zugmann Zugmann's law of railroading #4782 Whenever you are running a train in the rain - you will have the worst possible wipers. Dash-9 had them adjusted in such an awesome way that they slammed into the lip of the windshiled gasket with each swipe. And of course it was pouring down. So the trip home was swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK.
Zugmann's law of railroading #4782
Whenever you are running a train in the rain - you will have the worst possible wipers. Dash-9 had them adjusted in such an awesome way that they slammed into the lip of the windshiled gasket with each swipe. And of course it was pouring down.
So the trip home was swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK,swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK, swipe, SMACK.
A word!
Rain-X
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Mookie Joe - we saw the CZ heading eb about 3-4 hours late. Usually they saunter into town on time or late. He was really moving when he passed us sitting very close to the depot. (obviously he either didn't have to stop or they just threw someone off the train!)
Joe - we saw the CZ heading eb about 3-4 hours late. Usually they saunter into town on time or late. He was really moving when he passed us sitting very close to the depot. (obviously he either didn't have to stop or they just threw someone off the train!)
Would that passenger look anything like Gene Wilder?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
afternoon
amtraks capitol passed a westbound this morning when I got to work.after work a track inspector was rolling westbound.Everything else was clear.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").
Rules out of the way (class, anyhow) for another year. After dinner with some fellow volunteers I rushed back to the TV station and spent several hours hawking donated merchandise whilst representing the railroad. Things went pretty well, but all-in-all it was a l-o-n-g day.
Was back at the station Sunday night to run camera - ended up "selling" a couple of tables at the end of the night besides. I'll be back there Monday and Tuesday as well.
It's been fire weather here - lots of people apparently still haven't heard there's a state-wide ban on open fires until mid-May. The annual ban has been in effect for about five years now... We've managed to stay "in the station," but there have been several significant grass/brush fires around the area.
Rain overnight and several weather systems coming through should help keep that to a minimum.
Carl - great news on daughter. Let's hope for continuing progress!
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...
Johnny, I can't find anything out about NGPX in my usual sources; I still have an anenue or three to explore.
I'll bet your Burlington Junction unit was in Burlington. There are other possibilities, though (come to think of it, I recall seeing one somewhere, and we didn't go through Burlington).Sorry we couldn't meet you in Chicago this time; we're kind of tied up.On that front, a little good news...Linda and her dad (moi) walked to the corner bakery this morning. It was the first time she'd been out of the apartment since she returned home from the hospital nearly a week ago, and it was about a block each way. She had her brace on, but was otherwise unassisted.News almost as good: Linus finally trusts his grandma and grandpa to put him in the swing at the nearby park; he had a grand time and didn't want to get out.Tomorrow is another dose of chemo for Linda, and we'll see what happens after that...otherwise a walk to the park (at least twice as far as the bakery, in the opposite direction) is next on our agenda.
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)
Technically, I think we now have a grandpuppy? Our son Ben just got a dog, named Blanche. She's looks to be sort of a mix between a corgie and a chihuahua. Does that make her a corgihuahua? Personally, I think she looks like a furry armadillo, because she's kind of tubby, but who am I to talk? Blanche is sort of a double rescue dog, as our local Humane Society got her from an affiliate in Oklahoma that sends all their dogs and cats to the gallows. So far, Blanche the dog and George the cat are getting along. That's probably because Goerge-butt thinks he's a dog anyway. On a related note, I have a brother who has a pet squirrel, Chelsea, living in his kitchen. Does that somehow make me a monkey's uncle or some such?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
I arrived back in the Crossroads of the West only a minute or so late last night. There ws no evidence left of the snow that came here Wednesday night. The temperature here this morning was in the fifties.
Friday morning, I tried to get on line in the Metropolitan lounge in Chicago, but the only outlet I could plug in to was in a dead corner, so far as the lounge's wireless was concerned--and the other outlet was monopolized by a dog in the manger who, with his female friend, stayed at the table by i t even though they were not working on line) as long as I was in there. I did find a supply of cards which could be used for making suggestions about the station--and I sent my thoughts to the powers that be there.
Katie is setting up to keep bees; she now has an occupied hive in the back yard; I may no longer have to buy honey for baking bread. She is also moving her garden to beside the driveway so that her vegetables will get more sun--she has the frames for the beds built and will next move the good earth she has bought into them.
Mookie, I hope you did not come down to wave at me yesterday morning--the bedrooms in both cars were not on the platform side of the train--and I erred when I told you I would be in D, for I was in E, fast asleep.
Odds and ends: I saw a well-worn BAR engine and two Housatonic engines in Pittsfield Friday. I also saw (somewhere between Boston and Rensselaer, I think) several gondolas marked NGPX (who is that) with dark gray matter in them; I wonder if they are dedicated to a particular service. Somewhere along the way, I saw a bright red Burlington Jct. engine.
