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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, January 17, 2016 9:38 PM

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"Train movement has been restored due to the earlier late arrival of equipment due to earlier delays."

The sentence may be a disaster, but I understand what they meant...

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Sunday, January 17, 2016 10:03 PM

tree68
 
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"Train movement has been restored due to the earlier late arrival of equipment due to earlier delays."

 

The sentence may be a disaster, but I understand what they meant...

   Yeah, I laughed at it, but it is grammatically correct and it does make sense.   It's just awkwardly worded.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, January 18, 2016 4:32 PM

Brrr cold

work busy.Ns clear when I left.Mamma says suppers ready.Chores to do after that.Was reading a friends post.The Cargill locomotive was going to North Dakota.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, January 18, 2016 4:58 PM

Left Jacksonville 0330 - 50 degrees

Arrived Maryland 1630 - 20 degrees and wind the same 

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Posted by Norm48327 on Monday, January 18, 2016 5:29 PM

BaltACD

Left Jacksonville 0330 - 50 degrees

Arrived Maryland 1630 - 20 degrees and wind the same 

 

If that was on the long 'parking lot' (I-95), you made good time.

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, January 18, 2016 5:54 PM
Fun day today. Phones are dead (can occasionally call out/ but outside can't call in) , can't send/receive e-mail, internet browser is funky...and everybody is on vacation/holiday and can't be found to fix anything.
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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, January 18, 2016 6:13 PM

"That's why we've got brains and guts, pilgrim" - John Wayne (?)

I had somebody in a seminar ask me today, "Do they still make those ?"

It was a 2014 PennDOT state-wide road map . . .

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, January 18, 2016 6:14 PM

Norm48327
BaltACD

Left Jacksonville 0330 - 50 degrees

Arrived Maryland 1630 - 20 degrees and wind the same

If that was on the long 'parking lot' (I-95), you made good time.

 

MLK holiday - lost the best part of an hour at 158 exit in VA trying to find a gas station and they finding my way back to the NB non-express lanes, as the signs directed one to the express lanes which were closed NB.  Garmin GPS to the rescue!

Currently 14!

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, January 18, 2016 9:02 PM

Last time I ran down I95 it was a parking lot from DC to Fredricksburg, then it turned into a racetrack...  The only difference between it and a NASCAR track was that on a NASCAR track, there are numbers on the sides of the cars...

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:54 AM

tree68

Last time I ran down I95 it was a parking lot from DC to Fredricksburg, then it turned into a racetrack...  The only difference between it and a NASCAR track was that on a NASCAR track, there are numbers on the sides of the cars...

I'm in luck - I was towing the race car back home from racing at Homestead and Sebring the past two weekends.

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Posted by The Butler on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 1:40 PM

We had single digit temperatures the last few nights.  Snow flurries have started falling ahead of the "storm." Surprise It is predicted to end up being three inches of snow by morning.  A "major" snow event here. Wink  Winter has arrived for us.  Smile

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 4:10 PM

For those persons who can get Create TV there is a Globe Trecker 1-1/2 Hour program that had much about Vietnam and about half about its railroads.  Is on 4 - 5:30 PM  ET  today and will be repeated.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 4:34 PM

afternoon

guessers say snow is going to our south.Ns was clear whan I left work.Chores to do after supper.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by The Butler on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:02 PM

Yesterday's snow has been replaced with sunshine.  The "event" started with sleet then turned to snow.  We got about an inch and a half.  It was a big deal for those who grew up around here.  I am interested to see how many called out at work.  My hours at work kept me from dealing with the jokers on the roads.  Those out east, when this system hits, be safe out there.  Smile 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 5:15 PM

Ns westbound in the siding at work.Saw an ITEX hopper car with "frito lay" on the side.Not many of those left.Need to take Matt to confirmation class.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 7:55 PM

The stars are out here.  The big storm that's working up the east coast should completely miss us.  Our temperatures are seasonal - no complaints here on that.

