Perhaps at Rochelle they could have a variant on those "doors" they use at perpetually-open facilities like freight-car repair shops--thick panels of plastic, maybe a foot wide, hanging downwrd to floor level. They would definitely cut the breezes down (though not eliminating them), but could also be pushed apart to be shot beyond (these might be helpful at other similar places).My favorite indoor railfan observation point is the station at Elmhurst, which is open for much of the day, even after the agent is gone (at least on weekdays). I have a table with an electrical outlet nearby to set up the computer, a bathroom, and trains close enough for observation of most details while they pass by at a slow speed. Some people would appreciate the coffee shop that's open until mid-morning.
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)
tree68 The guy that used to do a lot of the maintenance on our fire apparatus wouldn't have bothered trying to get those batteries charged up. They would have been replaced forthwith. He felt that once a battery was taken to zero, it was shot.
The guy that used to do a lot of the maintenance on our fire apparatus wouldn't have bothered trying to get those batteries charged up. They would have been replaced forthwith. He felt that once a battery was taken to zero, it was shot.
Ordinarily, I would have said the same thing, however, it looked like these were brand new batteries, so they charged them up. Started just fine this morning when it was 5 degrees out, still getting used to this Detroit engine (as well as everything else with this company)........
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
Staggered back into Denver today. After a week of running between Philadelphia and Charlotte, it was time to go home. Would love to know why my bags keep getting to Denver 3-4 hours before I do. The pillow gets a workout tonight after the furry black velcro gets his walk.
afternoon
Ns had a train in the siding.Couldn't get a view of the power.Tomorrow is Friday.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").
mudchicken Staggered back into Denver today. After a week of running between Philadelphia and Charlotte, it was time to go home. Would love to know why my bags keep getting to Denver 3-4 hours before I do. The pillow gets a workout tonight after the furry black velcro gets his walk.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
work done for this week.Ns still has a train in the siding.No cars uptown for the local.Seems people were excited to leave work and bent some fenders.Going to pick up Matt from his school dance and go eat with G+G.Ma nature is going to kick in the freezer big time tomorrow.
Brrrrrrr.....
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...
8 when I got home this morning. Didn't make it above freezing for the day.....lower tonight.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
My home weather station hit -20F this morning at 7 AM and never got above +15F, just before sunset. Down to -4F right now...
Went out on a rollover this morning about 8AM. It's a good thing it wasn't windy... There was nothing there to break the wind but the fire truck...
Allright- let's hear those alibis! At exactly 2:46 this morning we was awakened by the doorbell. Ding-dong! Ding-dong! In the time it took me to bolt out of bed (I'm a light sleeper), put on some pants and rush to the door, our *visitor* had departed. He (presumably a he) had left the gift of 6 empty beer bottles on our front steps. They were neatly arranged, standing up in a row. Now mind you- these weren't your run of the mill, Old Milwaukee long necks There were two bottles each of 3 more expensive brands, something more appropriate for a nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood I suppose. Of course, our visitor was nowhere in sight. Further sluething this morning provided a few clues. From the footsteps, our visitor wore tennis shoes, several sizes smaller than my size 10 feet. He appears to have walked through the fresh snow from the street, up the edge of the driveway, accross the front of the house on the sidewalk, then up the 2 steps to the entry. He must have been rather tall, as it appears that after neatly arranging the bottles and ringing the doorbell, he ran like a gazelle down the steps, across the sidewalk, across the snow covered yard, throough a big snowbank by the street and into a getaway car. I say like a gazelle, because the tracks were about 6 feet apart. Did I mention that it was about zero with a -20 wind chill factor overnight? So....A couple questions: Do you all have alibis? How did our visitor know that we recycle glass at our house?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
morning
snow has arrived and so has the wind.helped Mamma with the grocery shopping.It's nice to watch if you don't have to drive in it.
Murphy Siding So....A couple questions: Do you all have alibis? How did our visitor know that we recycle glass at our house?
That was 0446 at our house, so I was likely sound asleep. Besides, my warp drive is out of commission, so there's no way I could have gotten there and back in time to go shopping for tomorrow's class.
Besides, given my usual rate of consumption of such adult beverages, it'd take me several weeks to amass that quantity...
