Well Fall begins tomorrow moring at 4:17 AM(eastern time).Ns has some empties to pick up.Need to go to town to run errands.Matt will be home soon.Will check for homework first.
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").
I have a burr in my fur and will put it here in case someone might read it and realize it could be them.
When you go to watch/photograph trains, please be respectful of any other watchers that might be close by. We were the only ones in our watch site and made sure we had a clear view east (incoming & signal bridge) and west (the yard). We drive a small Millie, so we aren't very tall.
SUV's, huge trucks and even motor homes will pull up next to us and park so we are looking directly at the tires, doors or undercarriages on the west side.
Courtesy, to me, would dictate that you could park so the nose of your behemoth would be at Millie's back door, where you can still see over and around us with no problem. Then insult to injury, the party gets out of this small house and goes to the tracks to photo shoot. He had his pix and we hadn't even seen the train yet!
Residents driving by our site have to stop for xing gates. Most of them are irritated by the trains, but most of them also stop back far enough that they don't block our view to the west.
We had to finally change parking places to watch trains a little longer. I love that you came a very long way in your small house to watch trains here. But I would have loved it more had you been a little more considerate.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Some peoples kids!!! Probably big city peoples in their RENTed small house.
Sorry Mooks and Driver, you were probably visited by the witless cousins of the city and ditch company arrogant dim-bulbs I've been been dealing with since I got home. The Class 1 and the rail-trail people that are being threatened by these bozos are lucky that there hasn't been an incident.
Is there a "conservation of evil" postulate that applies to cluelessness or does it expand to fill the ever increasing voids between the ears?
Must bring this up to top w/other one.
Try to be polite to other people.We watched the 765 get out of Fort Wayne on the wabash and no problems what so ever.Everyone was so nice.I then have a guy here in Defiance DEMAND,not ask that I move so I do not get in his picture.I politely told him to go back where he came from and find some manners.Time to take Matt to confirmation class.Need to stop at G+G house too.Ns was clear when I left work.
Joe: Sounds like you never volunteered for the local rail museum/ tourist railroad during a Thomas The Tank Engine exercise with stressed out parents and cranky kids. (and then there's the Incontinent Women and Poopy Pants Kids Tour-De-Bathroom hijinx on the museum grounds)
Sir Chicken: EEYEW!!
Joe -
Joe - That's probably the same guy who was in Owosso in 2009 for the big steam event there.
765 was coming back into Owosso after the all-day excursion. Several photo lines formed, but one guy just had to be a little closer to the tracks.
Despite admonitions from others on the photo lines, as well as repeated toots from 765's engineer, he stood his ground. His backside graces my picture of 765 that afternoon...
MC - that's why I pretty much stayed in Thomas' cab all day, every day.
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...
Interesting military move today northbound. DODX flats with all tan international 20 foot containers. On all sides had 4' x 4' plackards with 6" 45 degree alternating blue & white stripes. Any idea if this marking was some kind of special move or destination ? Never have seen that before on military trains..
The description of the markings sounds like it could be the division markings (think shoulder badges, for example) of the 3rd infantry division. Last time I knew, they were stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA.
Nothing like some unit pride!
That would also make it a lot easier to sort containers "in theater" during a major dust-up.
evening
Ns was clear when I left work.Stopped by a yard sale.Found a nice office chair that is solid wood.Work is still very busy.Tomorrow the Bulldogs of Defiance play my old hometown bulldogs of Celina.Glad tomorrow is Friday.
Joe: A NS went thru here as a DPU, but couldn't see much more than a little black and white - it was on the other side of a train - natch!
But did get to see a blood-red CP behind a BNSF engine. Don't see many of those thru here!
Leaving tomorrow on a fast trip to western Michigan for lunch and business. My sidekick won't be with me, so I should be able to stop for trains without causing too much angst (on the way home Saturday--no time tomorrow!). Last week I put out another sightings/research report on some of the more interesting (to my fellow freaks) cars I'd seen. A lot of the cars in there were researched on the strength of an e-mail received from my buddy in eastern Kentucky. He sent pictures; I put the pictures in the report and got raves! I'll have to do that more often, except that I can't get the trains to hold still long enough to take my own. I might get a few cars on the way home Saturday, if I'm lucky.Linda report: mostly good news, a couple of setbacks. The setbacks are bouts of depression (being treated--successfully, she assures us) and one stretch of anemia (for which she's getting a hemoglobin transfusion tomorrow--the juicy steaks were a temporary measure). The good news is that her marker numbers were down again, the new chemo is so precisely targeted that her hair is actually growing back, and she's able to go without her brace for short times around the house, and do a few of the things that normal humans do (like shaving and taking stand-up showers). I've been getting program notes from her for editing, so she's getting more active in the writing department again, too.