The snowmobilers aren't all that happy - here it is two thirds of the way through January and they barely have enough snow to ride on.  Some trails that were open have been closed.  It's been cold enough for the ski areas to make snow, so they aren't in bad shape.

Had to walk up to our banquet hall to retrieve an item that I left there after a meeting tonight.  As I did, the local medevac helicopter went over.  I think they were on a training run...

 

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:13 AM

Got our 1st snow of the season overnight - 1 inch maybe.

When snow is in the forecast, highway crews pretreat the roads and then have salt and plow trucks out to handle the snow. 

With the snow starting about 8 PM, no pretreatment had been applied.  With the area having had temperatures continuously below freezing for the past 3 day, street surfaces were alread below freezing.  In my commute home after working 2nd shift my normal 25 minute commute took a hour and a half.  No salt trucks were out so the highways were polished snow ice.  Uphill terrain was next to impossible - especially if there was a traffic light at the bottom of the grade.  What a fun time! [/sarcasm]

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:50 AM

BaltACD

Got our 1st snow of the season overnight - 1 inch maybe.

When snow is in the forecast, highway crews pretreat the roads and then have salt and plow trucks out to handle the snow. 

With the snow starting about 8 PM, no pretreatment had been applied.  With the area having had temperatures continuously below freezing for the past 3 day, street surfaces were alread below freezing.  In my commute home after working 2nd shift my normal 25 minute commute took a hour and a half.  No salt trucks were out so the highways were polished snow ice.  Uphill terrain was next to impossible - especially if there was a traffic light at the bottom of the grade.  What a fun time! [/sarcasm]

 

And you now know which of your neighbors has baloney-skin tires and doesn't care about vehicle maintenance. (Over here, we wind up pulling newly transplanted Texans and Californians out of the ditches after the first storms.)

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:53 AM

BaltACD
Uphill terrain was next to impossible - especially if there was a traffic light at the bottom of the grade.  What a fun time!

When my son lived in the Seattle area he had a nice big four-wheel-drive pickup.  I don't know that there was a traffic light involved, nor was there a collision, but he did find out that four-wheel-go still only has four-wheel-stop...

With a lot of military here, we get all varieties of winter driving skills, although in many instances, it's the locals who end up in the ditch...

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:10 AM

Dunce     The local radio weather dork this morning was screaming about snowfall up to 16 to 24 inches possible....panic... end of the world....etc.  But you had to listen real close to understand that he was talking about the eastern seaboard- 1100 miles away.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:52 PM

Murphy Siding
...snowfall up to 16 to 24 inches possible....panic... end of the world....etc.

I would imagine that bread, milk, etc, will soon be in short supply where the storm is actually going to hit.  People used to having everything when they need it tend to get antsy if you tell them they've got to stay home for a day or two...

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, January 21, 2016 3:35 PM

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tree68
 I would imagine that bread, milk, etc, will soon be in short supply where the storm is actually going to hit.  People used to having everything when they need it tend to get antsy if you tell them they've got to stay home for a day or two...
 

quote user="tree68"]

 

Larry:  You would think that the stores with all  advanced warnings would have suppliers send extra items that will fly off the shelves esecially milk and bread. 

 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, January 21, 2016 3:38 PM

afternoon

Ns local has some empties in the siding at work.Going to check with brother and nephew in VA. Tommorow is Friday.It is also National "Pie" day.Guess I better go get some.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:06 PM

I'm sure we'll hear about the disaster all up and down the Northeast by Saturday morning.  They're saying up to two feet for Washington and Baltimore.  

This past week has been another like the prior one for western Michigan. We went up in the thick of it, as it were, to attend the memorial for my classmate who was killed the previous week.  In that time, another classmate was involved in an accident (her fault, she says, but she's okay, even if her vehicle isn't), and while we were up my brother-in-law was in one of those nasty Interstate pileups.  He's also all right, and his car, though heavily damaged, was not among the totaled vehicles.