Yesterday, we were held east of Glenwood Springs for #6, which was a little over an hour late--that train was a little over two hours late leaving Grand Junction, and over three hours late leaving here.
Having sorted my mail and thrown the junk out, I have only to get my newspapers in the proper order so I can read the comics properly--and finish unpacking.
Johnny
Thundersnizzle in the Mile High City....Just fertilized the yard with Greeley's finest....springtime in da Rockies. Hoping for green by May....now back to pushin' paper.
tree68Getting stuff ready for NORAC Rules class tomorrow - an annual rite of passage if one wants to run on the railroad. Fortunately, the GVT companies also run under NORAC, or we'd be going through two sets of rules...
NORAC is a breeze. I am qualified on it as well as my carrier's rule book, since we also run on some NORAC railroads. NORAC is the one few things that the railroads ever did that made sense. So many of the rules are just plain common sense. The other rule book I work under.....ehhhh....not so much.
Mookie don't know if it was a varmit or what.Lot's of people out and they had the cars and bikes out too.Brother enjoyed the ride today.We watched as the local grain elevator loaded a grain train for csx.Looks like they are set for a crew to pick up the train.Waiting to see when cousins are done with Matt.Just feed him and he'll do good work.
Made the mistake of getting an eight track instead of cassette tapes for my 78 Dodge van. ( last year 8 track offered as choice ). Since van is now my truck have stored away the 8 tracks as van seldom used. Quickly gave up trying to find new 8 track selections since they were manufactured discontinued.
Squirrel ate thru our transformer guard and blew the transformer fuse. Local power truck was driving by and only lost power for about 10 minutes. Dead varmit stunk ! For some reason they really like our power pole which caused power company to install guard in first place.
8-tracks were a most interesting concept. I never had one but my brother had an 8-track recorder while we were in college (NIU for me, IIT for him) in the early 70's. During the summer I would listen to his homemade 8-tracks of Yes and Jethro Tull on headphones after working second shift at the US Steel warehouse (switched by EJ&E on my shift).
Joe - did you happen to see a squirrel with a power strip? That is what usually causes our outages during a sunny day.
Our state has been grass green all day with rain, however, it has yet to materialize. We show .02 for today. Just can't get the moisture to stop here long enough to hit the ground.
Save some strawberry ice cream for me!
evening
busy day today.Young man decided to barricade himself in his house near our plant.Was able to pick up mamma and get home.Got home and we had power problems.(nice day what happened???) Saw in the paper the ND&W has some track to fix in Napoleon.Matt went swimming with cousins tonight at the YMCA.Saw a westbound train on CSX when we got ice cream afterwards.Tomorrow another nice day.
joe
jeffhergert (Along with the 40 plus year old encylopedias. I know it makes no sense, but I remember my parents kind of sacrificed to get them back then. I just can't bring myself to dispose of them.)
My ex bought the encyclopedias, along with the "yearbooks" for quite a few years. They might have gotten cracked a few times, but the prospect of having to look something up in the basic set, then having to go through each of the yearbooks to find changes was more than I was willing to put up with.
Nowadays the 'Net makes life just that much easier in that respect.
The whole pile got recycled...
Not sure what happened to our family set (as purchased by my parents). You might have had a newspaper in hand that held their remains, too..
Never had an 8 track. I do still have my reel-to-reel and all of the tapes I burned from LP's. There's one I've been meaning to find - a live recording of a jam session of sorts recorded while I was overseas. One of the folks that was there with us asked me about it a while back and I haven't found it yet...
I still have an 8-track player. It's a humongus clock/radio, that also can run a turntable. (For the record, pun intended, a record player turntable.) It had been my parent's and I've had it for over 30 plus years.
Until just a week or so ago, I even had some 8-track tapes. My wife and I are moving to a new house, closer to work (not that I was that far away) with a bit more room. Especially for the important stuff, like my N-gauge empire. Anyway, I got rid of the 8-tracks. While the player still works, it has ate a tape or two. I wasn't going to keep it, but nostalgia has reared it's head and it's going to stay. As long as the clock still works anyway. (Along with the 40 plus year old encylopedias. I know it makes no sense, but I remember my parents kind of sacrificed to get them back then. I just can't bring myself to dispose of them.)
Jeff
Murphy Siding Mookie Ah, Murphy - MoPar to you in the chick dept. (that hurt my brain!) A Dodge Dart - wow - be still my heart! Oh yeah! 8 track tape player, fancy aluminum rims the goof before me had put on, and the famous Dodge 225 cubic inch, slant-6 motor. You could just feel the power as that baby moseyed up a hill.
Mookie Ah, Murphy - MoPar to you in the chick dept. (that hurt my brain!) A Dodge Dart - wow - be still my heart!
Ah, Murphy - MoPar to you in the chick dept.
(that hurt my brain!)
A Dodge Dart - wow - be still my heart!