Murphy Siding Allright- let's hear those alibis! At exactly 2:46 this morning we was awakened by the doorbell. Ding-dong! Ding-dong! In the time it took me to bolt out of bed (I'm a light sleeper), put on some pants and rush to the door, our *visitor* had departed. He (presumably a he) had left the gift of 6 empty beer bottles on our front steps. They were neatly arranged, standing up in a row. Now mind you- these weren't your run of the mill, Old Milwaukee long necks There were two bottles each of 3 more expensive brands, something more appropriate for a nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood I suppose. Of course, our visitor was nowhere in sight. Further sluething this morning provided a few clues. From the footsteps, our visitor wore tennis shoes, several sizes smaller than my size 10 feet. He appears to have walked through the fresh snow from the street, up the edge of the driveway, accross the front of the house on the sidewalk, then up the 2 steps to the entry. He must have been rather tall, as it appears that after neatly arranging the bottles and ringing the doorbell, he ran like a gazelle down the steps, across the sidewalk, across the snow covered yard, throough a big snowbank by the street and into a getaway car. I say like a gazelle, because the tracks were about 6 feet apart. Did I mention that it was about zero with a -20 wind chill factor overnight? So....A couple questions: Do you all have alibis? How did our visitor know that we recycle glass at our house?
Are gazelle's wearing 'athletic' shoes native to SD?
Norris(Murphy Siding): First of all: You need to get with Larry (tree68) get him to instruct you how to set up clothing for 'speed dressing' when you get a 'ring down' at Zero Dark Thirty!
Secondly: Any Teenagers at home? Particularly of the fair sex? Your answer might reside with them, or teen age male resident...Sounds like something that might have been cooked up there...
As to the gazelles in Tenny's.. That species must be indigenous to South Dakota?? At least they did not leave a bag of flaming dung on your doorstep...THAT gets really messy, and can lead to a commission of homicide by the resident.
It was in the 40's here this AM...now about 59 and SUNNY.. TV weather dudes blew their predictions for today...Sunday they are promising teens and sleet or snow... Hope they miss it again..I hate walking the dog in that kind of nastyness... Seems they need to sharpen the points on the darts they use for predicting.
Negative double digit temperatures forcast for the next three nights. I don't wanna see my next gas bill.
Norm
All you posters that are having a real winter should get a chuckle about this.
The Atlanta area is suddenly in a full panic as the possibility of snow, ice & a mix predicted for Monday night for definitely north of I-20 and probably 50 - 60 miles south of I-20. The paniced people remember snow jam Jan 2014.
Had 60 degrees today but down to 20 - 22 tonight which sets us up for maybe freezing rain. This poster knows to stay off the roads as it will be one monster demolition derby. A southern tradition!.
blue streak 1 All you posters that are having a real winter should get a chuckle about this. The Atlanta area is suddenly in a full panic as the possibility of snow, ice & a mix predicted for Monday night for definitely north of I-20 and probably 50 - 60 miles south of I-20. The paniced people remember snow jam Jan 2014. Had 60 degrees today but down to 20 - 22 tonight which sets us up for maybe freezing rain. This poster knows to stay off the roads as it will be one monster demolition derby. A southern tradition!.
Blue Streak 1:
Lived several years in the ATL area ( Fayetteville), and was always amazed at how many people from out of that area; every year had to undergo 'Motorist Retraining' with the advent of the Winter Weather. Seemed that many believed that the way icy road conditions were conquored was to build up plenty of velocity.
Generally,burning off that excess of velocity was cured by crashing into another vehicle. I-285 was a skating rink with the first freeze and ice. The local governments seemed to expend all their monies, and road cleaning budgets on the various Interstate roads. Other roads were cleared by the largess of Mother Nature, and the Good Lord.
We get plenty of that "first snow" action as well.
A bigger problem this time of year is drifting snow - you can be rolling along with confidence, then suddenly you're upside down in a snowbank, wondering how the heck you got there.
It's the Interstate that gets the worst of it, especially in the lake effect areas. Generally clear, then suddenly zero visibility and a trip to the ditch.
It was noted by a friend on FB that we never got a January thaw this year...
