 2 -EF2s that did little damage and no injuries because they both were skipping along. This morning the wind is howling here and remind me of being in a minor hurricane with the sudden gusts. Woke me with concerns about suspect trees nearby. Pensacola's 15" of rain has kept the rain down here with only about 1" on the rain gauge
Nothing running on CSX since about 1800 last night. Wonder where the problem is ?
tree68DeggestyThis morning, while I was waiting in Stockton for my train to Sacramento, I saw several freights go by; one had many UP cars with ARMN reporting mark; they are reefers? White? Probably part of the "salad shooter" that runs from the west coast to Schenectady, NY (and back, obviously).
evening
ns was switching uptown when I left work.Looks like csx has messes all over the country.Went into Defiance and saw a long q 324 go eastbound while running errands.going to get a little cooler this weekend.Mookie are you keeping up with the big boy moves???
No Joe, not this particular one. I got a decent hangover when they moved the Omaha one. It was like watching the moon move thru the sky during a whole nite. And that was just one day. I have hugged the Big Boy, stuck my head in as far as possible in the cab, tried to reach the top of the drivers and had someone explain to me how it works. It is like standing next to the Queen Mary and wondering how it all happened and how it all managed to move. And the person explaining it all had actually been on one when it was working.
Had to get a small blanket out even with the furnace running today. 48 was our high and I think 192 was the wind speed out of the north. I had put away my space heater, sweats and indoor jackets for spring. HA! Would have rolled up in the rug if it wasn't wall-to-wall carpeting. Still beats the 21" of rain in FL. Cold not so bad; just move a little closer to the lamp and get warmth from the lightbulb. Tomorrow will be much warmer.
Or I get a bigger bulb.
It was pretty cool here today, too. It was supposed to get into the 50s, and it probably did that early in the morning, but I needed a jacket by afternoon, as the wind was kind of buffeting me as I biked my errands.We didn't get any rain to speak of today, but that is a small apology for the 1.25 inches we received yesterday (some in pea-sized hail). We had guests with us when we walked the block or so to lunch. We were kind of stuck inside the deli for a little while, and had to sample their ice cream...Tomorrow I have to take Pat to see an allergist (she's been bothered by allergies for the 40-plus years I've known her, but she's actually going to find out what exactly she's allergic to). Her appointment is in downtown Glen Ellyn. She has to be in there getting tests for two hours or so, so I will spend that time either alongside the tracks or on them, checking out the crossovers at College (last week they still hadn't put things in service yet).Groundbreaking for the Lombard pedestrian tunnel is in two weeks. The ceremony is during the Lilac Festival, but work won't begin in earnest until after the parade on the 18th. I don't have any trouble changing fonts or sizes here. But I did have to take the back-window route in again. I wonder what's up, and why the Forum doesn't like chatterboxes.
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