Oh yeah! 8 track tape player, fancy aluminum rims the goof before me had put on, and the famous Dodge 225 cubic inch, slant-6 motor. You could just feel the power as that baby moseyed up a hill.
Wish I could find a set for my current Dodge Challanger....would make it look a lot more "retro"...The Chip Foose folks will make me a set for $900.00 a rim.
Not that in the retro look!
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I sold my first car - a 1962 Chevy II, for the same $200 I paid for it. Never had an 8 track in it. It had been a telephone company car. Three on the tree and a four-banger. The tranny would get hung up in second every now and then, and I'd have to pull over and play with it to free it up.
Dad worked for GM at their Proving Grounds, so GM cars were the choice du jour for us. At the time, Ford was #2, and Chrysler was #3. Aside from a few niche companies (imports) that was it.
Getting stuff ready for NORAC Rules class tomorrow - an annual rite of passage if one wants to run on the railroad. Fortunately, the GVT companies also run under NORAC, or we'd be going through two sets of rules...
Then I've got to rush back home so I can be on TV (PBS auction) tomorrow night... Wheee!
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
Murphy Siding Factory AM/FM and 8-tack? Livin' high. Two dumb teenagers- my brother and I- put in my 8-track. He said he knew how to find a hot wire. He did, and the 8-track played like it was supposed to, whenever the door was open and the dome light was on. Sadly, it probably prolonged the lifespan of your average 8-track tape. When I mowed road ditches for a farmer, we had to walk the ditch first, picking up hubcaps, beer bottles and dead 8-track tapes.
Too funny!
edblysard I had a 71 Dodge Dart Swinger with the 225, bought used in 1975 for $600....wanted a Dart Demon, but couldnt find anyone willing to sell theirs...the Dart had 60,000 and change on the clock when I bought it..tipped over the 100 mark when I sold it after high school a year later, for the same I paid for it, $600. But, it had a factory 8 track AM/FM, so.... Great car, the 71 thru 74s were the last series of Darts that had any style...the 75 year Dart looked like a shoe box on wheels and had zero get up and go due to the EPA junk
I had a 71 Dodge Dart Swinger with the 225, bought used in 1975 for $600....wanted a Dart Demon, but couldnt find anyone willing to sell theirs...the Dart had 60,000 and change on the clock when I bought it..tipped over the 100 mark when I sold it after high school a year later, for the same I paid for it, $600.
But, it had a factory 8 track AM/FM, so....
Great car, the 71 thru 74s were the last series of Darts that had any style...the 75 year Dart looked like a shoe box on wheels and had zero get up and go due to the EPA junk
Acquired a '69 Roadrunner in a property division settlement. RR Orange - and most know how I intensely dislike orange - except on a real one. That was pre-Valiant and while the Valiant was a little old lady - I loved it best!
Then car-sat a '65 Ford Mustang convertible for a couple of years. (owner traveled) That one was nice for a Ford. Mellow pipes on it and fire engine red w/white top. Owner said to be sure and drive it rather than let it sit....so I did!
mudchicken Slushmageddon! (at least it's sorely needed water) ...'68 Plymouth Valiant = 1st Car; 74 Dodge Dart was the second (I sold it at 215,000 in 1984....it's still running in southern Colorado)....the 225 was bulletproof and outperformed the GM 250 straight six, no complaints.
Slushmageddon! (at least it's sorely needed water)
...'68 Plymouth Valiant = 1st Car; 74 Dodge Dart was the second (I sold it at 215,000 in 1984....it's still running in southern Colorado)....the 225 was bulletproof and outperformed the GM 250 straight six, no complaints.
Norris, that 225 was also in the first car Pat and I owned post-marriage, a '73 Duster (a Valiant, for those beating hearts out there). It lasted us until 1983, when we traded it in on a "K car", after 196,000 miles of good performance (our engines have a history of outlasting the bodies they were mounted on). Our current car, the fourth we've owned in 42 years of marriage, has 190,000 miles on it. It's being given a vacation while we're out west here. All cars have been Chrysler products; the current one is a Dodge, after we outlasted the Plymouth brand.Linda is doing all right; so far none of the nausea that plagued her in the hospital. Her appetite has returned, and her strength is also returning, albeit slowly. Next dose of chemo is Monday. Linus has settled down to a good routine, and is very happy to have his mom home. We provide support, running errands, helping Linda get into and out of her "clamshell" brace which supports her while she's sitting or standing, and keeping Linus out of mischief. He's a little angel while riding in the car or the stroller, but otherwise...It's looking more like mid May before we can go home again.
rain here in Nw Ohio.Look's like the 765 is going eastbound.(765.org)Keep an eye on it's moves.Ns local was back with more cars for us.The problem we have is when it's time to work,people don't want to.I have to do what???.I could go on but don't want the thread locked.Chores to do inside.
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