Sam - I'm not as quick out the door as I used to be, at least at night. I do have a built-in timer for the fire calls - the fire siren, which runs for two minutes. Medical cars are pager only.
It wasn't bad out today (although I spent very little time outside. The high was only +13.7F, but the sun was out all day. We're back down to zero as I write this. Gonna be a chilly one...
Getting pretty jaded around here. (Way behind in the moisture department - dealing with range fires all over the place right now)
Weatherliars predicting 3-6" tonight, but all it's doing now is spitting. Even the the weatherdog is going "I'll believe it when I see it"...Ship all that excess New England biblical stuff back here where it'll do some good.(It was 60+ here all week)
Got up to a whopping two above here today and they're calling for 16 below tonight. Florida is sure looking good right now.
Had a high of +10F today, and as of 1:30 AM, my weather station is showing -18F, with -30F up on the mast. The sensor on the fence outside my bedroom is showing -24F.
Summing that all up: It's COLD!
The new hotel in the neighboring village had a water pipe freeze on the second floor. Reports from the scene involve inches of water on the floor, running down through the first floor to the basement. My FD was called, but we ended up standing by in the home department's station while they sorted things out at the scene.
My big event for the day went well - just over 40 firefighters got their annual OSHA safety refresher. I ended up doing two of the segments as one presenter cancelled, and the other possible presenter was in the hospital. It's not like I've never done it...
Woke up, this morning...Couple of inches of snow on the ground..Temp was somewhere around 17 deg ( officially?) thermomter on the back of the house said 10 deg...Wind was blowing about 15 mph...Not sure whetere the proper description is "..It' Blowing or it just plain Sucks?..." The morning JBH COFC/TOFC is running late(?), just went thru i a cloud of snow. Even the dog did not want to go for our morning walk today. It was a 'two bush' wwalk and back inside. Hope everyone can stay warm and Safe ! ....
Joe Koh, which one is ahead--your miscreant overhead railroad or the one in DUrham, N.C.? http://11foot8.com/faq.html
I thought I made it alive, but I can't get it to go here. So, I would copy it and paste it.
Johnny
I wondered the same thing. See (NS bridge, but originally posted by BaltACD [CSX]):
http://gizmodo.com/5955244/watch-this-bridge-destroying-dozens-of-trucks-and-buses
- Paul North.
tree68 The new hotel in the neighboring village had a water pipe freeze on the second floor. Reports from the scene involve inches of water on the floor, running down through the first floor to the basement. My FD was called, but we ended up standing by in the home department's station while they sorted things out at the scene.
Larry, why was the fire department called? To pump out the water?
Reminds me of years ago when a fellow sailboat owner's boat got hit by lighting in the marina. His boat did not have lightning protection and it blew out some through-hull fittings causing the boat to start taking on water. He did something I never would have thought of: he called the fire department and they pumped out the water while he went below to plug the leaks.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
As usual the snow line here in Georgia moved the standard 50 miles. Fortunally it was 50 miles to the north. Atlanta is going to be spared. But temperature into the teens by Thursday.
Clinton st.viaduct and it's cousin on jefferson haven't had a truck hit them in quite awhile.City used grant money to put up new electric signs before the bridges.They are like Mookie.Lurking and waiting for a truck to come at them.Ns still has the train in the siding it had on friday.Had to wait on the local uptown when I got off work.More snow wed and possibly alot more saturday.MC where did Willy put that weather machine at ? I am ready for spring to get here.Chores to do.
Joe, I was reminded by your signature that they were going to replace this viaduct...last year! Is this plan just delayed or cancelled? It was a cold day today; we're about at the high (19) right now. The snow that fell yesterday was sublimated by the sun today, so our driveways and sidewalks are dry. Tomorrow we might get more snow, then Wednesday the temperature gets kind of cold. I haven't yet seen forecasts that take me beyond Wednesday, let alone into spring!
Paul of CovingtonLarry, why was the fire department called? To pump out the water?
It was a fire sprinkler pipe, so it came in as a waterflow alarm.
While we do pumpouts from time to time, most of this was taken care of by gravity.
Many times there are concerns about the electric service and other infrastructure issues within a building. We can be there in minutes. The utilities and contractors can take hours.
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