Best news: they're planning on making the trip here--and on to Michigan--for Thanksgiving!
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)
Carl, it is good to see your report as to how Linda is doing; may she continue to improve.
The physical and occupational therapy I have received so far here have helped me greatly, but I am not ready to walk without help yet; I still to hope to walk out of here.--and make it to Milwaukee for the celebration.
Johnny
Carl good to hear good news.Ns had a westbound stack train when I left work.Helped brother.On the way home encountered a massive q 324.Reported to have 245 cars.Also had 2 former canadian geeps.Eventually those will go to Columbus.So if the train master above is with us we could possibly see them go south in Fostoria tomorrow. Matt wants to make some deals at the train show.
Carl - Great news on Linda. Depression is tough - You can't just tell the person to "cheer up..."
Good day on the railroad. Had a couple visiting from Australia on the engine for part of a trip. Interesting.
Morning will come early. Time to think about hitting the sack!
Thomas duty - last weekend......then Polarization begins. Nearly 90 degrees on Sunday will be a test. Except for the leaves, no sign of fall here yet.
Perplexing question for this week: When did the NYC/LSMS shops and twin roundhouses in Elkhart, IN get pulled down? (something so major with nothing mentioned in print...plenty of detail on the hump yard 1957-1960)
I was in Michigan (solo trip) yesterday and today. Colors are just beginning to turn around here--we have to go up again next week, and I expect it will be spectacular in bayou country.MC, I spent a little time watching trains on Clark Road in Gary, a place you know pretty well. It looks like that new connecting track is open now, complete with AEI readers at one point just west of the road.Could it have been in connection with the new yard that the old roundhouses were removed? I don't really know whether they had been in the yard footprint. Wouldn't they have needed them for stem power right up until about that time? I suspect it's time to visit Elkhart when the museum is open someday.
Great day today.CSX threw in some surprises too.A csx gevo going long hood forward with an autorack train in North Baltimore.The chessie crane is still sitting in North Baltimore(downtown).Leaser power for H 795.(takes autoracks from NS center to walbridge on Csx).A Loram rail grinder in the B&O siding in East Fostoria.Plus the signal at the NKP/B&O diamond near the old station was giving crews headaches.Finished off the evening with friends and a good bonfire at Deshler.Time for bed.
CShaveRRCould it have been in connection with the new yard that the old roundhouses were removed? I don't really know whether they had been in the yard footprint. Wouldn't they have needed them for steam power right up until about that time? I suspect it's time to visit Elkhart when the museum is open someday.
afternoon
Matt and I went along the river trail today.Went to the Auglaize river bridge for CSX.Saw a track inspector go over the bridge.He was told to hop off so trains could get by.Time for chores here at home.
Well CSX did it this morning. We had a 5 train meet on our short 7000' siding. North bound was a short NS UP manifest on siding that passed a waiting southbound on main. A long BNSF intermodal south bound joined that 1st south bound fouling the north CP. Another CSX intermodal northbound entered siding then a CSX northbound manifest entered as well clearing south CP.. Then the parade started south and once long BNSF intermodal cleared then northbounds started as well. Took some time to clear all grade crossings as following trains had to wait for restricting aspect to go to approach . Southbound faster as next signal is only 2 miles but next signal north is 5 miles.
And trafic has not slowed Getting a train about every 30 minutes including the northbound twice weekly pipe train. Big pipes only 6 or seven stacked on 85 foot flats 2x2x2x1.
The colors in the Adirondacks are starting to really change - I swear you could see the difference from day to day.
Later sunrises and colder temperatures (+34F in Old Forge Sunday morning) are making the grades a challenge - and the leaves aren't even falling off the trees in great numbers yet. Did a fair amount of slipping on the morning run (up a five mile 1.1% grade), but kept things under control and arrived at Big Moose only about five minutes later than planned.
The eclipse is beginning - a faint shadow on the left side of the moon right now.
Couldn't see the eclipse last night,too cloudy.Chores to do here.Need to go help sisters.As long as you do what they say,no one gets hurt.
JoeKoh Couldn't see the eclipse last night,too cloudy.Chores to do here.Need to go help sisters.As long as you do what they say,no one gets hurt. stay safe Joe
Eclipse here was a burnt orange instead of red. Light level decrease was interesting, even with all the expected local light pollution.
Ah! The plus side of being an only child!
Deggesty JoeKoh Couldn't see the eclipse last night,too cloudy.Chores to do here.Need to go help sisters.As long as you do what they say,no one gets hurt. stay safe Joe And, if you do not do what any one of your sisters says, you suffer?
And, if you do not do what any one of your sisters says, you suffer?
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