I was on the ladder when Ma Nature said it was time to leave. (there will be a 24 Hr delay on progress)
Nigel got bandages removed today, healing nicely. The donut comes off Thursday.
MC - did you ever get the house painted or did you let the hail do it for you? Saw pix of the hail. Yep - it was hail all right!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
tree68 mudchickenCompany car got attacked by the gnomes with little ball-peen hammers. Character?
mudchickenCompany car got attacked by the gnomes with little ball-peen hammers.
Character?
edblysard The Fordasorous known as Lurch?
The Fordasorous known as Lurch?
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...
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Just had a nasty hailstorm in Denver. Time for new screens and shingles at the house.
There won't be any fall colors here after today's shreddamatic episode.
Company car got attacked by the gnomes with little ball-pein hammers.
Ns had a freight in the siding this morning and a stack train when I left work.No cars or local uptown.came home and got yardwork done.Also moved things around in the shed so we could put the outdoor stuff away.Matt was amazed.Time for supper.
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").
Mookie Did cha' have any Forumers?
Did cha' have any Forumers?
None that I'm aware of...
Day two of the Massena train show (Norwood Model Railroad Club) is in the books. Like Saturday, beautiful, sunny weather, with temperatures in the mid-70's limited attendance, but I still talked to a lot of attendees.
The show was right across the river from the Massena yard, so we were occasionally treated to some "real" train sounds, in addition to all the models at the show.
Lots to do this week right here at home, before heading back to the railroad next weekend!
All Right. Will be watching for them!
Coming to a TV near you, a new UP television advertising campaign. Begins Sept 29. Look for them on all the ones you would expect, those that have political or financial programming, plus TBS, ESPN, HGTV, the Food Network and the History Channel. (Even if there isn't much history on the History Channel anymore.)
Jeff
Wow - a full day today.
Got to see a few trains and then got to go nap - er...fishing.
Johnny - I saw Amtrak - it was coming thru going to Omaha (EB) - scheduled for about 5 am and arrived her about 9 am. Had you been on it, I could have waved @ you!
good morning
Pen pal has made it to Ohio.Going to see what csx can run through Deshler.If ns or the I&O want to come today we'd be close enough to go look too.Crew from the ND&W said they could use another tie grant for west of Defiance(ya think????).They were spreading ballast from FC to their yard shak Thursday.Back to work tomorrow.
CShaveRR From the looks of that track, the train didn't have to jump very far!
From the looks of that track, the train didn't have to jump very far!
Larry, back in 1965, '67 & '68 I got to spend a couple of months each not far from your neck of the woods (Ilion, NY), and got a chance to explore some of the beautiful country up there, though never in fall. Beautiful picture. We don't have much of an autumn down here.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
CSX is doing some ROW work here on the A&WP sub. For the first time in at least 20 years trees adjacent to tracks are being removed. The pine trees are starting to lean over the tracks inviting a major track fouling if any storm happens especially winter ice storms or heavy snows..
Even this Saturday daytime trains are passing at restricted speeds.
Time to head to upstate New York for a big bushel basket of apples!!!!
ok - I am sold.
This is spectacular!
OK, three days on the railroad done (the fall colors in the central Adirondacks are fabulous!), now two days of trying to get more people to ride the railroad.
Moose River from the McKeever Trestle.
afternoon
well Matt had a fog day from school.We ventured up to Bryan to see what NS was up to.Amtrak's capitol and lake shore were both late plus we got a bonus car special in Butler Indiana.Made it back to Bryan in time to see the "Virginian" heritage unit go by the local engines.Tomorrow hopefully our pen pal will be here then off to Fostoria or other places.
Well, my trip to the coast of British Columbia is done; I returned to Jasper yesterday, after another two days' travel from Prince Rupert. We were again delayed by freights, though not as badly as were going west. We left Prince George late because CN let a freight out ahead of us--and it had some problem once it entered the only track out of town. It looked to be solid empty iron ore hoppers--I assumed that a warning to use radiant heat only, and not to exceed 250 degrees F. meant that they were for iron ore. The worst problem came when a signal misfunction kept us stopped after a work train that was ahead of us had cleared the main. However, we were only forty-five minutes late getting in ( the three previous delays were at least an hour and more).
Today, I start back to Vancouver, riding in a compartment in one of the cars built for the CP's Canadian.
Johnny
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)
company coming from California.not sure if he will be here Friday or Saturday.Made an appointment for truck in the AM.Work has settled down.Ns moved the train out of the siding only to replace it with another.This one has lot's of old sand hoppers in it.Matt and I ventured out to see what we could find.Saw the ND&W go across FC.He got across the diamond ok but jumped the track further west.More work to be done on the west end.
Joe - are you retiring on Friday? What? You got a day off?
chores for today are done.time to get matt off for his class.Ns still has a train in the siding and empties were waiting for the local uptown.Tomorrow last day of work for me this week.
Fall is fell,
The leaves as well
Are falling to the ground.
And everyone knows
When the cold wind blows,
Jack Frost will soon be 'round.
There's an awful lot of projects that I wish I'd gotten to this summer and didn't...
Is it really Wednesday? What happened to summer? Once again, I wasn't done with summer and now it is gone.
Blah....
think rules for lights are set by the FRA.Local uptown.Train still waiting to go west in the siding.work is steady.time for chores.
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