Us?  Going up on Tuesday, we had sunshine until 16 miles into Michigan, then it was almost like hitting a wall.  I didn't see anything really nasty as far as the roads went, though we did slow to 40 near the site where a semi had gone off--and I mean way off!--the road and almost into a river.  Most of the trip was still over 50.  It wasn't snowing when we got to our destination, but our car was covered in it while we were at the funeral home.  

Wednesday morning it began to snow as we were leaving...I was told that Grand Haven got six more inches that day, and points to the north fared worse.  However, we were going south...speeds were about five under the limit all the way down to South Haven, with no surprises, and eventually increased to normal (which could be up to ten over) and supernormal (slightly uncomfortable!).  Indiana showed evidence of recently-fallen snow, but we were comfortable enough to take the train-hunting route west of Chesterton, grab lunch in Gary, and have a bit of success in Indiana and Illinois.  We'd had snow at home while we were absent; this afternoon I finally got around to clearing the driveway and sidewalks (Pat helped for a while).

I had a doctor's appointment in Winfield today, and from all I could see (time and distance constraints), the railroad was busier than I'd seen for a long while.

Please be careful if you have to venture out in the Nor'easter!  We will have relatively calm, mild weather until sometime next week when a Pacific storm blows over and smites us.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, January 22, 2016 7:18 AM

Oh come on, Carl, I don't think that we're going to get smitten any time soon.  At least I hope not.  Fortunately, living near Clearing means that I'm beyond the range of most lake effect snow, quite unlike where I grew up.

I judge the severity of a winter by how often I have to fire up the snow thrower, which I haven't done yet this winter.  It's an average winter if I use it only once or twice.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, January 22, 2016 9:52 AM

     I think we got the whole Washington DC blizzard up our way- snowfall amounts ranging from 1/4" all the way up to 5/8" with some parts of the area getting almost 7/8"!  Of course, once the winds picked up to 4 or miles 5 miles an hour, drifts started forming; some piling up as deep as 2 to 3 inches in low lying areas.  Visibility is down to about 4 or 5 miles, and at some intersections traffic is backed up 40 to 50 feet during a red light.  I think it's safe to say that this is the most extreme winter storm we've had since Tuesday.  Be safe out there. Mischief 

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, January 22, 2016 10:19 AM

Murphy - your part of the snowstorm is south of us - the SE corner got about 9 inches.  Omaha - 4.  It was definitely a picky storm.  Which for us was almost perfect.  Perfect would have been if we would have received no snow.  But whose complaining, besides me.  

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, January 22, 2016 10:49 AM

My son lives in MD.  It's bad enough that they don't have the dedicated snow removal equipment we have here in the north woods (I think there are more town-operated snowplows within 10 miles of me than some middle Atlantic counties have in total - never mind the county highway dep't and the state DOT) - but their city streets aren't set up for it.  On-street parking is common (and oftimes necessary), meaning the only way to clear snow from the streets is one loader bucket at a time.

The last major blizzard they had, it took several days for crews (including contractors) to clear the small village he lived in at the time.

Things can get bad here on the short term (ie, during a storm), but once it ends, we're back to normal in no time.  We're more likely to see a delay in school and business openings than a full-out closing - and that's more due to having to clear parking areas than road conditions.

Meanwhile, the sun is shining here (even if it is colder than all-get-out).  

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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, January 22, 2016 12:00 PM

Paul, we could have used a snowblower after that sleet/ice/snow dump that we had a few weeks back.  Some of that stuff is still on our neighbors' walks, but we chipped our own clear.  

We're getting a Norris-sized snow right now; if it persists we will have to break out the shovel again.  Right now we may be able to handle it with a push-broom.  

I just heard from a freight-car freak in eastern Pennsylvania (near Allentown); he says they don't think they'll have any problem with this big-un--right now they're still waiting.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, January 22, 2016 7:42 PM

evening

Haven't heard from Brother or Nephew in Virginia yet.Ns had an eastbound frieght when I left work.Took other brother here in Ohio to get a haircut and stuff.Saw a few trains on CSX.They park the y101 in the yard instead of by the yard shak now.Tomorrow it's chores and such.

stay safe

Joe

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